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theofficersacademy · 2 years

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It’s May! We’re nearly halfway through the year! But more importantly, it’s the month of TOA’s annual Ethereal Ball event! Please keep reading for more information.

Housekeeping

Current Month in TOA: Ethereal Moon

We’ve added new missions to the Golden Deer mission board. Check them out here, but don’t forget that you need a Golden Deer-affiliated faculty or student to participate in the mission tasks.

The Ethereal Ball will officially begin on May 15th this year, but before that, we’re offering the opportunity for single individuals to signup for a blind dating mini event! Anyone who wants a date to the ball but hasn’t managed to get one yet can fill out a dating profile here. From May 8th until May 14th, participants will be shuffled and half will receive a single line from a random dating profile. They will have to try to guess who it belongs to from the list of potential suitors. If they guess incorrectly, they’ll receive a new line, and so on until they find their perfect match! More information will come on May 8th when the mini event officially begins.

We would also like to introduce a new beginner class: Recruit. This class can be accessed by achieving D rank in Authority, Heavy Armor, Riding, OR Flying. Upon mastery, it will grant Resistance+. If you qualify for this class, please send a message to the masterlist to claim it.

For those of you in our Discord server, we have now allowed all Members and Veterans to create their own events (Smash tournaments, Mafia, movie nights, liveblogging, Hunger Game sim, etc.)! To schedule an event, simply click the drop-down for the Officers Academy, then “Create Event.” Fill in the information and the notification will display at the top of all of the channels once you’re done. Other members can RSVP through the notification as well, so you can get an idea of who might be interested. If you wish to stream an event in our voice channel, set the event location as the #gamenighttext channel and a mod will open the voice channel when it’s time for it to begin.

We would like to remind everyone not to reblog threads or asks from other members without adding anything to them unless they’re intended to be archived as thread/interaction closers. Bloating your archive with posts that aren’t yours makes checking activity at the end of the month more difficult for the mods.

Please don’t forget to leave feedback on our feedback poll for this month! Last month we received many good suggestions to improve BOEL and combat in the future. Feedback is an invaluable resource for making TOA the best community it can be; however, feedback is only useful when it provides explanations. Simple “Yes/No” responses to questions that ask for more are difficult for the mod team to use and don’t contribute much.

Combat Updates

The combat manual is currently being worked on for our next big combat event. Below are descriptions of the updates that have been made so far.

The Iron series has been updated. Iron weapons are balanced relative to the Iron Lance, which represents an average. The Iron Sword has one step higher accuracy for one step lower damage, and the Iron Axe has one step lower accuracy for one step higher damage. The Iron Bow is the ranged equivalent to the Iron Lance, and the Iron Gauntlets are intended to consistently output roughly the same amount of damage as the Iron Sword by attacking twice in a row. Since Iron weapons are received for free upon reaching rank D in their respective categories, they are used as the baseline for all other weapons.

The Steel series has been updated. Each steel weapon deals one step higher damage than their Iron counterparts for no change in accuracy or crit rate. These weapons are the most basic reward one can choose from the rank chart and are reliable to use.

The Training series has been updated. Every training weapon now has Increased Hit and Training damage. This ensures that weaponless new characters can manage to consistently deliver a small amount of damage no matter which type of training weapon they choose.

The hit rate categories have been updated. In the combat manual, each category shows the percent chance to hit (for example, Increased Hit shows 95 - 85%). These numbers previously included the chance of a barely hit, which made some weaker weapons more unreliable than they were intended to be. While the Iron Sword was listed as having an Increased Hit, in reality it had only a 65% chance to deal damage since its barely hits deal 0. The hit rate categories have now been changed to reflect the chance of landing a true hit, and the window to land a barely hit, in most cases, as been shrunk to balance the damage stronger weapons with low accuracy can deal on a barely hit.

A new hit rate category has been added: Broken Hit. This is the opposite to the Never Miss category and falls below Gamble Hit.

The wording for the Beginner class masteries (HP+, Speed+, Strength+, Magic+, Defense+, Resistance+) has been updated to be more clear about how they affect stats. HP+ will grant a 20% increase to HP in any setting, Strength+ and Magic+ affect base damage, Defense+ and Resistance+ are calculated after the attacker’s damage is calculated, and Speed+ grants a speed increase to the unit (Speed as a stat has been reconceptualized - more information below).

To be more comparable to the exponential damage increase that Strength+ and Magic+ grant to all weapons, thus making them more viable to bring to events even if your muse is a veteran, the damage reduction of Defense+ and Resistance+ has been increased from 0.5 to 1. We hope this makes these masteries more worth claiming and bringing to events.

The combat manual now has a section explaining each of the stats used in TOA’s combat. Most notable of these is the Speed stat, which is treated separately from the Avoid stat, and will grant a character the chance to attack twice in a turn once it reaches +6. This buff can be stacked with Avoid buffs, but only the Speed stat will grant the extra attack.

There is much more to be done, so stay tuned for future updates!

Other

May Mun Birthdays: Erica (3rd), Toca (17th), Elf (25th), Sam (28th)

May Muse Birthdays: M!Morgan (5th), F!Morgan (5th), Elice (6th), Cynthia (14th), Linoan (17th), Luthier (17th), Seliph (24th), Chrom (27th), Siegbert (28th)

First-year mun anniversaries this month: Lucius (1st), Nel (4th), Nic (4th)

Second-year mun anniversaries this month: N (23rd)

First-year muse anniversaries this month: Elincia (4th)

Second-year muse anniversaries this month: Leo (14th)

Muses who have been in the group for a solid year will also be granted an Academy Brooch to put in their inventory. It doesn’t do anything. It just lets others know your character has been around the block. These characters are also granted a new opportunity to change houses if they wish to do so.

- The House Leaders

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journeysintowebcomics · 7 years

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Girl Genius Liveblog #112

UPDATE 112: Nanny Attack

Last time Zola had been assigned to take care of Gil, and Agatha destroyed the machine that was meant to kill the Castle. All is well that ends well. There’s still a few big problems to deal with, but there has been progress on the problem with Zola, so it’s time to focus on something else! What exactly...I’m not sure yet. Onwards!

Even though Agatha just destroyed that thing, she does wants the parts for reasons undisclosed. Even if she didn’t have any reasons it never hurts to have materials for new inventions, that’s what I think. The social scientist guy who I’m getting very fond begs for the task – and then immediately delegates it to his minion. Hah! Well done. Agatha doesn’t really mind who gets the pieces.

It’s a science joke. Nicely played, Foglios! I really like how such comment is taken as normal by everyone here except Agatha. Don’t ask around, Agatha, I’m 100% sure some of your ancestors’ experiments won’t be the type of experiments you’d approve.

Since Agatha has no patience for tomfoolery she starts giving orders. Unnamed minions, clean around here. Castle, don’t protest the orders to keep the remains of the machine intact. Tiktoffen, get ready for a borderline suicidal trek throughout the Castle. Zola, lug Gil like a sack of cornmeal over your shoulder because it’s time to go. Paraphrased. Everyone was given a task to do. Well, almost everyone.

I completely forgot about her. It was...what, around three weeks since I saw Von Pinn arrive to the Castle? I shouldn’t have forgotten about her. Given that Agatha’s last experience with her was to see her kill her surrogate parents I can’t imagine Agatha will receive her with a hug.

Even though Von Pinn declares her duty is to keep Agatha safe, Agatha doesn’t agree and fires the death gun, making once another meters-wide hole throughout the building. I bet right now the Castle wishes it had a forehead and a hand to execute a flawless facepalm. Von Pinn isn’t letting herself be torn to pieces, and picks up Agatha with no effort.

Wow, haha, you kind of dropped the ball here with the art, Foglios. Agatha looks tiny!

Von Pinn is surprised Agatha had such attachment to a pair of expendable constructs. No surprise there, those constructs were her parents, of course she’d be furious they apparently died. I wonder if she’ll ever see them again once this Castle Heterodyne arc is over? Agatha would be happy to see them again.

The Castle tries to intervene before Agatha decides the building needs more damage, nobody pays attention to it. This discussion is too important, after all Von Pinn is stating that she’s compelled to protect Agatha even at the cost of her own life if it’s necessary. Agatha is having none of that and immediately hatches a plan to get rid of her.

That’s – impressive in many ways. She’s not wrong, Agatha, this is the kind of gambit Lucrezia would have done. You’re truly her child. This was an anticlimactic event for Von Pinn, so I’m guessing she won’t die. Who knows, maybe in the future she’ll actually save Agatha from danger! Nobody knows if she survived, not even the Castle, as she fell way too deep to know at all.

Luckily for everyone interested in keeping the Castle’s structure from looking like Swiss cheese, the death ray has almost no power by now. Don’t worry, I’m sure Agatha will concoct something as equally destructive or more in no time. It’s time to leave! Gil is still lying on the floor and not cooperating on that regard, delirious from getting shot. Don’t tell me there’s going to be two suitors sick in the medical wing now! Agatha isn’t having any of that.

I’d like to know the exact situation in which Zola managed to get her head caught in a bucket. The more this webcomic goes, the more stuff is being piled on to make Zola look like an absolute buffoon. Hah!

Soon everybody is traversing the Castle while Gil talks with the spiky armors around here in French, still thinking he’s in Paris, apparently. Give me a second here.

Well you’re not wrong there, Gil! Unfortunately for my own amusement, one minute later I realized I made like five mistakes while typing the sentence into the translator, the Foglios’ writing actually does make sense. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

As if Gil’s question jinxed the situation, the classic spiky boulder appears. You seriously wondering why there’s a boulder in a tunnel in a building that’s pretty much a collection of deadly traps, Agatha? At least Zola’s screams of terror wake Gil up in time to save her in what’s actually a great show of acrobatic expertise. I have lost count of how many times Gil manages to show that he’s in excellent physical shape. The spiky boulder is enough to make Gil realize that something is strange – and then he wonders why Agatha is in Paris. It takes him a moment to realize that’d make no sense at all.

“Hey! This isn’t Paris!” Welcome back to reality, young man. Get ready because things may be bound to get crazy around here...as usual.

Now that Gil is in conditions of being of help and isn’t delirious anymore, maybe there’ll be some progress on getting to the medical wing. Chances are it’ll be several updates before they get there, though. Girl Genius isn’t known for the characters getting quickly to the places they need to be at. So I’ll stop for now and leave that for next time.

Next update: five updates

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