All right. To make sure we're on the same page, because it's not my responsibility if after this point there are any misunderstandings:
Dispel Effect lets you either a) cancel an active effect on the target or b) prevent the next effect inflicted on them, but not both. You can use it on another person or yourself. "Effect" in this context means primarily powers someone would use on another person, aka what you guys typically call curses. e.g. It'd protect the target from shit like Simon Says, but if you used it on someone using Who's There?, it wouldn't negate their mimicry. It's a protective spell, not a full anti-anything ability.
One use only, like every other power. Can't be used during trial.
Rest of it's clear, but just to make sure: so if someone used a power on themselves, this can't negate it, but if they used it on someone else, it can?
Less about the target and more about the nature of the power. General rule you can probably go by is if it's a power that's less about benefiting the user and more about harming/manipulating the target, it's probably something Dispel Effect would negate.
So if someone cursed themselves with Pants on Fire for whatever reason, Dispel Effect would still cancel it. Being self-inflicted doesn't change that. On the other hand, if someone used The Aim of Innocence, Dispel Effect wouldn't do anything against that because it's an ability that works more as a boon to the user than as a curse to whoever's getting shot.
Conversely, if there was an ability where the effect is pretty clearly helpful for the target like healing or whatever, and the target had the Dispel Effect protection up, the healing wouldn't get canceled just for being an effect.
Give a genuine compliment to six different guests. Genuine as in you mean it, and it's not backhanded or just meeting the low bar of "you throw an okay punch" or "I don't hate you" or whatever. If someone told you the same thing and you'd be indifferent, it probably doesn't count.
They shouldn't know it's for a task either. Once you're done, report back to me.
[i.e. throw in an audience with links to the relevant threads]
Didn't say they came from someone else. Just that we're all working from the same metric so that people don't try and sus out if Gemini gives easier tasks than Virgo or whatever. They're equal across the board.
Sure. Just remember to do it naturally - for a task of this nature, I'll have to reject it if it seems like you didn't even try to be subtle about it being a task, lying about it or not.
[i.e. oocly it should not be obvious to the other player either that bucky is being forced to give these compliments; they should be integrated naturally into the conversation!]
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And just in case it wasn't clear, I want one because I want to be able to stop any funny business in its tracks.
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Dispel Effect lets you either a) cancel an active effect on the target or b) prevent the next effect inflicted on them, but not both. You can use it on another person or yourself. "Effect" in this context means primarily powers someone would use on another person, aka what you guys typically call curses. e.g. It'd protect the target from shit like Simon Says, but if you used it on someone using Who's There?, it wouldn't negate their mimicry. It's a protective spell, not a full anti-anything ability.
One use only, like every other power. Can't be used during trial.
Got it?
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So if someone cursed themselves with Pants on Fire for whatever reason, Dispel Effect would still cancel it. Being self-inflicted doesn't change that. On the other hand, if someone used The Aim of Innocence, Dispel Effect wouldn't do anything against that because it's an ability that works more as a boon to the user than as a curse to whoever's getting shot.
Conversely, if there was an ability where the effect is pretty clearly helpful for the target like healing or whatever, and the target had the Dispel Effect protection up, the healing wouldn't get canceled just for being an effect.
That make sense?
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They shouldn't know it's for a task either. Once you're done, report back to me.
[i.e. throw in an audience with links to the relevant threads]
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And if they figure out it's for a task on their own?
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This isn't the sort of task I was expecting to get from you anyway.
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Get to it.
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Who decides on the tasks, then, if it's not you guys?
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Your head
You know what, let's just say I pulled your task out of a hat. Does that resolve this issue you're stuck on for some reason?
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Sure, whatever. I'll be back with six compliments for you.
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[i.e. oocly it should not be obvious to the other player either that bucky is being forced to give these compliments; they should be integrated naturally into the conversation!]