#Kīara'h Asks : drowntowns

[the-kiarah-organisation]

how does the element stuff work in you system? Feel free to answer privately or not answer at all!

Thought I'd done a post on this already, I'll assume I didn't because I'm always looking for a way to talk about this xD

An Introduction To EleWe »

EleWe is our elements and weapons system, it runs off ten elements and ten weapons - so it has a hundred possible entries - and because only one member per entry, it also runs off Phases.

Phases are a group of a hundred members, a Phase has to be completely filled before a new one opens. Phase III is actually just about to open, and we pray this does not break our database, which was only designed for the first two Phases, because we didn't think we'd exceed two hundred members. (It shouldn't, right? O-o) (I'm not bad at coding, I'm sure it won't-)

The Database »

Just a small section on the database. Our database runs by having all possible combinations as an entry, and having columns for each Phase. When searching the database, we look for things like "element in (x)" and "phase x is empty" (that's in English, I'm not going to write SQL here lmao)

Elements »

Okay so, elements. As I said, there's ten total elements, these are:

Cosmica | Dark

Sonia | Sound

Hydria | Water

Glaciera | Ice

Flora | Plants

Aria | Air

Lumina | Light

Terra (prev Eartha) | Earth

Inferna | Fire

Electria | Electricity

Each one has reactions to other elements. I used to have a list, no clue where it went (probably died when my pc corrupted), so I'll do this from memory (o-o;)

Cosmica + Lumina = Detonate

Sonia + Aria = Diffuse

Sonia + Electria = Boost

Hydria + Glaciera = Freeze

Hydria + Aria = Storm

Hydria + Flora = Grow

Hydria + Inferna = Vaporise

Hydria + Electria = Conduct

Glaciera + Aria = Blizzard

Glaciera + Inferna = Melt

Glaciera + Electria = Conduct

Flora + Terra = Sprout

Flora + Inferna = Burn

Flora + Electria = Burgeon

Aria + Inferna = Stoke

This was originally designed with The Kansukki Project in mind.

This list (with the reaction names) was only ever used in The Kansukki Project, whereas The Kīara'h Project just uses the reactions (have some random trivia)

Weapons »

As also said in the intro, there are ten weapons! These are: (listed with general classification and explanation if needed)

Axe [Short Range]

Bow [Long Range]

Crossbow [Mid Range]

Combat [Short Range] | Hand to hand combat

Gem [Mid Range] | Magic

Knife [Short Range - Long Range] | Depending on if you can throw / previously throwing knives

Polearm [Mid Range] | Death stick :)

Scythe [Mid Range]

Staff [Long Range] | Long ranged gem

Sword [Mid Range]

There were originally eight weapons but apparently we got OCDed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (more trivia)

So.. How Does It Work? (And Why?) »

Each member is assigned one element and weapon combination, usually this is based on their past. Each member can only specialise in that element.

(except if they have a copycat ability, such as Amethyst who studied more than one element and use their Sonia to mimic other's elements)

For weapons, it's a little different. Most members only have one, and although some members may know other weapons, they only specialise in one.

Mostly, these will be used within stories and headspace, however some members may be able to wield their weapons in the outside world.

Energy »

Another part of EleWe is elemental energy, it lowers by using abilities/powers and when lowering, can cause members to not be able to cast spells, or even, if it gets extremely low, can impact their body and physical/mental energy and can't recover on its own.

(I won't touch on this too much because it's more or less its own thing.)

Technical Notes »

Element reaction names source: an old post we made on The Kansukki Project's server.

If I remember correctly, this is EleWe v6, (technically v5, but I'm calling it v6, because it will be soon with Phase III)

Most of this was originally done for The Kansukki Project, not The Kīara'h Project, but it has since been adapted.

Kuro from MeD wrote this post (and is very unqualified to write this post)

Hope this answers your ask? Lol

[the-kiarah-organisation]

would you mind giving me more information on the elements in your system? (Ex: cosmica and aria. If your confused) (dosent have to just be those 2)

Alright!, elements!

There are 10 elements, in order these are:

Cosmica (dark/darkness)

Sonia (sound/sonar)

Hydria (water)

Glaciera (ice/snow)

Flora (plants)

Aria (air)

Lumina (light)

Terra (earth/rock)

Inferna (fire)

Electria

(these go from purple to pink, that's the only reason they are this order, aesthetic)

There are 10 weapon types too, therefore 100 combinations. Each member gets one, there's no duplicates (until 100+ so we separated it into two phases) (yep, we have a database, we've rewritten it three times)

Our elements tie into our backstories, and usually relate to who we are as a person, or what we'd reasonably use (when it comes to weapons anyway).

Energy (elemental, a fourth type, like physical, social and mental), is usually based on the elements too. It's been seen before that a Lumina user needs sunlight to recharge from critical (critical: when an elemental user has used so much of their elemental energy that it can no longer recharge on its own)

We've been using this for about 4 years, we had a slightly different system before then.

About half a year ago, we added "reactions", which is how the elements would react to each other (however, due to not being at home this very second, and possibly having that file on my corrupted drive, I'm not sure I can list that right now) this is things like Hydria + Glaciera making a freeze reaction, or Cosmica and Lumina making a type of explosion.

Members receive their elements based on what would be beneficial to their little teams (or sub groups) for example, groups usually have differing elements (of the entirety of the Playerspace part of PHA, no one shares an element. This does include Wraith, although, he is RPM).

Uh if there's any follow up questions I'm happy to answer, I'm not sure if I've answered the original question or not (or if this is understandable)

- Host Kītōne'h (KaU)