A Villain In A World Of Heroes
- Thread starter Dark Ness
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Arkatekt
Harbinger of Shitluck
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##### 3.21
[X] Well, I can't use those but I know how to use a sword! And I can use magic! I bought a basic spellbook, and I used a spell to hunt. *If he asks, show it to him.*
No. of votes: 1
BBBence1111
[x] Allow the facade to crack, and a certain degree of upset frustration to leak through.
[x] I'm trying! I really am... My home is gone, my family is gone, and.. and I can't stay here forever. If I want my father to be proud of me, to be at peace..
[x] I'm going to be the best! I have some training, but that's not enough to be a master craftsman, and I won't sully his name with some crappy amateur shop.
[x] I figured I could get some books, to learn something from, or learn fighting or magic...
[x] But it just keeps failing! I can't understand all the fancy words in the books, and my fighting skills are horrible, and I nearly got myself killed just trying to use magic to clean up a room!
[x] I'm not going to just end up dead in a ditch, or sold to a.. to.. I can actually take care of myself! Even if I fail, I'm not going to give up!
No. of votes: 1
Kinematics
[X] Agree reluctantly and quietly Okay, but let's talk about it later. Whisper, In private.
No. of votes: 1
Elder Haman
[X] Ignore him, go to your room and pack your stuff.
-[X] Move to the warehouse.
No. of votes: 1
RandomLurker
[X] I've been practicing magic, and I tried to cast a spell I found. The next thing I knew it was the next morning and I didn't want to make you mad and getting lost while hunting sounded better than telling you I passed out for most of a day because I wasn't smart enough to realize it was above my limits...
-[X] If he asks for proof, show him our non-spell magic. If he asks for more show him one of our other spells.
--[X] If he absolutely refuses to believe our story, even after the demonstrations of magic, show Carlo the Earth Elemental Summoning spell scroll.
No. of votes: 3
Arkatekt, chocolote12, mrttao
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##### 3.21
[X] Well, I can't use those but I know how to use a sword! And I can use magic! I bought a basic spellbook, and I used a spell to hunt. *If he asks, show it to him.*
No. of votes: 1
BBBence1111
[x] Allow the facade to crack, and a certain degree of upset frustration to leak through.
[x] I'm trying! I really am... My home is gone, my family is gone, and.. and I can't stay here forever. If I want my father to be proud of me, to be at peace..
[x] I'm going to be the best! I have some training, but that's not enough to be a master craftsman, and I won't sully his name with some crappy amateur shop.
[x] I figured I could get some books, to learn something from, or learn fighting or magic...
[x] But it just keeps failing! I can't understand all the fancy words in the books, and my fighting skills are horrible, and I nearly got myself killed just trying to use magic to clean up a room!
[x] I'm not going to just end up dead in a ditch, or sold to a.. to.. I can actually take care of myself! Even if I fail, I'm not going to give up!
No. of votes: 1
Kinematics
[X] Agree reluctantly and quietly Okay, but let's talk about it later. Whisper, In private.
No. of votes: 1
Elder Haman
[X] Ignore him, go to your room and pack your stuff.
-[X] Move to the warehouse.
No. of votes: 1
RandomLurker
[X] I've been practicing magic, and I tried to cast a spell I found. The next thing I knew it was the next morning and I didn't want to make you mad and getting lost while hunting sounded better than telling you I passed out for most of a day because I wasn't smart enough to realize it was above my limits...
-[X] If he asks for proof, show him our non-spell magic. If he asks for more show him one of our other spells.
--[X] If he absolutely refuses to believe our story, even after the demonstrations of magic, show Carlo the Earth Elemental Summoning spell scroll.
No. of votes: 3
Arkatekt, chocolote12, mrttao
Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
[X] I've been practicing magic, and I tried to cast a spell I found. The next thing I knew it was the next morning and I didn't want to make you mad and getting lost while hunting sounded better than telling you I passed out for most of a day because I wasn't smart enough to realize it was above my limits...
-[X] If he asks for proof, show him our non-spell magic. If he asks for more show him one of our otherspells.
--[X] If he absolutely refuses to believe our story, even after the demonstrations of magic, show Carlo the Earth Elemental Summoning spell scroll.
Rolls time!
Edit: Well, you didn't get a chance to practice the summoning spell, but everything else went well
-[X] If he asks for proof, show him our non-spell magic. If he asks for more show him one of our otherspells.
--[X] If he absolutely refuses to believe our story, even after the demonstrations of magic, show Carlo the Earth Elemental Summoning spell scroll.
Rolls time!
Edit: Well, you didn't get a chance to practice the summoning spell, but everything else went well
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Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
Well, I could have put it to a vote, but I figured that none of you would vote for the terrible idea of performing a completely untested summoning spell while completely exhausted, so I didn't bother.
Thinking about the future
Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
You tell him the truth like he asks. Well, sort of the truth, anyways. "I've been practicing magic, and I tried to cast a spell I found. The next thing I knew it was the next morning and getting lost while hunting sounded better than telling you I passed out for most of a day because I wasn't smart enough to realize it was above my limits. I was embarrassed, okay?" You say that last line in a sort of childish pout, like it was his fault for questioning you and he should have left it alone (which he should have).
"Okay." He responds with. He doesn't sound statsified, but you don't think he is going to press anymore.
"Goodbye." You go leave the inn, to go about your day. First, you head to the book store where you find a simple spell to clean your clothes and a less simple one to conjure new cloths. Still, with how you keep ripping and destroying clothes, you will need it before long. You pay three slivers for both of them, and go to look for some kind of ice spell.
You find one, a spell to call down a blizzard wherever you are at. It is very powerful, but it is also extremely expensive. It would cost a whole five gold, a very significant chunk of your money. You also aren't certain you can even cast it. Even in spell form, instant blizzards aren't cheap, in any sense of the word.
[] Buy it
[] Don't
After that is done, you head to your hideout. You go into the tunnels, specifically the left one. You then use your new earth moving spell, levoterra, to clear it out. You make remarkable progress, getting a clear path through (although, there is still debris all over and chunks of rock along the sides), so you can now access this part of the tunnels. Of course, all the rock lifting and moving left you exhausted and tired. Although you had originally planned to, you decide not to practice the summoning spell today.
It probably isn't a good idea to summon up a creature while running on fumes, you would probably knock yourself unconscious, and may leave whatever you summoned to run around. And considering that some summons drain their summoner energy to sustain themselves, you may even die, unable to dismiss your summon. Or you could be wrong, and it will just be automatically dismissed of you fall unconscious, you aren't exactly the most knowledgeable about summoning. Regardless, best not to risk it.
You head back to the inn to get some sleep, but on your way, you start thinking of what you want to do in the future, something you have been carefully avoiding. Obviously, your ultimate goal is to get revenge, but how are you going to get there? You could continue how you have been, just doing things semi-randomly around town. Or, you could go to Taras and wait for the hero. You could also try to get an apprenticeship to a mage or something, although, it might be better to try in Taras, it is a much bigger city, so it likely has more opportunities and better mages. Of course, if you leave city, you also have to leave behind your hideout and whatever you could find in the tunnels. Choices, choices. Well, you can decide after you wake up in the morning.
Major Actions: Choose One
[] Head to Taras. (Will take around a week) May include random encounters
[] Look for a mage seeking an apprentice.
[] Buy some books and educate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
-[] Write in topics. You can pick as many as you want, but if you choose too many, you will get less of a benefit. It will also cost more. Some topics are unavailable.
[] Buy some magic books and learn more spells, or maybe even something else. Then, take some time to practice what you learned.
-[] Write in topics. You can pick up to two, which will also cost more. Some topics are unavailable.
[] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost. (Can not be take if you choose to sell the pelt as is)
[] Take some more sword lessons, and improve your melee abilities. You aren't exactly a master, after all.
[] Head into the forest. (ONLY one encounter).
[] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
[] Write In
Minor Actions: Choose Two
[] Buy a book and educate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
-[] Write in topic. You can pick only one.
[] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.
[] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there.
[] Sell Items (Can choose as many as you want)
-[] Sell the Wolf Pelt as is
-[] Sell the Unicorn Horn
-[] Sell the Shoddy Chainmail
-[] Sell the Leather Vest
-[] Imp summoning spell instructions.
--[] How do you explain how you got it?
--[] Or, maybe you would rather sell to a unscrupulous merchant?
[] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?
[] Clean up the hideout, hopefully you won't knock anything over this time.
-[] The mundane way
-[] The magical way No more.
[] Maybe you could ask around the less prosperous part of the city about whoever ran away. Of course, you might also tip them of or draw suspicion on to yourself.
[] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
[] Practice your speed. Yes, it reduces your accuracy, but the faster you fire your spells, the more you can cast. Since you can cast only the ice bolt and fireball spell, you will be practicing with both of them.
[] Practice the summoning spell in your hideout. Comes with a lessened risk of discovery.
-[] Angelic form
-[] Regular form
-[] Both?
[] Buy something. It might use up part of your finances, but sometimes you need a something.
-[] Supplies for the journey to Taras.
-[] Write in
[] Write in
"Okay." He responds with. He doesn't sound statsified, but you don't think he is going to press anymore.
"Goodbye." You go leave the inn, to go about your day. First, you head to the book store where you find a simple spell to clean your clothes and a less simple one to conjure new cloths. Still, with how you keep ripping and destroying clothes, you will need it before long. You pay three slivers for both of them, and go to look for some kind of ice spell.
You find one, a spell to call down a blizzard wherever you are at. It is very powerful, but it is also extremely expensive. It would cost a whole five gold, a very significant chunk of your money. You also aren't certain you can even cast it. Even in spell form, instant blizzards aren't cheap, in any sense of the word.
[] Buy it
[] Don't
After that is done, you head to your hideout. You go into the tunnels, specifically the left one. You then use your new earth moving spell, levoterra, to clear it out. You make remarkable progress, getting a clear path through (although, there is still debris all over and chunks of rock along the sides), so you can now access this part of the tunnels. Of course, all the rock lifting and moving left you exhausted and tired. Although you had originally planned to, you decide not to practice the summoning spell today.
It probably isn't a good idea to summon up a creature while running on fumes, you would probably knock yourself unconscious, and may leave whatever you summoned to run around. And considering that some summons drain their summoner energy to sustain themselves, you may even die, unable to dismiss your summon. Or you could be wrong, and it will just be automatically dismissed of you fall unconscious, you aren't exactly the most knowledgeable about summoning. Regardless, best not to risk it.
You head back to the inn to get some sleep, but on your way, you start thinking of what you want to do in the future, something you have been carefully avoiding. Obviously, your ultimate goal is to get revenge, but how are you going to get there? You could continue how you have been, just doing things semi-randomly around town. Or, you could go to Taras and wait for the hero. You could also try to get an apprenticeship to a mage or something, although, it might be better to try in Taras, it is a much bigger city, so it likely has more opportunities and better mages. Of course, if you leave city, you also have to leave behind your hideout and whatever you could find in the tunnels. Choices, choices. Well, you can decide after you wake up in the morning.
Major Actions: Choose One
[] Head to Taras. (Will take around a week) May include random encounters
[] Look for a mage seeking an apprentice.
[] Buy some books and educate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
-[] Write in topics. You can pick as many as you want, but if you choose too many, you will get less of a benefit. It will also cost more. Some topics are unavailable.
[] Buy some magic books and learn more spells, or maybe even something else. Then, take some time to practice what you learned.
-[] Write in topics. You can pick up to two, which will also cost more. Some topics are unavailable.
[] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost. (Can not be take if you choose to sell the pelt as is)
[] Take some more sword lessons, and improve your melee abilities. You aren't exactly a master, after all.
[] Head into the forest. (ONLY one encounter).
[] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
[] Write In
Minor Actions: Choose Two
[] Buy a book and educate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
-[] Write in topic. You can pick only one.
[] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.
[] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there.
[] Sell Items (Can choose as many as you want)
-[] Sell the Wolf Pelt as is
-[] Sell the Unicorn Horn
-[] Sell the Shoddy Chainmail
-[] Sell the Leather Vest
-[] Imp summoning spell instructions.
--[] How do you explain how you got it?
--[] Or, maybe you would rather sell to a unscrupulous merchant?
[] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?
[] Clean up the hideout, hopefully you won't knock anything over this time.
-[] The mundane way
[] Maybe you could ask around the less prosperous part of the city about whoever ran away. Of course, you might also tip them of or draw suspicion on to yourself.
[] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
[] Practice your speed. Yes, it reduces your accuracy, but the faster you fire your spells, the more you can cast. Since you can cast only the ice bolt and fireball spell, you will be practicing with both of them.
[] Practice the summoning spell in your hideout. Comes with a lessened risk of discovery.
-[] Angelic form
-[] Regular form
-[] Both?
[] Buy something. It might use up part of your finances, but sometimes you need a something.
-[] Supplies for the journey to Taras.
-[] Write in
[] Write in
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- Location
- USA
[X] Don't buy it.
Major
[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
Minor
[X] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
someone put a collapsing ceiling trap on it, so whatever is in there it is valuable.
once we find it and take it we can decide on the next step.
Major
[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
Minor
[X] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
someone put a collapsing ceiling trap on it, so whatever is in there it is valuable.
once we find it and take it we can decide on the next step.
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Arkatekt
Harbinger of Shitluck
[] Don't buy it.
Major Action
[] Head into the forest. (ONLY one encounter).
Minor Actions
[] Practice the summoning spell in The Forest.
-[] Angelic form
[] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
The only reason I am doing this is because I know how much everyone else seems to want to do summoning, and I really dislike the idea of trying it in town.
Vote change
[X] Don't buy it.
Major
[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
Minor
[X] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
Major Action
[] Head into the forest. (ONLY one encounter).
Minor Actions
[] Practice the summoning spell in The Forest.
-[] Angelic form
[] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
The only reason I am doing this is because I know how much everyone else seems to want to do summoning, and I really dislike the idea of trying it in town.
Vote change
[X] Don't buy it.
Major
[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
Minor
[X] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
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Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Major
[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
Minor
[X] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
Minor
[X] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
Arkatekt
Harbinger of Shitluck
Oh I forgot about that... ^.^;
I say we don't buy it yet. While it might be fun, we aren't sure if we can cast it, and we already know if it is too much it will exhaust us at minimum, and kill us at worst.
Oh, Dark Ness, would books on magical theory be under the Buy Books and Educate, or Buy Magic Books and Learn Spells option?
Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
I am thinking that either would work. I will tell you this however, there are hundreds to thousands of wildly different theories about magic. There are no "Elemental Laws of Transfiguration" and just about everything is variable. The issue isn't that there is not enough proof for these theories, there is too much. Someone could cast a spell, measure it, and say "This spell makes gravity pull down at 9 meters per second," and then someone else could do the same thing with the same spell and come to the conclusion "This spell makes gravity pull down at 8 meters per second," and they would both be right.
It is generally thought by everyone who doesn't come up with magic theories that someone has to be completely insane to understand even the smallest piece of how things actually work, even then it may turn out to be completely wrong the next minute.
- Location
- USA
I figured that was just the result we got from "roll failed, but not a crit fail". I figured that had it been a crit fail we would have tried to summon them and they would have gotten free and started rampaging around town
It was so far from the rest of the voting that by the time I got the meat of the vote I forgot about it... adding it to my vote
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[X] Don't buy it.
Major
[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there.
Minor
[X] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
Major
[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there.
Minor
[X] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
[X] Don't buy it
Why are we buying spell books when we already have a magic spell book with a lot of spells?
[X] Major: Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost. (Can not be take if you choose to sell the pelt as is)
Let's get this done first.
[X] Buy a book and educate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
-[X] Magical objects and regents, in particular unicorn horns and Ferric pelts.
Let's see if we can find out what that horn does.
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
Why are we buying spell books when we already have a magic spell book with a lot of spells?
[X] Major: Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost. (Can not be take if you choose to sell the pelt as is)
Let's get this done first.
[X] Buy a book and educate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
-[X] Magical objects and regents, in particular unicorn horns and Ferric pelts.
Let's see if we can find out what that horn does.
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
- Location
- USA
I actually don't want to do this ever
I want to keep it as nice soft fur. maybe make it into a fur coat or a fur rug
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
...I'm tempted, but how big is this Blizzard? Is it just a small, really cold cloud storm around us, or is it, you know, an actual Blizzard, like the kind that form naturally, except made with magic?
[X] Buy it
[X] Major: Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost. (Can not be take if you choose to sell the pelt as is)
-[X] Make it a fluffy Cloak. It'll be almost as hard to cut as the armor, fluffy, cover your entire body, fluffy, able to conceal any other armor or other conspicuous details your body may have (such as being covered in blood, or missing an arm, or any number of unsavory looking injuries), fluffy, and fluffy. Did I mention that it'd work as a wearable blanket for when we're travelling?
[X] Buy a book and educate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
-[X] Magical objects and regents, in particular unicorn horns and Fenric pelts.
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
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Major Action:
[X] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost.
Minor Actions:
[X] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.
[X] Train your base magical ability, by trying to form shapes out of ice. Swords, figures, orbs, or even a spear tip. Also, try and drop it, without launching it, to see if we can. Even if we can't make a sword as such, having a sharp edge in combat could be useful if we drop our sword.
The reason I'm going with these, is because to be frank, we've recently gotten into a situation where we could have died, twice, in very quick succession. We should take some time to develop a defense against falling rocks, if nothing else. Mainly, I think we can use ice to knock anything heading at our head, or the move earth spell, but if we're going to keep this up, we need to make sure we won't die.
Besides, maybe we could spend some time developing a magic resistance, at least to fire, ice, and...Well, just fire and ice. Also, as far as the armour goes...Well, we need to have some kind of armour for people to take us seriously, unless we go the enchanting/artificing route and try to make some enchanted dresses, which, I admit, would be my preference. The best villains are the mysterious, powerful, villanesses who know how to dress, after all.
[X] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost.
Minor Actions:
[X] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.
[X] Train your base magical ability, by trying to form shapes out of ice. Swords, figures, orbs, or even a spear tip. Also, try and drop it, without launching it, to see if we can. Even if we can't make a sword as such, having a sharp edge in combat could be useful if we drop our sword.
The reason I'm going with these, is because to be frank, we've recently gotten into a situation where we could have died, twice, in very quick succession. We should take some time to develop a defense against falling rocks, if nothing else. Mainly, I think we can use ice to knock anything heading at our head, or the move earth spell, but if we're going to keep this up, we need to make sure we won't die.
Besides, maybe we could spend some time developing a magic resistance, at least to fire, ice, and...Well, just fire and ice. Also, as far as the armour goes...Well, we need to have some kind of armour for people to take us seriously, unless we go the enchanting/artificing route and try to make some enchanted dresses, which, I admit, would be my preference. The best villains are the mysterious, powerful, villanesses who know how to dress, after all.
Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Okay, guys voting not to buy the spell, realize this; Blizzards are on the same level as thunderstorms. As in, if we were to cast it from the city we're in, assuming average walking distances plus our magical stamina/regeneration allowing us to not have to deal with resting as much, there's a good chance that we'd hit Taras (as in, the city that is one week away from us) with it.
And the major thing that makes a blizzard a blizzard, as opposed to just snowing? The winds are at half the force needed to be counted as a hurricane, for a long-term duration, such as about three hours. That is to say, combined with the Less than 0 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures, not counting the wind chill, which means that for anybody exposed to it it's as if they were actually in -60 Degree Fahrenheit weather (which is enough to turn a banana into a hammer and instantly freeze boiling water), and the ridiculous precipitation, not to mention that the snow and ice will linger for days and probably kill off anybody without proper insulation in their homes, we could probably one-shot most of a city with this spell, if we hit them in the summer when they aren't expecting it.
So now the real question is; what would we hit with such an awesome spell? I don't know, maybe we can just do it in a desert in order to mess with some nomads, or cast it on a volcano to cool off the lava before it burns down a village, or something. I just want that spell, because it is the shiniest shiny that was ever shiny. In this quest, at any rate.
And the major thing that makes a blizzard a blizzard, as opposed to just snowing? The winds are at half the force needed to be counted as a hurricane, for a long-term duration, such as about three hours. That is to say, combined with the Less than 0 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures, not counting the wind chill, which means that for anybody exposed to it it's as if they were actually in -60 Degree Fahrenheit weather (which is enough to turn a banana into a hammer and instantly freeze boiling water), and the ridiculous precipitation, not to mention that the snow and ice will linger for days and probably kill off anybody without proper insulation in their homes, we could probably one-shot most of a city with this spell, if we hit them in the summer when they aren't expecting it.
So now the real question is; what would we hit with such an awesome spell? I don't know, maybe we can just do it in a desert in order to mess with some nomads, or cast it on a volcano to cool off the lava before it burns down a village, or something. I just want that spell, because it is the shiniest shiny that was ever shiny. In this quest, at any rate.
- Location
- USA
You do realize that this isn't a precision spell, it will hit us, our enemies, our allies, and the entire freaking town we are staying in (thus getting heroes hunting down that villain who was blasting an entire townful of innocents).
Also, it is extremely expensive in terms of mana.
Also, it is extremely inefficient in terms of mana if your goal is to kill one or a few enemies instead of harming everyone in a town (I am sure its efficient for that, I just don't care to do that)
Now, I don't nescesarily agree or disagree with the spell's purchase, but this argument is invalid. It doesn't matter if it hits us. We have a fire spell. And an underground labyrinth. All we have to do is burn a route to the surface and we'll be fine. Even if we're in a city other than our own, if we know it's coming, we could build an igloo. There's a reason the Inuit build those things, after all.
Of all the situations we would need the spell for, the only one I can think of is if we accidentally bump a piece of bread in passing and have to fight off the entirety of a town's guard. But how likely that is in anywhere not TES...I'm not sure.