Yes this is what I was talking about it less Essence Plus One turns in combat we activated it for combat why would it still be active after the combat ends we have a conversation and a walk. Now Dragon Paradox may say that, yes you switch from combat time to normal time when a combat ends in your Excellency is still active I don't think you can just assume that though.
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We just saw a layered spell why would it only be 20 levels of damage. In what world does that assumption make sense a normal bomb can be 20 damage.
Denarians have direct access to Hellfire and this one is a full-blown wizard accumulating enough damage successes on a force roll to get to 30 damage is 15 (five rounds) seconds for an above average wizard for a greater denarian sorcerer if they could do it in 9 (3 rounds) seconds I would not be surprised it might be a lucky roll to do that but it'd be very easy.
Hell this assumes there isn't just an actual bomb that's been enforced with magic to make it more powerful which would decrease that number of rounds to possibly one if it's a good bomb.
We've already seen implanted spells and this guy is obviously another Patsy and if he's done a clever trick already why not something a bit more hammer-like for the second one.
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We activated the Occult Excellency at the end of the fight, after we'd KO'd the thralls.
Thats when the enemy Fuck You contingency activated.
Because I checked for what to expect.
In M20, a car bomb is 20 dice of damage AoE. A truck bomb is 30 dice of damage AoE.A ritual-cast trap by 4 elder wizards in this quest(Team Morgan's trap back in South America) had 12 dice of Agg damage, 24 for vampires.
We have benchmarks for what to expect.
Setting traps is not a free action, and ritual casting takes time.
Namshiel cant be simultaneously trying to crack his way into a Council safe room and be ritual-casting magical traps on multiple people on the offchance that we trigger them.
He's potentially the scariest mortal wizard we've encountered thus far, but he has mortal limits.
The fact that he went with mind-control traps on the other thralls rather than some explosive conflagration suggests that no, casual suicide bombs are not on the table.
Else he'd have already used them.
You don't need a Ritual cast to set a trap Wizards can just take more rounds of time and casting a spell and they get to roll their Arete multiple times. Unlike Sorcerers they can just roll turn after turn after turn at a certain point it does become a ritual but three rounds is not that point.
Hell Dresden when he freezes the lake in the books is essentially doing the same thing freeze a lake is way too big a spell for him to just cast even if it is pretty low level magic of taking the heat out of the lake so he just casts it over multiple rounds.
If it was as simple as you assert, Namshiel would have left traps EVERYWHERE. So would Peabody, for that matter.
Those thralls we disabled would each be carrying truck-bomb style programmed effects. So would the phone.
What you are asserting only works for an instacast evocation.
You are talking about a contingent effect programmed to set off in the future under a specific set of conditions and have enough damage to count as a suicide bomb. Something that yields more damage than a thrall wizard throwing magical mayhem. That requires enough successes that you need extended rolls with a set duration, and you can still botch and have to start all over again.
And thats assuming you dont need material components.
M20 optional rules for ritual casting are on p541
Less than 5 successes: 5 minutes per roll
5-10 successes: 1 hour per roll
>10 successes: 4 hours per roll
The Storyteller is afforded a great deal of freedom to freestyle the duration of such extended rolls as they wish, but those are the numbers.
When Dresden creates an iceberg in Cold Days?
Under M20 rules, he's doing an instacast spell, with his Mantle either providing reduced DCs or extra automatic successes due to the nature of the spell.
Its not a trap. Its not something that has to be programmed to trigger later.
There is nothing complicated about it.
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That's not 5 minutes per roll that's 5 minutes or less total for one or two.
In the section before this shaking bones at someone also counts as a ritual probably a brief rite that takes less than 30 seconds but is more then you would get casting a normal spell in combat time.
Yet again is he had a brief right that was 30 seconds of him shaking the ashy bones of Shango at him he could roll twice which considering he's a ancient sorcerer who is a full wizard and a powerful one at that I just doubt that 20 damage is what we're looking at.
Though you are completely correct none of that is a free action.
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You know you said 5 minutes per roll right and not possibly 30 seconds or less for two rolls? It measures by rolls not successes.
All that said all this back and forth anyway I just fucking really hate the idea of face tanking fucking Magic period especially to maybe save one or two motes.
Countermagic to what? That's not how it works. Here is the desertion of countermagic:
There are no incoming effects, so counterspells don't apply. And Unweaving doesn't work because Molly doesn't have knowledge of what's going on. Sorry, but your plan just doesn't work.
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[x] Plan 'Fire in the Hole' sounds good
-[x] Might as well Shadow Spite Curse the host as they do.
-[x][Stunt] You would love to jump in sword first, but that might get you in the way of the lines of fire so instead you stand by the opening and wish doom on the enemy. It feels more potent than it sounds.
-[x] Might as well Shadow Spite Curse the host as they do.
-[x][Stunt] You would love to jump in sword first, but that might get you in the way of the lines of fire so instead you stand by the opening and wish doom on the enemy. It feels more potent than it sounds.
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I'd assume he means countermagic readied for the first thing Thornyboy does.
Bracket is borked.
Thanks, and corrected
He appears to be doing something with the fractal magical threads, what you cannot tell at a glance.
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Tiffany is giving this plan and with Find the Faithful she should be able to identify Namshiel's location from miles away let alone less then 10 feet.
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Because Gilgamesh as a Solar doesn't work. He's at least a century younger than Merlin and doesn't have Merlin's reputation for living for millennia. Gilgamesh's myth/history occurs somewhere in the span of 6 centuries from the 30th Century BC to the 24th century BC.
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@DragonParadox Could we get our current essence number corrected as it should be 14/18 not 12? Also maybe the errors highlighted earlier.
Fixed the Essence, will cover the rest in a bit.
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You know random thought and not that I want it anytime but does exalted vs world of darkness let you buy those things that lets you get to 6 dots in stuff like melee?
@DragonParadox is our occult excellency still active from the end of that last fight?
Well you used it one turn in combat which leaves you with three more minutes out of it of which two passed... you are back in combat yes, but for one more round only.
Vote closed.
Arc 14 Post 45: Peeling Away Lies
Peeling Away Lies
18th of February 2007 A.D.
Lost 2 Essnece -> Now at 12/18 (Hellscry Chakra+ATB)
A crippling curse comes to your lips, a fraction of a second away from diving for cover Lash would know how to deal with the Fallen, but something's not right, the sound from before, the phone in plain view, like signposting his own death. "Negative ID, Tiffany. Olivia, disable!"
Like the whistling blade of a guillotine your power arcs to but the threads, and meets no resistance. As you rush forward you are gripped by vertigo:
...
Just beyond the closed glass doors turned away you stands is a thin figure garbed in grey
....
Before you is a being of poisoned geometries that lie upon the canvas of space and time as once they spoke truth
...
Ringing all around cacophony, like the the storms of other minds, too many, too close like when you were a child
Auras clash in the glass as you break it, like a film of oil over murky waters, just as you'd imagine one of the Fallen would look wrapping around the soul of one long tainted, just as you imagined. In that moment you realize your gut or maybe just your fears hadn't been lying to you, the threads were backwards, not spinning from his fingers, but by his fingers making a puppet of the man, the wizard.
There's no time to say anything else as in the same moment you shatter the glass Olivia's shot shatters his tibia utterly.
"Son of a fatherless whore!" Tiffany curses viciously, in plain English this time. "That's LaFortier"
The phone still turning slowly in the air rings out with the mocking voice of the Denarian: "Ah, poor deluded Samuel, isn't it enough you had him tossed in the dungeon? Must you shatter his leg as well? We didn't have anything to do with that by the way. We are just good at finding things other people try to hide and you know what they say, a wizard is a terrible thing to waste."
The battery sparks, about to explode before Morgan barks out a command and it's wrapped in a sphere of water, the simple levitation enchantment grounded into uselessness. Good thing to know he has some limits.
"That was... perfect, it wasn't just the look and the sound of it. I could feel Namshiel in there," Tiffany pushes her heir angrily out of of her eyes as the wardens gather around the collapsed wizard.
"An illusion that complete leaves its marks," Tzola props up LaFortier and manually opens an eye, whispering something in Latin too fast for you to follow. "Do not be alarmed."
From blood and labored breath he draws out a tripartite image: one a sorcerer wrapped in glowing mists, his face obscured, another grey gaunt figure covered in spines all too literal and the last a man in an ugly brown sweatshirt and faced black pants marked with chemical stains. "Behold the faces of our enemy that we might not mistake him again." Turning his head he speaks a little more loudly than he strictly has to. "No one open their Sight! He will be anticipating that."
Morgan nods once sharply, Lady M sniffs.
"Can you heal this even with the spell on him?" you motion to the elder wizard, at least in shock if not in some worse state.
"It will be twice as hard since I'm healing two wounds but..." your friend stops. "The wound would have woken Peabody in his cell. He might try to make something of that. It's not as though he has anything to loose."
What does Tiffany do?
[] Heal LaFortier and Peabody, between the latter and Tiffany your money's on her (Opposed Faith vs Arete Rolls; Peabody takes -2 from being distracted)
[] Leave some of the wardens with LaFortier while the rest of you continue hunting Thorned Namshiel
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[] Write in
OOC: Well you did not dispell the illusion, but you did see through it in time not to add more blunt force trauma to LaFortier. Tiffany also got a bit of a nasty shock there. She is used to Supernatural Awareness being reliable but when one is talking about a millennia old sorcerer who also has the same ability to play around with that is less true.