TreeQuest: Magitech (Riot Quest)
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
[X][Action] Laser Beam
-[X] Start with any surviving Hellhounds; divert any excess output to the Bats.
BEEEAM!!!
And yeah, Arthur did great. We have our first magic-using animal, and we even got enough insight into the magic he spontaneously developed to learn it ourselves!
Now we just need to start teaching our other animals; Corvids with Air magic would be quite formidable, don't you think? Or, more immediately, Beavers with Water, or Moles with Earth.
edit: Oh, and Mr. Yuadore is now disarmed. Could someone make him an ice-sword? Seems like it'd be pretty good for him right now.
-[X] Start with any surviving Hellhounds; divert any excess output to the Bats.
BEEEAM!!!
And yeah, Arthur did great. We have our first magic-using animal, and we even got enough insight into the magic he spontaneously developed to learn it ourselves!
Now we just need to start teaching our other animals; Corvids with Air magic would be quite formidable, don't you think? Or, more immediately, Beavers with Water, or Moles with Earth.
edit: Oh, and Mr. Yuadore is now disarmed. Could someone make him an ice-sword? Seems like it'd be pretty good for him right now.
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K von Carstein
Likes to go for a walk
- Location
- Belgium
- Pronouns
- He
[X][Action] Raise the Shield
[X][Focus] Upgrade Shield Tree to Elder
[X][Focus] Assist Old Man Masterson
[X][Focus] Store Resources Against Future Need
[X][Focus] Assist Newton Village
[X][Focus] Upgrade Shield Tree to Elder
[X][Focus] Assist Old Man Masterson
[X][Focus] Store Resources Against Future Need
[X][Focus] Assist Newton Village
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[X][Action] Assist Arthur Scrat
You could join the Focus vote to let the nameless trees do the defense tree growing.[X][Action] Upgrade Shield Tree to Elder
Growing a Shield tree is a gross missuge of my talents! I demand a better performance from our combat trees, having to grow a boring defense tree twice in a row is clearly an unreasonable burden to bear!
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Growing the shield tree is our only growing option during this combat. I am certainly not going to dirty my bark with non-growth actions!
It is the only one listed, but why shouldn't we be able to grow other battle relevant trees?
Like eldering an empty. (for that sweet auto emptyveil (-33% chance to recieve damage from normal attacks))
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
Gotta say, though, it's amazing (and amusing) how we can't seem to go one fight without pulling some unexpected trick out of nowhere. Here we even went so far as to pull out a trick we didn't even know we had!
...Wonder how the bipeds will react to Arthur spontaneously developing significant skill in a branch of magic we've never researched before when things calm down enough for us to tell them about it.
...Wonder how the bipeds will react to Arthur spontaneously developing significant skill in a branch of magic we've never researched before when things calm down enough for us to tell them about it.
LinkOnScepter
The One who Strangles Concepts to death
- Location
- Interwebs
Probably something about not to tell the kids, cause then they'll come to us expecting to get bullshit powers like Scrat.
Robinton
Probably petting Schrödinger's cat
- Location
- Scientifically proving a miracle
Or defying it. Or both. Hard to be sure.
LinkOnScepter, 23 total actions; Eldest Tree; 5 Survival; 5 Growth; 4 Defense; 3 Research; 3 Offense; 3 Communication
All mitochondria in one wing-muscle shut down simultaneously.
Some of them might have started working again eventually, restarting off of stored ATP, but the Dire Bat was dead by that point...
Yes.
I need to apply the latest round of feedback, to get an actual first-active-attempt version.
Valid option.
The Tree in question would have to be combat-applicable, and an Empty Tree definitely is.
It's unusual for a Familiar to gain a Magic type that their Wizard/equivalent doesn't have. Not truly unheard-of, but unusual.
Actually, they'll tell you that what Arthur Scrat went through, was more like one of the known ways for Two-Legs (and, they suppose, others with Minds) to get access to Magic.
Typically, you either meditate a lot and practice a lot and work with the Element a lot and work with Magic from others a lot, and eventually you start being able to shape it yourself, or you have a moment of truly extreme desperation/hatred/joy/awe/insight/whatever, and find yourself able to suddenly do something you never could before.
Addendum: While the details aren't well-known - partially because there aren't that many examples and they're all more-or-less mythical (even e.g. Craig Foreman) - but it's generally agreed that a wielder of Legendary Magic has to do some feat beyond all they should be capable of, generally (but probably not necessarily?) under extreme duress or need, in order to break through and make the jump to Legendary.
Legendary was said to require some sort of breakthrough for an Elf, but Grandmaster was not.
Edit: One additional clarification: Mortals apparently require a breakthrough long before Legendary. Presumably since they can't just practice for a millennium or so.
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Also,
Fight 1: Curbstomped in 1 Turn.
Fight 2: A drawn out fight taking resources. Probably as intendet.
Fight 3: Depending on how the vote goes we may be back to old form. This time just dunking on the attackers by upgrading a bunch of trees, instead of losing stuff.
Considering that our beloved resource storing tree is about to grow up, will there be an obsessive option for them? (in previous version that was "get a bonus to action depending on how often it was done before in a row")
Trees affecting attacks we use/can use presumably are combat-applicable, right?
(like our laser attack)
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
Relative to the rarity of a Familiar learning magic their Wizard doesn't know, how rare is it for their connection to be deep enough that the aftershocks of the Familiar acquiring that magic teaches the Wizard that same magic?
Robinton
Probably petting Schrödinger's cat
- Location
- Scientifically proving a miracle
Yes. The prior draft had such an option, and I very much intend to not remove it.
Yes.
Newton Village doesn't know. They aren't surprised to hear that you'd have such a side-effect, or that a normal Familiar situation would lead to such a side-effect, but they don't actually know.
Note that any Elder Shield Tree will auto-activate, regardless of player/Focus input.
So if we make it to 2 Elder Shield Trees, the Shield comes up nicely, regardless of anything else.
I'll rule that the +10% per normal Shield Tree will also auto-activate regardless of player input. (This isn't useful except if you have no player input AND 1+ Shield Tree AND 1+ Elder Shield Tree all at the same time.)
I got it
Better to use Focus to elder battle relevant trees.
Ylamona
Konlulu~
Arthur Scrat is great and all, but everyone seems to miss that one of the tree literally slam a giant snake with another giant snake. I repeat, a tree grab and lift a giant snake then slam another giant snake. God, that was satisfying but too bad no villagers around to see that I think.
