I'm not unsure. I want Back-fill, but I also realise that my opinion might change by the time the vote comes around. If I have the choice between getting the book on Light or backfill, I'd choose backfill.
We should still have the book.
She lent it to Abelhelm when she was done. I don't think there was any further word as to whether she got it back, though I assume she did when she was clearing out his office after the Drakenhof campaign.
I think this is the first time I realised just how fast Mathy is when it comes to distance.
"Mathy" but the Mathilde part of the spell doesn't really make up the part of speed, more using a standard Wizard spell in places where she's the only one who uses it.
It came up in the "speeds of various animals/cavalry/steam-wagons" that Mathilde's mastery of Shadow Horse actually makes her quite a bit faster than someone without that mastery, even before you take her extreme endurance into account.
Ya, it's right up said that the only thing faster then Her over 20 miles are Pegasi with their endurance: yes and flying over obstacles and Seeds of Slennash with their speed and endurance of : oh fuck!… wait, no, not literally!!!!
Man, I stand on the weirdest hills.
I'm on mobile, so quoting isn't much possible for me.
For reference:
You are correct that what makes Mathilde stand out is that she herself suffers less strain from riding, so she can push her untiring horse farther and for longer. Other wizards can't ride as well as she can, and other types of mounts can generally only travel at slower speeds without getting tired.
Found it. 25 MPH on searchbar gives results.
I was wrong then, ~70% increase is crazy, misremembered the mastery big time.
Our last upgrade to Windreader, Windsage, took place after the initial reclamation of K8P, back when we were starting as Belegar's Loremaster. Our first study of the box was a few turns after that. We have not upgraded our Windsight since then; there's no reason to believe that just looking at the snake box will uncover anything new.
That was the first study of AV. The first (and as far as I can find, the last) investigation of the box itself was Turn 8.
Those are just the most obvious options. Nothing stops us from chugging a pint and reaching for godhood.
Do you have reason to believe that we misunderstood anything about the box or that we would gain anything from looking at it again?
This sure implies that we learned everything there was to learn about it. With how precious every AP is, "staring at a box for a month" is a hard sell.
If you have ideas that we haven't already tested (unlike "chugging a pint" -- we looked into that as part of our safety testing, and if a living being ingests AV, it kills them by shredding their internal organs when it explosively decomposes to Winds) post them in the thread and see if you can get people interested and Boney to add them to our action list. "Try it in enchanting" was a user-generated idea.
Poor beetle. Although it seems that the digestion process is what destabilizes the vitae. If Mathilde can suspend that process somehow...
I mean, no? We still have Teclisean applications to investigate. In particular, I think the "boop it with a powerstone" action is very worth doing, since "restoring the Winds to an area that has been depleted of them, like a battlefield" is a very obvious application that Mathilde thought of back in our initial investigations. Being able to restock Winds so Battle Wizards can keep casting is essentially the Teclisean version of our "recharge Anvils of Doom" application we've already got, and at a cost of 1 AP I think it'd be a great choice. I'm also inclined to try the "incorporate it into enchantments" action after we've figured out Windherder, since that seems potentially synergistic.
The power stone option seems by far the most likely to produce something useful to me. I'd much rather spend 1 WEBMAT ap learning powerstones with someone else then one personal AP on something that has a chance to result in something useful both generally and to the waystone project over spending 2 personal AP on the enchantment/boop with a powerstone options.
