... Oh. My. God. Crap. Crap.
CRAP. I feel like kind of an
absolute idiot for not thinking of this before, but. I don't know if anyone has suggested this before, but... ... Here's something that we
actually have done before. And, a brief search of "Ranald" under poster:BoneyM to see if anyone has asked this of him...
...
@BoneyM can we tap into the energy coming from a waystone north of Vlag,
and channel it to Ranald?
I'm not sure of the best wording for this, and am thinking of going to sleep soon anyway, so here's a pre-emptive vote for it if you approve it.
[X] Ranald the Magician, and the Karak Waystone Caper
- Try doing something similar to what you did in Karag Yar; tap into the power coming from the waystones north of Karag Vlag... and channel it towards your God, Ranald. Maybe the removed energy will bring the Karak back, the same way as diverting or clogging it would?
- Alternatively as a secondary thing; perhaps with Ranald getting all this extra energy, he can pull a Magician's sleight of hand, and make this Karak re-appear?
As a potential secondary point: can Mathilde channel the energy to Ranald, and ask him to try to make the Karak appear into the waste? i.e. Both sending him the power, and asking him to perform a miracle with that power? Ranald, my man, my main god, my Magician... perform your best reverse-Vanishing Man act, and
make this Karak reappear!
Oh my god. Guys.
Guys.
What if this works? What if we could to this? What if we could get another shot at empowering Ranald?
Furthermore... This isn't exactly like the ritual-in-progress we interrupted last time. Because we aren't going directly into the heart of the Karak and trying to steal the energy. No. We are just interrupting a step north of the Karak, and trying to tap into energies being relayed by the Waystones.
We're not hijacking an enemy ritual.
We aren't messing with and clogging up a waystone.
We are, admittedly, channeling a lot more energy than a wizard normally would be comfortable with... But. We've done it before. So we have something like a proof of concept that it works.
Furthermore, because this isn't a clog, but is sending the energy to a friendly divinity... that means that no bad side-effects can form, like dhar accumulation from the waystone clogging, over time.
Hooooly crap.
I want to do this. Not only does this avoid clogging a waystone.
But it is really clever and cool. It builds on something we did before. It repeats or echoes an epic deed we did before. And, it has another chance at empowering Ranald again...
... Furthermore. Imagine this.
Imagine this as Ranald
the Magician -- pulling a Vanishing and Reappearing act,
on a Karak. "Do you see this Karak? I'm going to make it...
reappear."
Alternatively, he can think of it as stealing a Karak from Slaanesh. If he wants to think of it this way. Though, that's only in the secondary/part two of this; the first part is just "Steal the energy." The second part is "And if that don't work... uhhh... maybe try using the stolen energy to steal the Karak back from Slaanesh?"
Hooooly moly.
I so want to do this.
Yes, there's risk to Mathilde from this... but.
This is literally an epic deed of magic and sleight of hand and trickery. This, if anything, could legitimately get us "Ranald the Magician" again. And not just the mundane magician who does magic tricks; but the magic-using magician, who uses magic.
C'mon, posters. Who doesn't want to try to pit Learning and Piety against an evil force of darkness?
Also: we have the Protector Coin right now. Maybe Ranald can do something with that. That is, if this works out, maybe the credit for it will go to
both Mathilde
and Ranald.
Meaning that Ranald could get even
more divine power from this. Because the Dwarfs will believe that Mathilde, and Ranald, truly acted selflessly to save them all. (Ranald the Dwarf-friend aspect when?
)
