- Location
- Sweden
He's probably asking for a favor and that requires that we decide to either do it or not do it so we have to know that the we are listening too is really who its claiming to be.Madfish said:
Xander [Quest], Thread Sixteen: The Long (Long, LONG, LOOOONG) Awaited Summer
- Thread starter Judge Mental
- Start date
The Ward possibly being the interference is a good point. It doesn't hurt us to go outside it just in case.
How about something like this? I'm still tempted to go the whole way, as I don't think Ambrose would ask a favor from us if it weren't important, so I'd like to hear some arguments before I vote.
[] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
- [] Head outside your room and the range of your ward.
How about something like this? I'm still tempted to go the whole way, as I don't think Ambrose would ask a favor from us if it weren't important, so I'd like to hear some arguments before I vote.
[] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
- [] Head outside your room and the range of your ward.
frozenchicken
Does not have a custom title.
I'm going to agree with Gaming Geek's reasoning.
[x] Take the risk, and cast the "Spell of Receiving."
[x] Take the risk, and cast the "Spell of Receiving."
I figure it's more likely ask rather then for going by the context.
I wonder what Ambrose wants and how big of a quest it will end up been. Oh and if we'll ever actually get that favor.
[X] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
-[X] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
[X] Leave the warded bedroom
-[X] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
--[X] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
Could be our ward interfering but I think it's more likely the hellmouth.
-[X] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
--[X] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
Could be our ward interfering but I think it's more likely the hellmouth.
[X] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
-[X] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
-[X] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
Is there a reason people are not voting for leaving the Ward? There's basic no reason not to. The Ward won't cover up anything we can't do ourselves, and if it IS what's causing the interference we can solve it pretty trivially, without any sacrifice on our part.
We can suppress first level spells just fine on our own.
SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
No we don't Suppressed first circle spells do not make a mana beacon that can be tracked in any way. Alex can cast a single suppressed 1st circle any where with out having to worry about it being traced back to him as long as he's not being watched directly.dragondude said:
Walkir
Self-Requested Ban
- Location
- Ruhr, Germany
[X] Leave the warded bedroom
-[X] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
--[X] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
-[X] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
--[X] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
[X] Leave the warded bedroom
-[X] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
-[X] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
ChiefTurtle117
The Sigillite
- Location
- Holy Terra
[X] Leave the warded bedroom
-[X] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
--[X] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
-[X] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
--[X] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
"I can barely hear you. Listen, lad, I need to ask you to do me a favor."
for the sake of grammar.
for the sake of grammar.
[x] Leave the warded bedroom
-[x] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
--[x] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
Even if there's some trouble, that's no reason to attract attention of the local nasties to our house.
-[x] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
--[x] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
Even if there's some trouble, that's no reason to attract attention of the local nasties to our house.
noahgab1133
Fluffy?
[X] Leave the warded bedroom
-[X] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
--[X] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
yup no risking a higher level spell yet, lets hope its not something inane that ambrose wants us to fetch
-[X] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
--[X] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
yup no risking a higher level spell yet, lets hope its not something inane that ambrose wants us to fetch
Not sure if it's been asked before, but can using ki to enhance our mind disrupt this spell?
I'd be surprised if we could use ki to enhance our mind at all given all our experience with it is physical or spiritual rather than mental.Unelemental said:
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
- Location
- USoA
Barely a day passes and the old coot is already in trouble. Honestly adults are useless! 
[X] Leave the warded bedroom
-[X] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
--[X] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
[X] Leave the warded bedroom
-[X] Preserve your cover, and cast a suppressed first-circle spell.
--[X] Listen as carefully as you can while doing so, don't want to miss anything important because you were too busy casting. Especially if this fails.
Judge Mental
Stranger In a Strange Land
[x] Plan SuperSonicSound
It occurs to you that the ward around your room may be interfering with Ambrose's communication spell. While it wasn't specifically set up to impede magical energy coming into the room from the outside, and wouldn't have any appreciable effect on something like a fireball being chucked at your window, you also didn't specifically design the ward to allow transmissions of this type. Partly because you lack that level of skill, but mainly because you weren't expecting anybody to drop a Sending on you any time soon.
That in mind, you quickly cast a first-circle form of the "Spell of Receiving" you'd come up with - essentially the magical equivalent of raising a portable radio antenna, as opposed to the transmission tower the full, fourth-circle version of the spell would have provided. Then you quickly step out into the upstairs hallway, leaving the protection and potential interference of the ward.
"Alex, what-" Briar begins.
You cut her off with a brief hiss and a choppy gesture, as you try to focus on what you're hearing.
Gained Listening C
You must have done something right, because the static - while not completely gone - has largely diminished to an annoyance in the background, rather than something that threatens to completely drown out the content of the message.
"-ran into a bit of *nag," Ambrose is saying. "Long story ***rt, I had to hop a portal, *** now I'm in Hell. A Hell, at least. One of the classical ones, all f*** and brimstone and bat-winged, cloven-hoofed, horned demons- just a moment." There is a hiss of static, and when the wizard speaks next, his voice sounds a bit distant. "I'm tr***g to talk to s***one here, you **consi***ate a**! Bu**er off and find **** other lost soul to men***!"
You hear a terrible roar that is NOT mystical transmission interference. In response, Ambrose barks a word of magic, and then there is another roar, much more explosive in nature. The static momentarily intensifies, and you lose track of a few seconds.
"-c** get b**k fine on my own," Ambrose continues calmly, as if the interruption hadn't occurred, "but it may take me a while. Unless of course, you're willing to help."
"What would this 'help' involve?" you venture cautiously.
"Well, ideally, you'd crea** a planar beacon that would allow me to lock on to your po**tion and travel there directly. Of course, that would take a c*******able effort on your part, enough that I don't believe the safeguards on Lu Tze's training hall would be able to hide it."
This sounds like a bad idea. You say so.
"I thought you might *** that," Ambrose admits. "Well, it's ***s ideal, but you could get in touch with Altria and l** her know of my, er, circumstances. My workshop has every***ng necessary for the job, all set up and ready to go - all she'd need to do ** push a button, basically."
See, this sounds like a much better idea. Again, you say as much.
"I'd really prefer to avoid that a**roach, though, because however I do this, I'm going to have at least one an*ry demon chasing me." There is a pause, punctuated by more spellcasting and a series of staccato explosions, followed by pain-filled bellows. "****ib*y **ve**l a*gry de*ons," Ambrose amends. "And I'd ra**er not have such unruly visitors droppi*g by the manor. Altria's father has this thing about demons on the property, I'd be hearing about it for months."
You have to stop and boggle at that.
"Ambrose," you say carefully, being sure to enunciate precisely. "Are you suggesting that I should help you summon a pack of angry demons into my hometown? Because that's what it sounds like on this end!"
"What? Oh, no! No, no, no!" comes the hasty reassurance. Then there's a pause. "Well, yes. But I'll be right there to get rid of them for you!"
Forget bad; this sounds like a HORRIBLE idea. And once more, you say so!
[ ] And then you go ahead and do the horrible thing anyway.
- [ ] But not in the house.
-- [ ] Or in your neighborhood.
--- [ ] Or anywhere in the town limits.
[ ] Get in touch with Altria.
- [ ] She has a (magic) cellphone, and Ambrose should know the number.
- [ ] Go cast a Spell of Sending... somewhere. (Write-in preferred location.)
[ ] Ambrose said he could get back on his own, so you're just going to hang up now. Buh-bye.
It occurs to you that the ward around your room may be interfering with Ambrose's communication spell. While it wasn't specifically set up to impede magical energy coming into the room from the outside, and wouldn't have any appreciable effect on something like a fireball being chucked at your window, you also didn't specifically design the ward to allow transmissions of this type. Partly because you lack that level of skill, but mainly because you weren't expecting anybody to drop a Sending on you any time soon.
That in mind, you quickly cast a first-circle form of the "Spell of Receiving" you'd come up with - essentially the magical equivalent of raising a portable radio antenna, as opposed to the transmission tower the full, fourth-circle version of the spell would have provided. Then you quickly step out into the upstairs hallway, leaving the protection and potential interference of the ward.
"Alex, what-" Briar begins.
You cut her off with a brief hiss and a choppy gesture, as you try to focus on what you're hearing.
Gained Listening C
You must have done something right, because the static - while not completely gone - has largely diminished to an annoyance in the background, rather than something that threatens to completely drown out the content of the message.
"-ran into a bit of *nag," Ambrose is saying. "Long story ***rt, I had to hop a portal, *** now I'm in Hell. A Hell, at least. One of the classical ones, all f*** and brimstone and bat-winged, cloven-hoofed, horned demons- just a moment." There is a hiss of static, and when the wizard speaks next, his voice sounds a bit distant. "I'm tr***g to talk to s***one here, you **consi***ate a**! Bu**er off and find **** other lost soul to men***!"
You hear a terrible roar that is NOT mystical transmission interference. In response, Ambrose barks a word of magic, and then there is another roar, much more explosive in nature. The static momentarily intensifies, and you lose track of a few seconds.
"-c** get b**k fine on my own," Ambrose continues calmly, as if the interruption hadn't occurred, "but it may take me a while. Unless of course, you're willing to help."
"What would this 'help' involve?" you venture cautiously.
"Well, ideally, you'd crea** a planar beacon that would allow me to lock on to your po**tion and travel there directly. Of course, that would take a c*******able effort on your part, enough that I don't believe the safeguards on Lu Tze's training hall would be able to hide it."
This sounds like a bad idea. You say so.
"I thought you might *** that," Ambrose admits. "Well, it's ***s ideal, but you could get in touch with Altria and l** her know of my, er, circumstances. My workshop has every***ng necessary for the job, all set up and ready to go - all she'd need to do ** push a button, basically."
See, this sounds like a much better idea. Again, you say as much.
"I'd really prefer to avoid that a**roach, though, because however I do this, I'm going to have at least one an*ry demon chasing me." There is a pause, punctuated by more spellcasting and a series of staccato explosions, followed by pain-filled bellows. "****ib*y **ve**l a*gry de*ons," Ambrose amends. "And I'd ra**er not have such unruly visitors droppi*g by the manor. Altria's father has this thing about demons on the property, I'd be hearing about it for months."
You have to stop and boggle at that.
"Ambrose," you say carefully, being sure to enunciate precisely. "Are you suggesting that I should help you summon a pack of angry demons into my hometown? Because that's what it sounds like on this end!"
"What? Oh, no! No, no, no!" comes the hasty reassurance. Then there's a pause. "Well, yes. But I'll be right there to get rid of them for you!"
Forget bad; this sounds like a HORRIBLE idea. And once more, you say so!
[ ] And then you go ahead and do the horrible thing anyway.
- [ ] But not in the house.
-- [ ] Or in your neighborhood.
--- [ ] Or anywhere in the town limits.
[ ] Get in touch with Altria.
- [ ] She has a (magic) cellphone, and Ambrose should know the number.
- [ ] Go cast a Spell of Sending... somewhere. (Write-in preferred location.)
[ ] Ambrose said he could get back on his own, so you're just going to hang up now. Buh-bye.
I say we get in contact with altria. Cause we need to get him out as soon as possible and doing what he wants us to do on the hellmouth is a terrible idea. Also we need to get in touch with altria.
vote change
unless we can teleport to jolly old England and be ready to nuke everything behind ambrose.
unless we can teleport to jolly old England and be ready to nuke everything behind ambrose.