By the by, if he's dead, Sticks might offer to resurrect him. Just a heads up, in case you'd like Rein to stay dead. I could always figure a reason for Sticks to leave them alone, in that case.
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Don't think Sticks would want to mess with it actually. Or even could resurrect him for that matter.
Why do I have a feeling that Thenadier would be getting some rather nasty revenge coming his way....
People keep saying poor Rein. Rein is not only rich, but he took all his money with him.
Plus I think Ermine's in the worse position here.
Ermine? :smallconfused:
Reinholdt's lady. And yeah, I suppose I'd agree with you there.
What do you mean he took it all with him, though? Does Ermine not know where his hoard is?
You don't tell a pirate how to find your hoard, even if she is your girlfriend.
Most of what Rein owns is hammerspaced. There's only two people who know how to get to it at this time. Both of them you probably don't want to meet.
ESPECIALLY if she's your girlfriend. :smalltongue:
Ermine won't be amused by what happened methinks.
At least it happened in a bar!
Beachside has stirred a memory of third year spanish. Particularly a song, about a butler on the beach.
For those who dont know spanish, as if I'm one to talk (four straight years of spanish classes, one of them college level and I have retained NOTHING), Camarero=Butler
C'nor, it might be just me being my normal easily confused self, but I don't understand how many guys you have and what sort of attacks they are making, whether magic, tech, psionic, or something else. Detecting someone by their power probably counts as divination of some sort, and that is usually done as an 'attempt', as the target may have some ability to evade detection.
I'm going to have to sorta chime in with Happy here.
I'm not sure what your people are doing C'nor. Could we get a bit of an explanation? I need to know how to properly react.
Yeah, I'm pretty much clueless as well. Are these Siphon thingies physically attacking the transport, is it some sort of long range spell, can it be avoided, etc?
Sorry for the confusion... I'd thought any questions about what the Siphons could do had been answered in the post where they arrived, since I included a description of their particular sub-species in that, or I would have explained it better in that post.
Siphons, on their own, can sense life; the more powerful it is, the 'brighter' it is, and, to some extent, the further away they can see it. They're also capable of either passively, but somewhat slowly, draining life from everything nearby, or focusing on one target at a distance, and draining that at a much faster rate. When paired with a Bloodthief, the range at which they can sense life, or actively drain it, is increased, though not how effective the draining process itself is.
At the moment, there are four bonded teams, as well as two of each type that aren't tied to each other.
So these two on the walls suck live from everyone on the battelfield? Or did they start doing that against people on the wall?
So if I'm reading this correctly...
This is an ability that can not be avoided in any way? Or at least not in any reasonable way.
Because it sounds like a passive life-force nomming aura.
The closest DnD equivalent would be epic-level shenanigans like the Atropal.
Can it be dodged?
Can the attack be sensed?
Can the source of the attack be sensed?
How fast does it kill people? How does it kill people?
Is it possible to defend against it aside from wizards? How is it propagating through the city's Barrier?
I dealt with it in the LoC game by just plain killing the things (... there was a Kyorl'Zuraj psion involved).
My assumption was that it is an aura that drains health on a failed save or something.
Not poisoning them with Elder Evil lifeforce?
Draken, I'm disappointed. :smalltongue:
(Incidentally, my reaction when Draken made Santa Claus for an Exalted game was hilarious.)
Passive if one gets in a few feet of them and they're not suppressing it, yes.
It can be dodged if one gets out of range, or uses appropriate magical abilities (such as becoming a form of life that's radically different from any sort of norm, like Sadei or Divaonar in their chimera form, or, in some cases, shapeshifting between normal forms; they require a life-signature to lock their abilities onto at a distance, and shapeshifting rapidly keeps one's life-signature in a state of flux, while becoming something extraordinarily different from the normal forms of life means they simply can't feed on you).
The attack can indeed be sensed, as can the source, by psionics or magic.
It takes about a minute to kill your average human civilian. More for especially long-lived or powerful creatures, and those have better chances of being able to get rid of it as detailed below.
Psionic defenses and passive magic resistance will both be of use in defending against it, as, in some cases, is simply sheer desire to resist. And some things are just plain resistant or immune for no real reason that the Nayleth are aware of.
As for getting it through the Barrier, I'd assumed they were using the same gap Rose shot an arrow through, and that the city's automated defenses are using.
Noodle, I think we're waiting on you in the Abandoned Mine in Outside, unless I've missed a post. I would also suggest moving this plot to another thread, as with Rebo's plot it's kind of hard to keep track of anything else. Random Plots, maybe?
Santa Claus as a soul-eating monsters from outside of reality.
And the Kyorl in that game are servants of a God, aptly named Zuraj.
Edit: Eeerrr... I assumed it was a slow hit-point draining effect, actually. Otherwise it would fall on the problem Rebo mentioned, of it being a death spiral without response.
Well, you also dealt with them by having the Kyorl'Zuraj being completely unaffected by their abilities... Hence the 'And some things are just plain resistant or immune for no real reason that the Nayleth are aware of.' bit, and Alteration's fear of Kyorl'Zuraj.
But yes, that would be the closest equivalent. Or possibly some sort of level-drain thing.
C'nor,
Did you post for the Tieflings again at the DFI and I'm just missing it?
Hey Earl? Regarding your post in Inside, I'm not actually sure what the result of the physical corruption is supposed to be.