But that would kill the whole point. The point is that this time, instead of just grabbing 5 potions with each one effect, if you're REALLY planning to ruin someone's day, you need to come prepared with all the items you need, and however many potions you'd think would be enough. If you run out of potions - well, tough, you're either knocked out or you run like hell. The idea was to constrain the ability just enough for it to be fun and not be a god mode cheat (sorry,
degreelessness mode).
...Factory of Dark Science.
What's the most epic thing ever written? Now, what's that multiplied by two? Very Happy
Oh, and Drannic, to reply to your comment - it's perfectly fine and not god-modding at all, I was just wondering where that came from. I thought assassins used all sort of "dark" magic, you know? But a "light" magic assassin would be fun to try Smile I simply didn't know how Doriana used Holy Magic, that's all. Your comment explains it.
But umm... on a slightly less fun note... Sorry, my post might've not been clear, but Ein already took down the wall.
He applied the glowing stone to the largest brick in the wall that was close to him. The stone immediately fell to the ground, almost hurting Ein's hand in the process. Unaffected, Ein proceeded to wrap his arms around the brick... and pulled it out. Moreover, he even balanced the large brick on one finger, as the damaged walls behind him finally gave in due to the disappearance of a major part of the foundation. The size of the brick easily suggested that it was at least 10 tonnes in weight, yet Ein was holding it like it was a feather.
-"Hehe, it's a weight transfer glyph," Ein giggled victoriously. "Now that tiny little rock there is as heavy as this brick used to be. Conversely, the brick became as light as a pebble."
Tossing the hulking brick aside, Ein made his way through the defeated walls.
...
Several clicks later, he made his way back out as fast as he could, chased by buzzing spears.
-"Crap..."
Naturally, the only way he could pull out the brick was because Jacobie softened up the wall (quite severely, mind you) beforehand. However, what Jacobie is doing right now seems kind of redundant - he's beating an already crumbled wall to powder.
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OK, looks like I'll have to re-edit this post again.
"More lightning, guys, and fast! I see Vanguards... lots of Vanguards..." John and Marrick complied by throwing more bolts of lightning from the sky as it began to pour rain. Each drop was nearly 1.5 centimeters in diameter, which was quite a bit of rain per drop... but the Drannivolka were getting exhausted, and fast. They still made more accurate blasts of lightning, however, according to Jacobie's will. Each bolt managed to either hit a guard, or come fairly close to one as it discharged down to the earth. Some even discharged up and zapped a guard from the ground up to the air.
First of all, unless you're casting something other than a thunderstorm, please specify that. Thunderstorms will not hit guards if there are tall buildings around, and I've pointed it out several times that lightnings were hitting the tips of the guard towers. Making the storm more intense is fine - heck, if you edited your posts and said it was some kind of "chaos thunderstorm" that was attracted to flesh rather than quick ways to get to the ground (as are normal thunderstorms), that's fine too. But on that note, keep in mind that if lightnings will hit Kainengrad's soldiers, they're not going to discriminate between guards and your characters. If your Drannivolkans are so 1337 skilled that they can
direct lightnings - hell, that's perfectly fine, too! But a) they have no way to see exactly WHAT they're firing at (as I understand it, they're outside with Ein and Jacobie), so the lightnings should still be able to hit Doriana & Co, and b) if Doriana & Co have some sort of "homing beacons" that tell your cats not to aim lightnings at them - well, that was never explained. I could've been a jerk and just said that one of your lightnings struck the group and threw all of them into the air and fried their invisibility so they got shot down by an iron-and-obsidian hailstorm of spears launched from the weapons of very, very angry soldiers without a single chance to defend themselves because they're flying several feet into the air and are dazed by a 20-thousand bolt of pure energy hitting right in the middle of their company, but I know that neither you, DM, nor Xorlak would like that (and as you know, things that Xorlak doesn't like tend to mysteriously disappear from their beds at night... I don't want the honour of having my post edited Razz ).
I was thinking originally that the thunderstorm was there to lower morale and to make things hard to see due to the darkness, but if you're going to use it as an offensive spell.... well, it would need a little more work.
Second, you mentioned rain - well, if you read the past few posts, I've also mentioned that it was raining for quite a while now. The rain is the reason why Doriana & Co were sighted by Kainengrad soldiers in the first place, and also the reason why the city did not erupt in flames after so many lightnings hit its buildings. And if you think about it, 1 and a half centimetres is... well, a lot. Water doesn't tend to fall in drops that big, physics don't allow it. This is kind of coming back to the whole thunderstorm-is-a-spell idea - if you said it wasn't a normal thunderstorm, you could have water drops 4 miles in diameter (well, obviously i'm exaggerating, but you get the point), but you never really mentioned that it was anything but a run-of-the-mill thunderstorm, and that's what I took it as. I've also said that the lightnings themselves did very little damage to the buildings - seeing as it's raining and all, I don't see how they would. But if you say that the thunderstorm is actually thunderstorm on steroids which are being pumped into it by the Drannivolkans, I'll be much more fair and have a few towers here and there fall to the electrical blasts.
