[✗] [Amendment] Venting

[PrimnyaQuorum 3999]

 

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Purpose:

This is what you get while I work on 3 compiles 😭

Venting has most recently fallen victim to making readers question the conflicting redlines (Is venting optional, or mandatory) and GIVEN players have been warned over this issue with 0 attempts made concurrently to address the same issue for anyone else, I am fixing it. Suffer. 

 

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Arcane Scion:

 

Spoiler

Venting

[Passive [Combat]] - Vent

An involuntary and reflexive response to regions of excess mana, the bodies of Scions expel this undesirable surplus in the form of concentrated fumes of aura in order to prevent disastrous and even fatal destabilisation of their precarious condition.

Susceptible, are sions to what would benefit other voidal magi- given the absolute stability needed to maintain a Scion’s partially sealed connection, any overflow of mana may be damaging. While with an excess of mana (Via Tear, Node, Hearth, So on) for a prolonged period [3+ emotes], a Scion would need to vent off the excess in order to maintain their stable connection, in a gradual and gentle manner. A Scion, passively, may vent pure mana via a freeform tell which would manifest in their aura colour. A scion can suppress this reflex through concentrated effort to prevent this visual flare, though they will suffer the consequence of Voidal Poisoning as a result as their sealed connection strains. 

 

Redlines

-Should excess mana not be vented (or in the process of venting) while under effects of excess mana, a Scion would find themselves effected by Voidal Poisoning as normal, though without visual tells. 

- Venting requires [3] emotes from encountering radii of excess mana, while suppressing requires [1] emote. Switching between the two can be done over [3] emotes. 

-Anything which may replenish or fortify a mage’s manapool would require Venting while under it’s effects for [3+] emotes.

-If stepping out of the radius of a fortification/replenishment of mana, the mage would be required to vent for [3] emotes afterward.

- Any structural or area greater source of mana will require the scion to choose to begin or suppress the venting process. This effect lingers for [3] emotes after leaving the radius of said structure/area. 

- Voidstalkers will not cause a scion to vent. It is metagaming to use either Voidstalking or Arcane Scion to meta-test for the other.  

-Given the excess and overflow of mana given by Venting, beings such as The Afflicted would instantly be able to tell the voidal presence, even if the vent is subtle or hidden.

-Venting may be done in a freeform manner, such as aura burning from the eyes or from the Scion’s whole form. The tell for venting cannot be subtle, nor hidden by voidal, mundane, or alchemical disguise.

-Thanhium upon a Scion’s person would become steaming hot while venting, [1] spellcast of the Scion or directly hit causing it to superheat, and [1] additional spell causing the Thanhium to melt. 

-Venting may only be done in presence of a tear, hearth, node/hollow, obelisk, or Voidstalker and their respective radius.

 

 

[ClassyDryad 2367]

The voidstalker and scion venting thing is mostly a problem imo because you'll be chilling with someone for like 2 irl hours only to learn they where a scion and should have been venting that entire time. We don't have giant signs plastered over our heads that tells us who is who.

[Turbo_Dog 3566]

Among us?

[PrimnyaQuorum 3999]

1 hour ago, ClassyDryad said:

The voidstalker and scion venting thing is mostly a problem imo because you'll be chilling with someone for like 2 irl hours only to learn they where a scion and should have been venting that entire time. We don't have giant signs plastered over our heads that tells us who is who.

I agree, that’s why I removed it

[_AzureLexi 766]

Kinda a sus amendment. Do you even play a Scion, are you some kind of imposter? Although I understand among us voidcels, you post the most amendments

[Gemini 1737]

Just rp bro it’s not that heavy. Just like stalkers gotta emote killing flowers 

[King_Kunuk 3022]

4 hours ago, Turbo_Dog said:

Among us?

PoV: you are venting into prima slop post once more.

 

Edit: when squak comes down from the heavens to call your amendment lame, you should know what to do.

[squakhawk 14038]

you can’t have a metagame sign over someone’s head (and i don’t want to justify “i know you have an app” through lore) i don’t see how this fixes it if they don’t start doing differently accordingly still - until they are told they just realistically have no idea irp. Not much we could (or should) do about this given it will encourage metagaming either way. the exceptions of warnings we’ve given is for people who DO know and still aren’t. 

 

also pill ur not ready for, taking on voidal poisoning or failing to vent should realistically dc someone from scion given it is about so desperately maintaining an extremely fine limited balance of voidal connection that breaking that at any point would essentially open the floodgates 

 

this is just my intent as the guy who wrote the lore, and all the other lore scion venting may interface with 

[PrimnyaQuorum 3999]

48 minutes ago, squakhawk said:

you can’t have a metagame sign over someone’s head (and i don’t want to justify “i know you have an app” through lore) i don’t see how this fixes it if they don’t start doing differently accordingly still - until they are told they just realistically have no idea irp. Not much we could (or should) do about this given it will encourage metagaming either way. the exceptions of warnings we’ve given is for people who DO know and still aren’t. 

 

also pill ur not ready for, taking on voidal poisoning or failing to vent should realistically dc someone from scion given it is about so desperately maintaining an extremely fine limited balance of voidal connection that breaking that at any point would essentially open the floodgates 

 

this is just my intent as the guy who wrote the lore, and all the other lore scion venting may interface with 

I thing /msg or just presuming your near a voidstalker as a scion, or being a voidstalker going around #qooc if you see this msg and your a scion, start ventin' doesn't sound engaging. I would ideally love to remove venting from voidstalkers & scion interactions because its like corc & salt to me, its just a test that does not reply on any real, meaningful RP and instead relies on having the proper item (or FA) stand close enough to someone. Venting doesnt even take actions, it's not like its a combat gimmick either its just pre

 

While it would be super funny to have scion's be feat dropped upon not venting and closer 2 lore as written, I don't think most scions want to deal with obsessively checking that a voidstalker isnt near them trying to do some "gotcha" or they made the horrendous crime of not reading the azuras maplore tab when they return from their hiatus started on aevos or prior. There are, to me, far too many ways normal, well-meaning players will get caught up and force-DC'd over what is effectively lore-mandated aura farming. 

 

idk. end of day this effects maybe 2-3 human players where 1-2 scions and 2-3 vstalkers overlap. It's still a weird conflict that pallo pointed out (One redline described the consequences of not venting, the other describes it as mandatory, the mechanics text describes it as a choice) that can be fixed either way. I don't have a dog in the race of which way, just weird to leave it in conflict if its known. 

 

1 hour ago, King_Kunuk said:

PoV: you are venting into prima slop post once more.

this man thinks 3rd eye abjures all spells. you are not given a stone, sinner. 

1 hour ago, Gemini said:

Just rp bro it’s not that heavy. Just like stalkers gotta emote killing flowers 

frankly i could also live without this. what meaningful rp does putting down a sign saying "The flowers have died" [Drain] provide to anyone? End of the day the feats should contribute to the characters and the narritive and discourage the amount of OOCisms [asking in OOC/msg what FA/MAs someone has, constantly checking if theirs some obelisk nearby, timing how long you stand within a 5m radius] a player must engage in as part of that. 

[Morigung-oog 5697]

9 hours ago, _AzureLexi said:

Kinda a sus amendment. Do you even play a Scion, are you some kind of imposter? Although I understand among us voidcels, you post the most amendments

 

This came as a suggestion from multiple scion players.

[Pallodium 3775]

This lore has been denied.

 

This was taken to an internal vote and did not pass.