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A voidally connected mage would influence a bottle within their meter range; if I come into that range while a mage casts, me wielding a Frost Oil sword, is the Frost Oil disabled? Even if it's already applied? If so, does this mean that Voidal Feats, the trio like artificery, could use their innate obelisk abilities to disable nearby potions? If this really is going to become the new lore status quo, what's the explanation for why liquid mana still works for potion bases? Maybe we could just limit people to carrying 3 alchemical potions at a time on themselves?

An interesting idea, but an unnecessary boon to voidal mages in my opinion.

Why not put these spells under housemagery? Elevating some of the normal housemagery spells & writing your own expansions of it with a cultural/role-play view could also work, instead of having a separate feat

Nice builds :0

Cute!

Ibi cheers, having interviewed Mata 'Sprite-Grabber' only the other day.

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Year 13 2A: Several travelers arrive to East-Fleet in preparation for a longer journey, lead by a man who calls himself a Prospector, a native to Almaris' underground depths. (Artist) The warm seabreeze of East-Fleet amused an old miner who walked along the crusted docks. He had a moment alone, enough to drink down something amber he bought at the tavern at Southbridge. He rubbed a flat thumb over the cheap label of 'Oaken Nectar', and let the empty bottle plop into the rising & falling tide. The bottle was pulled away by wave and wind, floating towards the horizon as puffs of ocean wind blew out a melody on the empty jug's lid. The men & woman Nale travelled with were still at South-Bridge, many of them seeking medical care for burns. "The surfacelands are crowded with all manner of new folk," Nale mused to some nameless dock-hand. He bartered for an hour or two, before securing a pier at the docks to use as a storage-point for the charted expedition. The prospector sat down in the new quarters which were tight and ramshackle. Filling out some papers, Nale made his plans to ship supplies from Haense to East-Fleet, and then to caravan them inland to the first quarry. Nale worked while he chattered to the dockhand, a rather gossipy boy. The young lad would be sure to tell others of this strange Prospector of the underworld. Those who strolled by Eastfleet would see a young dock-hand tending the ****-caked piers, a newly constructed storage site, busied cartographers, and an old Prospector who would introduce himself by the name of Nale o'Merphex. Nale says he is offering a job to those helping unload packages from Haense. [To interact with Nale, the Dock-Hand, or the storage, comment here or message me in-game if you are at East-fleet.]

Alright I’ve reread the piece a few times and I really cannot find where it says that Wither requires physical touch

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@SquakHawk This lore is really well written, but I have a problem with balance. This feat, compared to the others, has a rather pesky set of control combat abilities which do not bode well. If I'm wrong about how these spells seem to work, I'd ask that you clarify the lore a little too. I'm just going off of what I can read, but I may be misinterpreting how these abilities are used. Dedicating three slots to voidal magic means that learning this feat pairs up with fighting well through magical means. This Feat (0 slot magic) gains the ability to checkmate any other opponent pretty quickly, either denying them the ability to cast or fight back physically through Wither or Invasion, on top of an expanded mana pool. Consider that 'weakening the target to the strength of the voidal mage' is way too strict a debuff, many targets may vastly different in base strength, like Orcs, Ologs. This also does not specify acceptable targets. Anyone with flesh & blood? Event creatures? This also means that any descendent target originally wearing heavy armor before being targeted by drain is going to be completely useless, as mages are by lore unable to fight with that weight. Compare this to the Mystic Blade's Ennervation -- which has strict guidelines for physical touch, a scaling Tier list, and only lasts a certain duration. Wither is a three emote cast (medium speed), but you can cast Wither at range, and it lasts for the whole combat, can't miss in anyway (seems to autohit?), doesn't require sustained concentration either. I think you should remove Wither entirely. Maybe write it as a debuff-rider you can weave into another spell, like affecting the people hit with your "air evocation" with an additional temporary sluggishness, though - I think Invasion & the expanded manapool are strong enough to carry this subtype as deadly in combat, especially as an anti-mage/anti-archer Feat. Invasion doesn't have an emote-cost guideline, and to cast it can essentially work as a counter-spell. You could use it on the last emote of a four emote spell from another mage, or even to disrupt an archer's firing shot. This puts them down a lot in the emote-count. If we look to other 'disruptive' combat abilities like transfigurations abjuration, translocation's double-portal, and we understand that lots of these voidstalkers will also have access to these abilities? Then they get all this without it taking any slots? Someone could go a full five into Void and this gives them an incredible, debuff based, combat efficacy against seemingly any strategy. Combine this with (as written) an unending casting stamina? When I consider the Voidal Eminent, it makes it clear that the offensive abilities are raised. Still a little worrying for a 0 slot feat with a pretty easy to fill rider, but there's no promise you get off your Voidal Boosted Fire Wave -- it may take 7+ emotes to charge, and then you're out. And the explusion ability pretty clearly says you're out of the fight once you've used it. To me, the Voidstalkers infinite mana stamina is very similar to the expulsion ability - except that instead of launching a nuke, you might be able to eek out a few more well calculated spells. It adds a very interesting strategy to voidal mage combat, and I really like it. Buuuut then you throw in this mega-debuff that can obliterate anyone in armor in 3 emotes, a counter-spell that's arguably more effective than abjurations, and I get a little worried. The rest of the piece is genius.

Neph Irongut set up her store’s backroom with several toolkits of common make and model. She compared a few diagrams she had managed to scrounge together from the Worker’s Guild that detailed Urguan’s old miner uniforms. Neph began to bind leather and padded cloth together into basic shapes, and followed her own writings on the safety of mining to guide her designs. Between piecing together the outfit, Neph wrote in some spare parchments some rules she would follow for her own safety in the mine. She remembered a few weeks prior, in a sleepless night; haunted by illusions of dying in the mine in an explosion. Fear for her life brought sweat to her thick brow, but she stilled her anxiety with an obsession towards personal safety. The days since had passed without much clarity in the subterranean world of Urguan. Many lights stayed lit well into the deep hours of the night, including one that blinked red glows from out of the window of the Sunken Stitch. How many nights had passed now? Neph could not tell, lost in time between short naps in the halls of the Brathmordakin, and focused work upon this new mining suit & her clan trial book of safety tips. Neph thought about the surfaceworld, bound to the waxing & waning light of the callous sun, and cringed. She felt freer down here, in the depths. When her work was done, she felt only nausea at the idea of returning to rest. “Another nap in the temple,” she reasoned, somewhat proud of the mining uniform.

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I still like being on the story team, more or less doing events for people and getting to build and tell small time stories. I also like making minecraft skins! Temp map trolling was truly my top tier trick

Zarsies writes incredible works but I'm a Gaius Simp. Yes!

I was begging about this in general storychat, should only be another decade.

sure on youtube never on tiktok, definitely on twitch, and I don't have a twitter My personal style is generosity and bitter satire, so most people know I'm generally nice, that way when I bust out the moronic commentary, everyone knows its mostly good faith Whenever I hate this place I just leave for another 6 months Well I don't spend too much time cultivating close relationships on the server, but Moogle, you, SWGRclan, Heero, and the dearly missed Geoboy66 were probably the people I enjoyed the banter with the most, and give me the boomer nostalgia. Birdwhisperer was probably the kindest person I met on LotC, and CosmicWhaleShark was also a close buddy during the Elf Wars. I know I'm forgetting some, but that's just because I take too many breaks and forget usernames. I've always wanted to play with a group of saboteurs, some quasi-political group that doesn't use overt force, and brings down a large institution at its foundations. I've done a lot of overt-evil and 1-on-1 manipulation, and also a lot of low-key mundane characters like artisans or warriors, but I think a highly motivated group of thwarters that weren't tied to their own desire to accumulate power? That would be really satisfying, getting to plot it all out. Evil or good, doesn't matter to me. I was first called a gender-bender on lotc in 2013, and I think since that fateful night I have only increased in gender nonconforming power. But I officially started identifying as nonbinary in 2016, 2nd year of college. Why? Hmmm. I think I realized I would never be happy if I had to live as a he/him, too boring! DO I OWE YOU MONEY? I HAVE MONEY TO GIVE YOU IF SO Esther, after being shaded and pacted, was forced to double-down and concentrate her own personality into just a few axioms in order to avoid being entirely consumed by a three-fold mania. She internalized 'The weak are meat and the strong do eat', and so I suspect that she descended to the hells to do the horrific bidding of Velkuzat, spreading hedonistic cannibalism & embracing gleeful madness. In my mind, she would make offers from beyond to the hungry and others without a steady supply of delicious food to rise against their keepers and eat them whole. I don't know if it's a value but I wish more people would gather in large groups and go out to do things, LotC is best enjoyed in a group of 4-8 in my opinion. Getting people to stop sprint jumping in circles and start going out as organized forces, even if it's just to see the sights and do some camping RP, is pretty hard. I wish it wasn't! You, for sure. I'm based because I like sharing, whether its oversharing life details or sharing my MC items. I wasn't born with it, I remember screaming like a banshee when a kid borrowed my toy truck as a youth.

i just got a splint off for breaking my pinky by hitting my desk, so not well. other than that, I like a good bath.

This was my first account on lord of the craft. I've had a few, but this was my very first. I shall now tell you the story of Rithis and Grakka, one that very few ears have ever been privvy to know. When I first joined LotC I was pretty stupid, and I still am. My first character, I wanted nothing more than to be a Druid in Aegis. However, because SerenityOnyx did not like me, my first account was placed on the Druidic shun list - I was the second person to ever be shunned by the Druids. I was crestfallen, so I made a second account, but not before doubling down to enact a terrible plan. I went back on Rithis and slew Archdruid Petyr in cold blood, elevating my shun to KoS. Purposefully 😉 Once I had this account whitelisted, I began to play Grakka the Orc. I was still aiming for Druidism, I bid my time and completed my dedicancy and undertook my grand trial. For my grand trial, I logged onto both my minecraft accounts, staged a fake kidnapping of Rithis by Grakka, and then sacrificed Rithis in front of the Druids in order to become Sand Druid Grakka. I was the first Druidic Orc. Now, after this, I was still pretty confident I would get found out, and I also wanted to avoid a few creeps on the server from its early days, so I made several minecraft accounts to hop around on and avoid people. I went by Hothik, Ruakik, WhiteVodka, Pro_Whistler0, and finally in 2014 I made a permanent commitment to DiscoLiquid. I've been permanently banned on three of the five accounts for pugsying, I believe. Anyway, AMA?

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