>>Is Heart link supposed to be removable by the person who had been cast on? An empath cast heart link on my character to help keep him from dying. When I woke up, for some reason I typed release heart link and it wore off. Curious, I asked the empath to cast it on me again and once again I was able to remove the heart link myself. Is this normal, a bug, or a skill vs skill thing?
It's working as intended.
Heart link does not just share vitality of the casting Empath to others. It functions a lot like the Circle of Sympathy spell, in that everyone the Empath has cast Heart Link on can contribute to the communal vitality pool, Empath and non-Empath alike. This means that people in a Heart Link circle can lose vitality when they contribute to the pool, to help bring someone in the pool with lower vitality back toward equilibrium. Heart Link can also kind-of-sort-of out Necromancers with high DO, though they can avoid having it cast on them with AVOID TOUCH.
Because I wanted it to remain strictly beneficial and not have to worry about people weaponizing it (and therefore requiring a stat contest) people it is cast on can release the spell. This pretty much just reflects that the person must consent to being in the circle.
Melete
Our choicest plans
have fallen through,
our airiest castles
tumbled over,
because of lines
we neatly drew
and later neatly
stumbled over.
