Oh the crowds rejoice!

It's the same at high levels. Low to mid levels will be roughly half the speed as before (It depends on exactly where you are in the curve, decay is not linear).

You're not looking at a scale of months at any rate and much like necromancers there is only so much you can drain off in a given day.

-Raesh

"Ever notice that B.A.'s flavor text swells in direct proportion to how much one of our characters is getting screwed?" - Brian Van Hoose

I don't think he said it was a few days as your post suggests, just not months. There's some middle ground in there.

For my part, I've noticed no decay from a low-medium corruption point over the past five days or so.

If it was more than a few, wouldn't you have used weeks?

I can't wait until you and Pureblade disagree on something.

<<If it was more than a few, wouldn't you have used weeks?

I said a scale of days. I.e. rather than taking x months to move to the next level of corruption it takes x days to move to the next level. You're the one who read 'a few days' into that.

<<I can't wait until you and Pureblade disagree on something.

It has happened many times before. It's not as exciting as you think.

<<What happens if you look into a mirror and say "Pureblade" three times?>>

Gonif comes out and chokes you to death.

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In moon mage code, those are features.

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Just as an update, today was the first day that I finally obtained zero sorcerous corruption since casting TF on the day preview ended. I'm not sure exactly where in the range I left off. It appears the last phase is very short.

Time spent at each level:
20 days - A fragment of the prophecy eludes your Sorcerous connection.
2 days - While only a trace of prophecy eludes you, you worry that your connection will never be entirely free of Sorcery.

Quick suggestion:

Since sorcery is more of a concrete mechanic these days, is it possible to adjust the messaging to indicate that this corruption is due to your telelogic sorcery rather than just sorcery? Most of us know it's specifically from casting the four Teleologic spells, but there's no actual in-game messaging other than this passive message to indicate this, and to the unaware it could easily seem like all sorcery causes this type of corruption. Or probably a better suggestion... have the teleologic spells mention that your connection to prophecy is reduced when you cast them, similar to how casting plain old sorcery now messages that something bad is being done.

Just the part that says sorcery without specifying what type.

E.g. While only a trace of prophecy eludes you, you worry that your connection will never be entirely free of Sorcery.

Putting aside the capital-S sorcery distinction which has been said is only an OOC (and confusing) distinction, that messaging could be understood to be caused and perpetuated by casting Fireball for someone not in the know, especially since the messaging for sorcerous spell casting is now:

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> prep mal 10
You focus your sense of touch on the energies in the air while chanting the mantra for the Malediction spell. Casting rationality aside, you prepare to yoke unseen mana streams to fuel your sorcery.

> cast
Flickering shadows tear away from your fingertips, shuddering through the air toward the ship's rat!
Tendrils of malevolent darkness swarm around the ship's rat, intertwining with one another into a constricting cage. A mild curse settles over it, cemented by your will.

Emotional pain and exhaustion lingers in your mind, even after you regain rational control.
Roundtime: 2 sec.

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To make my suggestion more specific, I imagine keeping the prediction messages the same and having a Teleologic cast message something like below. It will help to make it clearer that casting teleologic sorcery is what is causing the corruption, and not Fireball or Malediction, etc.:

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> prep tf 15
You focus your sense of touch on the energies in the air while chanting the mantra for the Tangled Fate spell. Casting rationality aside, you prepare to yoke unseen mana streams to fuel your sorcery.

>cast
You gesture.
All the sounds around you seem to retreat down a distant tunnel, leaving the area quiet except for a single, ear-splitting tone that is centered around you.
A surge of luck washes over you, reorienting your position toward fate. New concepts and images bubble up from your unconscious, suggesting that your immediate destiny is dire.

Emotional pain and exhaustion lingers in your mind, even after you regain rational control.
You sense your forceful manipulation of the strands of fate weaken your prophetic connection.
Roundtime: 1 sec.

<<All that said, you've inspired me to make a small update to Perceive Teleologic Sorcery since I wrote that utility before corruption existed. It's live now (After Persida stamped out my egregious typos).

I'm actually scared to type PERCEIVE TELEOLOGIC SORCERY. Seriously.

All I'm getting by the way is mana streams. Is it supposed to message about corruption now? I did gain a bit more at the expense of this thread.

Dear lord, I saw 12 posts in this folder and thought something happened.