>>Do we have a way to block MM's from locating us? :)

I recommend killing the Moon Mage and using their eyes to make your next Risen.

-Raesh

"It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true." ― The Slow Regard of Silent Things

>>Do we have a way to block MM's from locating us?

Yes. Our warding spells are great.

Condran Arkarm

Mm, I think being able to re-direct such to their risen would prove an interesting ability.

Samsaren

> I recommend killing the Moon Mage and using their eyes to make your next Risen.

You all heard it from the GM's mouth! Risen are released!


On a more serious topic: it would be nice to have something along the lines of creating a dummy trail. Once you realize you are located you could do whatever and then lead them astray on follow up locates.

>>Does it find the mind? body? soul?

Or any kind of tracking widget, really. Except for the Thief contact locate, I think most others are magical, and it would be interesting to know the lore behind it and if those rules could be "tricked"

>>Would it work on the Transcended/a Transcendi? What about a Lich?

I might chalk it up to game mechanics not properly reflecting lore, but Lyras was easily locatable, I believe, correct?

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Uzmam! The Chairman will NOT be pleased to know you're trying to build outside of approved zones. I'd hate for you to be charged the taxes needed to have this place re-zoned. Head for the manor if you're feeling creative.

Not a fan of removing my own body parts to throw off a locate or familiar. A better option would be a fetish that is consumed when located, exploding violently into gooey bits. Like an eyeball/ear necklace, the offending Mage should also contest against an equally gooey eyeball eruption.

It blocks spells directed at you. Locate will be warded against because it's a spell directed at you, not because it's scrying. It doesn't matter if a spell is remotely cast or not. I think shadewatch mirror will also be resisted but only at the cast. A pre-exisiting mirror or one that breaks through the ward will work just fine. Familiars and thief scrying will also not be blocked since they're not a spell.

>>Does it find the mind? body? soul?

Moon Mage remote-casting works by the Name, or if you want to get fancy a directed intentionality encapsulated by a person's name. The closest analog in that dialect is "the mind," but it's nearly (or actually) impossible to fool or "miss" at the basic level. You can screw with the spell in various ways but you can't just call yourself Joe and get spells firing off at all the other Joes in the world. It's meant for you, it targets you.

Moon Mages also deal with "true names" sometimes, such as with the Naming Ritual, but that's a much more specific application and doesn't really come into play on a person by person basis.

-Armifer
"Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations were wrong ... or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters." - Italo Calvino

>>You can screw with the spell in various ways but you can't just call yourself Joe and get spells firing off at all the other Joes in the world. It's meant for you, it targets you.

Please note this is all tongue-in-cheek, but...

1) What if you split yourself down the middle equally, then move one part to Shard and another to Theren? Which half is the "true" half?
2) How much "you" has to be "you" for it to work? Where the majority of your body is? Where your head is? If a person could successfully cast off a few parts of himself, could it ruin the magic?

Once again, chop off hand, make it a bigger essence of "you", and hilarity can ensue!

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Uzmam! The Chairman will NOT be pleased to know you're trying to build outside of approved zones. I'd hate for you to be charged the taxes needed to have this place re-zoned. Head for the manor if you're feeling creative.

<<Is this a new sentiment in the lore, or has it always been like this?

Invocation of the Spheres was originally called Invocation of Names during development before being released as Invocation of Energy, and the astral plane has always had the lore of using something's true name.
https://elanthipedia.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Invocation_of_Names_(2.0)
https://elanthipedia.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Naming_Ritual

> 2) How much "you" has to be "you" for it to work? Where the majority of your body is? Where your head is? If a person could successfully cast off a few parts of himself, could it ruin the magic?

Which is the part people will refer to as "Joe", and which is "Joe's missing hand"? No one is going to claim that a severed hand is Joe while the rest is "Joe's other parts".

> 1) What if you split yourself down the middle equally, then move one part to Shard and another to Theren? Which half is the "true" half?

We might take a lesson from fiction where things like this happened. In Farscape, fans gave the two Crichtons different names. So each half would get its own name, probably based on the original name, and "Joe" would now be a null reference.

Oh, well the concept of invoking names was around back then anyway.

And here I was thinking all this time that dryzt, drizzet, drizt, and dritzfury were all some kind of magical clone abomination thing. But there goes Armifer, telling me it's not so.

Monster Elec

You hear the distant echo of a savage Horde snarling in barbaric disapproval of your deeds.

ughhh rothfuss

Let's not ruin a perfectly good thread :(

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Thayet
@thayelf // http://thayette.tumblr.com

"But you must know that if corruption is powerful enough, it's not corruption at all — it's law. Unspoken, unwritten, but law." — Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

Rothfuss was one of the first times I read much about sympathetic magic. Not saying he was the first, but it was, for me, a novel take on the 'true name' genre. Just wish he didn't take 30 years per book.

Just a couple more thoughts for the wall, having multiple outcomes to blocking the Locate spell, for example:

Moon Mage casts locate on Necro:

1) Successful Locate on Necro (Necro did not try to divert the Locate).

2) Successful Locate on Necro, but got a head wound or nerve damage of some sort, or a stun/longer stun (because the Necro tried to divert the Locate to another spot but failed, MM got the Locate position but got dinged a little for it).

3) No success Locate on Necro (Necro was able to successfully divert the Locate to another room or something like that).




~ Necro John ~

>Just a couple more thoughts for the wall, having multiple outcomes to blocking the Locate spell, for example:

Just to piggy-back on those multiple outcomes...
Maybe a meta added to Obfuscation? Or EOTB? I'd say probably have the skill check favor the moonie though, since I know there's at least one auction item that prevents locating.

I have a couple of the anti-locate rings but I'm honestly not sure they're working right now.

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Thayet
@thayelf // http://thayette.tumblr.com

"But you must know that if corruption is powerful enough, it's not corruption at all — it's law. Unspoken, unwritten, but law." — Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs