Hi everybody!

I've been sitting here for the past ten minutes trying to come up with something clever to write about this update, but so far nothing has come to me. It's like I -know- something is just sitting up in that brain of mine, locked away and possibly booby trapped from my conscious. Ever had that happen to you? It's like at some point of continually trying to unlock those ideas you just wish you could know if it was even worth the effort. I mean, what if you spend hours trying to get into that mind of yours and then you find out there was nothing in there in the first place?! (This is usually the case for me.)

Now if my brain was a lockbox, Piercing Gaze would let me do JUST that! How perfect! But what if I'd been trying to pop that box and Lady Luck had just never seen fit to toss the dice my way and give me a success? I wouldn't know if it was just bad luck or if I was just bad at popping boxes. Well, to this I say, "No more! We will no longer be bound by the old ways! The time for change is now!"

So, given all of that, Piercing Gaze has been updated with the possibility to provide the caster with some messaging indicating their relative chances of success at 407 or 408'ing a locked box! Here are some specific details that you may be curious about:

- The percentage chance of 416 showing you the messaging for the your 407/408 to succeed is (SKILL in Elemental Lore, Water / 10).
- The messaging for 408 to work will only be displayed if the caster has discovered the trap.

As always, questions, comments, praise, and criticisms are more than welcome.

~ Konacon

Robert

Is it fair to say that any time staff says SKILL they mean Current Bonus? I am guessing there must be some code on the back end which refers to Current Bonus as SKILL and this is the reason it is used by NIRs. From the player perspective we have Current Bonus and Current Ranks so whenever SKILL is used it creates the potential for confusion and misunderstanding (at least on my part).

Yes, skill is the same as bonus. It does make more sense to refer to it as bonus; I'm not sure how/why we started referring to it just as skill.

GameMaster Estild

> Is it fair to say that any time staff says SKILL they mean Current Bonus?

As far as I'm aware, this is a fair thing to assume.

~ Konacon

Estild

Yes, skill is the same as bonus. It does make more sense to refer to it as bonus; I'm not sure how/why we started referring to it just as skill.

This is my thread!

~ Konacon

I invented lawns!

</Snickers>

Dirty? Someone's dirty?

Good thing you have all those Water ranks to help your Minor Water, eh?

> Good thing you have all those Water ranks to help your Minor Water, eh?

Don't you get snippy with me! I will turn this car right around and also add MORE water lore into this game!

Next up: Every bolt spell (Including Balefire, don't think I forgot about you, sorcerers!) now has a chance to do water damage with an additional (albeit very rare) chance to create a water puppy pet that follows you around and does cute things. This effect lasts for up to 15 seconds.

Also, get off my lawn!

... which needs watering.

~ Konacon

>>Now that I've said that, I can predict that I'm going to be destroyed by Estild in some unique and unexpected way because there ARE plans to change it and I just haven't been paying attention.

Heh, well - you have the water puppy to defend you, right?!

I appreciate it, and believe me when I say I know how plans can change even overnight. But for my part, knowing that it isn't that way at this present moment in time (but could change tomorrow) is very welcome. Thank you for owning that lawn.

Doug

Seems like I found a possible bug here, or with the 408 updates. Note that sometimes I must continue to probe for the trap despite that I've already seen it, and that the trap is never corroded, despite 10 ranks of water lore. I put in bold the times it starts probing for traps when it should be attempting to disarm. Also, every disarm attempt should corrode. Only minor editing has been done, and the time frame is successively quick. My suspicion is it might be from the 416 messaging telling me my apparently poor chances to unlock (though, it was pretty easy to open...maybe I'll discuss that in another post once I have more experience with it).

>cast my box
You gesture at an engraved fel box.
You gaze at the box and see. . .
An engraved fel box which contains:
Some silver coins (in)
A stylish crushed silk mantle (in)
Looking closely into the keyhole of the lock, you spy a small vial of liquid and a tiny hammer device which has been bent from striking range of the vial.
You detect that you have a very poor chance of magically unlocking it.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

>incant 404
A salty sea breeze stirs as you chant an old sailor's ditty, invoking Disarm Enhancement.
Your spell is ready.
You gesture.
You become calm and focused.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
[ Disarm Enhancement: +0:02:03, 0:03:24 remaining. ]
>prep 408
A salty sea breeze stirs as you chant an old sailor's ditty, invoking Disarm.
Your spell is ready.
>cast my box
You gesture at an engraved fel box.
Now to isolate the offending mechanism and disable it...The box vibrates slightly but nothing else happens.
The focused look leaves you.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>incant 404
A salty sea breeze stirs as you chant an old sailor's ditty, invoking Disarm Enhancement.
Your spell is ready.
You gesture.
You become calm and focused.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
[ Disarm Enhancement: +0:02:03, 0:02:03 remaining. ]
You sense that your attunement to the minds of others is fading, and that it will cease in about a minute.
>prep 408
A salty sea breeze stirs as you chant an old sailor's ditty, invoking Disarm.
Your spell is ready.
>cast my box
You gesture at an engraved fel box.
You begin to probe the box for unusual mechanisms...The box vibrates slightly but nothing else happens.
The focused look leaves you.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>incant 404
A salty sea breeze stirs as you chant an old sailor's ditty, invoking Disarm Enhancement.
Your spell is ready.
You gesture.
You become calm and focused.
[ Disarm Enhancement: +0:02:03, 0:02:03 remaining. ]
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>prep 408
A salty sea breeze stirs as you chant an old sailor's ditty, invoking Disarm.
Your spell is ready.
>cast my box
You gesture at an engraved fel box.
You begin to probe the box for unusual mechanisms...The box vibrates slightly but nothing else happens.
The focused look leaves you.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>prep 416
A salty sea breeze stirs as you chant an old sailor's ditty, invoking Piercing Gaze.
Your spell is ready.
>cast my box
You gesture at an engraved fel box.
You gaze at the box and see. . .
An engraved fel box which contains:
Some silver coins (in)
A stylish crushed silk mantle (in)
Looking closely into the keyhole of the lock, you spy a small vial of liquid and a tiny hammer device which has been bent from striking range of the vial.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>incant 404
A salty sea breeze stirs as you chant an old sailor's ditty, invoking Disarm Enhancement.
Your spell is ready.
You gesture.
You become calm and focused.
[ Disarm Enhancement: +0:02:03, 0:02:03 remaining. ]
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>prep 408
A salty sea breeze stirs as you chant an old sailor's ditty, invoking Disarm.
Your spell is ready.
Your senses are no longer as sharp.
>cast my box
You gesture at an engraved fel box.
Now to isolate the offending mechanism and disable it...The box vibrates slightly but nothing else happens.
The focused look leaves you.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>incant 404
A salty sea breeze stirs as you chant an old sailor's ditty, invoking Disarm Enhancement.
Your spell is ready.
You gesture.
You become calm and focused.
[ Disarm Enhancement: +0:02:03, 0:02:03 remaining. ]
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>prep 408
A salty sea breeze stirs as you chant an old sailor's ditty, invoking Disarm.
Your spell is ready.
>cast my box
You gesture at an engraved fel box.
You begin to probe the box for unusual mechanisms...The box vibrates slightly but nothing else happens.
The focused look leaves you.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

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Just to confirm, here is another trap, where it corrodes as expected, and doesn't make me probe over and over.

You gaze at the chest and see. . .
A simple maoral chest which contains:
A checkered chiton shell (in)
A heavy quartz orb (in)
Some silver coins (in)
Peering closely into the lock, you spy a tiny translucent scarab wedged into the lock mechanism. The scarab's shell is etched on the back with a large eye that seems to shift lazily about.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.


You gesture at a simple maoral chest.
Now to isolate the offending mechanism and disable it...The chest vibrates slightly but nothing else happens.
The focused look leaves you.
You feel that you have slightly corroded the trap on a simple maoral chest.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

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>Daid: Pretty sure you have a whole big bucket as your penny jar. You never have only two cents. :p

Hahahaha.

How did that get in my locker.

Thanks!

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