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After a brief time in limbo (on the order of 12 years) the Mind Shout spell is now live.
It is an esoteric psychic project debilitation spell that costs 2 slots.
It attempts to stun everyone at the location of your moonbeam. Buyer beware when picking your targets.
Thanks go to Socharis for finally green lighting the spell and Rigby, who wrote much of the messaging long, long ago.
-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
>>Less MM spells, more Bard spells. Ricinus is making you look bad. :)
I was going to convert a Bard spell today before deciding the spell I had in mind was better off not making it to 3.0 (I don’t believe there’s a huge demand for a cyclic athletics booster) and realizing all the other spells left to convert were spoken for... so then I wrote Mind Shout instead. Does that count?
I have about a half dozen sweet Bard spells I want to write, but they’re currently slated for post 3.0. I’ll see if I can pull some of them in early, but it’s a long shot – The way my schedule works I tend to have a few days where I can do a lot of coding (which just ended) and then several days where I can’t do much (which is just starting) and I do have some other non-magic related projects that are near the top of the 3.0 pile as well.
If you wish to discuss Bard spells further please relocate to that thread so I don't have to hide from the Board Mods.
-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 was going to convert a Bard spell today before deciding the spell I had in mind was better off not making it to 3.0 (I don’t believe there’s a huge demand for a cyclic athletics booster) and realizing all the other spells left to convert were spoken for... so then I wrote Mind Shout instead. Does that count?
I have about a half dozen sweet Bard spells I want to write, but they’re currently slated for post 3.0. I’ll see if I can pull some of them in early, but it’s a long shot – The way my schedule works I tend to have a few days where I can do a lot of coding (which just ended) and then several days where I can’t do much (which is just starting) and I do have some other non-magic related projects that are near the top of the 3.0 pile as well.
If you wish to discuss Bard spells further please relocate to that thread so I don't have to hide from the Board Mods.
-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
>>That said as a long time player, im very pleased to see Moonies get this spell again!
There's no again, this is the first time it's been released to players.
-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
There's no again, this is the first time it's been released to players.
-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
now all you have to do is figure out a use for mirror wraith and were good to go.
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The Light is Crimson through the Darkness.
Doesn't work in forest geni
>cast katamba
You gesture.
An image of the local surrounding your moonbeam briefly flashes before your eyes.
[Wilderness]
Fallen leaves rustle with the movements of a thousand crawling insects. With no birdsong to add a melody to the eerie rhythm, the crackling and whispering becomes the murmur of an unseen voice in the night, coming from nowhere. You also see a forest geni, a pool of black shadows and a massive old oak tree.
Obvious paths: north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest.
Blazed trails: none.
You release a wave of psychic energy with your Katamba moonbeam as the focal point.
A disturbing psychic howl echoes through the area.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
>cast katamba
You gesture.
An image of the local surrounding your moonbeam briefly flashes before your eyes.
[Wilderness]
Fallen leaves rustle with the movements of a thousand crawling insects. With no birdsong to add a melody to the eerie rhythm, the crackling and whispering becomes the murmur of an unseen voice in the night, coming from nowhere. You also see a forest geni, a pool of black shadows and a massive old oak tree.
Obvious paths: north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest.
Blazed trails: none.
You release a wave of psychic energy with your Katamba moonbeam as the focal point.
A disturbing psychic howl echoes through the area.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
After playing around with it some more I realized it's possible that my targets were resisting the effect but it's hard to tell if they are or the spell just doesn't work on them at all. Any chance we could get messaging when someone or something resists the shout? The target gets a message that they're resisting your MS but the caster only gets:
You release a wave of psychic energy with your Katamba moonbeam as the focal point.
A disturbing psychic howl echoes through the area.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
Or does that messaging tell me that everything in the room has resisted MS? Same message as casting in an empty room without any targets. Another moon mage cast MS at 75 mana with no stun to the geni and the same message - although it did stun me while we were grouped. Don't know if its intended that your group is affected or not.
Also tried using MS min prep + 15 cambrinth mana against granite gargoyles and rock trolls with the same result.
Min. prep Mental Blast worked easily on all 3 targets (geni, gargs, rock trolls). Different spell I know, but I wanted to see if they were more resistant to psychic attacks.
Skaen
You release a wave of psychic energy with your Katamba moonbeam as the focal point.
A disturbing psychic howl echoes through the area.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
Or does that messaging tell me that everything in the room has resisted MS? Same message as casting in an empty room without any targets. Another moon mage cast MS at 75 mana with no stun to the geni and the same message - although it did stun me while we were grouped. Don't know if its intended that your group is affected or not.
Also tried using MS min prep + 15 cambrinth mana against granite gargoyles and rock trolls with the same result.
Min. prep Mental Blast worked easily on all 3 targets (geni, gargs, rock trolls). Different spell I know, but I wanted to see if they were more resistant to psychic attacks.
Skaen
Ricinus found and fixed a nasty bug with the difficulty of casting MS (Whoops?).
I cleaned up it's behavior when cast in the same room as you.
I also added a message for resisted hits (I sorta left this out on purpose to cut down on spam and sorta forgot to include it. Pick your own adventure there).
Bonus points for the first person who manages to kill themselves with this spell.
-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 cleaned up it's behavior when cast in the same room as you.
I also added a message for resisted hits (I sorta left this out on purpose to cut down on spam and sorta forgot to include it. Pick your own adventure there).
Bonus points for the first person who manages to kill themselves with this spell.
-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
Also of interest: If the time Mind Shout spent in limbo between Rigby finishing it and the time it hit test was a person, it would currently be finishing up middle school and starting to write it's wishlist for it's 13th Birthday party.
-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
-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
First off lemme say that I love this far more than I thought I would... if I could find a way to make my moonbeam auto follow me I totally would just for this spell alone. I do have one request though granted it is small and easily looked over if not indulged.
You sense your scream rip through a giant wasp's mind.
Any way we can make that:
You sense your psychic scream rip through a giant wasp's mind.
~Tezirite Renzar Lorrani
"Power is merely a stepping stone to more power."
You sense your scream rip through a giant wasp's mind.
Any way we can make that:
You sense your psychic scream rip through a giant wasp's mind.
~Tezirite Renzar Lorrani
"Power is merely a stepping stone to more power."
Bonus points for the first person who manages to kill themselves with this spell.
If I could actually cast it... I'd probably kill myself with it. Does that count?
>cast yavash xxxx
You gesture.
Currently lacking the skill to complete the pattern, your spell fails completely.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
An arisen dummy zombie bellows, "You will all be ssslaughtered!"
>
If I could actually cast it... I'd probably kill myself with it. Does that count?
>cast yavash xxxx
You gesture.
Currently lacking the skill to complete the pattern, your spell fails completely.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
An arisen dummy zombie bellows, "You will all be ssslaughtered!"
>
>>Any way we can make that:
>>You sense your psychic scream rip through a giant wasp's mind.
I made a few minor messaging adjustments to the spell.
-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
>>You sense your psychic scream rip through a giant wasp's mind.
I made a few minor messaging adjustments to the spell.
-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
Caught a small typo in the spellbook description.
The Mind Shout spell generates an indiscriminate mental attack, similar to the Mental Blast spell on which it's based, at the location of a focused moonbeam. Be warned that it's possible for this spell to feedback on the caster *if *too those assaulted are of strong enough will.
I think those words are supposed to be reversed. On a Moon Mage spellbook related side note is there any way we can have Sovereign Destiny show up in the TS chapter? I know it registers what you have learned and what you have not but the other three show up just fine. I partly want to make sure the info reads properly and partly to make sure that it will in fact show up when learned post 3.0.
~Tezirite Renzar Lorrani
"Power is merely a stepping stone to more power."
The Mind Shout spell generates an indiscriminate mental attack, similar to the Mental Blast spell on which it's based, at the location of a focused moonbeam. Be warned that it's possible for this spell to feedback on the caster *if *too those assaulted are of strong enough will.
I think those words are supposed to be reversed. On a Moon Mage spellbook related side note is there any way we can have Sovereign Destiny show up in the TS chapter? I know it registers what you have learned and what you have not but the other three show up just fine. I partly want to make sure the info reads properly and partly to make sure that it will in fact show up when learned post 3.0.
~Tezirite Renzar Lorrani
"Power is merely a stepping stone to more power."
On the topic of spell messaging--don't play a MM so I don't know if this has been updated, but:
>An image of the local surrounding your moonbeam briefly flashes before your eyes.
Should be "locale". And technically, a "brief flash" is redundant. Minor stylistic quibble... there's a fair amount of such repetitive text strings in the game, but I figured since we're on the topic :p.
>An image of the local surrounding your moonbeam briefly flashes before your eyes.
Should be "locale". And technically, a "brief flash" is redundant. Minor stylistic quibble... there's a fair amount of such repetitive text strings in the game, but I figured since we're on the topic :p.
It seems geni still don't give any interaction with Mind Shout. I am able to successfully stun marbled angiswaerds.
squint geni
You squint at a forest geni.
> cast yavash
You gesture.
You contribute your harnessed streams to increase the pattern's potential.
You release a wave of psychic energy with your Yavash moonbeam as the focal point.
A disturbing psychic howl echoes through the area.
You sense your psychic energy scream through Skaen's mind.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
squint geni
You squint at a forest geni.
> cast yavash
You gesture.
You contribute your harnessed streams to increase the pattern's potential.
You release a wave of psychic energy with your Yavash moonbeam as the focal point.
A disturbing psychic howl echoes through the area.
You sense your psychic energy scream through Skaen's mind.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
>Should be "locale". And technically, a "brief flash" is redundant. Minor stylistic quibble... there's a fair amount of such repetitive text strings in the game, but I figured since we're on the topic :p.
Actually, no, it should be 'local surroundings'. 'Locale surroundings' is incorrect. It could be; 'you briefly get a flash of your moonbeams locale'. Also, 'briefly flashes before your eyes' isn't redundant; it's describing the temporal [briefly] and qualitative [flash of a vision] aspects of the experience.
Actually, no, it should be 'local surroundings'. 'Locale surroundings' is incorrect. It could be; 'you briefly get a flash of your moonbeams locale'. Also, 'briefly flashes before your eyes' isn't redundant; it's describing the temporal [briefly] and qualitative [flash of a vision] aspects of the experience.
I was testing with my friend's MM, and it seems that whenever a target resists MS, it uses the caster's name instead of the target's. This was cast with two people in the same room as my Katamba beam:
You release a wave of psychic energy with your Katamba moonbeam as the focal point.
You sense your scream leave <caster> unphased.
You sense your scream leave <caster> unphased.
A disturbing psychic howl echoes from the west.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
You release a wave of psychic energy with your Katamba moonbeam as the focal point.
You sense your scream leave <caster> unphased.
You sense your scream leave <caster> unphased.
A disturbing psychic howl echoes from the west.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
>The Mind Shout spell generates an indiscriminate mental attack, similar to the Mental Blast spell on which it's based, at the location of a focused moonbeam. Be warned that it's possible for this spell to feedback on the caster *if *too those assaulted are of strong enough will.
This will be fixed in the next push. It was actually an artifact of the old description.
>On a Moon Mage spellbook related side note is there any way we can have Sovereign Destiny show up in the TS chapter?
It doesn't? I know of no reason it should interact differently than the other three. Can you post a log?
>An image of the local surrounding your moonbeam briefly flashes before your eyes.
Fixed in the next push.
-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
This will be fixed in the next push. It was actually an artifact of the old description.
>On a Moon Mage spellbook related side note is there any way we can have Sovereign Destiny show up in the TS chapter?
It doesn't? I know of no reason it should interact differently than the other three. Can you post a log?
>An image of the local surrounding your moonbeam briefly flashes before your eyes.
Fixed in the next push.
-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
>>It seems geni still don't give any interaction with Mind Shout. I am able to successfully stun marbled angiswaerds.
It skips creatures that aren't stunnable, added a failure message in the next push.
-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
It skips creatures that aren't stunnable, added a failure message in the next push.
-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 was testing with my friend's MM, and it seems that whenever a target resists MS, it uses the caster's name instead of the target's. This was cast with two people in the same room as my Katamba beam:
Typo on my part, fixed, next push etc.
-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
Typo on my part, fixed, next push etc.
-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
>>Can you post a log?
>get spell
You get a night black velvet-bound spellbook beaded with some fiery black opal gibbous moons from inside your spellbook case.
>open spell
You open a night black velvet-bound spellbook beaded with some fiery black opal gibbous moons.
>turn spell to chap 6
You turn the heavy dark crimson parchment pages to the chapter entitled "Teleologic Sorcery" in your velvet-bound spellbook.
>read spell
The graceful black calligraphy on the heavy dark crimson parchment page of your spellbook reads:
~* Spells and Knowledge pertaining to Teleologic Sorcery *~
Page 1: Sever Thread Page 3: Tezirah's Veil
Page 2: Tangled Fate
>
~Tezirite Renzar Lorrani
"Power is merely a stepping stone to more power."
>get spell
You get a night black velvet-bound spellbook beaded with some fiery black opal gibbous moons from inside your spellbook case.
>open spell
You open a night black velvet-bound spellbook beaded with some fiery black opal gibbous moons.
>turn spell to chap 6
You turn the heavy dark crimson parchment pages to the chapter entitled "Teleologic Sorcery" in your velvet-bound spellbook.
>read spell
The graceful black calligraphy on the heavy dark crimson parchment page of your spellbook reads:
~* Spells and Knowledge pertaining to Teleologic Sorcery *~
Page 1: Sever Thread Page 3: Tezirah's Veil
Page 2: Tangled Fate
>
~Tezirite Renzar Lorrani
"Power is merely a stepping stone to more power."
>>It seems geni still don't give any interaction with Mind Shout. I am able to successfully stun marbled angiswaerds.
>It skips creatures that aren't stunnable, added a failure message in the next push.
>-Raesh
Geni can be stunned with mental blast. Did you mean the messaging was skipping creatures that you don't win the contest against?
>It skips creatures that aren't stunnable, added a failure message in the next push.
>-Raesh
Geni can be stunned with mental blast. Did you mean the messaging was skipping creatures that you don't win the contest against?
