Today I picked up a project again that I started planning for a few months ago so... of course I'm going to post a teaser.

Mortom adjusts his monocle and says, "The Sortena Rachlin pattern is a very specialized application of Perception magic that greatly amplifies and refines the subject's somatic senses. These enhanced senses are most commonly employed when working with delicate or complex mechanisms where eyesight alone may prove insufficient. Outside of those applications most magicians avoid use of the spell since it can be rather distracting. Before you can learn this spell, you must know one of Piercing Gaze or Tenebrous Sense. It will also cost two spell slots."

(Note: The name of the spell may change and none of that's been QC'ed. And, yes, this is rather redundant with how Piercing Gaze works right now... funny that.)

-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

It's actually an engineering and locksmithing buff and PG is dropping down to 1 slot (and will become castable on others).

There's some other minor improvements to the Perception spellbook (mostly surrounding prereqs) that'll be part of this release too.

There's another perception spell that was suppose to be part of the same project, but it's less trivial to write than a skill booster so I might not hold the rest of the release for the sake of that spell (whereas I wouldn't want to release the changes to PG without the replacement spell being finished).

I'll save you some headaches updating the Wiki with this link:

http://tinypic.com/r/281d3b/9

(Note that Mechanical Eye was the proposal name for Sortena Rachlin and Read the Ripples may well not be the final name of the other new spell and the slot cost isn't finalized there).

-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

Sounds great!

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>>Have to ask- isn't there some redundancy in spells like Piercing Gaze, Tenebrous Sense, Artificer's Eye and now Mechanical Eye?

Piercing Gaze is a unique utility in the revised Perception book, so no. Tenebrous Sense is an edge case, but yes, the majority of its value is as a skill buff. The two Eye spells are pure buffs, however, and you can certainly compensate for their loss with Astrology.

They're there if you want them, and it doesn't hurt our feelings if you decide not to take them.

-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

haha all MMs liked the old CRS

Monster Elec

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

Well its true!

Monster Elec

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

...

http://imgur.com/ZmDI6

So this means there will be two Perception spellbook based stellar spells then? Any word on a Psychic Projection one?

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Fwiw, it's been included on the spells' wiki pages for around a year at least. I thought the lunar mana section of the mana page did as well, but I guess I forgot to include that tidbit. Fixing that now. I'm fairly sure its been explained by GMs during stellar magic discussions before.

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>Crystal Spike/Sorrow will be Moonlight Manipulation

Wait...is Crystal spike being renamed to Crystal Sorrow or is there a metaspell for Crystal Spike called Crystal Sorrow? Or is Sorrow a 2nd planned spell?

<Sorrow is the working name for the rethemed Crystal Spike. It might change before release but I'm rather fond of the name.

:D

Raesh murdered a bunch of us with it in Test once. But I don't know how much of that will survive to spell release, so...

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"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

I actually threw it on the Talk page a few days ago.

https://elanthipedia.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Talk:Crystal_Spike

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"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

Nice, good to see its pretty similar to the old spell.

Sorrow/Crystal Spike will remain Moonlight Manipulation, not Psychic Project.

And mechanically the main thing not finished with it (aside from the cough cough quest) is the fact that I haven't put new damage messaging into it yet. It's still using the old Crystal Spike damage tables which have problems (And also don't fit the reskin).

It's also the first spell to use the new pulse mechanics I wrote and those will likely need additional work since I basically did enough to get Sorrow working and haven't done extensive testing for all the scenarios they don't account for. (I know of at least one bug with them I need to fix that came up while testing a spell Grejuva wrote that uses the same mechanics.)

-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

I'm so glad your back, Raesh. Good to hear ideas of moonmage development.

Right now it's this:

Requires level 40
Requires the following spell(s):
Telekinetic Throw

Requires one of the following spells:
Dazzle
Burn

That might change - the spell isn't finished and I haven't worked on it in almost a year, so I'll go through some additional review before finalizing and releasing it.

-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

Not sure how well you can appreciate what it's doing here (And the messaging is likely to go through a few more revisions to tighten it up) but here's where we're at with Read the Ripples.

I expect some of you will really like it and many of you will find it a useless spell. I'm okay with that. It also doesn't play nice with Teleologic Sorcery. This is also lightly ended since I'm still in development mode.

K>prep rtr 600
You feel intense strain as you try to manipulate the mana streams to form this pattern, and you are not certain that you will have enough mental stamina to complete it.
You raise your hands skyward, chanting the equation of the Read the Ripples spell.

K>invoke jar
You draw the spell pattern's shadow with some of your supply of oravir paint.
Roundtime: 20 sec.
(this isn't actually the focus you'd use, but it's what I have handy in dev.)

K>cast
You gaze towards the heavens seeking their silent guidance.
The mental strain of this pattern is considerably eased by your ritual focus.
Your prophetic connection blooms a thousand-fold as your ritual concludes. You are alone. An infinitesimal speck in space and time adrift in an infinite sea of possibility. The course of your life, past, present and future, dictated by ceaseless currents beyond any mortal control.

But infinitesimal is not insignificant and control is not understanding. These are indisputable facts etched into the essence of every prophet.

K>
As your consciousness drifts amongst the currents of Fate you find yourself drawn towards the planet Durgaulda.
K>obs durg
You scan the skies for a few moments.
The planet Durgaulda is unobscured by clouds.
Durgaulda is barely visible in the skies above, its presence betrayed only by a tangible sense of absence.
You learned something useful from your observation.
Roundtime: 5 sec.

As your consciousness drifts amongst the currents of Fate you find yourself drawn towards the black moon Katamba.
K>obs katamba
You scan the skies for a few moments.
Katamba is unobscured by clouds.
The waning half of the black moon Katamba moves across the skies.
It is fairly distant at this point of orbit, its light hesitant.

The insight gained from your prior observations floats gently through your subconsciousness. You intuitively draw the relevant details to the forefront of your mind, using them to nurture your current efforts.
You learned something useful from your observation.
Roundtime: 5 sec.

K>
As your consciousness drifts amongst the currents of Fate you find yourself drawn towards the planet Ismenia.
K>obs ism
You scan the skies for a few moments.
While invisible to the naked eye, your prophetic senses have little trouble resolving the planet Ismenia.
The planet Ismenia is unobscured by clouds.
Ismenia shines a bright, cheery yellow, almost seeming to smile as it beams its warm but distant light from above.
The insight gained from your prior observations floats gently through your subconsciousness. You intuitively draw the relevant details to the forefront of your mind, using them to nurture your current efforts.
You learned something useful from your observation.
Roundtime: 5 sec.
KR>
As your consciousness drifts amongst the currents of Fate you find yourself drawn towards the planet Yoakena.
K>obs yoak
You scan the skies for a few moments.
The planet Yoakena is unobscured by clouds.
Yoakena appears as a faint green star, threatening to flicker out of existence at any moment.
The insight gained from your prior observations floats gently through your subconsciousness. You intuitively draw the relevant details to the forefront of your mind, using them to nurture your current efforts.
You learned something useful from your observation.
Roundtime: 5 sec.
K>release rtr
As your ritual ebbs away you find yourself returned to a world of immutable facts. Things that are, are, and things that are not, are not. This is indisputable and you are left with a lingering dissatisfaction for you are still alone, infinitesimal.

-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

Essentially it does two things.

1) It selects random objects in the sky. If you observe what it's pointing to the timer isn't enforced (It is for any other objects). Soon after that observation is finished it will cycle to a new target and the process repeats.

2) It bypasses the telescope checks to observe.

It's an extremely restrictive ritual - It doesn't like teleologic sorcery, you have to remain under an open sky and kneeling/sitting and you can only repeat the ritual every hour or so. It also works somewhat better at night. But it also lets you fill your prediction pools much faster than normal.

-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

>>>> It's an extremely restrictive ritual - It doesn't like teleologic sorcery,

Does that mean it doesn't work when you have an active teleologic sorcery effect or it doesn't work (or is weaker) when you have teleologic corruption?

Corruption makes it much harder to cast.

It's currently a 2 slot spell and I imagine it will remain there. Preqs are 50th and Seer's.

-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