Someone passed this on to me to post.

Basically, the issue is that Gauthus says that the Fire Shard spell is beyond the new WM's ability to cast. That seems like a bug. Log is below.


> ask gauth for magic

Gar Zeng

Fire Shards

Geyser

Stone Strike

Air Lash

Guildmaster Gauthus says, "The magic of Warrior Mages is the manipulation of forces from the elemental Planes. Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Electricity and Aether are the tools we use to forge our spells."

"You are worthy of hearing about the Gar Zeng spell from the Electricity Manipulation book, the Fire Shards spell from the Fire Manipulation book, the Geyser spell from the Water Manipulation book, the Stone Strike spell from the Earth Manipulation book, and the Air Lash spell from the Air Manipulation book. If you are interested in more information about any of these spellbooks, you have but to ask me about it by name."
[Type ASK Gauthus ABOUT <spellbook name> BOOK to see which spell(s) you may learn from that book.]

Gauthus looks you in the eye and says, "I believe you are worthy of learning more about the manipulation of the elemental energies. You may choose a spell if you know which one you like."
[Type CHOOSE <spell name> SPELL to learn one.]
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> choose fs spell
Gauthus says, "I feel the Fire Shards spell is beyond your ability to use at this time. If you are certain of your decision, choose it again and it shall be yours. And remember, you were warned."

The mechanics behind the warning there isn't paying attention to all the various modifiers that let a 0-4 skill person get an intro spell off. I'll try poking at it, but no promises, I recall that being kind of scary.

-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." - Calvino Italo

>discern fs
The Fire Shard spell conjures a fist-sized shard of elemental fire and hurls it at its target. The intensity of the damage varies with the amount of power invested in the spell. With enough skill and power, multiple shards will be produced.

This is a targeted spell, which must be TARGETed at a specific opponent. This spell does fire and impact damage. It can be cast at other adventurers and at hostile creatures. It requires a minimum of one mana streams, and can expand to a maximum of one hundred mana streams woven into it. To begin to be able to cast this spell, you will need to reach the rank of a lowly novice. By the time you have mastered this spell, you will be ranked as a professional in your abilities as a caster. It requires the Targeted Magic skill to cast effectively. This spell has no prerequisites. It will also cost one spell slot.

The spell requires at minimum 1 mana streams and you think you can reinforce it with 0 more, for a total of 1 streams.
Roundtime: 15 sec.

I've been talking to a bit of noobs and running a few myself (for a starting character experience) and overall that seems to be any new character having a problem with spells, as far as their guild leader is concerned.

You can chose it anyways.

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