It was originally my intention to let the scene progress all the way to everyone being in the deo'iel's room so that they could perhaps get onto subjects that were more interesting to them - Morgan in particular, since he's been on the sideline so much - and get things moving, but then they unexpectedly demonstrated their powers and such, which I figured I had better leave a break for the characters to react on.

When our collab is up, are we planning on posting it in the IC? I can take all of the chunks and post them together, but we have a ton of content there. For people who are not involved, it might be a bit too much.

Personally I'm having a hard time keeping up with all of the events in the places my character is not involved with. From what I get, there is a group of wounded people moving to Zerul, and a group of people negotiating (or just chatting) with two demons in an inn nearby.

I can just put it all up (well, the parts that are missing still, anyway) in the Prophecy Compendium archives, and who wants to, can read the whole collab there?

As a note. I have work now (as in I am working at an establishment) so my availability is here and there. It's not so bad that I have to drop anything, but my replies, depending on timing, are likely to be more delayed. I have a long shift today and a shorter one tomorrow. So I'll either get to my post (if I'm not dead tired) later today, but if not I'll hopefully get to it tomorrow. If not, expect it the day after tomorrow for sure since I don't have work again till Sunday after tomorrow.

Just a forewarning so that people know how long they might have to wait.

I can just put it all up (well, the parts that are missing still, anyway) in the Prophecy Compendium archives, and who wants to, can read the whole collab there?

Sounds good to me.

Welp, posted. Despite having been called in for work today and having a 9 hour shift tomorrow.

God do I hate working for other people....

Anyone else has something to add in the Drunken Dove-scene before the transition to the sisters' room?

Anyone else has something to add in the Drunken Dove-scene before the transition to the sisters' room?

Will be posting within the hour!

*EDIT*

Aaand posted. I know this is probably going to create a delay, but uh. Yeah. Morgan's feeling nervous, to say the least, heh.

Anyone else has something to add in the Drunken Dove-scene before the transition to the sisters' room?

I might as well get something posted as well. Ixion need to make sure some people are calm for when they talk to the Sisters of Torment in private since he nominated himself as the trio's leader.

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@cthulu: Your turn or mine?

How about you folks on the Zerul-City-side?

I can get something up tonight, tomorrow night at the latest... Unless someone feels the need to go first.

Jack you doing ok with the collab? If I need to make another post on top of my last one let me know.

Short post is up :)

Alright; I'll be seeing whether I'll be posting next, or Legion will, or some kind of collab shall happen. There have been ideas, it seems.

Unless someone else in the Drunken Dove-scene is going to intervene instantly - as in, within two or three seconds of Morgan pushing the blue-haired sister away from the door - I think I'll have to post next.

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Well, before this escalates, I think I'm going to give Merc/Yoshua a chance to post before I make my response. Damn Morgan - always stirring up trouble.

I'on is so done with Morgan's shit right now xD

Huh...well that was an interesting thing to do. Although it really shows me both I'on's magical skill, his focus, and how much he relies on magic. Actually no wait. I guess this just shows me that he relies on magic when he's pushed too much both in battle and out.

Interesting. Hopefully this has more effect than his "Calm," spell did back at the gates. It should...considering there are considerably more arcane words in it, thus increasing the power of the spells.

As a note, the projectile spell will last as long as the AoE spell is in effect, which is part of why I'on is as tired as he is. He dedicated more magical energy to the AoE spell both so it'd effect an area and so it'd continue to effect that area for longer.

It should also be noted that those spells both had more words than I included in their "thought chants". I just thought I'd write enough for the gist of the spells to be understood, but I couldn't be bothered to write "seal, restrain" or any number of synonyms for "calm" several more times haha.

Jack, Shienvien, if the speed of these spells presents an issue, please tell me, but I always intended for I'on to be a very skilled magus.

Eh, as much as I want to accommodate I'on being a skilled mage and everything, casting two spells with so many words - several of which are long and/or pretty to pronounce right, and even more with difficult-to-weave runes associated with them - within a period of, what, three seconds or thereabout... it seems inhuman, to say the least, and even more so that neither of them blew up in his face in the attempt. It's quite simply just too much in too little time.

Also, in the magic of The Prophecy, "more words" does not equal "more powerful", or even necessarily "more effective". Power - which is to say the amplitude of the effect conjured - is controlled purely by the amount of energy poured into the spell in arcane magic. What spells with longer incantation gain isn't that, but rather complexity and, in many cases, a sort of expanded "artificial intelligence". More words in a spell supplies the magic with more elaborate instructions, allowing them to manifest as effects much more advanced. Whereas the fireball-spell (Purthev cowath thagir meethal dregoth. "Summon [a] powerful explosive ball [of] fire.") just gives the instructions "be a ball of fire and explode", for instance, bonds of the land (Thoph smaiwe gohn grumert sonedth, tuagar eren meethal caihl menrirl, lemesatheli dweneth lemesatheli, dweneth sonedth meethal xarthliir caihl menrirl, kohrx harteor dweneth, lemesatheli brega, jhoon cowath. "Summon [the] hardness of stone, small [and] flat spheres [with] holes [of] air, copy [and] lock [these together and] copy [again], lock [together] strongly [with a] cylinder penetrated [by] air, alternately open [or] locked, copy all, [put it in] my power.") not only creates a much more complicated form (in this case, shackles) but also supplies it with a set of instructions on how exactly to act after being invoked. So, eh... the point I'm trying to make is that "longer spell = more likely to work" is not always true. Yeah.

Also, just in case this wasn't clear (I think I told Ashgan about it a long time ago, but I'll go again), spells can't be made up on the spot, nor can one just slap an extra word or ten on a spell they know to change it. A spell has a certain incantation, and if that incantation is used, it will be conjured; any variation from that incantation, and it won't work (in fact it is, once again, liable to blow up in your face for trying).

Poor I'on. All he wanted was a drink and a nice bed to rest in! xD

So a few questions:

1) Since this spell is practically instantaneous, as well as... "homing?" I guess is the correct adjective? I am wondering if it's at all avoidable physically. Naturally, I assume the average human (or even skilled human) would be unable to dodge it, but since Morgan is a vampire/sniffer, the combination might give him the reaction time/speed to avoid the magic. This of course, is assuming that he was able to recover quickly enough to realize that he was being attacked by I'on and not focusing solely on the masked sister. Side note for @Yoshua171, is the spell indeed homing? Or is just directed at Morgan's person with great precision?

2) Would Morgan be able to sense I'on's particular use of magic. It's true that Morgan would have already sensed a build up of his sigils and such, but can a sniffer realize the exact time magic is dispelled from its user? Or would the sniffer have to be quite skilled in his craft to realize such an occurrence is happening?

I'on is so done with Morgan's shit right now xD

And I think at this point in the story, Ixion is pretty much done with Morgan's irrational shit (which means that I'll be posting as well for Ixion's response). Which means I have a couple of questions. 1) Do vampires have souls? and 2) Do Banes count as blessed weapons or are they just magic-imbued ones? As you can imagine, I am pondering on the thought of our red assassin using the Dirge more as a warning to Morgan but his lack of knowledge on what the stones inside the weapon means he doesn't know that it's capable of damaging the soul.

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