In reply to Amara Brightsky (msg # 933):

Melock does like to flirt, but as he's about to be married, he'll have to stop doing that.

Hey!

Who said it needs a pulse?

I know Healing 1 and have a matrix/armlet for Healing 4 picked up from the probably-ex-lunar wyverns we spifflicated. Wouldn't count on the latter being a permanent feature: might get snaffled by the law at some stage...like maybe in Pavis.
Not sure what Sehana has. Never thouight up a good way of asking without going all meta- in an IC thread.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:47, Fri 14 Oct 2016.

Npcs will be staying at the GFHs when you go to Pavis.

Didn't realise that either, still want to be able to do some stabby stabby though.

And now, the ick factor just increased significantly (perhaps even beyond political candidate ickyness) :)

*kicks Melock inna shins for Ulerian comments*

Got to admit it sound promising to me who never really left RQ2.

Sounds similar to what we are doing here.

Anyway... Now is the time to prepare your equipment for Pavis and further afield if you are going with Amara to the Pairing stones.

You have 8 weeks to get there and back for sacred time. This will be a short trip. Then there is a year of training and raids and then free agents again.

If you want to retain the taboo, maybe one option is to gradually phase in that kind of taboo as shamans grow in power?  Like penalties to attack/parry which increase as the shaman accumulates bound spirits or something so that at some point a shaman will prefer to use magic?

What taboo, is there a taboo?

I meant the practice that Praxian shamans are only allowed to fight with magic.

You lot can try and find out for sure what is happening.

Suggest actions and skills you think might be useful.

I'll ask Zonta and Angelika what's going on. I think I'd be more likely to get something from them.

Well I'm going to ask the slaves. From experience I know there's little in a camp that they are not aware of :)

I don't think it's been a taboo though has it, just the way things are because 'normal' shamans do all the spirit stuff and look after the clan health whilst the clan do everything else for the shamans. This means that their physical skills tend to atrophy to DEX x5 through lack of use and can only be improved through experience as they have no time for training. The same is true for Rune Priests actually according to the rules.

According to the vanilla rules only Rune Lords can get their skills up to over 100% and they always defend against spells at their full POW. But they do not have reusable Rune magic. T
I also don't see an imbalance particularly.

Then of course there are the Rune Lord-Priest who cannot improve in skills except through experience, but their gods prevent their combat skills them from dropping to DEX x5, and Rune Priest-Lords who can keep their priestly abilities.

From the basic rules the differences are:


Way too restrictive for most and with cult write-ups the three generally merged over time. You could still say that the stored POW is a big advantage to shamans if they can also prey for divine magic. But when you take into account that they need to sacrifice permanent POW at a rate of  1 POW per 10 POW of the spirit they want to make a pact with then they'll not be sacrificing for many spells once they start trying to gather spirits.

Now compared with initiates then yes, I do see shamans as having an advantage, but only in the longer term, once/if the apprentices get to the point of having enough stored POW to start making pacts with spirits and by that time I should think the non-shamans would be getting towards Rune levels.

Those of you who become shamans will be the Wandering Rangers' shamans and thus owe 90% of their time to the hero band, not the clan.

The clan already has their shamans.

Remember that this battle is going to be led by multiple rune levels.

Yeah, but not one of us....yet!

With so many shamans and warriors on our side, we should be able to win handily.


But with one of us as Tada...it might be a heroquest thing. Someone had to pick this site for the temple in the first place and presumably also had to clear it out from whatever was living there first.

I thought it was Akala Tada who gave the thumbs up to the Red Thorns.

Was it, my bad then, knew someone did though. :)

I thought it was too.

Amara Tada would have read them the riot act.
But still a new Tada might be able to intervene, the problem is that in order to even get to come along we're going to have to pretend to be out for the red Thorns blood.

From Amara's perspective, the Red Thorn Khan is reasonable... it's just the shaman that needs removed permanently.

Well you lot will be too busy training to go anywhere.

Well, it looks as though our choices are

1) Intervene
Probably as Tada to try to prevent bloodshed which will cause some friction with our own clans

2) Ignore the problem
And let the red thorns get slaughtered...which isn't going to win us any friends.

In reply to Amara Brightsky (msg # 957):

What happens if the Red Thorns call Tada to help?

Also regardless of what we do, Hoskar is going to be stuck right in the middle, if he's still at the GFH