interlude: ellethia

[groundrules]

ELLETHIA

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Goodbye & farewell to Taravast, as the party heads into the mysterious, if sadly downtrodden Ellethia. Our latest log has gone up to cover 3-17 January, and you can make your individual plotting comments or ask questions here!

Comments

[chosenbylight]

Is it the candle itself or just light that is warding away evil/scaring the mermaids off? Asking for a Light Priest...

[groundrules]

It's the candle light, specifically. You can definitely use other types of light or fire to light the candle again, but these resources won't substitute the candle light.

You're absolutely done for if every passenger on a boat tosses their candle overboard, in other words.

[chosenbylight]

ALAS oh well, I do have another PRIEST-related question, as I sift through all of the Bad Stuff in this post here

Anduin has an ability that can dispel all harmful magic and disease (but not curses, if that's what this happens to be...)

If he were to try and use it to ward off the lighthouse getting into his/someone else's head, could that work? Or does he need someone to slap him out of it like everyone else?

[groundrules]

So, none of this is a curse, funnily.

There is a thrall / compulsion regarding the lighthouse, but it's related to everyone being uniquely drawn to something in there (which hasn't manifested yet/will be part of the update).

If Anduin's ability works like the equivalent of tossing water in the face of a drunk man to snap him out of it please don't do this, then it could temporarily work. But if it's actively only working against malign magic — there's a self-preservation element in the way the Thing That Will Not Be Named is behaving, but you wouldn't call that evil, I think.

[chosenbylight]

BASICALLY he has an ability which is literally just called "Mass Dispel" and technically it removes all harmful Magic from friendly targets and 1 beneficial Magic effects from enemy targets within a certain area. Or he can just do Dispel Magic on one target to remove all beneficial Magic from an enemy, or Purify to remove all harmful Magic from a friendly target.

It's all very HEALING centric, woowoo

Trying to think up every bonus I can for him here considering he APPARENTLY PUTTING THEM IN THIS WHOLE SCENARIO WOW

[groundrules]

Okay - if he can remove magic irrespective of 'intent' (simply put, Thing That Shall Not Be Named has no classical intent), then yes, sure. That'll work.

For 20 minutes.

[groundrules]

No, okay, that's mean, you can have 30.

[groundrules]

As a lil treat.

[chosenbylight]

30 minutes it is!!!

[groundrules]

Okay — in greater seriousness, 30min is fine, but it can only be one person at a time, and Anduin won't be able to do it very often. Having the spell performed twice a day is about as much as I can work it. This won't work on groups.

Otherwise, candidly, it annuls the effect of the pull too much and folks who want to play with it won't be able to.

[chosenbylight]

HAHA no problem -- I will make sure to limit the use of this to only one or two a day

If anything it's possible that he's done so much HEALING and various other heroic attempts at light magic that he's tapped himself out for a bit by that point... 🙃

[groundrules]

That's fine — just want to make sure we don't knot ourselves in a situation where folks can't Battle Royale for the ugly building.