A Halfway Point Is Reached
Nov. 4th, 2013 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingtycoonYes, this again. Yes. I mean, YES! If you didn't know, I've been concocting my spellbook, as if I were somehow a D&D wizard in contemporary North America. I guess. I guess that's what I'm doing. Sure, why the hell not. Anyhow, I'm up to level 6 spells and this has been a strange period for me. Level 1 was all the good stuff, the adventurer's toolkit. I must have done okay because I lived to cast Level 2 spells, which come at like, character level 3 - don't... let's not get into why the game is convoluted with all it's nuanced sub-systems, it's just this way and has been. So says Gygax, so say we all (with a lot of muttering and foot dragging of course). Kept it going, somehow, and made it to whatever arbitrary level I got my 3rd Level spells at - and things started to change for me. None of the really big ones, no Fireballs or Lightning Bolts, I learned to see, really see then. By the time I was throwing down my 4th Level power I guess I'd grown bitter, weary maybe. But powerful, dangerous- maybe a threat to the others... I abandoned ship, decided I'd go my own way and start a new - Monster Civilization with Monsters and Blackjack. And... Well, I'm guessing that got old, real old.
Which is all to say - I finally made it to (I think, if memory serves) 11th Level, which gave me 6th Level spellcasting ability. Pretty handy, sure. You'd like it, good luck surviving that long, but sure, it's fine. Fun. I'm getting a little distant now, strange - removed. You see, I think I'm learning - not just about the world anymore (but certainly about that, I'm learning about that in a big, big way) but about myself, and about other things, things that I hadn't thought about before. I guess I'm mellowing, or maybe turning toward a new path, maybe I'll seek some eldritch power from out of the past, or maybe I'll learn some hidden truths about the cosmic realms beyond. Maybe. Maybe I'll just spy on people like a grinning, weird creep. Who's to say?
Legend Lore
Now... I guess these will do.Personally I'm a little stoked about the Legend Lore / Glass Eye combo-move. I mean, Legend Lore (despite the nerfy text) is basically ultimate psychometry and glass eye lets you see the bones in the walls and the dinosaurs beneath you. What's more legendary than a dinosaur? So... Like, time travel, kind of. It's weird - when you get used to seeing with your mind's eye all the things around you through the eyes of others? Remembering their memories? Well, things get pretty abstract - you start getting confused - you accidentally make a 6 page spell into a 7 page, or do you? Or do your magics become intertwined?
Straight up I'll tell you that I left an easter-egg in this thing. Well. I've left a few, and now I know how to see through objects and whatnot - I can... understand, see colors not meant to be seen, there are words beneath words! There's the hidden text within the text! There's a lot to know, all around us, and now I'm getting to know it. We shall see what becomes of me next.
P.S.: It'll be a goodly while before I get back to this - I just got home from Vacation - and I still have NaNoWriMo to overcome this month.
P.P.S.: Send Coffee.
Which is all to say - I finally made it to (I think, if memory serves) 11th Level, which gave me 6th Level spellcasting ability. Pretty handy, sure. You'd like it, good luck surviving that long, but sure, it's fine. Fun. I'm getting a little distant now, strange - removed. You see, I think I'm learning - not just about the world anymore (but certainly about that, I'm learning about that in a big, big way) but about myself, and about other things, things that I hadn't thought about before. I guess I'm mellowing, or maybe turning toward a new path, maybe I'll seek some eldritch power from out of the past, or maybe I'll learn some hidden truths about the cosmic realms beyond. Maybe. Maybe I'll just spy on people like a grinning, weird creep. Who's to say?
Legend Lore
Lucubration
Glass Eye
Now... I guess these will do.Personally I'm a little stoked about the Legend Lore / Glass Eye combo-move. I mean, Legend Lore (despite the nerfy text) is basically ultimate psychometry and glass eye lets you see the bones in the walls and the dinosaurs beneath you. What's more legendary than a dinosaur? So... Like, time travel, kind of. It's weird - when you get used to seeing with your mind's eye all the things around you through the eyes of others? Remembering their memories? Well, things get pretty abstract - you start getting confused - you accidentally make a 6 page spell into a 7 page, or do you? Or do your magics become intertwined?
Straight up I'll tell you that I left an easter-egg in this thing. Well. I've left a few, and now I know how to see through objects and whatnot - I can... understand, see colors not meant to be seen, there are words beneath words! There's the hidden text within the text! There's a lot to know, all around us, and now I'm getting to know it. We shall see what becomes of me next.
P.S.: It'll be a goodly while before I get back to this - I just got home from Vacation - and I still have NaNoWriMo to overcome this month.
P.P.S.: Send Coffee.
