Here too?

[Whistling Wood, Path]
Like the footprint of a giant bird, the trail branches in three directions. One branch curves toward the northwest, where a large hill of dirt and rock rises from the earth. Another leads deeper into the dead silence of the wood, its end lost in the dark shadows beneath the trees. The third branch leads east towards the derelict road.
You also see a dead tree with a darkened hollow near its base and some junk.
Obvious paths: east, southwest, northwest.

> prep shadowl
Since you're not feeding enough power into the spell pattern to make it coherent, you quickly work your way to the minimum required.
You raise an arm skyward, chanting the equation of the Shadowling spell.

You feel fully prepared to cast your spell.

> cast
You gesture.
Something about this area prevents your spell from completing.

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I like to imagine that the popping sound of PD is kind of like the fire swamp.

If you've got one in your shadow, it will be unaffected by the room. I was mining, and the duration on the one in my shadow expired, and this is what happened when I tried to recast.

Without looking at the specific rooms (And it's not trivial for me track down a room based off the description unless I happen to recognize it offhand) I can't say for sure what's stopping it but in most cases it's because those places are set up to now allow critters, they're safe rooms in hunting areas.

As for smuggling shadowlings in - that's now fixed. Not because I want to be mean and take away your toys (Well, not this time) but because it's clearly a bug and while it can be used to bypass some harmless mechanics it could also be bypassing important ones too.

-Raesh

"Ever notice that B.A.'s flavor text swells in direct proportion to how much one of our characters is getting screwed?" - Brian Van Hoose

Lots of rooms, especially near hunting spawns, are flagged no-critter to keep things from wandering in. Im not sure if thats what WMs percieve as a familiar ward or if thats an independant setting.

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>Forgive my snark, but welcome to the life of a warrior mage.

After consulting with the powers that be I've gotten permission to ease the restriction on shadowlings. In general they should be usable in places they were not before, but there are some areas they may no longer work. Essentially, if a familiar can be there a shadowling should too.

-Raesh

"Ever notice that B.A.'s flavor text swells in direct proportion to how much one of our characters is getting screwed?" - Brian Van Hoose

> After consulting with the powers that be I've gotten permission to ease the restriction on shadowlings.

This seems much nicer. Thank you.

Is BUG ready to accept submissions for Shadowling de-proofing? I'd like to report the various boats and transports.

>Is BUG ready to accept submissions for Shadowling de-proofing? I'd like to report the various boats and transports.

Are there any boats and transports that aren't familiar-proof? I always assumed it was fundamental to their operation.

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>Forgive my snark, but welcome to the life of a warrior mage.

couldn't*

Shadowlings and familiars follow the same logic now for where they can and can't live.

-Raesh

"Ever notice that B.A.'s flavor text swells in direct proportion to how much one of our characters is getting screwed?" - Brian Van Hoose

>I could/n't care less about whether locating someone on a boat with a familiar is possible or not.

Unless I'm mistaken, the thing blocking familiars is the same mechanic. There's no such thing as a 'no familiar' setting, just a reflection of the room's [no-mob] flag, or [safe] flag, or something.

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>Forgive my snark, but welcome to the life of a warrior mage.

>Flags: [A bunch of redacted flags], NoFamiliar

Help, help, I'm being repressed!

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>Forgive my snark, but welcome to the life of a warrior mage.