Not really a bug or a suggestion.

When you look into the Shadewatch mirror and the vision of your target has faded, it doesn't come back automatically if he steps back into view; you have to "look mirror" again. The reason I bring this up is because, even though the scrying from the Shadewatch mirror has faded, I never truly stopped looking into the mirror.

Since I'm still looking in the mirror, can't the vision of the target return automatically?

Probably moot to many people, I mention this because something as simple as LOOK MIRROR brings your "shimmering" face over and over...and, while I'd like my mirror to benefit me with anonymity, I'd certainly like to avoid "text noise" and engrossing the screen with my face repeatedly.

I've held conversations with people in Ilithic over Shadewatch Mirror. We each had the spell cast on each other at the time.

~ Celestian Kougen Aensworth

All but the smallest bit of the night sun is obscured by clouds.

I've had this same problem Meerc, It was somethin' that bothered me much so I've never worried about it. Yer not the only one though.


- Zelaide -

"If you're watching a guy suck a goat's nipple, you need to reassess your life."
- Tom Griswold

www.bobandtom.com

Maybe I'm guilty of trying to get an already powerful spell adjusted to be too powerful, but I was thinking that a Shadewatch Mirror should work like this...

prep shadewat 20
cast
invoke mirror Eldrad
You concentrate on focusing the mystical scrying powers of your mirror on Eldrad.
Round Time 5 seconds

Succeed or fail at this point, just like if you would have cast on them to begin with.

If they do something to make the mirror fail, it breaks just like normal, the link is severed thus destroying the mirror.
However, while the mirror is still in working condition you can invoke it on another player try to watch them instead, no need to recast.

Just seems a LOT more logical that it would work that way.


Eldrad

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"Having dream in your name automatically makes you l33t, but conjuncting it with an even more hardcore name like crafter....holy christ on a cracker, that screams pure RPA." -- Amzari

That or some other silly phrase, yes.
I am partial to SPOON!


Eldrad

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"Having dream in your name automatically makes you l33t, but conjuncting it with an even more hardcore name like crafter....holy christ on a cracker, that screams pure RPA." -- Amzari

Sarcastro was my hero. ::swoon::

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I don't use/interact with the spell much at all. But is it possible that this proposed setup could make it so there's a 10-30 sec downtime (or longer) between a target Unbending a mirror and getting a fix on that target again?

It just always seemed silly that a MM could just recast, nigh instantly.

But then, if you compare Shadewatch to Fams. Well, it wouldn't really be fair to have a downtime.

Regards,
Plaith Kids on Saturday

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"Some may be so convinced of the threat and emotionally scarred, that they end up with nerve damage!"

Its not on tv but it is sold for about 15 episodes for 5 bucks at anime conventions...so is song of the south hehe

>> when you peer through your mirror while your identity is veiled, your identity needs to be, well, veiled

As much as I would like this or any other method of anonymous or non-blatant observation, requests in the past have been rejected on the basis of such a feature being "overpowered," despite the existance of another guild ability which accomplishes the exact same thing with nearly complete anonymity to those not in the guild, and with more functionality and vastly more obnoxuious room messaging than SHM.

Although I eagerly await a reversal on this decision, I'm not going to hold my breath.

Is there a way to stop viewing the mirror without breaking it?

Sofar the only way, i have found, is to cast distant gaze.

Can't you just leave the room?

>>Can't you just leave the room?

There are occasions where you don't want to break the mirror, but you want to stop watching anyways.


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"Close your eyes -
For your eyes will only tell the truth..
And the truth isn't what you want to see.
In the dark, it is easy to pretend
That the truth is what it ought to be." - Erik Claudin