Ah hah! That's the trick to writing the messaging for this spell (Which I've been struggling with). It's not a Fortune's Path style spell, it's a Heritage House spell!

... of course, what the heck does a Heritage House spell look like?

Silly sect based breakfast foods and being generic Moon Mages.

/this random stream of consciousness brought to you by the letters C C M O T C H F P P O G P N O T A S P O T H H C O and K.

-Raesh

"It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true." ― The Slow Regard of Silent Things

I can, and will, make the spell make you smell like pancakes.

-Raesh

"It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true." ― The Slow Regard of Silent Things

I'm a big fan of olfactory illusions/hallucinations. They're really under-used.

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Thayet
@thayelf // http://thayette.tumblr.com

"But you must know that if corruption is powerful enough, it's not corruption at all — it's law. Unspoken, unwritten, but law." — Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

+1 RPA for turtle ghosts.

-Raesh

"It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true." ― The Slow Regard of Silent Things

http://www.ihop.com/menus/main-menu/french-toast/stuffed-french-toast

Like that?

Or more like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql7uY36-LwA

-Raesh

"It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true." ― The Slow Regard of Silent Things

>http://www.ihop.com/menus/main-menu/french-toast/stuffed-french-toast

Ugh, the raspberry stuffed French toast from Bob Evans, before they discontinued it, was my Achilles' heel.

Moonies smelling phantom hints of butter and maple syrup with side visions of over-easy egg yolks running down the sides of full stacks of pancakes would be on point.

...I'm hungry now.

Real thought I just had:

"This spell is feeling more like a psychic project spell than a perception spell..."

(I'm not actually going to change it, I haven't yet writing the messaging to would have backed that up, but it made me laugh given how Read the Ripples and Braun's Conjecture went.)

-Raesh

"It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true." ― The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Just as a little design insight to why I say that about Destiny Cipher possibly being a Psychic Projection spell (And why BC and RTR both changed spellbooks) it's because all three spells were created for mechanical reasons and without strong thematic descriptions, and none of these mechanics really strongly pushed for a particular spellbook. Okay, that's less true of RTR - it was always going to be Perception until it became Stellar, and even so it's still a Perception spell hiding in the Stellar spellbook.

The only real reason the other two were placed in Perception was because I wanted to redefine the Perception spellbook a bit more to emphasis it as sort of the anti-Teleologic spellbook, offering a selection of spells for someone who was really invested in the prediction system who wanted to work in harmony with it instead of bending it to their will as Teleologic Sorcery does.

Further, Destiny Cipher and Braun's Conjecture are mechanically very simple (yet subtle) spells so the bulk of making them feel like they had an identity was coming up with the fantasy to wrap around them.

As I wrote Read the Ripples it didn't change much from the initial concept, it just became clear that it hit the Stellar themes really hard and really belonged in that spellbook even though it doesn't actually do anything that couldn't exist in the Perception spellbook.

For Braun's Conjecture I knew early on that I wanted it to be a very math driven approach to prediction (The name was the first thing I nailed down. In proposals it was just called "Prophet's Insight"). However, I was struggling to write the messaging as a Perception spell so I tried writing it as an Enlightened Geometry spell instead (And grafting on the teleportation stuff) which worked out much better.

For Destiny's Cipher my initial intention was that it was going to be Fortune's Path themed and sort of spin off of Aura Sight and Seer's Sense, but if you look both of those spells have very simple messaging and didn't really give me the jumping off point I needed. So I switched it to more of a Heritage House approach (Based off how it levels the playing field for all sects for all tools) and the messaging started to take a very meditation direction which feels more like Psychic magic than Perception magic. In this case I course corrected slightly to keep it in the realm of Perception.

-Raesh

"It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true." ― The Slow Regard of Silent Things

That's likely just the RNG being fickle with you.

Also, bond chance decreases with tool damage so it makes sense that you'd be getting less bonding later in your tool's life. The timeframe you've indicated seems to be relatively short, however, so it shouldn't be that much of a difference but might be something to consider.

During the general preview, I did maybe 40 or so full pool predictions, and got one bond increase. My tool is in bad shape, though. It probably did increase my ability to bond, but I couldn't notice it because it is a rare event. I had maybe one bond increase in the weeks leading up to the preview period, as well. Of course I get damage much more often, because it's a cheap tool. I'm not sure 'how much' the effect really is, or in what way it's applied. Has anyone done any good testing on it?

Cool. Thank you for the information. Is that at capped potency, or is it a constant? Also, does it make visions comparable to a significantly bonded tool? Is the sect preference removed by setting all tools to the bonused level, or just some baseline? Thanks again for anything you can share.

Potency doesn't matter for BC or DC.

Visions are stronger, but not equal to a capped tool even at the max.

The sect bonus is, technically, a bonus but tomato tomato.

-Raesh

"It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true." ― The Slow Regard of Silent Things

>>Odd still doing horribly on the bonding of my tool, seems I was having better luck before getting DC.

Unless your sample set is far larger than I expect it is you're likely just seeing patterns in random noise.

-Raesh

"It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true." ― The Slow Regard of Silent Things

There's a bonus to bonding early in a tool's life just to kick start them, but it fades fairly fast.

-Raesh

"It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true." ― The Slow Regard of Silent Things

<<Now if it could just be visible all the time.....

Between the Forge and Dergati's Eye, the two big constellations are up most of the year thankfully. It's just the first 4 months of the year that the planets are the primary source of observation.

Best tools generally available are those found in the sect shops. Tips for tool bonding:

1. predict only on full pools
2. Always have aura sight up(+astrology skill)
3. Try to have IOTS with the wisdom/charisma buff(charisma helps tool bonding)

Not sure how far that will get you. Better tools are found during hollow eve and you might be able to find some on trader tables.

Does Astrology skill or the Aura Sight spell specifically actually increase the chance of a tool increasing its bond? I thought not, but I could be wrong.

Do we know of any factors other than tool construction that reduce the chance of damage to physical qualities? Is this where Astrology skill comes into play?

Is the chance of a critical success or critical fumble constant? If not, what goes into determining the chance of those?

Yep, that's a nomlas prism, mostly but probably not entirely predicted upon with full pools, around 900 astro and 65 charisma. I may just have bad luck, it's my first time actually trying to build a decent bond.

>>Is the chance of a critical success or critical fumble constant?

> Constant.

I thought fumbles could only happen on curses, and astro skill increases the chance of turning a curse to a bonus. Or does that check happen after the check for a fumble?

I feel like I got a critical success improvement on a curse recently but I might just not have read the message right?

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Re: Life mana Spell preps

You raise your hands in the air. You wave them like you just don't care. Somebody says, "Hey!" Somebody says, "Ho!" Somebody screams.