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29-03-2023 08:45:05 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: 'lo
29-03-2023 08:50:02 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: 'lo
29-03-2023 08:50:10 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Lotta GoD while I slept.
29-03-2023 08:50:23 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Doesn't quite fit Luna to ask *no* questions, but oh well.
29-03-2023 08:52:52 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: Yup.
29-03-2023 08:53:00 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: I think I'll move over to the target area before casting stuff.
29-03-2023 08:53:12 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: if it wrecks the ground or summons something it'd be better to have it in the right place.
29-03-2023 08:53:33 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: same if it blows my legs off.
29-03-2023 08:54:05 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Reasonable.
29-03-2023 08:54:25 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: I'm going to cast early though, three turns isn't a lot.
29-03-2023 08:55:00 < * Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo nods.
29-03-2023 08:55:13 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: Better to do different things.
29-03-2023 08:55:23 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Essences seem quite weak.
29-03-2023 08:56:54 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: pre-cast spells!
29-03-2023 08:56:57 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: I like it.
29-03-2023 08:57:00 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: but yeah, it's tricky.
29-03-2023 08:57:01 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Pre-cast *words*.
29-03-2023 08:57:22 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: It is unclear what they actually do, and they cost a full turn to create.
29-03-2023 08:57:46 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: If they're a significant buff to the word, that might be good.  They're useful, I imagine, for low-heart characters.
29-03-2023 08:58:15 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Heart seems likely to either be added to a base of 1 word per turn, to be the wordcount, or half the wordcount.
29-03-2023 08:58:50 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: In all cases essence is nearly essential for 1 Heart chars.
29-03-2023 09:00:10 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: unless you go with 0 heart.
29-03-2023 09:00:12 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: but yeah.
29-03-2023 09:01:21 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: also if I ko myself punching reflect damage ground or something..
29-03-2023 09:01:23 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: well..
29-03-2023 09:01:25 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: whoops.
29-03-2023 09:01:55 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: That would be amusing.
29-03-2023 09:07:50 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: [1][1]
29-03-2023 09:21:28 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: Did read a memoir of a canadian soldier in WWII.
29-03-2023 09:21:57 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: it does a good job of establishing why the hell you don't fight canadians in war, while establishing why they don't glorify it.
29-03-2023 09:23:11 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: The guy was in the first landings in Sicily, where he descrives how his company made 50 miles on foot in 48 hours while taking 20 prisoners and skirmishing with Germans once.
29-03-2023 09:23:52 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: which was necessary because they'd landed in the wrong spot, after someone screwed up the navigation and the platoons had to figure out how to get ashore and in order themselves.
29-03-2023 09:25:19 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: and it's all casual.  You have to put that together from the description of the individual events.
29-03-2023 09:30:25 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Posted
29-03-2023 09:31:02 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: That's an impressive story, there.
29-03-2023 09:31:58 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: Yeah, there's also a bit where his platoon has to free-climb a ridge to get up a fortress wall to take the germans from the wrong side, where he loses one of his friends.
29-03-2023 09:32:31 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: And they had to do it at night to show up at the right hour in the morning to keep the fortress gunners from tearing up a couple of companies who were on the front side.
29-03-2023 09:32:43 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Damn
29-03-2023 09:33:59 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: There's a third one where they have bad intel and are told to outflank some germans.  They end up getting behidn them and digging in across a supply road instead, ambushing a convoy and digging in, because their orders aren't relevant to the situation so they just figure out something useful to do.
29-03-2023 09:35:01 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: They end up with a lot of wounded, so do a very solid retreat from the position a few days later, after the army is pressing the germsns from the front.  They got a mention in German reports as being "Specially trained mountain troops" for that action.
29-03-2023 09:35:51 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: Guy was in 7th platoon company C of one of the regiments of 1st Canadian Infantry division, which was a real ujnit that did those things, so..
29-03-2023 09:36:36 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: But yeah, the thinking and creativity are very, very obvious.
29-03-2023 09:38:12 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: the navigation was basically "We got a free moment because the cruisers just laid down a hell of a barrage, so we need to land now rather than find the right spot."
29-03-2023 09:38:41 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: then it was "Well, the paratroops were west of us and this unit was east of us, so we'll spread out until we find at least one guy, who will tell us if we're west or east of where we should be, and then work from there.
29-03-2023 09:39:43 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: Turned out to be West, so they went forward until they spotted an objective to their east that matched up with the stuff they'd studied, hence the 50 miles thing.
29-03-2023 09:39:56 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: they just thought they had to keep moving until they could link up, no time to stop.
29-03-2023 09:40:14 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Good soldiers.
29-03-2023 09:40:43 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: Yeah.  Although there was drill and other stuff, it really was about thinking.
29-03-2023 09:41:35 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: He was a subaltern, or an extremely junior officer, but they still had him doing cross-training with other units and that included some air units, where he had to organize both defenses against airplanes and airstrikes against sloppy units.
29-03-2023 09:42:09 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: had very general orders to make life hell for any unit on the training ground which was being sloppy as well as to follow orders for air support called in properly.
29-03-2023 09:42:50 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: (A now defunct rank below second lieutenant.)
29-03-2023 09:43:14 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: Also ordered an airstrike against Churchill by mistake, who was visiting the training camp one day.
29-03-2023 09:43:38 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: (He thought the canvoy was sloppy)
29-03-2023 09:43:52 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: (Figured out things were really bad when the flak units started firing real shells.)
29-03-2023 09:44:07 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Hahahaha
29-03-2023 09:44:25 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: He got out of it because nobody would believe someone so junior could have caused that screwup, so they looked for the real person in charge of the mistake.
29-03-2023 09:46:48 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Lucky
29-03-2023 09:47:08 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: Nobody got hurt, which always helps in these things.
29-03-2023 09:47:12 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: (he called it off really fast.)
29-03-2023 09:47:13 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Did someone else get blamed?
29-03-2023 09:47:19 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: He doesn't say.  Maybe.
29-03-2023 10:07:08 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: essence is interesting.
29-03-2023 10:07:18 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: yeah, I'm not sure how it works.  Should be nice to have pre-used spells, though.
29-03-2023 10:10:53 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: but you've played peerplexicon.
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29-03-2023 10:56:33 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: oh, I think Heroic Form might be passive.
29-03-2023 10:56:35 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: oops.
29-03-2023 10:59:01 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: It is, heh,
29-03-2023 10:59:27 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Prepared spells would be very nice.  Essence specifies that you choose only one word, though.
29-03-2023 11:00:37 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: "To create an Essence, proceed as though casting a spell, but select only a single Word according to the same requirements, and declare your creation of an Essence. Creating an Essence prevents casting any spells for that [Turn]."
29-03-2023 11:01:00 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Essences may not be the word chosen.  Might just be *related* to it.  Or could be an empowered form.
29-03-2023 11:01:55 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: You could make one while doing your punchy, just to try it out.
29-03-2023 11:03:05 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: Yeah.
29-03-2023 11:03:07 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: I have 1 so.
29-03-2023 11:03:19 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: I'll try casting that same word as a spell next turn.
29-03-2023 11:13:16 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: 'hate-imbue your spells'
29-03-2023 11:15:22 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Yeah.  Maybe there will be alternate spellcastung methods?
29-03-2023 11:15:41 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Or maybe it's flavortext.
29-03-2023 11:20:33 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Power and control affect essences somehow.
29-03-2023 11:20:45 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: So that implies they'll be more than bonus words.
29-03-2023 11:23:29 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: Egan is very fortunate.  One of his words is "Gottem"
29-03-2023 11:23:36 < syv!GreatWyrmG@129.222.sxl.wi: That seems like his kinda word
29-03-2023 11:32:41 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: heh
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29-03-2023 23:48:56 < ER!smuxi@559-025-147-15.lightspeed.gnvlsc.sbcglobal.net: not really a fan of sy switching off of heroic form
29-03-2023 23:49:36 < ER!smuxi@559-025-147-15.lightspeed.gnvlsc.sbcglobal.net: because as a magical researcher build with 0 might I'm more likely to survive to get useful if more of the team can fight at the start :p
29-03-2023 23:55:20 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: mmm
29-03-2023 23:55:46 < Devastator!chatzilla@2001:569:fac0:kuul:rhmj:gsoq:jqkn:tqoo: Heh