A shrine power that allows one to beseech his or her patron to help clarify one's mind. It would triple the rate at which one recovers from insanity so long as the person (and any other order member) are in the radius of the shrine at a cost of 30,000 essence

Would you be able to use it on Astral? And how long would it last? Could have the shrine in the vicinity of the node, link / kill / offer for 30,000 essence, and repeat. And never go insane.

Is there any way to tell how much essence your patron has? or how much essence certain offerings give?/hijack

Short of asking, no. Not total essence, anyway. You can see it in offerings in the short term.



Yes.

Edit: And Nars.. I don't like it much.. I mean, I -hate- insanity. But I don't think that curing it through a shrine power is terribly fair.

Umm...what is it?

Its an order privs to see how much you've offered, how much you've lost from deaths, how much you've used from shrine powers, and your net change in essence since the counts were last reset. A very handy priv, but I'm under the impression that most orders only have that as a high ranked priv (not Isune's though )

Edit: Whoops, misread something. The same priv also lets you see everything that has been offered (and its essence) since the last reset, in a rather slow to traverse list

I thought the purpose of Order powers was helping defend shrines, not personal benefit...?

It would help you defend astral shrines

Horrible idea.

Horrible.

I wouldn't go that far, but I'm not crazy about it either. Would mostly nullify insanity for high ranking people in orders, which doesn't feel right.

I still like my "herbalists can prepare a sparkleberry mixture which makes one immune to the effects of Astral insanity... but should they link to a node, this defence is overwhelmed and destroyed, and the lingering effects of the link prevent you from putting it back up for an IC day (or an OOC day)" idea.

Unfortunately, I don't think this idea was all that appreciated.

Thats a great idea until it comes to nodes day xenthos, then everyones sitting on astral with no worries no matter how long they sit there up. They sit there get a big demensce and dont have to worry about astral before or after the event.

Well, demesnes will be getting the hammer size-wise (eventually). But the sitting on Astral with no worries during the event is a valid point. Hmm...

Make it so that you still become insane at exactly the same rate but while you have the sparkleberry appliction smeared over your head(make it last a few mins or something before drying out) then you have a 20% or 40% ish chance for the astral effects to not hit you. Like the stupidty actions or seeing the gold etc etc

Kind of like you see through clear eyes because the salve appliction on your head soothes the insane radiation waves or whatever to be technical.

It means your not just getting instant immunity and easy astral bashing and travel, your getting a bit of a resistance and still becoming insane but able to shrug off some of the effects but the insanity is still very harmful if you let it build up a lot.

Does that sound decent or kinda stupid?

Sounds very interesting, and there is already RP precedence, as Lacosatian originally helped all the Healers of the basin learn how to alleviate insanity.

Though I would feel better if there was something in there like this: "This Power temporarily brings your mine more in sync with that of your God and as such may not be used on Astral, as the Elders don't wish to disturb Kethuru unnecessarily." Elder=big score, shard=not worth noticing.

That way people would need to hop off Astral (or out of the action if nodes are up) to a Shrine on the Cosmic planes for the cities, or prime for the communes. That would leave the hunting insanity free bit out of the picture, and clear up the other concerns people have.

Xenthos, for your sparkleberry mixture idea, how about instead it just goes away if you ever perform an agressive action?

That must explain the order power then regens endurance or willpower?

You've obviously never lost enduarnce during a fight... damn running out of health vials.

Oh ive just had an idea for the shrine power, considering that the shrine powers are deisgned to help actually defned the shrine make it so that the shrines freeze insanity gain within a 1 room radius for 5 mins at a decent essence cost.

Means that you can use the shrines insanty protection power when your sitting on astral protecting astral shrines.

Drop the shrine at the node, link away?