:Blah blah kharvik asked to buy salt, and test meteor,my dumb ass said "okies!!:


Gathering a handful of salt, Kharvik sprinkles it around the ground in a ritual
zodiac circle, carefully marking each of the constellations of legend and lore.
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Standing in the centre of a ritual zodiac circle drawn in salt, Kharvik casts
his hands up towards the stars and whispers the names of the planets. He points
an imperious finger towards you and the spheres of the zodiac glow brightly as
the terrible blackness between the stars grows, an ominous shadow falling across
the ground.
You no longer have the Sphere of Lion surrounding you.
You no longer have the Sphere of Crocodile surrounding you.
You no longer have the Sphere of Dragon surrounding you.
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The darkness in the skies grows ominously large, blotting out the stars as it
approaches.
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Kharvik stares at you with a burning intensity.
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status
Feral Sohei, Shaddus Mes'ard, of the Despondent Faith
Strength : 11 Dexterity : 17 Constitution : 17
Intelligence : 16 Size : 10 Charisma : 7
You are dressed normally, and reasonably full.
You are not in need of sleep.
You are sober and in control.
You are completely sane.
From the clothing that can be seen, you look like royalty.
You are an enemy of: Serenwilde, Kelpies, Celestia, Celest, Moondancers,
Celestines, Terentia, Moonspirit, Arthar'rt, Kephera, Lisaera, Eventru.
You can campaign for sanctuary during village influencing.
You currently possess -5 lessons, 0 credits, and 0 bound credits.
You have played for a total of 30 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes.
This week you've played a total of 0 days, 19 hours and 29 minutes.
You have a vote weight of 9.
When you shout, others will hear: An indomitable male voice resounds, "Blah blah
blah."
You are a first generation member of the Great House of Mes'ard.
You are wedded to Pectus Mes'ard .
Your current mindset is analytical.
You have one free reincarnation.
Your motto: 'Knowledge speaks, Wisdom listens.'
You will timeout after 30 minutes of inactivity.
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The darkness in the sky bursts into fire as the meteor descends through the
atmosphere, hurtling towards you. It crashes into the ground at your feet and
explodes in an enveloping holocaust of fire and destructive magic, annihilating
everything in its path with the unbridled power of celestial bodies colliding.
You are reduced to nothing more than charred ash by the awesome destructive
might of the meteor.
You have been slain by Kharvik.
Kill Tracker for Kharvik: Kills {} Deaths {1}
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outr sparkleberry
eat sparkleberry
read 104887
drink health

A ritual zodiac circle drawn in salt is blown away by the wind, dispersing into
the air.
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You are dead and cannot do that.
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You are dead and cannot do that.
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You are dead and cannot do that.
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You are dead and cannot do that.
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Your mana drains away as you concentrate on maintaining a link with the living.
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say omg
You say, "Omg."
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Kharvik picks up the corpse of Shaddus.
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Kharvik Auralius, the Compass says, "Oh my god."
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You are dead, perhaps you should "Pray for Salvation".
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Flames lick around you - you are on fire!

And when I was immolated, I was STILL on fire!

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Is that a time diff from the last prompt?

Yeah, time stamp I believe

8 Seconds from the cast yes, and kharvik can move during it. Nerf the bejesus out of it.

Weird thing is, Malarious tried it last night, on someone else while I was there , still enemied, and only did like 200 splash damage

He three-sphered you and you were the primary, from the looks of the log. He just did 3800 to me at the pool with 3 spheres.

I wasn't wearing my choker at the Pool though, which would explain why perhaps it slew poor Shaddus there.

This needs to be beaten and possibly raped with the nerf stick I feel. There is nothing Shaddus could do save hinder me 100% to not get landed with those spheres. The only way to even cure such a thing is to seek out another astrologer on your side, they're rare enough as is, and who can do that in the middle of a duel?

Hello TCLAP Ver 2.0!! It's been a long time!

Wondering, what type of damage is this?

Cause my level 2 weakness to magic may have hurt a bit

Of course, this might provide some increased incentive to be an astrologer...
You're right though, some sort of "curing" for spheres would be nice.

Is the collateral damage scaled to the number of spheres on the target, or on the individuals hit by the collateral, or does it appear to be a flat value?

EDIT: @Shaddus 50% Magic, 50% Fire. That might have been it?

If it is made to be like other timed instakills where the user cannot move after starting, then it would be fine. They need to spend time and power casting the spheres on you, and if they start the instakill but you manage to move away, then you're cured of all the spheres and they have to start over.

Yeah, that's the main change I'm thinking of for it at this point. The ability to cast it and keep hindering after is pretty darned nice. Without that, it's a lot like various other timed instakills, except with a chance of not killing and with the chance of killing a few people at once.

FYI, there's a myth that's developed that meteors are an instakill if you have enough negative spheres up. This is false. The more negative spheres the target has up, the more damage is done. Thus, we didn't want the astrologer to have to stand still as one would for the tradtional instakills. The astrologer should be able to hinder to keep the target in place while the meteor comes down. If it is overpowered (debatable), we'd probably want to either lengthen the time it takes for the meteor to strike and/or lessen the damage it does rather than making the astrologer stand still.

It is pretty much an insta-kill on most people who aren't surged warriors or Demigods, so that's what (I believe) is generally meant by the term "instakill" in this case. However, knowing which solutions you'd prefer helps tremendously if/when we end up submitting something in the future. Thanks!

I wouldn't call it an instakill. I survived a hit as a 2676 health faeling. Maybe something is up with the scaling or maybe the magic weakness makes it extra harsh on Shaddus.

The big issue I see is that spheres cannot be cured.

How many spheres were on you at the time? The high damage is with a ton of negative spheres (4+).

That, or it scales quite dramatically based on max health. Hm.

Meteor can be dodged, heh. It's not a 100% hit, theres lots of things you can do to avoid it.

Edit: Yep just tested again. You gotta be dumb to get hit by it 1 on 1. It's like trying to avoid soulless except the end result if you don't get away, is a crapload of damage instead of instantly dying.

3, I think

the terrible blackness between the stars grows, an ominous shadow falling across
the ground.
You no longer have the Sphere of Lion surrounding you.
You no longer have the Sphere of Crocodile surrounding you.
You no longer have the Sphere of Dragon surrounding you.
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Etc.

I had three, same as in the log in the first post.

1) Magic damage scales (faeings and lower health take less than tanks)
2) Shaddus had weakness to it (half fire half magic damage)