1 = What you see: "You raise a hand and beseech Lord Japhiel for holy judgement, calling down a brilliant column of topaz light from the heavens to engulf $=(target$)."
3 = What people in your room see: "Raising a hand and beseeching Lord Japhiel for holy judgement, $=(caster$) calls down a brilliant column of topaz light from the heavens to engulf $=(target$)."
1t = What your target sees: "A sense of impending justice fills you as you are suddenly surrounded by a cold, topaz light. Within moments it flares to an unimaginable brightness, causing you to scream in pain as the radiant energy sears away your flesh."
3t = What people in your target's room see: "A column of topaz light suddenly descends from the heavens to engulf $=(target$). In but moments the light flares to a blinding brilliance, searing away $=(lhis$) flesh and causing $=(lhim$) to scream in pain."
Area = What everyone in the same area sees: "A brilliant column of topaz light descends from the heavens in the distance."

I particularly love when someone agrees with me. It never happens.

Since when do zaps only hit for 500? They didn't stealth change it to magic damage, did they? I remember them being more like 1k for some reason, yet I just got zaptrained and lived. :ponder:

It's always been highly variable depending on both the attacker and defender's attributes. I've seen my zaps in testing do twice as much damage to one person than another, without me even changing races or defs or anything.

You're a Moondancer, lots of nice resistances there. Also, zaps do differing damage based on the user's intelligence / artifacts, and zaps are more effective when all done at the same time (and not staggered with lots of seconds between them).

Oh, true. Was wondering you all just threw them at random, some of them twice. That was perfect timing to kill me, I had just transversed and hit faeconverge, so I couldn't shield for any of them and none of the people there thought to sprinkle salt around me.

1 = What you see: "You raise two fingers to the sky and the surrounding shadows coalesce into an orb of darkness. An image of $=(target$) fills your mind as the orb rises to the heavens and shoots off into the distance."

3 = What people in your room see: "$+(caster$) raises two fingers to the sky and the surrounding shadows coalesce into an orb of darkness. The orb rises to the heavens and shoots off into the distance."

1t = What your target sees: "A foreboding chill creeps up your limbs as an orb of darkness coalesces in the heavens. The orb shatters into a hundred shards and shoot towards you, enveloping you in a miasma of painful, burning shadows."

3t = What people in your target's room see: "A chill settles upon the location as an orb of darkness coalesces in the heavens. The orb shatters into a hundred shards and shoot towards $=(target$), enveloping $=(lhim$) in a miasma of shadows."

Area = What everyone in the same area sees: "Darkness coalesces into an orb in the heavens before shooting off into the distance."

They're electric type and magic-source (ie int-dependant), so resistances to electricity (such as galvanism or proofs) or a low int from the caster (such as a warrior) can result in it doing less. Also, the more you know of Magic, the more damage it does ... hm, I wonder if that was properly translated over when it was combined with High/Low magic ....

I agree, it never happens.

And here I thought I'd bait you into commenting upon the fact that I used you as my zap target.

Also,
Poor Thul hits for approximately half of my zap damage.

Minor nitpick: Shouldn't that either be "The orb shatters into a hundred shards and shoots towards...", or "The orb shatters into a hundred shards which shoot towards..."? Since the 'orb' is singular and 'shoot' is plural, so you've either mis-conjugated it or else you're referring to the shards?

ayup.

1 = What you see: "Blowing a complex series of black and white smoke rings, you cackle the name "$=(target$)." The smoke coalesces into a madly grinning skull, whose eyes come alight with purple lightning as it speeds toward its victim."
3 = What people in your room see: "Blowing a complex series of black and white smoke rings, $=(caster$) cackles the name "$=(target$)." The smoke coalesces into a madly grinning skull, whose eyes come alight with purple lightning as it speeds toward its victim."
1t = What your target sees: "A rasping cackle heralds the appearance of a madly grinning smoky skull, out of whose eyes blast a spiraling bolt of purple lightning that hits you full-force, wracking you with pain as black smoke seeps from your pores."
3t = What people in your target's room see: "A rasping cackle heralds the appearance of a madly grinning smoky skull, out of whose eyes blast a spiraling bolt of purple lightning that hits $=(target$) full-force, making black smoke seep from $=(lhis$) pores."
Area = What everyone in the same area sees: "A madly grinning skull with eyes of purple lightning streaks across the sky, trailing wisps of black and white smoke."

Why yes, everything Yamori has customized has a grinning skull of some kind, he's just a Hot Topic reject like that

I would suggest "that" instead of "which," unless a comma is imminent between "shards" and "which."

It's a noun-->verb-->noun-->verb construction (SVA+SVOO ), splicing together two sentences (poorly). In fact, the sentence I just constructed would work, too (SVO+VO):


"The orb shatters into a hundred shards, shooting toward..."

Moral: subordinate conjunctions (like which) are your friends when writing zaps-- unless you use dependent clauses. Also, I'm bored and need things to parse at work.

You don't have to have the casters name in the target view? I think it's seriously time to rewrite my zap, since I had to modify it just to put that into it...

But, but, but...I wanted a color-thing zap, but there's a lot of people with a color-thing related zap, so I opted for psychedelic color-things plus slaughs instead. Anyway, I'm not too keen on losing lessons -again- (especially for someone who relies on artisanals for most of their credits, goodness knows how many stuff I have to finish drawing, too) so I'm pretty much staying in the SDs and in Glomdoring.

I'm waiting til Guardians come out to customize my zap and shout. They better come out soon or else....

Guardians are coming... in 2012.

December 20th at that.

Hahaha, I have an idea for mine, and it's my dream:

The obnoxious yells of a thousand yodellers echo in your mind as a streak of white darts by.

You are suddenly overwhelmed by a mob of angry yodellers. Frozen in fear you try to hide as the largest one runs up to you, yodelling loudly in your ear as you scream in silent pain and collapse.


I'm still playing with it. >.>

But I'm nowhere near demi yet, and in reality, something about water or the Light. Aeral's staying in Celest.