Considering zapping an artifact generally gets the attention and eventual presence of the god that created it, V might be sacrificing more than just hir magical abilities… Though having the Snarl eat the Dark One, as Red Cloak achieves his goal of goblinoid equality, might be a way to bail V out.
I’m thinking too that it would be hard as a mundane for V to atone for the whole Familicide thing. But it does open up some interesting possibilities for storytelling.
“Furkini Menace,” LOL.
It’d only be about a 1% chance for a Disjunction to result in V losing es spellcasting. It’d have to be ten thousand times more unlikely for em to really worry about it.
How genre-savvy is V? He could write the spell on a scroll and have Haley cast it (via Use Magical Device).
I doubt they’d go that route. If they were, they could also have had V and Durkula (when Durkula was pretending to want a raise) scribe a scroll of Resurrection and had Haley cast it.
Though I’ll admit that the rules for multiple spellcasters collaborating to create an item are clear, but also little-known, so maybe none of them realized that they could do that.
I wish I could take credit for that phrase, but someone on the other message board used it as a description and it immediately became her unofficial name.
Durkon is not known to have taken the Scribe Scroll feat. Wizards get it automatically; clerics do not.
Which is where Vaarsuvius comes in. Vaarsuvius with the Scribe Scroll feat and Durkula with the Resurrection spell can collaborate to create a scroll of Resurrection. From the SRD:
The prerequisites for crafting a scroll of Resurrection are the Scribe Scroll feat and the Resurrection spell. If a cleric and a wizard cooperate on creating one, the wizard provides the feat prerequisite, and the cleric provides the spell prerequisite.
Well, we know Durkon can write spells onto a scroll but he can’t make scrolls, I guess?
I’m not sure if that is a scroll, in the sense of a stored magic spell. Don’t they burn up on casting? I think he’s just making notes as he studies.
I know, I was just kidding about how he can write a spell onto paper for him to learn how to cast it but he can’t write a spell onto a piece of paper for anyone else to read. He can write a spell onto a scroll but he can’t make a scroll. Game mechanics and all that stuff.
Unfortunately, the Scribe Scroll feat is an exception to this
Well, if V is a 16th level Wizard, then e’ has Scribe Scroll plus an additional 12 feats.
Durkon would have 9 feats as a 16th level Cleric.
You mean like shooting a dragon right in its vulnerables?
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Kind of a bland one, really. And I’m not sure if the title is supposed to have a double meaning, because I’m not seeing one.
I’m guessing that this strip and the previous ones are preparatory exposition. I’m speculating that Burlew is planning some kind of surprise and he doesn’t want readers to complain “You didn’t tell us that could happen!” So he’s laying out all the facts. Then he’ll surprise us with something we weren’t anticipating and he’ll say “But I told you all that stuff ahead of time.”
That line about Belkar and “squat” – I recently reread the Preface to Dungeon Crawlin’ Fools which was written by Belkar. In the first two paragraphs, he pontificates on “squat”. So everyone go and read that. If you don’t have the book, well here’s another reason to buy it.
Best I can come up with is “entrance” as in “in a trance”, for the vampires they’re looking for, but that’s completely tenuous, I think.