u/Crimson_Eyes

Back in elementary school, my school put on a yearly performance of something we called (to the best of my memory) "Music of the Planets." I've tried to Google it, and never found the play (And as far as I know, it has no connection to Holst's work).

In essence, it was a series of songs that took the viewers through the planets from Mecury to Mars, then the Asteroid Belt, and then Jupiter to Pluto (This was before Pluto was declassified).

Lines/lyrics I remember include:

"Happy Birthday, World // Glad to see you unfurl // Happy Birthday // Have a good day // Happy birthday world!"

"Through the Asteroid belt we pass, relics of the birth process."

"Jupiter, the planet king // sixteen moons around you ring."

Any information would be appreciated!

TLDR: Which one is better for resisting damage? I know Fort is straight dots to soak, but I don't understand how Blood Shield works in detail.

Tried to omit spoilers as much as possible, but: In WOTR's final fight of Book 5...is the Inelectuable Prison not part of his realm on account of having stolen it from Asmo, or is there something else going on?

The book makes a lot of drama about the bomb in the ducts, and it's obviously bad if the castle crashes into the region team PC is trying to defend....but is there any reason in particular to not just smash the engine to pieces and crash the castle while it's still floating over the caldera?

The text doesn't provide any rules for damaging the engine, but if the PC's goal is "Hey, the bad guy has a flying castle that it's really hard to teleport into, and if he gets away, he's going to use it to invade the region", it seems like "Break the flying castle's ability to fly" is a great way to derail the plan.

I don't expect 1:1 iterations, it's just the easiest way for me to ask about the precise kinds of effects I mean:

Enemy-Castigating Solar Judgement
Hypnotic Tongue Technique
Listener Swaying Argument
Terrible Sun King Condemnation

Quick note: I don't mean (merely?) mechanically, as in some super-optimized fusion of Moses and One-Punch Man.

What kinds of things could an Infernal do/have to communicate, by personage and action, that they are the totality of all premises about divine right?

That's a word-salad, so lemme pitch a starting point:

A Green Sun Prince rocking Viridian Legend Exoskeleton, wielding a spear and shield in the likeness of the Unconquered Sun's panoply, captaining the Five Metal Shrike, wearing a crown of various Jade colors, claiming to be the rightful heir of the Shogante.

TLDR: Considering a [[Thor, God of Thunder]] deck, and I understand his general gameplan: Cast big things, cast X cost things, double damage, make people regret their life choices.

But that's really one-note, and falls apart the moment Thor gets interacted with. What kinds of things does an instant/sorcery-heavy monored deck do when it's not casting and copying damage spells?

So, I was playing Ironfang Invasion solo, and the Defense-Point-Economy didn't work out. I'm fine with it, and even down to experience the consquences of it...but do the future books in the AP actually take into account the possibility that the defenders ended up with 0 Defense?

I know the table at the back of the book has an entry for that result, and they mention in vague-terms that this will change the campaign, but how much work on my end are we talking about?

So, first and foremost: We all know the conversation about water and gemstones, but the words used for scrying reverse that relationship: The character doesn't have to have an understanding of protons, refraction, and all of the other principles of light in order to scry something, and the language used isn't even (something like) "Show me X thing I've seen before."

It's Dream-Stare.

Just to recap and outline:

Scrying works by moving photons around...but it doesn't make the thing you're looking at invisible to other people. Maybe it's duplicating the photons and sending you a copy, or there's some really deep physics related to how photons move going on, but in either case:

It's weird that you can only see things you've seen before. There's nothing in the spell's language that should be creating that limitation, and nothing about the physics involved that does it (Unlike say, trying to scry a closed book).

The limitation also isn't absolute/universal: A person being scryed while wearing a shirt with new stains on it (or lack thereof) doesn't appear as a floating head (or else we'd see a lot more of that in the series), grass that has changed heights slightly doesn't become invisible, etc.

And if I set aside the idea that the Draumr are a retcon, I really have a hard time buying that there's no connection of any kind. My gut suspicion is that the connection between the spell's language and the effect is something like "See as the Dreamers see".

Has anyone else been talking about this?

I keep seeing "[WLAN access rejected: incorrect security] from MAC address 32:75:95:ad:8e:98" in my router logs. At first, I thought nothing of it, but when I dug deeper, there are dozens of them in rapid succession (seconds apart), every day.

I tried to block the Mac Address in Access Control, but it gave me a "Duplicate Mac Address" error (even though nothing else is blocked by Access Control).

Should I be worried? Am I doing something wrong?

So, obviously Durza suffers from being a Book 1 problem, the magic system not being fleshed out yet, and us as the reader not knowing as much about the magic system at that point anyway, but looking back on it...it seems like Durza had the Varden dead to rights.

His magic is weird in ways that are handy for getting around wards.

He's got a batch of spirits fueling his spellcasting

He's positively ancient by the standards of Shades, and also by the standards of the Varden's spellcasters.

He's got Galbatorix as a frenemy and has managed to survive him for a century, so his vocabulary must be pretttttyyy extensive.

Add onto it that the Varden's best spellcasters were traitors, and it seems like, sans restrictions from Galbatorix and the desire to capture Eragon, he could have dismantled the entire Varden by himself.

Maybe he doesn't know the Death Words. Maybe there's some other factor at play that makes it undesirable for him to just slaughter soldiers en-masse while hiding invisibly in a corner somewhere.

But Durza was bad news for the Varden in a way that I don't think the books did a great job communicating, and that I'm not sure that even end-series Eragon has stopped to consider.

Like, with what we know about magic now? Forget Galbatorix. The Varden didn't have a viable plan to stop Durza.

TLDR: Wanna be able to poke people to take Monarch back, either through unblockable, incentives to allow themselves to be hit, or, if needed, just "Sure, it has deathtouch, I can afford to take the 1" style logic.

Really, the plan is "become monarch, get Jared big, lifelink for the love of the game."

TLDR: Is there an easy to way to make it so Scientific Method doesn't obsolete anything. Additionally, how would I go about modding the various religious buildings to give unique benefits/downsides?