Report 186

Report #186
Skillset: Aquamancy Skill: Flood
 Org: Aquamancers Status: Rejected May 2009
Furies' Decision:
Defoliation doesn't do these things as claimed in the report. If there is a
desire for a generic mage skill to hinder these abilities, this can be envoyed
separately.
Problem: Flooding a natural tree environment still permits wisp, vines, raise
cudgel, climb up, etc to be used.
Solution #1: Aquamancer flooding should overwhelm any natural trees killing
 them because of the harsh change of environment. All abilities
 that require trees would not function (wisp, vines, raise cudgel,
 climb up, etc). Dryad trees, because of their magical nature,
 would not be subject to this penalty. This would function
 mechanically the same as Geomancer defoliation.
Solution #2: Under the flood skill, create a new syntax (WIPEOUT?) that would
 simultaneously flood and overwhelm any natural trees killing them
 because of the harsh change of environment. All abilities that
 require trees would not function (wisp, vines, raise cudgel,
 climb up, etc.). Dryad trees, because of their magical nature,
 would not be subject to this penalty. This would function
 mechanically the same as Geomancer defoliation.
Player Comments:
---[Nienla on 5/15 @ 16:08 writes]:
I'm somewhat okay with this. It shouldn't coincide with an Aquamancer flooding a
room. It should be a separate ability like Defoliation with Tainting. Maybe
Flashflood or something.
---[Zynna on 5/15 @ 17:15 writes]:
Flashflood is a separate ability, so a different term would be needed, but
however the administration wants to set up the syntax would be fine.
---[Shamarah on 5/15 @ 21:17 writes]:
This is necessary to make it possible for Celest to raid ethereal forests.
---[Gregori on 5/19 @ 18:11 writes]:
Fine by me. I agree with Nienla it should be a seperate term like defoliation
is.
---[Zynna on 5/20 @ 21:48 writes]:
I have added solution 2 to address Nienla's and Gregori's comments.
---[Ceren on 5/30 @ 23:39 writes]:
The geomancer's special syntax (defoliation) only works in wyrdforest actually.
You taint like normal in regular hartstone forest and it destroys the trees.
Could be misremembering, but I think defoliate came about because before the
wyrd, glomdoring had tainted forest and it was silly to taint tainted forest. So
special syntax not really necessary, but I approve of this either way.