Report 1057

Special Report #1057
Skillset: Wildewood Skill: Totemcarving
 Org: Hartstone Status: Rejected Dec 2007
Furies' Decision:
We are not going to do anything with this report at the moment as we believe a
new envoy report will be submitted soon around this area.
Problem: Wildewood lacks a method to protect Elder Sacred Trees. This unfairly
places the burden of keeping up with several hundred totems and their keeping
onto the shoulders of a ever-smaller subset of the population. In replacement
of preventative measures, Wildewoods have a stopgap measure (Moonhart bark) that
can only be used after a tree has been chopped, taking the initiative for
protecting sacred trees out of druid hands (And ultimatly failing to address the
issue the skill is based around). Thematically, there isn't any reason that
Wildewoods would be incapable of protecting Elder trees from being chopped. They
are able to protect sapling, mature, and enormous Moonhart trees (indicating
that these trees were in existance in their future), but when the tree becomes
an Elder, they suddenly are rendered impotent.
Solution #1: Add a skill that functions as Totemcarving does (costs 10p,
 changes elders into stationary objects that can be bonded/runed,
 ~6s eq time) at 0% master, with a unique message for BOTH carving
 AND the final result, to reflect the Wildewood's different
 nature. Suggestions for unique messages in comments.
Solution #2: Create a new skill, learned at 0% master. The Wildewood makes a
 15(?) second channeled action to 'sing' the elder into a 'totem'.
 Costs less power, ~6 suggested.
Solution #3: Create a new skill, learned at 0% master: The wildewood begins a
 slow transformation in the Elder, that takes 32 days (a lunar
 cycle) to complete. During that time, the elder may not be
 chopped, but does not generate power as a totem. After it
 completes, it functions as a totem with a unique description.
 Costs 6p, can be taken from powerstones (as totemcarving does).
Player Comments:
---[Xenthos on 2/11 @ 23:40 writes]:
I support the following idea: A modification of solution 2. It costs 6p to sing
the tree. This puts the tree in a state where it is slowly shaping itself into
an Elder. This takes 32 hours. During this period, the tree -cannot- be
chopped. If a Druid comes along to bond it, at that point it takes the rest of
the power and insta-transforms into an elder (so the power cost would be split
between both). While it is in the transforming stage it does not provide power
to the Commune.
---[Ushaara on 2/11 @ 23:43 writes]:
Fine with either.
---[Enyalida on 2/12 @ 00:14 writes]:
Solution 3 added, as suggested by Xenthos
---[Shuyin on 2/12 @ 00:26 writes]:
Yeah sounds good