Report 1500

Report #1500
Skillset: Kata Skill: Concussion
 Org: Shofangi Status: Completed Jun 2016
Furies' Decision:
Solution 3.
Problem: The concussion affliction currently causes many bouts of repeated
amnesia and is cured with either myrtle or apply regeneration to head.
Concussion in Kata, valleysmudge in Ecology, and telekinesis fling are the
abilities I am aware of that can cause a concussion. Of these only concussion in
kata causes it directly, the other two cause it by putting the target in the air
and only cause a concussion if they lack the levitation defense. Concussions are
not an overhaul affliction so I imagine that it will be removed. Kata is due for
a rework so we do not need to directly replace concussion within that skill so
this report will primary serve as a discussion of what should happen in the
overhaul when a person is dropped from the sky without levitation
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Effects that cause concussion currently should
 instead cause two ticks of amnesia and then self
 cure. Two seconds is picked as the duration because
 it is the average of the myrtle cure and the
 regeneration cure.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Effects that cause concussion currently should
 instead cause amnesia and damagedskull.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: Effects that cause concussion should instead cause
 damagedskull and a self-curing status that causes
 doublevision and flavour messages over time.
Player Comments:
---[Lerad on 6/5 @ 00:52 writes]:
I've always liked the idea of concussion - an aff that repeatedly re-amnesias,
which messes with curing hugely, but isn't too overpowered. Or maybe it is could
be, just that is super difficult to get (which balances it somewhat). But I
guess I should be consistent in my hate for command denials - its probably a
good time to lay concussion to rest, since it mostly only affects newbies who
don't know how to handle it. I'd say solution 2. Maybe even remove the single
amnesia. Alternatively, make concussion a 30s time-cured, otherwise incurable
affliction that doesn't do anything except give a series of flavour-only RP
messages while it is active, "You groan while you cradle your head as a
debilitating pain lances through your cranium." "Your wobble unsteadily as the
world spins around you." "The concussion you suffer from walks you straight into
a wall - oh, no, it's the floor. You realise you've fallen onto the ground."
Something like that.
---[Raeri on 6/6 @ 09:21 writes]:
Expanding on the RP-message affliction, wasn't there a beta/trial affliction
during the initial overhaul phase that gave you double vision/hearing as
flavour? That could work as an effect (just throwing ideas out there!).
---[Wobou on 6/6 @ 11:32 writes]:
I always seem to neglect the flavor side of things. I combined Lerad's and
Raeri's suggestion into solution 3.
---[Wobou on 6/6 @ 23:35 writes]:
I realized that I worded my problem statement poorly by saying that kata
concussion was the only way to reliably cause concussion. I have amended the
problem statement to hopefully be clearer.
---[Shedrin on 6/17 @ 22:56 writes]:
Solution 3.
---[Enyalida on 6/25 @ 18:30 writes]:
You missed Aeromancy Raise STaff and Shamanism Sky trance in abilities that can
fling into the air. The only sky flings that exist alongside methods for
stripping levitation are TK fling [with Psi - AlterAura] and raise staff [with a
prior use of raise staff]. Both of these also give an effect when the target
hits a ceiling, which I think is concussion too.