Report 633

Report #633
Skillset: Starhymn Skill: LightCantata
 Org: Cantors Status: Completed Jul 2011
Furies' Decision:
Solution 1 is approved.
Problem: LightCantata is a major part of a Cantor's offense, but blinds, which
is detrimental to a Glamourist's offense.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: If LightCantata hits an opponent while under the
 effect of afterimages, deliver one or more mental
 afflictions instead of blindness.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Replace blindness with epilepsy ("You fall to your
 knees and cry out, the blinding light overwhelming
 your senses.")
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: Solution 1 or 2, but also give a passive increase to
 allies' holy light gained while in the room and
 playing LightCantata.
Player Comments:
---[Senna on 7/13 @ 16:54 writes]:
From the special report: The blindness harms the offense of a Glamourist. While
they can use the time in between an opponent's eating faeleaf/myrtle to cure the
blindness given, and eating faeleaf to regain sixthsense to flare someone, this
is awkward and difficult to pull off. Additionally, since blindness generally
tends to go pretty low on most curing priorities, the time when someone's bogged
down with afflictions (and a Glamourist most needs their extra afflicting power
from Glamours, passive and active), will be the time when they aren't curing the
blindness, and at this point LightCantata is only hindering one's offense.
---[Talan on 7/13 @ 17:57 writes]:
I would rather see this ability changed independently of glamours, so rather
than solution 1, to afflict only if they are suffering the afterimage, some
other general affliction, so I would support solution 2. Solution 3 seems
alright in addition to changing the affliction.
---[Nydekion on 7/15 @ 23:50 writes]:
Solution 1 seems to make the most sense to me since blindness is useful if not
specialized in glamours. Since afterimage is fairly power intensive and only
hits a single target, perhaps 2 mental afflictions can be granted if the target
is afflicted. Epilepsy and confusion?
---[Annick on 7/18 @ 05:11 writes]:
If someone is afflicted with afterimage then it does not afflict with blindness.
---[Azula on 7/18 @ 09:23 writes]:
I'd also like to second Talan in supporting solution 2 with the perks of
solution 3. Blindess is proving to be more of a nuisance than for what it's
worth in a Cantor Glamourist's offense. It's about time we took a quick positive
remedy to this
---[Nydekion on 7/18 @ 11:56 writes]:
Eh, blindness outside of glamours tends to work fairly well with hindering an
enemy's offense. That shouldn't be discounted in this discussion.