Report 64

Report #64
Skillset: Necromancy Skill: Crucifix
 Org: Nihilists Status: Completed Oct 2008
Furies' Decision:
Approved.
Problem: Crucifix setups for balance loss and/or Sacrifice kills require
stacking of afflictions that cause this loss. As it is this is doable through
scabies and epilepsy, but the issue we are seeing is the use of Focus Mind while
on the cross to negate part of the setup. The use of Focus Mind also prohibits
other Mental affliction stacking used in conjunction with Hexen or basic
strategies.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Make Focus Mind unable to be used while on the
 Crucifix.
Player Comments:
---[Nejii on 10/23 @ 04:40 writes]:
I don't think the "you can't do anything until you just die" kill method really
needs to be made stronger. Even if sacrifice weren't good, crucifix/ecto is
strong enough in its own right. Continuing to make it harder to deal with such
that the defending player can actually do anything is probably not wise.
---[Ceren on 10/23 @ 08:31 writes]:
That's what I said, but for some reason the powers that be prefer this method of
realizing Nihilist balance locks to the originally proposed, simpler solution of
replacing epilepsy with blacklung. Yes, this does give crucify more stopping
power, but with how much curing is limited by crucify already I don't think it's
going to matter all that much (except in the case of securing epilepsy for
balance locks, which is the point of this change)
---[Shuyin on 10/26 @ 22:59 writes]:
Stag needs some sort of gimmick now too, will try to address next month or the
one after that, maybe Gregori instead as well. Fine by me
---[Shuyin on 10/26 @ 23:02 writes]:
....miscomment. Damn. Will post thoughts in a separate comment. :/