SenescentSoul Quotes

Included in this page are quotes from SenescentSoul regarding Delve.

## Skill Quotes

### Tier 3 Flight

> I'll have to come back and fix this when I have a free moment, but for now: Flight is tier-thee.**SenescentSoul — 07/24/2023 5:26 PM** on a correction to Flight's tier
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### Empowered skills not Sharable

> Even though these are indeed toggleable, they are not shareable.**SenescentSoul — 07/24/2023 5:21 PM** on Empowered skills not being shareable with Unity
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### Overcharge quote 1

> Generally, but careful about correlation/causation. Overcharge works on a certain class of skills--those with the hidden keyword 'instant' or something to that effect. It doesn't work with sustained skills not because those skills have the 'sustained' keyword , but because they don't have the 'instant' keyword . There could be an oddball skill out there with both keywords.
> **SenescentSoul — 09/03/2023 6:40 AM** on Overcharge
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### Overcharge and Chanting quote

> Overcharge doesn’t work on buffs. Picture Overcharge like cramming extra energy into something. Works great for stuff that goes boom, but not so much for something that has to stick around. You can picture Chanting like adding additional structure to a spell, refining it, etc. Chanting won’t work for continuous effects, but it is fine for something like a buff, as all of the effort of the spell is done upfront. It’s the difference in mechanism that makes one work for buffs and the other not.
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### Force sub-element trees quote 1

> Updated to "Windcalling from Air Manipulation"
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> Force sub-elemental trees should be semi-symmetrical, as in
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> "Earth Manipulation, Water Manipulation, Air Manipulation
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> Geoevocation, Hydroevocation, Aeroevocation"**SenescentSoul — 09/14/2023 5:57 AM**
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### Coresmithing quote 1

> Elaborate (referring to the skills used by Bluewash in ch247): "So, what Skill Tree is that, anyway? Is Core-crafting its own Tree, or part of Stonecrafting? Is it a Hidden Skill Tree? ..."
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> SenescentSoul: "... Coresmithing is a hidden/recombinant skill tree, like Val's."
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### Flamewave Hidden Skill

> ...In the case of flamewave, it would have been hidden had kettel unlocked tier-1 prior to having unlocked flamestrike.**SenescentSoul — 08/02/2020 11:19 AM**
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### T4 Last Normal Tier

> Chris646: Maybe not a typo but is it intentional that their is no Tier 5/Locked at the bottom like in chapter 64 for Tier 4
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> SenescentSoul: This is intentional. T4 is the last tier that can be unlocked normally.
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### Arcane Mastery 1

> My notes say it isn't in Arcane Mysteries.**SenescentSoul — 10/01/2023 7:24 AM** on Arcane Mastery
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## Class Quotes

### Class names quote 1

> Same class, different names. It's like Fire Mage / Pyromancer**SenescentSoul — 09/10/2023 at 2:39 PM** on Runescribe and Rune Worker being the same class
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### Axeman equals Axe Warrior

> Sebastian: "Also, would you willing to confirm for the Class page whether Welen's Axeman and Lady Sale's Axe Warrior are two names for the same class?"
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> SenescentSoul: "Same class."
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## Other Quotes

### Permission to create page for spoilers

> Sebastian: "From my understanding Patreon only spoilers are not allowed on the wiki. I was wondering if you would be willing to change that rule to allow for Patreon only spoilers on a specific page? I was thinking of creating a Patreon Spoilers page that would allow us to prepare various bits of spoiler information for later integration with the rest of the wiki when the relevant chapter is released."
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> SenescentSoul: "I have no problem with that. Just put a big warning at the top."
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### Jarro After Rank Shift

> RE: Jarro, yes, the city has been largely evacuated, but the DKE and the Bank aren't just going to leave a teleport platform sitting around, and the Guild isn't going to pull out of a ranked area with easy access to the network. If anything, business would have been booming.**SenescentSoul — 03/13/2022 4:32 PM**
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### Occlusion and absorption

> ...I’ll make some points, all assuming no occlusion-modifying metamagic is active.
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> What occlusion means depends on the spell. Most things are fully occluded by solids. A Rain in a sealed stone box can’t use Winter on things outside that box. Winter does nothing to the environment, so it has no way to interact with the stone. Immolate, though, does do things to the environment and thus has special occlusion rules. At time zero, a Rain in a sealed stone box can’t Immolate things outside the box, but Immolate has a temperature it wants to heat things to, a “max temp”, if you will. When things are at that temperature or hotter, they no longer occlude. Things below that temp occlude extra, “using up” the aura as they get heated. If the Rain in the box uses Immolate for long enough to heat the walls to max temperature, the spell will start passing through like the box isn’t even there. At that point, the people who put the Rain in the box will have their days ruined.
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> Purify is occluded by filth. Radiance is occluded by darkness, but unless it’s Darkness darkness, Radiance wins at the speed of light. Radiance isn’t occluded by glass and other things light would pass through. Fulmination isn’t occluded by conductors, but conductors are usually metals, so...
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> Etc. Etc. Complicated.
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> Rule of thumb: picture a real-world physical effect doing the thing that the aura is doing and think about what would block it. If it’s Arcane bullshit, imagine a fart in an elevator or someone microwaving fish in the office. Metal absorption = saturation, yes, or rather, absorption is the process by which metal becomes saturated. Occlusion means blocking, so unless the spell is something like Immolate that is targeting the thing doing the occluding, nothing happens to the material. Absorption means breaking the spell back down into raw mana and drawing it into the metal, thus saturating it. Fully saturated metal can still occlude, but it’s now going to be subject to the spell. If it’s Immolate, the metal won’t heat up that much until it saturates (absorption is never perfect, so it will heat up a little). Once it saturates, though, it will heat up very quickly because metals have good thermal conductivity. Supposing it’s armor, the wearer is going to have another of those thoroughly ruined days.
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> Also: nothing is absolute.
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> Also also: standard not-in-story disclaimer, though most/all of this pretty much is.**SenescentSoul — 07/19/2023 6:59 PM**</sub
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### ESS numbers standardized to rank0

> ZachPruckowski: "OK so that new line confused me - are all those numbers in Ess adjusted to Rank 0? ..."
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> SenescentSoul: "all numbers are standardized to rank 0"
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### Ameliah Interface using Meters

> feynmanners: In 238, all of Ameliah’s skill have range of meters but shouldn’t they use her nice round ranges in the units used in system. I could have sworn that somewhere much earlier in the fic there was a discussion of how Rain got a slight range buff from his base units being meters
> SenescentSoul: Ameliah has adopted Rain's units and claimed the same boost, though I'm not sure I've covered that anywhere.
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### Dates for chapters quote 1

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> C248 Breakthrough – First Harvest 21
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> C249 Lucid – Date was wrong >.<. Should be the 32nd, I think...
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> C250 Debut – Second Harvest 7
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> C251 Homecoming – Second Harvest 7
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> C252 Inconceivable – Second Harvest 8
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> C253 Plunge – Second Harvest 8-11
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> C254 Observation – Second Harvest 11
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> C255 Diplomacy – Second Harvest 11
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> C256 Rollover – Second Harvest 11
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> C257 Blunt – Second Harvest 11
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> C248, Date for C248 explicitly given in progress report
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> C249, Ameliah says “a week ago” referring to an indeterminate time after the events of 248
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> C250, Rain says “over a week” referring to C249
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> C252, Dates for C248 and C252 explicitly given in progress report
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> C253, “A few days” sets mid-chapter timescale
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> C255, “15 days since you helped me anchor you”, referring to C249
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> C248, Rain unlocks silver-rank essence, First Harvest 21
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> Between C248 and C249, Rain gets to rank-30 essence and fixes his paling, First Harvest 24
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> C249, Rain anchors Vatreece, First Harvest 32. “A week ago” → First Harvest 24
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> C250, Second Harvest 7, “Over a week” would refer to before C249, which is wrong. Should change this to “almost a week”.
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> C255, Second Harvest 11, “15 days ago” should be “11 days ago” to properly point to C249.
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> With that, everything should check out, yeah? Double check before I touch anything. My head hurts.**SenescentSoul — 10/31/2023 at 7:08 AM**</sub
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### Double Deepened is Stuff of Legends

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> Yes, it is commonly accepted that deepenedx2 materials exist, but more as like a "myths and legends" type of thing, not something anyone expects to find/use (except maybe our platinumplate folks)
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> finding a crater that can actually work with it is challenge 2
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### Fire is correct subelement name, not flames

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> Sebastian: "@ SenescentSoul: In chapter 196, it says that Inner Fire 'would also apply a weak flame aspect to any attacks'. Should that be 'fire aspect'? Alternatively is Flame another sub-element of Heat or possible just a different name for the Fire sub-element?"
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> SenescentSoul: "According to Dragonforce, fire and flames are different enough to be worthy of individual mention. According to me, I have enough complications. Fire is the subelement name. Fixed!"
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## References

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