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9 (22%)

It should be more than that

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It should be less than that

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Total Members Voted: 41

[Whisperling]

((Easy multicasting is overpowered in just about any form. When you take into account that the vast majority of significant actions are magical, it basically allows people to double up on their turns.

Maybe it should be possible, somehow, but it should be much more obscure difficult, and impermanent than going on killing spree.))

[FallacyofUrist]

((So I'm dead now? I didn't even get to mess with the wings.  Oh well, I think I'm going to drop out now.))

((But good sir... you hast been saved by Cuberac, who dragged your character through the portal!))

[star2wars3]

((On another note. If I get a turn while in the state between the Duck and the Turtle (A'Tuin?)))

No, and the new island is not on a turtle.

((Oh Well. Was worth a try.))
((In light of that I present:))

Spoiler: The Lost Turn: To Much Time In Portal Stasis (click to show/hide)

You know, when you go through a portal you usually expect to get somewhere quickly. Well I suppose all there is to do now is wait.

Skeliborn
Action:
Wait Patiently to Arrive at the New Island

((Several Minutes Later))

You know, waiting is really boring.

Skeliborn
Action:
Wait Unpatiently to Arrive at the New Island

((I plan to add to that later))

[ironsnake345]

Woah-ho-ho MAN, were those currents rough! Chorkinaan looks around and notices all the other magi traveling through the blue portal. Oh, hello. I see you guys are also fleeing an imminent apocalypse. Some day, ah? I tell you what, I did NOT expect THAT on my way through the portal here. Say, do you guys hear quacking sounds?

[Andres]

Punch Forric in the jaw to stun him, then punch him in the throat with a kinetic enhanced fist. (All such kinetic punches will only increase forwards kinetic force WITHOUT increasing backwards kinetic force, thus increasing damage to the enemy without getting damaged in turn.)

[H4zardZ1]

((It is easy to multicast without actually casting multiple spells in a turn:
1. Create spell(or [insert affinity here] grenade)orbs that is cast when [insert trigger here]
2. Enchant it until you are 'happy'
3.
4. Profit

That being said, 'fixing' the OP essences, while the ritual can also be even more OP(despite the fact i don't use it); Someone could  make a/n spell orb/s that effectively insta-kills and insta-loots everyone in half a mile radius with the rituals.))

Punch Forric in the jaw to stun him, then punch him in the throat with a kinetic enhanced fist. (All such kinetic punches will only increase forwards kinetic force WITHOUT increasing backwards kinetic force, thus increasing damage to the enemy without getting damaged in turn.)

((The (recoil) damage is from the deceleration trauma (the deceleration itself is from Newton 3rd's law, which you said 'backwards kinetic force'). Adding force while the fist is in contact is the best idea.))

[Whisperling]

((The issue with rituals, I think, is that there's at least a 1/3 chance per turn that a one-person ritual will spontaneously fail. Adding a second item only makes that more likely. Teamwork... doesn't really happen so much, which means the whole system is a bit of a useless mess.

It's less a matter of the progression (which is often better than essences), but rather the fail chance and the per-person item cap that would make it a pain to use.))

[star2wars3]

((The issue with rituals, I think, is that there's at least a 1/3 chance per turn that a one-person ritual will spontaneously fail. Adding a second item only makes that more likely. Teamwork... doesn't really happen so much, which means the whole system is a bit of a useless mess.

It's less a matter of the progression (which is often better than essences), but rather the fail chance and the per-person item cap that would make it a pain to use.))

((A way to fix that problem is by making rituals exponential based on the number of turns))

[Whisperling]

Spoiler: The Trans-dimensional Journey of Viznor, the Seer (noncannon, obviously) (click to show/hide)

Viznor relaxed in the library he himself had designed, on top of a beanbag chair dragged from the council room. He would have taken his own chair, but to be perfectly honest, he felt uncomfortable using the regal-looing seat.

A vestige of his past, perhaps. But that was beside the point.

The Seer searched the shelves for a good book, eventually settling on a story entitled The Book Thief. Maybe a fitting description for himself, actually. The library's contents had to come from somewhere.

As he lifted the heavy book from the shelf, he abruptly noticed something in the corner of his vision. Namely, a title, written in gold on the back of an otherwise plain-looking tome.

Secrets of Duck Island: Powerful Magic and Where to Find it

"This has to be some sort of joke."

[star2wars3]

Spoiler: The Trans-dimensional Journey of Viznor, the Seer (noncannon, obviously) (click to show/hide)

Viznor relaxed in the library he himself had designed, on top of a beanbag chair dragged from the council room. He would have taken his own chair, but to be perfectly honest, he felt uncomfortable using the regal-looing seat.

A vestige of his past, perhaps. But that was beside the point.

The Seer searched the shelves for a good book, eventually settling on a story entitled The Book Thief. Maybe a fitting description for himself, actually. The library's contents had to come from somewhere.

As he lifted the heavy book from the shelf, he abruptly noticed something in the corner of his vision. Namely, a title, written in gold on the back of an otherwise plain-looking tome.

Secrets of Duck Island: Powerful Magic and Where to Find it

"This has to be some sort of joke."

Fraid not. The effects of the Uber-dragon appear to have caused some ripples in space-time that are causing those of us in the portals to see visions of pasts, presents, and futures among other things.
The voice of Skeliborn disappears from the room, leaving behind an aura of mystery and unease.

[FallacyofUrist]

Through the air, through the void... Old King Coal had shifted back. He was rather dead, and he never had a chance to pact himself with Armok. A bone boline(a rather special dagger) slipped out of his clothes and flew through the void, going... somewhere.

[star2wars3]

Meanwhile in another part of the void, a bone boline appeared from nowhere, circled once or twice around Skeliborn and disappeared.

[NAV]

Wait in my glass coffin.
What does going through the portal look/sound/feel like; is there any space or time between the entrance and exit?

[thegamemaster1234]

((On another note. If I get a turn while in the state between the Duck and the Turtle (A'Tuin?)))

No, and the new island is not on a turtle.

I had no idea this crazy Discworld weird plot s#*€ was going on when I called the new map Turtle. I merely thought that the island being referred to as a duck was simply a silly way to express sentimentality. In the naming of the sentimental object after a Earthly avian creature way.

So obviously I follow up with the naming of the soon-to-be sentimental object after an amphibian Earthly creature instead.

((Coming up with explanations that are much more long-winded and pointless than they deserve to be is apparently something I have a knack for. Did I mention that I have typed nearly all of my actions, including this post and the one on the turn of the Apocalypse, on my phone?))

Spoiler: Somewhere else entirely... (click to show/hide)

A geeky mathematics nerd diligently finishes his maths homework. He is quite particular about referring to mathematics as either its full name or its short name, which is properly "maths", as despite being American he knows the British spellings are better in every single possible way. He does not enforce this rule on others because he knows they do not understand at all and would not even if he could explain it to them, unless the party in question already understands it for themselves, in which case he would never have to explain it in the first place and instead delightfully listen to the totally correct pronounciation of the short labelling of a subject relating to his favorite real-world-applicable concept.

This specific geeky maths nerd has recently finished a space-time warp device. Unfortunately for him, magic does not exist in his world, though he is certain that, theoretically, the magic of choice for a magician is tied to his or her best interests. His transportation device runs off of an Unprobability Drive, a highly unprobable device that does exactly what you don't expect it to do, which he believes will be scattering his atoms across the cosmos instead of delightfully dropping him into a magic death battle arena where his magic powers manifest in the form of the best mental concept ever. Which will unprobably happen anyway, because that is so ridiculously unprobable that it could never ever happen. Unprobability theory is something he has worked on for the past couple years, and he is really, really proud of it. He even surprises himself at times just for being able to understand it, which according to unprobability theory is surprisingly unprobable.

He plans to use this machine soon, though right now it seems that just about everything is getting in the way of that. Almost as if the universe is forcing him to wait until the proper moment. He would rather not take his chances. Cheating the universe rarely results in anything positive.

[Whisperling]

((The duck thing actually originated because of a typo, not anything having to do with Diskworld.

EDIT: Here's the quote-))

Entire island quacked from the power of the spell cast.