Like this, Nature Girl:
Create and Bind an Ice powered Ostrich:
Tzimzvot (elemental forces) -> Telazch (biology) -> Ah (creation) -> Gesh (Bind Will)
Reinforce each 4x.
Total path: 10 ((Tzimzvot, telazch, Es, Nehn, Ah, Nehn, Es, Akhmah, Jal, Gesh))
Total reinforce: 16
Total Nerve rolls: 26
Final Material rolls: Strength and Endurance
Final Nerve roll.
Thank you. Piecewise checks this thread, right?
Even after tidying it up, this dive was full of "adventure." I'll explain a bit more after I make a couple comments.
I’m sorry, I thought reinforcing would increase chances of success
Reinforcing only increases the effect, good or bad, of a Dive.
Reinforcing does NOT increase the likelihood of success. It DECREASES the likelihood of success. As you have so aptly demonstrated.
Hey, just go for it! It's not as if you were malicious in your intent, just take this as a learning experience. And maybe take things more slowly next time until you're more familiar with space magic.
I agree that you should make a new character and learn from this experience. As for your intentions not being malicious, well, I expected, from the moment you posted your character sheet, that your character would either destroy herself or some of us around her, and soon. Mostly because you remind me of two other divers we've had: Yottawatt's Moku, and Egan's Weillste.
Now, aside form the very painful lesson of "more does not mean better," a couple other lessons should be learned here about Diving:
1) Dive failure is !!fun!! Don't play a Diver if you are not prepared for the risk.
2)
long chains of actions are BAD, usually. Generally, you don't want to link the top set of spheres with the bottom set like that: it eats up a lot of Nerve. I don't do it, and AsHul has to beat a 19 on his nerve dive rolls, and can roll at advantage.
3) something that didn't come up, due to the Nerve failures: your spheres and the intent of your dive are not complete. First, you wanted a living creature, but you probably would have only gotten a body, since you didn't Dive to the sphere of Yengenze for the Spark of Life. Second, you wanted the reature to have Ice powers, but that is not an Elemental force, unless you mean that it can control heat or something. Ice is more of a weather effect,so you probably should have gone with Konis instead of tzimzvot. Finally, the binding to your will probably would, or at least should have failed, because, again, you weren't creating an animated creature, but a cold body. to bind a creature, it needs either a will, or to be animated by a will.
some of those ideas are somewhat debateable: ice could be a representative fo a fundamental force, and you could animate the body by your own will, so that may have worked, but I'd have to ask PW directly, which brings us to
4) being as unfamiliar with Diving as you are,
you really should ask for advice on all your Dives, rather than just throwing science at the wall to see what sticks. On the other hand, throwing science at the wall is how we learn new things, and makea neat gun, for the people who are still alive.
still alive~ still alive~5) take all these points with a grain of salt, and play how you want to play. It makes things interesting. If everyone were a clone of AsHul ... well ... hmm.
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