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Chapter 27 (Patreon)

Published:
2019-07-07 12:23:53
Edited:
2019-08-29 22:34:07
Imported:
2020-09

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Thank you for supporting me. I hope you enjoy.

Let me know if you spot any issues, and please be careful about spoilers if you comment on previous chapters.

Note: This is is the first advance chapter and I just posted 26 on RoyalRoad. make sure you read that one first :)

Comments

Anonymous

Thanks! Love your story, it is one of my favorites on Royal Road.

Anonymous

Hey there, I just want to say thank you and how much i really appreciate your good work!

Anonymous

Yay! More bribery to keep writing!

Elaborate

I'm a simple man; if a story is good enough to make me re-read the latest few chapters three times, then it's good enough for me to consider supporting it on Patreon.

Elaborate

So... What's Rain going to do when he finds a major metal deposit, 50 meters below ground? I'm thinking [shear] is going to be good at hacking up stone and soil into rubble, once it gets to the high levels. Freezing the ground solid with [refrigerate] (or baking it solid with [immolate]) is also doable. Maybe [aura IFF] will even let him designate a specific volume to shred, so he can form a tunnel with stairs. But until he can remove the unwanted rubble, he's not yet a one-man mining operation, and [purify] seems unwilling to pitch in. (Though I guess it'd remove CO2 build-up.) Hm, maybe a 10 in both [shear] and [purify] will unlock a [disintegrate] skill? Or maybe [mana manipulation] will let you modify mana-based skills to go beyond the strict reading of the skill description? Maybe there's a [poltergeist] aura in Tier 3 to make things fly around inside the perimeter? ...Hmmm, if he *does* manage to punch a major hole into the landscape, is it then going to turn into a Lair over time, in accordance with the "lower down is more dangerous" rule-of-thumb?

Keifru

It would be interesting if he could boost the reduction effect of one of his skills to 'reverse' a skill. What specifically comes to mind, is making Velocity *slow* entities by a percentage. Although I guess if there's some metamagic that lets you inverse a spell's effect that would achieve the same thing and be far more abusable.

Elaborate

(I'm probably going to copy/paste these setting questions into the RRL chapters once they're released, btw.) I don't expect you to answer them here - or really at all - but I think they're interesting questions to ask, and that from a world-building perspective you probably ought to know the answers, even if telling readers would be too spoiler-y... Plus, asking them might give you interesting ideas...

Elaborate

(Rewriting my comment, since Patreon seems to have swallowed the previous one.) What are the limits of [detection], conceptually? We know "metal" works, but can Rain detect "matter", and get a 3D map of his surroundings in his head? (Does he see the outline of thing he detects, or does he just get a 3D coordinate?) How about "mana"? Or "essence", whatever that means? "Poison" or "Filth", to see what [purify] will remove? I could see it work *because* he's got [purify], so he has access to that data. "Valuables", "smiths", "allies" or "traitors" would require value judgements by the skill. But maybe "my shovel", "Cervidians", "party members", "that guy I hate"? "Things shaped like discs"? Getting into deep waters, but I could see it work if he's got enough resolution for that particular search. "Things hotter than ambient temperature?" Probably not by default, but again, since Rain has Skills that deal with temperature, the functionality might have been added. "People with above 20 in Strength"? Requires the skill to have access to third-party data from the System. Maybe if Rain gets the [identify] skill first. What about "books with titles starting with 'A' ", or "pages with the word 'potentate' on them" for finding what he wants in a library? It doesn't require value judgement or third-party data, but does require [detection] to have much greater perception and processing ability than Rain has...

Håvard
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"Valuables", "smiths", "allies" or "traitors" would require value judgements by the skill. But maybe "my shovel", "Cervidians", "party members", "that guy I hate"? We know 'My Shovel' does not work, so 'that Guy I hate' also does not work, unless there is a difference between finding an 'that item' and 'that person'. "pages with the word 'potentate' " who'd not work beacuse that is an sheet of paper, or some ink. he might; might be able to look for spesific words with high enough pressision on the spell.

Elaborate

Huh, I must have missed it, I guess; where did he search for "my shovel" with [detect]?