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082: Intent (Patreon)

Published:
2020-01-26 06:01:00
Edited:
2020-02-18 22:29:52
Imported:
2020-09

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Crossed 7k on this one. Oops.

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Anonymous

Thx for the chapter I couldn't sleep anyways

Andrew

Thank you!

Tim Johnson

The composition was fierce - pretty sure you meant competition :).

Ziggy

The first adaptation window that pops up has some errors that looks like carried over into the second one. You accidentally added 200 to clarity's tolerance, strength's tolerance went down by 10ish since chapter 79, vigor's tolerance also went down. Not sure if anything else is off.

Timothy Alexander

Thanks for the chapter! Enjoyed it a lot - especially the developing interaction between Melka and Rain. That said, the prospect of Rain being stuck at lvl 18 for the foreseeable future is starting to grate a little; some sort of hint towards a little bit of progress there would be nice!

Colby Last

Thank you for releasing an actual chapter beside your other post. Honestly, I think unless you are posting a hiatus, you should always post a chapter together with any random messages you release. Because it did get my hopes up. I was thinking "back chapters? maybe he missed chapters for a scheduled release? Maybe it's a mass release?" At least this way I have something.

Mason Sudul

The 50 chapters that weve had since hes leveled up is honestly really annoying and even more so with the recent revelation of a basically guaranteed legendary class that tailors itself to him depending on his specializations has made it unbearable.

Mason Sudul
>>31692751

Dont get me wrong I really love this book and especially the concept behind his build and the way you've got your world and system set up is really interesting but come on we have spent the last 4/5ths of this book at level 18

Ziggy

Bug report. Forgot to add the telltale phrase with my other comment lol. "you’re eating like you’ve "not" never put a single point in Endurance or Recovery in your life.” There's some really enjoyable banter in this one. Melka and Rain, Mlem and his daughter, all four together. Was fun and cute. I mean Lavarro's was serious and ominous as hell but she's Lavarro.

Anonymous
>>31692357

The tolerance column appears to be a copy-and-paste of the effective stats column. Enhancement Resistances is also at 0, when it should be 50 since Rain is wearing the armor.

Anonymous

Rain's progression feels like it is stuck in the mud. He has next to no fighting capability as a mainly utility mage. Yet he has to kill a mob that is impossible to face for the majority of the awakened populace. He needs 8 lvl 25 people to assist him to get the kill, the dungeon is locked down, the city is locked down, there are what? 2 lvl 25s in the city, and one lvl 30-40 (the citizen). the only hope is this possible loose mob that he's now chasing. yet he still needs to have the assist of 8 high level beings to kill this loose mob else it will annihilate him. there's no chance of punching up in this setting, when he was level 15 in the dungeon he could barely kill level 8's. could he maybe assassinate someone to open the cap? or will he make friends with Katana-Lady? she's much too abrasive to suffer him for more than a minute. and the dome? will he bring it down? like i said, just feels like the wheels are stuck in the mud doing nothing but cleaning and complaining. will there be any progress soon? or should i wait a few months to see if there is any progress made?

Anonymous

Now I'm totally hoping for someone to say "You're the worst adventurer I've ever heard" of to Rain's face just so he can do the Pirates of the Caribbean meme back. And then have everyone be confused at why Rain is so amused.

A disgruntled nondescript squirrel
>>31693213

what are you talking about, a dragon can freeze to death, a lich can burn. He can just stand behind a wall and the creature will not even know where the attack is coming from. He can probably kill the whole city in a matter of hours with a focused effort. HIs utility aspect is just the nice mask the monster wears to hide is mouth full of fangs. He had trouble with level eights cause at the time he couldn't properly use his powers, had very little experience and he couldn't exclude his party with a whitelist so if he used his powers to their full potential he would have killed his whole party. This is a training arc. He is clearly setting the stage for events to come with events taking place separate from Rain. He is learning to maximize his powers growing stronger to make full use of his stat ring charging his armor to full strength and finding his place in a new world so that he can make informed decisions. Heck, he just picked up a book to learn another language so he can do accelerated language acquisition. So it's probably like 3 to 5 chapters before everything goes tits up

Dragonkinn

Page 2 bottom - The composition was fierce, and the success rate low. I believe you meant the "competition" was fierce, and the success rate low? Great chapter by the way. Nice that it switched between a bunch of perspectives. Making it so that we do not get bogged down in a single non-rain POV. Much appreciated!

Matt

Good chapter! I think their is plenty of room for growth still, even trapped in fel sedanis.

ricky jackson

Only if some of the characters stay relevant, but it would be nice if there was a tournament in the Fel to see what ranking new members can get in the Citizens new organization. It would spice the story up. I love the idea of Rain being able to maintain the day to day order of the city during this chaos, but I would more so appreciate this Heatsink project over with. Let the man move on to hand to hand combat training with Mel, or pure plot development because he gets to read these books he just purchased, or fucking read through Stavos treasure trove of information. I understand the character development, u did a great job, just let's not milk it any more, we all get it Rain is a nice guy but he won't take to much shit and knows how to stay on objective. I'm hoping mel and the merchant are long term characters, this would make more sense in the future. And please for the sake of all your readers list the 148 skill trees, with the skills at the base for the first 2 tiers. I'm sure that would be a bone we could naw on for ever, and as the story develops our fan fiction classes would be all the more delirious. Do it for the reader. I love this story, reason I am a patron. This is a lil constructive criticism, no offense meant.

Ziggy
>>31694188

Expecting the author to concretely write out and define 144 skill trees up to tier 1 is a bit nuts. Even if each tree only had 2 skills per tier, that's 576 skills SS would have to write and math out. That's an insane amount of work. Let alone possibly writing themselves into a corner with the skills listed and not being able to add the ones they want. That's a ridiculous expectation. And what? The people joining the city guard are typically just peasants like Kettel. If an awakened joined, they're the minority and would smash the competition. That wouldn't make much sense. Rewarding loyalty to the newly created guard and competence makes way more sense.

Rheklr

I still hope something interesting will happen when Rain maxes out all his skill trees and tolerances. Blues make the soul stronger, so there should be a way to train the soul stronger (even if slow). So many people here fail to grasp that if Rain finds a blue he'll hit the level cap so quickly we'll just run into the same issue again a couple of months later. This was a particularly great chapter with a host of new information - we know know Val's legacy - and great character interaction!

Ziggy
>>31694416

Right? Rain gets a blue, levels up to cap in a week, and.. then people bitch again. Well that bit about Val's legacy is unlikely. He's from the empire. The city of lights is the headquarters of the guild. There's also that Val's class is based around fighting, not crafting, and his dad was probably similar/had same class. Unlikely accounting for all that, let alone for a super successful member of the city of lights to leave all his success, relocate, and stay in the shitty empire instead.

Ziggy

Bug report. “What’s the normal rate?” Rain asked. “If not for the dome, what would you charge?”   “It varies,” Mlem said. “Out here, mages are rare enough to keep demand high. Ten Tel per hundred mana would be reasonable.” Mlem is charging 38 tel for 1000 mana. He's saying 100 tel would be reasonable for 1000 mana. So he's charging less in a mana-draining barrier? I think you meant to put 10 tel per thousand mana. Seems to make more sense and while expensive not ridiculously so. If not, Rain REALLY got ripped off charging the plates in the guild even more so than we thought. 12,000 mana at 10 per 1000 is 120 tel. 20 tel is cheap but can see someone eventually doing it. But at 38? He would've only gotten 20 tel for a 456 tel job.

Ziggy
>>31695142

Whoops, meant to say at 10 tel per 100 mana, he would've gotten 1,200 tel which.. Okay yeah that definitely doesn't add up for the guild job, pretty sure you typo'd.

And Then There Was None

The paragraph where it talks about the wall at 25 is unclear. It feels like the implication is that a blue that high level is unlikely to be found outside a dungeon. If it were found in the jungle the crafter wouldn't need to be able to hurt it, just be nearby like Rain with the wolf in chapter one. However it never actually says it's talking about the weirdly different dungeon rules. (Was it ever mentioned that the party limit is eight? I recall something about you not being able to share a blue between hundreds)

Garrett

This doesn't really tie into the chapter but I've thought this for a while. Certain classes must have ways to bypass skill unlock requirements. Classes like Light Mage and Jack that don't tie in to specific skill trees or which encourage a wider range of skills would need to be able to access higher tier skills without investing heavily into any one tree or else those classes and their upgraded variants would be useless at higher levels. It makes me wonder what classes are really capable of.

Garrett
>>31695337

We don't really understand how contribution works. The fact that the musk wolf was targeting Rain may have been the reason he received contribution on it despite not participating in the fight. Additionally, crafting classes don't get exp from fighting monsters, this might change how the system weighs their contribution in a fight, favoring the classes that gain exp. We also can assume that crafting is a skill point intensive profession. Most low level crafters wouldn't have any support skills they could use to gain contribution from the back thus requiring them to deal actual damage instead.

Samityaou

My god it was good !

Ziggy

Some people are reacting just a tiny, small bit too strongly to his mana spending. Even if he weren't a dynamo, he'd have a decent amount of mana/mana regen as just a mage. People tend to assume Rain is high bronze/almost silver/silver cause of his power, auras, armor and etc. If he were a level 20 mage, he could easily afford 120 focus and 60 clarity. If he were that and the weak, common class of mage (50% boost to effects of focus), with both intrinsic skills and magical synergy, he'd have.. over 10k mana and his mana regen would be... over 2000 mana a day I believe. Now, add in everyone now knows he has Winter and can pump out like 1000% bonus. That 2000 mana a day becomes 20,000 a day. Even if he's getting 50% barrier drainage, he's still getting 10,000 a day as a common mage. Now mostly their reactions so far are totally reasonable. Gus' reactions make sense because he saw Rain so recently as a nobody and his growth was absurd. The watch watching (hah) and commenting on his aura output and cost also made sense. Mlem's reaction doesn't strain too much credulity because it seems like he underestimated him. Rain obviously has a ridiculous amount of mana. But he isn't spending absurd amounts (yet) from most people's POVs. Especially now that they know about Winter and them assuming he has an aura class that lessens the cost of auras. The only way people should assume Rain has an absurd and unexplained amount of mana to spend is if he charges up a ton of shit via mana manipulation in one day. That's not an aura or something he'd likely have a way to reduce the cost of. So far, mostly reasonable reactions. Just didn't want to see a trend of people that should know better (in story) to start reacting absurdly to how much mana he spends. From their perspective so far it can mostly be explained even if he only had a 50% boost to focus + the newly revealed winter modifier. That obviously might change depending on his actions.

Chris

It was an enjoyable chapter. There was a good amount of progression with several characters.

Rheklr
>>31695634

Having lots of mana isn't odd - else no-one would be able to recharge anything decent. Spending it like he does is, because the vast majority of people can't keep spending mana like Rain without soulstrain and headaches because they aren't synchronised/fully adapted to focus.

Anonymous

Lavarro about to fuck things up for Rain again. Probably gonna make the empire attack Fel Sadanis to break the shield or something. Just to save her daugther, the rest of the city will die or be enslaved...

tibbish
>>31697594

Its not even saving her daughter though. No one is messing with her daughter. Its about as benign of a takeover as you could hope for using force. I'm not sure really whats got her spun up here as I didn't think she cared about the city either.

CentaureHeart

Interesting, so Val's class is probably Light Mage or a variant of it. I mean given the skills he had we knew it would be something along those lines but it's nice to see it (almost) confirmed. Really good chapter otherwise, your writing is really improving ! Thanks :)

jailbreak

Slightly baffled that it didn't occur to me before now that "Melka" means "the milk" in my language...

L Pedersen
>>31692382

We've had hints, they were just very subtle. I agree with you though, with how slow the pace of the story is it's frustrating to think of how long it will take until we get some level progression. Lets cross our fingers and hope something unexpected happens :P

Keifru

I just want to chime in considering all the people I see complaining about the 'level plateau'. They seem to forget that this is a LITERATURE rpg. Its a story with characters. The 'gameification' as a fantasy element doesnt mean this is a videogame. Just because they're at a 'level' doesn't mean they're stagnate, does not mean they're doing nothing, and does not mean the story has become listless. This one even has a feature to explicitly show things aren't just levels as a halfway between normal fantasy and litRPG with the whole mechanics of the Soul to keep the 'rpg' aspect having a growth element even when there exists a hard limit on the explicit RPG bit. Chill the god damn fuck out just because its not a xainxia OP MC powerwank fantasy. Blood and ashes.

Garrett
>>31700117

Light Mage was one of the classes he had unlocked prior to his blue fight. He said that it only required knowing 4 (I think) of his “pure” light skills but not the full 6 his intended class required (and no blue solo victory either). The class Val got is probably a Legendary light class.

Rheklr

I think I've worked out mana headaches: system stats give a size of mana pool. But, effective stats can give a lower amount (especially when boosted). So if you use more mana than your effective amount you start getting headaches. Similar reasoning can be used for all the other stats.

Ziggy
>>31727641

That seems unlikely. There's no reason to assume Rain is the only person with 100% focus and clarity potential or synchronization. And being an animus makes it worse. An animus increases the effectiveness of focus and makes the stat imbalance worse while giving worse headaches. Even if someone had 100% potential and effectiveness for both, the stat imbalance would still cause the known problem of headaches.

carebear90

Poor Melka must be so confused by him. ^^ And of course Lavarro does the lavarro-thing... -.- I'm just curious what she thinks, she can do about it. I like how the Ring functions as a replacement for leveling up at the moment. I hope, he'll soon be finished with focus and clarity though... It's about time, he'd buff up a bit.

Anonymous

The traveling merchant's daught is too funny. "Junk! We've got Junk! Come buy our Junk!" I laughed at that for a good 5mins.😂