[HQ Ignorance] Re : Icthya

[Lev Lafayette]

--- samclau at oi.com.br wrote:

> 
> Assuming the heal water talent can be active (one of
> HQ's sillier
> rule-twists, IMO), it looks like it will have to
> come from that; one
> of the other skills (below) would give a higher
> starting number,
> though.

OK, remember that only one ability from one keyword
can be used at any one time tho'.

> 
> Heal Water 15
> +3 Moments Yearnings' Wisdom of the Green Age 15W
> (he is going to
> tell the waters - the undines or whatever - all
> about how wonderful
> it was in the Green Age, before the world was made
> impure by evil
> things such as Sorcery; downriver is a great forest
> which has been
> created and which remembers the Green Age; it is
> peopled by elves;
> but, for it to persist, the waters must wash away a
> great sorcerous
> impurity which is even now heading in that
> direction; the waters must
> sing a pure song of the Green Age as they wash away
> the filth)

Yep, that's an excellent core ability.

> +2 Sing 17 (Icthya is going to treat them the
> relevant song)
> +2 Intercessor for the Watering Hole 17 (Icthya
> persuades the waters
> of her credentials)
> +2 Spirit face 17 (not sure, but she may need this
> to talk to the
> waters?)

I'll use this to establish communication rather than
as a bonus to making the water holy. Standard
resistance of 14, roll of 6 vs Ability 17, roll of 3.
Icthya's request is understood clearly and without
ambiguity.

> +2 Fellowship 17 (this is why she's doing it)
> +2 Remember better days 17

Yes, both of those are appropriate. So an ability
total of 6W, roll of 16, bumped to a success vs a
standard resistance of 14 (remember these have been
"sorcery waters" for a long time and it's against
their nature to be bound like this), roll of 2.

So that's a marginal failure for you. You can bump
your results with a Hero Point if you like.

> If it comes to it, Icthya has a bit of a plan for
> guiding the waters
> down to the right place at the right time (using the
> Fetish's rushing
> crushing hooves 10W just like in LoTR)

That is pretty cool, and will work quite nicely, but
at the moment the waters are resisting the idea. "Long
have we flowed through the Kingdom of Seshnela, and
long have worked with the Thrice-Walled City. Never
have they bound us in this manner. Why should we seek
to return to some long gone ancient age when our
nature is with the present and with the current flow?
It would be like telling us to return to our source!
Unnatural, it is."

> If necessary as well, she has a plan for Tanuki to
> be sat in the way
> of the undead army disguised as a mysterious wild
> shaman (Shapeshift
> 3W), possibly with icthya present too as a spirit of
> the forest, and
> protected by Icthya's Hide from Prying Minds spirit
> (12W), to engage
> the leaders of the army in wild, random and
> misleading prophetic
> claptrap (trickery 1W plus Ichtya's Trickery 20 and
> Man-trapping 15),
> interspersed with rhythmic tummy-drumming (12). The
> aim of this would
> be to keep that army in the right place for the holy
> waters. She'd
> rely on her normal hiding stuff too.

OK, but this will have to wait as well :-)




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