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<blockquote data-quote="Crimsonite" data-source="post: 1845405" data-attributes="member: 19193"><p>We already spoke about this, so I will mention the best bits:</p><p></p><p>Take one point in disarm trap. Really, add that to your natural search ability and you can clear every room of traps by glancing at it.</p><p>To justify it roleplaying wise take a trip to Mechanus or read trap-making and disabling manuals by venerable rogues.</p><p></p><p>Actually stop 'reading' all together and create a spell of the divination school that allows you to 'download' the contents of a book, scroll, tome, etc into your mind as long as you speak the language. Your massive brain shouldn't have a problem comprehending a whole book at once.</p><p></p><p>Once you take craft skills build things along the way. Like .. pick up a stick, a stone and invent an improvised perpetual motion device. Okay, not that elaborate. But use your magic and mind to create the ultimate key for example. Based on statistical math and your extensive knowledge of key-and-lock-making throughout the ages you should be able to smith the most average key that has the chance of unlocking most locks with a few half-ways skilled tries. Use bone as source material. It's a pun, you see.</p><p></p><p>You may want to carry a big, fat book of knowledge around with you in real life so you can access a vast field of exactly that. Knowledge.</p><p></p><p>Have sourcebooks on your world or knowledge from the DM handy. Whenever a place is mentioned and someone only looks at you, you could mention the last few major battles fought there, local wildlife, what you can most likely expect there and territorial claims associated with it.</p><p></p><p>What you'll need is a few good books with a well-organized index. When you go shopping, look at each item and evaluate it based on .. this sentence is getting tired .. your extensive knowledge.</p><p></p><p>For the nezumi .. why don't you find a suitable body and channel that souls power into it, making a most awesome familiar? Damnit, make a golem familiar if you somehow can. Those 26 levels of Nezumi will surely empower it in some way.</p><p></p><p>Or use the Nezumi soul as source for your wish spells. Simply watch its power (read: exp) deplete as you cast wish after powerful wish.</p><p></p><p></p><p>And finally the spells: I already explained hte rubix spell.</p><p>I'll explain it for the benefit of everyone present here, too, though.</p><p></p><p>Imagine a rubix cube. Okay, that wasn't hard. Now imagine it being a lot more detailed. Like instead of being 3³ it's suddenly 21³ or larger. Make each side a detailed net, too small for the smallest swarm animal to fly through.</p><p>That's a lot of cubes right there.</p><p>The size of the cube itself is variable within limits, the larger you make it the larger the holes in the net.</p><p>Let's make the standard size a cubic meter, so that if it were expanded to two cubic meters, every second swarm animal would get through.</p><p></p><p>Here comes the mental leap: There is no rubix cube, it's only a force field that rips space apart and re-arranges it as the creator sees fit to re-arrange the squares. (In the standard rubix cube way, of course.)</p><p></p><p>The use of that isn't completely obvious yet. So let's notionally swat the cube. Anything that went through the cube comes out on various ends of it, if at all and .. well .. your hand's ruined, dude. It's turned into a myriad of small gates that teleport whatever matter enters into another designated square as exit gate.</p><p></p><p>That sounds pretty cool, you can slice and dice anything by casting the spell on it. But there's even more uses: barricade areas, destroy artifacts or (and this is where the spell gets highly complex AND hard to keep up without <strong>49</strong> God damned INT) preserve them within the cube.</p><p>As in: you arrange the cube so that all the portals point to a hollow on the inside (and so that you can place the item/person/kitty in there without them dying badly) then you re-arrange the surface of the cube so that all portals point to random points to the outside and the center has no 'in-portals' at all.</p><p></p><p>Taking this one step further you could encease yourself in a cube shaped armor that only lets vapour and extremely lucky critical arrows (due to this massive AC) pass.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The madness of this spell is that you'd need a super-computer to calculate the results of re-arranging the squares. But 49 INT go a long way into making these calculations on the fly.</p><p>So basically you'd have to tell your DM "I'm the smartest being that ever lived, most Gods are out-witted by my massive intellect and I say that this magical rubix cube was arranged in such a fashion that the following things will happen if it's influenced in way etc etc blah blah." They'll simply have to aggree. Or scrap the spell.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You may also want to consider having an aura of verbal awe around you. As in: Whenever you open your mouth to say something intelligent all beings that can hear and comprehend the language you speak will be stunned and recognize your incredible wits. This can be used for persuasion, intimidation and getting your way with the hot Elfen princess.</p><p></p><p>------------</p><p>Holy mother of all things explosive: I just had an idea.</p><p>Try to use your characters incredible knowledge to recruit a being that could act as a familiar that works like the rubix cube spell with some penalties. Such as a permanent size and not being able to create more than one. If you have to, use the Nezumis soul to empower that .. cube-thing.</p><p>You could hide in a familiar of total anihilation. The only thing that would really threaten you is amorphus fogs and blobs who can live with being cut into many bits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crimsonite, post: 1845405, member: 19193"] We already spoke about this, so I will mention the best bits: Take one point in disarm trap. Really, add that to your natural search ability and you can clear every room of traps by glancing at it. To justify it roleplaying wise take a trip to Mechanus or read trap-making and disabling manuals by venerable rogues. Actually stop 'reading' all together and create a spell of the divination school that allows you to 'download' the contents of a book, scroll, tome, etc into your mind as long as you speak the language. Your massive brain shouldn't have a problem comprehending a whole book at once. Once you take craft skills build things along the way. Like .. pick up a stick, a stone and invent an improvised perpetual motion device. Okay, not that elaborate. But use your magic and mind to create the ultimate key for example. Based on statistical math and your extensive knowledge of key-and-lock-making throughout the ages you should be able to smith the most average key that has the chance of unlocking most locks with a few half-ways skilled tries. Use bone as source material. It's a pun, you see. You may want to carry a big, fat book of knowledge around with you in real life so you can access a vast field of exactly that. Knowledge. Have sourcebooks on your world or knowledge from the DM handy. Whenever a place is mentioned and someone only looks at you, you could mention the last few major battles fought there, local wildlife, what you can most likely expect there and territorial claims associated with it. What you'll need is a few good books with a well-organized index. When you go shopping, look at each item and evaluate it based on .. this sentence is getting tired .. your extensive knowledge. For the nezumi .. why don't you find a suitable body and channel that souls power into it, making a most awesome familiar? Damnit, make a golem familiar if you somehow can. Those 26 levels of Nezumi will surely empower it in some way. Or use the Nezumi soul as source for your wish spells. Simply watch its power (read: exp) deplete as you cast wish after powerful wish. And finally the spells: I already explained hte rubix spell. I'll explain it for the benefit of everyone present here, too, though. Imagine a rubix cube. Okay, that wasn't hard. Now imagine it being a lot more detailed. Like instead of being 3³ it's suddenly 21³ or larger. Make each side a detailed net, too small for the smallest swarm animal to fly through. That's a lot of cubes right there. The size of the cube itself is variable within limits, the larger you make it the larger the holes in the net. Let's make the standard size a cubic meter, so that if it were expanded to two cubic meters, every second swarm animal would get through. Here comes the mental leap: There is no rubix cube, it's only a force field that rips space apart and re-arranges it as the creator sees fit to re-arrange the squares. (In the standard rubix cube way, of course.) The use of that isn't completely obvious yet. So let's notionally swat the cube. Anything that went through the cube comes out on various ends of it, if at all and .. well .. your hand's ruined, dude. It's turned into a myriad of small gates that teleport whatever matter enters into another designated square as exit gate. That sounds pretty cool, you can slice and dice anything by casting the spell on it. But there's even more uses: barricade areas, destroy artifacts or (and this is where the spell gets highly complex AND hard to keep up without [b]49[/b] God damned INT) preserve them within the cube. As in: you arrange the cube so that all the portals point to a hollow on the inside (and so that you can place the item/person/kitty in there without them dying badly) then you re-arrange the surface of the cube so that all portals point to random points to the outside and the center has no 'in-portals' at all. Taking this one step further you could encease yourself in a cube shaped armor that only lets vapour and extremely lucky critical arrows (due to this massive AC) pass. The madness of this spell is that you'd need a super-computer to calculate the results of re-arranging the squares. But 49 INT go a long way into making these calculations on the fly. So basically you'd have to tell your DM "I'm the smartest being that ever lived, most Gods are out-witted by my massive intellect and I say that this magical rubix cube was arranged in such a fashion that the following things will happen if it's influenced in way etc etc blah blah." They'll simply have to aggree. Or scrap the spell. You may also want to consider having an aura of verbal awe around you. As in: Whenever you open your mouth to say something intelligent all beings that can hear and comprehend the language you speak will be stunned and recognize your incredible wits. This can be used for persuasion, intimidation and getting your way with the hot Elfen princess. ------------ Holy mother of all things explosive: I just had an idea. Try to use your characters incredible knowledge to recruit a being that could act as a familiar that works like the rubix cube spell with some penalties. Such as a permanent size and not being able to create more than one. If you have to, use the Nezumis soul to empower that .. cube-thing. You could hide in a familiar of total anihilation. The only thing that would really threaten you is amorphus fogs and blobs who can live with being cut into many bits. [/QUOTE]
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