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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yesway Jose" data-source="post: 5621850" data-attributes="member: 6679265">From what I understand, the Horn had no magic effect on the Balrog. It was a mundane but sudden warhorn sounding in the dark depths that surprised the opponents for a second. I understand that the subtle enchantment of the Horn was that if you sounded it within Gondor's borders, then it would always summon aid. It's not clear if that was an actual enchantment or just a silly legend. I think it was a silly legend, because Boromir died at the end (Oh, SPOILER! My bad) without getting aid, IIRC. As per above, I don't think this was the case at all. Perhaps Boromir knew that if he did sound the Horn again, the Balor would be like "OK, you surprised me the first time, but, like seriously, again...?" The decision how often to sound the horn was based on the character thinking logically about cause-and-effect, and taking an extended rest has absolutely nothing to do with that. In fact, that may be a key part of too much dissociation for people, when there's no cause-and-effect between extraneous elements like Extended Rest and how often the character could fictionally do something like blowing a magic horn that doesn't need to rest, unless... ..if the Horn's legend was "You may use this once in a time of great need", then suddenly you have a fictional construct to tie the "At Episode" mechanic to the fiction. You can't use this too much though, because then the character has to keep a timesheet of what powers were used when. "Um, guys, the Harvest the Lightning Blade was destined to be used once until the next full moon. The full moon is coming up on Tuesday, right? Does anyone remember if I harvested lightning since before the last full moon, I don't remember -- what? Ya, I know... I just... I forgot to write it down on my timesheet -- what? Well, excuse me! I was getting fried by that fireball. I was too busy, and then after the fight, then we were healing, and you mentioned that funny episode about the Muppets, ha ha, that was funny, and sorry, what was I talking about?"</blockquote>

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