The Mésalliance. Part 2. (Updated 11/28)

[GodOfCheese]

So, pop into Afqithan, let Mostin and Shomei unleashe whatever massive spells they want to, and then -- leave! Go to some demi-plane where 1 second = 24 hours Wyre-time, recoup spells, and then immediately plane shift to The Abyss.

Or, more likely, hit a plane where 12 hours of local time is one second anywhere else. If Wizard spells are dependent on rest (rather than time of day on your home plane), this would be the best way to "refuel" before anyone notices you're even gone.

Of course, that's the part where the DM says "Great tactic. I wonder what keeps the Bad Guys from doing it?"

 

[fafhrd]

Of course, that's the part where the DM says "Great tactic. I wonder what keeps the Bad Guys from doing it?"

I think any epic party would need to agree on some sort of MAD policy when dealing with these local timestreams, even more so than with Disjunction.

Of course interested entities may have bound Giyahiaa's bigger, hirsute sister in said demiplane making exploitation ...difficult.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Of course, that's the part where the DM says "Great tactic. I wonder what keeps the Bad Guys from doing it?"

Here's one way to wiggle out of it: assuming both universes started at the same time, the "1 second = 12 Wyre hours" universe would be 138,888.8 years old. Assuming Wyre is 6 billion years old, a fact allueded to a long while back in reference to Nehael's age. I don't know much about atronomy at all, but I'm going to guess that nebulea and the like were still forming and there certainly wouldn't be any planets around. So it'd be a lot like the astral plane only you'd constantly be taking fire, electricy, and sonic damage (I think).

Of course with multiple cosmologies being equally true, this would be a lot tricker.

Now, if the DM were an utter rat bastard, he could also just say that all "slow universes" were connected to Mostin's beloved Far Realms. But Sep's a nice guy and he'd never do anything like that to his players ... twice.

 

[Moleculo]

the "1 second = 12 Wyre hours" universe would be 138,888.8 years old.

You're on to something, but i think you converted the wrong direction. It would be 259,200,000,000,000 years old. If i remember correctly, at this point the universe's atoms would have dissociated or the nuclear force would have decayed making it inhospitable to say the least.

 

[Olive]

If Wizard spells are dependent on rest (rather than time of day on your home plane), this would be the best way to "refuel" before anyone notices you're even gone.

Except that we know that some fiends at elast are tied to specific places. It's unclear whether or not mortal wizards have the same restrictions... Sonellion is tied to the waxing and waneing of a specific star.

Wizard's have a 24 hour peiod, in addition to rest. Maybe Sep has tied that to a certain time period, rather than just to the 'last 24 hous'?

 

[GodOfCheese]

Except that we know that some fiends at elast are tied to specific places. It's unclear whether or not mortal wizards have the same restrictions... Sonellion is tied to the waxing and waneing of a specific star.

Wizard's have a 24 hour peiod, in addition to rest. Maybe Sep has tied that to a certain time period, rather than just to the 'last 24 hous'?

Interesting. On the one hand, if mortal wizards are dependant on something related to their home plane(s), that prevents them from rushing to a "fast" plane to relax and refill spells in mid-combat. On the other hand, it eliminates the possibility of adventuring on "fast" planes.

Another option might be (as a DM) to schedule some fun encounters wherein the PCs can use the new temporal toy, but ensure that a few stragglers get away. Sooner or later, news of their new trick gets around. Maybe people research to what planes the PCs might be retreating and arrange something unpleasant for them... you couldn't reliably prevent a Plane Shift from arriving with a Dimensionally Lock, but maybe you could lay in wait for them... nothing beats a few fireballs to disrupt a wizard's study, or a cleric's prayer.

 

[The Axe]

Except that we know that some fiends at elast are tied to specific places. It's unclear whether or not mortal wizards have the same restrictions... Sonellion is tied to the waxing and waneing of a specific star.

Wizard's have a 24 hour peiod, in addition to rest. Maybe Sep has tied that to a certain time period, rather than just to the 'last 24 hous'?

Isn't Sonellion a sorceress, rather than a wizardess?

 

[Olive]

Isn't Sonellion a sorceress, rather than a wizardess?

yes.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Sepchulitis - That feeling an ENWorlder gets when they look at the main summary screen of all the forums and all the most recent posts in those forums and they see that a third party has posted to one of the "Tales of Wyre" threads and they immediately dash to it in the hopes that the aformentioned post was in response to one of Sep's and not some kind of bump.

 

[Cheiromancer]

Does anyone know if "AHMA" has a real-world meaning, or is it a made-up word of Sepulchrave's? I just got an e-mail from someone asking me about it.