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At some point during development of Seeker, Slayer, Survivor there was to be a "Champion of the Hunt" challenge involving a fight against the members of Vox Machina. The remaining data (character stats, arena encounter listing, and a conversation) and ui suggests it was probably in early stages when it was scrapped. Though it is no longer accessible via the Pool of Memories without mods, it can still be started through the console ( ` ) with cheat enabled (iroll20s): To load into the map: LaunchRandomEncounter 7ae85798-f2a8-41ff-a210-ffdbce5f2311 To get the conversation to play and the characters to turn hostile: StartConversation b1a8e901-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 85427693-4d26-4f96-9f17-3358fb87d940 0 The conversation consists purely of lines taken from the voice sets added in the Critical Role Pack dlc. Though audio no longer plays as it should, due to the "ExternalVO" line in the .conversationbundle file pointing to old/incorrect filenames. There are also no portraits attached to the characters. Either way I would guess it was only ever meant to serve as a placeholder conversation for the early stages of development. There is no reward for completing this encounter.

Wife and son get home today after three and a half weeks in Estonia

As a lot of people here know, it is often annoying that current hostiles effects, when reapplied, dont create a new effect (stack) but refresh the duration. That wotk in the same way for beneficial ones. There are some spells that trigger the Least Unstable Coil for a duration. These spells are listed here : Flame Shield (paladin, priest or wizard) Zandethus' Draconic Fury (wizard) Arkemyr's Mercurial Madness (wizard) Cloak of Death (wizard) Spark the souls of the Righteous (priest) Avenging Storm (Druid and Tekehu subclass) Pollen Patch (Druid) For example, a SC druid with an empowered Pollen Patch get one inspiration every second (even while stationary) and, because of Brilliant from the Least Unstable Coil, can recast Pollen Patch before this last is over. The spell is always considered as Empowered and the druid become the best healer/damage dealer I played. Note I equiped him with the Weyc Wand that really often skip the recovery. The only problem with Pollen Patch is, when an ally is down, the spell reanime him and is over. * The best character I tryed for this topic is Tekehu as SC stormspeaker. Empowering The Ranga at the start of the fight, with Sasha's sabre and the Weyc Wand give him the status of half-god of the storm : Energized and Thick Grew... is already a nice synergie Sasha's sabre refresh 3 phrases and one Empowering Point on weapon hit (The Ranga) On scoring crit with the Weyc Wand, the seal proc per 1s The Ranga in AoE The Weyc's Wand Follower of the Obscured skip very often the recovery for spell or weapon. The Ranga have a correct duration and can be refreshed when needed. ect Of course, Avenging Storm with Effort can Chain-lightning the enemies also and for the combat duration when refreshing the spell. This is some topics related : https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/126433-list-of-abilities-ans-spells-triggering-the-least-unstable-coil/ https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/126859-the-weycs-items-and-pulsing-spells/ https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/126845-encore-and-refreshing-finale-for-tekehu/ https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/126689-effort-avenging-storm-the-tempest/ By the way, for the list of abilities that trigger the Least Unstable Coil, I found another two but cant edit the topic (too old) : Eliminating Blow (Rogue) trigger this effect per bullet/ target in weapon's Aoe and work with a full attack. This is possible with a rogue to gain every inspirations with this ability. A paladin with Shared Flame could do potentialy the same.

Adult humor, so spoiler tag used.

Yeah, Prostitute bonuses stack with everything. Also Inn Resting bonuses stack with everything too. Which is weird because I don't see why Room bonus should stack and food should not. Maybe an oversight ? Anyway, next BPM version will include full food stacking, which makes even more sense now that I've discovered Inn resting bonuses stack. EDIT : next BPM version is about ready, unless something else comes to my mind, or if I have to do something about elemental weapons (but it should stay in CP scope)

Well, you asked for it:

I think the same thing and, even if Effort cheese work like a charm with Chants and invocations, I prefer Effort for druid and Sasha's sabre for chanter, which benefice more from this weapon I think. I very like Effort with Mage Slayer in other hand. Yes, at less with the classes mentionned in the list ! I mean without SoT or WoD. I got the idea when I read your post about the healbot ! Maybe Obsidian should recrute all his beta-test group here.

I feel like you are going to be disappointed if it turns to be a chill and easy place to work at.

For PoE3 @Constentin Lévineshould really really be in the beta-test group. I thought I found lots of broken stuff - but this guy really brings me to bed and tucks me in.

They do some fun ones, like masquerading as some tedious corpo training reminder or something along those lines. I still think the best "phishing" attempt I got was from the Illuminati just with a form that read Name : D.O.B : Credit Card # :

Starting new job next week, eager to see what fresh hell I've decided to jump into.

Got back on Monday night from a 9 day vacation in Cabo San Lucas and it feels like I was there for a month. We stayed at the Riu Palace Baja (Riu Palace Baja California | Adults Only Hotel Cabo San Lucas) and the view and amenities were vastly nicer than Playa Del Carmen or Cozumel. I guess West coast is best coast! Several hundred work emails were waiting for me upon my return though.

am moderate curious. burton + elfman always gets a looksee from Gromnir. some persons were bothered by gwendoline christie playing lucifer in sandman 'cause she is a woman or too old or whatever, but we simple didn't see her as hitting the mark. maybe she redeems herself with wednesday? gomez (or nameless adams patriarch in the new yorker) has typical been the star o' the adams family regardless o' the media, but such won't be the case for wednesday and that is okie dokie. tim burton's lydia deitz/kim boggs/ursula van helsing/victoria everglot/katrina van tassel are the ordinary burton waifs o' the past and this iteration o' wednesday is more inspired by alice kingsleig or even one o' his eva green or helena bonham carter characters. am hoping this tim burton vehicle is offering more than a christina ricci wednesday with a bit more mayhem. is tough for a caricature to grow in a tv show or film and wednesday could extreme ez become caricature, which is no surprise give her origins and previous appearances. am expecting wednesday to look and sound great, but that don't mean it will be worth watching. will watch at least a few episodes regardless. HA! Good Fun!

Well, back at work, already confronted with the fact that literally everyone else at the company is a complete dweeb incapable of critical thinking and problem analysis, and I'm back at doing what I sadly am best at: fixing someone else's mess. Yay...

Looks like UA SOF were able to deliver another pack of cigarettes to Crimea 200kms behind enemy lines, and some Russian soldier found them.

Frank Drebin > Poirot > Holmes RIP Leslie Nielsen

As we all know, everything is better when turned into Eurodance. Everything. In the magical year of 1996, this Eurodance cover of Queen's Bicycle Race came out, finally proving that the 90ies surpassed every other decade in music history! Well, and because I'm fairly certain some of you musical heathens here will not appreciate this greatness, let me post the best part as a screenshot of the video: Yes, that's Blümchen cosplaying as Freddy. At least I think that's what this is supposed to be... Heh, and you all thought Scooter was bad, huh?

yeah I knew it was hint on scooter when I played it, was my fav part of the game, turning that church into rave club

Yes, I can see that it would be great to cast an empowered PP at the start of battle, and then, wielding Effort, cast Avenging Storm and other pulsing spells.

You have to move for healing purpose, exactely like the Footstep of the Beast effect or the DoT from Arterial Strike ; but every second, whatever you are moving or not, if allies or self are healed, the LuC trigger one inspiration. The swift inspiration (in combinaison with the Form of the Delemgan for immunity) help a lot for moving and healing. About the Pollen Patch itself, the patch stay for a while, and it is very effective, but when a party member is KO (that doesnt concern summons who dont really die) nearby the patch, the effect is over. But druid (especially Lifegiver) are able to provide a lot of health to "prevent" death on allies (Cleansing Wind on emergency case is great for a melee character near death, healing them and pushing enemies back, for example). Because of the good healing a SC Druid can do, he can also be offensive with a certain tranquility and dont have to constantly heal the party.

My life is defined through suffering Found some ancient text based game or something I was making when learning C#, at least I had the good sense to make as much OO as possible. Looks like I had some idea of use function pointers but C# lacks that it seems. Always fun to look at old code, well or any old work, it's like someone else wrote it

Newly Discovered Molecule Fights Off Over 300 Kinds of Drug-Resistant Bacteria : ScienceAlert

Sounds like exactly what one would want for a hireling healbot!

Yes it does, like every spells listed above (A. mercurial Madness is on enemy) still count as Empowered when refreshed!

Yeah, and the Fire Godlike prostitute at wild mare also gives +2 Resolve (and +1 to 2 other stats). It also stacks (but obviously is only available to Main Characters).

I'm pretty sure it's mostly about religious puritanism.

and nothing of value was lost

I once made a single class Kind Wayfarer with dual pistols (Scordeo's Trophy + Eccea's Arcane Blaster) who used all the reloading bonuses he could get. You can hit the reloading floor (can't go faster) rel. early then. This included a Troubadour in the party who sung Many Lives Pass By with Brisk Recitation. There was also a confused Berserker/Devoted who used Amra's Riven Gore and Carnage to accitentially kill those skeletons around him while attacking the enemies. This triggered Blood Thirst and cleaves from Mob Stance which turned him into an human-sized Blender. Devine Retribution of the SC Paladin also triggers when your parties' summons die - and the skeletons died faster than the Troubadour could summon them, providing an endless stream of Zeal for the Kind Wayfarer whom I simply set to AI and let him fire White Flames nonstop. He not only kept the whole party at high health but also did rely decent single target damage with those very fast pistol shots + lash. So - one of the best healers I ever had was a SC Paladin. Also one of the most boring ones to play because I didn't even have to touch him.

Wait, are you telling me that my bank didn't send me an e-mail telling me to confirm my account? What's next, the Nigerian prince did not need my credit card credentials for a lucrative gold mine deal?

That's actually pretty interesting. I doubt that anyone would waste a long range missile on just a transformer. This gives credence to the rumors that attacks in Crimea were launched by saboteur units infiltrated there.

Finally, a trailer that explains some gameplay mechanics:

You know you're in deep **** as a conservative politician when even Rupert Murdoch wants to skin you and hang your hide out to dry (Sky News is what Fox News is called outside the US) “But to secretly instruct the Governor General, to hand you the Resources portfolio to overrule a Minister who's done all his due diligence will be exactly what you can bet the current Prime Minister will pursue endlessly.” “We had one prime minister, secretly shadowing the powers of five senior ministers, and not telling the cabinet, the parliament or the public about it. “There was no transparency and therefore no accountability. “For those of us who warned throughout the pandemic about government overreach and a lack of democratic oversight and accountability, these revelations are astounding, they prove it was much, much worse than we even knew at the time.” The rest of the media and politicians across the spectrum calling for his resignation as a member of parliament... Rather late realizations... maybe somebody should tell the Liberal Party, that damage prevention is better than damage control? "Former Liberal minister Karen Andrews has called on Scott Morrison to resign from parliament over the secret cabinet scandal. It's been revealed the former PM was secretly sworn in for five portfolios." "There are now calls from within the Liberal party for Scott Morrison to resign from federal parliament and his seat of Cook."

Man, I was just thinking that the CK3 DLC I've been playing hasn't been worth the purchase price. Evidently Paradox agrees. Yeah, just double the price of old, anaemic DLC, what's the worst that could happen? Feels like it's pretty much a skeleton crew running the game as it is, the pace of development, hell the pace of implementing trivial fixes, has been glacially slow. Has the Bloodlines 2 disaster hobbled the company that much?

Almost 40

https://www.pcgamer.com/classic-style-rts-tempest-rising-hits-in-2023/ That music ****ing sucks.

New best 10 yard grouping: 1 nasty outlier, but in a 15 shot grouping that's not too bad; better than 3, anyway. I'm still getting used to the trigger pull. I don't want to pull the trigger too hard since that's a recipe to jerk the gun back and fire high, but pulling the trigger too lightly means holding the gun outstretched for an extended period of time and the Glock 40 has quite a bit of weight to it (one of the down sides of a hand cannon). It will come with practice.

'(Let's Get) Physical' is the first song I can actively remember being #1 in the charts here. The video certainly can be interpreted a little differently when you're older than 5.

In case it saves you some labor I believe prostitute bonuses and other "until rest" bonuses like Dawnstar's Blessing already completely stack with other bonuses. It is only resting bonuses from food and inns that have janky stacking.

Be the change you want to see (by making it hell yourself).

The new design is going to take some getting used to. Edit: I would be terrified to use liquid metal on that.

I went to pick up my dog's ashes from the vet today. I cried more today than I did when we put him down. He was a very good boy. I really wanted that vet to tell me it was just arthritis. I could help with that! I was helping with that. Bought a bunch of rugs to help steady his footing so he could walk. I was going to build a ramp so he didn't have to struggle so much coming in from the yard. But that's not all it was. The Vet made a recommendation. And now I miss my friend. My brother. I'm so glad for all that time I spent trying to help him, though. I'd carry him out back and put him on the lawn, tell him I loved him and he was good. I'd go out with him with a treat and make sure he walked around to keep his strength up. I'd make sure to play with him the few times he managed to stand up inside. I got quality time like that. But damn do I wish it meant more than even that.