EliteCommander

Elder Scrolls: Terror of the Padomaic

I just got my new computer and am incredibly excited. It has 8 times as many processors, and 8 times the RAM of my laptop. I'm installing Skyrim right now. At any rate, this is the first time I've been home all day, so I'll get to reading now.

Elder Scrolls: Terror of the Padomaic

Yeah, this is the first time I've been able to load the site all day.

Elder Scrolls: Terror of the Padomaic

As the tavern is a gathering place of people, I don't consider it a coincidence.

Elder Scrolls: Terror of the Padomaic

Sharee searched the fat man's body until he found his bag, hoping there was something inside to make her efforts worth it. There were a few sheets of parchment and other mundane items scattered about in the bag, but there was a small likely looking pouch inside. She opened the coinpurse excitedly, but then quickly turned to cursing to herself when she saw that there were less than ten coins inside. The man's clothes were more valuable than that, and if the other one didn't have anything of value on him as well, he would probably end up taking them, along with one of the horses, and selling them off.

Sharee was just finishing up searching the fat man when heard faint rustling in the trees behind her. She turned around just before a Breton man emerged from the forest, asking what she was doing. He was armed, though he kept his weapons sheathed. For a moment, she glared at him annoyed, as she really didn't want to have to deal with anyone coming along and trying to claim what little loot she had. Or even worse, a self-righteous hero who jumped to conclusions and mistook her for a theiving murderer. She was a theiving murderer, but he would have no way of knowing that.

"Just a little righteous justice. Everything is taken care of here, unless you're about to tell me that you are friends with these two slavers. If that is the case, I should probably get to killing you. Otherwise, keep your hands off the loot until I'm done." Sharee responded, not taking her eyes off of him. As always, she was ready to react in an instant.

Elder Scrolls: Terror of the Padomaic

Ah, finally, I can load the site. Anyway, I don't think it is too coincidental that a lot of people are meeting up in the tavern. It is a place where people tend to gather, after all. For the stamina draining spell, I do believe being able to instantly incapacitate anyone like that at any time would be overpowered, but there are a few things that can limit it. For one, if you could only cast the strongest version of the spell through touch, then it limits the times where you could use it. Another limiting factor could be magicka cost. Only a very strong version could immediately knock someone out, which would be quite draining. Outside of combat, it wouldn't really matter, but in combat, you have to be a lot more conservative with magicka, so it wouldn't be practical to use the strongest version in a lot of situations. The target was also a young boy, instead of a physically conditioned fighter, so there is that to consider. It would still be quite useful though, even if you're just exhausting them instead of immediately knocking them out, as my latest post demonstrated.

Elder Scrolls: Terror of the Padomaic

Insomnia said
Right then, so I can keep the sleep spells?

I would just call it a drain stamina spell, a strong one. Same effect.

Elder Scrolls: Terror of the Padomaic

Probably, they are both along the shoreline. Your choice on whether they are in range to know what is happening.

Elder Scrolls: Terror of the Padomaic

Quite well. The things Annaig did actually made me want to make a character talented with alchemy.

Elder Scrolls: Terror of the Padomaic

I read those books. I think I just assumed they were strong drain stamina spells. My policy on creativity with magic is that it is perfectly fine as long as its reasonable. If you can produce the same effect with something directly in lore, though, go with that.

Elder Scrolls: Terror of the Padomaic

And now that I think about it, I don't mind reasonable creativity.