[Rathar]

I played in a MP game a while back that Ironhawk hosted and one of the players cast a very well backed up astral corruptio n and this is what I observed..

I am uncertain about mixed forgings but I would bet lots and lots of gold that the non blood part will get you targeted.

The only thing that seemed to prevent becoming dinner was to not get horror marked and just about the only way to do that in the situation was to cast only blood spells/forgings. One could also escape if you could slay your horror attacker in one shot or it would mark ya most likely. Then you were doooooomed.

It seemed that there was a percentage chance of being targeted by a horror if you cast a non blood spell. That chance seemed to be very roughly equivalent to 10% per level of magic you used but I don't have truly hard numbers. It was definitely the case that casting bigger magic=bigger chance of attack.

The only safe course of action as a blood nation with AC up is to quickly kill everyone or they will kill you. Really no other choices. Although in the one game it happened in that player lived till the end due to having some other very well backed up "sucks to be you" in his dominion spells going on. As they weren't winning we all just suffered a lot till the game ended.