What happens if ... ? (a couple specific game questions)

[PDF]

1- A mage that already "Lost one eye" puts on an Eye of Accuracy ? Does he become blind ? It'll make sense he put it in his "lost" eyeslot ...

2- A diseased, Twiceborn mage dies from the disease ? Does he become a Wight as should be ? (I've had strange experience with death from disease, in one case my stealthy prophet died this way while in enemy territory and I was never able to appoint a new prophet thereafter)

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by PDF:
1- A mage that already "Lost one eye" puts on an Eye of Accuracy ? Does he become blind ? It'll make sense he put it in his "lost" eyeslot ...

He will not lose another eye if you give him an eye of accuracy, unless you give him two eyes.

2- A diseased, Twiceborn mage dies from the disease ? Does he become a Wight as should be ? (I've had strange experience with death from disease, in one case my stealthy prophet died this way while in enemy territory and I was never able to appoint a new prophet thereafter)

He should. I've had a twiceborned fellow I deliberately drowned to kill him and turn him into a Wight Mage. He came back as expected.

You do have to make sure he dies within your dominion for this to work, however, and disease is definitely a bad way to do it, as he'll keep his afflictions gained while being diseased.

[PDF]

Thanks for the answers Norfleet !
And about my Twiceborn mage, it wasn't a "strategy" to have him diseased : he was my RB Prenteder and got the disease from a site on his second province search on turn 12 ... I saved him with a Regen ring when he had only 2 hp left, and he cast Twiceborn thereafter
There is some risk involved if I let him die however, lest him get Feebleminded or Mute

[Arralen]

Does Twiceborn work on pretenders ??

I think not, and it shouldn't anyway, IMHO.

Better kill him off fast and have your priest call him back - you'll only loose some magic, but dying from disease will get him 2..4 additional afflictions most of which will not vanish by themselves.

Or even better - keep him alive and have him healed(GoH, Chalice, Fairy Queen).

[PDF]

Originally posted by Arralen:
Does Twiceborn work on pretenders ??

I think not, and it shouldn't anyway, IMHO.

Better kill him off fast and have your priest call him back - you'll only loose some magic, but dying from disease will get him 2..4 additional afflictions most of which will not vanish by themselves.

Or even better - keep him alive and have him healed(GoH, Chalice, Fairy Queen).

Why shouldn't it work on Pretenders ? Anyway as he get diseased very soon and I couldn't possibly "kill him" on a whim he took a couple afflictions but nothing serious.
And having him called back is a killer for a 6 path-2 RB !
As for healing him fully it ain't that easy with Abysia, Demons don't heal

[Gandalf Parker]

From the
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic newsgroup:
posted by Leejay Wu and responded by Jachues Vidal

>> Oh, and one might note that Twiceborn works on the
>> Void Lurker, as it's alive. Just don't forget that if
>> you want to try this, you need both death magic (for the
>> Twiceborn) and water magic (so your new divine wight
>> mage doesn't immediately drown). Then you get a 0-pt
>> 15/path astral 3+ undead mage with all slots, cold
>> immunity, and chill effect as your pretender.
>
> Just FYI, not being lifeless also allows your Lurker to cast
> Transformation if it's lacking in death magic. Although you'd better
> have some way to cure an occasional feeblemind, and a decent stock of
> nature gems to repeat the process in case it turns into a wimpy
> Dragonfly ;-)

This went straight into my tactics file. Choose cheap, buy scales, then change your god into something else.

[ June 01, 2004, 15:21: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]