God in the gate

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by PhilD:
I don't know - I only tried R'lyeh once, but I seem to remember that insanity wasn't the only danger - a significant proportion of summonners would meet something nasty in there, and not even come back with their mind fried. I don't think Recuperation would help much for that...

A scripted returning with a ritual of returning enchantment can do wonders to make sure your summoner comes back alive even if he gets attacked.

However, the fact of the matter is that for anyone who ISN'T R'lyeh, the only use of the Void Gate would be to get Vastnesses. Even assuming you can entirely prevent the loss of your summoner with Returning/Ritual of Returning, and he automatically heals his insanity afflictions quickly, every time he teleports back, you still have to walk him BACK to R'lyeh, which R'lyeh doesn't have to do...and the insanity rate is 5x higher: Building an army out of void critters in such a fashion isn't profitable or cost-effective. So what you REALLY want is a Vastness.

Just wish for the damn Vastness already! 100 Astrals is a lot cheaper than trying to empower somebody to do it, cast Ritual of Returning and Returning all the time, teleport back to R'lyeh....