spell questions: Breath of Winter, Communion M/S

[Zooko]

Yikes -- the fire attack always hits even if the attack misses? Sweet. No wonder my blessed flagellants tear into the enemy ranks so nicely.

[Kristoffer O]

Oops, I didn't mean that. But it hits regardless of damage done. You must still hit the target with the primary attack.

[Zooko]

Hrm. I'm sorry, but I don't understand. Suppose my flagellant attacks the enemy, succeeds on the "to-hit" roll. Now he is going to do flail damage + flagellant strength + 2d6-OE - enemyprotection - 2d6-OE. Right?

Now suppose he is blessed and gets the fire attack. Then he does the above, and then after that he does 8 + 2d6-OE - (enemyprotection/2) - 2d6-OE ?

I guess that makes sense.

[archaeolept]

yes. the flag will get an extra 8AP fire attack each time his weapon hits; whether or not the initial weapon attack actually does any damage.

[Endoperez]

Speaking about poison, I have found that blind Slayers are quite cabable of killing Mystics that have Quickened, Personal Lucked and Body Etherealed themselves. It seems the poison goes through every time. Has someone else noticed this or something similar?

[Zooko]

Yet another question about fire-9 blessing. Is the normal sword attack considered magic and can ignore ethereal? I guess it must be, because if the ethereal forces the normal sword attack to miss then the fire attack automatically misses, which would render its magicalness moot.

[Zooko]

New Communion question. When my Communion Master cast Body Ethereal, he became ethereal but the Communion Slaves didn't. I guess this is because Body Ethereal isn't "Area of effect: caster" ? Likewise, he could cast Personal Luck and thus help the Communion Slaves, but not Luck. Am I right?