Illwinter Ritual Expectations

[MaxWilson]

sansanjuan said:
Thanks for the feedback all. Now I wonder what I tell the mothers of those 100 virgins I sacrificed to cast it.
Your daughter's sacrifice was greatly appreciated by the Utgardian War Ministry. Thanks to your daughter (and others) giving their life, it is now much colder outside. In hindsight we might have opted for imps. Lot and lots of imps.

Niefelheim, on the other hand, loves cold. Cold power + Niefel Jarl = serious killing.

-Max

[Lingchih]

The attacks do build up over time, as I recall. I had it cast for a long time in an SP game, and the attacks became pretty good after a while. It seems like cold dominion helped them.

Of course, you would not want to cast this in an MP game, unless you were at war with everyone else. The attacks are totally random, and can hit anyone.

[sansanjuan]

Lingchih said:
The attacks do build up over time, as I recall. I had it cast for a long time in an SP game, and the attacks became pretty good after a while. It seems like cold dominion helped them.

Of course, you would not want to cast this in an MP game, unless you were at war with everyone else. The attacks are totally random, and can hit anyone.

Good to know. I was probably being impatient with TC galloping through my southern lands and Mictlan's bone fiends playing handball on my Capital’s castle walls (they use actual hands). I now see Mictlan’s summoned Arch Devils scribbling graffiti on my gate (their spelling is atrocious for being a minor deity.. “devells rool, gints drule!” and “gints ar stupud iirc!”)

-SSJ

[hunt11]

when i first used Illwinter i got really excited because I thought it would be like unleashing Ragnarok, and when all i saw happen was that some suicidal niefal jarls and some wolves I really thought i was missing something

[JimMorrison]

Well it's a trick, don't you see? This IS the age of Ragnarok - dark clouds roll over the land, and brothers kill brothers..... Perhaps the spell should just be called Winter Wonderland.

[hunt11]

the spell should be called pokemon, it gives everybody a chance to catch their very own frost giant

[Wokeye]

or how about calling it 'Man flu' Winter, as my wife would say - like a pansy version of the flu that men get?

[Ewierl]

Lingchih said:
The attacks do build up over time, as I recall. I had it cast for a long time in an SP game, and the attacks became pretty good after a while. It seems like cold dominion helped them.

Of course, you would not want to cast this in an MP game, unless you were at war with everyone else. The attacks are totally random, and can hit anyone.

I believe the attack's strength is dependent on the cold scale- which means that, in practice, strength does build up over time, since you're slowly freezing the world.