God in the gate

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Chris Byler:
Astral mages don't have to walk anywhere. Assuming you have a bit of research and a couple astral pearls, that is (and if you've conquered R'lyeh, you have a couple of astral pearls). Gateway may have been moved further up the research tree, but Teleport is still where it always was.

That's not my point: For a R'lyeh player building a summoner at his Void Gate, every time he pops off a Returning or Ritual of Returning when a summoning goes pear-shaped, he goes to R'lyeh...but he's already there, so next turn, he can start again. If you're NOT R'lyeh, you go back to YOUR capitol, and then you have to haul your *** BACK to R'lyeh, costing an extra turn.

Wish costs a lot more than 100 astral if you don't have an astral-9 god. You need several booster items (probably including the costly Rings of Sorcery and Wizardry) and possibly empowerment too.

Meh. A Starshine, Crystal Amulet, and maybe a Sorcery, Wizardry, or the Book can give you a +3 Astral easily enough. Astral-6 isn't all that hard to acquire, and besides, once you have Astral-9, all doors are open to you. If you're fooling around with the Void Gate when not R'lyeh, I don't think cost is a concern for you anyway.