Tartarus Sorceror
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Joined: Monday, 14th October 2013, 01:05
Wednesday, 18th May 2016, 02:15
Remove Chaos Spawn from allied Orc Sorceror summons
Or make it so that summoned Chaos Spawn don't leave a cloud of chaos when they die. It's very dubiously helpful and often annoying because of how it can restrict the player's movement and you don't have direct control of when they summon, and more importantly, it interacts quite badly with other Beogh followers:
the tl;dr for this weird situation is that while stairdancing, my sorcerer summoned a chaos spawn, the chaos spawn died, one of my orc warlords just kinda casually walked into the cloud of chaos and got first petrified and then polymorphed into a shapeshifter, then randomly shapeshifted into an Apis, then since he was an Apis he became enraged because I was a beogh follower and beogh is an evil god, so me and my other orc warlords murdered him, and then I suppose creatures polymorphed into shapeshifters don't return to their original shape on death because shapeshifters already return to a 'different' form of the purple flesh shapeshifter body on death, so instead of dropping an orc corpse he dropped a shapeshifter corpse and I was unable to resurrect him.
Now, that's a pretty funny Rube Goldberg mutation machine situation, but it's pretty bad that allies can (once in a while, unexpectedly)do something as potentially dangerous as making things that leave clouds of chaos around, which your other allies will cheerily walk into and get themselves killed or totally incapacitated. It's alright for the player to summon chaos spawns IMO, since at least the player chooses on which turn they will summon a randomized demon(and can thus choose not to do so), but you have little non-annoying control over which type of orcs are following you and much less over what they choose to do.
the tl;dr for this weird situation is that while stairdancing, my sorcerer summoned a chaos spawn, the chaos spawn died, one of my orc warlords just kinda casually walked into the cloud of chaos and got first petrified and then polymorphed into a shapeshifter, then randomly shapeshifted into an Apis, then since he was an Apis he became enraged because I was a beogh follower and beogh is an evil god, so me and my other orc warlords murdered him, and then I suppose creatures polymorphed into shapeshifters don't return to their original shape on death because shapeshifters already return to a 'different' form of the purple flesh shapeshifter body on death, so instead of dropping an orc corpse he dropped a shapeshifter corpse and I was unable to resurrect him.
Now, that's a pretty funny Rube Goldberg mutation machine situation, but it's pretty bad that allies can (once in a while, unexpectedly)do something as potentially dangerous as making things that leave clouds of chaos around, which your other allies will cheerily walk into and get themselves killed or totally incapacitated. It's alright for the player to summon chaos spawns IMO, since at least the player chooses on which turn they will summon a randomized demon(and can thus choose not to do so), but you have little non-annoying control over which type of orcs are following you and much less over what they choose to do.
