Make Curse Skulls Silenceable


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Post Wednesday, 13th January 2016, 00:41

Make Curse Skulls Silenceable

They are the only undead in the game with !Sil on their spells. It feels like a discrepancy/oversight related to when they used to be undead statues (all statues except Roxanne cannot be Silenced). [Roxanne is also weird; but kinda makes sense because of the lore about her being a HuEE that miscast Statue Form terribly.]
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Post Wednesday, 13th January 2016, 01:34

Re: Make Curse Skulls Silenceable

bcadren wrote:They are the only undead in the game with !Sil on their spells. It feels like a discrepancy/oversight related to when they used to be undead statues (all statues except Roxanne cannot be Silenced). [Roxanne is also weird; but kinda makes sense because of the lore about her being a HuEE that miscast Statue Form terribly.]


Agreed. It's frustrating that one of the only REALLY GOOD targets for silence is un-silenceable.

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Post Wednesday, 13th January 2016, 03:04

Re: Make Curse Skulls Silenceable

+1up Silence needs more love
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Post Wednesday, 13th January 2016, 07:21

Re: Make Curse Skulls Silenceable

bcadren wrote:They are the only undead in the game with !Sil on their spells.

Revenants, curse toes.

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Post Wednesday, 13th January 2016, 07:36

Re: Make Curse Skulls Silenceable

Sar wrote:
bcadren wrote:They are the only undead in the game with !Sil on their spells.

Revenants.


http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a= ... 4402eb6766

This reason btw applies totally to curse skulls too - having never checked, I always thought they were susceptible to silence
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Post Wednesday, 13th January 2016, 07:44

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Sar wrote:curse toes.


Curse toes get a pass because they clearly don't have, and never have had, any means of casting spells through a mouth of any kind. It seems pretty intuitive that they wouldn't be effected by silence.
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Post Wednesday, 13th January 2016, 07:54

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Post Friday, 15th January 2016, 06:35

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Tiktacy wrote:
Sar wrote:curse toes.


Curse toes get a pass because they clearly don't have, and never have had, any means of casting spells through a mouth of any kind. It seems pretty intuitive that they wouldn't be effected by silence.
whereas mummified corpses, skeletons, blobs of slime, and slugs obviously have functioning vocal cords

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Post Friday, 15th January 2016, 19:20

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duvessa wrote:
Tiktacy wrote:
Sar wrote:curse toes.


Curse toes get a pass because they clearly don't have, and never have had, any means of casting spells through a mouth of any kind. It seems pretty intuitive that they wouldn't be effected by silence.
whereas mummified corpses, skeletons, blobs of slime, and slugs obviously have functioning vocal cords


But they HAVE had functional vocal chords in the past, so you could infer that maybe they are able to speak through the same magical means that are keeping them alive after death.

Curse toes have never had anything resembling functional vocal chords.
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Post Friday, 15th January 2016, 20:25

Re: Make Curse Skulls Silenceable

The backstory on curse toes is they were originally attached to some ill-fated human who was on vacation in the woods and got attacked by demonic spirits. This person had their toes possessed by an evil spirit, so they cut them off with a chainsaw. The possessed toes retained the ability to speak in their previous owner's voice, and from time to time they like to drop some pretty epic one-liners, like "Groovy!" and "Hail to the king, baby."

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Post Friday, 15th January 2016, 20:41

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Bruce, a curse toe unique.
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Post Friday, 15th January 2016, 20:50

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gammafunk wrote:The backstory on curse toes is they were originally attached to some ill-fated human who was on vacation in the woods got attacked by demonic spirits. This person had their toes possessed by an evil spirit, so they cut them off with a chainsaw. The possessed toes retained the ability to speak in their previous owner's voice, and from time to time they like to drop some pretty epic one-liners, like "Groovy!" and "Hail to the king, baby."


My mistake. ;)
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