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Relic and Sacrifice suggestions. (minor Spoilers)
🕑 Added 2025-03-27 18:34:50 +0000 UTCRead the whole thing for details on how I'm considering the effects, for a better chance at your suggestion being chosen.
The middle finger that had Will's lifesteal sickle is now empty, and the Stormfists are dwarfed in power by the Coiled serpent amulet, giving us two free finger slots.
The undead servant wand is still useful for their intended purpose, and the ring of accuracy is of middling usefulness in the right situation. (a better ring of accuracy might be on the table.)
So! We need 2 Relics that could take the place of the two relics in Phantom Hand that Will has lost or outgrown.
Notes: These Relics can and will be custom creations of Sourdough, so they can have multiple effects (2-3) from other rings or weapons, and decent stats, possibly creating an internal synergistic effect that would normally take 2+ soft-set items.
As an Example:
Will bakes a ring with a thorns effect in the ashes of a bunch of lifesteal weapons to create a lifesteal/thorns ring with high stats.
Ring of Invigorating Revenge
+12 Strength
+8 Acuity
+8 resistance
+15% Thorns
+3% Lifesteal
Once put inside the Phantom Hand, that would look something like this:
Ring of Invigorating Revenge
+37 Strength
+8 Acuity
+25 resistance
+47% Thorns
+9% Lifesteal
The intent for these Relics is to create some kind of Utility that expands his options, so things like healing, summoning, fixing things, messaging over long distances, creating shelter, You name it. anything that is useful and is outside the scope of the current Set Bonus.
As for the Sacrifices:
Aspect of the Immortal Serpent has 4 upgrade slots left, And Phantom Hand has 6.
That's a LOOOOT.
The most obvious one would be to add a faster healing effect to Immortal Serpent, but what eIse could we add?
Try to avoid suggestions that would completely cease to be useful if the Family Gathering Set Bonus were ever taken away. Will has lost two fingers in combat, and he is aware that someday the pinky finger (the one with the set item) may get destroyed.
That's going to weigh into his decisions when he chooses his upgrades.
For how to create the sacrifices:
Start with the effect. Say 'Add speedy regeneration to Immortal Serpent'
Then suggest a monster that exemplifies that trait:
Thornshot octopus: It shoots the thorny tips of its limbs at people and grows them back in seconds. can also regenerate entire arms and organs in minutes.
What else you need to know:
Floor 7 is jungle monsters
Floor 8 is undead.
Floor 9 is fae-ish (probably, this one isn't set in stone.)
Floor 10 is magical desert. Desert, but magical.
See if you can't match your suggestion to something he might encounter in these biomes.
Alright, Thanks for reading this far, and have fun! I'll go through this over the weekend and pick out my favorites.
Comments
Subliminy
Some ring that inverts what he can do with Aspect and eating damn near anything... A debuff that gives its target the negatives normally associated with eating raw/rancid/roughage... It really seems like a Will thing to give a party of Paladins violent and uncontrollable upset digestive issues.
Macronomicon
not bad.
Imp
Relic Suggestion - Amulet of the Geomancer Components - Amulet of the Homefield Advantage, Staff of the Elementalist, Footwraps of the Wind Runner +0 Strength +7 Kinesthetics +15 resistance +10 Focus +16 Acuity Increased ability to read shifts in the wind or tremors through the ground or water. Terraformation : Charge 5 : Transform the local terrain and weather around the user. Distance scales with Acuity, Hardiness and temperature differences scale with Resilience. Uses - this represents a shift towards being mage-lite for will. It takes the idea of the Amulet of Homefield Advantage and takes it to the most extreme conclusion - creating lava fields, ice fields, quicksand traps, clinging bogs, thunder storms, etc, which can then be controlled with Aspect as a kind of magic-attack ability. As the Phantom Hand/Eye count as part of Will, they also act as a potential locus for the terraformation / weather manipulation abiltiies instead of Will himself. Phantom Hand Sacrifice suggestion - Wardrobe Change Drop from an undead tailor. Allows the User to exchange equipped relics, one per 50 Acuity, for 1 charge whenever a finger is switched. The unequipped relics must be held in the Phantom Hand's Dimensional Storage and designated ahead of time. This allows Will to change his relic loadout whenever he changes whichever finger is active. So, if Will was wearing his Family set and switched from using Ghost Butlers to the assassin amulet, he could also swap out his mask and cloak for something else. It also means that he also could go to sleep without wearing his relic set and instantly equip it when attacked in the middle of the night.
Hell 5pawn
Sacrifice: Devouring Eye Effect: allows someone to 'sample' (IE: take a bite out of) something within line of sight. Synergistic with his Phantom Eye, and could allow Will to unlock special meals for his Aspect of the Immortal Serpent. From: an Observer. A profane mutation of a child of Holdna - a failed experiment of either a now-fallen Lord, or one of Holdna's antagonists. An Observer has the ability to feast their eyes on someone, slowly eating away their stats. EG a permanent de-buffer - the only way of getting your stats back is by either eating an observer yourself, or have the Observer eat temporary stats from someone else's buff (basically, make their eyes bleed). It is hard to predict what an Observer craves, though.
