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--- dom6:gems [2024/05/03 21:01]
fenrir created (certainly not done yet, but I'm out of time for now)
+++ dom6:gems [2024/05/20 17:56] (current)
fenrir [Blood Hunting]
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 Random events are another source of gems, albeit one less reliable. One of the significant draws for Fortune/Luck [[Scales]] (or even Misfortune scales) are the events that provide gems. There are also some events that take away gems, but these are significantly less common.
+{{:misc:gui:lab.png?nolink }} Note that, to collect gem income from Magic Sites into your treasury, there must be a **[[Laboratory]]** that can handle them; if not //in// the province, then at least in the same connected group of provinces. Commanders can carry gems (up to 100) and must do so to use them in combat, but gem income does not pour directly into their inventories if no lab is available. This treasury access works both ways; while commanders may trade gems between each other directly, they must be at a lab to withdraw from the treasury.
+If you require a certain kind of gem (or at least more of it), you may wish to partake in **[[Gem Alchemy]]** (or simply "**Alchemy**") at a lab. This lets you convert **two of any one gem type** (except for Blood Slaves) into {{gems>1S}}, or {{gems>2S}} into **one of any gem** (other than a Blood Slave), as many times as you want in a single turn. It is indeed inefficient. A few nations have secrets for perfectly magic-efficient alchemy, at least between specific gem types, but these processes take an entire month and are performed in small quantities per-mage.
 ==== Blood Hunting ====
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 {{:abilities:blood_searcher.png?nolink }} For Blood Slaves, the primary source is a practice called [[Blood Hunting]]. This is a morally dubious practice of, rather than buying slaves from the Damned Merchant, yoinking virgins from the villages. It's certainly not always successful:
   * There's only a **10%** chance that the initial searching ritual is successful, **+30% per {{:misc:magic:blood.png?15&nolink}} blood level**. ({{path>B3}} or higher for guarantees)
-  * There's only a **([[Population]] / 75)%** chance that the finds any virgins in the province. (7500+ for guarantees)
+  * There's only a **([[Population]] / 75)%** chance that it finds any virgins in the province. (7500+ for guarantees)
   * There's an **([[Unrest]] / 4)%** chance that the villagers prevent the actual "extraction". (0 Unrest for guarantees)
 Failure at any stage results in 0 to 5 Unrest being generated. Success generates Unrest, too, anywhere from 1 to (three times the number of Slaves "produced") plus 4. That's the roll, d(slaves x 3 + 4). At least it's not [[DRN|open-ended]]. The default Slave yield in the Middle Ages is 1d6+(1d2-1), plus the hunter's blood level; or, in other words, 1-7 + {{:misc:magic:blood.png?15&nolink}}.
-Here's a table for what you can **roughly** expect in Blood Slave yields, in the Middle Ages, averaging the successes and the failures together. Note that these assume that you wait for Unrest to get back to zero before each attempt, which isn't ideal.
+Here's a table for what you can **roughly** expect in Blood Slave yields, in the **Middle Ages**, averaging the successes and the failures together. Note that these assume that you wait for Unrest to get back to zero before each attempt, which isn't ideal.
 ^ Blood Level ^ 5000 Pop Yields (0 Unr) ^ 7500 Pop Yields (0 Unr) ^
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 ===== Uses of Gems =====
-From casting [[Rituals]] to forging [[Items]], to bearing the cost of high-[[Fatigue]] combat Magic, to even [[Empowerment|Empowering]] commanders, gems have a ton of uses. FIXME
+From casting [[Rituals]] to forging [[Items]], to bearing the cost of high-[[Fatigue]] combat Magic, to even [[Empowerment|Empowering]] commanders, gems have a ton of uses.
+==== Combat Magic Rules ====
+For Combat Magic, a series of rules governs how mages can use gems:
+  * **They can only use their own gems**. Blood Slaves are different; **they can use all "friendly" Blood Slaves up to 8 squares away**.
+    * __**They cannot spend more gems on a spell than their skill level in the respective path**__.
+      * Above the spell's cost, they can spend **one** extra gem as a one-level "path-boost" **for meeting spellcasting requirements**.
+        * Gems may only be spent towards the spell's **primary path**.
+        * They can also spend gems for a level-per-gem "path-boost" **just for [[fatigue]] reduction**.
+For example, say a {{path>N4}} mage needed to cast ??Relief??, a spell that requires {{path>N5}} and {{gems>1N}}. He can spend {{gems>2N}} to cast the spell. This will inflict upon him the standard 100 Fatigue (ignoring Spellcasting [[Encumbrance]]), but he could spend {{gems>3N}} instead of {{gems>2N}} to reduce the burden to 50 Fatigue; or he could spend {{gems>4N}}, to reduce the burden to 33. Since {{path>N4}} is his skill level before spending gems in battle, {{gems>4N}} is his gem limit for a single cast.
+Note that the gem cap per-turn can be raised by other "path-boosts", such as [[Communion|Communions]], certain items, or spells such as ??Power of the Spheres??.
+=== "Living Gems" ===
+On another note, Blood Slaves are alive. They have a unit type, the **??Blood Slave??**. They are abstracted in-game as rather pathetic units, and they can be killed in battle before you can sacrifice them. The ??Pain Transfer?? spell weaponizes this, in fact.
+==== Non-Combat Rules ====
+All Rituals must take place at a lab anyway, so the rituals draw straight from the treasury.

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