Sigil Cloak Info Is Ya Missed It

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All info from Discord

Dramatic Drapery

Standard magical cloak with various fluff and mechanical tier unlocks.

Sigil (Tier 1): creates a sigil in the room that lasts for 1 minute. Various fluff verb traps and able to detonate it to cause a firework like effect.

Flourish (Tier 2): extravagantly gesture and throw the folds of the cloak around yourself, temporarily becoming invisible for 10 seconds. Short cooldown.

Masquerade (Tier 3): acts as an inventory concealer, hiding the character’s worn inventory. 5 premade options to toggle between or to disable.

You see Estild the Evoker.
He appears to be a Human.
He is tall. He appears to be extremely young. He has piercing grey-green eyes and tanned skin. He has very short, dark brown hair.
He is in good shape.
The <material> of his cloak writhes unnaturally about him, concealing his form.

In addition, the drapery will confound dispel attempts against the wearer, causing lower level spells to be removed first (with a cooldown).

Grandiose Travel (Tier 4): extravagant messaging when moving from room to room. 5 premade options to toggle between or to disable.

Estild dissolves into motes of <color> light that flow north.

Motes of <color> light flow in and resolve into Estild.

Wondrous Weave (Tier 5): It's unbeweavable! Standard flare chance to receive a bonus when defending against maneuvers.

Set Bonus: This cloak is considered to be a part of the Sigil Staff and Mana-Infused Armor set, which provides a chance to root a target when attacking as a set bonus. The % chance is equal to the total tiers of all 3 pieces of equipment (2-15%).

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The material, color, and covering (hood, cowl, collar, or none) can be customized and is used in various messaging. All awesome customization and messaging courtesy of Gyres.


Dramatic Drapery: Grandiose Travel options:
1 - Soandso dissolves into motes of <color> light that flow north.
Motes of <color> light flow in and resolve into Soandso.

2 - Thin, <color> lines of energy creep along the ground ahead of Soandso, heading north.
Thin, <color> lines of energy creep in along the ground, with Soandso following close behind.

3 - Soandso strolls north, leaving a fading trail of <color> footprints behind.
Soandso strolls in, leaving a trail of rapidly fading <color> footprints.

4 - Soandso stalks north, framed by a shifting, sourceless <color> glow.
Soandso stalks in, framed by a shifting, sourceless <color> glow.

5 - Soandso flounces north amidst a diffuse cloud of <color> glitter.
Soandso flounces in amidst a diffuse cloud of <color> glitter.

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Discord ..

1) Regarding the "Firework" ability is this like Fire Spirit, where you toss fireworks in the air that players can see several rooms away? Or just more of a "party trick".

2) If you are invisible and flourish wears off, do you get "knocked out" of invisible?

3) I guess this is more of a question with inventory concealers in general, but how does it interact with a Shimmer Trinket? Will the concealer override the trinket (unless you disable the concealer)

4) When altering the cloak itself, will there be specific rules (ie does it have to be imbued with sigils, or something). Furthermore will we be able to fully alter the lines from Grandiose Travel at a merchant service?

5) So, I know based on #mechanics and talk surrounding Naijin's recent COMBAT verb that SMR in general is usually based on many factors and hard to pin down a specific "value", but is there any details about how much SMR bonus this would give? Perhaps in terms of CM ranks, or, something?

A few answers:
1) The firework display will be visible in your local area but it's not as wide as the range of Fire Spirit. More than just your room and adjacent though.
2) The last line in the block of messaging I shared above is the the Flourish invisibility wearing off, you do become visible again.
4) The cloak has alteration rules, but they're not terribly limiting. For the most part it just needs to be something long that drapes well. So no short, tight fitting jackets, but you could have a long coat, or a robe, or a cloak. You don't have to include runes or sigils explicitly in your description, a line is added to the description when you look at it, an any rune/sigil references are built into the messaging as already being subtly stitched or woven into the material.
4a) Custom Grandiose Travel and Custom Masquerade aren't going to be offered at this time but it's something that may happen in the future.

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