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Does Spell #855 – Locate Character or Group actually exist?
Does anybody know how 829 - Teleport Figure works?
Thanks!
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I am guessing Locate Character or Group was removed at some point. I have never seen it on a spell list.
I have not gotten 829 to work. Some say they have.
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I've never tried 829. Its a higher level spell and I don't see the point. If the PC is owned, why do you need to send in an emi? If its about to be attacked, the attack will happen before the teleport changing the PC ownership so the spell will fail.
Relocate capital is much more useful and moves every emi with no spell cast. Move capital on turn X, disperse emis on X+1, and re-relocate the capiital back to safety on X+1 as well.
I think locate character was eliminated to keep the value of hidden capitals. But! if the capital has a prisoner you can triangulate its location with ward spells, hence my number one rule- don't take prisoners if you have a hidden capital. Also, never get involved in a land war in Asia.
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I have used 829 successfully> I always get the error message. Then 1 time I decided to do it anyway and see what happened. It worked fine and I have been using it ever since ignoring the error message. Hope that helps.
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I was wondering if 829 was a way to move an emissary beyond the standard 7 tile limit.
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I have been using it to do that. I create a beach head across the map and then send in emmisarys. Not sure it is the greatest tactic but its been fun.
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Does the destination popcenter have to be your own?
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the destination must be one of your pc. the emisary starting location must be within 3 of the wizard casting the spell. Once you have a foothold you can send agents through in mass, have them scatter and start kidnapping and sending status points home and out of reach. Also if I am in darkover and I target a kingdom in say mythgar I will probably not get blamed and retaliated on. Especially if say the underworld is a neighbor. Just some ideas on how to have fun with that spell.