Immersive Ink

Ah, you're right. Just diseases and curses. More's the pity.

waysoftheearth wrote: ...Further invocations of The Effable Apperception by our magical types resolve the hidden magical runes that will command these artifacts to function... and so it is ultimately learned that:

The Rosary Beads will, when the inscribed prayer is invoked, protect the wearer from evil,

The pearly sphere is a Queerious Speculem, a crystal ball which is usable by both clerical- and magic-using-types,

The gnarled staff is one of three Theraic Staves; it has the power to lift diseases and curses,

The plain wooden bowl is a fabled Lentive Demitasse--a Cup of Healing--any Holy Water splashed from it upon wounds will heal 2-7 hit points.

The Tome is a spell book containing the full set of 3rd level clerical-spells.

...The collection of research papers taken from the Infirmary can be used to research a further clerical spell (of a healing nature).

Looks like we just need some holy water to try out the bowl. Can Josiane make holy water? I assume, as a saint, her urine would suffice? Maybe not. Peeing in the Lentive Demitasse might not be the best idea Desmond's ever had.

I recall someone having a vial of holy water at some point, but I don't like digging through other peoples' inventory and I can't remember who it was. Everyone should check their pockets.

More importantly, though, will be figuring out how easily Josiane can MAKE holy water. Maybe just a Bless spell upon a vial of water is sufficient? I bet that danged fountain we found in the Reliquary had holy water pouring out of it before it was defaced...

Once we get a chance to settle down, don't forget about those research papers! Might be good to have another healing-type spell handy.

I played out with Alex's gridmapper last night. It's a really cool little gadget and almost exactly what I need. I say "almost" because it has one fatal flaw: it's a map editor, but not a map viewer, so there's no way I can "post" a view of my creations for players here.

I will write to Alex and see whether he's willing to add a "view only" feature. I have a couple of other feature requests to toss in too. We'll see what happens...

Meanwhile, I think it's back to ASCII text maps for now.

Can a cleric create Holy Water? That would be a conversation between the ref and a cleric

You sure Google Docs isn't an alternative? Has to be faster than ASCII...

So what kinds of output options does Alex's software offer? It has to generate SOMETHING, right?

Can you view your maps in a non-edit mode? If so, cropped screen shots would suffice, I'm sure.

Re: holy water... all it can do is gently nudge people in the right direction.

sully wrote:You sure Google Docs isn't an alternative? Has to be faster than ASCII...

It is an alternative, but I don't think it saves me any time. Maybe it could if I invest some effort into getting it set up "just so"... I'll mess with it some more.

ehiker133 wrote:Can you view your maps in a non-edit mode? If so, cropped screen shots would suffice, I'm sure.

No. It only has the editor view as far as I can tell.
Creating a map, then taking a screen shot, uploading it to a fileshare, and linking to it from a post here is all the effort I'm trying to avoid

There has got to be some ASCII painting software... murmur - chant - google

http://asciiflow.com

https://code.google.com/p/ascii-paint/

http://www.asciipaint.com


See if any of those make live easier... I like ASCII maps they cut and paste right into the forum.
-Mike

(For Mac) http://monodraw.helftone.com

That one is cool flight commander I might have buy that. Thanks for sharing

Some great ASCII tools there, thanks guys.

It's a shame none of them support layers (as in, photoshop-style layers within an image), cos it would be great to be able to draw a map in one layer, then position icons for players and monters in another layer above that, then possible even position a light radius mask in another layer above both of these.

Don't want much, do I