As magical duelling remains the undiscovered country, I have decided to start a research program around it to see what its possible patterns were, and ideally, get some confirmation from experiment and tms. The starting hypotheses are as follows:
-The skills employed for duelling are magic.items.held.wand, or magic.items.held.rod or magic.items.held.staff, depending on the choice made by the two duellists on what to employ. Required levels should be low, although my sparing partner had at least one fail with the wand (+200 bonus range?). Then, perhaps:
magic.methods.spiritual.summoning (for demon strength and initial health, maybe?)
magic.methods.physical.healing (for healing the demon, one of three choices during every combat round. To get any success using this, you probably need over 200 bonus levels)
-For the main activity in dueling, which is making attacks and protections using elementals you obviously will employ:
magic.methods.elemental.air
magic.methods.elemental.earth
magic.methods.elemental.fire
magic.methods.elemental.water.
Tm range would be interesting - I guess it should be rather low, in the 200s.
-When making an attack and a protection, some sort of rock, paper, scissors element must be at play. Results seem moderately determined by skills bonuses, but not to an overwhelming degree.
-There is probably a limited number of different attacks and protections for each of the skills (2 different attacks, 4 different protections per skill?).
After a light lunch, I got my research started with the kind cooperation of a fellow Circle wizard from the Counterweight Continent, Gznang, whom I wholeheartedly thank in advance. I got an iconograph to take a picture of us while we were at work:
The following is the list of all the attack and protect messages we got for all the 4 elemental skills:
MESSAGES: ATTACK
Fire
Concentrating carefully you conjure up a small barking dog and light its wick with the tip of your dueling wand.
Chanting magical words and vigorously rubbing his dueling wand, Gznang constructs a small dragon from fire. With a majestic wave of his hand the dragon flies towards the foul midnight black demon.
Earth
Drawing in power from the room, you tap the floor with your dueling wand. The room shakes and a small terracotta warrior erupts from the floor and marches towards the vile grey demon.
Muttering to yourself you draw in background magic with your dueling wand and create a huge ball of rock which you hurl at the vile grey demon.
Water
Using the ambient magic you skillfully create a fluffy grey cloud at the tip of your dueling wand which blows towards the vile grey demon.
Gznang holds his dueling wand out horizontally. A large hailstone forms at its tip and starts to zoom towards the foul midnight black demon.
Air
You concentrate on tofu and cabbage, drawing in magic from the room.
Suddenly a puff of foul smelling gas errupts from your dueling wand and moves towards the vile grey demon.
Gznang lifts his dueling wand up and down in a flapping motion and suddenly a small yellow butterfly pops into existence.
MESSAGES: PROTECT
Fire
Using his dueling wand Gznang produces a long flame which he points at the opening of the barking dog.
Muttering magical words and vigorously rubbing your dueling wand you construct a small dragon from fire and set it flying with a lazy wave of your hand.
You quickly rub your dueling wand, generating heat through friction, until a small ball of fire forms at the end. Drawing your hand back, you hurl the fireball at the butterfly.
Gznang chants a magical verse and creates a spark from his dueling wand.
You create a circle of fire around the foul midnight black demon using your dueling wand.
You rub your dueling wand and use it to draw a circle on the ground. Suddenly, a ring of flame springs up around the foul midnight black demon.
Using your dueling wand you create a large fireball which flies towards the huge ball of rock.
Earth
Using his dueling wand, Gznang creates a small version of the great wall of Agatea around the vile grey demon.
Gznang creates a large clod of dirt with his dueling wand which zooms towards the huge ball of rock.
Gznang quickly points his dueling wand at the butterfly and shoots a a stream of pebbles from the tip.
Using his dueling wand, Gznang creates a small mountain in front of the vile grey demon.
Using your dueling wand, you solidify the background enchantment into a large rock which you hurl towards the fluffy grey cloud.
Gznang produces a ball of dirt from the tip of his dueling wand and magically hurls it at the hailstone.
Water
Gznang conjures up a disc of ice which hovers over the vile grey demon like an umbrella.
Gznang conjures up a large hailstone which he hurls at the other hailstone.
Gznang conjures up a huge wall of water around the vile grey demon with his dueling wand.
Time seems to speed up as drops of water fall from your dueling wand, forming a sharp stalactite on the very tip of it. You break the stalactite off and throw it at the butterfly.
Gznang uses his dueling wand to create a protective wall of ice around the vile grey demon.
Air
You produce a huge gust of wind from your dueling wand and send it towards the foul midnight black demon.
Drawing on the background enchantment, you create a small tornado which circles the foul midnight black demon.
You produce a jet of air from the tip of your dueling wand and point it at the fluffy grey cloud.
There indeed seem to be two possible attacks per element, and possibly, one weaker than the other. The case for the protections seems much more confusing. I would be there is the same number for each, but in 34 rounds I had with Gznang I only got these: 7 for fire, 6 for earth, 5 for water and 3 for air. I mean, this could be correct, with different numbers of defenses per element, but most likely, I have to duel some more and getting the missing defenses in the list.
I'll also be posting soon the results of those 34 rounds, with the pairs attack/defense and the results, to see if we can form something like a predictive table with them.
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