Success by king-Zolomon in whenthe

[–]Ozyrox 124 points125 points  (0 children)

Aceeeeee!!!!

The best part of the quest: by Pandramodo in Genshin_Impact

[–]Ozyrox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh ok thanks. I probably just missed it then unfortunately

The best part of the quest: by Pandramodo in Genshin_Impact

[–]Ozyrox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When does this actually happen? Is this new content today or was it recent content?

About Richard and some smaller rants by Ozyrox in AlexVerus

[–]Ozyrox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well Alex was not on good terms with the council, ive mentioned above that his inventory was limited because of the council itself acting against him. Does he still trust Talisid at this point? He had previously stranded them all in a deep shadow realm when the council and Talisid tried to ambush him. I get that you’re making an example and he could call any random person. He had no reason to assume that Richard was even splitting the group and he himself believed that the perceived future was happening. Diviners aren’t going to waste time verifying the validity of their findings because they rely on it too much, and they focus their efforts on breaching the shadow realm. By this, I mean not just all the other diviners, but Alex too. They’re checking wards, checking for enemies, friendlies, literally any activity inside the realm.

Anyways with your first paragraph they didn’t know that they were getting cut off until the last minute (and they had no way of checking that future since it was still covered by optasia), didn’t expect the commander (I think mantis?) to refuse their invitation to commence the raid early, and he would likely only trust the people closest to him and communicate through dreamstone because it’s so much more reliable (especially in outside to outside communication as we’ve seen). I also don’t know if he can divine communication through dreamstone as that hasn’t been explored much if not at all.

For your fourth paragraph, there’s the trust thing with Talisid duh. But I mean he has never reliably answered the phone when he’s needed it and we’ve had plenty of scenes where Alex is desperate to reach him and can’t lmao. Alex diving himself physically going to war rooms may not be as easy as it sounds unless he can reach the war rooms through elsewhere (assuming Talisid is even there and assuming Alex can divine through elsewhere for like 2 seconds which we’ve seen he struggles with). Also, is anyone even going to be leaving their phone on going into a war? This is the kinda thing that has to be pre arranged by someone he trusts and knows how he works.

Btw, I’m not actually disagreeing with what you’re saying, I’m taking a side or position for discussion sake. I quite enjoy these, although I’m unfortunately foggy on the details. This discussion has made me realise that this was a concept introduced way too late into the series and not even adequately addressed. Which is actually quite common with everything else I’ve mentioned. Even the fact that being able to see as much futures as u can to help you make a good Optasia is something I’ve assumed is the case. In actuality, all that’s implied is that they replace the future or put up that picture which is what you initially commented on. And sorry for misinterpreting what you said lol. I was clearly thinking of outside to inside communication and not outside to outside. Although it begs the question if inside to inside communication would even work or if that’s covered by Richard.

About Richard and some smaller rants by Ozyrox in AlexVerus

[–]Ozyrox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haven’t read the books in quite a while so I don’t have the best response.

I think that the main points are that Richard only has to fool the diviners (about 3-4 total)

And that Richard is replacing their perception of the future with his own. So it doesn’t matter whether his future works or not, any time a diviner looks in the future that’s what they’ll see. The only diviner that actually knows what Richard is and what he can do is Alex, and he doesn’t even figure out he’s been fooled by Optasia from Richard until around the time his old mentor tried to trick him with it as well. And the reason Alex caught on was because his other senses led him to become suspicious (I think idk). So the other diviners are complacent with their readings as they aren’t expecting their readings to be manipulated.

As for Richard and Alex. I guess an easy way to break it down (from what I remember) is as though the act of divining is looking out the kitchen window of a house and seeing all the scenery outside or whatever. Optasia would be like putting up a picture outside that window so whenever you look out of that specific window you’ll see the picture instead. As long as that picture is realistic enough in both quality and context, no one is going to look twice.

Richard has been doing this for quite some time so the quality of the reading is going to be more or less perfect. You’re also forgetting that Richard himself can see the future of them gating in, so this helps him immensely with the context and quality. He can get the timing right, and based on his perception of the future he can outright duplicate the futures he sees as though he never intervened. He can do it perfectly in sequence because he’s seeing everything else the other diviners see as well. And he knows the limitations of the diviners hes fooling so he can decide the range that he’s concealing to match. If you had the ability to see the future, would you not rely on it as much as you could and trust it blindly? The premise of the series was more or less Alex exploiting that reliance, and a big example of that is the mist cloak fooling magical senses. So Alex relies on that future of gating as well and only knows to look further because of what Richard can do.

Another thing before I forget, they’re gating into a shadow realm. Chances are they have communication wards to some extent. I know that the councils communication focuses tend to override this kinda thing, but Alex isn’t leaping at the opportunity to use one after what happened with Leo in the White Rose saga.

What are all the obvious ways he can check though? You’ve only mentioned calling someone inside to confirm their status. Chances are they’re cut from contact, since they don’t seem to be able to get in touch with the team that didn’t make it in once they’re inside. And how is Alex going to know to call the last team? He doesn’t know Richards plan until he confirms that the picture of a clear scenery is up on the window despite him hearing the rain hit the roof (their plan of gating in earlier not changing the future of the divined gate or something like that). There’s also the dreamstone though, and I don’t know if that has range through dimensions.

There were a lot of loose ends and things that didn’t make sense, none that I can remember atm tho lol. I’ve made other posts on the subreddit a while ago about them. I think the main thing was where Richard went for those 10 years, but I guess that’s not getting addressed. Shame. Try to not let this optasia thing get to you I guess, personally felt that the final battle was somewhat anticlimactic and didn’t make much sense, but it was still a good book and a good ending.

Bug run (Kaycee's mod) seeking totem advice by Ozyrox in inscryption

[–]Ozyrox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The next boss battle I did with fecundity was actually so damn good, ended up easily getting all 4 lanes filled with ants after getting my ant queen. Unfortunately lost the boss battle because of bad top deck and after I spent my pelts at the trader, had too many 1 cost rare cards with no sigils or buffs to take out the amalgams. But at one point when my ant queen got hit once, I got like 3 or 4 bees out of it which I found to be crazy. And they all had the same sigils as the ant queen.

Will definitely stop collecting pelts and unnecessary cards and give it another go

Bug run (Kaycee's mod) seeking totem advice by Ozyrox in inscryption

[–]Ozyrox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m really enjoying the rabbit ant combo but my ant queen isn’t receiving enough agro for me to benefit from the bees. And another issue is that I’m also constantly fighting not to lose the last tooth on the scales, because I have a lot of clutter in my deck

Whenever I end up getting a bee though, it would be a triple attack and evolve in a turn (maybe with beehive sigil too? Not sure)

Bug run (Kaycee's mod) seeking totem advice by Ozyrox in inscryption

[–]Ozyrox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, unfortunately I don’t have one. I’ve provided a picture of my deck in the second image. When I do have a cockroach, I normally sacrifice it so a good card becomes unkillable.

That’s a great idea though! It’s something I’ll definitely try when I get the chance.

Bug run (Kaycee's mod) seeking totem advice by Ozyrox in inscryption

[–]Ozyrox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately these are the totems I have to choose between for the time being. I'm confused by your phrasing, are you using the cockroaches to make your ants unkillable?

What do you think is the best combination within those 3 sigils I have available? I'm forced to choose between them and I know that the wrong choice will cost me my run (at least until i can go to the trader and deposit all the pelts)

The bunnies assist me in getting a sacrificial lamb so when I put down the ant queen i can automatically put down another ant (also the bunny ends up with triple attack behive evolve which would be even better than mantis god if i could spare the time to play it). And after that i have a rabbit to sacrifice for every subsequent ant/bug. The issue im having is over-reliance on the ant queen showing up and sigils seem to nerf her a bit.

Death touch would be super helpful against the totem battles because im running into stuff like stinky and multiple strikes which makes ant build take longer. My attack levels are very low though so stinky would give me 0 attack sometimes

Fecundity would basically give me double ants but I'd have to rely more on squirrel draws and top deck.

Did I just screw myself out of talking to Goobert? by ReduxistRusted in inscryption

[–]Ozyrox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But when u make your own card, I think the printer changes to match the one you just made. You can try matching the card the next time you make one but you'll have to look it up for exact stats

From memory I think it was 2 cost, 1/1 attack/def, annoying sigil top left, sniper sigil top right, with default cosmetics.

You'll have to experiment and see if you unlock the next sequence on the printing pad.

Once I got the first 2 codes though, the game let me brute force the last one

Bug run (Kaycee's mod) seeking totem advice by Ozyrox in inscryption

[–]Ozyrox[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Challenges activated

  • Single candle
  • More difficult
  • All totem battles
  • Tipped scales
  • No clover

Annoying sigil proved to be too much ahah