About Stamina

The Powers Texts. Volume one.
scriptsic: Brent Elskan.

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|| Power : Stamina. ||
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|| - Version: 0.4 - ||
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::: Quick & Dirty :::

Available at: Immolator's Guilds
Cost:
Stamina 1: 1000 coins + 500 BP.
Stamina 2: 2500 coins + 1000 BP.
Stamina 3: 5000 coins + 1500 BP.

Stamina increases your total maximum AP level by 10 points and
increases your ability to resist a Scroll of Turning (SoTurn)
effect.
IE:
No Stamina levels: Standard AP, all SoTurns move you & -10 BP
Stamina 1: Max AP +10 to standard, SoTurn sometimes resisted
Stamina 2: Max AP +10 more, SoTurn often resisted
Stamina 3: Max AP +10 more, SoTurn usually resisted

*QUESTING POWER*
Go to guild, pay coins to get a password + location. Go to the
location, say the password, loose the BP and gain the power.

Stamina in relation to Holy water
Also,Stamina now has the additional effect of offering some protection from Scrolls of Turning. Chance of resisting the effect increases with each level of Stamina (never to 100%). It has no effect on Holy Water. Those of you who attack with Scrolls, don't whine at me about this - they weren't intended as attacks in the first place, but rather for clearing out overfilled squares.



::: Detailed Description :::

At the guild, click the button to pay the required coins for
the location of a secret place and a special password, just
for you. I recommend you copy and paste it inot a text file so
you can use it later EXACTLY how it was given to you.

You go to the new adress [don't worry, you have 10 days]. You
use the "More Commands" option below the map to input the
*EXACT* password (hence the copy paste) and click [Say It].
This means if the password was shown to you as Kai-Kai, you
cannot say it kai-kai, or Kai Kai. It pays attention to
capitalization and the dash is supposed to be included. Do
*NOT* include the quotes.

Note that you will need to be in the INTERSECTION of the
location given to you, not the usual South-East black square
one goes to for the usual Guild ones given in the game. So
when the IG tells you go to Pine & 45th or where ever, you
need to be exactly on the spot where those two "streets" cross
to say the password. That is, where you see the sign for the
two streets.

This is when you pay your Blood Points cost. The lost BP are
the damage it causes when they brand the power into you.
Pretty kickass, but damned frightful to loose so many BP at
once. Congrats. You will now have the Stamina upgrade.

As with all other quest-based powers, you may only attempt one at a
time. Your current quest status (if any) is always available to you
via your _My_Vampire_ link. If you try to begin another quest (or
have just forgotten where you are supposed to go next) you may look
there or you may go to any quest-based guild and talk to the
guildmaster (e.g. try to buy another quest).

Another point on the AP increase, when RavenBlack added a
special feature to increase Maximum APs little by little
(something like a single Max AP up for each time you double
your AP), it ended up sort of effecting how Stamina Max AP
works out.

You have a base AP of 50. Under 50 BP, however, it is
reduced by grades. So a pire with only 5 BP has only 35 AP.
And, when you get some of those extra one point of Max AP
bonuses, it is based on your BP counts.

So, as it used to work, Stamina 1 raised Max AP to 60,
Stamina 2 up to 70, and 3 up to 80. Now, however, you will
see your "little bonus one-off" Max AP points drop, due to
the loss of blood.

For example, one player had a MaxAP of 74, got Stamina 3,
and their MaxAP went to 82. So 8 points, she'd think. But,
what had really happened was, the two little extra MaxAP
points she had gotten for her BP dropped when she paid the
huge 1500 BP cost of Stamina 3. So, when she gets back up
to her old level of BP, it will read a MaxAP count of 84.


::: Sample Quest Texts :::

To gain a level of STAMINA, you must go to the corner of
[location] and say '[password]'. It will cost you 500 blood.
You have ten days

says secret password
Shadowy figures burst from the darkness all around. Before
can respond, the vampire is immobilised, held
pinned to the ground. Another silhouette steps forth, holding
out on the end of a stick a piece of platemail strangely
visible in the dark. Then you realise - it's glowing with red
heat. The platemail is pressed against the chest of .
With gritted teeth, bears the pain without a sound,
other than the sizzle of flesh and bursting blood-vessels.
After what seems an eon but is probably more like twenty
seconds, the figures depart as slickly as they arrived, taking
their armour with them. looks weakened, and yet,
strangely, strengthened.

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