Thursday, November 21, 2019

A long-past fortune telling hash

So, I logged a hash back in https://blognomic.com/archive/lore_the_geas, which I never explained. I wrote a prediction back then, that Kevan would use human boons to buff his monster, much as I tried to use later. At that point, it looked like Waning Boon would be passed, allowing Kevan a chance to afterward shed whatever human boons he had acquired. I thought he’d found my sweet scam, but I hoped he hadn’t, and so wasn’t willing to reveal it at that time, and risk him saying, “Thanks for the tip!”

If you care to prove whether this was what I encoded into my secret journal, enter the entire paragraph in the Commentary section into https://www.md5hashgenerator.com/
You should get the same string I wrote in The Geas:
9df586aebaad8d92bc618c88d02a8c34

The Monster seeks to combine the powers of human boons with his own dread presence. He will probably choose to double his max HP via Brawn. Then, when we are soundly silenced, his wits will return, and he be freed of the confines of these boons, by his own machinations.

Comments

The Duke of Waltham: he/him

21-11-2019 08:01:29 UTC

This was supposed to be a scam? I explicitly allowed for it two days before!

The Duke of Waltham: he/him

21-11-2019 08:04:15 UTC

Though I’ll grant you that I hadn’t considered he might choose Boons just until he had finished his monstering around, then seek to change them.

Kevan: he/him

21-11-2019 09:18:12 UTC

Ha. No, I wasn’t intending this at all and had missed the Duke’s flavour text mentioning it. I only noticed Brawn carrying over after seeing TyGuy buying five of them.

It did just seem genuinely uninteresting to have a lot of 5xBoon adventurers, but having it enact immediately would - I assume - have looked like I was trying to weaken my human opponents.

Madrid:

21-11-2019 10:41:28 UTC

Brawn carrying over seemed obvious to me. But then again there are things I totally miss which are obvious to others. Funny how that works.