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Topic: A'dam
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Dortamur
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posted January 18, 2003 06:06 PM
How easy is
it to break an A'dam collar or bracelet?
How easy is it
to break the chain that connects both of them?
ie; In a
campaign, if someone tries to break that chain using tool of
air, or even a normal sword, would it break?
Also, what
would be the required roll and DC check for figuring out how
to release an A'dam collar & bracelet?
Just trying
to get some feedback and clarification, before some of these
issues undoubtably come up in my campaign over the next few
sessions...
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JosephKell
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posted January 18, 2003 06:31 PM
From what
I've read, the catch to open the neck piece is quite easily
located, and that the only reason Damane don't do it
themselves is that they get noxious just thinking about
freeing themselves.
A'dam seem to be pretty sturdy, but
Nyv, used a weave whip (tool of air?) to pop open a damane's
neck piece on the
street.
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Heron_Marked_Blade Member Member
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posted January 19, 2003 10:57 AM
As an a'dam
is a ter'angreal, I would say the a'dam material is as
difficult to break as any ter'angreal (see the rulebook for
further details).
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Kari
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posted January 19, 2003 10:07 PM
The a'dam
is a ter'angreal (just a very specialized one.) As such, like
most, its probably the next best thing to impossible to
destroy... At least, the collar and the bracelet. The chain,
however, is probably just normal silver.
(As a note,
the catch is nearly impossible to locate and open. It took Mat
hours to do so. Nynaeve's whip of Air worked because she got,
well, 'lucky'. But that was forcing just the latch, rathar
than trying to open it
properly.)
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Heron_Marked_Blade Member Member
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posted January 20, 2003 05:19 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Kari: The chain,
however, is probably just normal silver.
I don't know...the whole thing is one seamless piece,
unless my memory deceives me. I'll have to look up the
reference, but I'm pretty sure that's how it was
described.
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Freya
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posted January 20, 2003 07:29 AM
I do seem
to remember a mention of -someone- (maybe a normal soldier)
cutting the chain between damane and sul'dam in a battle
(Falme?). I can't remember the exact description, but I seem
to remember it not being good...either both began writhing in
pain, or one/both died immediately.
As for the clasp, I
too, remember it being hard to disengage. It had a 'trick',
that once you figured it out it was easy to do again. In book
9, Mat had to show the Sea Folk damane a few times before she
could do it every time. So, a hard DC for the first time to
open it, then decreasing to a set mid-level DC for times
afterwards.
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