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masterkorgin
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posted March 11, 2003 03:39 PM      Profile for masterkorgin      Edit/Delete Post
Here is my question. I have two Asha'man in my group who saw a gateway form and a figure dash through. THey want to be able to tell were the gateway leads. They say that the destination should be encoded in the weave. However I do not think this is so. I told them that the gateway weave is just that. It opens a gateway and it's up to the caster were it goes. I highly doubt it would be encoded into the weave. THOUGHT????

Master k.

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Aggro - Thingy
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posted March 11, 2003 04:06 PM      Profile for Aggro - Thingy   Email Aggro - Thingy    Edit/Delete Post
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Originally posted by masterkorgin:
Here is my question. I have two Asha'man in my group who saw a gateway form and a figure dash through. THey want to be able to tell were the gateway leads. They say that the destination should be encoded in the weave. However I do not think this is so. I told them that the gateway weave is just that. It opens a gateway and it's up to the caster were it goes. I highly doubt it would be encoded into the weave. THOUGHT????

Master k.

I remember in the books that if the weave is just allowed to close then it will give hints as to where it goes, however if the weave is pulled apart rather than just being aloud to die then it will not contain these hints (if in the process of pulling apart the weave, the weave happens to slips from the channelers grasp it becomes unstable and a big "boom" ensues).
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Xythlord
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posted March 11, 2003 05:12 PM      Profile for Xythlord   Email Xythlord    Edit/Delete Post
From what I remember, Rand had no idea where the gateway that Sammeal used went to. He just cast the same gateway and was able to follow it. He altered it slightly to allow him to land in a place near the original gateway. Then when he got there he discovered that it was Shadar Logath. I made some rules for the original netbook UtDB to allow a channeler to trace a gateway.

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masterkorgin
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posted March 11, 2003 11:12 PM      Profile for masterkorgin      Edit/Delete Post
Hey thanks for the input guys.

master K.

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The Great Gray Skwid
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posted March 18, 2003 06:32 AM      Profile for The Great Gray Skwid   Email The Great Gray Skwid    Edit/Delete Post
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Originally posted by Xythlord:
From what I remember, Rand had no idea where the gateway that Sammeal used went to. He just cast the same gateway and was able to follow it. He altered it slightly to allow him to land in a place near the original gateway. Then when he got there he discovered that it was Shadar Logath. I made some rules for the original netbook UtDB to allow a channeler to trace a gateway.

Essentially, all it is is a specialized application of Sense Residue.

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posted March 20, 2003 07:18 AM      Profile for Snow Crash      Edit/Delete Post
When Aviendah cast the travelling weave she said it was possible to exactly duplicate the weave and therefore go to the same place, but you would have to be very dextrous to do it.

I would be considering weavesight check of DC 40-weave level perhaps. Then maybe some sort of concentration check to recast the weave exactly.

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posted March 23, 2003 12:55 AM      Profile for Cha'aman   Email Cha'aman    Edit/Delete Post
In the sequence with Rand following the Forsaken, there's a mental note he makes, that if he were to recreate the weave as he saw it, at the same location, it would open in the same place. Altering the weave, even slightly, could mean a change of an inch or of miles. The only way to tell where it goes is to recreate it (at least that's how it appears). He changes it slightly, hoping for the best, and hoping to avoid being ambushed by his opponent (hint-hint).

It might be possible to determine where it goes, without re-opening it, but I'd put a high DC on it (over 30, probably higher)

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