For the discussion of our Sunless Skies, released January 2019.
Space bat powerlevels? (FL Ambition spoilers)
Hattington
Posts: 210
4/9/2020
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Sunless Skies isn't really the kind of franchise that cultivates powerlevel debates, in my experience. At least not to the extent that, say, Dragonball Z/Super does. But after finishing Ambition: Bag a Legend, I found myself wondering a simple question: Why isn't my hunter a thin paste on the ground?
See, in the game Curators seem to be REALLY tough even by the standards of space train warfare. Among battles where projectiles capable of lashing across empty space and ravaging another train are common, where most life higher on the Chain than humanity is either capable of seemingly arcane homing projectiles or moving fast enough to catch up with a train that can traverse a space sector, these things define themselves culturally as hunters and merchants. It takes a total of 3 direct hits from the Wrath of Heaven, a train weapon that launches stones engraved with Correspondence sigils using a tumor harvested from a Scorn-Fluke, to down one. That's more than any space train, except the Tacketies' massive one and the spirifer engines if they get lucky!
On the other hand in Ambition: Bag a Legend the player challenges the Vake/Mr. Veils: A Master later considered as THE most dangerous by a revolutionary in one ending*, that at one point physically slams into the player in an absinthe-induced vision. Much later on when it assaults your Parabolan base camp, it's wings span the camp and it's presence makes the dream-world roil. You do, however, get an opportunity to cut one of it's wings. It's a very high Dangerous check, but it's possible to hobble this creature even before deploying a bomb designed to kill it and only it. Afterwards it's identity is shattered in such a way that the Curator aspect of it flies off to relive it's principle habit in the High Wilderness: Mass murdering other Curators, hanging up their corpses out of the order of days, and being both a terrible host and a glutton. This is what Veils was like before coming to Earth, and you can kill him simply by waiting for him to gorge until he's fat and tired...with a ratwork derringer.
So, how do you reconcile this? How tough ARE Curators, really?
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Tystefy
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1 days ago
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They better be tougher than these hands if they know what's good for 'em.
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