I have created vorpal sheep a couple ways, but I have not yet been able to produce bunnies. How is this accomplished? Also, have any of you been able to create similar strange effects using other spell combinations? And why do my characters clothes disappear whenever sheep pop on the screen? :lol:
Vorpal bunnies are produced by casting Succour Beast with 100 magickal aptitude. You're joking, right? I thought only Virgil had a sheep fetish.
Look more deeply. Wow. Where to begin? Nearly every spell can be made permanent using the power of Vorpa. Hasten? Vorpa. Charm? Vorpa. STASIS?! Vorpa! You can keep demons as pets, have anyone as a follower, have elementals, have a follower with a shield or resist on them at all times. But Dweomer shield can't be vorped because it nullifies reflection shield. You can even permanently shrink your guys!!! How cool is THAT?! :-o edit: Oh, and I found out you don't get naked from Vorpa. It just has the same effect as body of stone does on your equipped items. I switched to my dread armour using the power of Vorpa. Watch out for cursed items, though. Don't equip them. VORPA! edit #2: Wait.... What is refection shield reflecting, and onto whom? If undoing a spell is a spell cast by SYSTEM, the underlying code god of Arcanum, then maybe they're cast back on him! Ooooooh. That must be cancelling a lot of his servants and enhancements in the magical/technological land of PROGRAM.
Whoops. You can't use resist magic. The animation stays, but not the effect. You can make people invisible, but I wonder if that just changes the animation. You can use Vorpa to have a more permanent magelock, however. I also seem to have managed to make flesh to stone more permanent using it, but I could be wrong. It seemed to me that the stone turned back to flesh only because I cast the spell on my victim a second time. Also, the wise woman thing can't work. That should have been obvious. I took her to Arbalahs, Vorpad sanctuary on her and then vorpad stasis on her. Now she looks like a witch being burned at the stake. How... grusome. Because I didn't tell her to wait there before I froze her, she'd follow me wherever I teleported. Whoops! Kinda cool, though. You could probably make a meat shield of people this way. That would be cool. I'd call it "wall of flesh". I have millions of other things to test.... eh, tomorrow. To answer your question, Vorpa is the name I just made up for the art of creating Vorpal sheep and other magical oddities. Using certain spell combinations, it is possible to make certain things permanent. But I'm not sure yet whether some of these things are just appearances. For instance, is the vorpa shrunk guy really that small, or does he just look that way? The magelock doesn't seem to be an illusion, though.
The true Vorpal Sheep must start with a Vorpal Bunny. The Vorpal part is having mele Master & SoP built in. That is what the Vorpal Bunnies bring to the mix. Oh you can Pollymorph most anything to a sheep, cows, pigs, the random NPC, but they will not have the Vorpal Bunny's attributes. Reflection Shield cuts your magic conection to the target. As that conection is all that keeps an animated corpse around with Create Undead, an army of Zombies is not an option. *sigh* I had such hopes for an Evil Necromancer with an unstoppable army of Zombies.... The big question for me is why does it not cut all enchaments in a simmilar fashion.
Huh? That's funny. I seem to have no problem creating permanent undead followers. I made a chicken join me, killed it, animated the corpse cast reflection, cancelled in reverse order, and bam, I had an undead chicken follower. Are you sure you were unable to make a zombie army? Edit: Thanks for your sagelike response. I was confusing the word vorpal with the word warpal. Those dang v's and w's. I shall no longer call it vorpa. But what to call it? Warpal sounds good. I would call it meta magic, but that's already a school. Hehe. What's a word for a bug in a game that helps you win? There's glitch, but that doesn't always have a positive meaning.
In Magic, the Gathering they were called broken cards, so here they could be broken features. As to the undead followers, Xan Emrys, I tried that on the Sewer gang when I got big enough to test it out. Animated the corpse, cast Reflection Shield, the Create Undead winked out & the poor sucker fell right over. One difference, perhaps both are, the chicken was yours before you killed & reanimated it. As for the other, are you patched? I supect your play style is simmilar to mine. Save, then try everything.
Hmmm.... I think the difference may be animals, but it could possibly be followers. The only patches I have are official ones, I think. Oh, wait! I just remembered that I recently reinstalled. I suppose, then, that I'm not patched. I think the patch caused problems with my Arcanum1.dat. I could be wrong. Anyway, yes, we have the same play style. I try everything, though I tend to stay away from technological characters. I personally have a high willpower, so I tend to go for characters with that, and willpower doesn't help technologists out too much. Plus I like being able to summon followers early on in the game. Automatons give me a headache.
