IWUAaDNW: Party 5.1

Just to make sure I hadn’t just wasted a ton of resources, I tried out the Luminous Pixie’s special ability for the first time, with the first image that came through my mind.

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Well, if I wanted to creep the Velthians out, then having a disembodied face of a certain Khannite warlord hovering in front of them would do the trick. Probably the Khannites too, come to think about it. I blamed Amir’ea for that one.

The illusion only lasted for a quarter of a second, and on my first try I didn’t try to make it move. My Luminous Pixie wasn’t too tired after that, but it did need a moment before it could do it again; just a few seconds, but long enough that the thought of rapid-chaining an illusion was useless.

…for just one pixie. But I wasn’t going to use just one pixie, was I?

On my second try, I made the warlord pull a raspberry with great success.

Amusement aside, I evaluated that my Luminous Pixie was able to create an illusion every four seconds, for a quarter of a second. If I wanted to have one illusion permanently, I would need sixteen pixies, and at their upkeep cost, I would not be able to afford it.

So I needed their upgrade room for the reduced upkeep. And, knowing the system, I suspected I already had an upgrade for their illusions, either to increase their duration or reduce the cooldown; either way would let me cast permanent illusions with fewer pixies.

I checked the infobox and saw that I wasn’t wrong with that assumption.