Black Ice on Portal of Power

[CreakyCroaky]

So Black Ice is on the Portal of Power.

Q1: Somone is going through the portal of power (their target space is plains of peril), so they stop to open the door. Black Ice doesn't affect them? They don't slide past the portal to the next space?

Q2: Same round, someone else fails at the crypt and is sent to the Portal of Power space. They are unaffected by the Black Ice that's there. Just double-checking that this is expected behaviour.

[MightyWeasel]

Thanks for reminding me Xig,

Also in that game, Gust of wind was cast on a player who had Concealed pouch, and the pouch and item were affected (ie they needed to roll for it). Also shatter was cast at the same player, and was able to shatter the concealed item (in this case a Talisman).

Game was 4p online, no AI Random Char and Char Selection, Bloodbath and Revealed Ending, possibly exclude standard ending too. Characters were Devil Minion, Gambler, Dwarf and Warlock (Warlock had the concealed pouch).

[CreakyCroaky]

Hi MW!

I looked up the rules about concealed pouch (FAQ's pg 7) and it says that Whirwind, Gust of WInd, Shatter and Transmute DO affect objects inside the concealed pouch, and the concealed pouch itself. So that was proper behaviour in that case.

But... what was the spell that was cast "on" shatter to copy it or something? And cast it back on the other player - but the guy couldn't pick the target of the copied spell? Remember that bug? If you can remember the name of the spell, perhaps start another thread reporting that one....

[MightyWeasel]

Yep, was the Hydra spell. From memory, Hyra allows the caster to select additional players to be affected by the spell (in this case, Shatter). Dunno whether it allows the caster of Hydra to select which items are affected though.
Edit: Checked the wording. Hydra only allows caster to select additional characters to be affected. The original caster (shatter) still has control of what is selected to shatter.

[CreakyCroaky]

Ah, that explains what happened, then. Cool.