Spankers and Spankees,
I’ve finished fixing the latest round of bugs and crashes. I’ve also modified the status spells (weaken, mass weaken, distort magic, etc) a little bit. Before, status spells had an average chance of increasing magic, and a small chance of increasing willpower. However, because willpower affects the chances of a status spell working (whereas magic only increases its duration), I realized that willpower is much more important to having powerful status spells than magic is. Furthermore, whereas buff, combat and spectral spells all have an average chance of increasing magic, there are no other actions that improve willpower. So now, status spells have an average chance of increasing willpower, and a small chance of increasing magic.
Also, as a reminder: the old save games will no longer work. I made a poor choice when designing the save game format, and had to correct that choice, so old save games will no longer be loaded properly. So please make sure that you don’t try to load any of the old games, otherwise you’ll at best get crashes up the wazoo, at worst all sorts of weird behavior.
Is it possible to learn the Distort Magic spell in time to free the Vengadores in the magic room? I tried grinding a lot in the dining hall, and I got both the Lightning Bolt and Thunderbolt spells, but didn’t get Distort Magic. Did I just give up too early?
It is, but the game mechanic may not be obvious (sorry). Rather than answering here, I’ll make a blog post that describes the level up mechanics in detail.