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Chiro the level 1 Higher Archmage by torasu

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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.1.5
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CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNormal Adventure
SexMale
RaceHigher
ClassArchmage
Level / Exp1 / 80%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
no deaths recorded
1 / 0

Primary Stats

Strength11 (base 10)
Dexterity11 (base 10)
Constitution10 (base 10)
Magic19 (base 18)
Willpower14 (base 13)
Cunning11 (base 11)

Resources

Life90/90
Mana70/70
Healing Factor1
Regeneration0.25

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement0%
Spell0%
Global+100%

Vision

Sight10
Lite2

Offense: Mainhand

Damage10
Accuracy5
Crit Chance3%
APR2
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower24.195911627476
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower14.2
Crit Chance1%
Speed1

Offense: Damage Bonus

Acid+10%

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)0 (30%)
Defense0.35
Ranged Defense0.35
Fatigue0
Physical Save7.35
Spell Save11.55
Mental Save8.75

Defense: Resistances

All 0%( 70%)

Defense: Immunities

Instadeath Resistance100%

Inscriptions (3/3)

Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 12
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: instant
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to cure yourself of physical effects and reduce all damage taken by 14% for 4 turns.
Infusion: Wild
Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 10
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: 1 turn
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to heal yourself for 60 life over 5 turns.
Infusion: Regeneration
Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 25
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: 1 turn
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to unleash a manasurge upon yourself, increasing mana regeneration by 620% over 10 turns and instantly restoring 31 mana.
Also when resting your mana will regenerate at 0.5 per turn.
Rune: Manasurge

Class Talents

Spell / Arcane1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 50
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Your mastery of magic allows you to enter a state of deep concentration, increasing your Spellpower by 6.
    Arcane Power
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 10
    Range: 10.0
    Cooldown: 3
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Conjures up mana into a powerful bolt doing 9.28 arcane damage.
    At level 3, it becomes a beam.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Manathrust
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 35
    Range: 10.0
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Creates a vortex of arcane energies on the target for 6 turns. Each turn the vortex will look for another foe in sight and fire a manathrust doing 2.32 arcane damage to all foes in line.
    If no foes are found, the target will take 150% more arcane damage.
    If the target dies, the vortex explodes, releasing all remaining damage in a radius 2 ball of arcane force.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Arcane Vortex
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: instant
    Is: a spell
    Description: Surround yourself with arcane forces, disrupting any attempts to harm you and instead generating mana.
    Generates 2.93 mana per damage point taken (Aegis Shielding talent affects the ratio).
    If your mana is brought too high by the shield, it will de-activate and the chain reaction will release a deadly arcane storm around you with radius 3 for 10 turns, dealing 10% of the damage absorbed over the sustain's duration each turn, up to a maximum of 240 total damage.
    While the arcane storm rages, you also get 52% arcane resistance.
    Only usable when below 25% mana.
    The damage to mana ratio increases with your Spellpower.
    Disruption Shield
0/5
Spell / Phantasm1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 5
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 14
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Creates a globe of pure light within a radius of 2 that illuminates the area.
    At level 3, it also blinds all who see it (except the caster) for 3 turns.
    At level 4, it also deals 8.00 light damage.
    Illuminate
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: The caster's image blurs, granting a 0 bonus to Defense.
    The bonus will increase with your Spellpower.
    Blur Sight
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: The caster is surrounded by a phantasmal shield. If hit in melee, the shield will deal 5 light damage to the attacker.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Phantasmal Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 150
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: The caster fades from sight, granting 2 bonus to invisibility.
    Beware -- you should take off your light, or you will still be easily spotted.
    As you become invisible, you fade out of phase with reality. All your damage is reduced by 70%.
    This powerful spell constantly drains your mana (2 per turn) while active.
    The invisibility bonus will increase with your Spellpower.
    Invisibility
0/5
Spell / Earth1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: The caster's skin grows as hard as stone, granting a 1 bonus to Armour.
    The bonus to Armour will increase with your Spellpower.
    Stone Skin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 15
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Fire a powerful beam of stone shaterring forces, digging out any walls in its path up to 1.
    The beam also affect any creatures in its path, dealing 13.92 physical damage to all.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Pulverizing Auger
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 40
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Conjures a mudslide, dealing 8.49 physical damage in a radius of 0. Any creatures caught inside will be knocked back.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Mudslide
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 50
    Range: 7.0
    Cooldown: 40
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Entomb yourself in a wall of stone for 2 turns.
    At level 4, it becomes targetable.
    Any hostile creature caught in the radius will also suffer 10.12 physical dmage.
    Duration and damage will improve with your Spellpower.
    Stone Wall
0/5
Spell / Fire1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 12
    Range: 10.0
    Cooldown: 3
    Travel Speed: 2000% of base
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Conjures up a bolt of fire, setting the target ablaze and doing 102.16 fire damage over 3 turns.
    At level 5, it will create a beam of flames.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Flame
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 18
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Conjures up a cone of flame with radius 0. Any targets caught in the area will suffer Burning Shock, stunning them and dealing 8.49 fire damage over 0 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Flameshock
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 40
    Range: 7.0
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: 400% of base
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Conjures up a bolt of fire that moves toward the target and explodes into a flash of fire, doing 12.66 fire damage in a radius of 0.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Fireflash
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 100
    Range: 10.0
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Raging flames burn foes and allies alike, doing 2.85 fire damage in a radius of 5 each turn for 2 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Inferno
0/5
Spell / Water1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 12
    Range: 8.0
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Glacial fumes rise from the ground, doing 1.38 cold damage in a radius of 3 each turn for 0 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Glacial Vapour
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 14
    Range: 10.0
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Condenses ambient water on a target, freezing it for 0 turns and damaging it for 6.28.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Freeze
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 25
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: A wall of water rushes out from the caster with an initial radius of 1, increasing 1 per turn to a maximum eventual radius of 3, doing 1.31 cold damage and 1.31 physical damage to all inside, as well as knocking back targets each turn.
    The tidal wave lasts for 3 turns.
    The damage and duration will increase with your Spellpower.
    Tidal Wave
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 25
    Range: 10.0
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: instant
    Is: a spell
    Description: You absorb latent cold around you, turning into an ice elemental - a shivgoroth - for 4 turns.
    While transformed, you do not need to breathe, gain access to the Ice Storm talent at level 0, gain 15% resistance to cuts and stuns, gain 8% cold resistance, and all cold damage heals you for 65% of the damage done.
    The power will increase with your Spellpower.
    Shivgoroth Form
0/5
Spell / Air1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 10
    Range: 10.0
    Cooldown: 3
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Conjures up mana into a powerful beam of lightning, doing 38.65 to 115.94 damage
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Lightning
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 40
    Range: 10.0
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Invokes a forking beam of lightning doing 2.83 to 8.49 damage and forking to another target.
    It can hit up to 4 targets up to 10 grids apart, and will never hit the same one twice; nor will it hit the caster.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Chain Lightning
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: A gentle wind circles around the caster, increasing carrying capacity by 3 and increasing defense against projectiles by 1.
    At level 4 it also makes you levitate slightly above the ground, allowing you to ignore some traps.
    At level 5 it also grants 0% movement speed and removes 0 fatigue.
    Feather Wind
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 100
    Range: 6.0
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Conjures a furious, raging lightning storm with a radius of 6 that follows you as long as this spell is active.
    Each turn, a random lightning bolt will hit up to 0 of your foes for 1 to 2.85 damage in a radius of 1.
    This powerful spell will drain 0.00 mana with each hit.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Thunderstorm
0/5

Generic Talents

Spell / Aegis1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 25
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 16
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Imbues your body with arcane forces, reconstructing it to a default state, healing for 148 life.
    The life healed will increase with your Spellpower.
    Arcane Reconstruction
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 40
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 14
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Surround yourself with strengthening arcane forces.
    Every damage shield, time shield, displacement shield, and disruption shield affecting you has its power increased by 21%.
    At level 5, it also increases the duration of all shields by 1 turn.
    The shield value will increase with your Spellpower.
    Shielding
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 50
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Surround yourself with protective arcane forces.
    Each time you receive a direct heal (not a life regeneration effect), you automatically get a damage shield of 23% of the heal value for 3 turns.
    The shield value will increase with your Spellpower.
    Arcane Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 50
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: instant
    Is: a spell
    Description: Release arcane energies into any magical shield currently protecting you, further charging it by 42% of its max absorb value.
    It will affect at most 3 shield effects.
    Affected shields are: Damage Shield, Time Shield, Displacement Shield, and Disruption Shield.
    The charging will increase with your Spellpower.
    Aegis
0/5
Race / Higher1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 45
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: instant
    Description: Call upon the gift of the highborn to regenerate your body for 12 life every turn for 10 turns.
    The life healed will increase with your Willpower.
    Gift of the Highborn
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: While Highers are not meant to rule other humans - and show no particular will to do so - they are frequently called to higher duties.
    Their nature grants them better senses than other humans.
    Increase blindness immunity by -3%, maximum sight range by 1, and increases existing infravision, and heightened senses range by 1.
    Overseer of Nations
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Cooldown: 34
    Description: Highers were originally created during the Age of Allure by the human Conclave. They are imbued with magic at the very core of their being.
    Increase spell save by +0 and arcane resistance by 0%.
    Also when you cast a spell dealing damage, you gain a 15% bonus to the damage type for 5 turns. (This effect has a cooldown.)
    Born into Magic
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 54
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: instant
    Description: Activate some of your inner magic, using it to power your abilities. For the next -1 turns, all active talents will be used without resource cost.
    Your resources must still be high enough to initially power the talent, and failure rates (etc.) still apply.
    Highborn's Bloom
0/5
Spell / Divination1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 15
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: instant
    Is: a spell
    Description: Summons an ethereal magical eye at the designated location that lasts for 10 turns.
    The eye cannot be seen or attacked by other creatures, and possesses magical vision that allows it to see any creature in a 1 range around it.
    It does not require light to do so, but it cannot see through walls.
    Casting the eye does not take a turn.
    Only one arcane eye can exist at any given time.
    At level 4, if cast on a creature it will follow it until it expires, or until the creature dies.
    At level 5, it will place a magical marker on the creatures, negating invisibility and stealth effects.
    Arcane Eye
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 40
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: You focus your senses, getting information from moments in the future.
    Improves your capacity to see invisible foes by +1, to see through stealth by +1, and to perform a critical spell cast by +0%.
    The effects will improve with your Spellpower.
    Keen Senses
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Form a map of your surroundings in your mind in a radius of 5
    Vision
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 120
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Echoes of the future flash before your eyes, allowing you to sense some incoming attacks.
    If the attack is not physical, you will erect a temporary shield that reduces all damage of this type by 11% for 5 turns.
    This effect can only happen once every 5 turns, and happens before damage is taken.
    The bonus will increase with your Spellpower.
    Premonition
0/5
Spell / Conveyance1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 1
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 3
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Teleports you randomly within a small range of up to 7 grids.
    At level 4, it allows you to specify which creature to teleport.
    At level 5, it allows you to choose the target area (radius 5). If the target area is not in line of sight, there is a chance the spell will fizzle.
    The range will increase with your Spellpower.
    Phase Door
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: Teleports you randomly within a large range (124), with a minimum range of 15.
    At level 4, it allows you to specify which creature to teleport.
    At level 5, it allows you to choose the target area (radius 21).
    The range will increase with your Spellpower.
    Teleport
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 70
    Range: 8.0
    Cooldown: 35
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: This intricate spell erects a space distortion around the caster that is linked to another distortion, placed around a target.
    Any time the caster should take damage, there is a 40% chance that it will instead be warped by the shield and hit the designated target.
    Once the maximum damage (67) is absorbed, the time runs out (10 turns), or the target dies, the shield will crumble.
    The max damage the shield can absorb will increase with your Spellpower.
    Displacement Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 200
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 40
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: 1 turn
    Is: a spell
    Description: When you hit a solid surface, this spell tears down the laws of probability to make you instantly appear on the other side.
    Teleports up to 4 grids.
    After a successful probability travel you are left unstable, unable to do it again for a number of turns equal to 450% of the number of tiles you blinked through.
    The range will improve with your Spellpower.
    Probability Travel
0/5

Effects

talent
Arcane Power

Quests

The Abashed Expanse is a part of Eyal torn apart by the Spellblaze and thrown into the void between the stars.

It has recently begun to destabilize, threatening to crash onto Eyal, destroying everything in its path.

You have entered it and must now stabilize three wormholes by firing any spell at them.

Remember, the floating islands are not stable and might teleport randomly. However, the disturbances also help you: your Phase Door spell is fully controllable even if not of high level yet.

* You have closed 0 wormhole(s).
Spellblaze Fallouts		active

Equipment

Light source
brass lantern
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +2


A brass container with a wick emerging from it, protected from draughts by a sheet of greased paper. It can be carried by a handle.
brass lantern
Main armor
linen robe (0 def, 0 armour)
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / cloth ; tier 1



A cloth vestment. It offers no intrinsic protection but can be enchanted.
linen robe (0 def, 0 armour)
In main hand
elm vilestaff (10-12 power, 2 apr, acid damage)
Requires:
- Magic 11

5.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / staff ; tier 1
It must be held with both hands.

Base power: 10.0 - 12.0
Uses stat: 100% Mag
Damage type: Acid
Mastery: Staff Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +4.0% procs dam / acc
Armour Penetration: +2
Physical crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%
When wielded/worn:
Changes damage: +10% acid
Talent granted: +1 Command Staff
Spellpower: +3
Spell crit. chance: +1%


Staves designed for wielders of magic, by the greats of the art.
elm vilestaff (10-12 power, 2 apr, acid damage)

Inventory

Scrying Orb
Powered by unknown forces
1.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: orb / orb

When carried:


This orb will automatically identify items you find.
Scrying Orb
Transmogrification Chest
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: chest / sher'tul

When carried:
It can be used to transmogrify all the items in your chest at once(also done automatically when you change level), costing 0 power out of 1000/1000.

This chest is an extension of old Sher'tul places of power, any items dropped inside is transported to an other place, processed and destroyed to extract energy.
The byproduct of this effect is the creation of gold, which is useless to process, so it is sent back to you.

When you possess the chest all items you walk upon will automatically be put inside and transmogrified when you leave the level.
Simply go to your inventory to move them out of the chest if you wish to keep them.
Items in the chest will not encumber you.
Transmogrification Chest

Achievements

Log


Talent Phase Door is ready to use.

Chiro casts Phase Door.
Selects a teleport location...
You don't see how to get there...

Talent Phase Door is ready to use.

Chiro casts Phase Door.
Selects a teleport location...
You don't see how to get there...

Talent Phase Door is ready to use.

Chiro casts Phase Door.
Selects a teleport location...

Resting starts...
Talent Phase Door is ready to use.
Rested for 4 turns (stop reason: all resources and life at maximum).

Resting starts...
Rested for 0 turns (stop reason: all resources and life at maximum).
You may not auto-explore this level.

You don't see how to get there...

You don't see how to get there...