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Before I get on with the turn, here's a brief lesson on chess notation; rows are numbered from bottom to top, and columns are lettered from left to right in lowercase. Bottom-left square is a1, the square to its right is b1, above a1 is a2...you get the picture.

Be the white pawn at f2. Move to f3.

There is literally no way this can go wrong.

(3) Despite your initiative, you trip and fall on your face on your first step. f3 is within your reach…

Be a black pawn, add another row to the board.

You are at h7.
(2) You try pushing your row apart from the one in front of it, hoping to make the space between them a new row, but the board is just too sturdy.

Black Pawn at g7. Sell the Knight at G8 some crack. Brand it as some kind of combat stim or something.

(6) In exchange for some literal scraps of paper, you are able to sell him your “jump enhancing crack”. He tries to rub it on himself, and nothing happens. Before you can tell him how to actually use crack, he hits himself hard enough to get an actual crack. He seems satisfied…for now.

Be the white queen's rook's pawn. Move forward two spaces.

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Be the white pawn at a2. Move to a4.

I am the pawn at a2! There can be only one!

Also be the white pawn at a2. Actually be three checkers stacked on top of each other, wearing a white trenchcoat.
And I don't want to move to a4.

Well, this could get interesting. Who gets the right to be the a2 pawn?
(TheTwoEternities- 6; FallacyOfUrist- 6; Glass- 1)
Glass, sadly, you’re just another pawn at c2. But you do think you are a checker, so that must count for something. The other 2 of you, though…are a little split. Split personalities, that is. At least you were able to get to a4 with your semblance of coordination.

Be a white pawn. Start a presidential election

You are at h2.
(4) You manage to prepare an election, with friendly pieces ready to count votes and questions for the interviews with the candidates…but you don’t actually have any willing candidates…yet. Across the board, it seems a power struggle is in place. They might be good choices.

ASSUME CONTROL OF WHITE PAWN AT G2. MOVE FORWARDS TWO SPACES.

(6) YOU BOLDLY STEP FORWARD ONTO G3, THEN STAMP YOUR WHOLE BODY UPON THE SPACE OF G4…AAaaand you’re stuck.

Be the white pawn at B2. Attempt to fuse with the knight to make a combination piece.

(3) You’re able to ride the knight at b1, and they don’t seem to mind much. However, the white king points out that this means you moved diagonally backward, which would be an illegal move, so they command you to return to b2, and the knight pushes you off onto it.

Be the Black Pawn, Replace the King.

You are at e7.
(6-2) Turning around, you rush onto e8 and throw your King behind you, back where you once were! You are still a pawn, though, since you don’t really have a crown, among other things. Angered at the disrespect and his new vulnerability, the king yells at you and asks you to give him his metaphorical throne back! You can barely hear the rest of what he’s saying over some fool ranting about the tyranny of unequal mobility.

Pawn at A7

Perform an eldritch ritual on the rook at A8 in order to gain more power, specifically its ability to move any distance along the board, but anything better than what I have will do.

(2) You are unable to channel any form of magic power, so your miscellaneous chants do little other than confusing the rook. Besides, there’s a big difference between being able to move a certain way and being allowed to.

Be Me
Pawn at C7
Become a skeleton

(4) You manage to turn yourself from wood to bone, but, thankfully, you’re still painted black.

Be a black pawn and turn into a horse then move forward.

You are at f7.
(1) In trying to get on all fours in preparation, you pull a few wood fibers. It’s nothing too major, but it’ll take a turn to recover.

be black pawn in front of Queen Knight (b7)
Advance one space then complain about the lack of bow and arrows.

(5) You trod forward in a dejected-looking manner, and your whines can be heard across the board.

“Can we at least TRY bows and arrows? They’re worth a shot…”

Be a black pawn, demand equality of movement to all pieces

You are at d7.
(6) You repeatedly claim that all pieces should be allowed to move the exact same way, and repeat how it works so well for checkers, but the king is a little too preoccupied with reclaiming e8 to listen. Everyone else just ignores you. Trying harder to get their attention, you briefly lose your voice.

Also, I have a single question; due to the main currency, is another word for priceless “unfathomable”? Not that it matters, it’s just punny.

I'm definitely interested in this. There are a few things I'm confused about, though. Mainly, the first spoiler in the OP talks about turns being 1 day, consisting of 5 5-hour rounds...but the progress-dependent activities are talking about turns being 5 days, with a roll for each, and no other mention is made about the 5-hour rounds. Am I misreading something?

Anyway, I have a few characters in mind, though I'm mainly thinking about 2:
1. An Earthdust alchemist whose Psyche allows him to make and control homunculi, which are essentially alchemy-made servants. I'm not sure how this would get represented in-game. The best I can think up is them normally having base stats of 2 in everything, no skills or anything, and I can use up to X special consumables to strengthen them by up to Y points in stats each, the spread of the stats based on the consumable, with some able to add in an ability or such. The X and Y are where I'm not sure what to do. My best guess is that each item gives up to 8 points in stats, and I can use 1 per homunculus at first, increasing by 1 every 2 levels I have or something.

2. A Metalshine that loves to lie and mess around, with a Psyche that allows him to empower allies briefly when he reveals a lie (as a lie). The more people believed the lie, the more they believed it, and the more people it makes believe the truth, the stronger the effect. People the lie was based around are more likely to get bigger boosts than the people who believed it. The main point of concern here is how we'd measure the strength of the buff. I'd also want to try some PM shenanigans to fool the other players, too, and maybe you could conceal what I'm really doing in a turn.

What do you think? Are the Psyches too complicated to apply, or could we run with either of them? Also, everyone else, what sort of characters are you all working on?

Coin of Teleprompting: When grabbed by anyone, a scroll will appear 6 to 12 feet away from them, facing them and legibly reading some script that they wanted to remember. It only shows a few words at a time, but it progresses through listing the entire script at a reasonable speed.

Thank goodness. I forgot I hadn't put an action.

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Notsword: This sword does not exist, until you pick it up at which point it starts existing.

If it doesn't exist, how can you pick it up in the first place?

You DO realize that this is the BIZARRE magic items thread, right?

The notsword doesn't exist anywhere, so if you are not anywhere you can just pick it up.

But then you wouldn't exist, and therefore, the action of picking up the sword would be inexistent, and thus, it wouldn't actually be picked up.

Maybe it doesn't exist until someone tries to pick it up. Let's just call the sword an illusion for now. If you saw it and didn't know it didn't exist, you might try to pick it up. You'd go through the motions of picking it up, and when you try and grab it, you're in the middle of trying to pick it up. If, at the moment where it could be picked up, it became real, then it would still not exist until the point you pick it up (until is only before, not during), and be real afterward.

I'd assume it'd become not real again when it's dropped, which could be exploitable. For example, dropping it, blade down, above your enemy (it would not exist at this point, and thus past through them) and grab it back up while it's in them. The sword would them be able to displace brain matter with a single blow.

...can I just...cruise in his body? Let him do what he tries to do with his body, as if he's still in control? Or do I have to manually do what he's trying to do? Anyway, see if there's a way down to the box, and recall what happened in that building. Not the specifics though, perhaps a synopsis or summary or such

Knotsword; A sword whose blade is oddly shaped, seemingly tied in an overhand knot. Said knot is not completely tight, and has an open loop within it. If it's wielder catches the blade or such of another weapon within that loop, they can bend the weapon, upon which the entire weapon will twist into an unwieldy knot, essentially disarming the opponent.

Notsword: This sword does not exist, until you pick it up at which point it starts existing.

If it doesn't exist, how can you pick it up in the first place?