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Accepted. With that, we can start the game.Spoiler: FIRE! (click to show/hide)
Set fire to incense with my Flame Magic. Offer a pyre of fragrant woods to the goddess's Flame.5 You successfully light the incense, offering it at the Shrine of Flame. The red orb glows with resonance when you perform this feat, and you feel more attuned to Flame Magic temporarily.
Pratice Decay by resurrecting small animals, like a skunk. The most gangsta of animals4 You successfully resurrect a skunk at the Decay shrine. The black energies of the orb seep into its body, bringing it back to life. It seems to want to follow you around.
Amon walks up to the Decay shrine and smiles. He raises his hands and starts practicing magic near the altar. As the air begins to be filled with a deathly chill, He starts praying with a intense fervor.5 You practice magic at the Decay Shrine. The resonant magic within the black orb flows into you, making you more attuned to Decay temporarily.
“The essence of Death, The Lord of the Dead, The final home of all living beings! I call to you and ask for a measure of your power and authority so that I can bring decay to all things!” Nearby dead spirits are beginning to stir...
Kneel at the altar of Stone, placing the metal rod at the base of the altar as an offering.3 The rod disappears, and the Green orb glows faintly. You feel slightly more attuned to the power of Stone and feel blessed, but you're not sure what the blessing will do.
Find a quiet place to practice decay magic my gathering some random bones and seeing what I can do with them.2 The Decay Shrine is particularly busy today, it seems. You don't manage to get much done with all the noises, but just sitting there and watching Bones Malone resurrect a skunk has given you some insights as to what to do with bones.
Ressurected something bigger now, like a baby deer or a dog.6 You bring in the bones of a deer and try to resurrect it. The power of the black orb flows into the bones once more, but you forgot to not leave your new skunk companion on the shrine. The skunk explodes, blood spattering the floor as the arcane energies form the deer's body, but something isn't quite right with it. Its fur is black and its eyes are glowing red... for now, it has made no move to attack you. It might be a friend?
Amon’s smile grows even wider, The air now filled with unsettling wails as he puts bones on the altar as a offering. “Everyone will die, Including me. I have seen the dark universe yawning, Where horrors roll without aim, Causing horror unheeded.” Shadows are now twisting and turning. What is he doing?3 and 1 The shadows barely bend to your will, as if to say that they won't bow to you so easily. Nonetheless, you get a minor blessing. What are you doing?
Go out to the nearest forest to reduce trees to ash with my Flame Magic, gathering it up as an offering to Nature. Practice in accord with changing the world.3 and 5 You successfully burn down a few trees and collect their ashes for the offering. You only give over a bit of the ash, and put away the rest in a pouch for safekeeping.
Patrick stands looks around and walks to the left of the shrine, kneeling in the dirt channelling the power of Stone into the earth using it to create a golem or something of the like.4+1 The Stone Shrine favors you, so you feel more Empowered by it in your next feat of magic. A small Earth Golem is formed from the ground, and it looks to be willing to follow you.
Look around and gather as many random bones as possible and assemble them into one creature then use my recently gained insight on decay magic to give life to the creature.4 You gather up some random bones and use your magic to bring them to life. What forms from them can only be described as something grotesque. The abomination seems keen on being your friend.
Mix the ash with dirt gathered from the forest and plant a sapling in a pot fired by my flame magic.4 You fire a decent pot and mix ash with dirt to plant a sapling in the forest. This helps with your learning of Flame, and the Nature Shrine sees this as a positive as well.
Offer deer some friendship milk. Then grab more dead animals to ressurect and fuse2 The nightmare deer seems ambivalent toward your milk, so it does not drink it. Not to mention, it appears that there is a surprising shortage of animal bones now that lots of people have been resurrecting stuff. You learned a bit about what might happen if you mix too much random stuff together from Debby.
Amon gathers his strength and the power of his blessing and calls a dead spirit to his location, He then immediately shoves the spirit into one of the twisting shadows as he chants “That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even Death will die” Giving birth to a abomination under his control.1+1 It looks like even with your blessing, nothing much happens this time. The spirits must not like you for disturbing them from their slumber... It could have been worse, and you learn that it's important to try to get spirits on your side before you start shoving them around ethereally.
Patrick smiles a jovial smile as he walks up to the small golem, kneeling down and placing a hand on it's head "Lil one yer life is a gift unto me from the Goddess er'self," looking up the portly man gets a glint in his eyes "We'll do something great ye here?" he told thd golem.3 The small golem goes to work while you study, bringing back only five small stones in its tiny hands. It's not much, but at least the golem gives a cute smile and you've learned a touch more about the Stone Aspect while you were waiting.
Patrick studies at the Stone shrine, while he gently tells the golem to gather small stones from nearby and bring them to him.
"I don't trust that skeleton over there, especially since he's defiling the corpse of what is probably one of my relatives."4 Jeff the Abomination accompanies you away from the Decay Shrine, and you find some peace and quiet to study the Nature Aspect instead. It's a very soothing experience, and you feel quite blessed.
Bestow the name Jeff upon my abomination, then get Jeff and go study at the nature shrine to get away from that skeleton.
Well then, just start pumping Decay magic into the land itself then.1 The land, it seems, has a will to resist your magics... or at least, that's what a devotee of the Goddess would say. Instead of pumping Decay into the land, Decay is pumped into your body. At least where bones are concerned, there's some new ones for the other students to use.
Amon tries to placate the spirits with some of his blood.5 The blood seems to be a favorable offering, and the wound seems to seal up on its own under the black glow of the orb. The awakened spirits are no longer irritable towards you, and you feel blessed for your efforts.
Patrick smiles at the golem taking the stones in his hands and placing them at the foot of the Stone altar. It have might seemed strange to treat a summoned creature like a friend rather than a servant but the man wasn't like most other mages, as he cared more about honoring the Goddess in his own way. Archmage was just a title and to Patrick O'Henigen titles didn't prove anything, it was the way you act that truly mattered.4 Your offering of stone to the Stone Shrine seems to be favorable, the stones disappearing and the green orb glowing with power. When the magic flows into you, you could swear you hear a voice...
And no matter what the portly man wouldn't treat the gift of magic as a tool, but a blessing granted from the Goddess herself so he treated everything with positivity and kindness.
Patrick arranged each stone around the foot of the Stone Altar, offering each one to the Goddess as thanks for her gift. The golem. 'Maybe teh Goddess will want me teh name the lil one' he thought as he finished.
Continue my study at the nature shrine, and to keep Jeff out of trouble have him go gather any interesting stones that he can find.4+1 You study more at the Nature Shrine, Empowered by your previous feat of magic. The brown orb glows with power...
Spend my time in the forest caring for the sapling, heating water with flame magic to purify it before waiting for it to cool, then giving it to the plants.2+1 It takes a while to accomplish, but you do manage to give some purified water to the sapling.
"Good job Jeff."3+2 The offering of the ruby and your blessing from before helps you to unlock more secrets of Nature magic quite a bit.
Use my ruby as an offering while I study at the nature shrine, and have Jeff go back out and bring back any interesting shiny things he finds.
Re-animate then hands4 You re-animate that hand. It scuttles creepily across the floor toward you.
Amon then uses the power of his blessing and shoves one of the now friendly spirits into one of the shadows, Giving birth to Amon’s companion.4+1 You use the power of Decay to blend a spirit with the shadows themselves, creating a dark specter that seems willing to follow you.
2+2 You listened to Her Divine Word, so you feel all the more blessed with this particular feat. The magic flows into the small golem, and its eyes alight with power.Patrick let some of the blessing he felt course through his hands as he gently squeezed Méróg's, using the blessing to make the little golem a little stronger and possibly give it sentience to a minor degree, meaning that of a child.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Care for the sapling, use fire magic to keep the soil toasty warm, and continue to water it.1 You accidentally burn the sapling instead, scorching the earth where it was once planted.
Pray to the aspect of nature, that fire's beauty might be tempered to beneficial purpose.5 Nature hears your plea. The soil heals itself of the scorch marks and will be beneficial for plants and animals in the area. You also feel blessed.
Pump Decay into the trees, the grass, the land itself, the insects, the shrooms, everything.3 You place your hand on the land, and this time it seems like it works. Flowers and grass wither around the spot that you touched, mushroom and other decomposers thrive. What else did you expect from the aspect of Decay?
2+1 Your prayer of thanks seems to return a faint glow from the green orb.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Amon tries to converse with his new companion and establish a relationship.5+1 "Our relationship shall be most beneficial, Amon. As soon as I share your body, that is..." You feel some of your faculties warp as the Shadow Spirit touches your shoulder. It disappears...
"Dang Jeff your good at this, after a bit more of this we should go mining or something."1+3 You listened to Her Divine Word, so you feel as if you have been saved from disaster. Your sacrifice to the Shrine also provides a boon, cleansing your mind for study. Jeff seems to shift into more of a plant-like being, as if the abomination does understand the subject.
Use the newly acquired magical sphere as an offering while I continue to study at the nature shrine and this time have Jeff stick around and see if he learns anything.
Now...MAKE SOME ABOMINATIONS, SOIL ABOMINATIONS, PUMP THE LAND SO FULL OF DECAY THE WATER WILL TURN INTO MILK!1 It seems that the land still has the energy to fight back. You feel the energy within you shift, making your Decay magic weaker.
"Whoa Jeff what happened to you, your like a plant thing now for some reason."3 You continue to study with the help of your strange companion. You feel that Jeff is resonating Nature magic itself, now that it is part plant. You feel blessed.
Continue my study at the nature shrine while Jeff watches.
Amon grins and starts murdering everything in sight to sacrifice it. Amon fully utilizes the spirits power for this and his own mastery over decay.4+1 You successfully murder quite a few animals by making them explode from the inside out. You collect their remaining bones for further exploits. The Shadow Spirit inside of you seems pleased.
Find a rare tree seed in the markets and plant it in that spot.4+1 A merchant just so happens to have been giving away some rare tree seeds as a promotional event. You grab a few packs and plant one of them in the fertile soil.
3+1 and Secret Roll The little one takes great interest in the goings on, and then thinks on your question a bit.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Purify water with flames and give them to the seed.3+2 and Secret Roll You purify the water and pour it over the ground. The tree starts to grow immediately at this contribution, changing from a sprout to a full on sapling in a matter of moments. One of the small branches bares a small white crystal - perhaps this is an easy way to get offerings for the Shrines. Do you want to collect it now, or let it continue growing?
"Jeff you seem really interested in nature magic, I wonder what you would say if you could talk."2+2 "H̸̗̍e̴̹͂l̷͎͒ḽ̶̀ȍ̷ͅ ̴̹́f̸̺̀ŕ̶̳i̶̟͂e̵̜̎n̵̦͑d̴̨̾" says Jeff, its speech quite Eldritch sounding. You study nature some more with Jeff, and the brown orb glows with power as you feel like something unlocks inside of you...
Have Jeff continue to sit with me while I continue to study at the nature shrine.
Absorb the curse for dark powers3-1 Nothing happens. Maybe that's not the way to remove a curse.
Continue the sacrifices! Blood for the Blood God!1+1 You find little wildlife willing to even go near you at the moment. The spirit is displeased at this inactivity.
"Aye that I do," jovially with a hearty laugh Patrick lead his daughter to a pew and seated himself next to her, smiling at his little one "She blessed me with yer life and I cannae thank er' enough." he added thoughtfully. Looking closely the jolly old mage nodded knowingly at some unspoken thought.4+1 She seems to think for a bit at that. "I suppose I'd like to pick up some nice stones. I remember doing that for you before, so it's a nice memory." She sets about doing this with your help. You gather up a good amount of large stones, and for spending time with your daughter, you feel like something more has awakened within...
"Méróg-Bheag? What would ye like teh do?" he asked his daughter as he looked askance to an outside facing window to see the time of day "As teh sunsets we'll need to rest fer another day of adventure alright, my little pebble?" Patrick told his daughter gently.
Patrick goes and does what his daughter wants to do, until sunset.
Look again! Sacrifice everything!3 You manage to find an animal that isn't stupid enough to run away. It dies the same as the others, leaving you only bones.
Dump curse on nearist mage4-1 You manage to transfer the curse onto the nearest student. Unfortunately for you, they appear to be a student of Flame, and aren't too happy with being cursed. They seem to have a white bird on their shoulder that gives off some kind of magic, and the aura of the curse soon dissipates.
After a long day Patrick and his daughter gather their findings and rest for the night, the old mage tells his daughter a bedtime story about the Goddess. The story being one which many parents told their children, yet this wasn't the usual cautionary tale but one of adventure and whimsy...5 Your daughter is inspired by the tales of the Goddess adventuring around with her four friends, and how they sacrificed themselves to give the Goddess her power so that she could defeat a Great Dragon.
Temperance, it is best to give it time to ripen like any fruit. A fully grown crystal would be a greater offering than a young one.3 You find some twigs and practice your fire magic on them, gathering up the ash to put into a pouch once more. The blossom continues to grow slightly thanks to your patience.
For now, I suppose seeing collecting wood and junk to burn to ash would be best. Preferable safely away from the forest.
"Whoa Jeff have you been able to talk the entire time or did you just figure out how? Also I have learned much recently and it is time to award my self by going out and exploring the area around the temple."1+1 I̷͚͝ ̸̰̓h̸̛̤ạ̵́v̴̖̋e̴̹͐ ̸̖̐b̵͛͜e̸̛͉e̸̪͌n̸̩̿ ̵̰̂ȁ̶͖b̴͇̆l̶͕͐e̴̝͒ ̸̣̅t̶̛͉o̵̝͊ ̸̗́s̴͓̓p̸͇͊e̷͓̒a̷͓̍k̸̯̾,̸̧̊ ̵̯̓b̸̨̆u̷͎̅t̷͝ͅ ̶̹̍I̷͔͌ ̴̧̊t̴̙̑h̶̞͐o̶̱̔u̵̩̽g̵̖͂ȟ̵̪t̸̄ͅ ̵̗͂Ỉ̴̟ ̸͈̊m̸̮̊i̸͚͘g̸̘̾ẖ̷͠t̶̥͘ ̴̨̏f̸͎̃r̶͉̊i̷͔͌g̴̛͙h̵̰́t̸̺̊e̷̮͆n̴̫͛ ̷͙̈́ŷ̷̼o̶͇͛ù̵̫.̷͎͋ You explore the area with Jeff's help, but you don't find much of interest in this direction.
Leave the temple and explore the area, see if I can't find any abandoned buildings or something to look through.
Wait Patiently. Meditate upon the meaning of Temperance. To temper the mind as well as the world.5You meditate at the Temperance Shrine, feeling like you gained some favor with it.
I sneak attack the flame student who seems to be cursed by a fellow practitioner of decay, I of course use the shadows spirits power for this task. Think of all the experiments I could do with a human corpse. :)2 As soon as you approach, you feel yourself bouncing off some kind of force field. It appears that duels are sacred, and cannot be interrupted until one of the people dueling wins or surrenders.
Pump the student with so much decay she'll be a walking flesh blob3 vs. 5 You touch the student, managing to blacken her veins temporarily. She, on the other hand, draws a flame from her hand with ease and throws it on you. You are now on fire, and it is very painful.
The following morning at the crack of dawn, both Patrick and his daughter make their way to the altar of Stone. "Alrighty little pebble, we are goin' teh offer teh Goddess stone o' the earth one last time," he explained to Méróg-Bheag as he placed five stones at the base of the altar "Ye see, teh land is sick an' I want teh make sure no altar is desecrated cause o' teh foolish use of magic" stepping back the portly mage said looking around towards the other shrines.3+1Your offering has been met in turn with another blessing, and it seems like the land is indeed healing a bit as you intended. Your daughter is inspired by this magic, and oyu can tell that she is looking up to you and wants to become like you.
Patrick offers x5 stones before the altar of Stone and bows his head in prayer.
"O' Goddess I offer ye these stones mine daughter an I gathered, may teh earth o' this shrine stay consecrated by yer love." finishing his prayer he looked down at his daughter with his usual smile.
"You could have talked, I don't scare that easily."4+1 "I̸͔̊ ̵̬̿w̸̩̐i̶̜͗l̸̗͂ḷ̵͒ ̷͈̽k̸͉̒ë̶̩́e̷͎͗p̵͛͜ ̶̮̐t̴̒͜h̴̜̏ä̶͈t̴̰̉ ̶̠̎i̴͔͂n̷̗͝ ̷̲͋m̶͚͠i̶̡̛n̵̳̉ḓ̴͝.̸̮͆"
Pick a different direction to explore looking for abandoned buildings, also look for any skeletons while we're out.
Seems like the coolest games all die out as quickly as they appear.
What is this?Seems like the coolest games all die out as quickly as they appear.
IKR?
I know right?I know, right.
Maybe if we get annoying enough it will alert him
I'm not sure but it'll be annoying.MATH! (https://youtu.be/5wFDWP5JwSM)
OH GOD OH GOD NO ANYTHING BUT THATI'm not sure but it'll be annoying.MATH! (https://youtu.be/5wFDWP5JwSM)
MY EYES!In these trying times we must remember the math can't hurt you. Just remember it CAN'T-OH GOD IT'S HERE RUN
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But we don't know the system how would we run it?
The OP mentions 1d6 for the rolls but what about the magic levels, do they just add bonuses to the rolls or something?Exactly it was the GM's creativity that made it seem complicated.
I just realized this might have been a simpler system than I thought it was.
But how will using our loud shouts to fling people off a mountain help us here?