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No bonuses or penalties apply to time skip - a +4 bonus to timeskip would be too OP, and anything below -1 would be certain death.

Can I possibly get some additional loot due to the Dragonruler subclass's bonus to loot finding?
I mean, it's a +1 for that regard, and I got a 4...

You've got pretty powerful stuff without that bonus.

Can I atleast get some extra lore knowledge about the world?)

Expect a PM in a few days.

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After a heated argument, the group of survivors decided to split up and head towards different directions. Two months have passed since they met at the rockspear chamber. Much has changed during that time. The corruption continued to spread across the land, even vegetation turn into monstrosities with time. The Sun has totally blackened, leaving Axewrath in constant midnight. The dead are even more vicious, dark spirits escape abyss and spread across the world, and demons started building their fortresses throughout all kingdoms. All of these events bear hallmarks of the end, the time of reckoning. This may yet change, as sudden appearance of draconic artifacts indicates that dragons may return, and the signs on dark sky suggest that ascendency of WindRock Lyirah has occured!

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[3] Dennis, the Duke of Height Keep accompanied Pguhyuh and Fzbxr on their way to Unavented Cathedral. That place really creeped him out, witg countless monstrosities around him. After meeting the fallen archangel and finding out that his ox can't be brought back to life in a form other than a zombie, he left the cathedral and returned to his sit of power, to finally take a seat at his rightful throne!

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[4] After searching the carcass of undead dragon that Reynald had slain and finding another draconic artifact within it's stomach - an eye of a wyvern, Aaron decided to travel to southern kingdoms - lands from which these legendary draconic species originate. Slaying countless enemies on his way and gathering more equipment, the dragonruler grown stronger. There is still a great distance to cover before reaching ancient nests of wyverns, but it would be a waste of time to go back being halfway there.

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[1] The inquisitor went down the mountain to take his horse and ride out. At first he was travelling with Aaron, but a sudden demonic ambush separated them. The demon lord of pestilence attacked them as they were passing a hell pit, which was the fastest way to get through the Nackcrag Canyon. After fighting bravely and nearly defeating the demon lord, it summoned a horde of minions. Being extremely outnumbered, inquisitor and dragonruler had to escape. Aaron flied away to a nearby mountain, while Reynald was forced to run down the canyon. Dragonruler was waiting there for two days and then flied away, assuming that his companion was dead. However, Reynald managed to find shelter in one of underground caverns, then discovered a passage leading to the other side of canyon. The horde is still looking for him though.

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[2] Pguhyuh and Fzbxr returned to Unavented Cathedral, where they reported their failure to persuade demigoddess into going with them to meet archangel. While Cilber wasn't pleased with it, he decided to give them another chance and assigned them to cathedral duty. After a few weeks of being denied access to the archangel, Cilber once again saw great diplomat's potential, and after Lyirah's ascendency, he was sent once again on a mission to persuade her into joining their cause.

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[3] Lysander and his minions moved on with Pguhyuh to the cathedral, yet due to reasons unclear he wasn't allowed to speak with fallen archangel. After waiting patiently for a week, he decided to leave Unavented grounds and seek more demonic knowledge. He returned to Height Keep and decided to check what was in the sealed tower. It seemed that it was an arcane study, but not of the usual kind - there were numerous occult symbols carved at it's walls and a charred summoning cirlce on the floor. Lysander could feel that the touch of Abyss was extremely strong here, as if the place was a part of it! Quickly he figured out that this is the place that dread knight came from, but who created the circle? Lysander couldn't find an answer to this question. At least he has found some interesting equipment in the tower!

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[2] Serrana accompanied Pguhyuh to Unavented Cathedral, but she wasn't allowed an audience with Cilber as well. The fallen archangel was busy with something of utmost importance and even Pguhuyh was allowed entry to the inner sanctum hesitantly. Exorcist spent a lot of time with undead and dark spirits at the cathedral grounds during almost whole her stay there. She had learned a bit how it is like to be a monstrosity before deciding to join Pguhyuh on a quest to find Lyirah. Curiously, while staying in the cathedral Serrana's contact with spirits has weakened, and greatly increased after leaving it.

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[3] Bentfear took his time in Height Keep, spending most of it in laboratory. He found several books about brewing potions and went on several ingredient searches, during which he had to defend himself from undead. After some time, he met Dennis, the Duke of Height Keep and was ordered to find an alchemical way of restoring an ox to life.

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[5] Ferron the travelling alchemist wandered around the Height county for two months, fighting undead, demons and escaping from dark spirits. During that time, he had found numerous ingredients and brewed a several quality potions, then he found a cart with demonic weapons and armors just left in the fields without any guards and took it to Height Keep.

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[5] Erik Grimkelsson came literally from nowhere, escaping from horde led by the demonic lord of torment. He managed to outsmart them however and feigned his death by giving a random corpse his cloak and throwing it into corrupted vegetation that literally shredded it to pieces. Not long after his loss and narrow escape, he found a body of wandering knights. He was lucky enough that it haven't revived upon him getting in contact with it. After stripping the corpse of all the possessions, he travelled towards a hilltop fortress, the Height Keep.

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Rolls below [3] don't receive any level-ups, but you still receive new items if you roll [2]. Rolling [1] for timeskip does not change anything and puts you into semi-dangerous situation. For [3], you receive 1 level-up and a few new items. For [4], you receive 2 level-ups and the same amount of new items. If you've rolled [5], you receive 3 level-ups and a huge stash of loot.

Update to character sheets coming tomorrow. Everything new will be shown there.

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[2] You try to recruit any fishmen, so they'd go with you to the surface and help you recruit mortals into cult of Cthulhu. The idea of leaving their cozy, underwater houses is not really appealing to them, even despite you telling them that it's a dream and it'd be harmless for them.

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Day by day, life goes as usual. Each night, you lie into your bed and think. You never dream of anything, as you don't possess the blessing of strong, colourful visions that many experience each night. Instead you lie, thinking and making up stories crafted entirely by your own will and consciousness. Stories about mysterious individual named Aaron Blaze, but also many other characters. Deep in your thoughts, you're absorbed by thoughts about Vladimir "Nox" Gobulev and Raniya "The Kid", a sniper and his protege driving in a stolen ADVENT van. As you think about their escape from a sectopod, you drift off just for a while and let subconscious take rule. You are both Vladimir and Raniya and you are able to see things from two different perspectives, feel that you have two separate bodies that you can control and perceive with. A strange thought kicks in, is this a dream? Yes, it is! You never have any dreams, especially of the lucid kind!

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[4] A terrorist getting so close to your car! This is your race, and nothing is going to stop you from winning right now! You open the car's stash and take out a RPG-28 grenade launcher that shoots 125mm warheads, and pass it to your co-pilot. For a moment you can see a mischievous smile on bear's face.

[Bear: 4, Osama bin Laden: 4] The bear roars to get bin Laden's attention, then shots a warhead at his car when he takes a look at it. With extraordinary reflex, the terrorist takes out an Ultimate 500 revolver and shots! The bullet perfectly hits the warhead and it explodes between vechicles, fire, shrapnells and molten metal flying all around!

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Your dream life is mostly boring. After falling asleep, you were always sitting in some office, an "interdreamversal anomaly department" as you call it, and always waiting for a real job. Usually you were making coffee for special agents, and today you had to stay late-hours to clean a mess they did at one of their dream parties. But this night at the office was different. While trying to close an inter-dream portal, a telephone rang. It was an old 1940's model of a phone, it rang only in case of emergency. You pick up the telephone receiver and hear someone say: Whomever anwers this phone! The inter-dream borders have weakened greatly and lucid dreamers run around in one dreamscape! Answering this phone, you are assigned to become an agent on duty. This is a dream! I repeat, this is a dream! - the voice said, and suddenly an agent ID popped up pinned to your shirt.

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[2] Dude, the morning is near! You'd better go to your lair! - you say to the bigfoot, but it doesn't seem to care about it at all. Easy man, there's plenty of time. Let's just chill! - the bigfoot replied.

[5] After the beast's refusal, you started thinknig what it would be like to be a nightmarish monstrosity. Suddenly your skin changed into sand paper, your face drastically changed so you only had a maw with black, sticky liquid oozing out of it and countless razor-sharp, jagged teeth. You limbs got significantly longer and thinner, but your muscles and bones strenghtened greatly, losing weight at the same time. Several smaller appendages grewn out of your side, each ending with a different piece of machinery - one with a blade of circular saw, another with a nail gun, third possessing a hook and fourth had a grindstone. You felt electricity coursing through your body, powering it up significantly. It was an unusual feeling to be a monstrosity, a "protagonist" of nightmares. You received a feeling of dominance! No longer you were a prey, but rather the hunter! With this new surge of power, you just couldn't stop yourself from twitching or making any moves, you feel too mighty for inactivity!

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It was meant to be a pleasant camping by a lake. With friends you have already constructed your tents up and set up a campfire. It seemed that something was drawn in to the fire. Was it a beast? A demon or dark spirit? Perhaps it was a boogeyman himself! You remember seeing the strange figure only briefly, as you were running away from the campsite. You have ran deeper into the forest, dark, cold and creepy. Howling of wolves in the distance made you freak out. Why have you all split up!? You tried shouting, but no one replied. Suddenly something jumped right in front of you. It was the Bigfoot, with a black, enormous afro on it's head and pink glasses. Wait a minute, why does it have an afro and pink glasses? Wassup? - it asked you, taking a sit on a tree stump and chilling out drinking beer. You have just realized that it's a lucid dream!

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This was a long and tiring day. Working at retail store is really draining life out of you, but it's not stopping you from cultivating your passions in free time. You put a black robe on yourself, lit up several candles and took a sleep on a rollmat lying on a floor, pentagramme drawn around it. Maybe this time you will succeed? As you fall asleep, your house turns into abnormally huge underwater city. Underwater? But you can breathe just fine! Suddenly a massive figure rouse above the city. A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. Ah, the dreamer finally respond to my calls! - it said, limitless power in it's voice. Legions of humanoid, fish-like creatures left their houses and started bowing before their master, shouting: Cthulhu fhtagn! Why has it called you a dreamer? It's a lucid dream!

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Noises of engines, smell of gasoline, the feeling of wind on your face and hair, flies in your teeth and roars of your bear co-pilot. Wait a minute, you have a co-pilot and it's a bear? Right, you're in a car race, driving in your extremely expensive roof-less Lamborghini. But how can your bear even guide you, it's an animal after all! You don't worry about that, as you have a Bachelor of Arts in animal speech. Parents always pressed you to become a doctor or a lawyer, but after graduating from Miskatonic University, you have decided to pursue your dreams. Racing that is! With power of quantum engine under your car's hood, you leave behind most of your opponents. This thing picks a punch, you drive with the speed of light! But what's this, someone has caught up with you! Looking into the other car, you see Osama bin Laden! He pressed a buttong and fireworks shot up to the sky, forming a "This dream is a bomb!" text. It's a dream? Well, this explains a lot!

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One hell of a bump. I'm kinda out of ideas on how to proceed with writing this turn, and I feel that I had just enough rest from writing anything. I'm still under a tight schedule, but I think that it's about time to get back to it. What's your opinion on timeskip from where the last turn ended?

One of the reason I had enough writing was that this game got a bit too old for me, especially that I have a fresh idea for a game on my mind. So I decided to run two games: Undead Hunt, and the new game that was meant to be yet another one - anyone cane join, simple rules game. The second game would have lower update priority.

Got busy with homework, schedule changes and being on the move most of the time. I'll try to update this wednesday, currently it's the day when I'm least busy with uni stuff.

I guess that long hiatus + timeskip won't be that bad, and I think that I won't make a new thread for it later on. In a game about demons, wraiths and walking dead, it'd be fitting to have this enormous abomination back.