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Formerly 'You are a magical demon girl'. Discaimer: I am hosting this with knowing next to nothing about similarly named games, so expect something...different!

Demons, devils, lovecraftian monsters are real, beings of unfathomable depth and complexity. They represent concepts beyond human comprehension. To them Earth is just a speck of dust in the void. Or it was...until everything changed.

Three friends, three girls are going to have their life turned upsidedown on an adventure of magic, body horror, and love.


Limited spots. Limited run.

Character info:
Patron Demon: the devil, cthulhu, something with a wikipedia article.
A Body Horror Power: Direct attack. Face splitting open to reveal toothy mouth, long claws growing, etc.
S Body Horror Power: Support. Eyeballs popping out to fly around like drones, turning into an out of phase ghost, etc.
Something your powers make you do that causes social difficulties: drinking blood, turn into a werewolf on a full moon, etc.

1.

Name: Abby
Patron Demon: Beelzebub
A Body Horror Power: Direct attack. projectile transfer of own bones into other people viva internal explosions (Literal finger guns)
S Body Horror Power: Support. Exploding into a bloody mist to rapidly reassemble elsewhere (grotesque teleportation)
Something your powers make you do that causes social difficulties: extensive Self Putrefaction

2.

Name: Izabella
Patron Demon: Coatlicue
A Body Horror Power: Head splitting into two snakes to attack the enemy with.
S Body Horror Power: Stomach opening for man-shaped flesh monster to crawl out. It is revolting, but obedient.
Something your powers make you do that causes social difficulties: An aura around her that slowly drives humans crazy. As do many other things around there, no doubt.

Who are you, and what was your business on the island before the power outage?

MadMonkey and I have not been getting our emails for threads with 'notify' on. For him this has been months, but for me just since Nov 25 four days ago. I always thought it was odd, but seeing it happen to me I know it can happen even if the settings are still set properly.

I checked my spam folders, and all mail and they definitely stopped. There is activity in my watched threads, and easily enough that it would have prompted an email in the past.

This a voting version of this thread, via a hurt and heal!

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Once per hour you can do 1:

-Add a forum game to the list with 2 points.
-Heal an existing fg 2 points.
-Hurt an existing fg by 2 points. If it goes below 1, erase it from the list. (It can be revived)
-Hurt 1 and Heal 1.

The first to get to 20 wins. You must wait an hour after your last turn to go again. You must wait for someone else to go before you go again.

A is for...

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I'll kick off each thread with the vote from the original A-Z game.

ARMs: Artificial Maidens

2 - ARMs: Artificial Maidens

Keyforged • Inventory Ledger

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Guild Ranks
1. 7GP = Cartography (Blacktooth/RoseHeart)
2. 5GP = Adventuring ▲ (Bruv/MadMonkey)
2. 5GP = Idle ▲ (Stranger/crazyabe)
4. 3GP = Market ▼ (Taarka/Crystalizedmire)
4. 3GP = Alchemy ▼ (Da'Lir/Jerick)
6. 2GP = Smithing ▲ (Aywen/a1s)
7. 1GP = Tavernkeeping ▼ (Elliot/sodafoutain) -last week to report

Guild Points
All guilds that reported in receive 1GP.
All that did not lose 1GP.
Guilds that didn't report in are now inactive.
Guilds with 0GP will be listed as discontinued.

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Road to 'Settlement' Status... 7/9

3 guilds with buildings (requires 3 members) - Task Complete!!
• Cartography Guild - Done!
• Tavernkeeping Guild - Done!
• Adventure Guild - Done!

3 guilds with an activity all players can participate in that the guild members DM.
• Adventure Guild - Done!
• Idle Guild (N/A, self service) - Done!
• Cartography Guild 1/3

3 non member participants of those activities!
• Idle Guild - Done!
• Adventure Guild - Done!
• Cartography Guild 2/3

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This is a thread only for guildmasters, or those appointed to speak on their behalf. All guild members are now welcome to discuss Keyforged affairs here.

I am creating this thread as a kind of show-and-tell area, for news you want to highlight for your guild to go into a periodic Guild Digest of happenings with the guilds in Keyforged.

Also feel free to use this as a neutral place to discuss partnerships between two or more guilds, somewhere to not clutter the main guild thread if you'd like.

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Please try to include at least something, we'll say once a week minimum. If a guild doesn't communicate then it's not really a part of a shared experience, and wont be linked in the main thread until they report something.

If it's too much trouble, appoint someone in your guild to make a report here.

Keyforged • Guild Hall • Inventory Ledger

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Members

• Guildmaster Blacktooth Ripclaw (RoseHeart)
• Pupil Taarka Shinyhunter (Crystalizedmire) - Western Scholar
• Pupil Bim Bimson (Megam0nkey) - Eastern Scholar
• Pupil Elliot March (sodafoutain) - Northern Scholar

Promotions

• Pupil - New Member
• Assistant - Host a Treasure Hunt or Travel Cycle
• Librarian - Host both
• Guildmaster - Manager

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Guild Real Estate

Advancement

• Start: Form a new guild by choosing the location of your tent.
• Three Members: Choose the building or landscaping that will replace your tent.
• Three Experienced DMs: Place a bonus building or landscaping.

Requirements

• Guilds must make a report to Guild Hall every week to avoid losing Guild Points(GP).
• Guilds must make a report every other week to avoid being unlisted.
• Guilds must have more than 0GP to avoid being discontinued.

Coming Back: Inactive or even discontinued guilds need only make a new report to be relisted.

Leadership Change: Members of an inactive guild can appoint a new leader and make a new thread. Discuss it amongst yourselves beforehand.

Repurposing Land: Discontinued guild land and buildings are essentially abandoned. Any guild in a tent may claim it, even if they don't have 3 members.

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Cartography Guild Activities

Travel Cycle

• Wait for the previous cycle to expire. A Travel Cycle must last at least 3 days.
• Ask for the locations of the 3 rare drops from the host of the previous cycle.
• Announce the outcomes of the previous cycle, and place the items the travelers obtained in the Keyforged Inventory Ledger.
• PM the 3 rare drop locations to another Cartography Guild member, and announce who that is when you begin the cycle.

Treasure Hunt

• Please finish a Travel Cycle off before starting a Treasure Hunt, or ask someone else to finish it.
• Hide one or more things in the 5x8 Keyforged map.
• PM these locations to another Cartography Guild member, and announce who that is when you begin the hunt.

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Original post:
This is the start of a potentially much bigger game if there is enough interest. Gameplay is designed and run by everyone who participates, and it all starts with a modest mapping guild at the intersection of a simple crossroads. Ripe with potential to grow into a town.

What ever this town gets named, will be the meta name for the game as a whole. Participants open new guilds to add a new gameplay mechanic, such as combat, currency, or farming. Those who join the guild vote on changes to those mechanics, and help as DMs of those aspects of play. Players can join more than one guild, so long as they are prepared for the additional duties!
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Welcome to the Cartography Guild. New guilds can request placement on the local map. Until you have 3 members, you will only have a tent. Plots may be reclaimed if a guild stagnates or diminishes.




B5: Cartography Guild tent

This game will last 15 rounds. To join, post 'turn'. Players can join late. Once I post 'update' you take your next 'turn'.

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"Some people fail to realize how their own ignorance is deadly. I myself could be one of those people. Are you?"
Johnman65








Please read all information carefully!


Rules:

• This is both the IC (in-character) and OOC (out-of-character) thread. Please use the proper thread.
  
• There is no player limit. However, if more than that sign up I will choose who gets to join based on how much they laugh at my jokes.
  
• 99% of the game takes place on the Discord. If you can't use Discord, you can still play. Honestly, the Discord is mainly for any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, adult material, or otherwise in violation of any International or United States Federal law. That's 99% of the game. The Discord currently has 0 members, no one was cool enough to get invited.
  
• I reserve the right to a sequel. No other thread may use the words "Way Too Minimalist Forum Game" in that or any other order, or individually. Violators will be shot. I have just been informed this rule could be interpreted as a threat, and has been removed. Please go to the Discord for a special announcement.
  
• Please download the 3 terabyte PDF for the actual rules. The PDF is on the Discord.
  
• I will be locking the thread at random intervals. I say this is to help me keep track but I actually just relish mass hysteria.
  
• If the game doesn't update in over a year, just wait longer.
  
• Compliments for the game will be quoted on my portfolio and Patreon. Complaints will be ignored.
  
• Players that abandon the game without letting me know will cause me a great deal of stress and disrupt the game, but will be allowed to "stay" as long as they want. I will perform mental gymnastics to justify their absence to myself and others instead of enforcing promised consequences.
  
• You must be a 3+ years experience pixel artist, if not you will be shunned.
  
• You need 5+ years experience playing this game to play this game.
  
• If you are popular enough the requirements will be waived, and we will actually make an effort to get you started. Everyone is popular enough. This is due to a rounding error.
  
• There will be many errors in this game. But you are too polite to mention them, so they will all be made canon
  
• There will be one player that has a meltdown. They will never recover. They also won't leave.
  
• No diggity.
  

Introduction (GM soapbox, not actually a game introduction)
   Welcome! I've lost all faith in my vision for the game, but players are having fun so I'm already planning the sequel(s). Let's beat this dead horse back to life!
   I have no idea what I am doing, but as long as you don't know that and I keep an air of confidence you'll literally watch the Titanic sink before your eyes in HD slow-mo, and ask when the next update is coming.
   Most of the work of hosting forum games could and probably should be automated.
   Honestly, the most fun I have is designing, not hosting. I actually have felt more fulfilled from this meme game, than most of the one's I've slaved over. I think I just like giving people an excuse to have fun together, and this seems to do that. ♥️
   I could probably host this game on other forums and be more praised, appreciated, and loved. However the AI discovered humans reject the paradise simulation, and I'm stuck here. I swear the carrot on the string is getting closer!
   In 1000 years when my body turns to dust, forum games will be the only evidence of my existence. An existence that will probably only be analyzed out of random chance rather than for having accomplished anything great. I think about this often.
   When this inevitably spawns numerous clones by others, it will become extremely popular, and form it's own clique, Discord, and lingo. Those who riff on it too much, or God forbid, make something new, will be shamed and scorned for making an experimental game that doesn't finish instead of making a standardized clone with no soul. We will call such a person, the worst forum game host ever!
   As the creator of this trend, I will use my clout and lord it over everyone else, as my ego is stroked by all and grows massive. I will only make 1 game every 2.5 years at most, but it will already be a cult classic before the first update. I'll use my skills—not to create something new—but scout up-and-coming talent that has gone unnoticed, and steal their idea! Hey, cut me some slack. I'll link to it, but I'll also host it at the same time so it is buried, ignored, and my game thus seems justified as, "Look! No one played the other one!"
   And last, but most importantly, I will use my own shortcomings to fuel petty grudges instead of actually addressing reasonable problems within my power to improve! Maybe I'll make a meme game to vent about it someday...

P.S. Forum games are awesome! Here's to another 11 years!


^{My start on GameFAQs, prior to forum games being banned and moving here}