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Quote from: scapheap on September 16, 2013, 02:47:33 am

Noticed something. In skills you said two racials skill each, but demons and beasts don't seem to have any.

I believe you are mistaken, they are there in the skills section. ^^

Riight. I DIT CERTAINLY NOT ADD THEM OR ANYTHING. AHEM.

Joke aside - I really thought I had worked them out that way. Thought. Well, Beasts only had 1, and Demons none. Fixed now. ;o

Edit: You do? Neither did I mention it, and Front-posts get edited frequently anyways. Especially with me still working on some finer points of this one.

The first cycle was especially fraught with chaos, as many lesser demons tried their hand at getting control over one of the areas. Some Upstarts even succeeded in these maneuvers, and a lot of the regions in the Central Underworld were taken porperty by some form of these medium-level beings, or some rag-tag group of similiar individuals. The markets did not yet recover after the first week, with speculations running high as a result of the recently started proceedings. As for the courtiers, they were exhaustingly unimaginative in their tasks, with no-one staging anything worthy of note...

Looking down a last time unto the magical pergament - angel hide, the tint on it won't bleach for millenia - Zathras seemed satisfied. "He" was not a big fan of long-winded paragraphs, and it was close enough to the truth anyways. Looking at the empty throne that omniously loomed over the slowly-filling court, it really was missing something. Not that "he" would not skip every now and then, or rather, at every possible chance - but, with the knowledge that he truly was missing, it might look even beckoning to some..

Brushing away such thougs, the slightly ancient courtier made his way to the "Wheel of Misfortune", and under the eyes of many, gave it a vigorous spin... and spinning it did! Very continiously and unnecessarily long at that. Zathras made a mental note to not give it as much as strong a start next time. After some extended minutes of showing no signs of slowing down, it unexpectedly and instantaniously stopped at a certain number. One which's result was not quite that interesting, but the caretaker did his duty none-the less.

"The Wheel has choosen. A foothold will be revealed!" Exlamations filled the hall, and sure enough, even some tension. Getting discovered that early really could spell doom on some. But not this time, sadly, and so he continued;

"It is the 6th District - There is currently no specific owner of it, and neither any infrastructure of note - but a Group of Undead seem to have occupied it. As they only number 15, I guess their days will be hencefort quite numbered as well... With that taken care of, let me tell you that it pains me too see you all so very healthy and alive, and hope that this will be subject to change in the next cycles. Unless you want to fail "his" orders. Do us all a favour and get started on killing each other. That will be all for this week."

Taking no interest in the sparse conversations of the other courtiers, Zathras left the court leisurely...

Ricard Nott, 36, M.
Massive blood loss.

Possibly violent or an accident - very ambigious. I like it, +1

(Didn’t perform the drain action yet because to be honest, I’m not sure what I’m applying it to. Are you just using it to make yourself look more attractive? Also, no they don't know about your Manipulation abilities.)

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I'm thinking of removing encumbrance, any thoughts or opinions on the subject?

Why yes, that was the plan. Beauty-care can be surprisingly easy. Since it would seem, well, far-fetched to raise Persuasion with it, let's view it as him trying to boost his health.
Should that also be too ambigious, or not sit well with you, he transforms the dog into skincare-paste! "Vitalizing the skin with vitamins, while keeping it soft, moistured and glossy. And smelling of sweet santal. (Let's scrap the last part - if Sahal would fumble on that, to make it smell, well, bad, it would be for naught.)

As for encumbrance, I guess equiping the armors we encounter with a DnD-alike malus should work in the same vein.

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"Now, now, that's a good boy!"
Stretching out his hand closer to the mutt, Sahals grin broadens into a full-fledged smile. And not an entirely nice one, mind him.

I don't think we need a separate resource thing. Mana should be enough. I'll think of some other reason for summoners to want to raid villages.

How about our own base? Having the right equipment would surely ease the process of summoning. As would some ritual chambers dedicated to that. Next, while not every race would need the same, nourishment of some kind needs to be obtained. Speaking of troops, defenses...

Well, then it might turn into some kingdom-builder-kind-of-thing. Your call.

As alternative, rare resources for personel equipment could also do the trick - or better weapons and armour for the troops.

I think Escaped Lurker is going to try and help me with the stats for the different summoner types.

Well, if they have different needs, they ought to put an emphasis on different stuff by themself.

Divine ought to have a good balance of Wisdom (Upgrading) and Potency (Summoning), as they would do both in my "model".
Unholy would have a similiar setup, but with less Wisdom - they would put that into their Health for getting those high-end-units.
Necromancers would obviously have low Potency, and put a lot of their points into Wisdom.
Elementals would put a good deal into Health and Wisdom, as they should feel the need to not stay vulnerably wounded for long.

The other attributes will come down to what the player decides the character should do - will he stay safely behind his troops or castle, venture out on missions with them, or even take the helm in battle? The later characters would vouch more for low mana (Spells in battle need not as much as all those full-blown summoning rituals), greater health, and Potency (Raw Damage) vs Wisdom (Crits and Multicasting) should be left to their own decision.

Quote from: Maldevious on September 14, 2013, 05:54:14 pm

The October tournament gets my vote

+1

Let's kick but and take names at 12 y/o or 9 y/o i can't recall our age here.

"You reflect on the three years of growth that nine year-old Cadmon has over you..."

We are 6.

But else, I also would second the notion. We can always make ourself a "Man of the People" easily enough, but entering politics is far more difficult. I daresay it is also much more important, at least in the long run. Yeah, we might only touch upon the politics slightly in the scenario, but it still should be valuable experience.

If the hours would not put us into midday, I would use this respite to take the men for a little drill. Would not be all that good to slack off too much on the first day afterall... But since we really do not want to be the a...wesome-hat that pulls you into the greatest heat of the day to train, I say we leave it at writing reports up to the current matters. If we did not do so already.

Else, get some shade over there!
We really want the men guarding the... not-existing gate to have some shade, especially in this heat. Use some palm-leafs or whatever, but they will not be of much use if they stay out there in the sun for too long. They might be used to higher temperatures, but judging from the description - quote rags unquote - they are not really equiped in desert survival robes.

A bit of socialicing would also sound nice, but I wager we rather will get sick of each of them pretty soon, seeing as there is nothing else but us for miles. On that matter, we maybe should not allow the men to gamble for money - baad blod can be had that way. If they really want to, they can gamble about tasks outside of their guard-duties. While it might be just unneeded concern at the moment, it won't harm us either.

Oh, right. Get Plisk that rifle.
For obvious reasons. We also should switch him with Haru, when the later one's shift ends.