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Turn 11
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Try again! And if I see anyone, trap them in the grasses and hide in the vines.

CMP [1]
POT [3]

Isaac continued with his atempts to make the best out of a bad situation, but only managed to make vines bind him even more. In certain cicrles of magi, this is considered the most annimal friendly way of bondage pleasure, as no leather is used.

((The question: can I use soul shards and/or environment/magic to improve my guardian stats? Also, I still had 2 shards left (spending 13 of them)... If Kirby spent nothing, of course, which I'll check now.))

((Changed color after you, it's more suitable for reading.))

"I'm greatly pleased. Indeed, had I not summoned you, it may have ended for me... Now, with enemies gone, and strife ahead, it's time to properly introduce myself. I'm Whaz the Gloomy, mage of Darkness and the newest ruler of this castle. How do I call you?"

(After introductions)
"I'm thinking now of securing this place under my will. Your presence would help - go and check the gates, before any other mages infiltrate. And they would, eventually. If there would be nothing of note, close the gate and return."

((I haven't found modifier, but I think it won't cost much. Thanks.))
Make my sternum axe ethereal. And get it out.

"My name is Mezala, it is an honor to be summoned here. From what I have seen durning my short visit here, you seem to be the most competent. I shall return soon."

Mezala bowed slightly, and slithered out. Whaz decided not to waste time deducing wether or not that was more of a noding than bowing an deal with the axe that was stuck in his chest.

CMP [5]
POT [3]

Darkness tint surounding the axe turns ethereal, making axe slightly thiner than it was before, making it slide out of the wound effortlessly. Just a moment later, spell times out and axe returns back to its previous state. "Entirely as I planed" murmured Whaz in case somone invisible was listening. Now the bleeding, was not exactly planed, though consdering where axe had hit, it was a minor detail compared to what could had happened.
{Bleeding I}

Let's try that one more time, but with regular aether.

CMP [6]
POT [6+1=7]
END [4]

Still shocked by previous mistake, Jase proceded to weave his next spell very carefully. Making sure to account for any possible and immpossible complications, pouring massive ammounts of energy as not to have the spell colapse. The result was no less than mindshatering, as spell once again affected Jases soul, binding it to aether, changing it, forming it to fit what was requested. If anyone who was able to see souls would had looked at Jase durning this transformation, thoy would had been amazed as massive wings formed and atached Jases back. But the spell did not end there. When spirit wings finished forming, the power conected to physical dimension, starting to form and connect wings to physical body. Most readily availiable and compatiable material was air. Powerfull wind curents formed as air rushed into forming wings of Jase. Magical equivalent of nerve system spread across this creation, conecting to physical nerves diretly throug Jases spine. As suden formation of nerves is as painfull as disintegration, Jase almost wished that his soul would be geting sucked out insted. Almost being the key word here, as mage continiously reminded himself while lying on the alien grass, fighting his hardest as to not lose consciousness.

"What the heck is this?"

Move towards the purple area, cautious of my surroundings.

SPD [(5)/2+1=3.5]
LUCK [4]

Crimson left the relative safety of a grassy hill and went forth, carefully examining his suroundings. As mage reached the white powder that formed the plateau, he reached out with his left hand ad grabed some of that white powder to investigate it. Witout even bothereng to raise it to eye level, mage droped the powder as understanding of its composition came immedietly upon touching it with bare hands. Powdered glass mixed equaly with powdered salt was todays spice. Just as Crimson straightened out and looked towards purple plain, he was cought unaware by a powerfull gust of wind blowing from behind. Upon looking at the salt clouds that were caried by the wind, mage determined that winbd was not blowing from some direction, but was instead converging in the middle of the purple meadow. Not even strangeness of grass could stave away Crimsons curiosity, and he braveley walked forward. As wind finaly subsided, and dlouds of salt cleared, mage was greeted by most wondrous sight - on the ground was lying a humanoid figure with seemingly ethereal white wings. "Oh snap, a real angel. Wonder if I should make a wish?" He comented with a smirk on his face. If he wanted to make a wish he would need to hurry, as anyone swearing as much as that "angel" wouldn't stay saint for long.

Kick the firefox. Heal myself if I get hurt.

SPD [5]
STR [2]

SPD [6]
CMP [2]
POT [4]
DEX [3+1=4]

James, satisfied by Leos gurgling while clawing at his own throath, focused his atention on the blob of flame that was before him. As if sensing impending attack, Irus flared up with heat. Then the firefox shock its "head" as if this was not the intended effect. But an effect it did have, as James clearly felt when his leg flew forth to kick annoying bonefire in half. Just before impact, James felt the heat emanating from the fox, and stopped his attack, his foot barely touching the fox. Had he kicked clean through, it would had probably burned his skin off, though fox was none worse for wear after such nonattack.

A body surprisingly simmiliar to now scorched David entered through main portal. "Ha, that fool of a necromancer, trying to cheat the game. Did he not know that when a body passes through a portal any form of controll is severed and the original mind takes control? Oh, I'll give him a surprise when I'll get out of here, wherever here is"

Just behind him apeared a well known alchemist Rohan. "Sorry, I couldn't help but overhear some of your monologue. Would you like a potion of suppressing anger? I'd give you a discount once this ends, if you are still alive of course"

The battles raged on.
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As Scotsmen hasn't connected to forum in past three days I can only assume that it is something serious, possibly life related. As such, his turn was skiped.

if you get negative, it failed, look at my roll , Firsin failed.

The idea comes from the fact that if you did not use pot, you would had succeded.

Waiting for Scotsmen to post and for NAV and 4maskwolf to confirm their decisions.

Yes! And can we say that I had a fail safe so it's literally a clone with my memories?

I'll accept a clone without the memories. We are abhorently metagaming here anyways.

Name: Rohan Moore
Affinity: chemical reactions
-snip-

I'll hold you on that. You'll need to provide the apropriate formula for every spell/reaction.

Cast the exact same spell on the firefox.

As the firefox is less fox and more magma, i.e. is a sentient lump of magma that has no cells, that ain't gonna work.

((The question: can I use soul shards and/or environment/magic to improve my guardian stats? Also, I still had 2 shards left (spending 13 of them)... If Kirby spent nothing, of course, which I'll check now.))

((I haven't found modifier, but I think it won't cost much.))
Make the axe (temporaly?), not solid shadow of itself. And get it out from my chest.

Yes you did, and no he didin't. I'll fix that. You can improve a summon with the ammount of shards equal to the LUCK roll that summoned it. I'll also add "ethereal" mod to the mod list as a basic mod that does what you want.

DreamerGhost, as you said in introduction, "Dying breath of a mage can be crystalized, their power and skill traped in a physical container". Well, magical minions do have powers - although not as great as those of mages. Do we receive anything from killing them?

Another thing to add to OP. Non-magical minions give you shards equal to half of their summoning LUCK roll, magical minions give full respective LUCK roll of shards.

Turn 10
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Magic the vines to root into my skin instead of the ground, giving me vine limbs.

CMP [4+1=5]
POT [2]

Isaac tried to make the best of the situation, but vines barely moved. While, it could had been much worse, lack of progress was also a problem.

((Just a heads up, my character sheet says I have 5 shards, but I thought I used them to activate the portal.))

Third times the charm, right? Summon something that will let me fly (-1) out of solid (-1) Aether.

CMP [1-1=0]
POT [3+1=4]

Jase chose to return back to what he knew and mix it with what he had just learned. As he started the spell, he immedietly felt that something was wrong. Jase felt as if his heart had  stopped, as if his mind was torn away from his body, as if he had died and then in a second it passed. With horror, Jase realised that he had boched the spell so hard that his soul almost flew out of his body.

Blast whoever I find with a fireball, using Ranged and Summon. Also use 3 shards on the fireball, so I don't just kill myself. Then get Irus to finish the person off.

"James! Get your ass back here and save me from this lunatic! Come on guy. I'll give you a fifty percent discount on a wand of holding."
Runes of Protection -1

Sprint back to base, stand in David's protection rune. Give Leo and his pet rapid uncontrolled mitosis(Ranged). Use the staff of power.

SPD [3]
CMP [6]
POT [4]

SPD [2]
CMP [4]
POT [6]


SPD [1-1=0]


SPD [1]
CMP [5]
POT [6+1+1=8]


Leo acompanied by a firefox with a god complex, found themselfes on an edge of a pit. Inside the pit, they found a tall sly looking man, who was rather dizzy from a fall just moments before. Not being one to refuse such an opportunity, Leo conjured a large fireball of intence heat, it was so hot that it actualy singed Leo's fingers. With a roar his mighty spell flew forth, burning the man in the pit severely. When flames finaly subsided, most of David's clothes were burnt off, revealing masive paches of seared flesh. But it was not yet over, as Irus breathed out a whole cloud of flame upon the unlucky runemage. Fire was still burning in the pit when firefox jumped over it and snached the soul of unfortunate mage.

James had walked quite a way from where he had set up camp with David, and it was a factor that cost him dearly. He ran as fast as he could when he heard David call for help, but the distance was too great. When James finnaly arived at the campsite, David was lost in a pit of fire. "You bastard" he shouted towards Leo, "I will kill you for this, and it will not be quick"
With that, he forged a mighty spell and sent it down offending pyromages throath. Cancerous growth sprawled over entire breathing system of Leo's, cuting off both his ability to breathe and his ability to speak. Despite what thet healer had promised, Leo felt that he had five minutes of life left, at best.
Suffocating {2}

kill Umbral Mage before his minion can kill me.  By incinerating him with a touch.

That shouldn't use any modifiers, should it?  Because my hands are made of fire, and it's a touch attack.

Whaz looked at magnificent guardian, summoned by the power of shards, and nodded to himself.

"Defend me from all these insolent mages until I say otherwise."

He made a gesture in general direction of fire-clawed one, not actually seeing him from his spot.

Take my time to study axe stuck in my body. Can it be removed without grievous wounding?

SPD [3]
DEX [1]
END [1]

SPD [2+1=3]

SPD [5+1=6]
STR [5+1=6]

The naga was first to jump to action, charging at Ryan, her muscular tail allowing her great speed even on solid land. Ryan, with his attention split betwen weaving a spell, observing the shadow mage and marveling at the mighty creature that was summoned, barely even registered that the fearsome warrior was charging at him. Indeed, the movement of a snake is far more quiet than human steps and thus, Ryan's attention was focused once again, this time on six swords that had pierced his chest. He was dead before sliding off the blades and hitting the ground.

Whaz, seemingly entirely uninterested in murder that was happening around him, examined the axe that was stuck in his chest. It was stuch firmly and hurt quite a bit, but if it had pierced any important veins or arteries he would had likely bled out by now. Pulling the axe out however, would be a difficult task, not aided in the slightest by the likely pain that would come with the procedure.

Continue on my trek to the south.

SPD [(3)/2+1=2.5]

Crimson, entirely oblivious to the battles that raged, continued his treck south. While Leaving forrest behind was a welcome change of pace, Crimson was rather surprised by the severe lack of mountains towards where he was going. Had he goten himself lost when traversing the forest paths? Where he expected to see a mountain range there was but a single mountain with a few trees on it. As Crimson pressed forward, more abnormalities became know. There were fields of white... something? It did not feel cold even at this distace, making snow variant quite unlikely. And beyond the fields was a land of sickly purple. Crimson stoped to rest on a hill before proceding further.

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RNGesus was fickle and cruel today. Seems that Whaz is favored by RNG, but will it last?

Also, I added minnion stats to char sheet.

kill Umbral Mage before his minion can kill me.  By incinerating him with a touch.

That shouldn't use any modifiers, should it?  Because my hands are made of fire, and it's a touch attack.

Your hands are not made of fire, but they are searing hot. And a touch wont incinerate Whaz, though it would burn him pretty bad.

Unless you are using a spell here. Then yeah, you can kill him with a touch if your spell succeds.

Turn 9
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Climb out of the pit and then MOAR ROCK BOTTLE MAGICK!!!!!!!

DEX [1-1=0]
END [4-1=3]

David, unsatisfied with his curent position compared to that of sea level, jumped and grabed the edge of the pit and pulled himself upwards. Dirt, not being the surdiest of materials, crumbled in David's hands, and runemancer fell back in the hole, managing to hit a stone with his head. David managed to retain his conciousnes through pain and inspect the damage. His head was bleeding, and he felt nauseous from impact, but this was not letheal. Not on it's own at least. Skiping those physical ed clases back at the magic school did not seem like such a great idea by now.

Attempt to cover the keep in large vines, even the roof.
Then, try to grow blue fruit trees outside the castle, with poison curing properties.
(The vines are more important)

If I see another player, will the lawn to pull them down.

CMP [1+1=2]
POT [6]

Isaac continued his asthetic improvements upon the castle. By his will, thick vines shot out of the ground, converged around him, covering the mage from nech to toe, biding him firmly in place. Mistake in designation part, maybe?

Keep heading toward the treehouse. While going there, grab a stick or a blade of grass, or something flammable, and carry it with me.

SPD [(6)/2+1=4]
LUCK [2]

Leo looked around to find something flamable within the chared forrest and was unpleasantl surprised when he found nothing that would suit his goals. All grass had long since turned to ash, and all small branches had burned off the trees, leaving only those that were too large to break off. Annoyed by this lack of resources, Leo continued his trip towards the lakeside treehouse, his anger hasting the steps, he did not even notice that he had arrived at his destination. Among the trees, there were several suspiciously looking holes, possibly pit traps in making.

Get up.
Keep searching the shoreline for things.
Can the box be used as a boat?

Luck [9]

James, recovered from his previous violent success, evaluated the box he had found. It was a sturdy thing, had no holes, and was large enough to use as a makeshift boat. Before trying out the seaworthyness of the box, James looked around the shoreline for anything interesting. His keen eyes, trained for years to notice any abnormalities noticed something sticking out of the water. As he walked over to inspect it, James noticed that it was a long coral formation. The formation seperated from the bottom of the lake easily, revealing a coral staff, meter and a half in length. As James griped the staf firmly in his hand, he could feel his power surging.

(+1 staff of power aquired)

"Pain... Pain is NOTHING!"

Gloomy mage glanced at his further darkening robe.

"Oh. I suppose, bloodloss is still a significant factor."

Six shards for potency. Seven - for random minion... Myself, I summon solid shadow onto fire mage head.

((BTW, what could an overshot in Endurance mean?))

Use the fire still smoldering to make hands for myself out of solid fire: solid (-1)  Also, avoid crazy McAxeman's spell.

CMP [5-1=4]
POT [6]
LUCK [10]
SPD[5+1=6]

CMP [3]
POT [6]
SPD [4]
DEX [6]

Whaz wasted no time after his kill. Without even bothering to pull out the axe he charged forward at Ryan, hand outstreched forward. It did not take long for his target to figure out what was up and roll away just in time. Whaz cast his spell, and just in front of his palm a cubic meter of solid black apeared. It fell on the ground slowly like a balloon, while Whaz stood and wachend in disbelief as his magic succeded for the first time.

Ryan wasted no time after rolling away. Even though he sliped on a golden chalice that was roling on the floor since Kirby's experiements and fell down in a nishe where throne used to be, he still csat his spell. James' hads seared with heat, the charcoal that was where flesh used to be started glowing red with heat. Had this not been magical heat, pyromancer would be screaming in pain once again.

Annoyed by both his miss and pyromancer arming himself with searing claws for hands, Whaz decided that it was time to call for some help. And he had just the thing. Umbramancer crushed seven shards in his hand and called out with his mind. A massie yet nimble figure apeared before him. A pale skined female naga, rising as tall as a man, with several meters of muscular tail behind her, armed with six fearsome steel blades held in her six arms. She turned to whaz and he noticed that there was a small crown decorating her head. When she spoke, her voice seemed to be as calm and as calm as higest mountainpeaks. [color=]"You called and I answered, master."[/color]

"Instant karma... I'm very sorry!"

Apologize to... uhm... the forest? Then head south towards the mountains.

SPD [(1)/2+1=1.5]

Crimson, still deply disturbed by his own mind, apologised to whatever spirits could had inhabited the forest and set out southwards. His apology might have just worked, as mage had no troubles all the way out of the forest.

Let's try that a bit different. Summon something that will let me fly (-1).

CMP [3]
POT [2+1=3]
LUCK [1]
DEX [1]
END[5]

Jase continued to try and create some sort of means of transport. He forced out his spell, and it manifested in a single feathered wing, half a meter in lenght, made entirely out of acid.  he tried to dodge the splaters, but the fleshy grass proved to be slipery, and Jase's left foot ended up right in the pudle of acid. Mage barely managed so suppress a scream, fearfull of whatever beasts might roam this alien landscape.

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((I still wince every time I see DreamerGhost's signature because I was part of the death of cutthroat DF.  Sorry about that, by the way, I don't think I ever apologized for it.))

You shouldn't be sorry. Idea was good, but execution was poor, I blame mostly myself for waiting too long. I should had started with two or three people, instead of waiting for five, the waiting time between turns that I planed did not help either. This is internet, average atention span is below a minute, and I failed to take that into account.

On a brigter note, I got char sheets in google doc, go check it out.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zSiUlK2hYgWyW3m16miIFWBd1F3kdi0kOG3L6XCz8nE/edit?usp=sharing