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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Magic: Turn 202 Half of gameplay missing
« on: November 10, 2016, 05:38:44 pm »
Shias battle and PM's come tomorrow since I wasted too much time in post-election debates.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Magic: Turn 201 Combat for all
« on: November 10, 2016, 05:36:34 pm »
Turn 202
Skeliborn resumed his preparations as before the whole pollen fallout and was joined in this by Chorkinaan. Surg remained on the floor, seeing and experiencing gods knows what. The two wondered about what he could be seeing and if it was worth using the blade on him, but decided against him. A rude awakening might not end well.
{Buff is also not an object. No sacrifice would technically work, but it would have to deal with 33% chance of fail with each turn. So not really.}
Ao left the observatory and ventured out into the tower again. This time he paused as he found a room that was fully furnished. It was unusual in this place, which is why he paused by it.
Doktor conjured another bot, but this one turned out damaged. Doktor was going to say that it was damaged because there was no way he actually wanted a bot this lopsided. The propeller was positioned on the left and a way-too-heavy blade was hung on the right. This caused the bot to fly in circles whenever it tried to move, or just stay still in the air.
Gloomy returned to his meditation, content that there would be no interruption again. And if there were, well, he would educate them thoroughly on why that was a bad idea. But for now, whatever was happening was happening outside of this room and therefore, irrelevant.
Khozek looked over his friend who seemed to be swearing at thin air. Was it related to how he hasn't been doing much in past few minutes? Maybe. But it mattered little, he was going through with his own plan no matter what.
Seva rose into the sky and rushed back into the ground. The impact sent a small rolling out, and sent air out of Eater's lungs. But he flew at a rather low speed, and the damage of the dive ended there. But Eater had had enough of this. He bent to his captured limb and bit into Seva's leg with his mandibles. He bit through the flames, heedless of the damage to himself. At last, he fell as the last of the flames connecting Seva's claw to the rest of him was severed.
{Seva has lost one of the claws in Phoenix form}
Before Cuberac could get at Blake again, his enemy charged, grabbing onto Cuberac and dragging him to the ground. As they fell, Blake clipped Cuberac's solar plexus, nearly paralyzing him, but he failed to make use of it as the fall made his head spin again. Concussions were not that easy to shake off.
4 essences
Woah, I kinda zoned out for a moment there. Back to preparing for the ritual, then? I'm ready to start whenever.
4 essences
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Skeliborn resumed his preparations as before the whole pollen fallout and was joined in this by Chorkinaan. Surg remained on the floor, seeing and experiencing gods knows what. The two wondered about what he could be seeing and if it was worth using the blade on him, but decided against him. A rude awakening might not end well.
((Shias... Using five weak essences, knowing well it is akin to death sentence in his circumstances. Why? And why I did not notice it earlier?
Yet another properly murderous mage prepares to bite the dust. And I still need some more revelations about nature of the world to take his place...))
"Unexpected fortune is always the most pleasant."
Ao smiled at his luck. What else could he wish for if the world was so generous to him? Oh, right. A rejuvenated body. He has spent far too much time lately practicing his mind and forgoing even the basic bodily needs, such as eating and sleeping, for a while.
Sit in meditative pose, regulate breathing and start the ritual.
Goal: Permanent Celestial Empowerment of the Body (all four stats).
Sacrifice:One Celestial Empowerment.. Will [Buff enchantment] sacrifice work? No sacrifice? If I'm wrong on both accounts - 4 essences and continue exploration while ethereal.
Add 3x +2 POT and 2x +1 POT on the first round of the ritual.
((It is very hard for me to fail rituals thanks to ridiculous luck that follows me in this incarnation.))
{Buff is also not an object. No sacrifice would technically work, but it would have to deal with 33% chance of fail with each turn. So not really.}
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Ao left the observatory and ventured out into the tower again. This time he paused as he found a room that was fully furnished. It was unusual in this place, which is why he paused by it.
Doktor Diabolical:
"Odd! Diabolically odd! Still fairly nice, though. Oh well. More drones!"
Doktor Diabolical creates(-1) another robotic attack drone(-1 for flying, again?) that will obey his orders(-1). 3 +1/+1 essences, 1 +2 POT essence. Afterwards, he makes two essences.
Digger bot keeps digging the staircase, other bots idle.
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Doktor conjured another bot, but this one turned out damaged. Doktor was going to say that it was damaged because there was no way he actually wanted a bot this lopsided. The propeller was positioned on the left and a way-too-heavy blade was hung on the right. This caused the bot to fly in circles whenever it tried to move, or just stay still in the air.
Three essences.
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Gloomy returned to his meditation, content that there would be no interruption again. And if there were, well, he would educate them thoroughly on why that was a bad idea. But for now, whatever was happening was happening outside of this room and therefore, irrelevant.
"..Yeah, well that could have gone better. Or worse. But I'm not giving up on this just yet."
Khozek turns to his strangely idle partner with a slight frown on his face and then turns back to refocus on the task at hand.
Three essences. If I am to succeed in Project: Funny Valentine, I need better calculations.
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Khozek looked over his friend who seemed to be swearing at thin air. Was it related to how he hasn't been doing much in past few minutes? Maybe. But it mattered little, he was going through with his own plan no matter what.
Fly higher, then dive. Make sure Easter hits the ground first and fast, don't care if I hit too, shouldn't hurt too much
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Seva rose into the sky and rushed back into the ground. The impact sent a small rolling out, and sent air out of Eater's lungs. But he flew at a rather low speed, and the damage of the dive ended there. But Eater had had enough of this. He bent to his captured limb and bit into Seva's leg with his mandibles. He bit through the flames, heedless of the damage to himself. At last, he fell as the last of the flames connecting Seva's claw to the rest of him was severed.
{Seva has lost one of the claws in Phoenix form}
Keep trying to crush him.
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Before Cuberac could get at Blake again, his enemy charged, grabbing onto Cuberac and dragging him to the ground. As they fell, Blake clipped Cuberac's solar plexus, nearly paralyzing him, but he failed to make use of it as the fall made his head spin again. Concussions were not that easy to shake off.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Magic: Turn 201 Combat for all
« on: November 07, 2016, 03:56:16 pm »Sacrifice: One Celestial Empowerment.
Celestial empowerment is not an actual object, and thus, can't be a sacrifice.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Magic: Turn 201 Combat for all
« on: November 06, 2016, 04:16:41 pm »
PM's come tomorrow.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Magic: Turn 200 Dicentury
« on: November 06, 2016, 04:15:57 pm »
Turn 201
Drone bit into the earth and soon chunks of grassland were sent flying. First few steps were created in moments and then drone disappeared beneath the earth. Doktor, seeing that his input was not required, at least for the moment, began conjuring another drone. Unlike all others before it, this one was meant for combat and brimmed with many sharp edges. A small propeller on the top kept it airborne and allowed it to move fast enough to make good use fo those knives and axes stacked onto it.
Cuberac approached the slumped down Blake intending to finish him off, but it turned out that Blake was more used to concussions than he let on. Swiftly, he turned on his back and blasted approaching Cuberac with hellfire. Or he tried to. Flames did not go far from his hand, preferring to fry the flesh that conjured them. Cuberac exploited this chance and swung his bladecube at Blake again, but he hit only ground as Blake was swift despite his injuries.
Khozek conjured a portal, a portal that bent space towards nowhere, a portal that sought out himself that was thickness of a shadow away. It did not work out well. The portal began spewing out sparks of magic and plasma, before winking out entirely. There was only a small pit where portal claimed all nearby matter before winking out.
Duritarum sneaked northwest around the crater quietly. Whatever had caused the crater was unlikely to be something healthy to encounter. The crater probably had something to do with the gargantuan beholder that was around here previously. Did the mages succeed or was the whole area wiped out by a greater foe? Duritarum had little desire to check.
Redrum gestured again, and this time the mud lost the tug of war over the corpse. It rose, shambling, was handed a shovel and instructed to dig. It took a bit until it actually started, as it was very stupid. Stupid and slow, good enough for digging but not much else. Still, it beat doing work himself, so Redrum began gathering more power for more minions.
Skeliborn waited as his wound finished regenerating and began gathering power. This sword of purity took a bit of power out of him and he wanted to be ready for the time of the ritual. With closed doors and burned flowers, there shouldn't be any more interruptions, so they would begin soon.
Gloomier did not enjoy the hallucinations very much. He disliked t so much, he decided to be unlike any other mage in the tower and do something about it. Flowers were hidden behind aether screens now, but that was a minor inconvenience. Curse spread out through the system, bringing wittering and sluggishness to whatever spells commanded them.
Easter charged at Seva, trying to catch the neck of the phoenix in between his mandibles, but the firebird proved swifter. As the mini-phoenix distracted Easter again, Seva managed to catch Easter by his foot and rose into the air, dragging Easter with him.
Ao gazed upon the stars. He could had used the telescope but the sky was so clear he didn't really need it. There was a sort of balance in the stars, they moved through the sky unchanging, as something much greater than whatever could be happening down here. Which was true in a way. What really resonated with Ao were the constellations. They were nothing like what he saw from the temple, and yet they still contained same power.
{Celestial empowermentx5: Consumable, increases any roll by 1, must be used before roll.}
{@XXXXYYYY/Gambler You only have luck essences, they don't work on glass spells.
@TheBiggerFish/Magus N.A. You have no combination of essences that would result in 2CMP and nothing else. It surprised me too. +1 was used instead.}
Shias began forging a spell to deal with those pesky mages once and for all, but others were swifter. Viznor dove out of a wall and this time caught Shias with both hands, sinking his claws into Shia's head. Poison spread swiftly, clouding Shias mind, but it was not nearly as damaging as the spell Viznor channeled through the claws. Wood and flesh around the claws disintegrated into yellow glowing dust, which seemed to disrupt Shia's mind even more. Other two mages added to the effort, Gambler turning few pieces of wood armor into glass and Magus producing another shockwave of Silence that liquidized walls and scattered Magus himself. Magus resumed his human form, which was rather torn up now, possibly as a result or violent reversal. It would not matter to Shias, as he was almost entirely catatonic by now.
{Shias: Poison,Mental overload, END roll to resume thinking, -1/-1 to casting.}
{Magus N.A.: Torn up, bleeding(4 turns till death (Will heal from tower aura before death))}
Doktor Diabolical:
"I've always wanted to say this... STRIKE THE EARTH! Diabolically!"
Doktor Diabolical orders his miner-bot to dig a spiral staircase straight down. While that's happening, he creates(-1) a robotic attack drone(-1 for flying?) that will obey his orders(-1). He uses 2 +1/+1 essences, a +1 CMP essence, and a +1 POT essence on that spell. Afterwards, he makes 2 Robots essences.
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Drone bit into the earth and soon chunks of grassland were sent flying. First few steps were created in moments and then drone disappeared beneath the earth. Doktor, seeing that his input was not required, at least for the moment, began conjuring another drone. Unlike all others before it, this one was meant for combat and brimmed with many sharp edges. A small propeller on the top kept it airborne and allowed it to move fast enough to make good use fo those knives and axes stacked onto it.
Make sure he's not going to get back up somehow, and loot those shards.
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Khozek suddenly looks like he has had an epiphany.
"Wait, Karnax. Don't answer that question, I have a brilliant and highly dangerous idea.
Attempt to use a human-sized spatial tear to contact myself from the closest alternate dimension,expending my essence in the process.
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Khozek conjured a portal, a portal that bent space towards nowhere, a portal that sought out himself that was thickness of a shadow away. It did not work out well. The portal began spewing out sparks of magic and plasma, before winking out entirely. There was only a small pit where portal claimed all nearby matter before winking out.
... When did this place even become a crater? Go around and move further west.
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Duritarum sneaked northwest around the crater quietly. Whatever had caused the crater was unlikely to be something healthy to encounter. The crater probably had something to do with the gargantuan beholder that was around here previously. Did the mages succeed or was the whole area wiped out by a greater foe? Duritarum had little desire to check.
Redrum frowned and gestured at the corpse again, more forcefully this time. The necromancer was getting impatient.
Try to raise the dead again, adding +1POT +1CMP of extra juice to the spell. If it fails, throw a necromantic doom tantrum by means of essence roulette. Otherwise, hand the shovel to the new drudge, order it to start digging somewhere else and make 3 essences.
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Redrum gestured again, and this time the mud lost the tug of war over the corpse. It rose, shambling, was handed a shovel and instructed to dig. It took a bit until it actually started, as it was very stupid. Stupid and slow, good enough for digging but not much else. Still, it beat doing work himself, so Redrum began gathering more power for more minions.
4 Essences
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Skeliborn waited as his wound finished regenerating and began gathering power. This sword of purity took a bit of power out of him and he wanted to be ready for the time of the ritual. With closed doors and burned flowers, there shouldn't be any more interruptions, so they would begin soon.
Curse the flower network with unresponsiveness. (3 +1/+1 essences)
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Gloomier did not enjoy the hallucinations very much. He disliked t so much, he decided to be unlike any other mage in the tower and do something about it. Flowers were hidden behind aether screens now, but that was a minor inconvenience. Curse spread out through the system, bringing wittering and sluggishness to whatever spells commanded them.
Small phoenix attacks Easter, with fire breath if it has it
Then grab Easter and fly up
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Easter charged at Seva, trying to catch the neck of the phoenix in between his mandibles, but the firebird proved swifter. As the mini-phoenix distracted Easter again, Seva managed to catch Easter by his foot and rose into the air, dragging Easter with him.
"What a marvelous opportunity..."
Gaze upon the stars. Lose myself in the view.
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Ao gazed upon the stars. He could had used the telescope but the sky was so clear he didn't really need it. There was a sort of balance in the stars, they moved through the sky unchanging, as something much greater than whatever could be happening down here. Which was true in a way. What really resonated with Ao were the constellations. They were nothing like what he saw from the temple, and yet they still contained same power.
{Celestial empowermentx5: Consumable, increases any roll by 1, must be used before roll.}
"That will never happen, hat magician. I need more power to protect forests and this is where power can be found."
Modify pollen to automatically adapt to state of any magican near it. As in physical near wizard in physical state, aetheric near wizard in aetheric state, and so on.
Essences used:
+2/+1
4 +1 POT
"Hrph. So be it.
While Shias is casting his spell, convert his root armor into immobile spellseal glass. Use a +1/+2 essence and a +2/+1 chaotic essence.
{@XXXXYYYY/Gambler You only have luck essences, they don't work on glass spells.
@TheBiggerFish/Magus N.A. You have no combination of essences that would result in 2CMP and nothing else. It surprised me too. +1 was used instead.}
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Shias began forging a spell to deal with those pesky mages once and for all, but others were swifter. Viznor dove out of a wall and this time caught Shias with both hands, sinking his claws into Shia's head. Poison spread swiftly, clouding Shias mind, but it was not nearly as damaging as the spell Viznor channeled through the claws. Wood and flesh around the claws disintegrated into yellow glowing dust, which seemed to disrupt Shia's mind even more. Other two mages added to the effort, Gambler turning few pieces of wood armor into glass and Magus producing another shockwave of Silence that liquidized walls and scattered Magus himself. Magus resumed his human form, which was rather torn up now, possibly as a result or violent reversal. It would not matter to Shias, as he was almost entirely catatonic by now.
{Shias: Poison,Mental overload, END roll to resume thinking, -1/-1 to casting.}
{Magus N.A.: Torn up, bleeding(4 turns till death (Will heal from tower aura before death))}
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Magic: Turn 199 Not as planned
« on: November 04, 2016, 03:31:29 pm »((Yeah, should have made the pollen toxic too.))
Targeting Gambler: Try to shove one of my zombie seeds into his eye or ear. Should I succeed, boost its growth rate. If not, have those roots stuck in my flesh grow out into an armor around me.
Try not to become a seed recepticle, and then force all the glass in the area to (attempt to) shred Shias.
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Shias charged towards Gambler, outstretched hand with a seed firmly gripped between his fingers. Gambler mostly got out of the way, but it did not overly matter as Shias attack was deflected by automated force fields. There was some serious trouble doing actual battle within the Tower. Defenses did not seem to react to giving out deadly candy to catatonic mages, but it did take offense to trying to punch people. Shias went for secondary plan and made roots in his flesh restore some of the armor he had before. This one was lighter and wouldn't restrict him, but might still stop a hit or two. Then, things began going strange.
From nearby corridor emerged a figure, it seemed ghastly and bore telltale purple of aether. It looked like aether elemental that was set on fire. It clapped it's hands together and magic spread out from them, melting part of the ghost and parts of the walls. Gambler waved around his hand and chandelier's worth of glass around Shias sped off towards him from all sides. He failed to dodge spectacularly, but glass mostly failed to penetrate the wood armor Shias now wore. Ilium's body exploded in a cloud of blood which coalesced into a shape of a genie before dissipating. Viznor repeated his ghostly wall walking act but only managed to catch Shias with a glancing blow to the head that did next to nothing. No matter how weird this all was and how incompetent his foes were, Shias saw that this wouldn't last. He was outnumbered and at a disadvantage here.
And then walls bent around the pollen spreading flowers, burying them beneath solid aether.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Magic: Turn 200 Dicentury
« on: November 03, 2016, 07:42:06 pm »
Changed the poll to be about premade essences.
Yes
@10/10 essences: Would this include Chaotic essences?
Yes
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Magic: Turn 200 Dicentury
« on: November 03, 2016, 04:39:36 pm »
Damn, I kinda wanted to do something special for 200 and yet I find myself in a hurry to do other stuff. PM's come tomorrow and so does Shias and related turns, as so much of attacks are coming through PM's.
On an unrelated note, should new mages come with some essences already prepared? Say +10/+10 in random essences? There is no real need for this, but I thought it would speed up people going to interesting spells.
On an unrelated note, should new mages come with some essences already prepared? Say +10/+10 in random essences? There is no real need for this, but I thought it would speed up people going to interesting spells.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Magic: Turn 199 Not as planned
« on: November 03, 2016, 04:35:33 pm »
Turn 200
Doktor got onto his bike and moved south. There was an edge of the world to the south and edge of the forest to the west. It would be hard to tell which of the two was more dangerous. But the planes right here were nice. And the flat land would allow him to see anything coming from far away.
Cuberac sent his cubes and they beset Blake once more. Again they failed to do much more than annoy him, but they did distract him. Blade hypercube sailed in a wide arc that ended right onto Blake's head. The impact knocked him to the ground, scrambling whatever plans he had along with much of his gray matter. Blake didn't even groan in pain, he was that much out of it.
Chorkinaan found some cloth, possibly here to wrap finished goods into, and began cleaning pollen from all surfaces. He cleaned pollen off Surg, but left a wide berth around Skeliborn. He seemed to be having it worse than Surg, but he also had a glowy greatsword and was swinging it around. Then, possibly after defeating all the driders, Skelibor began battling the spiders on him. It took some skill to swing a greatsword against yourself, but Skeliborn manged it. Blade struck his chest, cutting though a rib and breaking another one. This was quite enough pain, especially combined with blade's purifying capabilities, to wake Skeliborn from his hallucinations. Luckily for Skeliborn, although he was too busy screaming in pain to think about it, the purifying effect of the blade seemed to prevent blood curse from reacting to the wound. And it felt worse than it was, between Tower's aura and his own pocket knife of regeneration, the wound would close in a minute.
Mini-phoenix again attacked Easter and again Easter dodged out of the way. This time, Easter attempted to punt the mini-phoenix out of the sky with his fist but the tiny bird was too fast for this. The big bird was also too fast for this, as Easter suddenly found himself staring into open maw of the Seva!Phoenix. This time, there was no time to dodge. Easter jumped out of the flame but damage was already done. Regeneration stopped again as wings were burned down back to charred stumps.
Duritarum checked his nose again. He had tried to set it in place with blood magic, but it was still off. Sighing, he set it in place by hand and winced as pain surged again. Climbing out of the pit was slightly more trouble with lead sheets weighing him down, but he managed. Moving westwards he returned back to the same place where the tower with skelemages was. There seemed to be less skeletons around, possibly due to their usual battleground being a crater.
Karnax re-conjured the fire shield around himself and Khozek. Basic safety procedures done, he began searching for where all this power was going. There was something of a reverse vortex rising from the tree and spreading in a corona around the top of the dome around the tree. Curiously, the fire part of the magic was becoming significantly fainter after rising through the dome.
Ao resumed his exploration of the tower. He found himself faced with quite a few stairways leading upwards and rose to the upper levels. One final stairway led him to a room with half of the ceiling missing. Under naked sky stood a telescope, but far more interestingly, the sky was the sky of night. Stars could be seen clearly, although there was no moon.
Redrum gestured at the corpse and the corpse shuddered and began to move. Then it stopped moving as the energy moving it ran out. Redrum wondered if this was because something was wrong with the corpse and decided that it could had been the mud sticking to the corpse. Or maybe a tree root grew through it. Either way, it too more than usual amount of energy for the corpse to get up, so it ran out before it did.
((Doktor Diabolical's miner bot isn't in the inventory.))
Doktor Diabolical:
"Progress! Mwahahaha!"
If the bike is effectively rideable now: {
"Onwards! To diabolicalness and beyond!"
Doktor Diabolical and his robots go three hexes down, and Doktor Diabolical makes three robots essences. }
If the bike is not effectively rideable now: {
"Looks like I have just a little bit more work to do!"
Doktor Diabolical enlarges the bike once more, then makes two robots essences. }
~~~
((Next turn is turn 200. Whoooooo!))
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Doktor got onto his bike and moved south. There was an edge of the world to the south and edge of the forest to the west. It would be hard to tell which of the two was more dangerous. But the planes right here were nice. And the flat land would allow him to see anything coming from far away.
Keep the swarmcubes cutting, hit him with my handheld bladecube.
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Cuberac sent his cubes and they beset Blake once more. Again they failed to do much more than annoy him, but they did distract him. Blade hypercube sailed in a wide arc that ended right onto Blake's head. The impact knocked him to the ground, scrambling whatever plans he had along with much of his gray matter. Blake didn't even groan in pain, he was that much out of it.
Well, that could have gone much wor-SKELLIBORN WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I... Stop it! Stop swinging that sword! All this about spiders and driders and whatever, it's not real! There are no spiders here, and there are no driders! It's all a hallucination caused by pollen that the white flowers were spitting out! Just... Ignore them! Ignore the spiders and the driders and whatever eldritch horrors jump at you, because the more you swing that sword at a bunch of phantasms, the more likely you are to hurt me and Surg! So calm your booty and just keep telling yourself that the spiders aren't real!
Oh, I feel a draft. I hope that doesn't push any more pollen in here. Y'know, with all this caring after victims and plant extermination - cleaning as well quite soon - I'm doing, one might mistake me for a witch as opposed to a mage. To be honest, I'm fine with that. I've always had a fairly deep respect for witchcraft. A quick charm or two here and there and a little elbow grease can have just as much impact on the world as a ritual focused incredible power by a mage of my caliber.
Make sure the entrance to the room tightly shut. Prop something against the door if need be. If there are any loose rags around the forge, grab one and begin wiping up the pollen from the floor. If not, instead make one from a piece of Surg's clothing since he seems just about catatonic anyway. If Surg resists, cast a spell to create a rag of the same cloth-like material that my head bandage is made of. Be sure to only wipe with one face of the cloth; that way it can be folded up relatively safely.
It's not chloroform, but it'll do. Plus, having it not track all over the place will be nice.
((To answer your question, All of them))
Purify myself with the blade of purification.(aka make the pollen b gone)
If this consists of stabbing myself also use the dwarven army knife of regeneration.
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Chorkinaan found some cloth, possibly here to wrap finished goods into, and began cleaning pollen from all surfaces. He cleaned pollen off Surg, but left a wide berth around Skeliborn. He seemed to be having it worse than Surg, but he also had a glowy greatsword and was swinging it around. Then, possibly after defeating all the driders, Skelibor began battling the spiders on him. It took some skill to swing a greatsword against yourself, but Skeliborn manged it. Blade struck his chest, cutting though a rib and breaking another one. This was quite enough pain, especially combined with blade's purifying capabilities, to wake Skeliborn from his hallucinations. Luckily for Skeliborn, although he was too busy screaming in pain to think about it, the purifying effect of the blade seemed to prevent blood curse from reacting to the wound. And it felt worse than it was, between Tower's aura and his own pocket knife of regeneration, the wound would close in a minute.
have the crystal phoenix attack Easter again, then breath fire on him
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Reconstruct my nose and head to the west.
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Duritarum checked his nose again. He had tried to set it in place with blood magic, but it was still off. Sighing, he set it in place by hand and winced as pain surged again. Climbing out of the pit was slightly more trouble with lead sheets weighing him down, but he managed. Moving westwards he returned back to the same place where the tower with skelemages was. There seemed to be less skeletons around, possibly due to their usual battleground being a crater.
Renew the fire-shields. Use my affinity for fire magic to sense where the fire from the portal is being drained/moved to. Go there (unless it's near the tower).
Are the fire shields still up?
"What next, Karnax?"
Two essences.
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Karnax re-conjured the fire shield around himself and Khozek. Basic safety procedures done, he began searching for where all this power was going. There was something of a reverse vortex rising from the tree and spreading in a corona around the top of the dome around the tree. Curiously, the fire part of the magic was becoming significantly fainter after rising through the dome.
"And the Abyss stared back... I should try to reshape myself a bit more before going for confirmation."
Oblivious to all the pollen flying around, Ao walked further through the Tower empty halls. Creating 4 essences on his way.
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Ao resumed his exploration of the tower. He found himself faced with quite a few stairways leading upwards and rose to the upper levels. One final stairway led him to a room with half of the ceiling missing. Under naked sky stood a telescope, but far more interestingly, the sky was the sky of night. Stars could be seen clearly, although there was no moon.
Redrum gestures!
The corpse shudders and begins to move!
Animate the bearded cadaver, collect a bunch of decaying twigs (this was missed last turn) and make 4 new essences.
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Redrum gestured at the corpse and the corpse shuddered and began to move. Then it stopped moving as the energy moving it ran out. Redrum wondered if this was because something was wrong with the corpse and decided that it could had been the mud sticking to the corpse. Or maybe a tree root grew through it. Either way, it too more than usual amount of energy for the corpse to get up, so it ran out before it did.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Magic: Turn 199 Not as planned
« on: November 03, 2016, 10:43:02 am »
((Not intended, ignore this.))
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Ye Gods 4 IC [15/40]: Tick 42.0: Teapots
« on: November 02, 2016, 06:57:47 pm »267
Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Ye Gods 4 IC [15/40]: Tick 41.0: Sea Monkeys
« on: November 01, 2016, 06:52:19 pm »
Investigate if there are any mojor groups of mages(not priests) that do not worship me.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Magic: Turn 199 Not as planned
« on: October 30, 2016, 04:58:14 pm »
PM's come tomorrow.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Magic: Turn 198 Fun for all involved
« on: October 30, 2016, 04:57:17 pm »
Turn 199
Chorkinaan folded Surg face down well enough, but Skeliborn was attempting magic while out of his mind and that was just too unsafe to touch. Chorkinaan left him to it and began purging the flowers with an ember from the furnace. The ember had to be replaced a few times, as burning live and juice filled plants tends to sap the heat right out. The plan to grab some pollen in a container was discarded when conjured container turned out as a fingernail sized vase. Skeliborn, meanwhile, was shouting something about driders and waving about a pearly glowing sword.
Karnax cast a shield against flames on himself and his partner, and began pulling power from the portal. By the time the fire shield flickered out, he noticed that nothing at all seemed to be actually happening. Something was stealing whatever power he pulled away. Khozek, meanwhile, conjured a shield against projectiles around the two of them. Unsupported, it would not last much longer than Karnax's fire shield.
{@XYXYXYXY Your current luck bonuses don't work on chaotic essence rolls. Also, you can't summon stuff inside of people unless they agree to it.}
Shias, seeing how spores were not affecting Viznor swiftly deduced the cause. Clearly, his foe was ethereal, not truly there. Well, that was easily solved, and pollen next to Viznor began shifting into reality just nearby. But before they reached Viznor, he escaped through nearby wall. But Shias was not left without foes, Gambler, guarding his face with cloth from the spores, conjure up a chandler's worth of glass above them. This seemed not quite the intended effect as both mages were forced to dodge the falling glass. As Shias was rolling away from the glass, Viznor returned from another wall and stabbed with his hand claws where Shias head would had been had he not returned to rolling away from the danger. As Shias looked over his two foes, wind began sweeping through the Tower, shifting and mixing the clouds of pollen.
Doktor threw more magic onto his bike, forcing it to increase in size. It began cycling in circles around Doktor and his bots. Well, at least it hadn't run off anywhere, that would had been annoying. Some more magic flowed out of Doktors hands and onto the bike, making him worry for a repeat of cubebots, but nothing happened. Then Doktor noticed that the bicycle was also connected to him, just as the cubebots.
Cuberac sent out his swarm and they cut into Blake, piercing through skin though mostly just distracting. The distraction worked well, as Blake tried to blast the cubes away with hellfire but his hand was knocked closed as a cube whizzed by, melting the cube but sparing the others.
Seva sent out his crystal bird on an attack course against Easter. After spending so long with Seva, the crystal bird had transformed into a miniature phoenix, burning like a campfire. It helped it little, as Easter dodged the bird and leapt over Seva, smacking him on the back with his stinger. It was as if he was taunting Seva, and to add to insult, birdmage could see Easter's wings beginning to regrow.
{Focuses add to Ritual every turn it is cast, but are not consumed. More appropriate/powerful focus the better the bonus.}
Redrum murmured some curses about how pesky was that corporeal spirits nevertheless did not leave corporeal corpses and got to work. It did not take much work this time, and he hit a corpse after just a few shovelfuls of damp earth. It was a man with a long beard. Other features were obscured by decay. But it meant little to Redrum, all were equally beneath him in death.
{There is more about essences in OP, but basically, they are intangible consumables that add bonuses to your spells. Creating one counts as a spell in most cases and bonus given depends on rolls of that spell.}
Duritarum decided against climbing back up while his head rung like a foundry. He rested, and while he rested, he decided to meditate for a moment in case it helped. The exact benefit of meditation was unknown, but the headache had passed as fast as it came.
((Holy crap! The one guy who could help rolled a 6 on END and an 8 on LUCK! Talk about a lucky break!))
Oh, right, persistent aura type spells. I always forget those are a thing. Thank you, chaos.
...
I don't know HOW I didn't notice those white flowers earlier.
Make sure Surg and Skelliborn's faces are away from the floor, unless they actively and/or violently resist my efforts to do so. Once they've been reminded to sit up...
Is the forge lit? If yes, pick up a hot coal with tongs and systematically burn the flowers pumping pollen into the room. If not, light the forge, and then do the burny stuff if there is time. If it won't slow me down, make two essences. If I get to the point that I'm about to burn the last flower, grab some of its pollen in a makeshift container first.
Skeliborn was writhing on the ground and trying to chase away the invisible spiders that afflicted him.((You know, I think I'll just cast a spell by playing along with the madness.))
Argh Spiders. I Am So Sick Of Spiders Right Now. I Have Better Things To Than Deal With You. Go Away. What You till Won't Leave. In That Case I Will Make You Leave. I Summon Sword Of Purification.
Summon the Sword of Purification using 5, +1/+1 essences. The idea is that in addition to purifying the spiders I will purify my character thus removing the pollen
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Chorkinaan folded Surg face down well enough, but Skeliborn was attempting magic while out of his mind and that was just too unsafe to touch. Chorkinaan left him to it and began purging the flowers with an ember from the furnace. The ember had to be replaced a few times, as burning live and juice filled plants tends to sap the heat right out. The plan to grab some pollen in a container was discarded when conjured container turned out as a fingernail sized vase. Skeliborn, meanwhile, was shouting something about driders and waving about a pearly glowing sword.
Karnax gazed at the pollen that floated out of the tower. Clearly, someone was attempting a mass-murder.
Normally, Karnax would leave the tower alone, but this someone had recently rejected an offer of alliance from him. He decided to interfere out of spite.
Previous turn's action: Renew my fire-protection spell and extend its effects to Mallos.
This turn's action: MOAR POWAH into the ritual. Allow it to increase the temperature of the surrounding area again; I shall burn this pollen until it is nothing but ash.
"All right, let's try something else.."
Expend my essence(s) on making a field that destabilizes the position of incoming projectiles.
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Karnax cast a shield against flames on himself and his partner, and began pulling power from the portal. By the time the fire shield flickered out, he noticed that nothing at all seemed to be actually happening. Something was stealing whatever power he pulled away. Khozek, meanwhile, conjured a shield against projectiles around the two of them. Unsupported, it would not last much longer than Karnax's fire shield.
Pull the arrow off, and turn state of the pollen around Ilium same as he is. The theory is that if he's incorporeal, then incorporeal pollen would affect him just as well. Use both chaotic essences.
Since I have that favour from wind god waiting to be used, let's ask him to rouse winds within tower to keep pollen up in air for people to breathe. Keep wind up until I die or until I leave the tower.
{@XYXYXYXY Your current luck bonuses don't work on chaotic essence rolls. Also, you can't summon stuff inside of people unless they agree to it.}
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Shias, seeing how spores were not affecting Viznor swiftly deduced the cause. Clearly, his foe was ethereal, not truly there. Well, that was easily solved, and pollen next to Viznor began shifting into reality just nearby. But before they reached Viznor, he escaped through nearby wall. But Shias was not left without foes, Gambler, guarding his face with cloth from the spores, conjure up a chandler's worth of glass above them. This seemed not quite the intended effect as both mages were forced to dodge the falling glass. As Shias was rolling away from the glass, Viznor returned from another wall and stabbed with his hand claws where Shias head would had been had he not returned to rolling away from the danger. As Shias looked over his two foes, wind began sweeping through the Tower, shifting and mixing the clouds of pollen.
Doktor Diabolical:
"Oh my! So much... diabolicalness! Good thing I'm not in the thick of that! Now then...
Doktor Diabolical enlarges his robo-bike. Afterwards, he makes two essences.
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Doktor threw more magic onto his bike, forcing it to increase in size. It began cycling in circles around Doktor and his bots. Well, at least it hadn't run off anywhere, that would had been annoying. Some more magic flowed out of Doktors hands and onto the bike, making him worry for a repeat of cubebots, but nothing happened. Then Doktor noticed that the bicycle was also connected to him, just as the cubebots.
"Still doing nothing? I had hoped you would be a little more lively by now. Goodbye, Blake."
Set my cube swarm to a painfully close orbit around Blake.
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Cuberac sent out his swarm and they cut into Blake, piercing through skin though mostly just distracting. The distraction worked well, as Blake tried to blast the cubes away with hellfire but his hand was knocked closed as a cube whizzed by, melting the cube but sparing the others.
Have my crystal bird(been forgetting about it for a while) attack Easter, if it has any sort of magical abilities, use them on Easter if offensive, and on me or itself is defensive
Then grab him again
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Seva sent out his crystal bird on an attack course against Easter. After spending so long with Seva, the crystal bird had transformed into a miniature phoenix, burning like a campfire. It helped it little, as Easter dodged the bird and leapt over Seva, smacking him on the back with his stinger. It was as if he was taunting Seva, and to add to insult, birdmage could see Easter's wings beginning to regrow.
((Whoops. I figured something like this would happen. Eh, the lantern will come in handy soon enough.
I was wondering, was the gravekeeper corporeal enough to leave a corpse behind when the spirit vanished? I ask because I assumed that it had a physical component.))
Redrum peered at the remnants of once-mighty trees, robed now in decaying bark and attended by dry spurts of undergrowth. Too much death? No, there was no such thing. Soon, this place would be restored above and beyond its former glory.
Gather a bunch of withered twigs,STRIKE THE EARTHdig a shallow hole somewhere random and make another 4 essences.
((A bit of a deviation, but could you explain how ritual 'focuses' work?))
{Focuses add to Ritual every turn it is cast, but are not consumed. More appropriate/powerful focus the better the bonus.}
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Redrum murmured some curses about how pesky was that corporeal spirits nevertheless did not leave corporeal corpses and got to work. It did not take much work this time, and he hit a corpse after just a few shovelfuls of damp earth. It was a man with a long beard. Other features were obscured by decay. But it meant little to Redrum, all were equally beneath him in death.
Make a single essence. (I wonder how they work)
{There is more about essences in OP, but basically, they are intangible consumables that add bonuses to your spells. Creating one counts as a spell in most cases and bonus given depends on rolls of that spell.}
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Duritarum decided against climbing back up while his head rung like a foundry. He rested, and while he rested, he decided to meditate for a moment in case it helped. The exact benefit of meditation was unknown, but the headache had passed as fast as it came.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Ye Gods 5 OOC [0/40]
« on: October 29, 2016, 06:12:51 am »
Name: Renagor
Sphere: Mobility
Primary form: A tall man standing on whatever fastest thing the viewer knows of.
Symbol: A meteor
Description: Renagor likes going fast. His hobbies involve racing, building fast things, watching fast things and free falling. He can be found moving to places, from places, or in between two places.
Sphere: Mobility
Primary form: A tall man standing on whatever fastest thing the viewer knows of.
Symbol: A meteor
Description: Renagor likes going fast. His hobbies involve racing, building fast things, watching fast things and free falling. He can be found moving to places, from places, or in between two places.