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[freeformschooler]

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Spoiler: READING THE F'IN POSTIN' RULES FIRST YA EEJITS (click to show/hide)

Since players in the game repeatedly misunderstand what's appropriate and do not follow the Forum Guidelines, I would like to specifically address some issues that are simply not to be talked about.

If anyone breaks one of these, I will first warn them. If it happens again, I'll call a mod and lock the thread. THERE WILL BE NO QUALITY DIAL.

Now then!

Rule #1: DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN DISCUSSION OF A NOT-SAFE-FOR-WORK NATURE. The amount of sexual content in Warrens is minimal at worst, and all relationships are largely PG-13 material. Please do NOT discuss rape or any other similar content in this thread.
Rule #2: DO NOT RESORT TO PERSONAL ASSAULTS. While the thread contains a significant amount of debate over suggestions and plans, it is just a game. There is no reason to elevate it to the level of personal assaults.
Rule #3: IF SOMETHING ISN'T GOING YOUR WAY, CALM DOWN. There is no reason to panic or personally rage at me or any player. Whether the thread didn't update for too long, a rule wasn't used consistently or a character died that you really liked, it's just a game, and we're all Human.

Play nice.

Spoiler: REVISED EXPLANATION (click to show/hide)

The Warrens of Oric the Awesome is an illustrated dungeon crawl game that borrows themes and inspiration from many different game series. It starts out a bit slow and simplistic, but don't worry, the pace really picks up in Chapter 1

Warrens uses quirky RPG mechanics that can be a little confusing at times. It's based on an old rule system I've been using for a while, but it's not necessary to fully understand the rules. Like most things in Warrens, discovering the game system is part of the fun!

Much of the content in the game comes from the players or any number of random generators. There's no "set paths" for the player characters to follow (as proved later in the story). You can pretty much suggest anything, and if the suggestion is creative/popular enough, it'll be used.

Spoiler: Original explanation (Obsolete) (click to show/hide)

((A little experiment to keep me awake through five [seven?] days of testing. No updates to my other games until tests are done then this will likely die. Suggestion format.

All content is either player generated or created using random generators at Chaotic Shiny, Seventh Sanctum and elsewhere. My normal D20-based system will be used, but perhaps simplified. No previous knowledge required, all rules may be discovered during play.

Creative or thoughtful responses highly encouraged and more likely to be used when appropriate.))

You are this guy and/or girl. You have traveled for some time from your land, the Kingdom of Haria, to the dungeon you now stand in: the Warrens of Oric the Awesome. You do not know who Oric the Awesome is, but if he's so awesome, he probably has awesome loot, too.

First, a few questions.

What is your NAME?
What is your GENDER?
What is your CLASS?

Monk12's unofficial index of almost every update ever

NOW WITH TVTROPES PAGE! Come and add stuff to it!

TWoOtA Wiki! SO MANY SPOILERS.

Spoiler: Navigation (click to show/hide)

Prologue: Enter the Warrens


Part One: Ciro, Practical Fighter (Starts here!)
Part Two: Riltia, Glass Guardian
Part Three: Keeper of the Keep
Part Four: The Next Level
 
Chapter One: The Underside


Part One: Alone Again
Part Two: Al's Story
Part Three: Outer Underside
Part Four: Start of Darkness
 
Chapter Two: Nepotism


Part One: Two Hard Drives
Part Two: Rebirth
Part Three: Reunion
Intermission 1: "Sinful"
Part Four: The Adventure Continues!
Part Five: Surface Tension
Part Six: Debt Collection
Spirit Duel: Yaos Purification
Part Seven: Rising Stakes

Chapter Three: Unplanned


Part One: Variant Rules
Part Two: Destined Together
Part Three: Cain Unable

Chapter Four: Broken Throne

Part One: Underground Sky
Part Two:                       
Part Three: Peasants in the Presence of Unpleasants
Part Four: Traitor Blood
Part Five: There's Always Next Time...?

Spoiler: Reviews (contains spoilers) (click to show/hide)

So a PC, an NPC, and an Adorable Mascot walk into a bar. The PC orders some sweet loot, the NPC asks for some meaningful dialogue, and the Mascot blorbles. The bartender is freeformschooler and they all DIE THE END.

Well, that escalated quickly...

Just need an incest motive and we're set.

FFS could post a picture of a ham sandwich in here and people would be endlessly analyzing it for clues.

Congratulations, you have all been duped by the GM into spamming silly actions while he beats the shit out of our characters.

Blorble is life. Blorble is no mere onomatopoeia; it symbolizes the slime way of life. Blorble is what you feel when you are acceptably content with your work, when you've done nothing to be proud of. The norm, that's what followers of the blorble strive for. This way of thinking is not some excuse to be sub-par; indeed, some may not quite accomplish their goals. That's alright though, as failure is normal. It happens. The blorble way is to let it happen rather than scampering about in a fuss trying to be perfect at all times. Doing such dooms you to crushing disappointment. With blorble, Slog has risen above this. He knows that what he's doing is the right thing to do, because if it wasn't why would it be happening? Slimes cannot even comprehend the concept of "consequences". Why would something bad happening be directly a result of something else that had been done? It's not as if you know what would have happened if they'd tried doing otherwise!

With the philosophy of blorble slog has achieved a level of contentment and happiness we cannot dream of.

DONT GIVE FFS IDEAS.

What. Is. This.

Why does the child have the Ring of Sexiness? What is wrong with us? I mean, specifically relevant to this issue.

{J.O.G} Weaponized Knowledge: It starts off normal but then it's a slow descent into madness, stretching the seams of logic so that they split at the ends. It just keeps going. It has no resemblance to the beginning anymore and I'm pretty sure if it came from anyone else they would have to be under the influence of narcotics.

Uh, what? We started out as a simple stick figure in some sort of a top-down parody of oldschool dungeon crawlers. Now we're in a graphic sideview sprawling open-ended RPG kind of thing with characters, deep story, sociopaths and murder, occasional flash animations and danceoffs. How is this even remotely consistent?

wutwutwutwutwutwutwutwutwutWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

We took the dying anguish of every dwarf you ever caused and unleash it in a unassuming forum game.

Dammit man are you trying to decrease the chance of yuri shennannigans!?

Guys, don't argue here. The GM is perfectly capable of weeding out the terrible actions by himself.

Absolutely not. Like any good GM does, he picks them up and runs away with them.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

I wonder if we could carry the Buy pad around with the shopkeeper on top of it like some sort of Capitalist Ark of the Covenant.

I was not expecting this

I can tell you wanted to make our death as aesthetically pleasing as possible

Spoiler: Menu Library (yeah, spoilers) (click to show/hide)

The above image was just a joke. This is a library of most of the game's menus we've seen so that we don't have to go back and keep finding them. It's organized by category, but other than that, it's eternally chaotic/incomplete.

--Skills--
Aether Remnant
Bloodshape
Disappear
Druid's Bulwark
Growth
Frizz
Heal
Icicle Flurry
Locking Glass
Mage's Antithesis
Multi-stomp
Photorestomeditation
Ragnarok Crosshatch
Shadow Puppets
Spellbook of Breeze
Soulshape
Summon Spooky Skeletons
Tattle
WHACK!
Wish
ZAP!!!
--Weapons--
Al's Blade
Anticoagulator
Clot Cutter
Cupid's Arrow
Cupid's Assault
Flail Gone Wrong (AKA SWORDFLAILCHAINLAMP)
Heartbreak
Hemiglo-bore
Hily Ilegal Bartering Ram
Proxxy Coil
Polar Plunge
Red Cross
Riltia's Spear
Smacking Stick
Very Big Spear
--Armor--
Blood Band
Desmond's Mask
Hard Hat
Signpost Stealthbox
Technomantic Visor
--Consumables/Power-ups--
Focus Jewel
Level Up Potion
Mushroom
Skill Potion
--Soul Stars--
These won't be kept up to date just because the menus change so much.
Astral Influx
Astral Influx (Second Shift)
Asynchrony Catalyst
Asynchrony Catalyst (Second Shift)
Illborn Exchange
Illborn Exchange (Second Shift)
Reverent Savior
"Unallocated" Soul Star
--Crafting--
Acid Potion
Cheery Tree Leaves
Energy Weed
Essence of Crab
Essence of Fellsetto
Essence of Outer Sucker
Essence of Slime
Essence of Wisp
Radiating Sin
Seraph's Solace
Skill Tree
Stolen Christmas
--Misc.--
Also likely won't be kept up to date.
Coin Machine
Currency
Ladder
Polar Eye
Save Point

Spoiler: Range Table (click to show/hide)

          FROM
    RANGE Melee Med   Long
TO  Melee +4    -2    -4
    Med   -2    +2    -2
    Long  -4    -2    +4

Spoiler: Rankings (spoilers within, beware) (click to show/hide)

This is just for fun. Try to beat the high scores in red!

MAIN CHARACTERS SLAIN: 3 (6!)
GENDERS SWAPPED: 1 (4!)
SHOPKEEPERS COPIED AND PASTED: 4 (10!)
SOULS DEACTIVATED: 2 (5!)
POINTLESS SIDEQUESTS COMPLETED: 1 (16!)
SHIPS CALIBRATED: 3 (5!)
ARENAS BATTLED: 2 (12!)
BOSSES BONUSED: 1 (5!)
LOVERS QUARRELED: 1 (6!)
CHAPTERS COMPLETED: 4 (7!)
CLASSES CHANGED: 1 (4!)
NAMES NAMED: 3 (3!)
RACKS INSULTED:  3 (2!)
IDENTITIES CRISISED:  1 (3!)
DESTINIES DOORSTEPPED: 0 (8!)

Spoiler: Most recent Storage (maybe spoilers) (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Tip Log (no spoilers, just confusion) (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Fan Works (maybe spoilers) (click to show/hide)

I apologize for the everything about the art and the nothing about the concept.

I would draw some quick fan art, but it wasn't nearly as fun as making a cheap sprite-game out of it!

I drew a thing.

Sacrifice Cows to FFS.

Spoiler: Theorycrafting Contest (massive spoilers) (click to show/hide)

Rules: the first person to correctly determine the answer to any of these big mysteries will not only have a spot in the OP under the Theory Contest but also reward the characters with a special item. The winner cannot merely guess, however. They must also provide evidence for their theories as found in the updates! Here's the current big mysteries:

1) Where do Illborn come from and what do they want?
Won by: mastahcheese with a little help! The Illborn Exchange can now recruit Illborn levels 1-4.
2) Who is the rightful owner of each Soul Star we've seen so far?
Won by: monk12 and the others who spend countless hours scouring the thread for info! The Astral Influx's soul charge capacity is doubled. Great job, guys!
3) Why did Ciro have internal bleeding during the Hard Hats arena?
Won by: javierpwn and others! The Ardent Circuit's secondary form costs 50% less Soul Charge.
4) Why does Oric want the Target dead?
5) What were the multicolored spots of light Ciro saw when she stared into the void below DL2? Won by: javierpwn and monk12! The Asynchrony Catalyst gains a new menu option.
6) Who are the Lord and King referred to by the Angels? Won by: javierpwn and heydude6! The Vain Crescendo is granted a special ability when all the user's allies in the Active Party hold their Soul Stars.

Though it would be an exercise in memory and problem solving, each question could feasibly be answered with information from the updates so far. Good luck!

Spoiler: Official Warrens OST (Spoilers!) (click to show/hide)

1. Proxxy War (Theme of Proxxy)
2. Not yet unlocked!
3. Not yet unlocked!
4. Not yet unlocked!
5. Not yet unlocked!
6. Not yet unlocked!
7. Not yet unlocked!
8. Over and Out (Theme of ? ? ?)
9. Not yet unlocked!
10. Not yet unlocked!

[Xantalos]

Ciro the Relative Newbie.
Male
Practical Fighter -USE ANYTHING TO ATTACK

[Furtuka]

Ciro the OK
Male
Hobo

[freeformschooler]

Practical Fighter -USE ANYTHING TO ATTACK

Ciro the OK
Male

OK. Your name is Ciro the OK. You are trained in the way of the Practical Fighter. To show this, you add to your inventory and equip a piece of class-appropriate headgear.

What now?

[Xantalos]

Green door

[kaian-a-coel]

Isnt it the one we entered? If no, green door. If yes, red.

[freeformschooler]

Green door

Isnt it the one we entered? If no, green door. If yes, red.

You entered through a hole in the ceiling. It was probably there before. Probably.



You see a couple wooden doors and a pile of Fountain Pence (84). If you had opinions, you would think Fountain Pence is an excellent form of currency.

[TherosPherae]

Pick up the cash, then search that north door for TRAPS.

[freeformschooler]

Pick up the cash, then search that north door for TRAPS.

You search the northern door for traps after putting the loot in your inventory. (ROLL: 4) It is kind of hard to tell whether or not the door is trapped.

[Xantalos]

Throw a coin at the door. See what happens.

[freeformschooler]

Throw a coin at the door. See what happens.

A light, mechanical grinding noise is heard when the coin impacts the ground in front of the door. But otherwise nothing happens.

[Xantalos]

ANOTHER! Hit the door this time.

[freeformschooler]

ANOTHER! Hit the door this time.

You feel this is a low return investment.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Or was it throwing Fountain Pence at doors? Damnit, I'm getting old."

-Alfred Lichenstein

[Xantalos]

Go through the door. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?!

[freeformschooler]

Go through the door. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?!

The weight-triggered SPIKE TRAP goes off, dealing FOUR DAMAGE. You quickly write this change down on your statsheet then enter through the door, picking up your lost change as you go.



That spidery thingy doesn't look very happy.