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Author Topic: (ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner  (Read 24178 times)

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(ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner
« on: November 22, 2013, 05:17:54 pm »

What is this crazy shit?
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What are the rules?
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Aaaaaand without further ado, the game!

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You are an Antman, or Formicid if you want to use the technical term. Your upbringing was easy, as you were a drone. The one purpose of your existence was to fly the great caverns for a few weeks and screw any potential future queen you came across, and to ensure you lived long enough to do just that you were excused from all physical labor and forced to remain in your room for the duration of your youth. You devoted all that free time to the magical art of summoning!

Just yesterday you returned from completing your life's work. The past few weeks were awesome, but now you have a crisis on your hands; You have served your purpose, and the colony already has a bunch of summoners on royal retainer. The colony does not like feeding the worthless, so you suspect you will receive a formal summons for execution in the near future.

To avoid this fate you have decided to wander the earth and make a living off your magic. You heard things are pretty fucked up in the surface world right now, as the Demon Viceroy has kidnapped the leaders off all the surface civilizations for some nefarious purpose or another. There should be plenty of work for mercenary mages up there.

You inform the queen that you would rather face exile than death, and she graciously agrees to let you use the colonies' teleportation chamber! She is also kind enough to give you a few days to prepare for your travels...

You Begin Making your Preparations:

First off you fill out the standard exile request form at the colony DMV. It is a long and boring document that goes  into much more depth than is necessary, but you guess processing it gives the DMV workers something to do as the automobile hasn't been invented yet. What name do you sign on the form?

Next you visit the colony library. Tradition dictates that mages facing exile may take a single spellbook with them. You find three that are suitable for a summoner of your level and spend some time considering which one to take...

Choose a book, nerd:
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The market is your next destination, and you bring your meager life savings. Dried Aphids are useless as currency on the surface, so you might as well spend everything here. You already have basic robes and a knife, and antmen are not picky eaters, so you can survive off of garbage and slain foes without having to waste money on rations. Since the basics are taken care of, you might as well get something cool.

Buy one of these thing, you damn capitalist pig:
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When you finish your shopping, you still have some time left to kill before your appointment with the teleporter. Might as well spend it productively...

Choose how you want to waste your time:
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At long last it is time to bid farewell to you home forever. You enter the teleportation chamber, and the technician asks you where you wish to be sent. He hands you a brochure with a list of options. It seems the teleport can reach settlements within each of the surface nations.

Choose the town you wish to die/start your adventure in!
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Re: (ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2013, 05:30:52 pm »

Name: Ithan
Book: The Tome of Planar Summons. Power is what matters.
Purchase: Necklace of summoning. More power is what we need.
Spend time: Researching treasure maps.
Start in: The City of Atemshire. We should be able to recruit new mages there, for more power.
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Re: (ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2013, 06:04:40 pm »

Name: Ithan
Book: The Tome of Planar Summons. Power is what matters.
Purchase: Necklace of summoning. More power is what we need. Robe of flight
Spend time: Researching treasure maps.
Start in: The City of Atemshire. We should be able to recruit new mages there, for more power.
+1
« Last Edit: November 22, 2013, 09:06:27 pm by GiglameshDespair »
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Re: (ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2013, 06:09:23 pm »

Is it too early to start grinding up ant relationship points?

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Edit: I'm suddenly struck by the near-certainty that our hero is a biped with four arms, not a particularly intelligent hexapod. This won't take but ten minutes ...
« Last Edit: November 22, 2013, 06:13:16 pm by Nirur Torir »
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Re: (ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2013, 06:14:30 pm »

> Slay the other summoner ants
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Re: (ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2013, 06:20:40 pm »

Name: Ithan
Book: The Tome of Planar Summons. Power is what matters.
Purchase: Necklace of summoning. More power is what we need.
Spend time: Researching treasure maps.
Start in: The City of Atemshire. We should be able to recruit new mages there, for more power.
+1
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Re: (ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2013, 06:24:55 pm »

Name: Ithan
Book: The Tome of Planar Summons. Power is what matters.
Purchase: Necklace of summoning. More power is what we need.
Spend time: Researching treasure maps.
Start in: The City of Atemshire. We should be able to recruit new mages there, for more power.
Would prefer the bug book because we are stereotypical. +1 other then that.
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Re: (ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner
« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2013, 06:31:24 pm »

Name: Ithan
Book: The Tome of Planar Summons. Power is what matters.
Purchase: Necklace of summoning. More power is what we need.
Spend time: Sell our stuff - get the robe of the sky. Spellcaster with true flight; -60% mortality rate. Also, flight-shenanigans!
Start in: The City of Atemshire. We should be able to recruit new mages there, for more power.

Agreed on most points - would prefer true flight over a single job thou...
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Re: (ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2013, 06:37:20 pm »

Name: Ithan
Book: The Tome of Planar Summons. Power is what matters.
Purchase: Necklace of summoning. More power is what we need.
Spend time: Researching treasure maps.
Start in: The City of Atemshire. We should be able to recruit new mages there, for more power.
+1
+1
+1 but would prefer to get the ant larva instead of the necklace of summoning. Once it grows up, we will have something to protect our squishy mage butt that isn't temporary.
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Re: (ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner
« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2013, 06:42:16 pm »

Name: Ithan
Book: The Tome of Planar Summons. Power is what matters.
Purchase: Necklace of summoning. More power is what we need.
Spend time: Sell our stuff - get the robe of the sky. Spellcaster with true flight; -60% mortality rate. Also, flight-shenanigans!
Start in: The City of Atemshire. We should be able to recruit new mages there, for more power.

Agreed on most points - would prefer true flight over a single job thou...

Actually, yes - -1 to necklace, +1 to robe of flight
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Re: (ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner
« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2013, 06:43:45 pm »

I'm changing my vote from searching for treasure to selling enough stuff to get the Robe of the Sky. Survivability is good.

Edit: I'm suddenly struck by the near-certainty that our hero is a biped with four arms, not a particularly intelligent hexapod. This won't take but ten minutes ...
I don't know what ten minutes are. Nor do I have any experience drawing exoskeletons. But I remembered the wings this time.

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Re: (ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2013, 06:47:17 pm »

Name: Ithan
Book: The Tome of Planar Summons. Power is what matters.
Purchase: Necklace of summoning. More power is what we need.
Spend time: Researching treasure maps.
Start in: The City of Atemshire. We should be able to recruit new mages there, for more power.
+1
+1
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Re: (ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner
« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2013, 08:09:20 pm »

Name: Ithan
Book: The Tome of Planar Summons. Power is what matters.
Purchase: Necklace of summoning. Robe of the Sky. More power flight is what we need.
Spend time: Researching treasure maps.
Start in: The City of Atemshire. We should be able to recruit new mages there, for more power.
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« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2013, 08:25:48 pm »

Tally post. I didn't count the votes for a second item, since it doesn't look like they will change anything, but they were all for flight.
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Ithan: 8

Planar Summons: 7
Bug spells: 1

Robe of Flight: 4
Necklace of Summoning: 3
Larva: 1

Treasure Maps: 6
Selling stuff: 2

Elf City: 8
« Last Edit: November 22, 2013, 09:35:29 pm by Nirur Torir »
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Re: (ISG)Goofy Rougelike II: Antman Summoner
« Reply #14 on: November 22, 2013, 09:07:03 pm »

Did you remember to subtract my vot from necklace and and it to robe?
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