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Author Topic: Tribulations in Magic: The cavalry is... still preparing.  (Read 317833 times)

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Re: Tribulations in Magic: 100 turns, 26 deaths. This is going well.
« Reply #2010 on: February 17, 2015, 10:55:09 am »

Oh, so to kill Robert you should continue to aim for the torso, right?

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HMR stands for Hazardous Materials Requisition, not Horrible Massive Ruination, though I can understand how one could get confused.
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Re: Tribulations in Magic: 100 turns, 26 deaths. This is going well.
« Reply #2011 on: February 17, 2015, 11:12:01 am »

I do not tell my players how to play. That would defeat the whole purpose of them being players, you know.

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« Reply #2012 on: February 17, 2015, 11:25:53 am »

I'd never tell people how to play either!  It might kill the excitement for Derm, Bigf00t, Robert, Flimsy, and the others!
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Re: Tribulations in Magic: 100 turns, 26 deaths. This is going well.
« Reply #2013 on: February 17, 2015, 12:42:07 pm »

"What's happening?"

Go back in the room I just left; try again with G-845, then G-895
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Re: Tribulations in Magic: 100 turns, 26 deaths. This is going well.
« Reply #2014 on: February 18, 2015, 06:44:34 am »

Turn correction: Dorsidwarf's missing word.

[Pot:6-1=5]
A golden line appears, and immediately begins the drawing of a big, fat humanoid. A pair of big upward tusks in its face give you the only hint that you need: it is a troll. But then it begins to move, still in line form, and launches its body towards you, its hands directed at your neck. Predictably enough, it goes through you, like the immaterial being it is, and then vanishes.

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Re: Tribulations in Magic: 100 turns, 26 deaths. This is going well.
« Reply #2015 on: February 19, 2015, 08:03:57 am »

Scream in terror at the dark nothingness and start to science some more
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Re: Tribulations in Magic: 100 turns, 26 deaths. This is going well.
« Reply #2016 on: February 19, 2015, 09:06:31 am »

Gold lions are not part of a balanced diet!
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Re: Tribulations in Magic: 100 turns, 26 deaths. This is going well.
« Reply #2017 on: February 20, 2015, 12:05:54 pm »

I've just PMed the last two people who need to post an action...

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Tribulations in Magic: Nobody got hurt. Waitlisters disappointed.
« Reply #2018 on: February 21, 2015, 01:41:05 pm »

Turn 101

"Man, I need to stop doing so well."

You put the armor you just made. It feels uncomfortable, but it will do. Or at least you hope so.

Anyway, you have more plans, more instruments of annihilation to create:

[Pot:1+1=2]
A golden line materializes, but only manages to aimlessly wiggle before disappearing.

Well, your luck is gone.

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You consider how to fix yourself, and you think that you get an idea:

[Pot:3+1-1=3]
You flash with light, only to get back to your previous, fleshy form. With flesh, comes the pain. Oh, the horrible pain! Not having most of your face is something quite uncomfortable, but the words you found to describe it in the moment were more along the lines of "OH SHIT IT HURTS DAMMIT". Still, your head begins to glow, and with a flash of light it becomes fixed! And made of biometal! And quite small. Considering that biometal people already speak funny, your voice sounds more like a balloon propelling air from a really small hole.

Only head is biometal:
[Very small]
[Yields]
[Soft]

((You don't get dodge bonuses because it is just your head.))

You also notice that your torso is still lacking its front, and bleeding.

Torso:
Lacks a chunk! Maluses persist even if the bleeding stops.
[Bleeding I]

WORDS FOR TURN OVAR 100!!!!!

SCIENCE. MUST. BE. DONE.

[Pot:3+1=4]
Another biometal sack appears. Upon making contact with the other one, the older one slowly receded, vanishing into thin air, until the newer sack touched the floor. Better not to mess with that one.

[Pot:5+1=6]
A thick line appears and draws a dude that could totally be playing in the NBA. ((No, I don't know the Aussie equivalent of that))

[Pot:6+1=7]
A big mass of a kind of semi-transparent golden material appears and proceeds to push everything away from it. Both sacks collide, until the older one is but a few scraps of biometal. Oddly enough, the new sack is still empty.

[Pot:6+1=7]
Nothing happens! Wooo!

"What's happening?"

Go back in the room I just left; try again with G-845, then G-895

You walk towards the Grand Room. There, you find the diamond serpent and the golden lion. You have no idea why you thought this a good idea, but you are more worried about this odd stuff that doesn't make sense:

[Pot:4+1=5]
Nothing happens.

[Pot:4]
Again, nothing happens.

Maybe you are messing with something that is not actually material, and so you can't perceive it?

Meanwhile, the feathered serpent and the lion look at each other menacingly:

Gold lions are not part of a balanced diet!

[Robert spd:5-1=4]
[Lion spd:1-1-1=-1]

The lion lazily roars as it tries to figure how to move. It seems that it will now have to walk diagonally, his main body having bent more than expected. The diamond God uses this opportunities to get the hell away. He soon arrives to where Derm and The Flimsy Wizard are.

Oddly, when he was leaving, a pair of arcane beams erupted from the diamond (and partially biometal) wall, cutting an entrance from the West, and allowing a passage to the Portal Room. A pair of floating figures could be seen getting away from the scene.

The opening revealed that a strong red light was coming from the portal. This doesn't look great.

Scream in terror at the dark nothingness and start to science some more

The starfish-headed man screams in silence as he realizes how he screwed things up. He frantically tries to perform more magic:

[Pot:4]
Something happened, but you don't have they eyes to see it. Dammit.

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Doris, intrigued by her sudden discovery, tries more magic!

[Pot:5-1=4]
A golden line appears, and draws a tiger out of itself. As soon as it finishes, it begins to move, and tries to attack you! Fortunately, its claws just go through you, and it vanishes without leaving a trace.

[Pot:3-1=2]
You get another golden line, but this one doesn't draw anything, and instead directly jumps at your face, still making no contact and just phasing through.

[Pot:2-1=1]
[Dex:6+1=7]

Doris realizes that something just went wrong, and then she ducks and rolls, just as a mass of fire tries to engulf her from everywhere. Fortunately, she got out of it without a single scratch.

Hmm, it seems that magic can be dangerous too!

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Yet again, the biometal lizard feels chills run down his spine. It is quite uncomfortable, and somewhat distressing.


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Re: Tribulations in Magic: Nobody got hurt. Waitlisters disappointed.
« Reply #2019 on: February 21, 2015, 01:47:51 pm »

To a different room!

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Re: Tribulations in Magic: Nobody got hurt. Waitlisters disappointed.
« Reply #2020 on: February 21, 2015, 01:52:34 pm »

Time is running out.
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"Y'know, my favorite thing about being a hero is that it gives you all kinds of narrative justification to just slay any ol' jerk who gets in the way - Black Mage.
"The bulk of [Derm]'s atrocities seem to stem from him doing things that [Magic] doesn't actually do." - TvTropes
"Dammit Derm!" - You, if I'm doing it right.
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Re: Tribulations in Magic: Nobody got hurt. Waitlisters disappointed.
« Reply #2022 on: February 21, 2015, 02:00:26 pm »

What kind of teammate would I be if I didn't at least try to steal my points back at the last second?
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I can do anything I want, as long as I accept the consequences.
"Y'know, my favorite thing about being a hero is that it gives you all kinds of narrative justification to just slay any ol' jerk who gets in the way - Black Mage.
"The bulk of [Derm]'s atrocities seem to stem from him doing things that [Magic] doesn't actually do." - TvTropes
"Dammit Derm!" - You, if I'm doing it right.
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Re: Tribulations in Magic: Nobody got hurt. Waitlisters disappointed.
« Reply #2023 on: February 21, 2015, 02:15:54 pm »

What kind of teammate would I be if I didn't at least try to steal my points back at the last second?
Oh, that's a different subject, but the fight will likely last more than one turn, so you are not the one who should be worried.

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Re: Tribulations in Magic: Nobody got hurt. Waitlisters disappointed.
« Reply #2024 on: February 21, 2015, 05:28:47 pm »

Tomcost, earlier you mentioned that there were ways to get souls other than by killing players or bosses. Do the cleaning machines (like the guy that fixed the statue or the reaper) give souls when defeated/destroyed?
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