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[SeriousConcentrate]

(Cal y u maek meh jelly ;-;)

[Spinal_Taper]

((Agreed. Now I must cry as well.))

[IronyOwl]

((Impressive as always. ))

((but I couldn't find a way to reproduce that maniacal face in a more serious drawing. Meh.))

((Wide eyes relative to the pupils, a wide open mouth that curves upward (to denote smiling), and visible teeth tend to be signs of derangement. Forward-positioned pupils also tend to help, since they imply focus on whatever's ahead of them, and the eyebrows should generally be slanting forward down/backward up, to clarify their wide eyes as anger/focus rather than surprise/fear.

Like in this crude edit:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Obviously it's easier to pull off the less detail/realism there is, but you can see the effect is more due to positioning than simplicity.))

[SeriousConcentrate]

(You should totally add an Appearance spoiler to your actions here and use that picture. :3)

[IronyOwl]

((Which, the original or the deranged edit?

I probably should, though, except I'm not fond of doing much effort every turn. That's why I list my skills as Toughness 3 rather than Toughness³, for instance; the superscript doesn't copy and I don't want to have to quote. :x))

[SeriousConcentrate]

(Really? All I do is quote my previous action, remove the two quote tags, and replace the bold text. I don't find it that time-consuming and I'm on a somewhat slow connection. >.> Maybe you should make a .txt document or something containing your data, update that when necessary, and just paste it into each turn? ^^^)

[IronyOwl]

((Hm... that might work. Maybe I'll try that a few times.))

[Skyrunner]

Ire

6

"What? No... no, you are scaring me! You speak without body, only voices bouncing in my head ..."

4

"The stairs? There are no stairs. I don't see any stairs. Do you see stairs?"

The man laughs quietly.

1

"Why am I armed? To protect myself from disembodied spirits, of course." The man laughs again, a strange laughter that bubbles out of him, shaking his shoulders mirthfully though his face is still on the calm side. His grip tightens on the sword, though.
"Are you spirits too? I can kill you, you know. This sword can cut through souls . . ."

+6 Diplomacy.

Azastre looks around for Sandra. 6 She's standing right beside him, staring at the man disbelievingly. Her jaw is slack, and her swords hand calmly on her belt. It may be just Azastre, but the black one glitters.

He turns to find the stairs, but they are gone. Seeing Azastre, the man says,

"Oh, you might enter freely, spirit, but you aren't leaving easily."

He chuckles, but again loosens and tightens his grip on the big sword he has.

Kahn looks around, heart sinking at "Zalgo"'s words, and indeed sees nothing that might be a staircase.

Ace asks.

"Zalgo" ponders a bit, then says hesitantly, "I think ... I think I've been here... I don't know. I've always had my spirit sword, though." Shaking his head, he stares at Ace with empty eyes.

Jack looks around. He sees his party members, the unidentified man in the middle with the human-length sword, the various splintered sticks of white material scattered around the room and rooted in the ground at angles, and the disturbing lack of stairs, including the one he just came up. A pale chandelier blinks abovehead, with swirling flames with no source.

Rod 4 discovers that the long shards of material are actually some sort of crystal. The reason they are solid-colored, though, is because 4 there are faint images of faces impressed inside the crystal, white and ill-defined but recognizable as human. They all seem to be shrieking in agony, mouths wide open and with shadowed eyes.

Arianna pays 256 gold coins for the +9 rusty dented sword. The man nods and smiles and drywashes his hands as Arianna counts out all two hundred fifty six coins, and practically shoos her off.

The sword is made of 1 SWORD_MAT_5_SILVERY.
To clarify, she has no idea.

Iron bars are five golden Tower marks a bar. Three bars for a piece of armor.
Iron bars tend to be stronger than other materials such as gold or silver, even on the same rolls. Steel is even better.

Upon inquiry, Arianna finds that unpolished sapphires can be found in blocks, often imperfect, with faults, smudges, impurities, and the gamut of conditions that could ail stone or gem. The price is the same as for spherical ones, except that the diameter is counted as the longest diameter you can measure from edge to edge on a right angle.

((Clarification of appearance:
"Zalgo" has skin. He's not a skeleton. He's just severely emaciated. refer to this. To be exact, I suppose he has -some- muscle visible.

Also, must create nightmare fuel. 2 Aw man.))

[SeriousConcentrate]

Seeing that there was no way out of this without a fight, the demon probably hadn't noticed him yet, and there was only honor in eliminating evil... Kahn went for a backstab with his spear!

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Sir Kahn
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Appearance:  See next spoiler
Background: Sir Kahn is actually an undercover knight who has been infiltrating a clan of raiders for the past five years in hopes of busting them in the act of some really big scheme they clearly (don't) have in mind.
Attack: 8
HP: 35/35

Equipped: +2 Shocking Plus Spear - Shocks enemy on a roll of 5 or 6
Mountain Bandit Clothing
+4 Marble Dwarven Mountain Armor - It has a 16.66% chance of impeding an action. It's also fake, because Sir Kahn is obviously not a dwarf.

Skills: Polearms (Level 1): 0 pts
Charisma (Level 1): 0 pts

Spoiler: Appearance (click to show/hide)

By Caellath!

[Tiruin]

[...]

Also, must create nightmare fuel. 2 Aw man.

((<3 you Sky. 

Also...current title reflects Bourne Identity?  ))

(Really? All I do is quote my previous action, remove the two quote tags, and replace the bold text. I don't find it that time-consuming and I'm on a somewhat slow connection.

((Exactly what I do. But worse connection. ))


Ire glanced to her right, and saw that there was no stairwell in sight.

To her left, she saw Sire Kahn ready his spear and harden his countenance. He must be up to something.

Train Diplomacy!

Alleviate any hostilities!

"Well...if you define spirit technically, yes, we are spirits. Though we have bodies and material...stuff."

Somehow, she couldn't remember much from her multiple visits of penance to the local clergy, especially on their sayings.

Hmm...

"But we're missing the point.

Why do you want to protect yourself from spirits? We're of the benevolent sort. Harmless!" She put emphasis on the last word in the hopes that Kahn would hear and get her hint.

She hoped this would work.

Spoiler: Ire Fidel (click to show/hide)

Age:27
Gender:Female
Appearance: Ire is a tall woman with jet black hair that falls to shoulder length, tied in a braid. She has dark brown eyes that match her light complexion. She is garbed in a light grey cloak with leather armor underneath.
Background: Known to be a deviant person, Ire was brought up with knowledge of the law and it's rapport with the common people. Living her life as a lone vigilante in the prime cities, stopping would-be-muggers and thieves, she has learned most of her own skills from the people she tracks.

Ironically, she has never taken a life nor stolen without repaying back, in anyway whatsoever.

Due to all this, she is partly allergic to rope.

Class:Rogue Assassin

attack: 4
defense: 1
hp: 23/28

Inspired! - Burning Inspiration ; Combustive footing

Inspiration left: Nothing! 

Skills Known:
Toughness^I - (I'm tough. Yay!)
Enhanced Attack I (+1 to attack, already added in.)
Enhanced Attack II - 00 points trained.
Acrobatics - 10 points trained.
Projectile Throwing I - (bonus to thrown weapons)
Projectile Throwing II - 00 points trained.
Diplomacy - 10 points trained.
Animal Training - 30 points trained.

Spells Known:
Field Healing

Known Status Afflictions made on self:
Disable - Can only perform 1 action per turn.

Inventory:
Her clothing - Now but a slightly better tank-top and a set of pants. Minus the Leather Armor.
A large red coral button
A +2 Gold-plated Sterling Silver Spear Augmented with Sterling Silver and Gold, Encrusted with Sterling Silver - {Equipped}
A +10 Fire Clay encrusted Dragonfire-thrower - {Equipped} 2 charges left ; Will survive one sundering strike due to decoration
Three Uncut Sapphires
Sharp Dented Steel Dagger
Six Silver Throwing Daggers (+2 Modifier)
A heap of inorganic materia

[Caellath]

((@IronyOwl: Now she looks frightened. D:))

Azastre stares at Sandra for some time. Then she is as puzzled as they are...Meh, not much to do aside from staring at the skeleton-skin thing.

Azastre shrugs, stays near Sandra and trains Aiming.

Spoiler:  Azastre Ferrusleo (click to show/hide)

Name: Azastre Ferrusleo
Age: ? (appears to be very young)
Gender: Male
Appearance: 5' 10", leanly-built, long light blue hair reaching past his waist and partially tied in a single braid. He has fiery orange eyes, a very young-looking face and is stark naked at the moment except for a pristine white Roma-style toga draped over his shoulders which ends at his thighs and tends to flutter from time to time, much to his dismay. He also wears calligae (roman soldier sandals), altough they are styled like the roman civilians' sandals, despite their sturdier leather.
Class: Crafter/Smith/Inventor.

Skill Points: 0
Skills:
-Acrobatics²
-Ambidexterity²
-Enhanced Attack¹
-Ammocrafting - 41 points
-Pankration - 4 points
-Armorcrafting - 6 points
-Social - 9 points
-Aiming - 30 points
Attack: 2
HP: 45/45
Inventory (aside from clothing):
Masterpiece +2/.1/+10 Mithril Anti-Material Rifle encrusted with Jewels and Leather - Has integrated crystalline eyesights
>four +3/+10 Dual-stage bullets
>two +2/+5 Dual stage iron bullets
>xgold +0/-4 bulletx
>one +4/+2 bullet
>one quartz +2/+3 bullet
>one quartz +4/+4 bullet
>two +3/+6 marble bullets
>one -5/-10 bullet
+.5 Gold-Azurite Non-leather Caestus
+.5 Gold-Azurite Caestus
three large silver daggers
few largish bones of dubious origin
twisted pieces of gold railing
marble?
oversized armor
Silver and bone shoulderguard: Heals the kestrel whenever he roosts there for more than a turn.
-Kestrel: Brownish plumage speckled with black spots (has very sharp talons)

Male
10/10 HP
2 Attack
2 Defense
+1 Leather Armor

-Giant Robot Companion: Is tall and is made of metal.

Spoiler: Chibi Ref (click to show/hide)

[Spinal_Taper]

"Why spirits?"

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Class: Revolver-Toting cliche
HP: 14/15
Defense: .5
Attack:5
Skills:
9 leathercraft
INV:
1 +2 Enigma mana bullet((Enter bullet time when shot at self))
1 +4 panning mithril revolver
1 +3 sterling silver revolver
1 +3 xmosaic bulletx
2 +0 silver bullets
2 -5 silver bullets
2 +1 xxsilver bulletsxx
2 +2 silver bullets
2 +2 xsilver bulletsx
1 +10 Pheonix Quartz Bullet ((After being fired, sacrifice 25% of health to recreate it))
1/2 Ashes of Darkness
2 +3 homing magical topaz bullets
1 +2 golden revolver revolver
1 pair Skimpy Goblin Leather Coat ((+2 to social rolls against the opposite gender)).

[IronyOwl]

((Have I mentioned how incredibly difficult it is to figure out what sized gem I want and what I'm going to make with it? At first I figured it'd be a maul, but the gem's ball shaped so that doesn't necessarily work as well. One-handed mace is a possibility, as is ball n chain...

Plus even if I was absolutely positive (and I am leaning towards maul) there's still the question of whether to be vaguely realistic or full-on overboard. A "maul" could have a head the size of a fist or larger than a head and still probably work...))

[IronyOwl]

Arianna got the distinct impression that the merchant was untrustworthy. That left the distinct impression she'd be seeing him again some time.

Still, there was no cause to worry. If it turned out she'd been cheated, she'd exact justice if she got around to it, and move on if not. She had better things to do than quibble over some merchant's trickery.

Possible Cold Justice^TM aside, she had several more items that needed purchasing, and comrades to join a level up. Possibly two, at the rate she was going.

First, she returned to that merchant with the gem, apologized for the delay (due to measurement misunderstandings), and purchased a sapphire 49 cm around. It was considerably smaller than she had originally planned, but still massive by any reasonable standards, and more than big enough to serve as the centerpiece to a weapon.

Her next stop was silks. Attempting to pick out the better ones, she collected 9 rolls total- three in black, two in red, and four in whatever color they came in, presumably white.

Finally, she stopped to get some bronze bars. 16 bars, to be precise.

With her shopping concluded, and assuming no shenanigans, she returned to the plain stairs she had found earlier and ascended.

Purchase 49 cm sapphire.

Purchase 3 black, 2 red, 4 default color silk rolls, hopefully high quality.

Purchase 16 bronze bars.

Assuming all goes as planned, ascend plain stairs.

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Arianna Salgrief
23/24 HP
2 Attack
1 Defense

Dodging 2
Toughness 3 [+9 hp; 15 base]

Leatherworking (9 pt)
Armorcrafting (18 pt)
Butchery (12 pt)
Diplomacy (6 pt)

+9 Sword: Made of some silvery material. Dented, beat up, even rusty in places, but powerful through sheer magic.
Xx+2 lacquered stone armorxX :: 50% on losing one +1 every hit, and a 25% for losing the other +1 after.

Core Key
Feathers :: Every color of the rainbow and then some except green and violet, plus white, black, and several shades in between.
Goblin Leather Clothes: "Not too shabby" leather coat, tunic, and pants.
Feather Triangle Piece
Goblin bones
Goblin Bone Form-Fitting Knee-High Boots: Very form-fitting, probably a pain to wear in combat. Not very good vs piercing, but might be handy for kicking things.
80 gold Tower coins: They feature a stylized dragon head on one side and an image of Sky Tower on the other. Each coin is the size of a wine cork and ribbed around the edges. Divided amongst three sacks.

Pet Male Rose-Breasted Grosbeak: It is a black bird with a red breast and a yellow spot on its head. It eats seeds. It glows with a minor red aura.


18 Female Death Knight
Tall, beautiful woman with very fair skin, long blonde hair, and ice blue eyes.

[Scelly9]

Collect splintery white things!

Spoiler: Jack Dendy (click to show/hide)

Skills:
Attack: 9
HP: 10/10
Magic Mastery
Small-rock-to-brain diplomacy: 5
Diplomacy: 2
INV:
6 razor sharp stones
+-.5 Sharp Stone Wand-
+1 Stone Breastplate of Cuts
+3 Exceptionally Accurate Topaz Encrusted Mithril Wand.
4 +2 Iron Stars'
1 Goblin Leather