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[Ghazkull]

This is a Revival of a game of Forsaken1111. Of course restarted with his permission.

Link to the Original: Dark Magi

A Long time has passed since the Apprentices of Xan the Despoiler had returned to find the tower of the dark wizard abandoned. The Apprentices have long since gone, going their own ways, trying to find Xan,or building thier own solitary Magicians towers as it seems to be the rule with Dark Wizards. The Age has claimed even more of the tower, although it still stands more sections have fallen into disrepair. The swamp if anything, has grown even fiercer. The populace of Hallenth had long since left returning to their small village, which hasn't significantly grown to this day. The only remaining inhabitant of the tower is Skalkr, biding his time by keeping it somwhat clean and scaring the one or other trespasser.

Contents of the Tower: Death Magic Library, Scrying Chamber, Catacombs, Enchanted Mirror(damaged), Living Quarters, Storage Vaults, Enchanted Pantry, Manaforge, Laboratory (damaged)
Population of the Tower: Skalkr.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Death Magic Library - A library of books dedicated to the sphere of Death. Mages may study here to increase their skill with Death magic or unlock one of its elements.

Scrying Chamber - A room enchanted to aid scrying, along with several implements to enable it. A mage may use this chamber to gather information about the world.

Catacombs - The Dark Tower was built on an extensive set of ancient catacombs from a lost age. Mages may explore these catacombs in search of usable remains to reanimate. Other items of interest may be found here as well.

Enchanted Mirror - A large freestanding mirror which is enchanted to allow two-way communication with anyone who has looked upon it at some point. Mages may use this to contact anyone who has visited the Dark Tower in the past.

Living Quarters - Comfortable living quarters for six people, including hearths and separate apartments.

Storage Vaults - A large natural cave accessible from the tower via a tunnel provides a secure place to store valuables.

Enchanted Pantry - A large room which is enchanted so that it never empties. May support up to 1000 men a day at the tower, and allows you to provision troops before they leave.

Manaforge - A small room with a magical forge, for the creation of magic artifacts. Its use is difficult and time-consuming but can result in some spectacular items.

Spoiler:  Rules (click to show/hide)

Per Turn you may do one Major Action.

Mage Actions:

Cast - Casting a spell. Spells can be anything you want, really. The effect of the spell will depend on your roll and your skill level with the sphere.

Study - One person per turn may study in a library. Learning new spheres or elements requires multiple study actions

Scrying - One person per turn may utilize the dark tower's scrying chamber to gather information about specific targets or general areas.

Decipher - One person per turn may work at deciphering the master mage's journals.

Forge - One person per turn may work at the manaforge to craft items of power.

Forage - One person per turn may forage in the catacomb for usable remains.

Command - One person per turn may utilize the dark tower's enchanted mirror to command allied troops

Tutor - A mage may teach someone to improve their knowledge of a sphere/element, provided the teacher is of higher skill

Learn - A mage may learn from another to increase his knowledge of a sphere/element, provided the student is of lower skill

When commanding troops, the following orders can be given:

Army actions:

Armies begin with 6 endurance when setting out from the Tower. Endurance represents the general state of army supplies.

Assault - Attack a target. Costs 1 endurance.

Fortify - Fortify a position to withstand an attack. Costs 1 endurance.

Move - Move to a new location. Movement normally does not cost endurance, as armies are assumed to live off the land. Exceptionally barren or dangerous terrain may affect armies differently.

Forage - Search for usable supplies. Increases endurance by 2, or 4 if at a location rich in supplies such as a conquered city.

Raze - Destroy a location entirely. (Burn buildings to the ground, pound masonry to rubble, etc) Doing this precludes any plundering so its best to do so after, if at all.

Plunder - Search for useful treasures which can be looted. Each plunder action generates one loot token until the location has no more to be taken.

Spoiler:  Magic (click to show/hide)

Forsaken has developed a quite complex and (in my opinion) Pretty awesome system of Magic and allowed me to reuse it. For now This stays empty as each of you, is not an apprentice of Xan or one of his former Apprentices but you are random people stumbling upon the tower.

You are playing 5 random characters, each in and around the swamp, stumbling per chance upon the tower.

Spoiler:  Character: (click to show/hide)

Name: (obvious)

Description: (The physical Description of your character, apart from being human get creative.)

Sex: (male/female/hermaphrodite)

Other:(What were you doing in the Swamp? Quirks, Personality, Former History)

1 positions has been reserved for Forsaken so 4 places are open. System is not First come first serve.

[Ochita]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Ochita
Sex: Male
Description: Ochita's about 23, with a frame that suggests that he's mostly been doing work such as scribing, and the occasional message carrying. His face is clean, eyes a hazel brown, with somewhat neat medium length hair. He wears tan linen clothes, but currently he's wearing a hooded cloak along with leather boots, the boots showing a fair amount of mud and swamp stuff.
Other: Ochita was running away from the law, being accused of falsifying accounts for a somewhat wealthy noble. He had no choice but to run away, hoping that if he fled though the swamp, no-one would follow him. After a while, he came across the tower, and with the hopes that he could rest for a while, he decided to enter it.
Outwardly, Ochita's pretty shy, and isn't someone to really just go off on his own, unless he finds wherever he's exploring to very interesting. He prefers to not directly confront people, unless he's sure that he's going to win. He's very much a book person, although when concerning magic, he's always been really interested in it.

[Terenos]

Spoiler: Isinath (click to show/hide)

Name: Isinath

Description: Of average height and a solid build, Isinath is an solid figure. He has obviously spent his life so far performing physical labor. His clothing is that of a simple man, mostly made of wool. He has close cropped dirty blond hair, hazel colored eyes and a myriad of scars down his arms.

Gender: Male.

Other: Isinath was laying low in the wilderness for a few nights after he accidentally broke the arm of a son a well-to-do merchant in a bar fight. Isinath of course was not to blame, but someone had to take the fall. His friends in the militia let him know to get out of town for a bit, so he did.
Didn't really expect his house to be lit on fire though. Isinath decided it was best to cut ties and find a new settlement to work in. Of course having no real woodland experience he soon got lost in a swamp.
Isinath is a quiet contemplative individual, that hides a deep and simmering rage beneath the surface. He uses few words.

[Dariush]

Spoiler: Qrzk (click to show/hide)

Name: Qrzk;
Sex: Male;
Description: Qrzk is a tall, brown-haired man, with eyes of a different color - one brown and one grey. The left half of his face is covered in intricate tattoos. He is always seen wearing a long, hooded cloak.
Other: Qrzk is a quiet acolyte of a small cult that is dedicated to an unnamed death god in foreign lands. He has been sent to retrieve a relic for the cult and decided to use the swamp as a shortcut, getting hopelessly lost in the process. He has some extremely basic magical training.
His time with the cult left him with an introspective nature. He usually speaks very little but sometimes, especially when describing something, uses long colorful sentences and employs gestures. The cult's philosophy also ingrained in him a feeling of superiority and contempt that he is accustomed to express whenever speaking with someone he considers beneath his own stature. Qrzk also disdains physical labor, but is very patient and intelligent.

[Ghazkull]

All 3 accepted.

[forsaken1111]

Hey it's this game that I heartlessly abandoned when I started school 2 years ago! Mind if I play?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Thanitz
Description: A young man with bright blue eyes who looks entirely normal. In fact, without his wizard's attire he would go mostly unnoticed in a crowd. He has no distinguishing marks or features, no horrific scars or mismatched eyes, not even a discolored white streak in his dark brown hair. In fact only the keenest observers would even note the slight downturn to his lips and deadpan set of his features that hint at an alarming lack of moral compass or sympathy of any kind towards his fellow man.
Sex: Male
Other: Thanitz simply showed up at the tower one day, dressed in the clothing of a peasant farmer. He stomped through the doors, kicking mud off his boots, and made his way to a room without uttering a word to anyone. In fact, in all the time he's been at the tower he's not spoken to a single person. He will nod, point, and gesture to communicate his intent, but nobody has heard him speak a word and his door remains firmly locked and sealed whenever he is not in the common areas of the tower.

[Ghazkull]

In with ye!

[EagleV]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Max Silvernail
Gender: Female
Description: Max is a young adult girl, although she is often mistaken for a boy. She wears a simple linen shirt and pants, as well as a sturdy leather apron and dito boots. She has short black hair, and looks rather fit. She has a hammer and tongs hanging from her belt.
Other: Max is the daughter of a blacksmith, but grew up to be the son he wanted. She started smithing before she could read, got in street fights with whoever looked at her the wrong way, and spent half of her childhood in a rickety treehouse her father built for her. She had to leave when her father was arrested for selling 'inferior' weaponry to some stuck-up noble (are there any others?).
The incident only made her even more hot-tempered then she was before, and she never managed to settle down somewhere - she just kept travelling.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Spoiler: Anthony Shepard (click to show/hide)

Name: Anthony Shepard
Gender: Male
Description: Anthony is a young man from the cities. He has coarse brown hair, fair skin and grey eyes. He is quite educated and in decent physical condition. He wears a brown coat, brown trousers and boots, with a light undershirt. He likes wearing a leather cap with a feather in it, and carries around all his belongings in a leather satchel.
Other: Anthony was born into a middle-class family in one of the various cities dotting the country. He was taught well and as a result knows quite a bit about the world. He was also quite active, participating in guild games of campball and other such. However, this easy lifestyle left him wanting for more, and bored with city life, Anthony left the city two years ago. Ever since, he has been travelling and doing odd jobs, or even helping out in some schools, and seeing the world.

Hopefully I'm not too late.

[Dragor23]

Name: Odahviing

Description:  Odahviing is a tall and sleek man, with strong arms and well-tones legs, indicating his work. Scars are across his forearms, judging that he was sometimes in quite a danger. He was short trimmed brown hair and eyes of the same color. His face is pretty chiseled, a square jaw, a big nose and slighty low cheeks. He has bshy eyebrows and hawk's eyes, leaving people to feel like prey.

Sex: male

Other: Odahviing was a hunter of a village, hunting for his family after the creatures of the swamp. Only a track lead him to this mystique tower, and his unbearing curiosity left him sniff around in the innards of it.


(Damn ye, ElfCollaborator!)

[IamanElfCollaborator]

(To be fair, my avatar IS a doppelganger ninja. )

[Dragor23]

(To be fair, my avatar IS a doppelganger ninja. )

(Ninja'd by a ninja. Perfect.)

[Ghazkull]

Turn 0: Where the hell did that peasant come from?

((dammit first no one and then suddenly 7. As all your applications are good, i'd say we take in 7 and up the deadliness...till 5 are left.))

Ochita

After being lost for days in the Swamp, you stumbel upon an Old tower, the wall surrounding it is mostly destroyed although a few sections still stand, the courtyard is filled with an odd two dozen Skeletons lying about, the nature nearly has overgrown them. As you stumble inside, you find yourself in a dusty entrance hall and aside from a skeleton in strange stone armour hanging dead in a chair in the middle of the room it is empty. You examine the Skeleton a bit closer...

In front of your eyes it jumps up!

BUH! Bwahaha. Got ya!




Isinath

[6] Stumbling through the swamp, malnourished, tired and thirsty, you stumble into a clearing. What you find is...unsettling. A Black Horse, it's hooves on fire and eyes that glow with red with malicious intelligence.

Qrzk
(Ever heard of aeiou?)

[5] You too, were lost for days in the Swamp until you saw another person, looking like a scribe of some sort, stumble through the swamp. Quietly you kept your distance. He definetly looked lost too and after a while you came upon the selfsame tower the scribe just in that moment entering it.


Thanitz

Locked into the room you claimed, doing whatever you do in there, you suddenly hear a commotion downstairs. What may that be?


Max

[6]Wandering through the forest mumbling about caving heads of damned nobles in, you stumble upon a Clearing, in the midst of it a Heap of rocks. Happy to have found something to vent your anger, you begin happily bashing away. Suddenly however the heap of stones rises into a vague humanoid shape. The "head" tilts slightly to the right "looking" at you. Propably whatever this is it is contemplating to kill you.

Anthony

[2] You had a bad day, first you lost your provisions then you were harried by a strange mob of angry peasants and now you are lost in the swamps the mob still in pursuit...although not really a hot pursuit you can still hear their moaning.

Odahviing

[2] Your day way likewise crap. First you conemplate about thongs, which leads you to get lost in the swamp and then you stumble directly in the way of a moaning mob.

[Dariush]

((Are you German by any chance? Also, can we see our inventories please?))

Qrzk quietly moves up to the entrance and looks inside.

[Dragor23]

"Pleasant to meet you, groaning asshats, but I don't have time for a talk, I need to seek prey." snarls Odahviing sarcastic. He tries to dodge the moaning mob, jumping of the dry parts of the swamp, hoping the skulking danger of bogs will slow them down.


( He is german indeed.)