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[IronyOwl]

The Demon King is not pleased. He glowers from atop his throne, probably made of the nightmares of children or something equally terrifying.

Seriously, this place sucks. There isn't even anything here! Except worthless trash, that is.

But wait. The Demon King has a plan. Oh yes.


That's where you come in. You're in Hell. A hell? Point is, you're not dead yet, but you'd better shape up or you will be.

How'd you end up here if you're not dead? Nevermind that, portals or something. Possibly involving either getting thrown through or thinking this was a good idea. Either way, you're stuck with it now.


Best familiarize yourself with how things work down here:

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

There are only two, technically three stats: Attack, HP, and Resistances. Attack and HP are universal, while Resistances are common but situational.

HP: As expected, HP is your ability to not die. HP is fully recovered by resting.

Attack: As expected, Attack is your ability to make other things die. When you beat an enemy's defense roll in combat, you deal damage to them equal to your Attack stat.

Resistance: Resistance is an attack type specific form of HP. When you are struck by an attack you possess a Resistance to, half the damage, rounded down, is applied to your Resistance, while the rest goes to your HP as normal. Once a Resistance is depleted, it no longer provides protection until replenished. Resistances are restored alongside HP by resting.


Stats may come from gaining levels, equipment, or in rare cases buffs or other advantages.

Spoiler: Combat (click to show/hide)

Combat is composed of opposed pairs of rolls. If the attacker wins, they deal damage to the defender equal to their Attack stat; if the defender wins, nothing happens.


Chaining
Critical hits, or chaining, is what happens when you roll a [6]. The die is rerolled, the action elevated in significance, and the new result used. In the case of combat, this has the following consequences:

Attacker Success: In the event of a chained attack roll that beats the defender's roll, the attacker's damage multiplier is increased by the number of rerolls. A [6][5] would result in double damage, a [6][6][5] would result in triple, and so on.

Attacker Failure: In the event of a chained attack roll that is beaten by the defender's roll, the attacker counters themselves for an amount multiplied by the number of rerolls. A [6][1] would result in normal damage, a [6][6][1] would result in double, and so on.

Defender Success: In the event of a chained attack roll that beats the attacker's roll, the defender counterattacks with a multiplier equal to the number of rerolls. A [6][5] would result in normal damage, a [6][6][5] would result in double, and so on.

Defender Failure: In the event of a chained attack roll that fails to beat the attacker's roll, the defender counters themselves with a multiplier increased by the number of rerolls. A [6][1] would result in double damage, a [6][6][1] would result in triple, and so on.


Counters
Countering is a peculiar type of damage dealing that, in essence, assumes shared responsibility between two parties. It only occurs on a failed Chaining roll.

More specifically, Counters use the roller's Attack stat, damage types, and any other relevant information to an attack, but is treated as an attack by both parties. This means both sides gain experience from it, and each can activate or trigger abilities if appropriate.


Note that because of the danger of countering yourself in battle, many warriors find it convenient to have resistances against their own damage type.


Running Away
Running away is accomplished with opposed d6 rolls. Success disengages you and allows you to flee in the direction of your choosing, while failure leaves you unable to run and gives the enemy a free attack, as you used your turn in a failed escape.

Note that most enemies, including players, may chase and attempt to re-engage should they lose this roll and decide they're not done yet.

Spoiler: Experience (click to show/hide)

Experience is gained through combat, or in rare cases, other tasks involving some element of risk or accomplishment.

Each time you attack or defend against an enemy, you have a chance to gain some base experience multiplied by the Attack score of the opponent. In other words:

Experience Gained = [Base Experience] * [Attack Stat of Enemy]

Base experience is as follows:

[5][6] +2
[3][4] +1
[1][2] +0

Additionally, ties grant large amounts of experience for being so evenly matched. In the event that you and your opponent roll the same number, experience gain is doubled from that exchange. Note that this still doesn't help you with [1] vs [1] or [2] vs [2], as nothing times anything is still nothing and you and your opponent both sucked.


Levels
The amount of experience needed to go up a level is equal to your current level x 10. Going from Level 1 to Level 2 requires 10 exp, from Level 2 to Level 3 requires 20, and so on.

Each time you level, you may allocate a point to either Attack or HP, gaining 1 Attack or 2 HP as you prefer.

Spoiler: Loot! (click to show/hide)

Ah, loot. So shiny, so precious... where were we again?

Every time you slay a foe, you may claim one Trophy from them. A trophy can be anything- their thick pelt, their fearsome jaws, their googly eyeballs, and so on.

In the event that several heroes work together to bring down a foe, splitting the loot properly is up to them.


Pawning Vendor Trash
One use of Trophies is simply to sell them. Trophies are worth an amount of gold equal to their level.

Crafting
Another use, however, is to craft Trophies into equipment for yourself. Doing so requires an appropriate Trophy, an appropriate building, and an amount of gold equal to the level of the Trophy.

Crafting also requires a roll to complete. Chaining on this roll increases the level of the item by 3; otherwise, the item will be of the same level as the Trophy used to create it. High rolls have stronger, extra, or more useful effects, while lower rolls have weaker, fewer, or less useful effects, or negative effects to compensate.

Upgrading
Rather than craft an item from scratch, you may upgrade your old gear. Doing so has two advantages.

First, the gold required is equal to the level difference between your old gear and new acquisition. This makes it much cheaper to upgrade an item continuously than to craft totally new items.

Two, upgraded items automatically follow their predecessor's general stat line to some extent. New items have relatively random stats, giving a high probability of not getting exactly what you wanted, while upgraded items may deviate somewhat, but will always be at least related to their predecessors.


Bounties
Another source of gold is completing Bounties. Bounties are rewards placed by the Demon King for accomplishing a task, usually killing something but also retrieving items, exploring regions, or just making it someplace first. Multiple nearby heroes are generally assumed to be equally responsible for successful bounties, regardless of the actual work they did, and thus receive an even share.

Spoiler: The World (click to show/hide)

The world around you is composed of four very general parts, surrounding you in concentric rings.

The Town
The Town is a collection of buildings, including the Demon King's throne, that are of use to you. It is not currently defended by anything, so you'd best hope you don't get attacked anytime soon.

The Town is primarily noteworthy for containing buildings that are of use to you, including places to sleep and craft things.

The Shallow Plains
The Shallow Plains are a relatively open scrubland containing monsters of levels 1-3. Remember that stronger monsters may pass through here on their way elsewhere, however.

The Middling Woods
The Middling Woods are a creepy, dead-looking forest containing monsters of levels  4-6. Remember that stronger monsters may pass through here on their way elsewhere, however.

The Deep Caves
The Deep Caves are a dark, meandering stretch of caverns and arches that blot out the... well, there isn't really a "sun" here but it's darker anyway. It contains monsters of levels 7-9.


Other areas or features might exist, but if so, they've yet to be discovered.

To join, just fill out the following:

Name:
Physical Appearance:
Mental Description:
Attack Type:
Aspiring Class:

Attack Type is what type of damage your initial attacks cause. Available damage types are Slashing, Piercing, Crushing (collectively known as Physical); Fire, Frost, Shock (collectively known as Elemental); and Dark, Light, Nature (collectively known as Divine).

Aspiring Class is what you currently want to be when you stop sucking. This may be changed at any time, but it's helpful to have a rough archetype to work from when designing certain things.

[IronyOwl]

Waitlist:
-Spy, Spy (Fireiy)
-Pokey, Hokey Pokey Poking Pal(borno)
-Frank Jump, Dashing Swordsman (scapheap)
-Javier, Insane Heretic (javierpwn)



==Current Buildings, Demon King==

Demon King's Throne

Marketplace
This collection of stalls and shops handles the buying and selling of raw materials, food, and other essentials.
-Sell Trophy: Buys trophies for gold equal to their level.
-Buy Trophy: Sells crafting-grade materials for gold equal to 150% of their level.
-Trade Trophy: Exchanges trophies for crafting materials of an equal level at no cost.
-Buy Miscellaneous: Sells food and other trivial odds and ends.

Blacksmith
This metal structure handles the forging of new weapons and armor.
-Craft Weapon: Allows the crafting of a new weapon using a trophy or crafting material and an amount of gold equal to its level. A crafting roll affects the final result. The weapon is of a level equal to the trophy or material level used, and possesses stats influences by chance and creator intent, depending on the crafting roll.
-Craft Armor: As Craft Weapon, but with armor.
-Upgrade Weapon: Allows the upgrade of an existing weapon using a trophy or crafting material and an amount of gold equal to its level minus the level of the weapon to be upgraded. A crafting roll affects the final result. The resulting weapon is equal to the level of the trophy or material level used, and possesses stats influences by base item, chance, and creator intent, depending on the crafting roll.
-Upgrade Armor: As Upgrade Weapon, but with armor.

Guild
This fortified stone building serves as a home for heroes, allowing them to rest, store items, and take shelter.
-Rest: May sleep inside to completely recover HP and other replenishable stats.
-Store Item: May stash an item inside. Stashed items are secure until your death, in which case they become property of the Guild.

Miner's Guild
This fortified stone building serves as a home for heroes, allowing them to rest, store items, and take shelter, as well as offering specialized training in the normally not very heroic arts of resource gathering.
-Rest: May sleep inside to completely recover HP and other replenishable stats.
-Store Item: May stash an item inside. Stashed items are secure until your death, in which case they become property of the Guild.
-Miner Training: May receive training as a Miner, allowing you to gain experience from harvesting building materials. Building materials may sometimes be sold for money, or may aid the Kingdom in its construction projects.

Guardhouse
This fortified, squat tower serves as an outpost for guards, allowing them to patrol the nearby area for potential threats.
-Spawn Guard: Supports a guard. Slain guards are automatically replaced after a time.

Portal
This black stone platform serves as a gateway for incoming heroes.
-Spawn Hero: May spit forth new champions from time to time.





==Current Buildings, Angel King==

Angel King's Throne

Marketplace
This collection of stalls and shops handles the buying and selling of raw materials, food, and other essentials.
-Sell Trophy: Buys trophies for gold equal to their level.
-Buy Trophy: Sells crafting-grade materials for gold equal to 150% of their level.
-Trade Trophy: Exchanges trophies for crafting materials of an equal level at no cost.
-Buy Miscellaneous: Sells food and other trivial odds and ends.

Blacksmith
This metal structure handles the forging of new weapons and armor.
-Craft Weapon: Allows the crafting of a new weapon using a trophy or crafting material and an amount of gold equal to its level. A crafting roll affects the final result. The weapon is of a level equal to the trophy or material level used, and possesses stats influences by chance and creator intent, depending on the crafting roll.
-Craft Armor: As Craft Weapon, but with armor.
-Upgrade Weapon: Allows the upgrade of an existing weapon using a trophy or crafting material and an amount of gold equal to its level minus the level of the weapon to be upgraded. A crafting roll affects the final result. The resulting weapon is equal to the level of the trophy or material level used, and possesses stats influences by base item, chance, and creator intent, depending on the crafting roll.
-Upgrade Armor: As Upgrade Weapon, but with armor.

Inn
This pleasant-looking wooden structure serves liquid refreshment and offers beds (and walls) to weary (or terrified) heroes seeking respite.
-Paid Rest: May spend gold to sleep inside to completely recover HP and other replenishable stats.
-Drink: May spend gold to have a merry time, possibly gaining experience in the process. Each gold piece spent is a potential point of experience, which is then multiplied by the base exp gain values of a die rolled for this purpose. A [6] or [5] grants x2 experience, a [3] or [4] x1, and a [1] or [2] nothing.

Guild
This fortified stone building serves as a home for heroes, allowing them to rest, store items, and take shelter.
-Rest: May sleep inside to completely recover HP and other replenishable stats.
-Store Item: May stash an item inside. Stashed items are secure until your death, in which case they become property of the Guild.

Guardhouse
This fortified, squat tower serves as an outpost for guards, allowing them to patrol the nearby area for potential threats.
-Spawn Guard: Supports a guard. Slain guards are automatically replaced after a time.

[scapheap]

Char now

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Peter Stone
Physical Appearance: Long blue hair to the shoulder and brown eyes. Skinny body with tanned skin.
Mental Description: Like shiny thing. Low opinion of teleporters.
Attack Type: Light
Aspiring Class: spearman

[Wwolin]

I'll have a char up later tonight.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Logan Witston
Physical Appearance: A yellow snowman brought to life by black magic. Has a turnip for a nose instead of a carrot, because nobody likes turnips.
Mental Description: Being made of yellow snow makes Logan very bitter, and he doesn't trust anything with a temperature that's above freezing. He tries to tell his few friends that he's actually just lemon-flavored, but nobody falls for it.
Attack Type: Frost
Aspiring Class: Lemon-Flavored Snowman

[Caellath]

Why not.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Valerio Inathas
Physical Appearance: A man of average height at 5'11", black hair and light brown eyes, with a fairly standard body build as well.
Mental Description: Valerio is your run-of-the-mill person, if having a mind slightly "poisoned" by some books of stories, chivalry and fantasy.
Attack Type: Crushing
Aspiring Class: Cavalier (Heavy Armory, Heavy Lance, Mount)

[Toaster]

I'll have a char up later tonight.

[Yoink]

Name: M'Bokgal
Physical Appearance: Some ugly kind of minor demon, like an imp, M'Bokgal is a stunted, twisted humanoid with mouldy-looking blue skin, a gaping, misshapen jaw that won't shut properly, a long red tongue and two bulging, sickly-yellow eyes which tend to look in slightly different directions to each other.
Other than that, he has dainty little hooves, a short tail, mutlicoloured boils and warts, and a few strands of greasy, dark-blue hair growing towards the back of his skull. Clutches a bent and rusty spear in one hand.
Mental Description: M'Bokgal always wanted to be famous. Born into the hellish landscape of the realm of, well, hell from some bland mortal life where he failed to succeed at anything but trouble, M'Bokgal seeks to do something with himself in this new existence, which he views as not damnation, but a second chance.
Always a big fan of minstrels, he's more-or-less decided that's what he wants to be. Far more constructive than robbery and arson, after all!
Attack Type: Piercing.
Aspiring Class: Bard.

[Spinal_Taper]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Axel Ian
Physical Appearance: Axels dark hair is wild, but contained beneath a bandana. It hangs down to his shoulders. His face has an everpresent smirk, which complements his flamboyant style of dress perfectly.
Mental Description: Axel was once famous. Back in his home dimension, he played something called "Rock-And-Roll", which had the women, as well as some of the men, throwing themselves at his feet. He had riches and fame beyond measure. At the height of his career though, he was ripped away from it, straight to hell. He blames the drug abuse.
Attack Type: Shock
Aspiring Class: Heavy Metal Bard

Name: M'Bokgal
Physical Appearance: Some ugly kind of minor demon, like an imp, M'Bokgal is a stunted, twisted humanoid with mouldy-looking blue skin, a gaping, misshapen jaw that won't shut properly, a long red tongue and two bulging, sickly-yellow eyes which tend to look in slightly different directions to each other.
Other than that, he has dainty little hooves, a short tail, mutlicoloured boils and warts, and a few strands of greasy, dark-blue hair growing towards the back of his skull. Clutches a bent and rusty spear in one hand.
Mental Description: M'Bokgal always wanted to be famous. Born into the hellish landscape of the realm of, well, hell from some bland mortal life where he failed to succeed at anything but trouble, M'Bokgal seeks to do something with himself in this new existence, which he views as not damnation, but a second chance.
Always a big fan of minstrels, he's more-or-less decided that's what he wants to be. Far more constructive than robbery and arson, after all!
Attack Type: Piercing.
Aspiring Class: Bard.

Yoink, how'd you get the same idea I did? I blame telepaths.

[Persus13]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Jacob Stein
Physical Appearance: A black haired green eyed man. Wears a t-shirt, jeans, and is generally covered in ash.
Mental Description: Jacob loves fire. Lots and lots of fire make everything better. Especially when it is used to create stuff. Unfortunately, most people think he is stupid thanks to his limited vocabulary. But he knows lots of science, at least when it involves fire.
Attack Type: Fire!
Aspiring Class: Blacksmith

This looks interesting.

[IronyOwl]

Turn 0: Welcome to Hell


A blue-haired spearman, a demonic bard, a rockstar, a blacksmith, and a snowman all walk into a bar...

Just kidding, they tumble into hell. Good luck!



Current Structures

Demon King's Throne
There's a rather large demon sitting on a rather large throne surrounded by some slightly smaller walls. Tiny imps appear to be working on them.

Guild
There's a fairly well-fortified building with rooms in it. Looks like that's your home.

Marketplace
There's a marketplace manned by tiny imps. They appear to buy and sell things.

Blacksmith
There's a blacksmith also manned by imps. They handle and enable the crafting of weapons and armor.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Peter Stone (scapheap)
Town
2/2 HP (0/10 xp)
1 Attack, Light

M'Bokgal (Yoink)
Town
2/2 HP (0/10 xp)
1 Attack, Pierce

Alex Ian (Spinal_Taper)
Town
2/2 HP (0/10 xp)
1 Attack, Shock

Jacob Stein (Persus13)
Town
2/2 HP (0/10 xp)
1 Attack, Fire

Logan Witston (Wwolin)
Town
2/2 HP
1 Attack, Frost

[Onyxjew944]

Reserve/waitlist/join/whatever

Name: Grimicin
Physical Appearance: Short and thin, rather scrawny, truth be told. No distinguishing facial features, beyond a small scar on his left temple.
Mental Description: Chaotic Adventurer.
Attack Type: Shock
Aspiring Class: Beaversnailgoating Mage.

[Persus13]

"What in room" I mutter "maybe fire? There is fire in black smith. Maybe fire in devil throne too?"

I head for my room to see what is there then I go to the smith, to see what happens there. Then I go to the demon throne area

[IronyOwl]

A wanna be knight and an ADVENTURER! tumble out as well.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Peter Stone (scapheap)
Town
2/2 HP (0/10 xp)
1 Attack, Light

M'Bokgal (Yoink)
Town
2/2 HP (0/10 xp)
1 Attack, Pierce

Alex Ian (Spinal_Taper)
Town
2/2 HP (0/10 xp)
1 Attack, Shock

Jacob Stein (Persus13)
Town
2/2 HP (0/10 xp)
1 Attack, Fire

Logan Witston (Wwolin)
Town
2/2 HP
1 Attack, Frost

Valerio Inathas (Caellath)
Town
2/2 HP
1 Attack, Crush

Grimicin (Onyxjew)
Town
2/2 HP
1 Attack, Shock

[Caellath]

Well, it could be worse, he supposed. Not.

"Hrmm? Who wants to explore this town a bit then take a look outside?" he asks, expecting at least one answer. Or maybe that would be too much to expect too.

Visit the blacksmith, see how the smithing system works. If people can work there, what must be done for better equipment to be obtained, etc.

[Wwolin]

"I'll freeze you all! Happy birthday to me! Bwahaha... ha? Wait a sec, where'd those damned kids who made me like this go? Where even am I? Maybe that big guy over there knows something. At the very least, he might have something for me to do rather than stand in this infernal town and melt. Maybe there are some pesky warmbloods that need freezing..."
Visit the Demon King and ask where I am. See if there's anything that he wants dead.