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[freeformschooler]

Let me tell you a little story.

So there's these kids, right? Roll's the lad with the hair gel, Dodge is the lass with the quick tongue. Twins or somethin' like that. They always dreamed of makin' a fortune when they got older, but ya see, they got a little impatient. Sometime round 16, Roll and Dodge caught wind of a bounty on the head of Sorceress Whitewater. So they went out searching, ya see, they went out searchin', and would you know it? They found Whitewater's dungeon.

They pushed blocks, solved puzzled, slew ghosts and got the key to boss room. You know how these dungeons are, ya can't just go right up to the boss an' slay 'em. So as I was sayin', they got the key to the boss room and got in this big battle. Whitewater put up a good fight but in the end Dodge put a sharp one through the witch's bloodbeater. The kids are thinkin', yeah, they're rich now. But of course Whitewater pulls a fast one on them and casts one of those spells what splits her into seven Crystal Shards or somethin'. Can't even grab 'em before she splits 'cause they're scattered around the world. Oh, bother.

So Roll and Dodge travel across the land and fight these guardians, right? Each one protects one of Whitewater's crystals. Even when they're cuttin' up dragons and golems and elementals, they just know it'll all be worth it when they finally put together Whitewater's crystals and get their million Gold Rupees. Then at last they're on the seventh final dungeon, right after battling some giant beast or other when they find, finally, Whitewater's last crystal. Roll and Dodge go up an' lay their hands on it...

...When Whitewater's master plan is revealed. Roll and Dodge, now the two most competent young heroes in the land, are trapped in enormous Crystal Shards in the depths of the final dungeon of ultimate destiny. Can't even turn their head, they power of the evil crystals they collected is slowly draining their life force to nothin'. In a matter of weeks, they'll be dead as a doornail, and Whitewater will return again.

'Course, that's alright. I know this story back an' forth by now. That's why you lot are here. You lot are four bumbling beginner heroes sent out on the most dangerous suicide mission known to man: rescue Roll and Dodge from the clutches of the most powerful sorceress in the world.

Spoiler: Just what the heck is this? (click to show/hide)

This is the Mushroom Wars reboot I mentioned a while ago. Rather than being directly set in a Nintendo universe, it's inspired by them. You play as a band of four heroes dungeon crawling and solving peoples' minor problems for loot, all with a ticking timer until the powerful heroes you're trying to save are slain. It's fairly lighthearted, but of course there will be darker moments as well.

It will be illustrated because who do you think I am?

Spoiler: Sign-up sheet (click to show/hide)

Sign-ups are first come first serve with a catch. If your sheet is lacking in effort or creativity I will skip it. Don't be offended, I just want some interesting characters in the game.

*----------CHARACTER SHEET----------*

All your character's biographical information goes here. This is less important to the gameplay and more important to roleplaying which ideally there should be at least some of. Please copy and paste the bbcode below instead of just the text, I like it when sheets are properly formatted.

Name: Your character's name. "Bro" is not an acceptable name.
Gender: Your character's gender. No, you cannot be a robot.
Appearance: How your character looks. No, you cannot be a sexy snailman warrior.
Backstory: Your tragic or awesome backstory. Doesn't have to be an essay, but I'd prefer more than a single sentence. There aren't huge restrictions aside from being some kind of up-and-coming hero in a cliche fantasy world.
Class: This determines your starting innate ability, your starting items and your level-up abilities. Slime-o-mancer, Barrier Cleric, Twinblade... be creative!
Strength: This is your raw physical power. It directly affects your physical damage and boulder-rolling ability. Assign one of the following dice types: 1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 2d4. You may not use a dice type that has been used for another stat.
Intellect: This is your brainpower. It affects spellcasting, sciencecrafting, your Mana reserves each level and how many pages of The Odyssey you're willing to read in one sitting. Assign one of the following dice types: 1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 2d4. You may not use a dice type that has been used for another stat.
Dexterity: This is a measure of your fleet-footedness. It affects your ability to hit and dodge things like flame swords and poison arrows. It also allows you to sneak around things. Assign one of the following dice types: 1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 2d4. You may not use a dice type that has been used for another stat.
Vitality: This is how hardy you are. It affects your ability to resist dark hexcurses and swim upstream to safety in the dark. It also determines how many health points you get each level. Assign one of the following dice types: 1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 2d4. You may not use a dice type that has been used for another stat.

Current players:
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Waitlist:
-There is not a traditional waitlist. Instead, when it's time to bring a new character in, I will select the most applicable of the applicants so far and PM them.

[Dermonster]

IN GIVE MOMENT.

Spoiler:  The seven foot tall elf bard, Marina (click to show/hide)

Name: Marina
Gender: Female
Appearance: 6'11'' Long lime colored hair and green eyes, dark skin and a sort of tastefully tattered bard dress thing.
Backstory: Marina hails from the elfin nation of Uberwald, in the village of Ramtop. She was a giant among midgets in her home and, though at first outcast, finally gained acceptance after she discovered she could reach the top shelf without a stepladder, a fact which was celebrated with a fervor.
A student of the arts of music magic, she passed with wild colors after an impromptu performance of "Dance water, Dance" with the human music group 'Dem Yiks', with a minor in arcane lore. She has come to this place searching for the fabled 'Shampoo of the Noted King', said to grant unbelievable power to the deciples of instrumental hair.
Also because it looked like fun and nobody would hire a seven foot bard. Whee!

Class: Bard of Hair.

Strength: 1d6

Intellect: 2d4

Dexterity: 1d4

Vitality: 1d8

The height was a typo but then I went yes and beautiful things happened.

[Brood]

Reserve.

Name: Lazaras Khane
Gender: Transvestite..... ( No seriously he's male )
Appearance: Lazaras has short brown hair and pale grey eyes with tiny stubs where his ears used to be.
Backstory: Lazaras is a complete and utter coward, his father insisted on this life for him in a vain attempt to force him to grow a spine and to date Lazaras has spent most of his time advancing away from his enemy as fast as his feet will carry him.
This has resulted in his being very fast on his feet and also very strong due to all the excersize he gets.
Now Lazaras is not incapable of fighting, he just lacks what most would call a set of balls and so prefers to stab or shoot his enemy in the back from the shadows if at all possible otherwise he will in his opinion make the only sensible choice.
He will hamstring his ally and run while the enemy is busy finishing said ally off.
Class: Shadow Hunter. ( Uses twin blades and a longbow. )
Strength: 1D8
Intellect: 1D4
Dexterity: 2D4
Vitality: 1D6

(( Yes my hero is a complete and utter wimp, somebody has to live to the tell the tale of your heroic deaths after you accidentally got hamstrung..... ))

[adwarf]

Spoiler: Alduin, Magic Gunner (click to show/hide)

Name: Alduin
Gender: Male

Appearance: With long straight silver hair and green eyes Alduin strikes a rather imposing figure with his black cloak with gilded edges and a plain red tunic and brown pants underneath. He appears about average in weight, but is actual thin, the inside of his cloak having been lined with thin metal plates for protection.

Backstory: A young man with dreams of becoming a bounty hunter, Alduin has spent his life learning gun-play and magic in such a way that some call him a Magic Gunner. With such high aspirations Alduin set out in search of glory as soon as he was able, he hunted a few criminals, killed a level three goblin here and there before finally stumbling upon the dungeon where Roll and Dodge have been trapped. Seeing an opportunity he joined the group of heroes going in to free them.

Class: Magic Gunner

Strength: 1d4
Intellect: 1d8
Dexterity: 2d4
Vitality: 1d6

[IronyOwl]

What yes in. Just need to-

"Bro" is not an acceptable name.

Wait, damn.

No, you cannot be a robot.

Aw but that-!

No, you cannot be a sexy snailman warrior.

THIS IS BULLSHIT FFS. THIS GAME IS BULLSHIT AND YOU'RE BULLSHIT.


Really though augh, so many options. NEED MORE TIME! TIME SUFFICIENT.








Name: Cherry Skullpop
Gender: Female
Appearance: Very pale-skinned girl with a high-set white ponytail. Prefers villainous-looking revealing studded leather clothes.
Backstory: Cherry is the seventh daughter of Queen Chalcedony, a sorceress-warrior-queen who attained the throne by saving the kingdom from various disasters better than all the other heroes she was competing with. This also left a convenient number of nearly equally powerful, fairly enraged contenders to help keep the kingdom "strong."

Unfortunately, Cherry wasn't even born when one of Chalcedony's old friends/rivals/bitter enemies made a play for the throne. The resulting catastrophe was truly glorious, with demonic invasions and weird curses and the moon acting all funny and everything, but poor Cherry was forced to hear about all this after the fact and largely as an explanation for why someone else was probably totally going to get the throne instead of her. Explanations that she could probably still get a hold of some land or a bandit camp or something and serve as a foil to her eldest sister the way all the various barons and other runnerups served as foils to her mother were not very comforting.

When another rival made a play, this time with Cherry available, she tried her hand at adventuring, but soon lost heart at the prize- specifically, Duke Lemonheart's ploy was basically just to destroy everything with lava, and Skulldust was still far in the lead as far as throne-gaining. Faced with trying and probably failing to melt everything or toadying up to her sister, Cherry took a third option and just took off, leaving the whole mess behind and hoping to make her fortune some other way.
Class: Disciple of Mammon
Strength: 1d4
Intellect: 2d4
Dexterity: 1d6
Vitality: 1d8

[Errol]

FIRST SPOT ON WAITLIST, HERE I COOOOOME

Name: Lilianna Kythros
Gender: Female
Appearance: Cold weather clothing - overcoat, scarf, vest, thick shirt, shapeless patched pants thingies, gloves, pompom hat, and a few too many belts. Leading colors are washed out greens, yellows and browns. Bright azure hair. Long, fancy looking staff, too, with a blue glowy thingy. Quarter elven, or so she claims.
Backstory: Hailing from an obscure mountain country somewhere to the north, more specifically from its so-called Royal Academy of Geomancery, Lilianna is out here in the search for the World Tree which, she says, is absolutely vital for a few key aspects of her craft. Most of the time that seems to be a front to tour the world, get wasted and rack up huge unpaid tavern bills, though...
She absolutely cannot resist cracking cheesy jokes and groanworthy puns at the worst possible times, and rarely takes anything seriously... so she kind of slid into the whole saving the world business, but hey, taking down an evil sorceress? Piece of cake!
Class: Geomancer
Strength: 1d6
Intellect: 1d8
Dexterity: 2d4
Vitality: 1d4

[scapheap]

Waitlist time

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: John Grass
Gender: Male
Appearance: Green haired and dark skin person. A tasteful cowboy hat is on his head.
Backstory: A unremarkable person. While most heroes have long tragically awesome backstory, John was practically a NPC. Born to farmers, he not related to a king, a mighty hero or a evil villain. He was not childhood friends with a villain. A villain did not ride into his town and burn it to the ground. He does not own a legendarily macguffin or sword or armor. No gods have taken a interest in him. He has never be asked to kill 10 rats. Why is he here? Because. Because a hero need not the great backstory, nor a connection to the big bad or even the backing of fate. All he need is to be a badass!
Class: Sword Gambler
Strength: 1d6
Intellect: 1d4
Dexterity: 1d8
Vitality: 2d4

[Geen]

IN!
EDIT: FREAKING NINJAS NINJAING MY SHITTY SLOW INTERWEBS SHIT CRAP DAMN
OTHEREDIT: Also, calling it, the 7th dungeon Roll and Dodge are in isn't the final dungeon. There's eight. There's always eight.

[Xantalos]

PTW
CHARACTER LATER FOR WAITLIST

[Ochita]

yeah just waitlist me.

I always had a character sheet what are you talking about.

Spoiler:  Eternally here Character sheet. (click to show/hide)

Name: Ochita
Gender: Male
Appearance: Amazingly long hair, Black, along with wearing a purple robe that reaches down to the floor. Carries a old spear.
Backstory: Ochita is an enigma, appearing seemingly at random, and disappearing a second later. However this time, he seems to be here to stay a little bit longer than most. He seems friendly enough however, and will attempt to get along with anyone who he works along with.
Class: Magical page
Strength: 1d6
Intellect: 2d4
Dexterity: 1d4
Vitality: 1d8

[GreatWyrmGold]

I FINALLY CAME UP WITH AN IDEA! And then I fiddled with it, because there's no way "Ciro" would be accepted.

Spoiler: Gumthog the Undying (click to show/hide)

Bio: Gumthog, a warlock, made his fortune in the Dungeon of Gothmug of Udun, a strange land where Gothmug made his dungeon. After meeting a number of interesting people and getting awesome treasures from that warren of corruption, Gumthog won. Then he retired on the treasure he got, save the occasional minor world-risking event. Then he died.
Then he was born.
The new Gumthog was named after the old hero who he kinda was. As he grew, he slowly remembered more and more of his life. His old life, that is. Eventually, he decided he would see if he came back to life again when killed.
Thankfully, he did. (As a side note, a demon's plan on coming into the world relied on his presence, so yay there.)
On his third (kinda fourth) try at life, Gumthog managed to reach adulthood before experimentally committing suicide. He became a blacksmith/warrior, and died stopping an orcish invasion.
This is his fourth life, where he's trying clericism. He is a priest of Marlek, God of Caves and Dungeons, and has been looking for an excuse to be a hero again for several decades now...

Gender: Initially female, then male, but as of now female again.
Appearance: A silver-haired old woman in magical robes. She is thin and carries a staff tipped with a metal holy symbol of Marlek. She is missing her right eye and left hand from nasty encounters with underground beasts during worship, which are one reason that the congregation of Marlek remains small.
Class: Clerical Theurge (mostly like a cleric, but with a few bits of warlock magic and such remembered from past lives)

Dexterity: 1d8
Intellect: 2d4
Strength: 1d6
Vitality: 1d4

[Benjamaru]

Name: Hehkakei
Gender: Boy
Appearance: Green hair, brown eyes. not very tall. He always wears a black & white coat over anything else he's wearing. Wears a diadem.
Backstory: Hehkakei is the last heir to a fallen kingdom. He wants to revive his kingdom no matter the cost. AND KILL SOME MOTHER F***ERS!!! He suffers from fandom violent tantrems that usually end up with someone dying.
Class:  Berserking Alchemist-Swordsmen
Strength: 2d4
Intellect: 1d6
Dexterity:  1d 8
Vitality: 1d4

[Toaster]

AGH.  Why did I miss this?  Oh well- I got through MKW's waitlist in a year, time to beat this one in a similar timeframe!


Name:  Backmor
Gender:  Male
Appearance:  A gangly, blonde long haired youth with bright green eyes.  His eyes gleam with hope of what the future holds.
Backstory:  Backmor is the ultimate idealist.  He is fully convinced that good will win in any conflict, no matter the odds against them.  He is apprenticed in the local mage college, studying the art of the Swiftmage- magic users who use their art to enhance the speed of the user, solving their problems by avoiding blows and either hitting faster or outrunning their opponent.  Hearing the plight of the heroes, he volunteered as quickly as he could to see them rescued.  He will not be daunted by evil, for he feels the power of True Good is enough to see him through.
Class:  Swiftmage
Strength:  1d6
Intellect:  1d8
Dexterity:  2d4
Vitality:  1d4

[freeformschooler]

Turn 0

Well, what's this, now? A rowdy band of aspiring ne'er-do-wells? Nah, it's the Roll & Dodge Rescue Team, carefully assembled just hours ago at Everbrook Fortress. Lord Everbrook himself appointed these four to go on a most dangerous rescue mission. Why don't we go right ahead an meet 'em?

This one's Liliana. She hails from the Frigid Northerlands because every game needs at least one character hailing from the Frigid Northerlands. She's a beginning Geomancer, a type of sorceress who takes advantage of terrain to the detriment of her foes. Whitewater's many dungeons no doubt have all kinds of treacherous terrain, so Liliana will be a valuable asset to the team.

Marina is a hair... guitarist... bard... elf. Uh, you know, even I ain't entirely sure why Lord Everbrook picked her. Maybe it's her dashing good looks or the fact that her head's a few pixels higher than the others. Yeah, that's it. Marina's a Bard of Hair, meaning she uses her hair and her songs to foil her foes. I'm sure she'll need a lot of locks for those spellsongs, so it's a good thing she has plenty to go around!

This one is - oh, my, what the heck is she wearing? This one's Cherry Skullpop. She sounds like a candy and comes from some kinda candy kingdom, I think, maybe. Word is she heard of the fortune still on Whitewater's head and took off toward fame and gold after a series of outrageous tragedies in her homeland. She's a Disciple of Mammon, a type of ne'er-do-well what specializes in backstabbing allies and other anti-social behavior. Tsk, tsk.

Finally, Alduin is a rough-and-tumble magic gunner hailing from nope don't even care. He has dreams of being a bounty hunter, and Lord Everbrook provided him just that opportunity. Now, Alduin's surrounded by pretty ladies, yes, but I doubt he'd wanna start with any of them. The lot look awful competent.

Now, being this is one of those top-down games, why don't we get to the start of the story and switch perspective here?

The group stands at a crossroads just south of Everbrook Fortress. A few Slimes are just hangin' around, you know, doin' whatever it is Slimes do. A big ol' wooden sign points them in the right direction, whichever way that is. To the north, Everbrook Fortress stands tall, still visible in the distance. To the south, the Citizens' Everbrook  - the Village, that is - has all sortsa shops n' advice for a young adventurer startin' out. The Flutter Fields, to the east, are one of the rumored locations of the Sorceress Whitewater's dungeon. The Contested Lands, to the west, are another.

((You may now roleplay at your leisure. All actions must be bolded.))

Spoiler: Marina/Dermonster (click to show/hide)

Name: Marina
Gender: Female
Appearance: 6'11'' Long lime colored hair and green eyes, dark skin and a sort of tastefully tattered bard dress thing.
Backstory: Marina hails from the elfin nation of Uberwald, in the village of Ramtop. She was a giant among midgets in her home and, though at first outcast, finally gained acceptance after she discovered she could reach the top shelf without a stepladder, a fact which was celebrated with a fervor.
A student of the arts of music magic, she passed with wild colors after an impromptu performance of "Dance water, Dance" with the human music group 'Dem Yiks', with a minor in arcane lore. She has come to this place searching for the fabled 'Shampoo of the Noted King', said to grant unbelievable power to the deciples of instrumental hair.
Also because it looked like fun and nobody would hire a seven foot bard. Whee!
Class: Bard of Hair.

Level: 1 (0/10)
Health: 8
Mana: 5
Strength: 1d6
Intellect: 2d4
Dexterity: 1d4
Vitality: 1d8

Active Abilities: Entangling Song
Passive Abilities:
Equipment: Elfin Axe
Inventory:

Spoiler: Liliana/Errol (click to show/hide)

Name: Lilianna Kythros
Gender: Female
Appearance: Cold weather clothing - overcoat, scarf, vest, thick shirt, shapeless patched pants thingies, gloves, pompom hat, and a few too many belts. Leading colors are washed out greens, yellows and browns. Bright azure hair. Long, fancy looking staff, too, with a blue glowy thingy. Quarter elven, or so she claims.
Backstory: Hailing from an obscure mountain country somewhere to the north, more specifically from its so-called Royal Academy of Geomancery, Lilianna is out here in the search for the World Tree which, she says, is absolutely vital for a few key aspects of her craft. Most of the time that seems to be a front to tour the world, get wasted and rack up huge unpaid tavern bills, though...
She absolutely cannot resist cracking cheesy jokes and groanworthy puns at the worst possible times, and rarely takes anything seriously... so she kind of slid into the whole saving the world business, but hey, taking down an evil sorceress? Piece of cake!
Class: Geomancer

Level: 1 (0/10)
Health: 4
Mana: 4
Strength: 1d6
Intellect: 1d8
Dexterity: 2d4
Vitality: 1d4

Active Abilities:
Passive Abilities: Terrawareness
Equipment: Frigid Staff
Inventory:

Spoiler: Cherry Skullpop/IronyOwl (click to show/hide)

Name: Cherry Skullpop
Gender: Female
Appearance: Very pale-skinned girl with a high-set white ponytail. Prefers villainous-looking revealing studded leather clothes.
Backstory: Cherry is the seventh daughter of Queen Chalcedony, a sorceress-warrior-queen who attained the throne by saving the kingdom from various disasters better than all the other heroes she was competing with. This also left a convenient number of nearly equally powerful, fairly enraged contenders to help keep the kingdom "strong."

Unfortunately, Cherry wasn't even born when one of Chalcedony's old friends/rivals/bitter enemies made a play for the throne. The resulting catastrophe was truly glorious, with demonic invasions and weird curses and the moon acting all funny and everything, but poor Cherry was forced to hear about all this after the fact and largely as an explanation for why someone else was probably totally going to get the throne instead of her. Explanations that she could probably still get a hold of some land or a bandit camp or something and serve as a foil to her eldest sister the way all the various barons and other runnerups served as foils to her mother were not very comforting.

When another rival made a play, this time with Cherry available, she tried her hand at adventuring, but soon lost heart at the prize- specifically, Duke Lemonheart's ploy was basically just to destroy everything with lava, and Skulldust was still far in the lead as far as throne-gaining. Faced with trying and probably failing to melt everything or toadying up to her sister, Cherry took a third option and just took off, leaving the whole mess behind and hoping to make her fortune some other way.
Class: Disciple of Mammon

Level: 1 (0/10)
Health: 7
Mana: 3
Strength: 1d4
Intellect: 2d4
Dexterity: 1d6
Vitality: 1d8

Active Abilities: Quick Fingers
Passive Abilities:
Equipment: Royal Backstabber
Inventory:

Spoiler: Alduin/adwarf (click to show/hide)

Name: Alduin
Gender: Male
Appearance: With long straight silver hair and green eyes Alduin strikes a rather imposing figure with his black cloak with gilded edges and a plain red tunic and brown pants underneath. He appears about average in weight, but is actual thin, the inside of his cloak having been lined with thin metal plates for protection.
Backstory: A young man with dreams of becoming a bounty hunter, Alduin has spent his life learning gun-play and magic in such a way that some call him a Magic Gunner. With such high aspirations Alduin set out in search of glory as soon as he was able, he hunted a few criminals, killed a level three goblin here and there before finally stumbling upon the dungeon where Roll and Dodge have been trapped. Seeing an opportunity he joined the group of heroes going in to free them.
Class: Magic Gunner

Level: 1 (0/10)
Health: 6
Mana: 8
Strength: 1d4
Intellect: 1d8
Dexterity: 2d4
Vitality: 1d6

Active Abilities: Conflagration Barrel
Passive Abilities:
Equipment: Infinity Mechanism
Inventory:

[Cheesecake]

Nooo! I'm too late.  Waitlist, please?

Name: Skittles
Gender: Male
Appearance: Clean shave hair, muscular, with many tattoos.
Biography: Skittles hopes to become the ultimate bard. He has performed many poems before, and entertained many people. He was abandoned when he was young, but found by a nearby priest named Cleric Dre. He performs his poems quickly, calling them "raps".
Class: Bard. He can perform rap spells which can invigorate allies or demoralize enemies.
Strength:  1d4
Intellect:  1d8
Dexterity:  2d4
Vitality:  1d6