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Abandon Ship - all hope is lost...

Our Necromagicks have failed us!

Next year...

Next quarter...

This quarter?!

Never - The GM is just playing with you!

[GrizzlyAdamz]

I wonder what happens when a familiar's master is killed while the bond is still intact?

[10ebbor10]

Familair dies a slow and painfull death, and it's actually considered an atrocity not to kill it.

[Harbingerjm]

I don't think so, actually. The reason given for them dying is that they're so dependant on their caster that they have no idea how to live without them: we, on the other hand, have our demon free will thingy, and survived just fine. I don't think the bond breaking has any direct effect, except possibly a loss of benefits from the master.

[escaped lurker]

Allright, here we have arguably one of the biggest reason for the uh... "little pause". The Sorceress and her skills - I arranged her after the different schools, as active / passive would be a tad confusing in her case. After some rolling, it also become appearant that we still have buisness here. Which will have to wait - Imgur was an ass today, only allowing single-image-uploads. The plot might come sometimes in the morning. Anyways, Enjoy~

Spoiler: Elaine's Skills (click to show/hide)

Special Skills:

Overflooding Spells - Trollkind - +20% / min. 2 MP

Your Spell has a far lesser chance of failure. Especially handy if multi-casting, or if something really should not go wrong.

This is – for many reasons – the key to your success. Instead of worrying over the small details, you just pump in some extra mana to make it work. While this normally would mess up the spell, you just seem to make it work somehow – definitely a talent, almost on par with actual skill. In Essence, It Enables you to give your enchantments that little extra edge, or to throw one-a-two fireballs more at once. A steep price, but more than worth the outcome. This “crude spellery” has barred you from achieving the official rank of Wizard, but you wear a pointy hat all-the-same, as if to spite those theoreticaly-minded fools.


Regeneration - Trollkind - Passive

You have incredible regeneration, maybe even able to replace body-parts.

The fabled Regeneration of Trolls – if one is a bit patient, it is really possible to see the wound closing before ones own eyes. Even limbs can be regenerated, and if the tissue in question is removed, even burns pose no problem. Well, for full-blooded trolls that is. You certainly do not wish to test how far your abilities in this regard go, but you do not keep any kind of scars, and any wound heals at an inhumanly quick rate.


Quick Learner - Humankind - Passive

You have a chance to gain additional experience.

Just as it says. Since Humans are among the shorter-lived races, they do have to make up for this flaw. Quicker maturing of body and spirit is a result from that, a trait that has carried over to you. Certainly, one of the more enjoyable parts of your mixed heritage.


Bound Familiar

Allows you to controll your familiar, in all sorts of ways. This connection is still a bit flawed thou...

Yes! Your very own dragon-familiar. This will be certain to mark down your name in history, and without all the odd-ness that surrounded Abredas. It certainly will give the civilized parts of "This World" another reason to write and keep tabs on you. Here is hope that it will be positive, but you have not much doubt about that. As for the familiar, you can give it orders as long as you are not extremely far from it, but the transfer of mana is only possible in somewhat close quarters.


Enchantment-Skills:

Permanent Enchantment - Enchantment - Ritual; vastly differing costs

Allows you to enchant items with additional abilities.

Ah, your bread and butter, as far as magic goes. The Art of weaving enchantments can be as straightforward as it can be tricky, and while you mostly kept to the former, it has served you well. The same can be said about your party, seeing as your enchantments are definitely high-tier and thus more than suited to improve the strength of your comrades. Well, limited to the Beastman - the Priest's God forbids such “trickery”.


Physical Boost - Enchantment - 5-20 MP

Temporary increases a single chosen Physical Ability, but from a very broad board of possibilities. Needs physical contact, or a severe Malus will be applied.

Not a Spell that you use on yourself very often, but certainly often enough on the Vulpine. Anything physical can be boosted, be it just raw strength, body-size (careful with the armour thou!) and even senses. There are stories that true masters of this school can do the same for the spiritual attributes, but while you have used the theory on permanent enchantments, it is far beyond you to cast something such highly advanced in real-time. Like, really far beyond you. Not that you would ever tell, but hey – you can be honest here, right?


Add Properties - Enchantment - 5-50 MP

Allows additional abilities or properties to be added towards an object. Needs physical contact, or a severe Malus will be applied.

Certainly one of the more abstract spells that you possess – the higher the desired change, the higher the chance of failure – and obviously the mana-investment. To put it into simple terms, making a rock into ore does not need to add that much, and is straightforward. To make a rock fly, you have to completely drench it in mana, because that is just very opposite from its original nature. Druids actually use a similar tequnique to turn themselves into beasts, but so far you only managed an enchantment that makes the wearer look more human. Still quite handy.


Elemental Abilities:

Call forth Elements - Elemental - 4 MP per projectile

Allows you to summon forth an elemental projectile - Fire, Earth, Electricity, Water / Ice. You can summon +1 Projectile without Malus each 10 Willpower. Can also be used in a Ritual, for a devestating onslaught of magic - Preparation time is at least half an hour.

Huhu, the real fun stuff. There are not many things as satisfying like throwing around dozens of fireballs. Sure, you could do with rocks, lightning or – mostly frozen – water, but there is just something about fire that makes it the most fun. Obviously it is not always first-choice material, with rocks coming to a close second with lightning. Eh, each has its merits and de-merits, but with your style you mostly just pack a few extra projectiles and the result does not change. Oh, right – you obviously can also partake in a ritual, if you really want to hand out doom for a certain area, but that takes quite some time, and most certainly most of your resources. Do you need to mention that such rituals are normally held by groups, and that as such yours is not all-that-impressive? Well, you certainly did not use it often (yet).


Elemental Armour - Elemental - 30 MP

Encloses the caster in an elemental armour.

Have you ever tried to hack away at an armour made out of rock? Or even worse, one out of highly-votialate electric currency? One fool did so once, you cried tears of laughter at his fate - It was a very good day. You only would use fire in some kind of bar-fight, and solid ice is obviously a bit below rocks in defensiveness, but each might come in useful in certain situations. Well, normally you can trust your team to keep you out of melee-range, so you did not have any use for it recently.


Elemental Scrying - Elemental - 10 MP

Enables you to see something that is surrounded or near the specific element, in the area you specified for the spell. More chance of success if done as a ritual of half an hour.

You actually never had that much interest in this one, seeing as you either need to scan the whole area, or very specifically. After your first failures to find a lost party-member you more or less gave up on it. A few years later, you have found it to be most successful, mostly because of a focus for the searched thing. Still, a very fickle spell under normal conditions.


Warlock Abilities:

Permanent Curse - Warlock - Ritual; vastly differing costs

Allows you to curse an item with negative abilities.

Oh my, the darker side of your magically knowledge. Actually, the basic theory, and all the ones advancing from there are pretty close to enchantment. Well, only that it goes into the completely opposite direction, and at the end often enough branches off a bit. You did not create many cursed items yet, but the one the priest holds certainly was inspiring – in some sorts at least. Damned Priest.


Physical Drain - Warlock - 5-20 MP

Temporary decreases a single chosen Physical Ability, but from a very broad board of possibilities. Needs physical contact, or a severe Malus will be applied.

This spell is actually pretty handy in some situations – you have used it on yourself to make the stench of the undead more bearable, or on the priest to make him lighter when he fell unconscious. Obviously you could also use it to lower the capabilities of enemies, but since they have an aversion to getting touched by you in the midst of combat, it is somewhat impractical. You have certainly thought about training yourself a bit in the ranged appliance of this spell, but it remains a hit-and-miss job for now.


Remove Properties - Warlock - 5-50 MP

Allows the removing of abilities or properties from an object. Needs physical contact, or a severe Malus will be applied.

The circle of abstractacy – is that a word? You think it is – eh.. right. The circle of abstractacy is not complete without this spell. To take the previous example, to make a rock into ore, you would have to remove any rocky-ness from it, leaving behind the ory-ness of it. On the other hand, it is far easier to remove it's weight, making it fly as a result. The specific properties are quite the mess, and you had no time to sort out the theories behind the whole process, but anyways. It works just like adding properties – only that it removes them. Duh.


Druidic Abilities:

Healing Touch - Druidic - 4 MP for 1 HP

Allows you to heal wounds, but for now only outside of combat.

Had someone told you that you would learn druidic spells a few years prior, you certainly would have laughed at them. But since that damned priest will not heal any wounds except those that really, really do need healing, you took to the matter by yourself. Luckily, you heal your scars, else he certainly would have regretted the policies of his god in short order. The vulpine did take the whole matter somewhat more easy, but he has a fur to hide those scars under. And you suspect he also shares that thought about scars being manly. Then again, why would he care about that.. Oh, the spell? Oh, right. You can heal simple wounds with it, but it is very ill-designed for combat use. You do not need to use it that often, seeing as you are in the back, the beastman is in his armour, and the priest is not satisfied if there are no new scars on him after a fight. Damned Priest.


Plant-Growth - Druidic - 2-15 MP

Allows you to accelerate the growth of a seed or plant. Since you need to conjur the real deal, it certainly is a draining effort.

Having a green thumb is actually somewhat fun. You mostly learned this spell because it implores on some druidic theories needed for healing, but it came in handy for a prank as well. You certainly would not be able to bind anything but a drunkard to his chair with some vines, but under certain circumstances it might be able to do more than comedic relief.

Spoiler: Old News (click to show/hide)

Well then, my Laptop broke down "on the Road" and thus I am somewhat unsure on when I will be able to proceed with this project. As far as I could come to an understanding with the locals, It seems to be the dammned disk itself that got the problem - I will most likely send it back home at some point in time, but untill then it will be mere luggage. Caus I will not pay over 400 freaking bucks just to get that broken sh... stuff home. Anyways, I very much like what I had going on here, and thus will be extremely likely to resume it at a later point. Wich means somewhere in the next months department, rather than days or weeks. Well cross that bridge sooner or later. Else I keep this short, as others also want to use this pc. Eh, hostels. Untill hopefully soon-ish.


Allright, small update on the situation. As far as my travel-plans go, they most likely will not differ from the original. Wich in context means that you should not await the hiatus to end before octobre (well, maybe to the end of it - I will necro the thread by then, no worries). It vastly depends on the state of my hard-drive. Here is hope it was only the connection that got fried. No promise that this will return if the disk itself got fried, as I would need to rewrite... actually quite a lot. Mostly technical data. It would also require me to re-draw sprites and.. ugh. I am actually quite sure that I would do it, but it certainly would push the whole matter back for another .. eh, lets go with "month" for now. Time will tell.

If it were not for all the background-data I would actually consider running this without images for a while, but without my data this is a moot point.

After some thinking on the matter, I vow to see "this matter" resolved. That means either Indezi´s untimely demise - wich we all do not hope for - or loss of interest in this story. Since both seem far-fetched, and are not any goal of mine, the only barricade is the current state of affairs. And no worries, I did notice that it gets 20 hits each day. Just putting it out there that I will continue with this, albeit sadly only in due time.

On that note, I think we could explore "Abredas the younger"`s Adventures in Suggestion Game Format. It certainly would enrich and flesh out "This World" further. Keep in mind that I am traveling thou, and have to keep to Internet Cafe´s and Hostel PC´s in the meantime. I am not sure how fast it would go along. It obviously would loose steam / be set on hiatus after we get back on track here. (To be honest, I actually am curios about this "Go crazy, there is no risk involved" suggestion thing, at least after reading what Funk did with his Urban Viligante. With Abredas, one should really be able to go crazy, if we look at his current bio.)

Well shit. Disk got fried. Some specialists might be able to get me the data, but I aint handing over 200 bucks for that, so no deal. Wich means.... dont expect this to start up before the end of next month, especially with me needing to find a way to get my laptop back into working condition somehow. wich is difficult in a foreign country with none of the pc-part-drivers, and even no windows available in the shops that i would be able to use. so yeah, shit hit the fan in that department.

Spoiler: How to pixel an Indezi (click to show/hide)

How to pixel your very own Indezi - In 5-or-so simple-or-so steps.


Take the much re-used original drawing of our most draconic protagonist. White the unneeded edges away.


Take a transparent layer, and pixel the black outlines. This much-scorned technique is called tracing; But since its me tracing my own art, it is ok. 
Add some additonal artwork, which was out of your reach art-wise a few months ago. 


Get some fitting colours, and their variatons. Then fill in the basic colour-theme.

Jump ahead and edit your post, instead of taking the pixeling to an end. Because you can.

Come back and wonder why somebody would post in this old thread?! Then realize that the back-up-plan of just re-editing all the edits outta the text in case of enthusiasm-fail, with no-one the wiser will be difficult to implent after that. Really now! Ahem, anyways;



Carefully deploy the fitting colours; Yes, much better now. Finisheeeed.
Well, normally that is. Some fair troll-maidens and similiar might be kept at this level of pixeling for a while, with guest-appearances clearly not deserving any better - but our most draconic protagonist will recieve an additional touch-up.



There we go - by horsing around with 20% opacity of the adjectant colours, the edges between the colours have been smoothed. The color-count also has about quadruppled. Now others would start to add shadows - but with my sense of perspective, I better leave that part out for now. Now it is truly finished.

Welcome back, Indezi.  :3


Yes, I told you it was finished. Which it is, unless one really wants to take another tedious step.

Removing the black outlines! Art is never finished, only abandoned - or so they say. Sure enough, I could spent another hour tidying up everything, but this truly seems to work for now. Maybe sometimes later with more experience, but this seems more than enough.

You bad necro, you!
But yeah, I could just draw some inferior versions of the team and get started. But I am enjoying the calm before the storm, seeing as now would be the time to get some sprites ready and what-not. Also, I do know most things by memory - but all those abilities do make for a hard chew to remember. Still need to draw the Ability-Pads for Priest and Vulpine too. Together with the total state of affairs (Wrecked clothes, locals stores only have them in too small sizes, finally own internet again - lotta stuff I have to catch up - and what-not) It will take some more time untill this gets off to a start again.

Especially as I did flesh out "This World" further, bringing us up to about 35 races - of the Major Races I would like to have at least 1 Pixel-Sketch each, seeing as the RNG will bring them up sooner or later.

Else, I opted against a "Creature-Level" System at the start, relying on Skills and Attributes instead. All bodily attributes give some bonus to hitpoints by the way - as is logical. All I'm going to say about that matter for now. 


Newest News
Due to that steaming pile of junk-laptop having yet another failure (this time the screen), I decided to leave it be. Not only figuratively speaking. So~, until I get onto a working home-pc, get those disks to work and pixel the rest of those sprites, I doubt that there will be a continuation of this. Which means, no dice this year. But having half a year of hiatus, well. Lets see if I really want to continue it by that point in time, and if there is still any kind of interest after that timespan.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Nifty.

[Harbingerjm]

Neat-o!

[Nivim]

(These necro-edits instead of necro-posts are hilarious, but I guess it does make a lot of sense to not spend pages of the thread on non-game stuff, since it tends to leave this big gap for people going through the archives. Also, kinda surprised that having a destroyed hard-drive slowed you down, Lurker; this whole thread I had, in the periphery of my thoughts, assumed you were writing and drawing everything on the spot from memory [and random.org]. [And almost forgot; your use of words I don't know of likely foreign origin amuses me— I'd mistaken two of them for typos {"nebst" and "dilettantish"}.])

Krasom ("Undead Troubles") if my vote tips it to success, otherwise—
Bandits ("Tin-Scraper Boys") if [quote above condition], otherwise—
Cult in Nortfahl ("Demonic Cult").

However, assuming "southern" and "east" without modifiers are at all similar distances, I think a good complete plan would be "First we take out the bandits to the south, since that should be quick, and I'd like to see what my whelping can do before putting it against something that could kill it."(With that last bit twisted sufficiently for vulpine.) "Then we can just circle around up through Larein, take out the druid-turned-necromancer, and keep going onto Nortfahl, where we should have a least a few more tricks for the cultists there. We can send messages of success along the way, then come back and maybe deal with the basilisk after we've collected the lump sum of our rewards."

(Does Indezi gain hitpoints with str/dex or is it "by level"?
 Can Elaine deliver touch attacks through Indezi D&D style?)

1st Edit: (I haven't searched through your post history to possibly find details, but it sure sounds like you had it rough! Almost like something that should make us thankful that you're back at all...
Also, kinda expected the part about touch attacks would be right on Elain's ability sheet, or part of the knowledge of any mage; I guess this means it's an uncommon trick, or has to do with mana-manipulating rules we don't know.)

 Oh right, there's one more action to send— (Read bolding to get a simplified version.)
Indezi: Don't you dare get distracted from all this; you could be with these thugs a long while, and any scrap of information about how they think or act could be vital for for using any of those precious moments of control to their fullest.
 However, when you do have a moment, think. Supposedly your extra-dimensional soul is what's allowing you any free will at all, so why aren't you trying to expand it ASAP? You've been learning quickly, growing quickly, and it's time to take advantage of that; begin trying to focus on your ability to receive emotions— the sense, the feeling, the process, the mana— and savor every instant of its flow. Once you have centered yourself so, try to figure out if there's more to it than that; like if there's something about it that doesn't fit your simple description— something that confuses your rational, conscious mind. Then, regardless of how much you find, use everything you know and detect to stretch your soul itself; you can imagine your ability as a great pair of wings absorbing the light of people's emotions, so widen them to try collecting more mana over a longer range. Then for every scrap you get, try to reinvest it into yourself and those imaginary wings instead of just storing it; eat it, lob it towards your Outer Plane, shove it into your amulet, burn like some sacrifice to your other self, whatever works.

^{(Have some ~inappropriate music I was listening to while writing. I distracted myself a few times.)}