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[IronyOwl]

You are a wizard trapped in a void dimension. That's okay though, because you're a wizard and void dimensions are easily manipulated.

Spoiler: Goal (click to show/hide)

Your goal is to be a wizard trapped in a completely empty dimension. This probably means creating things for some purpose or another, but after that your aims are your own.

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

The void can be conveniently thought of as a 2-dimensional hexagonal map.


You can create terrain on it, so there's floating purple islands or something instead of nothingness.


You, or in some cases any loyal servants you might create, can then also build things on this terrain.


If you really get dedicated you can even affect the fabric of the void itself, subtly altering the laws of reality and visual nature of the emptiness around you.

Spoiler: Requirements (click to show/hide)

Being a reality-warping wizard is great and all, but even you have your limits.

Terrain is relatively easy to create because there's nothing in its way. This is one of those philosophical things that's hard for peasants to properly grasp, but the obvious analogy would be the difference between moving your arm through air and through water. The latter is harder, because water is denser and less pliable- more "real," if you will. In the void, there's nothing at all, so there's nothing to stop you.

However, this begins to become insufficient as you increase in complexity. The analogy here would be performing an exotic dance in water versus air- the former is obviously more difficult in terms of resistance, but simply being in the latter isn't a substitute for actually knowing how and putting in the effort to do so.

Structures are something of an intermediary step, then. They can be formed out of substance relatively easily by a wizard such as yourself, but still take a fair amount of focus and attention to detail.

Complex Things, such as most forms of life, very complex structures, high-end materials, or fine tools, tend to require a workshop to facilitate their construction, as well as raw materials to form them out of. Such things cannot simply be willed out of nothingness or thrown together in a shallow depression.

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

On your turn, you may perform one major action and one minor action. Note that all actions are rolled for, no matter how simple (or complex) they may seem on paper.

Major Actions

Create Terrain: Create a type of terrain on a specific tile. Unless you specify otherwise, creating terrain with one blank space between in and the nearest existing terrain will cause it to automatically "fill in," reaching across to bridge the gap with the same materials. This allows you to create terrain fairly quickly when expanding the same landmass.

Create Structure: Personally create or upgrade a structure of reasonable complexity. Structures must be built on existing terrain, unless they're intended to fly or similar. Terrain tiles may generally only hold one structure at a time, with "a village" or "some workshops" generally counting as a single structure for these purposes.

Create Anything Else: Other creations vary somewhat in the rules associated with them, but note that they begin where they are created. Distributing them elsewhere is usually a minor action.


Minor Actions

Distribute Creation: Take something you've made in a workshop or lab and put it someplace else. This might mean transporting statues, planting trees, settling minions, or any number of other things. Obviously, you generally need to be able to actually reach where you're trying to put things, and there has to be a path that doesn't complicate things, such as trying to transport delicate ice trees through lava seas.

Order Servants: If you have any minions capable of understanding you, you may attempt to give them a command. This can be a specific order, such as going somewhere, or a standing order, such as planting trees when they're not busy. Note that your minions only get one action a round and probably aren't going to be very smart, so don't expect too much from them.

Create Minor Thing: Create something that's not easy enough to be a free action, like a rock, but not complex enough to count as a major action, like a race of mushroom-folk. Very weak or purely cosmetic crafted items, such as jewelry or a journal, often fall into this category.

Other Minor Action: Anything else that's significant enough to require an action, but not significant enough to consume a major action, might be a minor action.

Spoiler: Amber (click to show/hide)

There is one relatively unique resource wizards should keep an eye on in their efforts. Amongst wizards, it is often referred to as Amber.

Amber is a sort of semi-crystallized mana or mystic potential native to wizards. It is acquired when performing perfectly on a major action, and is tainted with the nature of that action. For instance, flawlessly raising a skeletal champion might grant a point of Necromancy Amber.

Amber is used as a catalyst for single actions that otherwise shouldn't be possible, at least with the wizard's current tools, materials, and skills. As might be expected, the nature of this augmentation is based on the nature of the Amber; Necromancy Amber cannot be used to heal or levitate without some interesting justifications. Different types of Amber may be mixed if they all match the desired effect.

The exact potency of this effect depends on how much Amber is spent. Note that, as always, the action is rolled for.

1 Point: Trivial Augmentation. Trivial Augments usually visibly taint or define the work in question, but have largely symbolic effects. Creating or augmenting a pack of servants to enable them to vaguely sense ghosts might be a Trivial Augmentation.

2 Points: Mild Augmentation. Mild Augments usually grant the work some noteworthy but not overtly defining trait or effect. Creating or modifying a metal to take necromantic enchantments well might be a Mild Augmentation.

3 Points: Defining Augmentation. Defining Augments usually warp the work in question to the point where its purpose is somewhat redefined. Creating or modifying a gem to emanate and resonate with heat and flame might be a Defining Enchantment.

4 Points: Potent Augmentation. Potent Augments usually render the work unquestionably defined by its tainted nature. Creating or augmenting a race of creatures so that they can regenerate fatal wounds in battle or instantly reattach severed limbs might be a Potent Enchantment.

5 Points: Overwhelming Augmentation. Overwhelming Augments often defy normal limitations entirely, making the work noteworthy even from an academic standpoint. Creating or augmenting a type of undead that can breed like the living might be an Overwhelming Augment.

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[b]Name:[/b] What you call yourself
[b]Appearance:[/b] You're a mighty wizard, so there's certainly some leeway here.
[b]Personality:[/b] What your noodles are like.
[b]Goals:[/b] What you plan to do now that you're here.
[b]Other:[/b] Anything else we should know about you. How and why you're a wizard in a void dimension, for instance.

Six players, not first come first served. Those with interesting goals are more likely to be selected. I doubt we'll make use of a waitlist, but I'll track one just in case. Maybe if a lot of our wizards decide to breach the veil and leave the game with their servants to go exact vengeance or something.

[IronyOwl]

Player List
-Aaron Ray, Reckless Idealist (IronTomato)
-Matt Rossė, WIZARD (dewboy)
-Danielle Wrythwia, Dreamseeker Medium (DarkArtemisFowl)
-Victor Alden, Kindly Vitalist (ReDeadEr)
-Jim Tam Jones, Arrogant Perfectionist (Harry Baldman)
-Stephen Cook, Gambling Hedonist (HmH)

Waitlist
-Felicia Hasting, Deranged Leomancer (Samarkand)

[IronyOwl]

Encyclopedia
There is nothing. Our six wizards haven't even arrived yet.

[IronTomato]

Name: Aaron Ray
Appearance: He is young, with light green eyes and long, blonde straight hair.
Personality: Slightly insane, he has extremely radical ideals, and doesn't enjoy pointless small talk. He's always ranting about something important.
Goals: The Earth is flawed. He plans to come here, and establish a perfect utopia where who or what you are doesn't matter.
Other: Even though he has a good amount of maturity and discipline, he is reckless and often overestimates himself.

This alright? I suck at catchy names.

[IronyOwl]

Seems fine. Names are a difficult thing to quantify, though.

[dewboy]

Name:Matt Rossė
Appearance: Very old and wizened. Blad with piercing gray eyes and a long droopy mustache
Personality: Completely sane (for the most part) and intent on his own purposes
Goals: Bend reality to the point of making the GM give up
Other: He's here because he does what he wants, when he wants, and because he wants to.

[DarkArtemisFowl]

Name: Danielle Wrythwia (Yes I know I'm reusing a character, but let's just assume this is non-canon)
Appearance: Female. Pale skin, thin body and average height. Dark magenta eyes and light blonde hair. Wears a red vest and a dress that has been cut at the midriff and substitutes the lower part with torn jeans. Looks to be a teenager, age unknown. Though, considering the nature of wizards, she could be any age.
Personality: Very unstable personality. Keeps to herself often, though she has trouble controlling what she says. Was born with autism. She's pretty much a masochist and somewhat of a sadist, though she has a happy side.

Most importantly, she does not dream.
Goals: To practice within this new void, and learn what powers she can muster within herself. Also, to find out the meaning of dreaming. A friend who died long ago told her that she must learn the powers of dreams if she is to continue with her journey. This is her chance to do so.
Other: She was thrown in here to practice her powers as a Medium. Before, she mostly dealt with destruction and the physical limits of a wizard. Now, she gets the chance to mess around with her own abilities as a Medium. (Again, non-canon)

((By the way, is this a reboot of the "Gods in the void" thing you had going before?))

[IronyOwl]

(Yes I know I'm reusing a character, but let's just assume this is non-canon)

I didn't.

((By the way, is this a reboot of the "Gods in the void" thing you had going before?))

The basic concept is one I've done at least once before, but it doesn't bear any particular relation to any previous works.

[DarkArtemisFowl]

(Yes I know I'm reusing a character, but let's just assume this is non-canon)

I didn't.

((No, no, I meant my own character. I mean... basically I was doing a little thing where every individual character I entered in an RTD was tied in to the rest through their stories relating to "Roll to Medium" and "Special People." This particular character was already in another RtD (two actually), so I'm just pointing out that this is not the particular path that she takes in her official backstory.))

[ReDeadEr]

Name: Victor Alden
Appearance: An old man with a long, wizardly beard wearing what at one time must've been a fancy and respectable wizard robe, which has been patched and sewn back together so many times it looks more like a quilt than anything.
Personality: Calm and collected in all but the most extreme situations, Kind, with a tendency to dote on those younger than him.
Goals: He plans to seek out a way to cure or prevent death, and a way to give such a cure to others.
Other: He originally wound up in the Void as the result of magical accident in his researching a cure for death, but rather than wishing to return home, he sees the chance to seek out his goal in an environment as malleable as the void as a boon.

[Harry Baldman]

Name: Jim Tam Jones
Appearance: it tends to vary. His two main forms are those of an old, naked, hairy, floating fat man and a beautiful, very exquisitely clothed floating woman, and it is between these two forms that he tends to shift depending on his mood. These two forms have variations of their own, with subtle changes in their appearance depending on the circumstances of the shift.
Personality: Jim Tam Jones prefers his noodles to address him by his full name, or at least call him Tammy when he looks like a lady. He also likes his noodles to be delicately arranged with both taste and style, and expects them to taste nothing short of spectacular when he is served any, since his body no longer actually requires food. He never really was a big fan of noodles, anyway. Especially when he hadn't made them himself - he is the sort that does not trust other people's noodles to meet any of his standards of quality.
Goals: Jim Tam Jones finds the mortal world to be woefully imperfect and faulty, as it was not made by himself - he feels he could do a much better job given a whole lot of magic, time and inclination. Perfect the very idea of a world, even. The possibilities within the void are limitless.
Other: Jim Tam Jones hates it when people ask him questions, and it was because of this that he came here in the first place. They were all like "Mighty Jim Tam Jones, why do you not cure any of the world's problems, huh?" and Jim Tam Jones was all like "Go away," and sent the asker to a void dimension. Then he had this idea, and decided to remove the asker from the dimension, and instead go there himself. Now Jim Tam Jones feels much happier.

[HmH]

Name: Stephen Cook
Appearance: An obese, red-faced, bald man with a deep voice and a greying full beard. He is wearing a skin-tight grey suit with a glass bulb for a helmet. He makes for a pretty disturbing sight in this apparel.
Personality: Stephen's personality can be described in two words: creative and thrill-seeking. He likes other people's company, even when they're trying to kill him; in his experience, the rush of battle is one of the few things that never get old. And if there's anything Stephen hates, it's boredom; in fact, he's quite likely to take unnecessary risks just to see if losing the gamble gets him someplace interesting.
Goals: Stephen is a hedonist, so he spends most of his time getting the best sensations possible out of his current situation. In the void dimension, it would generally mean creating exciting new things. Rivers of wine! Mounds of truffles! Water slides that stretch on for miles! Being stranded in the void sounds so fun.
Other: Like always, Stephen's thrill-seeking was what got him into this. When he entered the temple of Aoskar and bellowed to the high priest, "SURPRISE ME!", he half-expected to end up on the bottom of the ocean. He was pleasantly surprised when the portal he jumped through spat him out into the endless expanses of a void dimension.

[IronyOwl]

Turn 0: Flashes of Difference


Six flashes of... something ring out in the void. Six wizards stand (well, float) ready to do things. They notice each other in the distance, close enough to reach instantly yet far enough to not be in the way.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Aaron Ray, Reckless Idealist (IronTomato)

Matt Rossė, WIZARD (dewboy)

Danielle Wrythwia, Dreamseeker Medium (DarkArtemisFowl)

Victor Alden, Kindly Vitalist (ReDeadEr)

Jim Tam Jones, Arrogant Perfectionist (Harry Baldman)

Stephen Cook, Gambling Hedonist (HmH)

[The Froggy Ninja]

Ptw

[HmH]

Stephen took off his helmet and roared with laughter, his belly - or rather, his entire body - shaking like a bowl of jelly.
"This is getting better and better! Hey there, neighbors! You liking it here, too?"

Major: create an idyllic landscape with abundant plantlife and a clear, quick stream running through it.

Minor: create a lavish purple bathrobe with matching slippers as replacement for my current attire.