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[The Froggy Ninja]

((Can we potentially use the same spells someone else created.))

[Tack]

((It sounds like a good idea, but at the same time I like the teamwork element it throws in by having everyone with spells of a different kind. If everyone could cast knit, getting injured would lose some of the flavor.))

[lemon10]

((Can we potentially use the same spells someone else created.))

Yes. You could learn the exact same spell someone else did (assuming that you have the same strengths and weaknesses), but you would have to learn it yourself before you could use it.

((It sounds like a good idea, but at the same time I like the teamwork element it throws in by having everyone with spells of a different kind. If everyone could cast knit, getting injured would lose some of the flavor.))

Yeah, I expect everyone to have a healing spell of some kind to be honest. Otherwise if Ven isn't present (or healed someone else) you are pretty much screwed and will bleed to death (or be unable to run because one/both of your legs are broken and get stabbed to deah, or will die from poison or infection or any other of a dozen things).

For the most part wounds are intended to be trivial outside of combat. Cuts, broken bones, lesser diseases and infections are all able to be done away with in a single casting over a few turns. Missing limbs, magical diseases and infections, and unhealing wounds are much harder to fix.

I would also recommend that people get different healing spells, because if you all have the Knitback, then your healing flexibility as a group is limited.

[mastahcheese]

Yeah, that's why I'm having to make myself one.

[Avis-Mergulus]

((Sorrysorrysorrywhymustisleepsomuch..!))

Ven approaches Cromwell, a slightly concerned expression on his face.

-Hold still...

Cast Knitback (Life/Water/Order) on Cromwell.

Spoiler: Blizzard Armor (click to show/hide)

Water/Air/Chaos. Summons a large amount of ice plates and shards and sets them swirling around the caster at terrifying velocities. The shards protect the caster's body from harm and wound anybody in the radius of a meter from the caster.

[lemon10]

Huh, I thought we were just waiting on Avis. Turns out that harb has posted something this turn, but he hasn't actually posted any actions. I'll run the turn in about 10 hours, even if he doesn't post in that time.

[Harbingerjm]

Oh, ok.
Ren waits.

[lemon10]

Turn 6: A quest is assigned!

Joe casts fatesight, and his vision subtly shifts, the colors slowly draining out of the world. He searches for about half an hour, before the spell ends and color begins to shift into the world. During the whole duration of the spell he only saw two things that retained any color. The tower itself remained black, while the doors of the tower shifted colors slowly.

Giving Cromwell a little frown, Russ walks into the building, followed by Bertram.
Well, good luck with that bleeding.
"You guys are the best friends ever, not even any help?"
"Well, I can freeze you in time. I'll let you out when we find a healer, if you want."
"Thanks, but I'd rather be there when you guys inevitably wind up impaled."

Cromwell tries to patch his wounds, only to find that tearing apart cloth to bind wounds is nearly impossible with only one free hand. Regretfully he lets go of his charging magma hammer, and it dissipates into dust. As it turns out, tearing a wizard robe is hard even with two hands, especially for skinny wizards. In the end his attempts at first aid appear to have been entirely fruitless.

Luckily, Ven’s healing is quite a bit more effective, and the gaping wounds rapidly reduce in size, and assuming that Cromwell doesn’t catch any explosions in the next turn should be gone for good very rapidly.
((Cromwell’s Heavy Bleedingx2->Light BleedingX2))

The inside of the tower is circular, and the first floor at least is completely empty with the exception of a man sitting on a chair on far side of the tower. His right arm appears to be some kind of blue crystal, and around him float seven tiny gems of some kind. From his appearance you can only assume that he is Narno, the mage you were sent here to meet.
When Russ and Bertram finally walk all the way over to them, he begins to speak.
Greetings, I am Zamtek, greatest mage of the east. The chancellor said that he was sending six of you, but I only see two. No matter, onto your assignment. About twenty years ago I learned why all my searching for MYRTA’s tomb failed so badly, it was covered with a masking effect. 187 beacons formed a network that made it impossible to determine the location of the tomb. I have deactivated 184 of them and only 3 remain. If there had been six of you, I would have send you each in groups of two to destroy a beacon, as it is you two will have to manage all three on your own.

From within his cloak he grabs three small orbs, and tosses one to Russ and two to Bertram.
These should direct you to the locations of the masking beacons. If you clear them,  they will allow me to communicate to you through them, and with the tomb unmasked, you can meet me there. Imagine, being part of the most important discovery in millennia. Being able to see MYRTA’s crown, lost for eons with your own eyes.  Being able to help me is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
…
…
Well then what are you waiting for? Get going already! Are you confused? Do you have a question? Why are you still here?

((Russ gains Direction Stone))
((Bertram  gains Direction Stone, Direction Stone)
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Spoiler: Russ; Bloom- Earth/Earth/Water (click to show/hide)

Causes a rampant increase in the fertility and growth of an area specified by the caster.
Plants, seeds and grass will grow at a ridiculously increased rate over the next turn. The smaller the area, the more potent the growth. This has a minimal impact on magical plants, due to their non-standard biology and nutrition requirements.

((Deathbane is veoted. Being able to burn life energy is one thing, being able to unburn it by killing it is another. You could increase their life energy using life instead of death though)).

Spoiler: Cromwell; Healing- Life/Life/Order (click to show/hide)

Heals all of the casters current wounds over the next four turns as well as tripling blood regeneration rate. Includes broken bones, bleeding, fractures and non-magical diseases.  Does not include magical wounds/diseases, missing limbs, neverhealing wounds, or any non-physical effects. Is not dispelled by combat.

((Note that you only get one healing spell (unless you purposefully make multiple very specific healing spells), so if you don’t like this one, change it before its too late))
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Spoiler: Joseph Bridger; Remuthra (click to show/hide)

Color: Pink
Status: None
Items: Clothes, Staff, Elemental Seed
Traits: Strength:Fire, Weakness:Order

Spoiler: Cromwell Jackson; mastahcheese (click to show/hide)

Color: Orange
Status: Light BleedingX2, bloodloss: trivial
Items: Clothes, Staff, Magestone
Traits: Strength:Air, Weakness:Fire

Spoiler: Ren; Harbingerjm (click to show/hide)

Color: Grey
Status: None
Items: Clothes, Staff, Cloak of Shielding
Traits: Strength:Order, Weakness:Water

Spoiler: Vendemaire Flynn; Avis-Mergulus (click to show/hide)

Color: Blue
Status: None
Items: Clothes, Staff, Elemental Seed (ingested)
Traits: Strength:Water, Weakness:Fire

Spoiler: Bertram the Badass; Xantalos (click to show/hide)

Color: Maroon
Status: None
Items: Clothes, Staff, Cloak of Shielding , Direction Stone, Direction Stone
Traits: Strength:Chaos, Weakness:Life

Spoiler: Russ Vergensford; Tack (click to show/hide)

Color: Black
Status: None
Items: Clothes, Staff, Magestone, Direction Stone
Traits: Strength:Earth, Weakness:Air

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Note that those of you with elemental sees must properly use them before they can begin absorbing elemental energy.

[Tack]

((Oh man those words are difficult to read in Darkling))

Russ looks askance at Bertram, shrugs, and walks back outside, tossing his direction stone to Ren and Cromwell. He then waits at the door for Bertram.

Spoiler: Russ Vergensford (click to show/hide)

Color: Black
Status: None
Items: Clothes, Staff, Magestone
Traits: Strength:Earth, Weakness:Air

Spoiler: Non-Golem Spells (click to show/hide)

Approved
Summon Order Elemental
Order|Order|Order
Focuses elemental energy into a small humanoid creature, which can answer questions, detect lies and aid in scrying, as long as it isn't required to move.
The channeling to amass and shape enough order requires an entire turn be spent casting the spell.

Approved
Magnetic Sling
Earth|Earth|Order
Applies a massive directional magnetic charge (either towards or directly away from you) to ferromagnetic items in a small area. The strength of the effect is directly proportional to the time the force applies over. A ten second pull is a gentle tug, while a thousandth of a second pull is exceedingly deadly.

Approved
Flame lance- Soulflame
Fire|Life|Order
Burns away lifeforce in order to create a thin ray of swirling fire which can pierce enemies. Flames have a silver sheen and do vastly increased damage to undead, and almost no damage to enemies having elemental life as part of their makeup.

Approved
Artesian BoreWas Stone Squeeze
Water|Water|Earth
Drills a small hole down from the point of the spell up to 50 meters deep, and redirects the pressure gradient of any water encountered upwards. This results in a small (but quite potent due to the high pressure) stream of liquid spurting upwards. It typically takes a single turn for any effects to be noticeable, and lasts for three turns.
This spell typically has no effect if there is no aquifer (or other source of liquid) within 50 meters beneath the caster.

Approved
Bloom
Earth|Earth|Water
Causes a rampant increase in the fertility and growth of an area specified by the caster. Plants, seeds and grass will grow at a ridiculously increased rate over the next turn.
The smaller the area, the more potent the growth. This has a minimal impact on magical plants, due to their non-standard biology and nutrition requirements.

Pending!! Please attend to "Strong Golem" first. (I need more golems, but I keep having cool ideas.)
Purge
Order|Order|Life
Dispels any magical effects or influences on the target, along with infections or poison.

Pending
Tremor
Earth|Earth|Earth
Sends roiling seismic waves underground which build and grow, resulting in a powerful quake which can devastate buildings, damage enemies and can create inhospitable terrain. Due to the compound nature of this spell, more specific or targeted castings are actually less effective.

Spoiler: Golem Almanac (click to show/hide)

- Self: A golem's sense of being. All golems are created as mindless automatons, however those with a high 'Self' will eventually develop those pesky Self-Preservation instincts.
Addendum: Self also increases the chances of a golem developing sentience and going rogue.
Thankfully the more risky golems are -by their nature- unlikely to instantly attempt to kill their creator, but it's doubtful that they'd continue following their whims.

- Intelligence: A golem's ability to understand given commands. The most simple golems can only handle one or two monosylabular words. "Kill that", thankfully, usually does the trick.

- Special Ability: A golem's link to that beyond the mundane. If it goes boom, fizz, pop, wshh, or any other onomatopoeia, this is why.

- Longevity: Stone isn't actually meant to move and think, crazily enough. Sooner or later they all fall apart or become inert, and later is better

- Defense: Some golems are made tougher than others. This affects how hard it is to kill, if time isn't on your side

- Attack: General ability to hurt things. Whether it's because of natural martial prowess or the fact that their hands are on fire, this affects it

- Golems can be made from their component parts or thrown together by just throwing together raw magic- although the latter ones will be far less potent.

Approved
Unstable Golem
Life|Chaos|Earth
Made from mud. Explodes upon command or death. Lasts one turn before becoming inert.
Pending

!!Pending
Strong Golem
Earth|Earth|Life
Made from Metal. Must be drawn from the ground, built from surface deposits or cobbled together from forged metal.
Touching a sizeable piece of metal is enough to start the process as it attracts the rest towards it. Is incredibly resilient, and the amount of jagged edges make damaging it difficult.
Tend to last a day or two.

Pending
Living Golem
Life|Water|Earth
Made from Wood. Understands multiple languages if the caster understands them. Can follow complicated commands and solve basic puzzles, and can make noises (tree noises) to indicate 'yes' or 'no'.
Has a mild regenerative ability but is very vulnerable to fire, and will avoid it if possible. Will stay functioning for almost a day.
Live wood is smarter but more likely to become sentient, and upon enlightenment will generally go find a safe place to plant itself, (after making reasonable efforts to ensure its creator doesn't follow).
Pending

Pending
Magma Golem
Life|Fire|Earth
Made from Magma and assorted stones- must be siphoned from below the ground or conjured into being- although 'fire-earth' areas such as campsites or hearths will do in a pinch.
Constantly burns everything near it, and has an incredibly powerful melee attack. However, can't follow any commands besides 'kill x'. The only golem universally taller than humans.
Golems made from real magma are much more resistant to being doused than those made from fire or raw magic, though all will last a few hours regardless.

Pending
Blighted Golem
Life|Death|Earth
Made from 'deathly elements'. Blighted earth or graveyard soil is best, in a pinch can be made from battlefield soil, or corpses. Able to channel necrotic energies to either raise dead or inflict debilitating curses/diseases on enemies. Very small and very easy to kill, and opposing elements make it short-lived (An Hour or so)

Pending
Glass Golem
Life|Air|Fire
Normally made from superheating a 'Swift (sand) golem' this spell summons the golem outright or blasts it out of nearby sand, however due to the longer process it requires a whole turn.
A non-humanoid golem, it resembles a small pterodactyl made of smooth glass, and is able to fly and attack with its talons.
Can carry messages by mimicking the resonant frequencies of the speaker's voice.
Can survive for more than a week before becoming inert, however is extremely dangerous (and loud) if it develops sentience.

Pending
Faithful Golem
Life|Order|Earth
Made from Stone. Lasts a seriously long time, but tends to fare badly in combat.
Highest sense of self, will start to avoid combat after a year and in later life will almost certainly become sentient (This usually results in it wandering off and becoming a farmer somewhere).

[mastahcheese]

"Thanks for the help, Ven."
Cromwell then takes the Direction Stone and waits for his wounds to finish closing.

[Harbingerjm]

Ren rapidly steps back from the thrown stone, and eyes it (and Cromwell, when he takes it) warily.
"Anything interesting inside?"

[Tack]

"No."

[Avis-Mergulus]

((Lemon-bro, you forgot my new spell.))

[Xantalos]

Well, what's MYRTA or however you pronounce it?

[lemon10]

((Lemon-bro, you forgot my new spell.))

Sorry about that, it wasn't there when I grabbed everyone's orders for the turn.

Spoiler: Ven; Blizzard Armor-Water/Air/Chaos (click to show/hide)

. Summons a large amount of ice plates and shards and sets them swirling around the caster at terrifying velocities. The shards protect the caster's body from harm and wound anybody in the radius of a 4/duration meters from the caster. Having a radius shorter 1 meter diminishes the protective and retaliatory power of the spell. This spell can be negated by a powerful fire attack, but is highly effective against enemies with elemental fire.

((Note that surrounding yourself with swirling ice and wind makes using projectile weapons impossible, and using almost all ranged attacks highly problematic.))

((Oh man those words are difficult to read in Darkling))

Is this any better?