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[Avis-Mergulus]

Ven marches away from the tower with Ren in tow. He notices Joe by nearly stumbling over him, and gifts him another I'm-so-sunny-cause-of-cranium-vacuum smile.

-So I hung around that tower and Bertram gave me this magic pointer stone! We're supposed to go somewhere and do something this dude said, but I don't remember what since I was busy admiring his door. You with us?

((Don't dog yourself lemon-bro, we're doing fine, considering. Also, my next post will be tomorrow, cause I'm not home now and it's train time. Double also, I'm now going to excuse any instances of my own stupidity by Ven being an airhead.))

[Tack]

((Heh. And so the three groups of two became two groups of three.
You might need to throw around some co-incidental plot-muscle if you plan to speed this one up, lemon.))

[lemon10]

((Heh. And so the three groups of two became two groups of three.
You might need to throw around some co-incidental plot-muscle if you plan to speed this one up, lemon.))

Sorry for the time this turn is taking, have oodles of homework this weekend (and thus it will be up tomorrow at some point). As for the third site, I'll just have Zamtek take it out or something.

[Remuthra]

((Heh. And so the three groups of two became two groups of three.
You might need to throw around some co-incidental plot-muscle if you plan to speed this one up, lemon.))

Sorry for the time this turn is taking, have oodles of homework this weekend (and thus it will be up tomorrow at some point). As for the third site, I'll just have Zamtek take it out or something.

Spoiler: Spell Creation (click to show/hide)

Fist of Agreement: Raises the caster's fist in a show of support. Surrounding creatures benefit from increased motivation.

[Tack]

*cough*

[Avis-Mergulus]

*cough*

Bless yew.

[lemon10]

Turn 9: Still Alive

Cromwell sets off following his stone (which appears to be leading him south-east as best he can determine), and is quickly joined by Russ and Bertram.
Meanwhile, after quite a bit of confused chatter on the part of Ven and Ren, Ven grabs Ren and bullies him into coming with along. On the way they run into Joe, who is pressganed into joining as well.

Each of the two parties set off, and after about a week arrive at what appears to be their respective destinations.
Cromwell and Company find their destination in a forest that is rather unexceptional except for the intense humidity pervading everything. The forest is actually quite cold but sweat pours out of every crevice of the mages bodies.
Ven and Ren (and Joe) find their destination on  an arid plane. There is nothing but dry flaking moss as far as the eye can see. Breathing is difficult, as waves of heat and dryness assail them.

Both of them find something in common. In the middle of both the forest and the plane lie nearly identical pagodas. Each is made out of some strange rubbery substance, and each has is a spiral staircase descending deep into the earth in its middle. Both parties shrug, and cautiously begin to descend them. As they go lower and lower, the both the temperature and humidity effects become more pronounced.

After hours spend descending, the staircases finally end, and each party finds themselves in vast nearly identical chambers made of the same rubbery substance the pagoda up above is.

In the center of each is a magical circle of some kind, and at its center is box. The color of the box and everything in the circle is … wrong somehow, the closest way to describe it would be purple, but it isn’t purple. The box periodically pulses with the not-purple Surrounding the circle are eight small orbs encased in crystal. Seven of them appear to be broken. The eight orb is not.
Cromwell and Co’s orb is clearly radiating elemental Fire, while Ven, Ren and Joe's radiates elemental Water.

As the groups move to approach the central circle, their Direction Stones suddenly start to talk.
Ah, before you awaken the orb guardian, note that they are completely immune to both their element, as well as its opposite.
Since apparently the six of you are too stupid to follow directions, I suppose I will have to clear out the other masking site myself.

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Spoiler: Russ; Living Golem-Life/Water/Earth (click to show/hide)

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'. Livewood golems can command fellow (friendly) golems. If the golems are summoned from nothing or dead trees, they are deadwood golems, otherwise if they are summoned from living trees they are livewood golems.
Deadwood golems are much faster and lack a sense of pain and fear (while being much stupider).
Livewood golems are much stronger and resistant to damage at the expense of speed, they can also regenerate, but will be incapacitated (and quickly killed) by fire.
Livewood golems are capable of achieving sentience, and upon enlightenment will generally go find a safe place to plant itself, (after making reasonable efforts to ensure its creator doesn't follow).
Deadwood golems typically only last 4 turns (depending on what they are made of), but livewood golems last until destroyed.

((Re: Golem limits. Longterm combat golems have a global cap of 1 (Lifewood golems, Strong golems), other golems have a cap of one per type (eg. Magma, Faithful, Glass)))
((I was unsure if you wanted me to keep doing the golem spells, or go back to the non-golem spells. In the end I decided to keep doing the golem spells))
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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: Bloodloss: trivial
Items: Clothes, Staff, Magestone , Direction Stone
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), Direction Stone,
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
Traits: Strength:Chaos, Weakness:Life

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

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

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Sorry on the huge delay on this turn.

Also, everyone gets to make two spells this turn (since it appears that there is a general lack of direct combat/protection spells among you).

[mastahcheese]

"Hmm, this guy is immune to both fire and water? Alright, let's prepare for this."

Spoiler: Whirlwind:Air/Air/Chaos (click to show/hide)

The caster whips up terrible winds, flinging everything around that isn't nailed down, and toppling foes.

Spoiler: Finger of Death:Death/Death/Order (click to show/hide)

A narrow, intense beam of negative energy erupts from the caster's fingertips, stopping the vital functions of the target.

[Tack]

I'm doing science and I'm still alive.

((I guess if we're hitting combat, I'll switch back learning non-golem spells. Really happy you gave me live golems (and a jungle) here though. Too bad I didn't get the water guardian.))

Russ walks outside the gazebo and summons a Livewood Golem from a nearby tree with the command "Protect myself and my allies"

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 Bore
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
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, small or specific castings are actually less effective.

Pending
Snap Barrage
Chaos|Chaos|Air
Immediately attacks with a salvo of force projectiles.

Pending
Purge
Order|Order|Life
Dispels any magical poisons, infections, effects or influences on the target.

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.

- Longterm combat golems have a global cap of 1, other golems have a cap of one per type

- The starting command given to a golem is their Prime Directive. One must always be given when creating golems. They will follow other instructions given by the caster (or those it has been commanded to follow instructions from), but their Prime Directive will always take precedence.

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

Approved
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 slowly attracts the rest towards it. The resulting golem is incredibly resilient, and the amount of jagged edges make damaging it difficult.
If some of the metal targeted to become part of the golem does not attach, the golem will not fully form and the spell will collapse.
The spell controlling it lasts 10 turns, but there can only be one golem at a time. The metal used in the golem is fused after 10 turns, killing it and making it impossible to use the metal again for the purposes of golem making unless melted down again.
If it somehow manages to avoid fusing its own body, it will outlive the part of the spell ensuring its loyalty to the caster.

Approved
Wood 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'. Livewood golems can command fellow (friendly) golems. If the golems are summoned from nothing or dead trees, they are deadwood golems, otherwise if they are summoned from living trees they are livewood golems.
Deadwood golems are much faster and lack a sense of pain and fear (while being much stupider).
Livewood golems are much stronger and resistant to damage at the expense of speed, they can also regenerate, but will be incapacitated (and quickly killed) by fire.
Deadwood golems typically only last 4 turns (depending on what they are made of), but livewood golems last until destroyed.

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 shortcutting the process it is more brittle and less powerful.
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]

I'm doing science and I'm still alive.

I thought the exact same thing.

[Remuthra]

Is making another weapon self-transmutation spell too similar? I think my swordhand is fire-aligned, so it would be nice to have maybe an earth hammer or something.

[Harbingerjm]

"Well, that sounds like fun."
Ren heads for the exit, creating a Stasis Shard (Order/Order/Earth) in the center of the doorway behind him.

Spoiler: Time Grasp (Order/Order/Air) (click to show/hide)

Creates a roughly hand-sized area of force, under the caster's control, that can interact with objects outside the usual flow of time, allowing them to be moved around in the flow of time the caster inhabits.

Spoiler: Imbue (Order/Earth/Life) (click to show/hide)

Binds another spell into the structure of an object. Results vary depending on the spell, but it will normally either bestow the properties of the spell on the object, allow the object to act as a trigger or control for the spell, or allow the object to show the status of the attached spell (for instance, if a trap spell has been triggered/discharged).
The Life Element has the effect of bestowing the object and spell with a minor self-repairing ability.

[lemon10]

Is making another weapon self-transmutation spell too similar? I think my swordhand is fire-aligned, so it would be nice to have maybe an earth hammer or something.

Yeah, that would be acceptable as long as it isn't fire based and isn't a sword(ish) weapon.

[lemon10]

Turn 9.1: The Start of the Spectrum War

With the creation of the universes came the creation of life, a billion sentient species over a trillion worlds. The richness and prosperity of that time is beyond the wildest imagination of those living today, of course, not all was perfect. Our world must seem a paradise to a few of the most unlucky worlds of that time, but it was for most far far better than the modern world ever can hope to be. I do not know how many eons this lasted, but quite suddenly it ended. LIGHT and DARKNESS declared war on MYRTA, and although it took centuries for the news to trickle down to the mortals, they too eventually joined in the conflict. On its face the notion is absurd, to kill a regular god is near impossible, the work of millennia. But MYRTA was far more than a simple god. He was a primal force beyond reality. A being for who time itself had little meaning, and a being for whom the petty laws it and LIGHT and DARKNESS had constructed were irrelevant. But LIGHT and DARKNESS were also strong, and cunning, and although it the path was very difficult, they knew a way to kill, or at least banish MYRTA from reality. I suspect no one but the three primal gods knew how it worked, but it involved the complete destruction of Myrta (and its component elements) from reality.
The first thing learned in the war was that MYRTA was inexplicably much stronger than either LIGHT or DARKNESS, so strong as to be more than the match of both of them together.
The war raged for millions of years. For a long time the war was fought with conventional troops and by conventional means. More developed systems were turned into massive industrial centers, the more populated fielded endless legions of troops, and the more rural fed them. The gods and the elements themselves took part in the conflict, the more comprehensible amongst them leading armies and worlds as generals. Within centuries almost nothing remained of the golden age that had graced the universes for so long. The scope of the conflict and slaughter is far beyond my ability to comprehend. For all this time MYRTA was slowly pushing back his kin. World by world, millennia by millennia, MYRTA was winning. Its followers were weaker than those of LIGHT and DARKNESS combined, but before the vast incomprehensible strength of MYRTA this meant little.

[Xantalos]

No one knows why L and D declared war? Didn't like MYRTLE's drapes? Couldn't stand that it was fucking up electromagnetism?