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[Tack]

Waiting on Xan?

[lemon10]

Yup, just waiting on Xan.

[Xantalos]

Spoiler: Personal Flame Burst (click to show/hide)

Fire:Fire:Air

This spell converts air within one foot of the caster to flame, with the result of a person-shaped burst of flame radiating out from the person, who is conveniently unburnt.

Poke the sphere.

[lemon10]

((Are we in Fight Mode now?))

Begin summoning Earthshaker.

Yes, you are in fight mode.

He summons up energy, and casts Stasis Shard, and a small shard of metal condenses from energy a few feet from him at the entrance to the staircase. After a few moments it is slowly pulled down by gravity and falls on the floor.

Oh dear. That is much less static than I thought. Welp.

Ren continues up the stairs a bit, keeping the door at the base in view, then casts Time Grasp (Order/Order/Air), using it to pick up the Shard and hold it in the doorway- ready to stab the water thingy if it comes this way (passive stabbing if it charges through, active if it tries to split up and go around the shard or something).

Hm... A few notes: Its static affect is much more powerful then it appears from it falling. There is a difference between internal and external time for it. Gravity is working on it externally (so at a 1:1 time ratio). It still takes much more energy for gravity to actually move it though, so it takes quite a bit longer then it would otherwise.

[Tack]

Why must I always be the one who *pokes?

[lemon10]

Turn 11: Duocorn Rising

Cromwell sits in the lotus position and attempts to channel his power for the upcoming battle. His efforts only succeed in greatly relaxing him.

Russ walks over near to the gazebo, and casts Artesian Bore. A small black drill of force slowly spirals downwards, and breaks through the soft soil with ease. Russ's plans of a lake of water are completely foiled, because after about fifteen seconds the drilling force spirals back out of the hole. Drats, it must have ran into some of the rubbery material that the gazebo is made out of. Annoyed, he (and his golem) starts the long walk back down to the bottom of the staircase. Reaching the bottom he sees Bertram taking the lead in trying to activate the guardian.
((Note that the staircase is really really long. Attempting to go up (or down it) using normal means during combat is going to take like 5 turns (during which you will almost certainly die if the gaurdian is awake)))

Bertram walk over and cautiously pokes the orb with his staff. The orb ignores the poke completely. He tries again, this time poking it harder with the same result. Annoyed, he hits the orb as hard as he can with his staff, with the added result of the staff flying out of his hands. Grumbling he picks it up. Annoyed at the lack of a result, he decides to see if the orb will activate if he walks closer to the magic circle. It does.
The crystal protecting the orb flies outwards, and the orb lifts into the air. Within moments the roiling damp and cold are gone, replaced with a scorching heat. Plumes of fire burst outwards from the orb. Within moments the fire seems to solidify into a well-defined creature. At first glance it appears to be a unicorn, but their hopes of such are quickly dashed, for instead of a single horn upon its head, it has two horns on two heads. Unlike their cousins, duocorns are evil vicious creatures. Its skin bursts into flame, and the previously perfectly lit room gets much darker as the umbra of the flame grows. It glares evilly at Bertram with both its heads. Panicking Bertram takes this opportunity to run a bit away, so that he is no longer right between the duocorn and the circle.


Joe begins casting Sign of the Earthshaker. A silver handle begins to form in his hands. Within moments the skeleton of the hammer has solidified, but it takes quite a bit longer for the hammer to fully flesh itself out. Willed on by his focus, the Earthshaker finally materializes fully, a huge silver warhammer.
((Everyone gets one warning, you gotta use the elements when casting a spell (which in this case is Chaos/Life/Earth), otherwise it fizzles out))
Ren walks into the stairwell a bit, and casts Time Grasp. He quickly used the small fist of force to pick up the Static Shard.
((A note on the stairway: It spirals downwards around a central hollow, so it isn’t really possible to hide from anything down below standing in the middle of it no matter where in the stairwell you are. You could stand on the side next to the entrance and try to stab something that gets close, but the geometry of it isn’t really conductive to doing so especially since there is no door between the staircase and the room, just a large archway))

Ven dives to the side, and his fingers twitch as he casts Timewarp Cloak. A wave of time distortion projects outwards, from his heart, and he can feel it enveloping him. Everything beyond about a meter takes on a greenish tinge, but he can’t otherwise even tell that the cloak is around him.
((Ven gains status effect Timewarp Cloak till end of turn 15))
Great surges of power flow from the orb inside of The Stag flowing to its back. They come out of his back, and twist into massive translucent wings of elemental energy. The wings curl around its body, and soon all of The Stag’s body is surrounded by them like a vast ethereal cape. This done, the tips of its antlers begin to radiate energy. Small bits of energy begin to clump together in the space between them, and soon two small but rapidly growing orbs of magically potent ice become distinct.
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Spoiler: Cromwell; Diverge Mind: Order/Chaos/Life (click to show/hide)

The caster's mind separates into two trains of thought. At the cost of the individual power of each as well as any other combat actions, the caster is able to cast two spells next turn.
Some other spells and spell combinations (most notably any spells involving channeling) are unable to be cast this way.
Due to the inherent weakness of the mixing of Order and Chaos, no spells can be used that have any elemental conflicts anywhere between them.

((So this means that you can never use a Fire/Water/Air spell by using this spell, or use Aie/Air/Fire together with Water/Air/Order))
((If you remove the Order/Chaos conflict (which you can use this next turn’s spell creating to do if you so desire) you can make the spell actually useful))

Spoiler: Russ; Snap Barrage: Chaos/Chaos/Air (click to show/hide)

Immediately attacks with a salvo of force projectiles. Spell is cast with a simple right-handed finger snap.

Spoiler: Personal Flame Burst: Fire/Fire/Air (click to show/hide)

This spell converts air within one foot of the caster to flame, with the result of a burst of flame radiating out from the person, who is conveniently unburnt.

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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: Timewarp Cloak
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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Rule change: In order to prevent people from not being able to do anything while waiting a turn for a spell to be created, there will be a slight rule change. You can (attempt to) cast a spell that you are going to create this turn while outside combat. It won’t always work perfectly (and if the spell is vetoed, won’t work at all), but its better then having people wait a turn doing nothing.

Sorry for taking so long on the turn, this time it really was circumstances and not actually my fault though. Also, thank you for the bumps Tack.

[Tack]

Russ quickly casts Snap barrage.

(Not entirely sure how the Magestone actually works. Do i crush it and toss the powder, or is it just a 'When crushed, magic in X area goes wonky?'

_{^{[Wood Golem = 2 Turns]
[Artesian bore = 3 Turns]}}

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.

Approved
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.
This spell is channeled, requiring at least two turns to gain full power.

Approved
Snap Barrage
Chaos|Chaos|Air
Immediately attacks with a salvo of force projectiles. Spell is cast with a simple right-handed finger snap.

Pending
Dissociating touch
Chaos|Chaos|Death
Shreds the powering force of a construct or creature with elemental life, dealing damage and increasing the power of the next spell (of that type) cast in the area. Is cast over a turn and then can be released via a touch on the next.

Pending
Snap Barrier
Order|Order|Air
Immediately creates a force shield. Spell is cast with a left-handed click.

Approved
Purge
Order|Order|Life
Dispels any negative magical poisons, infections, effects or influences on the target.
The spell requires touch to take proper effect. If cast at range it has a 66% chance of removing a single negative status effect of your choice.

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).

[Remuthra]

Joe chants the words of Fire, Chaos, and Life, and casts his Chant of the Adamant Slayer. Spurred on by his powerful buffs, he then lashes out at the stag with a charging overhead cleave.

[Xantalos]

Yeah, not happening.

Run away and hide under my magic shield thing.

Spoiler: Curse of Petrification (click to show/hide)

Order:Order:Earth

This spell does as it's name says, infecting the target with a plague that turns them to dead stone- this also applies to stone golems and the like, which it turns to dead stone.

[Tack]

(I feel as though I'm really going to like 'The chronicles of Bertram 'the Badass")

[Xantalos]

(I feel as though I'm really going to like 'The chronicles of Bertram 'the Badass")

((Just you wait until I'm the only one to live through this.))

[lemon10]

Turn 11.1:  Lecture Fin

No one knows why L and D declared war? Didn't like MYRTLE's drapes? Couldn't stand that it was fucking up electromagnetism?
Bah. Apparently you are nothing but a spoiled child. I have little time to teach fellow mages, and no time at all to teach one who shows such little respect. MYRTLE? L and D? Bah. Any final question about your task before you leave?
Where have you looked for the tomb, so I don't get sidetracked?

I have looked everywhere. Your task is simple. You are not to look for the tomb, because you will fail if you try. You just have to disable the masking devices. Now, I believe I have been more than forthright. Goodbye.

Saying this, he spreads his hands and the floor tilts slightly towards the door, causing Bertram to slide all the way to, and then out the door.
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Oh well, that's the last of the exposition you are going to get from him for a while.

[Xantalos]

Thinking back, I really should've been less of an impetuous bitch.

[mastahcheese]

((Ok, change the Chaos over to a second Order, then.))

"Well, I think that referring to this situation as 'bad' would be a slight understatement."

Finger of Death!

[Tack]

Russ fixes an irate stare upon the huddled form of Bertram. Pointing his golem towards it, he commands "Throw that".