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[mastahcheese]

((You need to put some elements in, or you're gonna fumble. Also Lemon, could I shorten snap barrier to 1 turn in order to strengthen it up a bit?))

((Fixed, thanks.))

[lemon10]

Waiting on both Harb and Avis.

((Dang it, I don't actually remember all of my spells.))

I strongly recommend making a list with all your spells in it. Right now you don't have that many, but assuming you survive and the game continues for a while, your 10 spells will eventually turn into something ridiculous like 50, and you will have no clue what all your capabilities are (nor what elements you have already used).
Just as importantly, if you don't know the exact wording of your spells, you will find yourself casting spells that won't quite work in the circumstances.

[Harbingerjm]

Ren takes cover in the stair entrance archway under the Cloak of Shielding.

Spoiler: Rewire (Order/Order/Order) (click to show/hide)

Attempts to alter the target spell/construct/golem/magical trap or the like to recognise the caster as authorised personnel for the purposes of issuing or countermanding commands, accessing guarded areas or things, and similar functions.

(Really not happy with the wording of this one, but alas, I lack time T.T)

[Avis-Mergulus]

-Everybody take cover, I just made this one, like, now!

Cast Herald of Ruin (Chaos/Chaos/Air) at the stag.

[Tack]

All good for next turn.
Still unsure if Xan's spell will affect the duocorn.

[lemon10]

Yeah, I know everyone has gotten everything in. Just taking a while to write up the turn.
And as for Xan's spell, I think its perfectly clear exactly how much effect it will have.

[Xantalos]

:i have no idea what im doing:

[lemon10]

Turn 14: Stop Punching The Stag

Bertram casts Explosive Fluids on The Duocorn. Due to the twin facts The Duocorn is completely immune to Water magic as well as having no fluids to turn into gas, The Duocorn is completely harmed.

Both halves of Cromwell’s mind realize with panic that he lacks a weapon, and simultaneously decide to cast Sword of Glass. Twin clouds of sand appear, and each of them twirls inward in a whirlwind of fire to form two clear glass swords. They look hideously sharp, but extremely fragile, even more than they normally are.

Russ begins casting Dissociating Touch. Chaos begins to flow into the fingers of his right hand, while Death pools in his palm. Such energy storage would kill a normal man, but as a mage Russ is made of firmer stuff.

The golem keeps running around in panic, the flames slowly eating away at its body. After a few minutes it utters a silent cry and collapses. It is clear, the golem is dead.

The Duocorn’s fires two beams of fire from its horns at Russ. One of them misses, but the other one goes straight through his lower torso. Looking down at the wound, he realizes that he can see the other side of the room through the fist sized hole. Oh dear. And it appears to be bleeding. A lot. And then the wound catches on fire. Crap.
((Russ gains Very Heavy Bleeding))
((Russ gains !!Fire!!))


Joe runs up to The Stag, and using the blocks of ice on his hands as clubs, attempts to bash its face in. He fails however, because The Stag turns out to be impervious to all icey harm. The blocks pass through its body and wings without causing any harm to it at all.

Ren hides under his cloak. When the cloak completely encircles him his fist of force is dispelled, and the Static Shard very slowly falls to the floor.

Ven gestures theatrically and casts Herald of Ruin at The Stag. The bolt is incandescent and mutates shape rapidly. There are no visible effects as it travels, but from the smells that are given off, it appears that something is happening in its path. It hits the The Stag on its right wing, and for a few moments there appears to be no effect at all. That is until the wing begins to slowly fall apart from where the bolt hit. As the decay begins to get closer to its body, The Stag shakes its wing, and its entire right wing pops off. Unlike earlier when the wing was just partially destroyed, it appears to have taken so much damage that it doesn't grow back at all.

The Stag creates a massive orb of ice far above its head. Suddenly, it shoots a burst of energy at the orb, and the orb explodes into a huge barrage of ice.
Ven manages to dodge all of the larger blocks thanks to his timewarp cloak, but he still takes a few scratches due to the sheer amount of ice.
((Ven gains Light BleedingX3))
Ren is protected by his magic cloak, and the ice turns to sludge as it hits.
Joe fares the worst, even with his tough skin. If he hadn’t been standing right under the source of the explosion he would have probably managed to avoid most of the damage, but as it is he is sporting a very nice bump on his head along with the concussion (and some monor cuts) that come with it.
((Joe gains Concussion fill then end of turn 16))
((Joe gains Light BleedingX2))

((Joe loses Chant of the Adamant Slayer))
((Cromwell loses Divergent Mind[/abbr]
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Spoiler: Russ; Snap Barrier-Order/Order/Air (click to show/hide)

Immediately creates a static force shield surrounding the caster. Spell is cast with a left-handed click.
Due to the weakness of the spell, it only lasts a single turn before disintegrating.
Despite the short lived nature of the spell, the barrier it creates is quite powerful.
The spell does not stack, and creating multiple overlapping shields will result in them destroying each other.

Spoiler: Ren; Rewire- Order/Order/Order (click to show/hide)

Attempts to alter the target spell/construct/golem/magical trap or the like to recognize the caster as authorized personnel for the purposes of issuing or countermanding commands, accessing guarded areas or things, and similar functions.
The spell cannot disable simple magical traps.
Sentient constructs, golems, and spells are typically able to resist the spell to some degree, and any attempt to influence them via the spell results in a mental battle during which both the caster and the target are vulnerable.

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Spoiler: Joseph Bridger; Remuthra (click to show/hide)

Status: Frozen Very Heavy Bleeding, Comically Frozen Hands, Concussion, Light BleedingX2
Items: Clothes, Staff, Elemental Seed
Traits: Strength:Fire, Weakness:Order

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

Status: None
Items: Clothes, Staff, Magestone , Direction Stone
Traits: Strength:Air, Weakness:Fire

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

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

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

Status: Timewarp Cloak, Broken Ribx3, Light BleedingX3
Items: Clothes, Staff, Elemental Seed (ingested), Direction Stone,
Traits: Strength:Water, Weakness:Fire

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

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

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

Status: Very Heavy Bleeding, !!Fire!!))

Items: Clothes, Staff, Magestone
Traits: Strength:Earth, Weakness:Air

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Finally decided how spell durations and expirations work (despite the fact that I should have done so at the start of the game). A 1 turn spell expires at the end of the next set of player turns, a 1.5 spell turn expires at the very end of the next turn. Since I did say that existing effects expired at the end of the turn I didn’t change the turn 14/15 expiring spells, but future spells will (for the most part) expire at the end of player turns.

[Remuthra]

If the blocks of ice pass through its body, shouldn't I have struck it perfectly fine with my fists?

[Tack]

((Cromwell, can I get a heal (preferably before my action)?))

Russ blinks a few times at his oddly not-cauterizing body-hole, before gritting his teeth in defiance. He unleashes his stored dissociating touch against the Duocorn, and then attempts to extinguish the fire by casting Purge on himself.



_{^{[Dissociating touch = 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.

Approved
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.
Has no effect on creatures powered by chaos.

Approved
Snap Barrier
Order|Order|Air
Immediately creates a static force shield surrounding the caster. Spell is cast with a left-handed click.
Due to the weakness of the spell, it only lasts a single turn before disintegrating.
Despite the short lived nature of the spell, the barrier it creates is quite powerful.
The spell does not stack, and creating multiple overlapping shields will result in them destroying each other.

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.

Pending
Shape Earth
Earth|Order|Life
Allows the caster to shift, move and sculpt the ground around him.

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.
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).

[lemon10]

The blocks of ice displaced its body (with a small amount of resistance) as they passed through. E: Or more accurately they became part of its body while you were punching it with them.

Note that it isn't really an exploitable behavior, since it has a near complete control over ice (and water) in and around its body. If you tried to use say a ice-covered explosive attack against the orb, it would just deflect it with ease. If you had tried to punch straight for the orb, you would have found that it could just stop your ice-covered hands inches from it.

cauterizing

Haha. Nope, no such luck.

[Tack]

Oh well, at least then I know it's definitely magical fire and can therefore be purged.
... Right?

[lemon10]

Yeah, you can purge it just fine.

[Harbingerjm]

Rewire (Order/Order/Order) is go! Mindfuck the stag!
Edit: Obviously, come out from under the cloak first >.>

[mastahcheese]

Cast Healing (Life/Life/Order) on Tack's character.