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[Mr. Strange]

I have an idea about what to do with those who we don't like: besides enslaving their souls, we could put said souls in little skeletal heads, like those of rodents, so that they can see what we do, but they can't react at all. What do you think about that?

I think it's incredibly cruel and unnecessary. +1.

+1. We could have reception hall with walls lined with the skulls of our reanimated enemies, I think it would make good right impression...

[Tomcost]

Ahh, Bay12, you never fail me.

My idea was something like making a necklace with skulls (that's why I suggested rodents) and carry those who behave like assholes with us to see in first persoon how we massacre their families.

But I guess that a pit or walls lined with skulls grieving would be good too.

[escaped lurker]

The Plains of Grating, Fifth Age
The Age of Death, Year 625
Day 16, After Midnight

The noble quarters is where you decide to set up your base, and soon enough you have taken shelter in the lower parts of the small keep that dominates the area. As the outer walls impressively show, the attackers made short work of any stonework, the upper parts of your dwelling having met the same fate. You strongly suspect that the damage is from magic, mainly because you don't think conventional siege weaponry could wreak that much damage easily.

After the equipment is stowed away in a dusty hall, you begin with searching the slums for anything useful, but mainly with the thought of skeletons in mind. Digging through the remains of the urban sprawl, you come across a few things over the course of the next two days. Most interestingly is the fact that you can rule out that the humans living in the near mountains are descendants of this place. You had your doubts when you saw the withered remains of a fresco at the keep, but after discovering the remains of a former citizen you are quite sure of it. The masters of this city were none other than a group of mino.

You found the skeleton poking out beneath the floor of a house, but further searches of other houses sadly reveal it to be a single incident. It is of note that the horns were forcefully removed from the skull, from the damages you presume that it was done with flesh still clinging to the body, maybe even during the lifetime of the deceased. While you are not sure what to think about that matter, your further searching only turn up a few finely minted copper coins with mino motif, a sword so very rusty you doubt it will do for more than two swings, and a polished nugget of rock crystal.

On the brighter side of things, you are able to cast spells again, albeit your medium manaburn is an incentive to not to do so until a later point in time. You also combed through the slums enough to be quite sure that there is no graveyard or similar hiding in them. Granted, since the last age came to pass, most cultures have started to burn their dead - but you have found no cinerary urns, and while you are no expert, the fall of the city could actually even fall before that point of time.

Currently:
205/205 HP
79/175 MP
50 MP Stored

Status:
Well-Fed - Doubled HP-Regeneration
Lacking Sentient Nourishment - -1 Agility and Intelligence for Skill- and Combat-checks
Medium Manaburn - Makes casting spells and gathering mana harder. Resulting in easier miscasts. Funny how that works.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Ghoulish Vessel
Strength: 11
Endurance: 11
Agility: 8
Intelligence: 15
Wisdom: 15
Charisma: 5

~10 HPD
~40 MPD

Inventory:
Medium Band of Gathering 20/20 MP
Leather Jerkin
Woolen Pants
Leather Shin-boots
Twohander
Shortbow w. Iron tipped Arrows

Resources:
1 Human Corpse - 3/4 Rations of Human Flesh
1 Amethyst Geode - 30/30 MP
1 Rock Crystal Nugget 0/20
1 Schorl Geode 0/40
1 Emerald Chunk 0/100
1 Horse Hindleg

Items:
1 Saddlebag
1 Shortbow
2 Quivers
3 Wooden Arrows
12 Iron tipped Arrows
1 Rope – Thin, 4 Meters
1 Tinderbox
1 Hatchet
1 Bronze Axe
1 Quarterstaff
3 Daggers
1 Long-Dagger
1 Shortsword
1 Rusty Sword
1 Wooden Spear
1 Knapsack
7 Silver – Crudely minted
45 Copper – Crudely minted
1 Pair of Linen Clothing
8 Smoked Goat Cuts

Skills:
Adept of the School of Necromancy
Adept of the School of Transmutation
Beginner in Feral Combat
Capable in Archery

Spoiler:  Spells (click to show/hide)

School of Necromancy - Adept
Branches: Mysticism, Occultism

Animate Skeleton – 50 MP
Raise a temporary Skeleton to do your bidding. Lasts 1 Day, extendible by 3 MP per day.
Can be made permanent by spending additional 30 MP on it.

Turn Lesser Undead – 30 MP
Allows you to destroy, render harmless or straightly take over an undead creature.

Soulspeaker – 20 MP
Allows you to contact the souls of the dead, and to communicate with them. Duration 1 Hour.

Enslave Lesser Souls - 25 MP
Allows the enslavement of lesser, or rather “newly dead” souls.
A soul may be placed into a construct, resulting in an autonomous undead.
A souls essence may be devoured, restoring half of the souls previously held maximum mana.
Devouring a Soul or failing this spell has the chance to transform the affected into a wraith, which will be hostile towards the caster.

Animate Zombie – 80 MP
Raise a temporary Zombie to do your bidding. Lasts 1 Day, extendible by 5 MP per day.
Can be made permanent by spending additional 40 MP on it.


School of Transmutation - Adept
Branches: Enchanting, Alteration

Drain Energy – 20MP +50% of the drained Energy must be paid in MP
Allows you to drain a prone or enslaved creature of its mana or vitality.

Change Object – 30 MP, Duration 1 Hour
Allows you to temporary change the properties or shape of an object.

Store Mana – 25MP + Desired Amount
Allows you to store mana into gemstones.

Spoiler: Followers (click to show/hide)

	Skeletal Horse Permanent Quite Damaged
	Skeletal Human Permanent
	2 Skeletal Goats Permanent

Spoiler: Mind Map (click to show/hide)

Purple Dot: Location of our Cave Red Dots: Attacked Places

" Can't wait to give shouty his deserved punishment. But all in its due time. "

[TORTURE_FOR_FUN=PERSONAL_MATTER]? Oh Bay12. Get the Mer-farms up and running >>

[Tomcost]

Well, I think that now we do magic research. I suggest going for divination. We need more information about stuff. Like, how many people are out there in the hills to kill.

Also, and only if we get the chance, hunt an owl.

[GiglameshDespair]

Magic research, yeah.

[Tomcost]

Can we ask our beloved GM what are those "mino"?

[The Froggy Ninja]

Well, I think that now we do magic research. I suggest going for divination. We need more information about stuff. Like, how many people are out there in the hills to kill.

Also, and only if we get the chance, hunt an owl.

Getting a skeletal owl is cool but I think we should do Ritualism instead as we already have some knowledge of it and if we get both we can make a Divination Circle wherein (at higher level) we will become omniscient!

[Tomcost]

Well, I think that now we do magic research. I suggest going for divination. We need more information about stuff. Like, how many people are out there in the hills to kill.

Also, and only if we get the chance, hunt an owl.

Getting a skeletal owl is cool but I think we should do Ritualism instead as we already have some knowledge of it and if we get both we can make a Divination Circle wherein (at higher level) we will become omniscient!

Skeletal owl? No, a flesh one, with an ensalved soul inside. We will use it as a scout and communicate with it with soulspeaker.

[escaped lurker]

Can we ask our beloved GM what are those "mino"?

M
... Go figure, ;P

Well, I think that now we do magic research. I suggest going for divination.

Only Evocation is barred from research right now, as we have none of its branches. As mentioned previously, research goes easier the more proficient you are in the neighbhouring schools. Just saying is all.

[Mr. Strange]

Divination it is, time hit the books! Er, clay tablets? Sand and stick?

Gather some Mino skulls while we're out, we'll figure it out later...

[Ochita]

Nom on some human, and begin research of warding.

[Worldmaster27]

Try to use soulspeaker on the skull we found. Then begin practice on Divination.

[Tomcost]

Try to use soulspeaker on the skull we found. Then begin practice on Divination.

+1

[GiglameshDespair]

Try to use soulspeaker on the skull we found. Then begin practice on Divination.

+1

-1

On the brighter side of things, you are able to cast spells again, albeit your medium manaburn is an incentive to not to do so until a later point in time.

[Worldmaster27]

What's your alternative? Spend another turn searching the city? We can wait another week for it to go away all together, as well as some of our very limited food supply.