"Added a "Homestead" section for keeping track of your stored items and general long term housing.
Turn 6: 2:10 AM
You all feel incredibly tired, 5/7 SleepingSHAW, Magma ocean
Malus: Overwhelming Monkey's Paw (Starting location) Hardwired Training (Difficult to learn unrelated skills.)
Stats
HP:8/8
MP:1
EG:2
PP:0
Power Levels; 17%
Passives
Novice Walker Pilot; You understand the basics of Piloting a small variety of Military grade mech suits.
Inventory (1/10)
Laser PDW
Pilot pressure suit
5 Metal alloy scraps
Homestead details
>Is a "Venus" Class Super-Heavy Assault Walker (SHAW),
2 Anti-personnel vacuum frequency pulse lasers
2 Macroton fast missile racks equipped with 20 Missiles in each with an additional 40 Missiles in reserve.
250mm coilguns with 200 tungsten kinetic kill projectiles
10 5 kiloton tactical nuclear cruise missile
Minifridge
4 Gallons of water
4 Gallons of Caloric liquid, coming to a total of 10 servings of 1000 Calories each.
Go to sleep.
You sit down in your cockpit, lean back the seat, and drift off to sleep.
15, 1, your dream, while interesting, seemingly has nothing to do with your current situation. it is a flashback of sorts, you remember the start of one of your more mundane missions.
You jolt up from your desk, filling out paperwork of all things.
An unknown Trail
Malus: Weak start, (Crashed into ground) Odd Reactions (Otherworldly Species) Foreign Linguist (Otherworldly Species)
Stats
HP:2/6
MP:10
EG:2
PP:4
Passives
Unfamiliar; When nothing can look in your direction, unobstructed, your form becomes fluid and incomprehensible, but otherwise, you transform into a mundane cat, mirrors will not trigger this effect, Being in direct view of the sun however, will.
Feline Amusement; your mind is captivated by this form's alien thoughts, and can be distracted by bright objects moving at high speed.
Rituals
Puppet Ritual; You can raise corpses into Undead minions, up to a maximum of Three at a time. These creatures are utterly without control, and only respond to your direct and simple orders. uses a triangle of three bone posts in the ground, each topped with a small rock.
Normal Spells
Foot in the Void; When certain stars align, you can open a temporary hole into the void, through which something will be dragged out. This hole can only appear within unobstructed line of sight and no more than 2 feet away from you.
Tactical retreat. This medical emergency can wait to another day. The parasite is keeping its host alive.
Do eldritch abominations need to sleep? If so, sleep in a tree.
Get visited by an eldritch creature in my dream if some characters are still not sleeping. Have a friendly chat with it.
If I do have to sleep and. I can dreamwalk. Visit this arbitrarily random person in their dreams. Meow hauntingly at them with my many mouths.
You leave the scene, beaten, but not broken, you make your way to a tree, and rest in the top, letting your essence seep into the dreaming world.
You find yourself in an odd place, A giant Crocodile skull floats through galaxies, and at the back of it's throat is a throne pasted over with pages from several books, their words pulsing with unknown power. Seated on it is another Thin thing wearing some Yellow skin thing.
"Hi. Why did you come to my dream? Shadestyle, how do the eldritch gain their power?"
"Meow Probably varies between types of eldritch." You respond whispering something under your breath.
"Er, hello? You can speak my language now. Do you have any questions about this world?" the thing says, exhaling.
You cannot copy, but you could consume.
Unknown forest
Malus: Delicious, (Bonus Malus) Starting in potential danger, (Burning village) Polymorphed, (Pig).
Stats
HP:25/25
MP:2
EG:6
PP:1
Passive
Jewel Lust; as a being of law, your soul's power and magic increases with your material wealth, and little else.
Generous portions; you require more food to survive and thrive, but can go longer without it.
Raw Scent; Dangerous creatures are more attracted to you, while less dangerous ones and humanoids are unable to track you by scent.
Other Abilities
Rush; Spend EG in order to move more quickly in a panic.
Inventory (1/10)
Burnt Quartz Disk
Homestead details
>Is a pile of Boulders
Sleeping bag full of unknown loot
Grab the shinies, stuffing them into a bag if one is available and taking them in that, then hustle into the woods and try to find a hollow (such as beneath a tree) to sleep in. If none are especially suitable, pick one that looks promising and burrow into it until it is better, then collapse with exhaustion and sleep.
You grab as many bags as you can, since most of them smell of shinies, and stuff them into a sleeping bag, Dragging it away.
12, You eventually find a reasonable pile of boulders to store your ill-gotten loot, and fall asleep atop this newfound hoard.
The Librarian, in his thirst for knowledge, journeyed to the Infinite Library to explore and become wiser/smarter. The Infinite Library is, well, an infinitely large library, with books that range from spell tomes, to skill books, to eldritch tomes that give maluses when read; even books that transport the reader to other worlds (a la Myst)! He is standing just inside the entrance.
Malus: Leagues apart (High level area) Bookworm (Lower chance for learning spells outside of Spellbooks.) Monkey's paw gear.
Stats
HP:5
MP:5
EG:0
PP:0
Passives
Bookworm; Learning things from books has a higher success chance, but learning them from other means has a much lower chance, Wizard Trades are disabled.
Normal Spells
Merel Stardust's Layered Ice; Creates a layer of ice on a surface, the effect is stronger when used on wet surfaces or water, and can be empowered with additional mana.
Merel Stardust's Earthdust; fills a hole with fragile soil or other material that is 98% air and collapses when any weight is put on it.
Pries Omen's Book of Filth; Reveals hidden dark magic from a spellbook, Requires at least 56 Grams of Spessartite Garnet Dust as a consumed reagent.
White blood spell; Causes an unknown effect.
Unlearned Spells
Black Blood Ritual; This ritual requires 13 pints of blood, 3 chalk circles, one hexagon carved into the ground with some kind of tool, 14 wooden posts charred and stained with blood, and a rod braided around with human hair. 12% chance to learn.
Blue blood ritual; This ritual requires 1 drop of blood from the caster, a circle carved into the ground with some kind of tool, one wooden rod, and 15 pounds of clay. 45% chance to learn.
White blood spell; Causes an unknown effect.
Inventory (14/10) OVERBURDENED
Ruby Spellbook
Small Storybook
8 Pounds of Clay
Leather Gi,
59 pixels (19.6 Feet) of Parchment roll,
2 1-pint Wooden Bottles of ink,
Textured wooden Stylus/wand,
Big Hat,
30 Pixel Length of rope.
33 Pixel telescopic pole,
12 Jerky Rations,
12 Bottles of Water,
6 jars of Peach preserve,
6 Small biscuits.
Get visited by an eldritch creature in my dream if some characters are still not sleeping. Have a friendly chat with it.
"Hi. Why did you come to my dream? Shadestyle, how do the eldritch gain their power?" You say
"Meow Probably varies between types of eldritch." it Responds.
"Er, hello? You can speak my language now. Do you have any questions about this world?" you say, sighing.
Unknown
Malus: Newborn (No starting learned skills) Unknown area (Starting location) Cursed Blade (Bonus Malus) Honor of the Clan (Bonus Malus) Tiny (Bonus Malus)
Stats
HP:7/8
MP:4
EG:2
PP:1
Passive
Newborn; Learning things in general is easier.
Honor of the Clan; your actions must not bring shame to your clan, and your power must be used in the same way.
Panic Spores; Automatically releases mundane Mushroom spores when frightened, depleting 1 EG.
Crafting Abilities
Grow normal Shroom; You can grow a mushroom on any edible substance, consuming 1-3 Elbow Grease. These ones have no limbs other than their head and torso, and have eyes and a mouth.
Inventory (2/10)
Hitsuji no zōo, Cursed Urumi
I am very proud of my people. They are small and immobile, but are capable of seeing and discussing the world. They shall accompany me. I take the root and place it attop the boar. If he allows me, I also ride the boar.
The boar is lying on it's side in the pit. you place the root on top of it, and it snorts, otherwise not moving.
You feel strange, as though you should lie down as well.
The middle of a rather menacing forest
Malus: Time Bullshit (Starting location) Dangerous Area (Starting location) Omnisensitive (Species Malus)
Stats
HP:4
MP:6
EG:1
PP:1
TB:1%
Normal Spells
Prewind; Allows the user to specify a time in the future or past for himself to be dragged from, but this causes Time Bullshit Value to increase.
Telepathy; Allows the user to communicate with beings telepathically
Wish I; Allows the user to attempt to grant another being's wish in a very minor way by influencing future events telepathically.
Inventory (2/10)
AWC Collar
Lead Monolicule
0-Yes, the good Baron thanks the... GOODEST Baron. The good Baron wonders if the goodest Baron perhaps posesses any tools to better deal with this uncouth arachnid?-0
If the good Baron's future self does not have anything that can kill or incapacitate the rude spider, the good Baron attempts to run away in a distracting manner so as to allow Jamie to abscond more successfully.
1-As unfortunate as it is, I was dragged here not minutes after performing an escape at the expense of the girl, who was loudly and messily devoured afterward, it seems either a lack of power, or dare we even consider it, a lack of skill has limited our time frame.-1
Argrark's Home
Malus: Magicless (Species Malus) Repitition (Bonus Malus) Untrusted (Starting Location) Repitition (Bonus Malus).
Stats
HP:15
EG:2
PP:3
Passives
Windup; You must find a means of rewinding your Clockwork in order to gain additional EG, but you have a maximum of 100. if you run out of EG, you lose consciousness until re-wound
Precicion; Crafting operations are much more likely to succeed.
Normal Abilities
Rampage; Begins a high mass charge in one direction.
Inventory (7/10)
6 Gears
7 Rods
12 wheels
10 Spiral Torsion Springs
Pile of assorted plants, (100%)
Homestead details
>Is a Small hut composed of a brick wall and an assembled wall of sticks and plant matter
Catalyst de Aer (FallacyofUrist)
Xander (Whisperling)
IXX (hachnslay)
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Topic: Darkness Redeemed: Multiplayer RPG (7/7) (Read 23081 times)