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SHAW, 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 (3/10)
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.
You are overcome by depression and despair. You decide to Just Use cryogenics to sleep until this whole thing goes away, and you can be back with your family. You slowly begin to start up the mechanism.
An unknown Trail
Malus: Weak start, (Crashed into ground) Odd Reactions (Otherworldly Species) Foreign Linguist (Otherworldly Species)
Stats
HP:3/6
MP:10
EG:4
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.
Examine the tube thing.
11, It is a well, no rope goes in, and in all likelihood, no water goes out.
Unknown forest
Malus: Delicious, (Bonus Malus) Starting in potential danger, (Burning village) Polymorphed, (Pig).
Stats
HP:25/27
MP:3
EG:12
PP:0
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.
Novice Wage-Mage; You can incite minor effects by paying a certain amount of your wealth, or by paying 37 times more, incite a more permanent effect. Some things you cannot do, for their price to you is immeasurable, but some things that are more natural are themselves closer to your grasp. There may be some things that money cannot buy from within your own soul alone.
Other Abilities
Rush; Spend EG in order to move more quickly in a panic.
Inventory (0/10)
Homestead details
>Is a pile of Boulders ~450
Sleeping bag ~45
289 Small gold coins ~2.1 Each
3 Small Sapphires ~291 Each, 788 together
12 Small Diamonds ~158 Each, 3.5K together
2 Jade Stones ~750 Each, 2K Together
3 Leather Satchels ~24 Each
2 Knives, ~101 Each
2 Large cloaks ~423, 425
Long Leather Cable ~25
2 Bloody Rabbit hides ~2 Each
2 Centipede fangs ~5 Each
Burnt Quartz Disk ~300
Oink lets out a low, long whistle. Nothing to his old hoard, but still... real jewels! Real gold! Oink nestles down in the treasure pile, letting it rest comfortably against his skin.
Then he began to meditate. He was so, so far from being a dragon again. No mighty size or impenetrable scales, no great wings or flight. Not even breath of flames. Perhaps that, at least, was something he might be able to help.
Once upon a time, fire had been his nature, his very soul. Oink tried to reach into that well of destruction, locked deep within this porcine form, and coax it out again.
Meditate on pile of riches. Spend PP to try and learn a spell to conjure flame.
You know the spells, but they simply do not apply, your new form is so different, in so many ways, you dig deep, and remember one of the older draconic arts. a simple spoken rite for Wyrmlings and Foundlings alike. Whispered to a horde of treasure, a dragon gains power passively for a passive hoard, and as the rhyme goes;
One one-thirty fifth, once upon a time, and in full, forever.Just as mortals can spend their wealth in mortal means, so too can an immortal in immortal means. Having more Wealth increases every powerful aspect of you, and you can spend it to use or gain powersYou re-learn the art of the Wage-Mage, giving you the power to incite simple effects by whispering them to your hoard. for a one time effect, you pay a specific price that cannot be negotiated, which you are informed of immediately upon asking, and for a permanent version of the effect, you pay 37 times more, with a Drain on your MP or EG if the effect is particularly Active in nature.
You also Have a decisive value on everything in your possession, some may argue it, but that price is it's true worth. -2 PP
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:6
MP:10
EG:1
PP:2
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.
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.
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.
Inventory (14/10) OVERBURDENED
Ruby Spellbook
Leather Gi,
59 pixels (19.6 Feet) of Parchment roll,
2 1-pint Wooden Bottles of ink,
Textured wooden Stylus/wand,
Big Hat
Homestead details
>Is a campsite by the river
>Has a pit with a rod covered in clay leeches in it.
30 Pixel Length of rope.
33 Pixel telescopic pole,
12 Jerky Rations,
12 Bottles of Water,
6 jars of Peach preserve,
6 Small biscuits.
Small Storybook
Wield the stick, using the non-infested part as a handle. If I'm not attacked by the leeches, try pulling on a handle. Purchase some torches and supplies.
12, 16, They seem to have a mostly neutral reaction to you, and pulling one off by the handle only results in your commenting on just how slimy it is, the heavy earth comprising it nearly making you drop the wet clay creature, it's mouth hisses with suction, and itself is lined with a single row of teeth, shaped like Triangular daggers.
1, You have no money and they have no shops, such is the fault of a peaceful subsistant community. The Village at the base of the mountain sees more actin from intrepid adventurers such as yourself, but is itself, as mentioned, at the base of the mountain, a few days travel going down.
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:8/8
MP:6
EG:4
PP:7
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
Shroomed root
I am fearful of this strange new thing. It worries me and I hide.
1, You try to hide, and along comes the creature. a large head and little arms grace this monstrosity, but it's eyes are replaced by two large horns. it towers over you like a man to a humble ant. Some sort of Tyrant Lizard, it sniffs the air, searching for morsels, it's eyes are naught, and so too is hiding from it's sight.
It turns to face you, the scent of boar still fresh on you and your kin, even in the safety of the green leafy thing.
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
When pulled back in time, do what the good Baron remembers the goodest Baron doing to the letter, even to the point of using first person pronouns to describe the good Baron. Then, once the good Baron is back with Jamie facing down the spider, assail its underbelly with all due ferocity.
You wisely do exactly as your younger self remembers your older self having done, and eventually come to where you are now. Facing down a giant Spider, sans damsel in distress and assistance from you. -4% TB
Argrark's Home
Malus: Magicless (Species Malus) Repitition (Bonus Malus) Untrusted (Starting Location) Repitition (Bonus Malus).
Stats
HP:15
EG:85
PP:0
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)
1 Gears
2 Rods
7 wheels
5 Spiral Torsion Springs
Homestead details
>Is a Small hut composed of a brick wall and an assembled wall of sticks and plant matter
>Has a shovel making machine
>Has a plank making machine
Pile of assorted plants, (100%)
((Too bad I won't be here long enough to go exploring. Oh well.))
Hmph. Those humans hold grudges way too long. It's a shame they can't let anything go. Oh well, Argrark did find some pretty cool maps. He makes a metalno typo note to return to this map shop in a little while. Speaking of shops, Argrark just had a great idea! He'll make himself a shop for his village! He starts off with merchandise: since Argrark needs lots of things to sell, he'll make a machine to make all the things. But what things should they be? Hmmm... well, everybody's always breaking their tools, so he could make a... a shovel shop! Yeah! Shovels are good. Argrark sits down and has a good ol' think about how he'd make a shovel making machine, and sets off to build it once he has a good idea. He spends as many PP as required to make a solid, dependable shovel-making machine.
((By the way, I still have those wooden planks, right?))
You head home, disappointed in how personally the humans take simple destruction of property.
Using all of your mental faculties, you create an incredible shovel making machine, capable of making shovels out of a variety of materials, given two things, materials to make shovels out of, and a bit that is stronger than the previous material. -5 PP
You assemble this powerful machine using 5 of every part you have, and give it a big rock for the bit. -15 EG
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