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[Demonic Spoon]

((IronyOwl gave me permission to crib from his Expedition Arcane))

The Undying Court is not pleased. More specifically, they are not pleased with you. Your crimes, real or imagined, have gained you a spot on the latest colonial expedition to new lands, this time a penal colony, after the last several waves of previous settlers were lost, presumed eaten by the locals.

But that's okay! With your mastery of magic, even this is merely a minor hindrance on your inevitable path to ultimate arcane power followed by revenge on those fools who thought to exile you!

Now, you have been given some minders, but you're sure that won't be a problem to someone of your scintillating intellect. Really, the dangers of the hostile environment are likely to be the bigger problem.

Spoiler: Mechanics (click to show/hide)

Each turn represents one week, during which time each player receives two actions. Other "Heroic" characters also receive two actions, but most normal individuals only receive one. Minor actions, such as most conversations or cursory examinations, do not take an action unless they become inordinately involved.

Rolls
The nature of an action's effect is determined by a roll. Nothing modifies this base number, though various things can affect the details of the actual outcome.

Roll	Name	Description
20	CRIT!	+4 XP. Unique beneficial effect. Skeletons that are fully conscious and can act on their own and learn skills, a house incorporating a natural hot spring beneath it.
17-19	Bonus	+2 XP. Additional beneficial effect. Skeletons that can see life force, a house that stays cool in summer and warm in winter.
11-16	Good	Additional minor beneficial effect. Skeletons that emit fearsome shrieks, a house with pleasant wood grain patterns.
5-10	Poor	Additional minor negative effect. Skeletons that emit derpy shrieks, a house with creaky floorboards.
2-4	Malus	+2 XP. Additional negative effect. Skeletons that have difficulty not feasting upon the living, a drafty house.
1	FAIL!	+4 XP. Unique negative effect. Skeletons that break loose and begin causing and feeding off of bad dreams, a house that accidentally tunnels into a giant acid worm hive.

Skills and XP
Most actions utilize skills for their effect, and grant xp to those skills on good rolls. By default, the magnitude of an action is equal to the value of its corresponding skill.

Note that this does mean that Dabbling and Inexperienced actions are legitimately harmful. This makes training individuals in new skills a somewhat difficult and expensive prospect.

Name	Value	XP to Next/Total XP to Reach
Inexperienced	-1	2
Dabbling	+0	2
Novice	+1	4
Apprentice	+2	8
Adept	+4	16
Expert	+6	32
Master	+8	64

Spoiler: Magic (click to show/hide)

Magic is usually divided into three chief components(though some might have more) that must be specified to explain the function of the spell.

Power:
What powers the magic. Ambient mana, leylines(a superior form of ambient mana), sunlight, human sacrifice, diamonds etc. Better power sources increase the strength of the magic and makes it more likely to succeed.

Effect:
What the magic does. It creates fire, causes the dead to rise as zombies etc.

Mechanism:
The method/spellcasting by which power is transformed into the effect. "The stone circle draws in the power of the leyline, squishing the dense mana into a laser beam." "By pouring the fel power of onyxes into the deceased flesh of the unicorn, I raise it up as a zombie in a hours long ritual". "Having plucked a hair from the man's head, I use this to create a sympathetic connection with a voodoo doll that I then torture". Certain methodologies may make you action more or less likely to succeed based on my whim.

Materials:
Potentially optional, materials help to increase the stability of the magic. Particularly exceptional materials may also increase sophistication and strength.

In a separate categorization than the components, magicks are based on four parts, Strength, Scale, Stability and Sophistication. When you create the magic, you may choose to allocate your magnitude into these four categories in whatever way you like.

Strength:
How powerful the effect is. The difference between a fireball as hot as a candle and one as hot as the sun. 0 means the magic fizzles.

Scale:
How large the effect is. Increase is not linear. 0 means the spell doesn't effect anything.

Stability:
How well the magic will persist over the long term, and how resistant they are to destruction. Combat spells tend to have 0 or 1 here. Generally you need at least 3 stability for anything "permanent", 2 would last several months or even a year.

Sophistication:
Allows you to create more intricate effects. A magic that only activates on the third dawn of a month if activated by someone with red hair, and only attacks orcs.

Spoiler: Metamagic skills (click to show/hide)

You automatically apply metamagic skills to your own magic, and may apply one of your skills to the magic of others during the turn of the casting as a major action. (If used to aid another, it uses their skill in the magic school to determine the magnitude used)

Channeling:
Adds the smaller magnitude of this or the relevant magic school to increase Strength and Scale at a 50/50 ratio.
Casting:
Adds the smaller magnitude of this or the relevant magic school to increase Stability and Sophistication at a 50/50 ratio.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: What do they call you?
Race, Gender, and Class: What are you?
Physical Description: What do you look like?
Mental Description: What do you think and act like?
Backstory: What happened to you?

Primary Skills: You begin at (Adept) in a magical school and metamagic skill of your choice. Feel free to experiment or inquire as to what constitutes a valid skill or school.
Secondary Skill: You begin at (Apprentice) in a supporting skill of your choice. Should support your primary skill, class, or role, but then why wouldn't it.
Tertiary Skills: You begin at (Novice) in a pair of tertiary skills. These may be supporting skills to your class or other skills, hobbies, racial or cultural quirks, or something else entirely.
Signature: Possessions come and go, but this thing seems fairly well-entrenched on your person. Usually a practical tool of your trade, but sometimes an aid for your interests, sentimental token, or even a servant or pet.
Crimes: The reason you were assigned to a penal colony.
Equipment: Your material possessions, or at least the ones you're bringing with you. Usually just clothing and basic tools, but a handful of more exotic trinkets aren't unheard of.

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[b]Name:[/b] What do they call you?
[b]Race, Gender, and Class:[/b] What are you?
[b]Physical Description:[/b] What do you look like?
[b]Mental Description:[/b] What do you think and act like?
[b]Backstory:[/b] What happened to you?

[b]Primary Skills:[/b] You begin at (Adept) in a magical school and metamagic skill of your choice. Feel free to experiment or inquire as to what constitutes a valid skill or school.
[b]Secondary Skill:[/b] You begin at (Apprentice) in a supporting skill of your choice. Should support your primary skill, class, or role, but then why wouldn't it.
[b]Tertiary Skills:[/b] You begin at (Novice) in a pair of tertiary skills. These may be supporting skills to your class or other skills, hobbies, racial or cultural quirks, or something else entirely.
[b]Signature:[/b] Possessions come and go, but this thing seems fairly well-entrenched on your person. Usually a practical tool of your trade, but sometimes an aid for your interests, sentimental token, or even a servant or pet.
[b]Crimes:[/b] The reason you were assigned to a penal colony.
[b]Equipment:[/b] Your material possessions, or at least the ones you're bringing with you. Usually just clothing and basic tools, but a handful of more exotic trinkets aren't unheard of.


Spoiler: Expedition Sheet (click to show/hide)

Isolation: How difficult the settlement is to reach, be it through time, danger, or other obstacles and complications. Greater isolation tends to mean greater freedom and less assistance. Note that only Exile actually sends you to another plane (unlike in Expedition Arcane) with the other options sending you to places on the same world as the Undying Court.
-Exile: Practically a one-way trip. While reaching and returning from the settlement is probably possible, it's a terrible idea unless you absolutely have to. Freedom (from anyone not already in the settlement, that is) is virtually guaranteed, but so is being almost entirely on your own.
-Trek: A challenge to find. Reaching and returning from the settlement is a major undertaking, not to be done lightly. Freedom is high, assistance and merchants are low.
-Journey: Difficult but doable. Reaching and returning from the settlement is most certainly a project, but an entirely feasible one under the right conditions. Contact is limited but relatively routine, ensuring that freedom and assistance are both respectable.
-Lark: Not bad at all. Reaching and returning from the settlement is about as easy as can be, ensuring that freedom is a little sparse and assistance is pretty plentiful.
-Neighbor: A expedition in the sense that eating in front of your house is a picnic. Reaching and returning from the settlement is scarcely worthy of mention, ensuring that orders and assistance can come in at any time.

Power: How much is being invested in the expedition. Higher power grants more benefits, but comes with increased ownership and involvement from entities back home.
-Penniless: This is less an expedition and more a starving herd of colonists. You don't owe nobody nothin', but that's also about how much stuff you have so good luck.
-Poor: This expedition has some token outside support, but is largely operating on its own merits. Outside interference is low, but you don't have much to work with.
-Comfortable: This expedition is well-stocked for a pioneer outing. You'll probably have some obligations to somebody, but they're more likely to be an investor than an overlord.
-Wealthy: This expedition is suspiciously well-supplied; somebody wants it to succeed. That somebody is likely going to be keeping a close eye on their substantial investment, however.
-Extravagant: Quality tools and talented servants rain from the sky. Of course, you're probably now legally something's property.

Size: How large the expedition is intended to be. Larger expeditions offer more developed and varied settlements, but tend to require more effort and responsibility to maintain.
-Outpost: Little more than a basecamp of specialists. You probably have a job you're expected to do, but likely one you're also in charge of evaluating your own performance on.
-Village: A relatively self-sufficient gaggle of colonists, usually farmers and the like around a more specialized core. You're probably expected to deal with a certain class of problems when they arise, but are otherwise left in peace.
-Town: A proper, if not exceptional, settlement with most of the reasonable amenities of home. You're probably going to get dragged into aiding the colony in some capacity.
-City: An unusually large settlement for a planar colonization effort, likely with fairly obscure luxuries and services. Their grand plans probably require you to be constantly doing things.
-Metropolis: An exceedingly ambitious attempt at colonizing the new world, likely bringing along everything you'd ever need. They're almost certainly aiming to exploit you to the full extent of your abilities.

Features: Any number of noteworthy features known or suspected to exist on the new world. They can be vague, such as Geography, Weather, or Fauna; or specific, such as chitinous firebreathing rabbits.

Hazards: Any number of noteworthy dangers or risks known or suspected to exist on the new world. They can be vague, such as Natives, Ores, or Curses; or specific, such as irradiated meteor swarms.

Boons: Any number of noteworthy benefits or opportunities known or suspected to exist on the new world. They can be vague, such as Ruins, Nature, or Undead; or specific, such as city-sized ambulatory mushrooms.

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[b]Isolation:[/b] How difficult the settlement is to reach, be it through time, danger, or other obstacles and complications. Greater isolation tends to mean greater freedom and less assistance. Note that only Exile actually sends you to another plane (unlike in Expedition Arcane) with the other options sending you to places on the same world as the Undying Court.
-Exile: Practically a one-way trip. While reaching and returning from the settlement is probably [i]possible,[/i] it's a terrible idea unless you absolutely have to. Freedom (from anyone not already in the settlement, that is) is virtually guaranteed, but so is being almost entirely on your own.
-Trek: A challenge to find. Reaching and returning from the settlement is a major undertaking, not to be done lightly. Freedom is high, assistance and merchants are low.
-Journey: Difficult but doable. Reaching and returning from the settlement is most certainly a project, but an entirely feasible one under the right conditions. Contact is limited but relatively routine, ensuring that freedom and assistance are both respectable.
-Lark: Not bad at all. Reaching and returning from the settlement is about as easy as can be, ensuring that freedom is a little sparse and assistance is pretty plentiful.
-Neighbor: A expedition in the sense that eating in front of your house is a picnic. Reaching and returning from the settlement is scarcely worthy of mention, ensuring that orders and assistance can come in at any time.

[b]Power:[/b] How much is being invested in the expedition. Higher power grants more benefits, but comes with increased ownership and involvement from entities back home.
-Penniless: This is less an expedition and more a starving herd of colonists. You don't owe nobody nothin', but that's also about how much stuff you have so good luck.
-Poor: This expedition has some token outside support, but is largely operating on its own merits. Outside interference is low, but you don't have much to work with.
-Comfortable: This expedition is well-stocked for a pioneer outing. You'll probably have some obligations to somebody, but they're more likely to be an investor than an overlord.
-Wealthy: This expedition is suspiciously well-supplied; somebody wants it to succeed. That somebody is likely going to be keeping a close eye on their substantial investment, however.
-Extravagant: Quality tools and talented servants rain from the sky. Of course, you're probably now legally something's property.

[b]Size:[/b] How large the expedition is intended to be. Larger expeditions offer more developed and varied settlements, but tend to require more effort and responsibility to maintain.
-Outpost: Little more than a basecamp of specialists. You probably have a job you're expected to do, but likely one you're also in charge of evaluating your own performance on.
-Village: A relatively self-sufficient gaggle of colonists, usually farmers and the like around a more specialized core. You're probably expected to deal with a certain class of problems when they arise, but are otherwise left in peace.
-Town: A proper, if not exceptional, settlement with most of the reasonable amenities of home. You're probably going to get dragged into aiding the colony in some capacity.
-City: An unusually large settlement for a planar colonization effort, likely with fairly obscure luxuries and services. Their grand plans probably require you to be constantly doing things.
-Metropolis: An exceedingly ambitious attempt at colonizing the new world, likely bringing along everything you'd ever need. They're almost certainly aiming to exploit you to the full extent of your abilities.

[b]Features:[/b] Any number of noteworthy features known or suspected to exist on the new land. They can be vague, such as Geography, Weather, or Fauna; or specific, such as chitinous firebreathing rabbits.

[b]Hazards:[/b] Any number of noteworthy dangers or risks known or suspected to exist on the new land. They can be vague, such as Natives, Ores, or Curses; or specific, such as irradiated meteor swarms.

[b]Boons:[/b] Any number of noteworthy benefits or opportunities known or suspected to exist on the new land. They can be vague, such as Ruins, Nature, or Undead; or specific, such as city-sized ambulatory mushrooms.


7 players, as that is a magically significant number probably, selected via rolling. You may submit an Expedition Sheet even if you do not submit a Character Sheet and vice versa. Expedition Sheets may omit portions you don't feel strongly about. Contents of Expedition Sheets are not guaranteed to make it in, but are not linked to whether you make it in as a player.

((Got a bit lazy with editing the expedition sheet for my version but it should probably be fine.))

[Demonic Spoon]

Players:

Thomas, Male Human Botanist
Blorgath War Spell, 'Mail' Troll Thaumaturge
Goggmagog, Male Gnoll Shaman
Pyriette, Female Fire Elemental Alchemist
Mordenor, Male Elf 'Former' Cult Leader
Vlad Numar, Human Male Runic Mage
Gerod Ald'age, Male Otterweasel Ritualist

[FallacyofUrist]

Thissssss.

Spoiler: The Expedition Sheet of Fallacy (click to show/hide)

Isolation: How difficult the settlement is to reach, be it through time, danger, or other obstacles and complications. Greater isolation tends to mean greater freedom and less assistance. Note that only Exile actually sends you to another plane (unlike in Expedition Arcane) with the other options sending you to places on the same world as the Undying Court.
-Exile: Practically a one-way trip. While reaching and returning from the settlement is probably possible, it's a terrible idea unless you absolutely have to. Freedom (from anyone not already in the settlement, that is) is virtually guaranteed, but so is being almost entirely on your own.

Power: How much is being invested in the expedition. Higher power grants more benefits, but comes with increased ownership and involvement from entities back home.
-Poor: This expedition has some token outside support, but is largely operating on its own merits. Outside interference is low, but you don't have much to work with.

Size: How large the expedition is intended to be. Larger expeditions offer more developed and varied settlements, but tend to require more effort and responsibility to maintain.
-Metropolis: An exceedingly ambitious attempt at colonizing the new world, likely bringing along everything you'd ever need. They're almost certainly aiming to exploit you to the full extent of your abilities.

Features/Hazards/Boons: The world is never the same. The things within the world are never the same. At the start of every day, the world shifts. What may have been a gold mine yesterday may now be a jungle of carnivorous plants. If you look far enough on this strange plane, you can find anything. But it'll be gone after a day. What makes the fact that we're building a metropolis possible are the Anchor Points: Some chunks of the world's surface are not effected by this changing.
If you're outside of an Anchor Point at the start of the day, expect to be changed, just like the rest of the world around you.

Spoiler: Thomas (click to show/hide)

Name: "Thomas. Thomas Wane. At your service."
Race, Gender, and Class: "... It should be fairly obvious that I'm a human male. Class, you say? I consider myself an Arcane Botanist."
Physical Description: "Oh. You're blind. Well. In any case... human male. Mildly tan brown skin. Relatively short. Black hair, blue eyes. Mild beard."
Mental Description: "Now this... this is a trickier question. Maybe... how about this: protective, calm, inquisitive, thoughtful, brutal when angered, somber."
Backstory: "Right... right. The mayor of my town proposed a new residential area, one that would require cutting down the lush forest that was my childhood home. The resolution passed. I... didn't take so well to that. Now I recognize that there were some better options for resisting that. But... what's done is done."
"Oh, further back? Okay... I was born in the city, but was abducted by my uncle when I was young. He was the one that introduced me to the forest. Fast forward a few years, he's taught me nature magic, then my parents finally send in a small army's worth of soldiers to get me. They're somewhat rich. The end result of that wasn't pretty. My uncle was seized, tried for kidnapping, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Then my parents tried to re-educate me. It didn't go so well. Pretty soon, I made my way back to the forest. They only tried to get me back one more time after that. That was... nasty. I don't want to talk about that."

Primary Skills: Plant Magic, Channeling.
Secondary Skill: Botany/Herbology.
Tertiary Skills: Gardening/Agriculture, Cooking.
Signature: A wooden staff, inscribed with strange patterns. It holds concentrated plant essence, and boosts the potency of plant magic, but can result in more chaotic effects when used to its full extent.
Crimes: Murder, Grevious Assault, Redecorating the Mayor's Mansion(it was quite a transformation).
Equipment: A pair of sets of robes. Two pairs of sandals. A worn belt with several pouches on it. A somewhat large and ragged trolley made to be moved through the forest. Several pots on said trolley.

[crazyabe]

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: The Great and Powerful Blorgath War Spell, Or more commonly as Bloognoop Elaf X-eh
Race, Gender, and Class: Troll, Mail, Thaumaturge
Physical Description: BIG is an easy one but a better one is: He has Green Skin and Blue Hair, his eyes are Red, he has several Tatoos of Questionable Origin.
Mental Description: Not too Bright, but he can be persuasive why else do you think he is still alive?
Backstory: He Dropped a 12 Ton Iron Ship on a Superior, he cant remember much further back then that.

Primary Skills: Thaumaturgy / Channeling
Secondary Skill: Bridge Construction
Tertiary Skills: Leadership / Lying
Signature: A Large Dwarven War-Pick meant to smash stone and Crack Metal, Don't ask where he got it from...
Crimes: Murder(1) Stupidity(302) Nudity(9000?)
Equipment:
+Silk Pants
+Silk Shirt
+Lead toed Silk Shoe(2)
+A Backpack made form His Supervisor's Skin
->a Collection of Items useful for his magic
+A Large Elf Leather Sack
->3 pounds of food
->A Elf leather Tent
->A Bottle of Questionable Contents
-->Acid mixed with "Acid"

Spoiler: Expedition Sheet (click to show/hide)

Isolation: Trek
Power: Poor
Size: Outpost
Features: (STEAL SOMEONE ELSE's)
Hazards: (STEAL SOMEONE ELSE's)
Boons: (STEAL SOMEONE ELSE's)

[Nirur Torir]

Spoiler: Expedition suggestion (click to show/hide)

Somewhere dry! Please!

Trek/poor/town

A cave world/plane. Due to magic, directions do not match up (Even going in a perfect circle, you won't be anywhere close to your origin). The cave network itself changes over time when it's not being observed. Expect an abandoned area to be completely randomized over 6 months, forever losing anything man-made. Frequent patrols or general living in an area will stabilize it.

There are many groups of intelligent natives to interact with. Once contact with a group is lost, it is highly unlikely to be regained.

The randomization makes it a miner's dream. New deposits of easily accessible and sometimes-valuable minerals can appear anywhere.

And, because I'm greedy and have to apply to both games:

Spoiler: Nevermind (click to show/hide)

Name: Alkino
Race, Gender, and Class: Male Kobold Space Mage
Physical Description: A tan cutebold wearing a dark purple robe and wizard hat with silver stars and moons. He stands at about half the height of a human.
Mental Description: Constantly happy, chirpy, and enthusiastic. Practically nothing dampens his mood. He likes money for its use in collecting shiny things and pursuing his kobold-supremacy agenda.
Backstory: He was born into a recently civilized tribe of kobolds living together in a slum. His talent was spatial magic was discovered early, and he was raised to believe it was his destiny to "save" his race. He went to a magic school and everything! He then set up a business for fast transportation and portal collection.
He prefers to use elaborate anchor stones, but has been known to dabble with more unholy sources of power.

Primary Skills: Space Magic (Portals, teleportation, and occasional brief gravitational singularities), Casting
Secondary Skill: Runecarving (Mechanism/material)
Tertiary Skills: Channeling, Demonology (The summoning of and use as a power source)
Signature: An enchanted chisel for runecarving.
Crimes: Treason. A rival state contacted him to assassinate a well-known government official. He succeeded, but they rewarded him with exile.
Equipment: Spare runecarving tools, demon-summoning and containment tools, Apprentice's Guide to Scrying, a summoner's hand-guide for well-known demons, an imprisoned imp-in-a-jar (A one use power-source, not the wish-granting kind), expensive shiny trinkets.

I don't remember what safety is.

Edit: The plan with anchor stones is for them to need at least one dedicated turn to create, and be large and stuck in place (they're sensitive to the peculiarities of local power sources and need to be carefully arranged and carved with the site in-mind). Teleportation can be made from them to other anchor stones, or to/from runic jewelry specifically linked to the stones. With more risk, teleportation could be done to scryed or well-known areas. (Alternatively, I could teleport to line-of-sight distances with demons [or longer if I trust them to get me where I want to be], use demons to power attack spells, or design an anchor stone that I can basically use as a magic wand for a specific combat spell. Given the power of space magic, portable runic components work poorly for combat use.)

Edit2: I don't want to play that character anymore.

[Detoxicated]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Goggmagog
Race, Gender, and Class: Male, Gnoll, Shaman
Physical Description: A slender gnoll with fierce yellow eyes, and a menacing grin.
Mental Description: Cunning and social, Goggmagog is usually interested in knowing what people want so he can exploit their needs.
Backstory: During a prophetic session at a grand shamanic meeting, Goggmagog accidentally called a terrible demon, who scorned a great part of the forest.

Primary Skills: Animistic Incantation, CHanneling
Secondary Skill: Spirit Binding
Tertiary Skills: Socializing, Ritualism
Signature: Ancestor Spirit Binding Staff of Skulls
Crimes: Accidental summoning of an evil spiritual entity that destroyed a forest
Equipment: Shamans clothing (skull adornments), Spiritstones (Stones that attract spirits), basiic shamans tools

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Isolation: Exile
Power: Penniless
Size: Outpost

Features: Giant Spiritual Ecosystem, Fertile Soil
Hazards: Dimensional Holes that lead one way, nobody returns when falling in one.

Boons: Ancient Super Spirits

[Demonic Spoon]

Edit: The plan with anchor stones is for them to need at least one dedicated turn to create, and be large and stuck in place (they're sensitive to the peculiarities of local power sources and need to be carefully arranged and carved with the site in-mind). Teleportation can be made from them to other anchor stones, or to/from runic jewelry specifically linked to the stones. With more risk, teleportation could be done to scryed or well-known areas. (Alternatively, I could teleport to line-of-sight distances with demons [or longer if I trust them to get me where I want to be], use demons to power attack spells, or design an anchor stone that I can basically use as a magic wand for a specific combat spell. Given the power of space magic, portable runic components work poorly for combat use.)

That seems fine.

@Detoxticated, you also get a adept metamagic skill and a second tertiary skill.

[spümpkin]

Well, I guess I'll join this while I wait for Expedition Arcane!

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:Pyriette
Race, Gender, and Class: Female, Fire Elemental, Elemental Spellcaster/Alchemist
Physical Description: A person, made out of fire, really. She is, what some would call....... hot attractive, but most people can't see that becauseOHGODTHEBURNINGOHGODAHHHHHHH
Mental Description: Pyriette is really quite hot-headeda brash person, who does what she wants, when she wants. That's probably what got her into the Penal colony, really. She usually argues with people a lot, and starts fights quite often without meaning to. She is quite the trained alchemist, and can brew a multitude of potions with common materials.
Backstory: "Alchemy isn't a real school of magic" They said. "It's just throwing stuff into a pot and cooking it" They said. She would prove them all wrong. Pyriette learnt alchemy from a young age, and is quite good at it. However, she was turned to a life of elemental magic bybher peers, as they didn't think alchemy was a valid skill. So now she also knows some basic elemental spells, which she mostly ended up using for her potions anyway.

Primary Skills: Alchemy, Channeler
Secondary Skill: Pyromancy
Tertiary Skills: Firestarting, Intimidation
Signature: Her favourite book. A recipe book. Filled with hundreds of alchemical combinations which she hasn't even tried yet. It's also protected by a fire ward, so she can actually read it.
Crimes: Arson. So much arson.
Equipment: No clothes, as fire elementals don't exactly show much off naked anyway, and most clothes burn off. But this does mean a lot of people get entranced by the sight of her hotattractive body. She carries with her a fire-warded satchel in which she keeps all her alchemical ingredients, and the occasional flask or two.

So many puns.

[Demonic Spoon]

Primary Skills: Alchemy (?)

I would allow xianxia style alchemy if you'd be interested in that (burn ingredients in a fire to somehow make a pill)

[Tomcost]

Spoiler: Expedition sheet. An unknown Nexus world (click to show/hide)

General description:
A Nexus world is a particular place of the universe in which the multiple ley-lines used for portals collide. This place ends up being a traffic jam for all the space-travel of the universe. And, as such, careless portal users generally end up trapped in here, as with lots and lots of bullshit from all the different places of the universe. Typically experienced portal users avoid falling into this place, but actually, it is quite easy to make a portal to this place as a "mistake". That would explain the odd selection of staff accompanying the prisoners here. There is that farmer that seduced the wife of a general. That secretary who used to sleep on her job. And even that smelly guy who is always picking his nose. Everybody gets the suspicion that nobody wants these people to be seen ever again.

Isolation: Exile.
Power: Penniless
Size:Village
Features: The world can be lived on, but it hosts no native civilization. Instead, pockets of space-wanderers may be in some places. The randomness of the portals opened without care means that everything can appear, at any moment.
Hazards: The biggest hazard is that of a portal materializing to dump here a whole natural disaster out of some distant world. But in general, anything that is not desired in another place can appear here. This ranges from dangerous and unstable magic artifacts, to murderous criminals, to well, anything.
Boons: Just as deliberately unwanted things are dumped here, some good things can appear by mistake. While a master space-mancer is not likely to fall into this place, intermediate ones may. Goods magically sold from one place to another may find this odd place instead. People who have bought the services of a novice portal-opener may fall face first into the soil of this new world. Basically, anything may appear.

Spoiler: Character sheet: Mordenor (click to show/hide)

Name: Mordenor
Race, Gender, and Class: Male Elf former Cult Leader.
Physical Description: Tall and somewhat lanky, with a long black mane and a long and pointy nose. His ears are somewhat short for an elf. This, coupled with the general symmetry of the face of the elves, make him a good-looking male, even attractive for humans, as the not-so-long ears aren’t a turn-off.
Mental Description: He is calmed and self-confident. He is always smiling and assertive when needed. But this is actually a facade, for that when something goes wrong, it really angers him. Like, a lot. He is also accustomed to being the authority, so, well; let's say that he doesn’t like being given orders.
Backstory: Born during the tumultuous times of some tribal wars between elves, his parents decided to send him to a more stable human city. The plan didn't go well, though, and he ended up in servitude to the rich family that was supposedly going to adopt him. This filled Mordenor with a deep hate towards people in general. During his years as a slave, he developed skills to escape some of the most uncomfortable tasks, and eventually he became good at convincing people. But his life was still that of a slave, until he found an ancient demonology book hidden in the old library. He studied when he had time, until he devised a plan to slaughter them all. The demons tore every one apart, and he posed as the traumatized survivor. With his slavers dead, and being legally adopted by them, he inherited the family's mansion and its wealth, which he used to host a demonic cult with the goal of just increasing his own power. That was until the daughter of a powerful individual was sacrificed, and then everything was discovered, and he ended up in prison.

Primary Skills: Demonology. Casting.
Secondary Skill: Speaking.
Tertiary Skills: Fleshmancy (used to give "boons" to brainwashed faithful followers and Cooking. Yes, he used to cook for his slavers. And he is passable at that. What's the matter with a demonic cult leader who can cook?
Signature: The Ancient book of Unholy Summons. A manual made of charred leather, the stench of sulfur and the occasional wail of souls can be felt near it. A metallic horned skull embellishes the cover. The book itself is more or less like an encyclopedia of demons and a manual of the different rituals to summon and bind them.
Crimes: *Unfolds a long scroll*
Participating in unauthorized religious activities
Torture without consent
Torture with consent
Kidnapping
Kidnapping aggravated by sacrifice
Brainwashing
Familicide
Consorting with demons
Summoning demons
Sacrificial murder
Plain murder (that pompous guy was such a jerk, you know)
False testimony
Aggravating a judge (he didn't like being called a cultist scum. That got him off his nerves)
Equipment:
A red robe, masterfully decorated with strands of black and purple. It is probably going to get dirty so fast out there.
A sacrificial dagger made out of demon bone and decorated with dark iron.
Some cooking utensils. This is actually part of his secret stuff. He never talks about his secret stuff.

Everything good with this?

[Demonic Spoon]

Looks good.

[spümpkin]

Primary Skills: Alchemy (?)

I would allow xianxia style alchemy if you'd be interested in that (burn ingredients in a fire to somehow make a pill)

Yeah, that's good with me.

[Nirur Torir]

I realized that that character would have had really boring turns. Application rescinded while I try to think of something more fun.

[adwarf]

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Name: Vlad Numar
Race, Gender, and Class: Human Male Runic Mage
Physical Description: Vlad is a thin, tall human in his late twenties with a mess of brown hair and pale green eyes. His features would almost be appealing if it wasn't for the fact that he was almost always covered in soot, and grime from his various forms of work.
Mental Description: Vlad thinks of himself as a craftsman, and is completely enthralled in the creation of magical weapons and rune arrays that could be used to combat the various dangerous monstrosities and powers of this magic filled world. While he would prefer to stay locked up in his workshop creating his next weapons, or item he is more than willing to interact with those of the greater world if it will give him a chance to create something new, or test a device or design he has already thought up.
Backstory:
Vlad was born the son of a blacksmith, and an enchanter in a city of little note in the grand scheme of the world but his upbringing gave birth to a fascination with weapons in all of their forms so he took to learning his parent's trades as quickly as he could before eventually being sent to a school for mages by his mother. At the school he chose runic magic as his magic school major, and quickly took to it with a degree of passion that surpassed his love of enchanting and smithing though it inevitably ended in his exile as an experiment gone wrong caused his latest magical weapon to lead to the deaths of over twenty new students, and an elderly teacher.

Of course Vlad claims that the weapon going on a rampage was entirely not his fault, but who was going to believe him?

Primary Skills: Runic Magic, Casting
Secondary Skill: Enchanting
Tertiary Skills: Blacksmith, Engraver
Signature: Magic Portable Forge
Crimes:
Unlawful Creation of Magical Weapons
Accidental Mass Murder
Equipment:
Blacksmith Tools
Engraving Chisel
Simple clothes
A plain steel sword

[The Froggy Ninja]

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Name: Gerod Ald'age
Race, Gender, and Class: Otterweasel, male, Ritualist
Physical Description: A four foot tall bipedal cross between an otter and a weasle with golden brown fur and anthropomorphic traits. Does not wear cloths that don't serve a straightforward purpose.
Mental Description: Very into my work and rather focused on stability and power over speed.
Backstory: Gerod like all Otterweasels was created by a wizard to serve him as an indentured servant until he'd payed off his own creation after which he became the orc's apprentice for several years before moving into the city to continue his own research.

Primary Skills: Ritualism and Casting
Secondary Skill: Arcane Runes
Tertiary Skills: Alchemy and Enchanting
Signature: A carefully carved and enchanted ritual knife used to cut runic circles for my projects. As a side effect of being able to cut through stone it also functions as a weapon.
Crimes: Gerod was doing some research into temporal rituals in order to give him more time to research. As it turns out this was highly illegal. Oops.
Equipment: Alchemically infused chalk for quicker or one-shot rituals as well as incense, crystals and other arcane paraphernalia as focuses. A talisman of Ioun's Eye.

Don't really have a preference on the expedition location right now but I might edit it in later.

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Isolation:-Journey: Difficult but doable. Reaching and returning from the settlement is most certainly a project, but an entirely feasible one under the right conditions. Contact is limited but relatively routine, ensuring that freedom and assistance are both respectable.

Power:-Poor: This expedition has some token outside support, but is largely operating on its own merits. Outside interference is low, but you don't have much to work with.

Size: -Town: A proper, if not exceptional, settlement with most of the reasonable amenities of home. You're probably going to get dragged into aiding the colony in some capacity.

Features: Giant turtles. Like build a small city on them giant.

Hazards: High saturation of mana led to local animals caricatureizing. While that means that our domesticated animals will become more loyal and produce more milk, wool, bacon or hunting ability rabbits are as fast as cheetahs and wolves are death machines not to mention naturally magical animals. (though the local wildlife do make better familiars if you can tame them)

Boons: Many leylines and even a few local nexuses (presumably with at least one being right on the settlement)