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[Roboson]

IC: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=167453.msg7565172#msg7565172


Dear Witch/Wizard of the Realm,

I, Archmage Roboson, invite you to participate in the first ever assembly of the Wizard's Republic. For centuries wizards have been a guiding and underlying force for the monarchy of this realm. However, as time wore on and wizards quickly came to dominate the noble houses, it became clear that the nation would eventually belong to them. That time has come. I beseech you, take up a position among the ranks of the Magitocracy as one of the first Democramancers.

Sincerely,
Archmage Roboson


This is a very simple democracy game. Issues will be brought before the Democramancers and the floor will be opened to discussion. After sufficient time has passed and discussion comes to an end, we'll move onto voting. After which, the results of those actions will be posted and the next issues will be brought before the council. Simple and easy, with a focus on strategy, moral discussion, and magical research.

Furthermore, what gives your nation an edge over others is your prevalence of mages. Each player will be able to do individual research on magic. This research will serve as a springboard for official research topics that the council as a whole may adopt (for a research bonus) and invest in in order to gain access to new spells and magics which can be used for the good of the kingdom. The lack of shared knowledge and expertise has led most magical discoveries to die with those who discovered them, however, by coming together and sharing this knowledge, magic may advance much further than in centuries past. As a result, magic discoveries are shared among the entire council.

Character Name:
Physical Description:
Background:
Magic Start: (See spoiler)

Spoiler: Magic Start (click to show/hide)

Elementalist Magic: Control of the elements in general. Wind, water. fire, earth, lightning, ice, ect. ect. (Note: you can specialize in one or two specific elements, or elements in general)
Necromancy: The control of undead bodies. Bodies are meant to hold souls, but after the soul leaves, the wiring is all still there. Necromancy hotwires the corpse and controls it.  Note: Its not received well by peasants.
Binding Magic: The magic of magically capturing and controlling other beings.
Umbramancy: The manipulation of shadows and darkness via magic.
Healing Magic: The magic of healing wounds, curing ailments, and defeating disease.
Animancy: The magic of animating magical constructs. This can be combined with other schools in order to construct special automotons.
Demomancy: The magic of summoning and controlling demons. Note: Not well received by peasants.
Hemomancy: The magic of controlling blood. Not well received.
Lumomancy: The magic of manipulation of light.
Chloramancy: Magic that involves the manipulation of plants.

If there is an additional school of magic you'd like, please let me know. Others are acceptable, these are just the one's I've used in the past.

Note: This is going to be a straightforward game. There's no math, no unit management, or other sorts or bookkeeping. It's all RP and decision making. Feel free to make suggestions and leave feedback.

[Roboson]

Reserved

[NRDL]

Name: Nix
Physical Description: A very hirsute man with one eye, he dresses primarily in long grey robes, very traditional wizard-like.
Background: A follower of the Way of Reparation, Nix was recommended to the political life by his master in the order. As a way of espousing his school's philosophy and also to affect real change, Nix hopes to sincerely make a difference in the lives of the people of the realm, and in the development of the magical way in general.
Magic Start: Healing Magic

[crazyabe]

Character Name: Errristus
Physical Description: A thin, almost skeletal man with bloodshot blue eyes. He normally wears Black robes.
Background: Erristus was "kicked out" of a moderately extremely far off kingdom where he accidentally raised the majority of the kingdom's army's dead and didn't control them. Kicked out might be the wrong term, only survivor might be a bit closer to what happened.
Magic Start: (Necromancy)

[Roboson]

Nix you're in. Crazyabe, you only pick one starting magic domain.

[Shadowclaw777]

Character Name: Yorboi
Physical Description: This tanned man reaches of a height of 6'6" as a tall lean and lithe man compared to others, quite skinny. He wears a dark purple robes with a thick antique golden turban.
Background: A fellow map-marker and explorer from a distant desert kingdom, he was considered unnatural and corrupted in his land when he had latent powers in manipulating the sources of water from the oasis and water reserves. He caused a massive famine and dehydration that killed more than half of the population because of over-experimentation with his arcane talent. He is now a outcast and a fellow nomad to others.
Starting Magic: Elementalist Magic

[micelus]

Character Name: Lucille Lesouette
Physical Description: A cleanly woman of tanned complexion, she clearly maintains the slightly overweight body associated with noble ladies. She dresses not in the clothes of nobles or wizards, but in the new fashions of the rising bourgeois, donning breeches and a changing assortment of coats and waistcoats. Routinely changes hats to fit in with changing fashions
Background: Lucille is what you'd call a first generation mage, being the first in her family to manifest the spark of wizardry. Her family being a middling merchant's house with her mother being a impoverished noble, totally did not prepare her for her future vocation. Indeed, after gaining some proficiency for her gift, she immediately began working in the family business, making use of the dead to aid in the.family business. Unfortunately, this also meant that the necessity of living labour dropped spectacularly, which lead to a bout of poverty, even as the family fortunes boomed. Distraught after seeing lifelong employees suddenly jobless, she sought to institute regulations on magical industries as well as better the plight of the poor. In truth, she yearns for a day when it is the workers themselves who own the means of production, rather than the elite. This has made her a black sheep amongst her family, despite her previous work in the family company. Of course, she is also aware that the peasantry are far too uneducated to truly lead themselves and thus require guides or vanguards to aid them in their plight.
Magic Start: Necromancy

[Roboson]

Shadowclaw777 and micelus, looks good. Both of you are in. I'll post an IC later today. Submissions will remain open, as this game can have infinite players. The only individualized part is the individual research, and thats more of a sidebar anyways. So that won't be too much in the way of a burden.

[crazyabe]

Character Name: Errristus
Physical Description: A thin, almost skeletal man with bloodshot blue eyes. He normally wears Black robes.
Background: Erristus was "kicked out" of a moderately extremely far off kingdom where he accidentally raised the majority of the kingdom's army's dead and didn't control them. Kicked out might be the wrong term, only survivor might be a bit closer to what happened.
Magic Start: (Necromancy)

[Roboson]

Oh yes, your edit was fine.

[Jilladilla]

I noticed the IC thread became a thing, is this closed? I'll make a character sheet in a little while if it's not (Either whenever I wake up from going to sleep or if for some ungodly reason become bored but not wanting to go to sleep yet)

[Shadowclaw777]

Also a question, can you still perform researching a topic by yourself without help from the council?, even if a different selected or voted topic already has the focus from the Council

[Glass]

Not closed. No player limit.


Character Name: Erin Quill
Physical Description: About 20 years old. Wears tattered green, brown, and grey clothing. His left arm has been replaced with a fully-functioning ironwood prosthetic of his own design. Cheerful, and revels in the supposed impossibilities that he perpetrates.
Background: Nobody's quite sure where he came from, other than the airship (of seemingly his own design) that he floated in on. However, he is certainly gifted with both magic and manual labor, and has a unique perspective on some things, as well as seemingly being one of the only people to actually be in his particular field of magic.
Magic Start: Artifice (he makes magitech)

[Jilladilla]

Alright, I got bored, might not participate heavily for 8-12ish hours. Sleepy.

Character Name: Geralf Klein
Character Description: A short man, with a muscular body, black hair, and a full beard; he somehow cuts a fierce appearance in spite of his diminutive stature. It should be noted that he often carries a vacant, not quite there stare, and is seemingly incapable of pronouncing the letter 'D'.

Background: Coming from one of the mining towns to the northwest of Aerowell, Geralf has long been familiar with the perils of working in the deep mines: Poor Ventilation, Toxic Gases, Cave Ins, Black Lung, and the occasional cavern full of hungry cave monsters. As a result, he has dedicated his life towards magic that would allow miners to not have to go perform these most dangerous tasks, instead letting a more autonomous force of constructs to take the lead.
His seclusion and constant butchering of the Foreman's family name did not win him any favors. Nor did his first 'success', an autonomous mining pick, constantly striking at a cart full of dug out ore until said ore came in tiny pebbles scattered all over the place. His second 'success', this time an autonomous shovel, trying to dig up one of said pebbles that was located under the Foreman's foot didn't help either. And so with Archmage Roboson's letter he has set off for a new locale, where his magic is appreciated and he isn't stared at like he belongs in an insane asylum.

Magic Start: Animancy

[Roboson]

Wow totally forgot to post here that the IC was up. Which it is if you haven't seen it.

Also a question, can you still perform researching a topic by yourself without help from the council?, even if a different selected or voted topic already has the focus from the Council

Yes you can. Though progress on that will be quite slow. The more mages you have working on a single topic at the same time, the further you get. For example, if a mage worked on a new spell alone for 4 turns, they likely wouldn't get as far as four mages working on it for one turn. Strategically splitting reasearch to discover new stuff is part of the challenge.

Also the "official topic" bonus helps speed research along.