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[piecewise]

Wait, marks don't wear off at the end of the mission? How many marks can I cast between missions then?

You can't cast any between missions other than that one before. And marks don't stack. You can't have multiple "Mark whole body"

Alright, the Shadow Alliance has decided they are done taking their new headquarters. Ready to receive our new words.

Ok lets see

Rain down
Container
Concrete
Sheet
Wall
Brick (material)
Fist aura
Binding
When unable to act
Lock

[piecewise]

Ok so both groups have taken their home base.

Sy's gang wants to arm their slaves. I'm ok with that. Just tell me how many you wanna arm.

Rau's gang, is there anything you wanna do with your base? Close the gates? Cannibalize the collapsing third floor to build barricades? Anything like that really.


Valuable words can be exchanged for physical materials from outside areas as well, so feel free to ask about that.

Otherwise, let me know when you're ready to attack again. I've rolled already and there are No NPC attacks on you yet, so its all up to you guys.

[Egan_BW]

"So."
Raven points to the east.
"Does everyone else see that great big fortified tower right next door? That belongs to the same people we were just murdering? Anyone else see the problem here?"

More Dexterity! Hitting the broad side of a barn might prove circumstantially useful.

Spoiler: Raven Feathra (click to show/hide)

Description: Raven is a VERY RAVENY GIRL. She has black hair, dark blue eyes, and looks all edgy and shit. She's really too young to lead a wizard gang, but carries herself with confidence and Murder. She is deadly intelligent, but is lacking in common sense, as normal for teenagers. Also she is obsessed with birds.
Potency: d8
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d4
Speed: d6
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d6
Intelligence: d10
Awareness: d8

Health: Unreverted

Inventory: Nothing

Marks: None

Permanent: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Available: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Spoiler: @R&R (click to show/hide)

Perhaps we should wait on grabbing our words until we know what our next invasion is.

• The gate between the two parts of the city is a great place to take, which is probably why the Shadow Alliance took it. Taking it from them will probably be harder than taking it from the NPCs, but I'm still pretty sure we could beat them in a fight this early, especially as they're probably not expecting a round 2 PVP.
• There's a lot of cool stuff in the tradesman's quarter... but I've already forgotten most of it. :V Shops are a good place to go, though.
• The entrance to Unreal is certainly a spot we want to take, and we shouldn't discount the possibility that Shadow Alliance could want it too. It's never too early to grab important places, IMO.
• Also the hex to our direct east is the main base of the Trademan that we took this mine from. I don't think they'll be too pleased by us staling their mineral resources, so we should aim to decapitate them as soon as we feel powerful enough. That should be a nice defensible location once we get it, too.

As for words, I don't really like any of them. No stuff to make minions from and I have less need for solid materials thanks to Raven's EXTREME ENLIGHTENMENT. If nobody else wants them, I'll take [Light Source] and [Gold], so I can bling stuff up. I also might want [Darkness] for future Bird Shenanigans, if nobody can think of a use for it now.

On the topic of words, it would be nice if we could take some place we think could have [Flesh], [Black Biometal] or [Animate], so I can make summons to be helpful in direct combat. Right now my combat utility is limited to confusing people and making deadly things I can't use very well myself.

[Devastator]

Fix it up, maybe?

[Rautherdir]

Hey piecewise, do we get to level up as well? Also, I was unable to find 'Rain down' on the words list.

Spoiler: gang (click to show/hide)

A Name: Shadow Alliance
A Color or color scheme (up to 3 colors): Black/Dark Blue
A symbol:
A gang's Permanent words: (Amber, Feline, Delay, Mark Whole Body, Dome), (Darkness, Shockwave, Aura), (When Inflicting Damage, Black Biometal), (Distortion Dust)
Words from Headquarters: (Container, Wall, Brick, Sheet), (Concrete, Fist Aura, Binding, When Unable to Act, Lock)
One member designated as the Leader: Shade
Other members: Thag (Devastator), Chu (Ozarck)

[Egan_BW]

There is a [Rain] at B,113. That probably means the same thing.

[Radio Controlled]

"So."
Raven points to the east.
"Does everyone else see that great big fortified tower right next door? That belongs to the same people we were just murdering? Anyone else see the problem here?"

Fix it up, maybe?

"I don't think that's what she meant, mister faraway voice."

Spoiler: Abu Hajaar (click to show/hide)

Name: Rifleman first class Abu Hajaar

Description: A scrawny enlistee of vaguely Middle Eastern descent. Permanently in over his head, slightly confused and wondering just how he got into this mess. Will reluctantly but reliably follow orders from his commanding officers and do his best however.

Somehow managed to end up far away from home in 'Nam to fight the commies. This left him confused. Then he got teleported to this world of mystery and magic. This did not help matters.


Gang: Ridiculous Rhomboid

Health: Fabulous.

Magic jazzhands: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Inventory ARMORY
12 X Guard's rifle
48 X Rounds for guard's rifle

8 X Guard's knife, a big curvy slightly phallic thing

12 X guard's uniform

Stats
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d10
Speed: d4
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d6
Intelligence: d6
Awareness: d8

Increasing Intelligence to d12 cause fuck everything. Raven will be the most fucking smartest.

That might prove problematic luv:

Yeah. Everyone who lived through the fight can add one level to any of their stats. Ie going from d2 to d4 or d4 to d6 etc. d10 is still max.

Spoiler: Ramjet Rejects brainstorming (click to show/hide)

I don't particularly care what hex we fuck over take over next, not in it to win it anyway. In fact, in the vast nothingness of intergalactic space there is not enough emptiness to signify just how little I care. If we were to graph out the amount of fucks given it'd prove impossible because anti-paper hasn't been invented yet.

The only word I might want is a material (for creating special ammo) or perhaps light source (to combine with firearm into a laser weapon). Why bother with those if we have regular guns, you might ask? Because I know a little birdie who gets hilariously miffled whenever laser weapons are brought up, so wouldn't wanna miss that chance. :p

If we have words we have no use for we could trade them for physical materials. I'd suggest we trade them for some cloth or whatever and pimp out those looted guard uniforms into some sick gang garb.

For arming slaves, I'd just give them whatever weapons we don't end up using, but not take any for the next fight. We don't wanna let the npc's play the game for us, and pw might just rebalance the mission if we do take them anyway.

[Egan_BW]

Spoiler: @R&R (click to show/hide)

Let's hand out a rifle to each PC, and give the remaining six(?) to our workers to defend themselves. Prolly give all the bullets to the workers, as we can make more powerful ammo ourselves.

[Devastator]

Try to fix up the gatehouse.  Take the level, if it exists, in Vit, sending it to d8

Spoiler: Thag Simmons (click to show/hide)

Pot d6
Memory d2
Strength d10
Dex d4
Speed d8
Vit d8
End d6
Int d4
Awareness d8

[Ozarck]

Level up awareness. Loot ammo for my rifle from our stuff, load said ammo. Attempt to unlock our locked treasure chest.

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

 Delay, Dome
Darkness, Aura
Mark Whole Body, Amber, Shockwave
When inflicting damage, Distortion Dust
black biometal,  Feline

Used:

Spoiler:  Chu Sana'me (click to show/hide)

10 Potency
6  Memory (15 word deck)
2  Strength
6  Dex 
8  Speed (8 tile movement)
4  Vitality
6  Endurance
8  Intelligence
4  Awareness (to d6)

inventory:
rifle, ammo:[2/?]

[Rautherdir]

Look around at the loot we now have. Salvage some wood from the third floor and repair the catwalk. Treat my chest wound. Level up Dexterity.

Spoiler: character (click to show/hide)

Character Name: Shade
Currently active effects:
Injuries: Minor chest wound (Hopefully minor)

Potency: d10
Memory: d8
Strength: d4
Dex: d4
Speed: d6
Vitality: d6
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d6

Currently active words (11/20): (Amber, Feline, Delay, Mark Whole Body, Dome), (Darkness, Shockwave, Aura), (When Inflicting Damage, Black Biometal), (Distortion Dust)
Gang: Shadow Alliance

[syvarris]

Spoiler: R&R Talking (click to show/hide)

@Nikitian
You get Chisel.  Take a second word if you like, though remember that you have to discard another gang-word if you do, due to your d4 mem.

I like the LightSource/Darkness idea, purely for the sake of Science.  I'm not particularly sure how useful it would be, though... though even if it doesn't do anything, I'd consider the learning experience worth it.

I mildly disagree with you on Shadow Alliance; they clearly are interested in being confrontational and taking valuable territory, due to having started out by taking the gate at (9,9).  That, combined with our last five words which contained four solids, makes me lean much more towards going for The Unreal right now.  I also am just more interested in cool words than armor.

@Egan_BW
You get Darkness and Gold.  Radio wanted LightSource.

Honestly, I just don't want to attack SA right now.  There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that we'd win handily (They don't even have repair!), despite them getting a summon, and Dev.  If they open aggressions, sure, we'll execute them.  Before then... this is pretty much a PvE game.  Even if we attacked it'd only be PvP for one mission, anyway.

I recall PW saying that the Tradesman's tower people likely won't attack unless we antagonize them and refuse to sell resources to them when asked.  Even if they do attack, I'd much rather be defending from them, rather than assaulting their fortified tower.  Still, yeah, they're something to worry about.

We might be able to trade with SA for Black Biometal.  As I mentioned earlier, they don't have repair... they might be willing to give you BB in exchange for Repair, and I'd certainly consider a flock of controlled sapient minions to be worth it.  Remember, though: "Crow BlackBiometal Many".  Maybe we could have Pancaek see if "Many" used as an enchantment can duplicate items, to minimize failure chance even more.  He has the worst Pot.

@Radio
You get Diamond and LightSource.  I'd give you Iron... but diamond is funnier, considering your RP.  You get a knife too, so if you need metal, enchant that.

Good point with trading words, I'll see if our less useful stuff is utilitarian enough to get us a gang uniform.  If not, Diamond'll hopefully work, and you can have Iron.

Agree on the slaves, we already have more than enough manpower.

@Egan Two
Yeah, six rifles to the slaves, and 75% of the ammo.  Keeping some for us just in case we have another bullet creation SNAFU.

Piecewise! First things first, we're leaving six rifles and 36 bullets with the slaves, for home defense.  The other six rifles and twelve bullets come with us, along with all the knives.  I'm pretty sure I know what hex we're attacking next, but I want to ask a couple more questions first.

First, if we don't actually use a hex's word, do we get to keep it as a nonmagical resource?  Like, not using LightSource, and just getting a stockpile of ten lamps?  I recall you saying that we could trade nonmagical resources with NPCs, at the cost of not getting the related word.  Before you answer, the obvious exploit here is just leaving "Iron", and then carrying ten iron ingots into battle and enchanting them into whatever we need, without failure chance.

Second, does trading with NPCs take up any time, or can we do it  without wasting any time?  If it's free, I want to see if we can trade "Heavy", and/or "Pickaxe" for a set of six feathery raven-themed gang uniforms.  Throw in the overseer outfits if that'll help, and maaaybe "Diamond" if absolutely necessary.

Third, can we trade gang words with another gang, directly giving them "Repair", in exchange for "Black Biometal"?  Without murdering anyone, attacking their hex directly, or spending a mission on it?  (Rauth, hint hint).

Levelup pending answers and talking from the last two gang members.

Spoiler: Corven Feathra (click to show/hide)

Gang: Roncal Roth
Health: Shot in the left bicep; entire arm limp.  The pain is dull and half numb for the moment, but the bleeding has been bandaged.

Hand: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many
WhitePhosphorus

Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d8
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d6

Inventory:

• Slaver Rifle (two shots)
• Slaver Knife
• A pouch of rocks good for throwing, collected sometime after the first mission.

Description: An older man past his prime, Corven still carries himself with the intimidating aura you'd expect from a crime boss... except when he's dealing with his daughter, who he's completely incapable of saying "No" to.  That usually works out better than you'd expect, since he managed to get her the formal education he never had, though he still has wisdom on her.  Has something of an unhealthy obsession with birds, though not nearly as much so as his daughter.

Spoiler: Roncal-Thol Rotheleaod (click to show/hide)

Symbol:

Headquarters: (12,10) "Impromptu Mines"
Words:

• LightSource (Radio)
• WhitePhosphorous (syvarris)
• heavy
• darkness (Egan)
• chisel (Nikitian)
• Coal
• Pickax
• Gold (Egan)
• Iron
• Diamond (Radio)

Members: syvarris (Leader), Egan_BW (Second in command), Pancaek (Gruff Grunt Wrangler), Radio_Controlled (Mook), Nikitian (Space Marine), ATHATH (A Totally Human Assassin That Helps)

Equipment:

• 12 rifles (6 given to members; 6 left with slaves at HQ)
• 48 nonmagical rifle rounds (36 left at HQ; 2 given to each member)
• Six knives, one for each member.
• Twelve bloodied slaver uniforms... left with the slaves, unless someone wants one for some reason.

[piecewise]

Hey piecewise, do we get to level up as well? Also, I was unable to find 'Rain down' on the words list.

Spoiler: gang (click to show/hide)

A Name: Shadow Alliance
A Color or color scheme (up to 3 colors): Black/Dark Blue
A symbol:
A gang's Permanent words: (Amber, Feline, Delay, Mark Whole Body, Dome), (Darkness, Shockwave, Aura), (When Inflicting Damage, Black Biometal), (Distortion Dust)
Words from Headquarters: (Container, Wall, Brick, Sheet), (Concrete, Fist Aura, Binding, When Unable to Act, Lock)
One member designated as the Leader: Shade
Other members: Thag (Devastator), Chu (Ozarck)

In the word list its just "Rain" but I wanted to clarify that it makes substances rain down from the sky rather than it being a substance itself.

[Failbird105]

considering making a gang and Char

[Nikitian]

While the brand-new Raven's Roughnecks uniforms are being traded, sewn and fit, I'd like to go out and ask people about the Unreal. Maybe make a quick scouting trip to its edges. What is it? What used to be there? Is it dangerous? How is it dangerous? How and where can one enter it? And so on.

Level-up: Intelligence to d8!

Spoiler: Kay Vagner, Space Marine (click to show/hide)

Name: Kay Vagner

Gang: Roncal-thol Rotheleaod

Health: Eyes restored, pretty good overall.

Hand (10/10): Chisel, Cloud, Wall, Crow, Mark_Caster's_Eyes, Large_Firearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Marked spells: none. Eyeballs: both.

Inventory: disenchanted Chain'Gram, a combat knife

Stats:
Potency: d8
Memory: d4
Strength: d8
Dexterity: d2
Speed: d10
Vitality: d6
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d8 (+)
Awareness: d6

Description: A grand-grand-grand-grandson of a forgotten composer of ages past, Kay thinks he is enamored with the music of his ancestor and that his legacy is to live up to those heroic stories of old. Sadly, he doesn't know that most of it is presently misattributed, and the rest is utterly mangled by vagaries of time, not to mention that he isn't really cut out for that kind of life. Still, he has one sick guitar solo.