Turn 1: The First Fiasco of ManyAbominationFrom takes a quick glance at the others assembled and rolls her eyes.
"...Geez, what a bore. This is what we're supposed to fight? I thought for a second this was going to be interesting."
She bites her lip, staring at the largest abomination.
"Oh well, gotta push through the boring part before we can get to the fun, right Irstiv? So just d̷̕͢i͘̕͏҉̛e̷̡̡."
DEATH. Rot the big thingie's limbs, clot up its arteries, and make it seriously question its self-worth!
Also perform a totally unnecessary flourish while doing so, just so that everybody knows I'm the one doing it.
[1] To no one's surprise, your own flesh starts sagging and rotting, and you scream about your face, your beautiful face.
[3] You do an okay flourish while falling to the ground and writhing, at least.
-3 HP
+1 Death Passion"Why does this world hate us so?"
Let's show off the power of Returnamancy. Archimedes weaves a Returnamantic shield around the mage who looks closest to the abomination. The shield should ideally be long-lasting as well as protecting the mage's entire body. When the shield breaks, it should unleash a burst of Returnamancy against the breaker and the breaker's allies.
Aside from that Archimedes will stand by and perform emergency medical treatment if anyone gets hurt.
[4] You wrap a retributive shield around the crazy old lady.
[5] "If", hahaha, oh man. Yeah the raven witch immediately boils herself with death magic so you get to tending that. It's not healing magic, so the effects are rather less immediate, but you ensure the wound won't scar, cause pain, or get infected.
2 damage shield around Auntie, deals 2 damage to attacker when depleted
From gains +1 HP, +1 to next fashion check
+1 Medicine PassionUse FLESH to make a tentacle sprout out of the abomination creature, use BONE to make bony thorns grow out of the tentacle, use LIFE to make the tentacle act on its own, and use LIFE again to influence it to attack the creature.
[2] You warp the abomination's unnatural flesh, but it just sort of flops and bubbles out in spiky lumps. You think you might have made it slightly tougher.
[2] You try again, with exactly the same results. Huh.
+3 HP to Abomination
+3 HP to Abomination"Oh this is going to be fun."
Use flesh to make the muscles in the abomination's arms weak and soft. Also throw a fireball at its lower body, one point to make the flames hotter and another to make the fireball larger.
[6] You render the abomination's arm muscles weak and soft and... pliable? It flails them with alarming speed, apparently displeased but adapting well. It now has noodly flail-arms.
[3] Your fireball is a little off, but it does cause some damage to the thing's lower-ish portions of mangled flesh.
Abomination now has arm-flails instead of arms
Abomination takes 2 damage
+1 Flesh PassionREEEEEEEEEEEE
[3] It noodles forward but can't get the traction it had on its old arms. It barely gets within swinging range of Auntie.
[1] It flails itself in the face as a result.
Abomination takes 3 damage-ENEMIES-
Abomination
31/30 HP
[Arm-Flails: -1 damage, +1 attack, impaired movement]
+3x4 Noodle Flail
-"ALLIES"-
Erntrinsticia "From" Frombollywhotsit, Lady-witch of magnificence! (Egan)
9/11 HP
Just A Flesh Wound: +1 to next Fashion check
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+5 Corvid Magic (0/5)
+3 Death Magic (1/3)
+3 Fashion (0/3)
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Fashionable Witch Outfit: All black, all hat.
Lady Irstivfell the Raven: Very wise! Hence the obsession with shiny objects and tasty food.
Sparkling Bottle: This tiny glass flask contains a glittering emerald liquid. It's strangely mesmerizing to watch, but you get the strange feeling it's watching back.
Archimedes (FallacyofUrist)
11/11 HP
-
+5 Returnamancy (0/5)
+3 Alchemy (0/3)
+3 Medicine (1/3)
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Green-Painted Robes: Probably not an intentional dye job.
Mourning Ring: Black stone with a purple gem. Commemorates a lost loved one.
Dark Ice: This fist-sized chunk of crystal is a deep blue, fading to black in the center. It feels ice cold to the touch and you get a sense of vertigo staring into its depths.
Elen Farley (Hotfire)
11/11 HP
-
+5 Vitamancy (0/5)
+3 Flesh Magic (1/3)
+3 Fire Magic (0/3)
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Dark Green Robe
Supersaver Potion Pack: This dubious looking sack is filled with dubious looking potions.
Ruby Vial: This faceted red crystal vial is filled with vibrantly glowing red liquid. You're unsure what it does, but smelling it made you ravenously hungry and alarmingly dizzy.
Evelyn "Auntie Adams" Adams (The Lupanian)
11/11 HP
Retributive Shield: 2/2 HP, deals 2 damage to attacker when broken
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+5 Life Magic (0/5)
+3 Flesh Magic (0/3)
+3 Bone Magic (0/3)
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Normal Person Traveling Clothes
Super Savings Anaesthetic: This hefty jug of industrial-strength knockout drug raises some unsettling questions.
Everbloom: This ball of bronze roots or vines keeps sprouding delectable looking berries inside. You haven't tried one yet, but they smell fragrant and feel juicy.
"AYE what the SODDEN OVER-OILED HELL are those two HEAPING PILES OF SHITE? Oh ol' Modre's gonna haev tae teach YOU TWO a lesson in ADEQUATE CRAFTSDWARFSHIP!"
Modre uses STONE and MASONRY to summon STONE PILLARS around those SHITTY GOLEMS. MULTIPLE PILLARS. REINFORCED PILLARS. INTERCONNECTED PILLARS. BEAUTIFULLY CARVED into ARTISTIC MASTERPIECES of GREAT CRAFTDWARFSHIP.
These pillars will ENCIRCLE and ENTRAP the TWO BIRD GOLEMS.
Modre will also use NEROMANCY to determine if they have HARVESTABLE SOUL MATTER.
[5] Your BEAUTIFULLY CARVED stone cage of REINFORCED PILLARS weaves together around those DUMB BIRDS with SHIT TASTE.
[5] You focus your necromantic talents on the birds, and they light up like glowing boiling tar to your unholy eyes. Their soul matter, such as it is, appears to be unclean amalgamations of multiple corrupted horrors.
In short, they do not possess usable soul matter unless you have very generous parameters.
16 Point Barrier around golems
+1 Stone Passion
+1 Necromancy PassionNinjaturgy to hide in the shadows! Of my compatriots! I'm sure they won't mind.
Followed by Lightning to lightning the brass golems! A point for each of them sounds good, right? Use the last point to zap, I don't know, whatever seems like it would be funny. A good ninja should always have Shurikens hidden somewhere in that ninja outfit, right? So let's combine that and use shurikens as a lightning delivery device. That sounds like a totally reasonable thing to do.
[5] They can't mind what they can't see! Whether this is because you're hiding in their shadows or standing behind them is up for debate.
[3] You hurl a flurry of lightning shuriken (which you totally have) at the two golems, hitting each with several electrified metal pointy things.
3 damage to each golem
+1 Ninjaturgy Passion"..."
Smith points to one of the Brass golem and crushes his hand into a fist, casting a spell.
METAL +5
- Crush the leg joints
- Pulverize the arm/wing joints
- Magnetize the brass
- Throw the first Golem at the second Golem
- +1 to throwing the Golem
Intended Effect: Render one golem immobile and magnetic, then throw the lamed golem at other one in order to slow it down.
[5] You pull one golem into the other, both stumbling slightly from the impact. This should throw off their next attacks, but they're too sturdy to incapacitate totally.
[3] ((Dummy roll for passion gain. No effect.))
Both golems gain Whiffed Attack
+1 Metal Passion[4] The golems stumble around in their cage, slightly cracking it with pressure but otherwise unable to mount a proper escape.
-ENEMIES-
Bird Golems
17/20 HP A
17/20 HP B
16 damage worth of binding
+5x2 Wing Scythe
-"ALLIES"-
Mordre Deepstone (Derm)
11/11 HP
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+5 Stone Magic (1/5)
+3 Masonry (0/3)
+3 Necromancy (1/3)
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Sturdy Dwarf Attire: Boots and shoes, two trousers, and a deep blue tunic.
Heirloom Chisel: The chisel is made of trifle pewter. The handle is made of ilmenite. On the item is an image of Mordre's heirloom chisel in trifle pewter. On the image of Mordre's heirloom chisel is an image of Mordre's heirloom chisel in ilmenite.
Mossy Mushroom: You can smell the magic on this mossy, deep blue mushroom, but other than the moss constantly growing you're unsure what it does.
Erik the Ninja (Maximum Spin)
11/11 HP
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+5 Ninjaturgy (1/5)
+3 Lightning Magic (0/3)
+3 Shurikens (0/3)
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Ninja Outfit: Kind of drab, so probably the mook kind.
Shurikens: A bag of pointy metal throwing stars. You'd like to keep them in something a little more dignified and ninjalike than a cloth sack, but belt pouches are too small to hold them all.
Ninja Artifact: A ninja sword fused to its scabbard. The nonfunctionality makes it extra spiritual!
Sandstone Charm: This palm-sized beige stone slate is dense with indecipherable heiroglyphics. You're certain it's an item of power, but your efforts to unleash it have so far proven futile.
Smith (Yottawhat)
11/11 HP
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+5 Metal Magic (1/5)
+3 Animation (0/3)
+3 Blacksmithing (0/3)
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Rusted Fancy Metal Armor: Nothing suspicious about this!
Formallic Hammer: An enchanted hammer that can pound ore into refined metal.
Whispering Heart: This deep purple gemstone makes your skin crawl when touched. You can hear a faint whispering sound when you hold your ear close, but can't make out what, if anything, it sounds like.
Whelp, time to start working on an automated defense system.
Autocannon. Metal to make it and it's ammunition, air to propel everything and to help keep the joints running smoothly, artifice for the aiming system, enemy/friend distinction system, imbuement of shrapnel into the ammunition (also adds the third metal point for better shrapnel), and stabilization of the enchantments.
Because it's a good idea to devote some of the power to making sure that your spell doesn't explosively decompose.
Also, start shooting my own rifle at the incoming bastards.
(Hopefully I've understood the skill mechanics correctly?)
Your attempts to produce an automated heavy munitions defense system as a standard action with no materials runs into a few snags. For one, you've nothing to build it out of, unless you want to pop your eyes out of your sockets. Even then, it'd be a rather tiny cannon. Secondly, pure metal magic isn't enough to construct such a complex device all on its own; even for a sword you'd ideally want blacksmithing or similar. For a cannon, let alone a rapid-fire cannon, you'd probably want to build its properties one by one out of a few points in some kind of fancy engineering skill. This is less true the less of a proper cannon it is and the more of a holding tube for air magic, but that shifts the burden of doing complex or powerful things onto your mastery of air magic instead of your mastery of metal magic and cannonsmithing.
Your plans for the enchantment suffers from a similar overabundance of ambition- "autonomous aiming system" is not a feature you can add with a single point of artifice. You'd need to build it up feature by elemental feature- presumably starting with the ability to fire itself with no power source or one you've added to begin with, and ending with a tedious list of simple capabilities achievable by a nonsapient enchantment. This may be why so many mages use souls or summoned horrors for their minion creation needs.
[4] ((Dummy roll for passion gain, no effect))
[6] Shooting a foo' is considerably simpler, however: You take aim with both hands, level it at the wraith horde on a whim, and pull the trigger. The result knocks you to the ground, but also flings the wraiths around in a scattering wave. You notice the shreds of at least one fading away.
Unfortunately, the gun is now smoking slightly and a faint echoing light emanates from inside. You think that means it's overheating? Crystalline energy weapons are notoriously finicky like that.
2 damage to Wraith Swarm
+1 Crystalgun Passion"Uhhh... I'll take the wraiths. If anyone gets in any trouble, shout for help and I'll come!"
Jeffery uses summoning magic to create a spear; one point of summoning to, well, summon it, then a point of metal to make it steel, another point of metal to give it an especially sharp tip.
He also uses summoning magic to summon a bronze sentinel with two spears; one point of summoning for the sentinel itself, and another to summon the spears at the same time, and a point of metal to make it out of pure bronze. A third point of summoning is added to make the sentinel actively target and destroy the wraiths.
[2] You summon... a melty... thing? It's sort of metallic-ish, but it's more like an oversized noodle than a spear. You give it a few experimental swings and remain unimpressed by its potential as a flail.
[3] Your efforts to summon a bronze sentinel with dual spears goes better. It's a little short, maybe a discount model of valiant bronze guardian, but it does begin advancing towards the wraiths.
+Noodle of Power
+Short Bronze Sentinel"Good old Sundrop. Always with the warm welcomes."
Anna turns, looking over the targets for a moment, before planting the hilt of her hammer in the ground and extending her other hand palm forward towards the wraiths. "Return to the beyond, foul creatures! Purification!" Anna channels her VITAMANCY along with her DESTRUCTION magic to create a MASSIVE BEAM of UNDEAD VAPORIZING LIGHT, sweeping it over the mass of wraiths before they can scatter.
She then focuses, turning her PROTECTION magic onto herself as she grants herself a BARRIER to protect against PHYSICAL and MAGICAL attacks for future use once the remaining creatures draw close.
[6] You channel your own life force into a giga cannon of white light, evaporating all but a straggler or two from the wraith swarm. Then you fall down from spending your own life force.
[6] You also entomb yourself in protective light. Wait, 'entomb'? That's not right, you meant 'surround'. But the shield's awfully clingy so apparently entomb was right after all.
16 damage to wraith swarm
8 health sacrificed from you
+6 HP shield, blocks own attacks
+1 Vitamancy Passion
+1 Protection Passion"I am flattered we have a welcome committee, but what they have in enthusiasm they lack in flair. Absolutely dreadful." Devorae pointed out as he rested one of his feet atop his shiny chest of riches. He looked around to try and see where he could provide some assistance, immediately discounting using most of his effort on the golems since they weren't his specialty and focusing on the undead he could control of...
Since most of the wizard gaggle was focusing its attention on the big one, his attention went to the lowly wraiths instead. Not enough flair, but it'd have to do. Maybe he could even generously give their weak forms some much-needed improvement.
1 Necromancy: Take control of a wraith.
+1: Make it attack the other enemies, with a preference for those targeting or heading towards their new master.
+3: Extend the effect to three more wraiths.
1 Enchantment: Make the wraiths suck life force faster.
+1 Specialize them into rapid weakening instead of murdering.
[1] To no one's surprise, you shackle your will to a wraith's instead. It's a vast and improbable leap, going from your normal compassionate self to an unholy urge to feast on your worthless comrades' life force to empower your own designs, but necromancy is a powerful school.
[2] You try to empower your own ability to suck the life force from your allies- odd slip of intentions, that- but as you are not a wraith it mostly just cycles your own life force into yourself. It's kind of tasty but stale, incidentally.
Now Wraithslave: Must feast on delicious comrades until wraiths destroyed
Now Unbalanced Life Stream: +1 damage from next attack
+1 Necromancy Passion((I regret that I don't have enough fists to punch everything. Guess I'll have to find something else to do until they get into pummeling range.))
See if I can figure out if my mote does anything by thinking at it hard. And for the useful part of my action, if any enemies get close enough, use my Brawling to charge any enemies that get close to our mages, then attempt to transition into a grab and bodily hurl the enemy at the other nearest enemies using my momentum. Basically, I want to charge, grab, and toss anything that gets too close to the casting mages. Don't charge into the horde of nightmares, though.
[6] You lick your mote. You taste something interesting, and before long are vigorously probing and sucking on your mote like an unusually intriguing hard candy. Eventually you withdraw some kind of glowing toothpick, held awkwardly in your tongue.
[2] With the abomination noodling around and the bird-golems constrained, you decide to finish off the wraiths. Unfortunately they're sort of intangible and very very slippery, so you can't properly toss them anywhere.
+1 Seduction Passion[3][5] The wraiths nibble on Ventaro and Jeffery's golem a bit, and feel a bit stronger for the former. The latter falls apart and returns to the dirt it was conjured from, but they don't get any delicious life force out of it.
Short Bronze Sentinel destroyed
Ventaro takes 3 damage, wraiths heal 1 HP-ENEMIES-
Wraith Gaggle
3/20 HP
+4x2 Soul Rend
-"ALLIES"-
Ventaro Aureus (Beirus)
11/11 HP
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+5 Alchemy (0/5)
+3 Herbalism (0/3)
+3 Brawling (0/3)
[1 Seduction Passion]
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Normal Clothes: Green tunic, brown trousers, black leather boots. Downright mundane!
Everfull Flask: Put liquid in, slowly replenishes that liquid! Empty fully to replace with new liquid.
Glowing Mote: This spherical object glows with a brilliant yellow light. You feel like there's more to it, but aren't sure how you'd check. You've managed to pull a glowing toothpick out with your tongue, though, so that's something.
Devorae the Devoted (Caellath)
11/11 HP
Wraithslave: Must feast on delicious comrades until wraiths destroyed
Unbalanced Life Stream: +1 damage from next attack
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+5 Necromancy (1/5)
+3 Leadership (0/3)
+3 Enchantment (0/3)
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Noble Crimson and Gold Military Attire: Includes fancy hat so you know who to take orders from.
Fancy Scepter
Mad Dosh: This fancy-looking chest is filled to the brim with gold coins bearing Devorae's benevolent face.
Prismatic Gem: This smooth crystal shifts through all the colors of the rainbow in beautiful cascades. You could swear the pattern's reacted to you a few times, but you're unable to repeat the event.
Jeffery Kentwood (Coolrune)
11/11 HP
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+5 Summoning (0/5)
+3 Metal Magic (0/3)
+3 Spears (0/3)
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Douchebag Jacket: He's presumably wearing pants or something too, but GODS what an asshole.
Amulet of Farsight: Like a telescope but WIZARDS!
Icy Shard: This bright blue crystal shard is ice cold to the touch. You get strange feelings of enthusiasm when holding it for too long.
Short Bronze Sentinel
6/6 HP
2x2 Spear Flail
Erin Quill (Glass)
11/11 HP
[Overheated Gun]: Your Cloudstopper is smoking slightly.
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+5 Artifice (0/5)
+3 Metal Magic (0/3)
+3 Air Magic (0/3)
[1 Crystalgun Passion]
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Labcoat: Also pants.
Cloudstopper: This overly crystal-y gun-thing shoots shards of crystalline magic at targets.
Leaf Stone: This brown stone has what looks like an imprinted fern on one side. You're quite certain it's magical somehow, but it seems almost suspiciously unreactive to anything you've been able to expose it to.
Anna Greenbell (Sheyra)
3/11 HP
6/6 Shield, blocks own attacks
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+5 Vitamancy (1/5)
+3 Destruction (0/3)
+3 Protection (1/3)
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Kimono-Thing: Somewhere between a shrine priestess and a vagrant you'll find this alluring number for all your vagrant shrine priestess needs.
Gravity Hammer: A giant rocket-propelled hammer. Shockingly, it's wielded by a mage.
Weight of the First Sin: This red crystal smolders with inner heat. Holding it makes you feel tired, hot, and nervous.
"Hey, hey, wait! I haven't even gotten around to preparing yet!" BB uses her MARTIAL ARTS to waste anything that gets too close.
She also uses EARTH to tear out the ground for two pillars. Another point to shape them into fists. ANIMATION to make them hover around her. Another point to make them mimic her motions.
[2] You rain dirt on yourself as your earthen pillars sort of... don't quite hold together like you wanted them to.
[2] You try to ULTRAPUNCH the nightmare swarm as it gets close, but you're thrown off by trying to hit the swarm.
((That was a bit unexpected. Why lack of change of average pace is unexpected to me is a mystery.))
Upon closer inspection, the crowd turned out to mostly consist of crazy dwarves, creepy old ladies, weird little girls and other shady sort. Maren has a nagging feeling that they will live up to their to their looks in most terrible manner, caused by his magical ring, whatever he has seen so far and his common sense. Indeed, it was so strong and overshadowing, and he was so tired from walking a lenghty way trough all this hot scrubland just a half-hour ago, that attack of the horde of abominations managed to take him by surprise. Well, even in case his colleagues presented more danger to him then local he is able to do with his skills at the moment by himself, not in the small part due to him
Do i have a sword?
If no
managing to lose almost all of his equipment not too long before arriving to this village. He did put it all a bit aside before sleeping in the tavern in the last town, and lo! At the morning, all gone, except his warning ring and silver skull figurine that jester-thief has put in a box of charms instead of it's contents. Something against thiefs would be nice addition to his collection. Or more consistent caution.
Unfortunately, at the morning he also found out that he is no longer welcome in this town because he accidentally, arcanely and with delay made gates in town's stockade repel humans instead of monsters. Fortunately, none of the latter bothered him on the road to Sundrop.
I''ll see what i can do.
Enchant part of Erin's ammmunition (3 clips or so. Or however much that is not "more than a half") with "anti-those-things properties", then go to ask local smith for a sword, checking if there is pool of lava in the forge on the way.
If yes, simple sword
almost the same thing
managing to lose almost all of his equipment not too long before arriving to this village. He did put it all ,excluding a sword, a bit aside before sleeping in the tavern in the last town, and lo! At the morning, all gone, except his warning ring, his sword and silver skull figurine that jester-thief has put in a box of charms instead of it's contents. Something against thiefs would be nice addition to his collection. Or more consistent caution.
Unfortunately, at the morning he also found out that he is no longer welcome in this town because he accidentally, arcanely and with delay made gates in town's stockade repel humans instead of monsters. Fortunately, none of the latter bothered him on the road to Sundrop.
Enchant part Erin's ammmunition (3 clips or so. Or however much that is not "more than a half") with "anti-those-things properties", then, if not in immediate dangercaused by enhanting it with buffing-those-things properties, try to divine if and when there will be more attacks on the village in close future, and what they may consist of.
Before all this, he noted Erin, recognized him as enchanter(or something very simillar 
), and spoke to him, although he did find those stone eyes a bit unnerving (although a lot less so, then someone's lack of face to speak of. Or it not giving him any trouble):
"Hello, fellow enchanter. Did you got any ideas on how to better repel attack of those beasts?
For both: carefully avoid being busted by MARTIAL ARTS or anything else. If Erin actually manages to start building his cannon somehow, assist him in building it as an action instead, using 2 ench, if permission granted. DO NOT mess with aiming system or friend\enemy detection system.
((Yeah, immensely long post. I hope what i'm trying to do now is within my abilities and speciality.
randomgenericusername, i'll be seeking for a valid in-character reason to attempt to assasinate yours. ))
You run into two problems enchanting Erin's ammunition. Firstly, he doesn't have any, for a variety of reasons mostly boiling down to "robots are hard." Secondly, "anti-those-things" is not a thing; at a bare minimum, you need to know what they are to target an enchantment at them, and more than likely would need a relevant supporting skill and planned mechanism to actually make that happen.
[5] ((Dummy roll for passion gain. +1 Enchantment Passion.))
[3] Checking to confirm that you do indeed have a sword to use your sword skill with, you attempt to divine whether the village is under near threat. Your expert senses have difficulty seeing past the current turmoil, but you get the premonition of an echo: You suspect the current assault (or some aspect or it) is not unique.
+1 Enchantment PassionFor my first action, I would like to do some tai chi (all wuxia points) in conjunction with life magic (all life points) to prepare myself for future fights by strenghtening my body. The life force is to do the strengthening, the tai chi to focus the life magic into a form that helps with martial arts.
For my second action, I would like to use all of my Chi Magic points to conduct a tea ceremony in order to commune with whatever ancestor or guardian spirits (if any) are around this place. The tea ceremony is the conduit, steeped in tradition, to invite the spirits from the spirit world to here. If succesful, say the following to the spirit: "Greetings, honorable spirit. My surname is Li, and my personal name is Kao, and there is a slight flaw in my character. I have invited you here to offer you a nice a cup of tea, and to ask you to aid in the defence of this town."
[1] You refine yourself into a state of complete tranquility and oneness with the universe. This is not great for fighting.
[4] It is, however, absolutely fantastic for communing with the spirits. Three appear before you, three speak before departing.
The first is ragged but thin and tall, like a great black stork with eyes of ruby red. It roils with constrained ambition, and acknowledges its tea as an unwanted bargain.
"This is no place for names," it rasps,
"for they were young when I was old." With that it blows away into ashes in a wind you do not share.
The second is brilliant and large, like a topheavy golem of blue-white energy. It strains under invisible pressure, and pokes its tea as a strange gift.
"Can a riverbed be defended from a river?" it rumbles, before being sucked inwards on itself to a place you do not understand.
The third is recognizable as a ghostly old man, but his lower half trails away into ragged strips. He sags under unaddressed remorse, and sips his tea as a slight comfort.
"Does it deserve to be defended?" he moans, before vanishing through a doorway you do not recognize.
You are left alone with your thoughts, and some very good tea.
+1 Wuxia PassionProtect an ally, glow attack
[2] You try to surround the punchy girl with protective magic, but it just sort of gets in her eyes as she's trying to punch nightmare spirits.
[6] You blast the nightmare spirits with glowing light, slightly damaging and moderately disrupting them. And yourself. It was very bright.
Nightmares take 1 damage, you and nightmares take -3 damage to next attack
+1 Glow Passion[1] The nightmare swarm tries to devour BB's body and mind, but she just revels in the horrific visions of endless battle, and punches a bunch of them in the process.
Nightmare Swarm takes 3 damage-ENEMIES-
Nightmare Swarm
26/30 HP
+6 Terror Swarm
-"ALLIES"-
Bianca "BB" Beamingstar (Cinder)
11/11 HP
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+5 Animation (0/5)
+3 Earth Magic (0/3)
+3 Martial Arts (0/3)
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Leather Armor Dress
Chronicle of BB's Arcane Escapades: Illustrated adventure of House Beamingstar's exploits, including punching things, punching things, and punching things.
Metal Jelly: This blob of metallic silver is squishy to the touch, and occasionally jiggles unprovoked. Other than occasionally sticking to your fingers, you're unsure what it is or does.
Maren (MCreeper)
11/11 HP
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+5 Enchantment (1/5)
+3 Divination (0/3)
+3 Swords (0/3)
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Black Robe
Iron Sword: Basic but reliable.
Bronze Ring: Enchanted to warn its wearer of danger. A bit... constant when surrounded by your fellows, unfortuntely.
Silver Skull: This grape-sized statue looks like a human skull forged from silver. You get a sense of vertigo looking at it too long, but otherwise can't figure out its properties.
Li Kao (Pancaek)
11/11 HP
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+5 Chi magic (0/5)
+3 Wuxia (1/3)
+3 Life Magic (0/3)
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Grey Martial Arts Outfit
Tea Set: A pot and two cups. No one's sure if the pot is enchanted or the old man is incredibly wily, but it's always full of delicious hot tea when needed.
Stress Ball: This leathery yellow ball is adorned with strange looking runes. You can squeeze it when angry.
Hrodpreht (RNG)
11/11 HP
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+5 Dagon Worship (0/5)
+3 Teaching (0/3)
+3 Summoning (0/3)
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White Robes: Good guys wear white, so you can trust him!
Idol of Father Dagon: For some reason none of the other mages are thrilled about this.
Seething Heart: This red stone blazes with an intense inner light. Staring into it consumes you with a terrible urge to feast on your fellows. You have thus far refrained from doing so.
Akari Elleison (Tiruin)
11/11 HP
Blinded: -3 damage to next attack
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+5 Protection (0/5)
+3 Life Magic (0/3)
+3 Glow Magic (1/3)
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Traveling Scholar's Outfit
Heirloom Amulet: Translucent orb on a chain, handy for refracting and focusing light.
Eye of Shadow: This shadowy black sphere has indistinct edges, and feels soft to the touch. A green light sometimes appears, shifts across the surface, and then disappears, but you can't tell what it is or does.
-The OP is a filthy liar when it comes to combat, as it implies you can't just use Fire 5 to deal 5 points of fire damage to a target (rolls permitting). This was originally to avoid people making Level 4 Zombies or swords with +3 Fire Enchants on them, which I assumed would be tedious and clunky. However, in combat you often want to put all your strength into accomplishing one thing, so just vomiting raw lightning magic or shackling effects onto foes is acceptable. More generally, you can apply raw skill points anywhere magnitude is dependent on them and relevant. Apologies for the inconvenience.
-Speaking of which, we have a new combat system! There are numbers now, which will hopefully make relative magnitudes clearer without making them boring. Your total HP is equal to your combined skill modifiers, and when you reach 0 HP... you are maimed! Not dead, you take a hefty penalty of some kind that's difficult to get rid of. So don't worry
too much about getting taken out in combat, but I wouldn't recommend it if you can avoid it. You may also still maim yourself through poor decisions otherwise.
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Topic: Wizard Kingdom RTD [Turn 15: Items of Power] (Read 46744 times)