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[StormLord]

I'll take the Topaz.

[Tymewalk]

I'll take the Agate.

Can I ignite the oil I make with the Amethyst, or can I only create it?

[TricMagic]

Name: Aerin
Description: Long honey blond hair and short stature. Is actually a guy.

Strength: 0
Dexterity: 5
Speed: 10
Resilience: 0

Spirit: 10

Amethyst & Opal: Slick Ice.
Agate: traps and fortifications on demand.

Why those two, what do you think those would do?

[Whisperling]

Spoiler: TricMagic (click to show/hide)

Name: Aerin
Description: Long honey blond hair and short stature. Is actually a guy.

Strength: 0
Dexterity: 5
Speed: 10
Resilience: 0

Spirit: 10

You're good, yeah. Sorry about the delay.

I'll take the Agate.

Can I ignite the oil I make with the Amethyst, or can I only create it?

The amethyst only allows you to create oil. If you want to ignite it, you'll need to find some other way to get the fire going.

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Currently, at least three people want the Agate- Tricmagic, Shadestyle, and Tymewalk. You guys can work it out between yourselves, or I can just decide at random.

Since I'd like to get the game started, I'll probably just use RNG later tonight. Of course, you're all free to swap Crystals around if you come to a consensus.

[TricMagic]

The main issue with you guys having Agate is speed. I'm almost always going to be acting and reacting first, which should let me set up walls if needed. Same thing with the Slick Ice, quick to set up, and immediate use.

Shadestyle, why not Pearl and Quartz? Shockwaves piled onto Amplification with your resilience would make you a very heavy hitter.


Tymewalk, with your Dex I'd recommend Topaz. Stormlord can take Diamond and work with Dread's Jet if needed.


Main reason I'm taking those three is to play pre-fight support. And Escape too I guess.

[Whisperling]

(Tricmagic, Tyme, Shade)    1d3 = 1

TricMagic it is. For now, anyway.


Turn 0: Beginning with the End


Several people gather around the pile of Crystals while Alexander, Aerin, and Johnathan argue over the Agate. Martin takes the Topaz, while Malcolm attunes himself to both the Jet and the Quartz, and Herold does the same with the Diamond. Each feels a surge of magical power flow into their bodies as the connections to their gemstones are established, and the Crystals themselves begin to glow with a soft inner light.

Aerin finds himself clutching the Agate, a turn of events which doesn't seem to please either of the people he is debating with. He bonds with it anyway, and a moment later his feet sink a few centimeters into the stone floor.

The Opal, Amethyst, and Pearl remain unclaimed.

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The group collectively passes through the stone door, leaving the surface behind. A strange sense of foreboding settles over them as they descend, and various arguments and idle conversations slowly die off. It is a long, quiet way down.

At the end of the corridor is a room with a single circular wall. The centerpiece of the room is a cracked slab of metal, wrapped in at least three different iron chains. The ends of these bonds extend outwards, where they are welded to random points on the wall.

As the explorers enter, they feel a sudden shift in the air. The darkness surrounding them writhes, and loose lengths of chain suddenly pull taught. Two gates appear on the wall where before there were only shadows. Between them, and directly in front of the slab, is a single glass key.

Something inside the slab pulses with malice. You are not wanted here. Leave or die.

Spoiler: Characters (click to show/hide)

Malcolm
Description: Tall and gangly, with rather pointy features and short brown hair. Brown eyes and long limbs.

Strength: 0
Dexterity: 7
Speed: 7
Resilience: 1

Spirit: 6/10


Inventory:
Jet: 3 spirit. Allows the user to exhale clouds of smoke. (Equipped)
Quartz: 1 spirit. Sounds made by the user may be amplified tenfold. (Equipped)


Alexander Gunnarsson
Description: Tall, pale skin, blue eyes, blond hair. Somewhat but not extremely thin.

Strength: 3
Dexterity: 5
Speed: 4
Resilience: 3

Spirit: 10/10


Inventory:


Issac

Description: Moderate height, green eyes, slim, Dyed his hair blue.

Strength: 4
Dexterity: 6
Speed: 5
Resilience: 0

Spirit: 10/10


Inventory:


Johnathan Hawnort
Description: Short, Squinted Eyes, Scarred and Dark Skinned.

Strength: 5
Dexterity: 2
Speed: 2
Resilience: 6

Spirit: 10/10


Inventory:


Martin Fletcher
Description: Notably non-descript Englishman, pale skin, average height, etc.

Strength: 3
Dexterity: 2
Speed: 4
Resilience: 6

SPIRIT: 6/10


Inventory:

Topaz: 4 spirit. User can coat their hands in electricity. (Equipped)


Herold
Description: Tall old man with a mustache and his hair combed over to cover his bald spot.

Strength: 4
Dexterity: 4
Speed: 4
Resilience: 3

SPIRIT: 7/10


Inventory:

Diamond: 3 Spirit. User can create gusts of wind within their line of sight. (Equipped)


Aerin
Description: Long honey blond hair and short stature. Is actually a guy.

Strength: 0
Dexterity: 5
Speed: 10
Resilience: 0

Spirit: 8/10


Inventory:

Agate: 2 spirit. Allows the user to shape rock as if it were clay. (Equipped)

[Dread]

I very carefully take the key. If something attacks me, scream in its face, face-equivalent, or general direction with the Quartz.

[Whisperling]

I very carefully take the key. If something attacks me, scream in its face, face-equivalent, or general direction with the Quartz.

The key feels cold. When your hand closes over it, that coldness spreads up over your arm, through your neck, and straight into your head.

Two visions flash before your eyes. On the left is a place filled with twisted stones and grey rock dust. You feel the corridors straining under a terrible weight, and for a moment the pain of the stones reverberates through your mind. On the right, you see rooms encased in layers of ice. Sensing the frost is unpleasant, but it's not as cold as the key you're grasping. Nothing could be as cold as that.

[Dread]

"Alright, uh. Right gate leads to frozen place, left gate leads to rocky place. Votes? Quickly please, I can feel the frostbite setting in."

[StormLord]

TricMagic, I'm not sure what you're original intentions were, but demanding nearly half the starting resources while simultaneously telling the other players they need to swap up their choices to better suit you isn't exactly a good impression. 

Additionally, while you seem to want to brag on about how fast you are have you considered that a stiff breeze(or say an unnoticed trap) might take you in one hit?

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"I'm not keen on visiting the winter wonderland, plus we've got that gem that molds stone"

[King Zultan]

"Lets go to the rocky place, I don't really want to be cold right now."

[endlessblaze]

Ill take the opal

"Im thinking a rocky area would be simpler to work with"

[Tymewalk]

(We can take the other gems without using them, right? Or does simply having them on you cause them to take effect?)

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Alexander nods in agreement. "I don't think we're equipped for the cold right now, so rocks it is."

[Dread]

"Rocks it is," Malcolm repeats, stepping towards the left gate.

If possible, use the key to open the gate and go through.

[Whisperling]

Turn 1: Gate of Stones

Malcolm turns to confer with the rest of the party. The presence within the slab seems to permit this, though for a moment it causes Malcolm to feel a terrible sense of dread. Consensus is swift and unanimous, so Malcolm turns towards the left gate. He slots the key into the lock slowly, hands trembling from the cold, and it slides in with a series of soft clicks. The lock opens, and the key crumbles to glass dust. The open gate seems more solid, as if it wasn't quite real before it was unlocked.

The group hurries through, eager to escape the slab and the ominous entity inside it. Johnathan wanders off in the commotion, though it isn't entirely clear what direction he takes, and Issac bonds with the Opal to prepare himself for whatever lies ahead. Only the Amethyst and Pearl remain unclaimed.

They emerge in the center of a large cavern. It has smooth walls, but a highly irregular and organic shape. Even the floor is uneven, although the slope is too gentle to affect anyone's footing. Smooth stones are scattered across the ground, occasionally gathered into larger piles. One such pile begins to stir as the group approaches, as if something underneath it is moving.

Aside from the gate, which hangs in midair behind the group, the cavern has three exits. They're at the edges of the space, a significant distance away.

Spoiler: GM Notes (click to show/hide)

(We can take the other gems without using them, right? Or does simply having them on you cause them to take effect?)

Yep. You can carry Crystals around without equipping them, you just can't use them.


Shadestyle privately requested that his character be removed from the game, since he's busy with other obligations. Johnathan has stopped existing until he returns, or for the rest of eternity. Whichever comes first.

Spoiler: Characters (click to show/hide)

Malcolm
Description: Tall and gangly, with rather pointy features and short brown hair. Brown eyes and long limbs.

Strength: 0
Dexterity: 7
Speed: 7
Resilience: 1

Spirit: 6/10


Inventory:
Jet: 3 spirit. Allows the user to exhale clouds of smoke. (Equipped)
Quartz: 1 spirit. Sounds made by the user may be amplified tenfold. (Equipped)


Alexander Gunnarsson
Description: Tall, pale skin, blue eyes, blond hair. Somewhat but not extremely thin.

Strength: 3
Dexterity: 5
Speed: 4
Resilience: 3

Spirit: 10/10


Inventory:


Issac

Description: Moderate height, green eyes, slim, Dyed his hair blue.

Strength: 4
Dexterity: 6
Speed: 5
Resilience: 0

Spirit: 7/10


Inventory:

Opal: 3 spirit. Allows the user to freeze nearby liquids. (Equipped)


Martin Fletcher
Description: Notably non-descript Englishman, pale skin, average height, etc.

Strength: 3
Dexterity: 2
Speed: 4
Resilience: 6

SPIRIT: 6/10


Inventory:

Topaz: 4 spirit. User can coat their hands in electricity. (Equipped)


Herold
Description: Tall old man with a mustache and his hair combed over to cover his bald spot.

Strength: 4
Dexterity: 4
Speed: 4
Resilience: 3

SPIRIT: 7/10


Inventory:

Diamond: 3 Spirit. User can create gusts of wind within their line of sight. (Equipped)


Aerin
Description: Long honey blond hair and short stature. Is actually a guy.

Strength: 0
Dexterity: 5
Speed: 10
Resilience: 0

Spirit: 8/10


Inventory:

Agate: 2 spirit. Allows the user to shape rock as if it were clay. (Equipped)