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[TricMagic]

As noted, I suppose some support is in order.

Doraido seems to unfurl.

Dryad Manifestation: Doraido awaiting awakening.

Cast [Life]Heal on Petra at 1.0x to restore their health. if possible.

[Glass]

Petra

"I, too, vote that Doraido should be manifested."

Petrify (1.0) however much of the encircling vinewall that I can.

[Maximum Spin]

Dryad Manifestation: Doraido awaiting awakening.

Old Oak: "I contradict."
Dryad Manifestation: Oakstance.

[TricMagic]

Dryad Manifestation: Doraido awaiting awakening.

Old Oak: "I contradict."
Dryad Manifestation: Oakstance.

For what reasoning? I can heal without spending the precious mana of our sapling to do so. You are but a trickster?
Likewise, a fighter does no good without the ability to heal. Dryad Manifestation: Oakstance downvoted.

[Naturegirl1999]

Dryad Manifestation Doraldo Upvoted

Dryad Manifestation Oakstance Downvoted

Healing is more important than illusions at this time

[Glass]

"Old Oak, while I understand I may not be the greatest of combatants, I believe myself capable of handling matters of defense until such time that a proper fighter may be manifested. However, I am of the belief that the presence of a healer who may sustain us is worth more. What does it matter that we summon a combatant now if they cannot survive to our next manifestation? Better, I think, that we ensure we will be able to last that long."

[KitRougard]

Oakstance startled awake. He was quickly apprised of all the goings ons within the tree.
"I will have you know I do NOT stand for illusions like you believe. Although it is easy to confuse us, I suppose..."
"In any case, I feel slighted that I could be brushed aside so simply."
Out of more spite than anything, he Voted for His Own Manifestation.

OOC: I'm not trying to rub anyone the wrong way, I'm just playing the character of a stubborn Dwarf in a Dryad's soul. Sorry!

[Maximum Spin]

Old Oak quivers with apparent rage. "Not I, different oak, fool saplings. One who fights, makes weather - which last, for our tree, more valuable than healing. What when the mana needed to manifest ourselves grows yet greater still? I say Oakstance hoping he can draw more growth from the fertile earth to hasten the rest of us."

He nods separately at Petra, who at least appears to have understood who he meant. Still, it counters: "But one day's turning, mana enow to renew any of us wholly. If I am right, if such one can yield up more by calling rains and sun, gain we much the greater. If I am wrong, still have we a stronger fighter to support you, that your health together be less endangered; and we are set back only precious little by the healing, rather than giving up all we have accumulated in exchange for so little value. If done so, you must be healed from death's door to prime health five times ere the cost repaid be. Squander we our gains so easily?"

[TricMagic]

You think changing the weather to be so easily accomplished? Petra's abilities are not that strong, nor are any of ours. We are yet young, the sapling must be protected, kept safe, not risked on some plan that has near no chance of working. Beyond which, I can gather nutrients, fertilizer. Sun and rain alone will not sustain growth.

[Maximum Spin]

"What think you sustains the growth of all the wild things, youngling? Minerals soil supplies, 'fertiliser' is nothing more than an artificial hastening of the cycle. Your ability, worth little unless you go out and hunt, leaving vulnerable the tree; what comes to us may be delivered unto earth the, as it were, old-fashioned way. I think ahead, in the long term, not like some flighty child — but even a weak hand on the winds' flow is more valuable than a foolish child who cannot even tell one oak from the next, then tries to change the past to hide it."

[Glass]

Petra rolls his eyes.

"All of you, cease this quarrel. There are merits to both courses; I merely am of the belief that the acquisition of a healer is always best done early. Oakstance's cloudshaping bears great potential, but it also is wont to take a great deal of time before it may be used as potently as you hope. I assure you, I believe them a wonderful candidate for a third, or as one to summon, given it provides a greater amount of power to bring to bear - their cloudshaping certainly would benefit from that.
And yes, the price will increase with rapidity - but note that we have come out of winter, and our precious sapling once again grows. I have no doubt that as it ages, its power to generate magic will grow with it, and that the sun and rain will hasten its development. And so, too, can Doraido turn our attackers to much more useful materials, ones which would benefit both the growth of our tree and, potentially, my crafts.
Oakstance will be a wonderful third dryad. But I believe that we would be best served now with Doraido's services."

[Failbird105]

"I, for one, know better than to draw the ire of the one who is tasked with preserving our physical lives."

Dryad Manifestation: Doraido

[Supernerd]

Spring 3, Year 1



The Dryad Doraido has manifested as a newborn at the cost of 5 mana! Old Oak probably isn't going to take this lying down.

Doraido invokes Heal on Doraido, restoring 1 health! As it happens, Petra attempts to Petrify the living Vinewall... But it seems that it cannot be petrified in its current state! Something will have to happen to cause the vines to be dead before it can be petrified.

Invaders have been detected! They bounds into the area, and resemble a kind of small fleshy octopus... Some kind of creature called a "Borble"! You're not entirely sure what a borble is though. One of them looks like it was injured before arriving.

Borble: 5/5hp
Borble: 5/5hp
Borble: 3/5hp

The tree is poorly encircled by defenses.
There are slime remains near the tree

Spoiler: Dryads (click to show/hide)

Name: Petra
Tier: Newborn
Health: 3/5
Status: Normal
Power Multiplier: 1
Skillset: Defense/Equipment/Fossils/???
Abilities:
[Defense] Vinewall: Create a wall of densely-packed vines nearby, blocking movement through it. Can alter the speed at which it rises.
[Equipment] Fabricate: Create a piece of equipment in hand. Requires material
[Fossils] Petrify: Turn something previously alive into immobile stone.

Name: Doraido
Tier: Newborn
Health: 5/5
Status: Normal
Power Multiplier: 1
Skillset: Absorption Line/Life/Light/???
Abilities:
[Absorption Line] Absorb Flesh: Absorbs the flesh by extending the branches to skewer a target. The collected materials are converted to useful minerals, and the waste turned to fertilizer.
[Life] Heal: Send a spherical mass of curative mana at a target, restoring their health. Can be cast on self.
[Light] Light Bind: Bands of light are cast at a target, before locking into place as solid constructs, restricting movements. Can be targeted to specific parts.

Name: Inanna
Tier: Spirit
Health: N/A
Status: N/A
Power Multiplier: N/A
Skillset: Man Eater/Spores/Carnivorous Plants/???
Abilities:
[Man Eater] Slavering Maw: Takes a crunch out of the target with Inannas acid drooling maw. Not only is the bite likely to remove chunks out of less sturdy creatures, but the acid will rapidly wear away at the rest.
[Spores] Lovely Mist: A cloud of spores that induce delusions and feelings of love in beings that inhale them.
[Carnivorous Plants] Giant Sundew: Grows a massive Sundew, large enough to ensnare animals in its grasp. The adhesive it uses to hold its prey is moderatly acidic, but not enough to kill a man in any appreciable time period.

Name: Oakstance
Tier: Spirit
Health: N/A
Status: N/A
Power Multiplier: N/A
Skillset: The Fighter/The Willful/The Sculptor/???
Abilities:
[The Fighter] Barkfists: Covers Oakstance's fists in thick, rough wood, increasing the damage of his punches and adding the potential for a minor stun. Layers peel away as he attacks. # of hits is equal to power multiplier.
[The Willful] Defiant Roar: Buffs all physical Dryads offence-wise. Increases in power based on how many foes are in the area, especially enemies actively threatening/damaging the Tree.
[The Sculptor] Cloudshape: Change the cloud cover in the area. Has the potential to change the weather if used multiple times in succession, like stopping or starting a storm, or filling the area with fog. Requires a very high power multiplier to work as advertised.

Name: Old Oak
Tier: Spirit
Health: N/A
Status: N/A
Power Multiplier: N/A
Skillset: Agility/Trickery/Snakecraft/???
Abilities:
[Agility] Spry for its Age: Old Oak can use this ability to blink-dodge around in combat, being somewhere it wasn't moments ago, catching foes by surprise and avoiding, or at least attempting to avoid, their attacks.
[Trickery] I'll Use Illusion: Old Oak can prepare detailed illusions in his vicinity, and can act as though those illusions are real as long as it's 'fast enough for the universe not to notice'; say, using an imaginary ramp to climb up to a high place, as long as the high place was really there to begin with, or chopping a real apple with an imaginary, uhh, slap-chop.
[Snakecraft] Summon Smaller Snake: Old Oak can make small snakes out of... whatever materials happen to be convenient. The materials chosen affect the snakes' properties. Not all materials are snake-able

Name: Aracnea
Tier: Spirit
Health: N/A
Status: N/A
Power Multiplier: N/A
Skillset: Venom/Web Spinning/Spider Summoning/???
Abilities:
[Venom] Venomous Bite: Targets bitten by Aracnea will be injected with venom, which will do damage over time. Duration determined by power multiplier
[Web Spinning] Make Webs: Webs can be made, often functioning as traps, larger webs take more time to make
[Spider Summoning] Spider Control: Depending on how far away Aracnea is from a spider, she can have it attack a specific target.

Spoiler: Tree (click to show/hide)

Health: 15/14
Height: 15cm
Mana: 1

Leaves: Some
Temperature: Slightly cool

Spoiler: Spells (click to show/hide)

Other
Empower Spell: (1 Mana) - For this turn only, a selected Dryad ability is cast with double its effective power multiplier with a reduced failure rate.
Heal: (1 Mana) - Heals 5 health for one Dryad, or 2 health for one Non-Dryad.
Dryad Manifestation: (25 Mana) - Converts a "Spirit" dryad into a "Newborn" dryad. Cost increases with each use.
Summon: (2 Mana) - Enables a Spirit Dryad to act for this turn at the location of the tree. They will have a temporary 10 HP, 2 Power Multiplier and will be able to use any abilities they have on that turn.

Petra
Tier Increase: (10 Mana) - Converts this "Newborn" Dryad to an "Adolescent" Dryad.
Newborn Ability Purchase 1/3: (3 or 6 Mana) - Permanently gains a new ability. This ability must align with one of your skillsets and only works once for each. Abilities obtained with this spell must be basic in their nature. The cheaper option selects an ability for you, seemingly at random.

Spoiler: Defenses/Creations (click to show/hide)

Stone Warhammer [0.8]
Stone Shovel [0.9]
Stone Vines: [0.8]
Vinewall 1/1HP. (Around tree.)

[TricMagic]

(typo.)

"Launch the injured one perhaps? I can bind one of them, or heal you some more."

"Would have liked to nap, but well. Need to rid ourselves of them first. If I bind one, and you launch one, perhaps let the injured one come up to the wall for me to stab and drain for the tree?"

[Maximum Spin]

Doraido invokes Heal on Doraido, restoring 1 health! [...] Dryad Manifestation: (25 Mana)

Old Oak thinks, I knew it would end up working like that. It was so obvious. Twenty HP of potential healing (25 if 0HP is eligible for healing or if we can increase our max HP) burned for this - and now we know that the cost really does go up as 5^{# of previous uses}, which I figured. I'm sorry but I can't help but hope the octopus eats you now.

Feeling a little spiteful, Old Oak votes against using any tree magic this turn. Especially no healing. Even though he knows, deep down, that the cost of manifestation will not decrease so losing one of the ones we're stuck with will only set us back more.