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[Glass]

Petra

Raise a Vinewall such that I, and the tree, and separated from lemmings and the slime, so as to give me some breathing room. Have it slant outwards, and raise it with great force.

[Naturegirl1999]

”The ground will be raised too, right? I don’t think our tree will be able to live off of the vines’ nutrients”

[TricMagic]

It is a wall, not a pedestal.

[Naturegirl1999]

Oh yes, sorry for the misunderstanding. Does anyone have any ideas for how we can get the tree to begin growing again?

[Maximum Spin]

"Warmth. Sunlight. Change of seasons. Rising of the sap." warbles Old Oak in deep bass.

[TricMagic]

Turn them to fertilizer. If you drag the bodies over I could manifest to do so, minerals and fertilizer.

.. I noticed it running low. It needs them to grow and produce mana.

[Maximum Spin]

Old Oak wiggles. In his experience, dead things turn to fertiliser just fine on their own, but it won't make a field bloom, or, uh, a tree produce mana in the deep freeze.

[Failbird105]

"I feel like you overestimate our number of options. If killing and perhaps absorbing these pathetic creatures does not work, all that will be left is to wait and hope that a Dryad better suited for the task should awaken."

[KitRougard]

"Yeah, it's essentially just wait it out and pray for the sun."

[Supernerd]

Winter 7, Year 0



The spirits discuss a summoning, but the idea didn't pan out.
Petra raises a Vinewall. Its slanted outwards and placed between the slime and the tree. It is not big enough to encircle the tree however.

The Slime moves in to attack the Vinewall! The wall obstructs the Slime's attack, but the wall fell over upon impact!

The Lemmings just sort of chill.

Something else is approaching from the distance...

Slime: 2/5hp
Lemming: 2/2hp
Lemming: 2/2hp

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: Spirit
Health: N/A
Status: N/A
Power Multiplier: N/A
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: 13/13
Height: 13cm
Mana: 3

Temperature: Cold

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: (5 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 [0.9]

[TricMagic]

Finish it with the hammer. The other ones aren't attacking..

[Failbird105]

"Yes, finish off this worthless thing, the morsels seem to not be interested in our tree."

[Maximum Spin]

Old Oak, seeing nothing better to do at the moment (that wouldn't be vetoed), idly wonders whether it could make an illusory sun. And is an illusory sun ultimately different from a real sun? In theory, anyone armed with a mirror can make an illusory sun if a real sun is visible. In fact, that's how starting fires with a magnifying glass works, in a sense: making an illusory sun that is MUCH ANGRIER. Many illusory suns, more properly, each pointing at the fire at a different angle, made out of the sunlight collected over the entire surface of the lens. Is there even a sun in this world? Old Oak realises it hasn't seen one for as long as it has lived, which feels like about a few minutes. It's not sure how, or whether it even knows what a sun is. Or a mirror, magnifying glass, or fire, actually. This whole line of thought has been very confusing for it. It guesses this must be what they call "nonplussed".

[Glass]

Petra

Smash the slime with my hammer.

[Naturegirl1999]

do we summon one of us? If so, who? Or should we heal Petra? Or do we not cast any spells yet?