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[Glass]

STOP VOTING FOR OPTIONS WE HAVE LOW SKILL IN

Considering what happened on the hunt, I'd say we likely have good enough Automation for 2 to be a plausible action we could take. If they were suggesting 3 or 5, then yeah, that would just be dumb. But our Automation is nearly as good as our Negation, only lower by one point, at 5.

[Knightwing64]

STOP VOTING FOR OPTIONS WE HAVE LOW SKILL IN

Considering what happened on the hunt, I'd say we likely have good enough Automation for 2 to be a plausible action we could take. If they were suggesting 3 or 5, then yeah, that would just be dumb. But our Automation is nearly as good as our Negation, only lower by one point, at 5.

We are attempting to fix a ancient fan created by people infinitely our better in automation. Let’s stick to out strengths.

[Enemy post]

The fans.

You think of the frightening devastation caused by the negative-energy cloud's passage through the town. If you can put a stop to that by repairing some fans, that sounds like a great thing to do.

You recall playing on the town's ancient fans as a child. Five rusty rotary fans, each about thirty feet tall, sit at forty-five-degree angles on the eastern perimeter of the town. The metal frames dividing them made for excellent slides.

You honestly have no idea whether they were originally purely mechanical or powered by automation.

The sheltered area beneath the fans, where gears may once have been, appears to have been stripped bare long ago. Perhaps the fan blades were left behind because they were so rusty.

You pull a hammer and chisel and some vials of silver powder from your belt pouch, and begin inscribing runes on the fan blades to power their rotation.

You take your time crafting the runes, wondering whether you could have ever done this with a death cloud approaching. With no time limit, you can focus on your craft. (Gained Automation.)

Finally, the runes are ready to be powered with lightning. You raise a hand to the sky. "Flabellum ingens, reviviscat item!"

Lightning strikes five times in a row, once on each fan, crackling down the length of each blade.

The silver runes glow, and the fan blades slowly begin to spin, gradually gaining speed until your hair is blown straight back and you need to squint into all the dust.

Do you want to test the fans' power to disperse negative energy clouds?

1.No, that's all right, I trust they work.
2.Sure. I cast a negation spell to create a test cloud.
3.Make an extra smoky torch for 10 gold, and test the fans with that.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Foo Orison

Appearance

A bookish, spectacled man wearing a shimmering cloak and tight black clothing fit for a thief or an assassin

Magic
  Negation:6
  Automation:6
  Glamor:1
  Divination:1
  Vivomancy:8

Skills
Ancient History: 3 (Decent)
Fighting: 1 (Bad)
Subtlety: 5 (Good)
Charisma: 2 (Decent)

Personality
Optimism:47%/Caution:53%   
Humor:62%/Solemnity:38%   
Empathy:29%/Calculation:71%   

Relationships
Romances (Interested romantically, but not sexually, in men and women)
Tal

Tal: 56 (Good)
Cos: 50 (Fine)
Church: 40 (Bad)
Undiscovered relationships: 3

Kingdom
Adoration: 50%/Vilification: 50%

Inventory
Gold: 420 gold
Sword
Alchemy Set
Torc of Life and Death
Clutch of Dragon Eggs
History Book, True Life of Abraxas
Golem Manual

Students
None

Pets
None

The Dead
The Academy Inquisitor

Plot Points

Chapter 1

You and Tal stumbled on an ancient magic academy.
You discovered a book of vivomancy, and an inquisitor chased you.
You found an ancient dueling ground.
You killed the inquisitor with negation magic.
You explored the academy library.
A divination revealed a potential ally in the form of a golem, so you took a manual on the operation of golems from the library.
You animated a serving tray to retrieve an alchemy set, but in the process, you released some dangerous chemicals.
You found a laboratory with a trapped specter.
You destroyed the specter.
You obtained a clutch of dragon eggs from the crow's nest of an ancient airship.
It became clear that the spilled chemicals were going to consume the whole academy.

Chapter 2


You flew up the coast of the Negative Sea back to Akriton.
You created two horses and freed them in the woods.
You made your parents think your finds in the academy were purely of historical interest.
You read in True Life of Abraxas that those who follow orders regularly are more likely to be glamored.
You learned the location of the Magisterian capital from True Life of Abraxas.
You met a hat seller but bought nothing from her.
You allowed a thief to steal from Fruitseller Fran.
You agreed to hunt a dodecapede with Tal.
You kissed Tal.
You restarted the automated mine that was the dodecapede's lair.

[Glass]

STOP VOTING FOR OPTIONS WE HAVE LOW SKILL IN

Considering what happened on the hunt, I'd say we likely have good enough Automation for 2 to be a plausible action we could take. If they were suggesting 3 or 5, then yeah, that would just be dumb. But our Automation is nearly as good as our Negation, only lower by one point, at 5.

We are attempting to fix a ancient fan created by people infinitely our better in automation. Let’s stick to out strengths.

We attempted to and succeeded at fixing a gold-mining system likely made by the same people, and I'd generally assume a fan to be less complicated than that. Calm down and let them vote.

EDIT: And as we can see, it worked.

3, please. No need to take unnecessary risks with intentionally making a negation cloud.

[FiveBalesOfHay]

3. Not having to conjure a death cloud is easily worth 10 gold.

[brewer bob]

3

Smoke isn't the same as a negative-energy cloud, but it'll have to do. The other choices seem either arrogant or potentially too dangerous.

STOP VOTING FOR OPTIONS WE HAVE LOW SKILL IN

That's not how I play games, sorry.

[blueturtle1134]

Unnecessary, but I'll also throw in a vote for 3

[Enemy post]

We buy a torch.

You light a torch that you coated with a special resin to make it very smoky, which you procured from the market for this purpose. (Lost 10 Gold.)

When you hold this very smoky torch in front of the fans, nearly instantly the flame goes out and the smoke dissipates. Seems like success! And you still have some of the torch's resin to study at home, so that you can learn more about its fascinating relationship to negative energy. (Gained Negation.)

You walk back into town with a spring in your step, confident that your repair was a success.

That worked out fairly well.

Later in the day, after you've already returned to reading one of your tomes of magic, you get a knock on your door. It's Mayor Cos. Cos's spectacles give him a scholarly air, but he has a ready, friendly smile. His belt is overburdened with various pouches and tools hanging from it, including a book pouch, a sheath for a pen, lockpicks, and a bag of dice.

How do you know Cos, besides as mayor?

1.We once worked together replanting after a death cloud came through.
2.We sometimes fly kites together on the commons.
3.We were in a band together before he was mayor.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Foo Orison

Appearance

A bookish, spectacled man wearing a shimmering cloak and tight black clothing fit for a thief or an assassin

Magic
  Negation:7
  Automation:6
  Glamor:1
  Divination:1
  Vivomancy:8

Skills
Ancient History: 3 (Decent)
Fighting: 1 (Bad)
Subtlety: 5 (Good)
Charisma: 2 (Decent)

Personality
Optimism:47%/Caution:53%   
Humor:62%/Solemnity:38%   
Empathy:29%/Calculation:71%   

Relationships
Romances (Interested romantically, but not sexually, in men and women)
Tal

Tal: 56 (Good)
Cos: 50 (Fine)
Church: 40 (Bad)
Undiscovered relationships: 3

Kingdom
Adoration: 50%/Vilification: 50%

Inventory
Gold: 410 gold
Sword
Alchemy Set
Torc of Life and Death
Clutch of Dragon Eggs
History Book, True Life of Abraxas
Golem Manual

Students
None

Pets
None

The Dead
The Academy Inquisitor

Plot Points

Chapter 1

You and Tal stumbled on an ancient magic academy.
You discovered a book of vivomancy, and an inquisitor chased you.
You found an ancient dueling ground.
You killed the inquisitor with negation magic.
You explored the academy library.
A divination revealed a potential ally in the form of a golem, so you took a manual on the operation of golems from the library.
You animated a serving tray to retrieve an alchemy set, but in the process, you released some dangerous chemicals.
You found a laboratory with a trapped specter.
You destroyed the specter.
You obtained a clutch of dragon eggs from the crow's nest of an ancient airship.
It became clear that the spilled chemicals were going to consume the whole academy.

Chapter 2


You flew up the coast of the Negative Sea back to Akriton.
You created two horses and freed them in the woods.
You made your parents think your finds in the academy were purely of historical interest.
You read in True Life of Abraxas that those who follow orders regularly are more likely to be glamored.
You learned the location of the Magisterian capital from True Life of Abraxas.
You met a hat seller but bought nothing from her.
You allowed a thief to steal from Fruitseller Fran.
You agreed to hunt a dodecapede with Tal.
You kissed Tal.
You restarted the automated mine that was the dodecapede's lair.
You restarted Akriton's giant fans after the death cloud passed.

[Glass]

1

[brewer bob]

2

[King Zultan]

3

[Knightwing64]

3

Rock on!

[Yellow Pixel]

1

[Maximum Spin]

3 lol

[Enemy post]

We were in a band.

Cos has been mayor for eight years. Before that, he was a kind of dilettante like yourself, doing odd jobs for everyone in town. He had a lot more spare time then, and he had a band.

What instrument did you play in Cos's band?

1.Cowbell.
2.Flute.
3.Drums.
4.Trumpet.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Foo Orison

Appearance

A bookish, spectacled man wearing a shimmering cloak and tight black clothing fit for a thief or an assassin

Magic
  Negation:7
  Automation:6
  Glamor:1
  Divination:1
  Vivomancy:8

Skills
Ancient History: 3 (Decent)
Fighting: 1 (Bad)
Subtlety: 5 (Good)
Charisma: 2 (Decent)

Personality
Optimism:47%/Caution:53%   
Humor:62%/Solemnity:38%   
Empathy:29%/Calculation:71%   

Relationships
Romances (Interested romantically, but not sexually, in men and women)
Tal

Tal: 56 (Good)
Cos: 50 (Fine)
Church: 40 (Bad)
Undiscovered relationships: 3

Kingdom
Adoration: 50%/Vilification: 50%

Inventory
Gold: 410 gold
Sword
Alchemy Set
Torc of Life and Death
Clutch of Dragon Eggs
History Book, True Life of Abraxas
Golem Manual

Students
None

Pets
None

The Dead
The Academy Inquisitor

Plot Points

Chapter 1

You and Tal stumbled on an ancient magic academy.
You discovered a book of vivomancy, and an inquisitor chased you.
You found an ancient dueling ground.
You killed the inquisitor with negation magic.
You explored the academy library.
A divination revealed a potential ally in the form of a golem, so you took a manual on the operation of golems from the library.
You animated a serving tray to retrieve an alchemy set, but in the process, you released some dangerous chemicals.
You found a laboratory with a trapped specter.
You destroyed the specter.
You obtained a clutch of dragon eggs from the crow's nest of an ancient airship.
It became clear that the spilled chemicals were going to consume the whole academy.

Chapter 2


You flew up the coast of the Negative Sea back to Akriton.
You created two horses and freed them in the woods.
You made your parents think your finds in the academy were purely of historical interest.
You read in True Life of Abraxas that those who follow orders regularly are more likely to be glamored.
You learned the location of the Magisterian capital from True Life of Abraxas.
You met a hat seller but bought nothing from her.
You allowed a thief to steal from Fruitseller Fran.
You agreed to hunt a dodecapede with Tal.
You kissed Tal.
You restarted the automated mine that was the dodecapede's lair.
You restarted Akriton's giant fans after the death cloud passed.