Eleazar looks away from the screen, and notices the many injuries on his body. He is suddenly overcome with pain, and asks the ship if there is any healing items or zones in it.
The ship doesn't responds, however. Instead, the Narrator speaks out. "Uhhhh... Ummmmmmm... Okay. Go through that hall and then to the left. The door infront of you should be the Health Pool."
Eleazar walks along the path told to him and finds the Health Pool. It is a large room with a pool of green liquid in the middle of it. He figures that he should jump into it. As he soaks himself in the green water, he feels his wounds disappear away. He climbs out and returns back to the main room.
He decides to do some marital art training to pass the time. He hits the empty air infront of him with impressive agility.
Eleazar tries to increase his Speed stat (14<): 8He feels that his affinity of his art has been refreshed, but nothing more.
Eleazar then reflected on how hurt he was, and the fact that the deer kid shouldn't have the monopoly on healing. He is a master of Psychoaugmentation, he gave it his years, surely he could come up with a way to seal wounds using it.
He punches the floor with force and makes his knuckles bruise. Then he concentrates on the idea that the body is the tool of the will.
Eleazar tries to self-heal (13<): 15 (Partial Success)He feels the bruises on his hand heal up. He inspects his mana reserves to see that they were emptied. He quickly Respites, and comes to understand his brand new spell. He names it [Restore].
Lemmy ponders the small arcane object in his hand. It felt tingly to touch, and emitted a very low hum that its parent body definitely didn't.
He had to admit that he was in some unknown territory, here. This thing had infinite mana. Somehow. Mana was either gained from living things or created artificially using matter and energy as substance. Which meant that it was limited. Sure, gods had infinite mana, but that mana came from a divine soul and therefore had a reason to be.
This didn't made sense. Where was this mana coming from? Who could've invented such a technological miracle?
Ornos knew. Probably. He built one, so he should know. Lemmy decided that was another question for another time.
Now to focus on what it
did.
It emitted a very small amount of mana constantly. The fact that it was broken seemed to be reason for that. It was simply leaking out from it. He tried to focus on the magic coming out of the black shard like he heard from the casters. Like how they focus on their internal power or something.
Nothing happened. He wasn't a magical being. He had no ability to control or store this power. It would not obey and burn him if it ever got into him.
So he thought of something else. Charms, wands, staffs, potions, and all sorts of other magic items existed for those who weren't inherently magical. He could make a charm or sorts with the shard, maybe? Technically he already did it before, while using the ice shard to transfer the magic into him back at the comet moon dungeon.
He picked one of the many cardboard boxes and put the shard inside it, then closed the box and walked back. And after that, he tried to focus as he did before, provoking the mana to transfer itself into the box, and not to him.
Lemmy tries to create a charm (15<): 15 (lol)The box started to shake, and then it started to contort as unknown symbols started to get seared onto it by the power of the mana that it contained. It took the color of a red, orange and yellow mesh, kinda resembling lava in coloration. Then two large eyes appeared on it, then a wide mouth, which formed a face that emoted great discomfort.
The box spoke in a masculine yet thin and reverbed voice. "I am too large.. for this... two dimensional... lower narrative structure! TOADY-"
The box went up in flames. Lemmy did not understand. So he took the completely unaffected shard back from the pile of ashes and started to contemplate the clue from the last obelisk.
Velklin, after hearing that Lemmy had an obelisk shard, quickly rushed to the human and requested a gander at it. But Lemmy refused, so Velklin never got his wish and died of sadness shortly after.
That's how he felt, if you asked him, that is.
No matter. He had his own magic. And he knew how to use it.
So he decided that it was time to spellcraft. A spell to make sure he never needed to use his hooves to attack again. He had read some stuff about mana getting duplicated when casted at very specific ways. Which made the applications of it very limited. But it would be the basis of this spell nontheless.
He thinks of and forms [Luminous Dart], using his expertise in his divine school of magic and the knowledge of mana duplication. It is a spell that can be cast with no mana lost at its lowest level of power, and may be expanded into a cloud of projectiles to deal large amounts of damage that increased with mana spent.
What about telekinesis, however? Velklin wasn't willing to let the potential utility of moving objects around with the power of magic go to waste. So he tried to use it to add onto his own applied force. After all, it wasn't his body being directly moved this time.
And he succeeds. As he jumps, he uses telekinesis to add onto his upward momentum, and jolts high into the air, then right to the ceiling. He is successfull. He guesses.
He tries this again, and again, and again. He learns tue hard limits of this tactic. Firstly, it was too inelegant. The spell was never meant to be used for boosting oneself. Secondly, it still wasn't exactly the boost of speed he wanted. Sure, he could use it to launch himself with a small skip, but launching and then preserving that momentum costed a constant, considerable drain on mana for the duration of the movement.
He could do it, but there really were major setbacks to it, and it still couldn't be used in combat scenarios, besides fleeing off.
Maybe he was better off with it as a mere utility spell.
Narrator announced his presence after a long break. "Since you guys are unwilling to order this ship to move; Ship, reach Heyam-72 e and enter orbit."
That announcement gave Burt and Isabam ideas. For Burt, that was push-ups. He saw Su Lin do it, and he wanted some too. Su Lin liked that attitude, and offered assistance in training for the deer guy.
Burt does pushups (13-2<): 11, 2, 18At the end of it, Burt was exhausted. But he felt somewhat stronger too. Maybe life
was more than senseless ships and empty boxes.
Isabam, however, was thinking ahead. She knew that the fortress was on a mountain of sorts, and that they would most likely need to mountain climb to it. So she goes on searching to find some rope or stone picks or anything that can be used for climbing.
Isabam Butsha searches for climbing equipment: 7She only managed to find a single, albeit very long rope. Which is a shame, she thought, but it was also better than nothing at all, she supposed. She returned back to the others, just in time to see the ship entering the cold and barren planets orbit.
The planet was a sphere of dark, bluish gray, which looked very depressing and sad from afar.
"Alright, we are here, finally. Descend down and pinpoint that fortress. Go on."
Current Characters
Name: Lemmy
Description: Lemmy is a human teenager, brown haired and eyed with a malicious grin. He doesn't look like much, but he has the great skill often missing from more noted and powerful beings.. creativity, laziness, and lateral thinking. If there's some simple way to get the job done, he'll be the one to find it, despite lack of abilities.
Stats:
- Strength: 0 (5 pure base DPH)
- Accuracy: 0
- Speed: 0 (5 Tile Range)
- Defense: 0
- Endurance: 0 (30 pure base HP)
- Mana: 0
Items:
- Space Suit: Grants the ability to withstand the adverse effects of the vacuum of space.
- Obelisk Shard: A shiny, vantablack, shard from a waymarker obelisk. Emits a tiny amount of mana.
Spells:
None
Name: Su Lin
Description: A young adult human man wearing plain light-grey clothing with a copper trim. He has more hair than the average person, and is somewhat reminiscent of a bear. Su Lin is a Cultivator who cultivates a force known as 'true essence' or 'Qi' within his body in order to become stronger with the ultimate goal of transcending his mortality.
Stats:
- Strength=5 (Base 5+25 DPH)
- Accuracy=2
- Speed=2 (7 Tile Range)
- Defense=2
- Endurance=3 (Base 30+15 HP)
- Mana=2 (10 Mana+5 | Regen)
Items:
- Ornos: The downgrade avatar of a god of music and song, shaped like a small beetle and made of ornate coral. (+1 Mana, Spell: Soothing Song)
Spells:
- Concentrate: Su Lin concentrates to refill his Qi reserves. Qi cannot attack for that fight turn and may need to be protected by others.
- Qi Infusion: Su Lin uses all his Qi reserves to bolster his strength stat by the number on his Mana stat for two turns.
- Soothing Song: Su Lin unleashes Ornos for it to sing its song and play its music. All enemies have their Accuracy and Strength reduced by 1 for a turn. Can only be used once in three combat turns. Consumes no Mana.
Name: Isabsam Butsha
Description: A 7 foot tall, cybernetic amazon, her body made of half rusted and oil machine, her hair a mess of cableings an wires. With pair of glowing jade machine eyes.
Stats:
- Strength: 3 (Base 5+15 DPH)
- Accuracy: 2
- Speed: 3 (8 Tile Range)
- Defense: 2
- Endurance: 3 (Base 30+15 HP)
- Mana: 0
Items:
- Space Suit: Grants the ability to withstand the adverse effects of vacuum of space.
- Ambiguous Metal Pipe: A long piece of broken pipe. It is made of an unidentifiable metallic substance and served seemingly no purpose before it was torn off. Can be used to hit and bludgeon.
- Rope: A long roll of rope. It can be used for many things.
Spells:
None
Name: Burt
Description: A humanoid with the head of a deer.
Stats:
- Strength:4 (Base 5+20 DPH)
- Accuracy:4
- Speed:1 (6 Tile Range)
- Defense:2
- Endurance:2 (Base 30+10 HP)
- Mana:0
Items:
- Nail-Attached Chair Leg: A broken off leg of a wooden chair that still has a nail attached to the end. It can be used to stab.
- Space Suit: Grants the ability to withstand the adverse effects of vacuum of space.
Spells:
None
Name:
VelklinDescription: A four foot tall faun-like humanoid being, with the appearance of being barely a teenager. He has unguligrade, deer-like legs and a long tail with a tuft of fur on it's end. The hair on his head is of a very pale - almost pure white - blue color, the same hair is also present on his legs and tail. Sired by a god and born to a mortal mother, Velklin inherited a great deal of raw magical power from his divine father, making him a demigod.
Stats:
- Strength: 0 (5 pure base DPH)
- Accuracy: 1
- Speed: 1 (6 Tile Range)
- Defense: 0+1
- Endurance: 0 (30 pure base HP)
- Mana: 10 (50 Mana | Regen)
Items:
- Space Suit: Grants the ability to withstand the adverse effects of vacuum of space.
- Geshemblos: A household god of fire and fortresses, reduced to a lesser form of a skink made of lime and red glass.
Spells:
- Telekinesis: Velklin can use telekinesis to lift small to medium sized objects. As an utility spell, this cannot be used in combat.
- Safety Jump: A passive magical ability that teleports Velklin to safe nearby location when he is gravely injured.
- Luminous Dart: Velklin spawns either a single or multiple small cone-shaped projectiles that each deal 5 damage. First dart is free of charge, and more can be spawned by using 5 mana for 2 darts.
- Blazing Sun: Velklin shines a focused ray of light from his right hand, spending 10 Mana and dealing 25 damage to a single target.
- Fullest Moon: Velklin manifests a crescent shaped light source that rapidly radiates outward, spending 15 Mana dealing 10 damage to all enemies.
- Dazzling Nebulae: Velklin creates a cloud of colorful, ethereal gasses, which reduces all enemy accuracy by 3 for three combat turns and consumes 10 Mana. This effect does not stack.
- Scorching Fire: Velklin launches a fireball with either of his hands, dealing 10 damage on contact and then 4 combat turns of 5 afterburn damage on a select enemy, using up 10 Mana.
- Scrantonic Scramble: Velklin uses 20 Mana and destabilises the local reality, buffing all of his allies rolls by 1 and debuffs all enemy rolls by 1 for the rest of the battle. This can be done only once per battle and ends with the current battle.
- Mass Heal: Velklin spends 20 Mana and heals all his teammates, including himself, by 10 HP. This spell can stack, given there is enough Mana.
- Divine Word: Velklin commands so that a single enemy will simply cease living, using 25 Mana. The affected enemy will save roll a 10d using their endurance stat as the arbitrer. If it is higher than 7 it will be stunned for a turn. If it is between 7 and 3, they will be stunned for a turn and have all their stats lowered by 2 the next turn. If they roll 3 or lower, they die instantly.
- Conjure Crystalline: Velklin summons a small, crystalline golem with base stats for 10 Mana. This spell can stack, allowing multiple summons with enough Mana for all.
- Small Wish: Using 50 Mana, Velklin can make a small wish come true. This can't create powerful or large items nor alter reality in elaborate and overarching ways, but will alter reality to make current objective easier by the means of increased luck and such.
- Fortify: Velklin calls for Geshemblos for his blessing. All players have their Defense increased by 2 for a turn. Can only be used once in three combat turns. Consumes no Mana.
Name:Eleazar
Description: Looks humanoid, except his “feet” are only heels. Additionally, his skin is cerulean. His hair is more like long, very thin, white tentacles. He has three long tendrils a color substantially darker than his body emerging from the back of his head. These function like a Twi’lek’s (they’re from Star Wars), except he has three of them, and the center one is slightly but noticeably thicker than the outside two. His sclera are the same color as his pupils, and his irises are an iridescent blue. He is a master of Psychoaugmentation, the art of using psionics to enhance the user’s physical and mental capabilities.
Stats:
- Strength= 1 (Base 5+5 DPH)
- Accuracy= 2
- Speed= 4 (9 Tiles Range)
- Defense= 1+2
- Endurance= 1 (Base 30+5 HP)
- Mana= 3 (15 Mana | Regen)
Items:
- Hyperflexible Metal Armor: A metallic, one piece clothing that behaves like cloth, yet is as durable as metal. +2 Defense
- Space Suit: Grants the ability to withstand the adverse effects of vacuum of space.
- Pointy Chair Leg: A broken off leg of a wooden chair, with a splintered end. Can be used to stab.
Spells:
- Respite: Eleazar refills his mana, and won't attack for a combat turn.
- Empower: Eleazar uses all of his mana to increase his strength stat by the number on his Mana stat for the duration of combat. Does not stack.
- Envision: Eleazar uses all of his mana to increase his accuracy stat by the number on his Mana stat, also gaining a considerable buff to his action or combat rolls that involve cognitive provess. Single turn use.
- Attune: Eleazar uses all of his mana to decrease the critical hit treshold by the number on his Mana stat. Lasts for three combat turns.
- Restore: Eleazar concentrates on his wounds, using all his mana to restore 15 HP. This can only be used on self.
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Topic: The Singing Constellation: A Sci-Fi, High Fantasy Space Odyssey (6/∞) (Read 13712 times)