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[BlackPaladin99]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name - Vaolu
Background - He came from an orphanage, was kicked out wen he became an adult, and just drifted here.
Description - Purplish red skin, pointed, elfin ears that have a v-like split three inches down.  Whitish hair tied behind his head.  concealing, dark clothing.  Quiet.  May possibly be a bit insane.

Statistics
Skill-at-arms - 0
Brawn - 2
Focus - 3
Conviction - 0


Wounds - 0
Arcana - 0.25

Your Wounds value will always start at 0. Your Arcana value starts at 0 if you are capable of spellcasting, and if not, it is -1.

Inventory and Equipment

Right Hand - Blood Staff
Left Hand - X
Armor -
Trinket - black crystal pendant

-abstract staff

Perks

Attuned
Acrobat
1 spare point

Spells
Blood Drain From Staff?

Magic another bat with my staff

[crazyabe]

Bat bats for fun and profit.

Spoiler: Mu (click to show/hide)

Name - Mu
Background - A wildman of the West, his history is his to keep, but his motivation is better known; he seeks greater challenges than the men and beasts he once faught.
Description - a towering Giant of a man, with a wild mane of dark hair, and a body with naught an inch of skin uncovered by twisting tribal tattoos.

Statistics
Skill-at-arms - 2
Brawn - 4(3+1)
Focus - 0
Conviction - 0

You have 5 points to distribute among these stats, each point being a +1 to the result of rolls in that stat. You must have at least 1 brawn, and no more than 3 initial points in any one stat.

Wounds - 0
Arcana - -1

Your Wounds value will always start at 0. Your Arcana value starts at 0 if you are capable of spellcasting, and if not, it is -1.

Inventory and Equipment

Right Hand - Cudgel (one-handed, 0.25 wound)
Left Hand -
Armor - Simple Clothes
Trinket -
Trinket -
Trinket -
Trinket -
Trinket -
Trinket -
Trinket -
Trinket -

(Any items not equipped can still be carried. Slotted items can only be used if equipped, while items that do not belong to a slot can be used at any time, at a limit of one item use per turn if in combat.)

Perks

Acrobat (1, requires at least 2 Focus or Skill-at-arms) - You are particularly adept at climbing, jumping, vaulting, and clambering. The first time in a turn a 1 is rolled for any such feat, it is instead rerolled.
Knight (6, requires at least 2 Skill-at-arms or Brawn) - Whether you are an errant knight or a non-inheriting child of a petty noble, you have received formal schooling in the knightly arts. You are literate, capable of administering medicine, and you may wear heavy armor. Additionally, Brawn +1.
Quick Hands (1, requires at least 2 Skill-at-arms) - You may switch your equipped Right and Left Hand items, even while in combat.

Implacable - Rolls against fear are not affected by your Wounds value. Additionally, you are immune to fear for the first round of each combat.

Spells

[Fluffe9911]

Strange statue probably wants Shanks to sacrifice some blood or something to it but Shanks isn't confident enough for that so Shanks shall leave strange statue room and check out other one!

Spoiler:  Shanks The Monsters (click to show/hide)

 Name -  Shanks The Monsters
Background - Shanks is a Kobold. Someone told Shanks he could find dosh here Shanks likes dosh thus Shanks is now here.
Statistics
Skill-at-arms - 2
Brawn - 1
Focus - 1
Conviction - 1

Wounds: 0
Arcana: 0

Inventory and Equipment
Right Hand - Dagger
Left Hand - Dagger
Armor - Simple Clothes
Trinket - Weird paper thing.

Perks: 0 Point Remaining
(3) Caravan Hand Time spent working for a trade company has taught you a number of valuable lessons. You receive +1 to rolls when price haggling, looting, and foraging.
(1) Acrobat You are particularly adept at climbing, jumping, vaulting, and clambering. The first time in a turn a 1 is rolled for any such feat, it is instead rerolled.
(3) Silent The footsteps of a cat and the breathing of a mouse; in all things, you are quiet as a ghost. Enemies will never hear your movement, and have disadvantage on rolls to detect you.
(1) Quick Hands You may switch your equipped Right and Left Hand items, even while in combat.

Spells:

[Knightwing64]

WIP

Will post full action later, currently packing for cruise trip

[Rethi-Eli]

Sorry y'all, I feel like our momentum sputtered out and I'm not really sure how to handle the situation. I hope you all can understand why I'm issuing a moratorium on the Tower - in retrospect, the scope that I had planned for it simply doesn't feel like it works well with the more minimalist RTD style that seem to be most engaging and successful. I appreciate everyone who expressed interest in joining, and wish you all the best!

[Egan_BW]

Bah! But I need more in depth RTDs! I cannot subsist on minimalism alone! D:

[Lenglon]

I avoid minimalists constantly because they're like potato chips. Nice for a moment, but nothing more. In-depth games like this one are where I find real satisfaction.

We've got actions from 5 players. That's still quite a bit of interest. Why not just run a turn where people that haven't posted just stand around and do nothing?

[Knightwing64]

That’s sad. I just got back from my cruise. Are you still interested in running? I can post now because unfortunately, the Bahamas apparently aren’t known for quality Wi-Fi services

[Rethi-Eli]

All very fair points. I'll have a turn up tomorrow and we'll see what happens!

[Horizon]

Will post turn in next 6 hrs!

[Rethi-Eli]

I'm going to wait one more day, since I'd like to make sure that everyone who's still willing to play can keep up the momentum, but I have a turn at the ready for some time tomorrow, which I'll be posting then regardless of missing turns

[crazyabe]

Will post turn in next 6 hrs!

Hmm, musta meant his fence.

[Rethi-Eli]

I think they've got this, but I need to show that I'm not useless!
I use my fire on the bats overhead!

Spoiler: Meleria (click to show/hide)

Name: Meleria
Background: This teenage Foxkin really has no buisness being in the Tower, though she doesn't see things that way. She sees it as being about what she needs. Either she succeeds here, or she has no future, so she might as well try.

Meleria's a Foxkin, a type of beastkin, and a minority that is commonly viewed as subhuman. Her family worked as peddlers, performing odd jobs from place to place, and living a mostly self-sufficient life. Never staying in one place overlong, so no one place was ever motivated to actively drive them off. Of course, that means when their wagon was attacked on the road, there was nobody to look for them. Nobody to provide the urgent medical aid they needed. Nobody to make sure that when Meleria crept back to the wagon from her hiding spot she'd run too during the attack, she wasn't alone.

lacking the skills to repair her family's wagon, she had to leave both it and her family's remains behind, limiting herself to what she could carry on her back. She found herself in the city of the Tower, and also found herself with a choice. She didn't have the right skills to make a proper living in the city, and to her mind attempting to find someone to take her in would just result in her becoming enslaved. But the Tower represented an option she wouldn't have anywhere else. A risky option for sure, but... What's she got to lose?

Description: This small female Foxkin has tan skin, brown shoulder-length hair, green eyes, and orange-brown furred ears and tail. She has slight build and a nervous but focused demeanor, her eyes and ears flicking about in reaction to slight noises. She has a habit of holding her own tail when anxious, and when resting tends to curl up with it in her arms.

Statistics
Skill-at-arms: 0
Brawn: 1
Focus: 2
Conviction: 2

Wounds: 0.25
Arcana: 0.5

Inventory and Equipment
Right Hand:
Left Hand:
Armor: Simple Clothes
Trinkets:

Perks
Acrobat: You are particularly adept at climbing, jumping, vaulting, and clambering. The first time in a turn a 1 is rolled for any such feat, it is instead rerolled.
Attuned:You are aware of the ebb and flow of the world's arcane current, and have the potential to tap into it. You may cast spells.
Flame attunement: Your spells that have a chance to ignite enemies will always do so.

Spells
Immolate (0.5 Arcana, 0.5 Wound, ranged, can ignite enemies for continuous damage)

Roll Focus: 5+2 = 7

Bolts of fire springs from Meleria's fingertips again, arcing and looping in an almost graceful fashion before colliding with the bats still huddled on the ceiling. Being grouped together, the entire bunch of scorched and set alight, plummeting to the ground in a stinking, burning mess of leathery wings and snapping maws.

Meleria gains 0.5 Arcana!

Interesting. I wonder if trying to use the knife will expend it? Maybe better to keep a hold of it for now.
Wait quietly for the last bats to fly down and attack the others. If one survives, kick it in the back.

Spoiler: Isolde (click to show/hide)

Name - Isolde
Background - Gutter trash, no doubt. Certainly uncultured.
Description - Some sort of strange cat-human hybrid. Crimson eyes.

Statistics
Skill-at-arms - 0
Brawn - 1
Focus - 1
Conviction - 3

Wounds - 0
Arcana - -1

Inventory and Equipment

Right Hand - Throwing Knife (Frost-Imbued, Unstable)
Left Hand -
Armor -
Trinket -

Perks
Prophetic (6) - What the future holds is not entirely unknown to you. Voices, dreams, and symbols reveal glimpses of what is to come, either spontaneously or after purposeful divination.

Spells

Roll Skill-at-arms: 2, 4

Bat bats for fun and profit.

Spoiler: Mu (click to show/hide)

Name - Mu
Background - A wildman of the West, his history is his to keep, but his motivation is better known; he seeks greater challenges than the men and beasts he once faught.
Description - a towering Giant of a man, with a wild mane of dark hair, and a body with naught an inch of skin uncovered by twisting tribal tattoos.

Statistics
Skill-at-arms - 2
Brawn - 4(3+1)
Focus - 0
Conviction - 0

You have 5 points to distribute among these stats, each point being a +1 to the result of rolls in that stat. You must have at least 1 brawn, and no more than 3 initial points in any one stat.

Wounds - 0
Arcana - -1

Your Wounds value will always start at 0. Your Arcana value starts at 0 if you are capable of spellcasting, and if not, it is -1.

Inventory and Equipment

Right Hand - Cudgel (one-handed, 0.25 wound)
Left Hand -
Armor - Simple Clothes
Trinket -
Trinket -
Trinket -
Trinket -
Trinket -
Trinket -
Trinket -
Trinket -

(Any items not equipped can still be carried. Slotted items can only be used if equipped, while items that do not belong to a slot can be used at any time, at a limit of one item use per turn if in combat.)

Perks

Acrobat (1, requires at least 2 Focus or Skill-at-arms) - You are particularly adept at climbing, jumping, vaulting, and clambering. The first time in a turn a 1 is rolled for any such feat, it is instead rerolled.
Knight (6, requires at least 2 Skill-at-arms or Brawn) - Whether you are an errant knight or a non-inheriting child of a petty noble, you have received formal schooling in the knightly arts. You are literate, capable of administering medicine, and you may wear heavy armor. Additionally, Brawn +1.
Quick Hands (1, requires at least 2 Skill-at-arms) - You may switch your equipped Right and Left Hand items, even while in combat.

Implacable - Rolls against fear are not affected by your Wounds value. Additionally, you are immune to fear for the first round of each combat.

Spells

Roll Skill-at-arms: 1, 4+2 = 6

The immolated bats, left at the mercy of the party, are quickly bludgeoned and dispatched. Mu finds great satisfaction in the way they crunch, while Isolde is less than satisfied with the way they dirty her boots. Nonetheless, the room is cleared!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name - Vaolu
Background - He came from an orphanage, was kicked out wen he became an adult, and just drifted here.
Description - Purplish red skin, pointed, elfin ears that have a v-like split three inches down.  Whitish hair tied behind his head.  concealing, dark clothing.  Quiet.  May possibly be a bit insane.

Statistics
Skill-at-arms - 0
Brawn - 2
Focus - 3
Conviction - 0


Wounds - 0
Arcana - 0.25

Your Wounds value will always start at 0. Your Arcana value starts at 0 if you are capable of spellcasting, and if not, it is -1.

Inventory and Equipment

Right Hand - Blood Staff
Left Hand - X
Armor -
Trinket - black crystal pendant

-abstract staff

Perks

Attuned
Acrobat
1 spare point

Spells
Blood Drain From Staff?

Magic another bat with my staff

With the bats dispatched one and all, Vaolu is greeted with an opportunity to catch his breath.

Roll Conviction: 3

Vaolu loses 0.25 Arcana!

Strange statue probably wants Shanks to sacrifice some blood or something to it but Shanks isn't confident enough for that so Shanks shall leave strange statue room and check out other one!

Spoiler:  Shanks The Monsters (click to show/hide)

 Name -  Shanks The Monsters
Background - Shanks is a Kobold. Someone told Shanks he could find dosh here Shanks likes dosh thus Shanks is now here.
Statistics
Skill-at-arms - 2
Brawn - 1
Focus - 1
Conviction - 1

Wounds: 0
Arcana: 0

Inventory and Equipment
Right Hand - Dagger
Left Hand - Dagger
Armor - Simple Clothes
Trinket - Weird paper thing.

Perks: 0 Point Remaining
(3) Caravan Hand Time spent working for a trade company has taught you a number of valuable lessons. You receive +1 to rolls when price haggling, looting, and foraging.
(1) Acrobat You are particularly adept at climbing, jumping, vaulting, and clambering. The first time in a turn a 1 is rolled for any such feat, it is instead rerolled.
(3) Silent The footsteps of a cat and the breathing of a mouse; in all things, you are quiet as a ghost. Enemies will never hear your movement, and have disadvantage on rolls to detect you.
(1) Quick Hands You may switch your equipped Right and Left Hand items, even while in combat.

Spells:

Shanks dips out of the room and closes the door, and just in time at that - a blur of motion descending from the ceiling and the sudden sound of raspy breathing tells Shanks that the room was not, in fact, as empty as it first seemed. Whatever's in the room seems unable to open the door, although the sound of something scratching against the stone surface indicates that it's certainly trying. The other door leads to a room that finally distinguishes itself from the grey brickwork that the rest of the Tower so far has been composed of: stepping over the threshold, Shanks finds himself struck immediately by the heat and humidity of this very, very large room, sporting a high ceiling bedecked with small points of light as to resemble a night sky. The ground is covered in a thick layer of soil, and plants of every shape and size imaginable sprout from it. Shanks, being well-traveled, recognizes these plants as jungle flora. The leaves and shrubbery that stretch out in all directions make it impossible to search for the area's entrances or exits. What looks to be a somewhat traveled path leads straight out from the door, but it certainly isn't the only way to go - following the wall in either direction could perhaps prove a safer pathway.

(I don't rest a bit? Would rather not have to pay for medicine or healing cause I got hurt.)

Lenglon's response more or less covers it. Natural healing is a very slow process that will take effect only over multiple turns, although resting and medicine may accelerate it. Making healing too accessible would devalue the utility of healing magic and perks.

[Egan_BW]

Isolde holds the icy throwing knife up by the blade, examining it more closely now that there's a moment.

"This might not be as valuable as I'd hoped. Wonder why I got a vision about it? Meleria, do you want it? Could... eat its iciness, or something."

[Lenglon]

"I... don't know. I can touch it and see what happens if you want."

Spoiler: Meleria (click to show/hide)

Name: Meleria
Background: This teenage Foxkin really has no buisness being in the Tower, though she doesn't see things that way. She sees it as being about what she needs. Either she succeeds here, or she has no future, so she might as well try.

Meleria's a Foxkin, a type of beastkin, and a minority that is commonly viewed as subhuman. Her family worked as peddlers, performing odd jobs from place to place, and living a mostly self-sufficient life. Never staying in one place overlong, so no one place was ever motivated to actively drive them off. Of course, that means when their wagon was attacked on the road, there was nobody to look for them. Nobody to provide the urgent medical aid they needed. Nobody to make sure that when Meleria crept back to the wagon from her hiding spot she'd run too during the attack, she wasn't alone.

lacking the skills to repair her family's wagon, she had to leave both it and her family's remains behind, limiting herself to what she could carry on her back. She found herself in the city of the Tower, and also found herself with a choice. She didn't have the right skills to make a proper living in the city, and to her mind attempting to find someone to take her in would just result in her becoming enslaved. But the Tower represented an option she wouldn't have anywhere else. A risky option for sure, but... What's she got to lose?

Description: This small female Foxkin has tan skin, brown shoulder-length hair, green eyes, and orange-brown furred ears and tail. She has slight build and a nervous but focused demeanor, her eyes and ears flicking about in reaction to slight noises. She has a habit of holding her own tail when anxious, and when resting tends to curl up with it in her arms.

Statistics
Skill-at-arms: 0
Brawn: 1
Focus: 2
Conviction: 2

Wounds: 0.25
Arcana: 1.0

Inventory and Equipment
Right Hand:
Left Hand:
Armor: Simple Clothes
Trinkets:

Perks
Acrobat: You are particularly adept at climbing, jumping, vaulting, and clambering. The first time in a turn a 1 is rolled for any such feat, it is instead rerolled.
Attuned:You are aware of the ebb and flow of the world's arcane current, and have the potential to tap into it. You may cast spells.
Flame attunement: Your spells that have a chance to ignite enemies will always do so.

Spells
Immolate (0.5 Arcana, 0.5 Wound, ranged, can ignite enemies for continuous damage)