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[Golgath]

I may be interested in joining, but I usually forget things like this and I'd hate to hold everyone else up because I didn't post. 

[Wooty]

I'll join, as long as we aren't going down the LOLEXPLODEUNIVERSE route. And there should be some kind of permadeath (rejoin as an NPC/ new player if theres a ton of slots open maybeh?), because the invincible and untouchable ghosts floating around doing whatever they wanted was just game breaking :(

[penguinofhonor]

Rules

• Some things won't work on a five, and some things will only work on a five. It's up to me. You can gain special powers (eg. pyrokinesis, telekinesis, electricity manipulation) that allow you to do more things.
• If you don't post, then your character will go on basic AI, meaning that they'll perform actions to save themselves if they're in mortal danger. Healers will heal and people with resurrection powers will use them. If you don't post for two turns, someone can take your character.
• If you don't think you can make every single round, then you can put multiple actions in a single round. These must be clearly numbered, and you can change actions later if you are able to make it to the forum when you thought you couldn't.
• You cannot use powers on multiple targets or on distant targets until you have trained your powers enough to get that ability. There are some exceptions, but it's my call.

Various Game Mechanics

• Every player gets a "free action" every turn. One. Free actions are auto-successful actions, limited to picking items up, talking to other people for RP purposes, getting information from NPCs (not items or skill training), giving or taking items, or walking to adjacent rooms/areas in the same floor of the tower. There will be no rolls for these except charisma rolls to see how responsive NPCs are for you and, if necessary, rolls to see who gets an item if multiple people want it. Stealing items is not a free action, and neither is searching for items. Some other actions may be free actions, but this is on a case-by-case basis and I will tell you. Skills might let you get free actions in occasionally.
• You can hold two items without anything to carry them. You can only wear one of each type of metal/solid armor, but cloth armor can be stacked. You will get penalties if you put on too much, though. Having a wounded hand means that you can't carry heavy objects in that hand, and having a heavily wounded hand means that the hand can't hold anything. These rules change depending on the number of hands you have.
• There will be separate dodge and damage rolls. This allows me to make more unique abilities and weapons. All attack overshots that result in a powerful attack (they can make other things happen sometimes) will give the attacked person -1 dodge, and all dodges that roll 1 will give the person -1 to their damage avoidance roll.
• Swarm rules are in effect. Every attack on a person after the first gives them an additional -1 to dodge.
• Permadeath is in. If you die, then you have 1 turn to be revived by someone else. After that, someone else can replace you. Every time you die, you get a -1 to being revived.
• You can dual wield weapons, allowing you to attack twice in one turn (it must be on the same enemy, and it's possible that you won't get your second hit in if you fail bad enough). The effectiveness of this depends on the size of the weapons. Even with the smallest weapons, your second attack will have penalty of -1. The penalty grows with the size of your weapons. A long sword and a dagger will get you -1 to both attacks. Two short swords will as well. It's my judgment, but you're free to ask me what various combinations would do.
• Your allies can be given orders, but not controlled directly. Team allies can be given orders by anyone, but if you have a reputation for screwing up then they probably won't be listened to. You can get your own personal allies through necromancy and taming and stuff, which can only be ordered by you. The more intelligent they are, the more easily they'll abandon you if you screw up.
• Diminishing bonuses decrease by 1 every time they're used, stopping at 0. Some might continue degrading after 0, but I'll tell you, so don't worry unless I say you should.
• Aside from the 1 minion you get normally and the cap on minions you get from various powers (eg. necromancy), you can have other minions. The first one requires a concentration roll every turn and will give you -1 to all other thought rolls while controlling it. Every subsequent minion adds another -1 to thought rolls and adds a -1 to minion concentration rolls. Concentration rolls are governed by the same bonuses and penalties as thought rolls.

Skills and Powers
Skills and Powers are similar. Skills are anything that a normal human could do, like swordfighting or weaponsmithing, and leveling them allows you to perform them with greater efficiency. Powers are like magic, and gaining and leveling them allows you to perform them in the first place.
They level up through use and training. Training levels them up more quickly than simply using them. By using them, you get 1 exp for a 4 and 2 exp for a 5 or 6, and by training them you get 1 exp for a 3, 2 exp for a 4, and 3 exp for a 5 or 6. It takes 1 exp to get to level one of a skill or power, 2 exp to get to level 2, and so on. The only exception is legendary for skills, which requires 20 exp.
When your skills and powers get capped, they'll turn blue in your status and I'll tell you about it. Skills are all capped at legendary but the cap for powers is variable.
You can get specializations in skills, which allow you to perform specific tasks related to that skill. Some examples would be a swordsman that can strike twice in a turn with his sword and an armorsmith that specializes in helmets. Feel free to think up your own specializations, but I'll put examples in the Specific Skill/Power Mechanics section. You can take three specializations, at no-adjective, master, and legendary. You must train to get them like you train to get experience, except the one at legendary is free.

Spoiler: Skill levels (click to show/hide)

• Dabbling
• (no-adjective)
• Skilled
• Adept
• Expert
• Master
• High Master
• Grand Master
• Legendary

Spoiler: Magic/Power levels (click to show/hide)

• Weak powers
• Powers
• Strong powers
• Very strong powers
• Super strong powers
• Incredibly strong powers
• Masterful powers
• High-masterful powers
• Grand-masterful powers (max for most people)
• Superhuman powers
• Greater superhuman powers
• Demigodly powers
• Greater demigodly powers
• Godly powers (you're not going to get this far)

Specific Skill/Power Mechanics

Spoiler: Weapon Skills (click to show/hide)

Specializations:
Fast Strikes: Allows you to use a small weapon or your fists as if you were dual wielding that weapon. Recommended for small weapons and unarmed combat since the penalties are smallest for those.
Hand-to-hand combat/Same-weapon combat: Gives +1 accuracy if the opponent is using the same type of weapon. Hand-to-hand combat doesn't work against enemies that aren't roughly humanoid.
Dual Wielding/Advanced Fast Strikes: Removes one level of the -1 damage penalty when dual wielding with that weapon. Advanced Fast Strikes can only be taken after Fast Strikes for wrestling.

Spoiler: Alchemy Powers (click to show/hide)

-2 to transforming living things.

Spoiler: Teleportation Powers (click to show/hide)

Self-Teleportation: -2 to teleporting places you haven't been, you cannot teleport long distances until you train enough to get that ability, and you can only teleport objects and creatures that you're touching, and you must teleport yourself along with them.
Other-Teleportation: You cannot teleport targets that you don't see, you cannot teleport targets that aren't close to you unless you train enough to get that ability (same with teleporting targets to a location that's a long distance away), and you cannot teleport yourself to places.

Spoiler: Enchantment Powers (click to show/hide)

Useless without other powers to enchant things with, and does not use the bonuses from other powers unless you train enough (in enchantment) to get that skill.

Round 2 Players (FULL):
Akroma
Wooty
Sean Mirrsen
Devath
Poltifar
SHAD0Wdump
Jetman123
Cyx
Golgath
qwertyuiopas
Kashyyk
Frelock
Jackrabbit
Mulch Diggums
omegaalpha
Chaoticag
Armok

[Golgath]

Guess I'll join, then.  Like mentioned previously, I hope it doesn't go all universe explodey.. =P

[qwertyuiopas]

I claim a spot.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I should say it all began with me posessing the Earth. Since permadeath is in effect now, meaning no ghosts, destroying the universe in such fun ways should be significantly less possible. I'll keep my spot, let's see if I can cause the beginning of the end of the world again.

[penguinofhonor]

No, sean, this game will center around a tower. One that looks like this, but each dice will be about a thousand feet on each side and there will be countless dice stacked.

[Kashyyk]

I can has spot?

[penguinofhonor]

Kashyyk, you're in.

So I have a question. Should I cover up the rolls with acronym tags like Sean does?

Like this:
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Or is everyone fine seeing their rolls?

[Jetman123]

I'm fine seeing the rolls.

[SHAD0Wdump]

Seeing the rolls is preferred by my account.

Oh,and I'm definitely in.

[Frelock]

If there's still a spot left, I'd like to join!

[Jackrabbit]

i'm in. i'm in. I'M IN. i would never forgive myself otherwise

[penguinofhonor]

I'll write the starting turn now. The remaining two players can join and post an action at the same time.

Turn 0

You wander into a city, looking around. Everything in this city is built like it's from a different period in time. You see great Roman marble buildings, gothic cathedrals, Arabian towers, modern office buildings, and much more.

You are in a group along with fourteen other people of questionable age, nationality, and possibly gender. You and they are each clothed in a simple toga-like cloth, each of a different color. You came from all over to make a pilgrimage to this town, to visit the great temple to the god Ecid (I'm not being too creative with the names here, if you can't tell).

Looking forward, you see the temple. It doesn't really surprise you, because it is a huge tower that can be seen from thousands of miles away. It looks like a huge stack of dice, with each dice made of a different material. The bottom dice is made of yellowish stone blocks. There is a huge set of doors, covered in gold and gems. The doors are about fifty feet tall. Each dice is about 1000 feet (304.8 meters for all you metric system fans) along each side. The dice stack seemingly infinitely into the sky.

The temple has been around for as long as anyone has remembered. Nobody has ever been above the first dice, and you don't really plan to. The first dice is a beautiful temple, decorated with the most expensive materials possible. A huge staircase, slightly less decorated than the rest of the temple, is in the center and is said to lead up to the second dice, which from the outside is made of mossy stone, covered in creeping vines that make beautiful flowers in the spring.

As you enter the temple, it is far more beautiful than you could have imagined. Monks walk around busily, carrying gifts to Ecid and praying at some of the many altars in the temple. You see six cubes arranged in a semicircle, with numbers facing inwards.

On the cube marked with a 1, there is a burn mark and a charred seed. On cube 2, there is a seed simply sitting on it. Cube 3 has a small, stunted tree on top of it. There is a normal tree on cube 4, not perfectly healthy but fully grown. On cube 5 sits a fully grown, beautiful tree. On cube 6 sits a monstrosity of a tree, grown so large that many of its branches have snapped off because they weighed too much.

You would stop to further look at some of the altars and decorations but a monk runs up to you.

"You are the warriors of legend!" he cries. He pulls a book out from somewhere, which you see is labeled Generic Prophecies. He reads from it: "The four warriors of light shall come with four crystals... No, that's not the one. Let's see here. Fifteen people..."

As he's looking for a fitting prophecy in the book, another monk walks up to the group. "Friends, don't be worried about Felix here. He's been trying to get people to climb those stairs all year. You shouldn't climb them. It's too dangerous. You would be handing your lives over to chance. That's not a smart decision."

But you're intrigued by the offer. Looking around, you see that the rest of the group is as well. You talk amongst yourselves and decide that foolishly sacrificing your lives would be an incredibly fun thing to do, and tell the monks this.

"What?" the head monk asks. "You can't be serious." He then realizes that whenever someone says this, they're always talking to someone who is serious. Thinking for a moment, he whispers something to some monks and they run off. In a moment they bring back a box.

"Every floor contains a powerful magic artifact. This is this floor's artifact." He opens the box and pulls out a golden amulet, shaped like a horseshoe magnet. One end of the magnet shines brightly and the other end seems to emanate darkness. "Give it to your luckiest person. This amulet will make their good luck better and their bad luck worse. It is called Fortuna Aurea."

Handing it to your group, he gives you one more comment. "Stay here as long as you need to. Be fully prepared before you face the trials of the Tower of Ecid."

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Okay, here's how this is going to work. You get to specify the color of your character's toga. If you don't specify, then it's white.
And if you want Fortuna Aurea, then ask for it. If multiple people want it then I'll determine who gets it by seeing who gets the highest dice roll. It gives you +1 to all rolls with a final roll of 4 or 5 and a -1 to all rolls with a final roll of 2 or 3. It can be very helpful or dangerous. Mostly dangerous since you'll be getting sixes and ones a lot more, but you'll need to remember that I'm a benevolent GM and most of my sixes are more positive than negative.

The goal of the game is to get to the top of the tower. Hopefully with as many people as possible. The floors and their artifacts will be determined by dice rolls. There will be an event dice roll

Status

Spoiler: This is pretty long (click to show/hide)

Akroma
On the first floor. Wearing a black, red laced toga.
Wooty
On the first floor. Wearing a white toga.
Sean Mirrsen
On the first floor. Wearing a color-changing toga.
Devath
On the first floor. Wearing a dark red toga.
Poltifar
On the first floor. Wearing a toga.
SHAD0Wdump
On the first floor. Wearing a black toga.
Jetman123
On the first floor. Wearing a bright red toga.
Cyx
On the first floor. Wearing a black toga.
Golgath
On the first floor. Wearing a green toga.
qwertyuiopas
On the first floor. Wearing a blue toga.
Kashyyk
On the first floor. Wearing a toga.
Frelock
On the first floor. Wearing a navy blue toga.
Jackrabbit
On the first floor. Wearing a very dark purple toga.
Mulch Diggums
On the first floor. Wearing an orange toga.
omegaalpha
On the first floor. Wearing a yellow toga.

Artifacts

Spoiler: Fortuna Aurea (click to show/hide)

He opens the box and pulls out a golden amulet, shaped like a horseshoe magnet. One end of the magnet shines brightly and the other end seems to emanate darkness. "Give it to your luckiest person. This amulet will make their good luck better and their bad luck worse. It is called Fortuna Aurea."
It gives the wearer +1 to all rolls with a final roll of 4 or 5 and a -1 to all rolls with a final roll of 2 or 3.

Locations
The First Floor: A lavishly decorated temple to the god Ecid. Monks are walking around busily.

[Golgath]

I attempt to learn how to revive people, other players and more, and I certainly do not want the amulet of extremes.  If necessary, I will pray to this 'Ecid' in order to learn how to revive others.

Edit: And my toga shall be green.