I'll write the starting turn now. The remaining two players can join and post an action at the same time.
Turn 0You 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
StatusAkroma
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.
ArtifactsHe 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.
LocationsThe First Floor: A lavishly decorated temple to the god Ecid. Monks are walking around busily.