Alright, let's hope there's nothing egregious here. I think I covered everything.............. probably. In any case, keep a close look on your status and see if I reflect everything from the turn in it.
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It's time for drastic measures. I unlock my mind temporary to Frelock so he can look for my powers.
| You try as hard as you can to sense Frelock's presence and open your mind to him, but you get a feeling your struggles make no difference to him.
OK, I'm back on the quest for truck-mode then.
| Remembering the success of the Ashcraver's acquisition, you start assuming various "action" poses and shouting various nonsense at the top of your voice - "POWER EXXTREME!!!"… "OVERDRIVE ACCELERATE!!!"… "KORORA TRANSFORM!!!" As you shout the last phrase, you feel your body suddenly begin to move on its own! Your legs fold in on themselves, arms also fold and meld themselves into the upper body, the upper body itself turns 180 degrees, your head sinks into it, allowing your chestpiece to rise upward, obscuring your vision. After a few seconds of this, you regain your vision, and notice several changes. First, you are noticeably shorter than you were. Second, you don't seem to have arms, legs, or even a head, yet somehow you manage to see and hear everything around you. There's no mirror to tell you about it, but you have that distinct "I think I'm a sofa" feeling, except in your case it's a pickup truck. You try to move, but, naturally, you are quite confused, since you no longer have controllable limbs. You also wonder about the whereabouts of your sword.
I take another look at the van.
| You climb over into the back of the van.
| You are quite disappointed to see nothing but empty sacks that used to hold money.
electricity overload!! lets burn underwear!
| You focus your lightnings around you, burning the underwear in your immediate vicinity into ashes.
I use the underwear I am covered by to make a harpoon-like weapon.
| You take the underwear off your armor and string it together in hopes of making something useful. You end up with something like a very classy christmas tree decoration, but there's no way you could possibly use it as a weapon.
I'll try to get better at making and fixing things with my tools, using the van as practice material.
| You approach the van and start fiddling around with your tools. You manage to remove the other headlight, leaving the van completely without forward lighting. You don't, however, feel any more competent about your technician skills.
Instead of waking up, lets check out the other real next to mine. You know the one.
| Wandering through your mind, you happen upon a door. No, not a door. A massive steel gate towering above you, deeply engraved with symbols you never saw in your life, yet somehow you understand them. They roughly translate to "Critical danger. Never open under any circumstances. No, not even then.". Intrigued by the mysterious gate, you start moving the massive reinforced wooden beams that hold the door closed.
| You suddenly realize that being unconscious, you have no control over the spirit of the demon, and it would easily overpower you and take over. You hastily shove the beams back into their place and leave the door alone.
I identify my own mind out of the streams of consciousness that are flowing through my brain, making the others not affect my own mental state (though letting mine affect theirs, of course).
| After a minute of intense focusing, you manage to clear up your mind, shoving the multitude of mental streams into the background. It was hard, and that was only for the ten people around you. But at least their presence will not disrupt your thought anymore. (The players and the dwarf no longer count toward the penalties you receive)
Ok, my action is to improve my dodging skills. While I wait
| You practice dodging by leaping and rolling around. Without any challenge, however, the training is fruitless.
I try to use magnifying glass to look first at the virus then at chaoticags skin
| You use your little lens to examine the virus in the tubes. Surprise surprise, the lens doesn't help in any way. You need a real microscope. Looking at chaoticag, however, reveals the nature of his power - his sweat glands produce tiny quantities of concentrated viral substance that will be injected through the spores of the skin, should you touch it. You realise that even being close to chaoticag is rather dangerous, and back off.
moar rpg7 ammoz!!
| You try a different approach. Taking one of the grenades out of your bag, you hold it one hand and try to use it as a reference to create another in the other hand. You concentrate VERY HARD!!! <
KABLAAM!!> The grenade in your hand explodes from you clutching it so hard, showering you with debris!
| The shaped explosive blew upwards, raining hot fragments of metal down onto everyone, but causing little harm. You are slammed into the wall behind you, getting multiple dints and cracks that are quickly repaired by the cube.
I press button leading to world number 1 or 2. Whichever got more votes.
| You walk up to the panel, and weigh the options. You choose between the world number 1 and number 2. After much hesitation, you poke the button number 1 with your finger. Immediately the world around you shatters into a quadrillion tiny fragments and your mind is subjected to deathly silence as you observe what seems like the immense vastness and blackness of space. Tiny white dots start racing past your field of vision, more and more of them until suddenly a massive wave of this fuzzy light blasts through you like a barrage of bullets, torturing your mind for a tiny fraction of a second before you are released and fall to your knees onto the rug. You feel cold.
Transcendence!!! Boksi:{5} Boksi is unconscious and does not feel the shift.
andrea:{3} Andrea is slightly nauseated by the transcendence.
Frelock:{2} Frelock's allergy to worldshifting continues to show, but at least he doesn't fall to the ground vomiting this time. He's still dazed and nauseous.
Kashyyk:{5} Kashyyk withstood the shift's effects this time.
korora:{2} Korora's strange state added to his confusion, and the shift worsened the situation a bit. He's disoriented now.
LASD:{4} LASD pulls through with hardly a flinch.
chaoticag:{6} Chaoticag tries to collect information about the world you are entering by opening his mind during the shift. He sees a stream of images, a barren world of little importance, a massive armored force prepared to strike, a small group of hired guns fighting for their lives in the narrow ravines, and a massive tour de force, a battle of epic proportions between mortal enemies, set up by the hired guns as their only chance of survival. Then he passes out. He was the only one to be contacting the van, but he brought it along.
Rooster:{3} Rooster is slightly dazed by the shift. He was handling the suitcase when the shift occurred, and he is now carrying it.
Jay Kayell:{3} JK is also mildly nauseated by the transfer.
Zako:{3} Zako is dazed.
Neo:{3} Neo is left a little dizzy after the shift.
Kosak:{6} Seeing Gantolandon go for the button, the dwarf panics and lunges for the closest member of the team with a "BULL RUSH TACKLE HUG!!!". The closest member just happens to be andrea, who withstands the onslaught, barely. The dwarf comes out slightly sizzled, his beard is smoking, but at least he pulled through with all of you.
When you appear on the other side, you cannot find any other word for your surroundings except "barren". Or maybe "dull". Red clay-ish ground stretching as far as you can see, covered by patches of weed or moss. Masses of bluish-black dark clouds covering the pale green sky. The air is cold, but at least there isn't much wind. The mountain your starting point is embedded into is very high, probably kilometers, and stretches like a massive wall off into the distance, though its slope varies and isn't as steep as where you are standing. It's quiet here.
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NPC Actions:
Allied: A stocky bearded creature that is the dwarf. Once a Keeper of Nogzulban, this dwarf has travelled with your company almost by accident. Clad in shiny plate armor with a chainmail underneath, this dwarf could be a potent warrior. Armed with a notched axe, but cannot use it properly. (+1 target dodge)
The dwarf examines the patches of moss.
| He walks off the rug, then suddenly slips and falls face first into the mud. It's been raining here not long before.
Neutral: None.
Enemy: None.
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Status after turn:
Location: Down on the rug in the large valley.
Equipment: Wearing a burnt reddish-black jacket of Karl Moebius leather, underwear, and slightly torn and singed jean shorts. Wearing a -Steel Full Helm- shaped like an anvil, with an intricate detail attached, and the The Smoldering Night of Peeling. Wielding a Darkfire Halberd.
Temporary Status: Unconscious (0).
Health: Unharmed.
Abilities: Basic TK Manipulation.Basic TK Healing. Big Bully. Visual Omnisensor (active).
Special status: Dense Carbon Flesh Interweave.
Location: Standing upright on the rug in the large valley.
Equipment: Wears underwear, fairly comfortable greyish trousers, and an armor set(-Iron splint-mail-, a shirt of leather, Bronze plated greaves, <<Iron high boots>>). Wields a +Steel maul of Lightning+.
Temporary Status: Nauseous (-1phys)
Health: Unharmed.
Abilities: Power Attack. Basic Hammerfighting. Shrapnel Self. Advanced TK Healing. Empowered by Lightning (currently Lightly Drained (-1spd)). Advanced Electricity Manipulation. Electricity Self-control. Selective Translator (active).
Location: Standing on the rug in te large valley.
Equipment: Faintly glowing image of crossed swords on the hood. Broken rooflights.
Temporary Status: Disoriented (-1)
Health: Undamaged.
Abilities: Can transform into a pickup truck.
Special status: Mech Navy blue Ford Lightning pickup.
Location: Down in the back of the van in the large valley.
Equipment: Wearing a purple sweatshirt over the head. Wearing the armor set: slightly dented +Steel Chestplate+, -Copper chainmail-, hard leather leggings and <<Copper plated boots>>. Wearing makeshift cloth gauntlets. Wielding a wooden broadsword with sharp edges of a shimmering material.
Temporary Status: Unconscious (-2).
Health: Skin turned pale grey with some darker spots.
Abilities: Basic Swordsmanship. Basic TK Healing. Extended TK Bolt. TK Ripper Slash. Infectuous (T-Virus).
Location: Standing upright on the rug in the large valley.
Equipment: Adorned with hanging loincloths. Wearing underwear, a thin silky sweater, and a set of armor: A <<*Bone full plate armor*>>, +Bone gauntlets+, +Bone high boots+, and +Bone full helm+. Wielding a +Bone Axe+. Holding a roll of aluminium foil (25cmx10m)
Health: Unharmed.
Abilities: Basic TK Healing(!). Selective Translator (active). Unknown ability.
Transportation: Beige armored cabrio-van. Front doors jammed. No headlights. +1 against physical and fire damage, -1 against critical damage, +1 ramming damage, -1 dodge.
Transp. Equip.: Some empty money bags.
Location: Standing upright on the rug in the large valley.
Equipment: Encrusted with a tastelessly arranged black bra. Wearing underwear, a ≡<<≡Giant cave spider silk robe≡>>≡, and +hippo leather sandals+. Wearing an amulet of a nature's power. Wielding a Steel Quarterstaff and a -Small Iron throwing knife- as a backup weapon. 11 shimmering arrows and 20 plain wooden arrows in the robe's quiver. Holding a shimmering shortbow.
Temporary Status: Nauseous (-1phys), Dazed (-1ment)
Health: Unharmed.
Abilities: Slightly improved strength. Meagerly improved agility. Can be cautious while calm. Improved TK Healing III(!). Stone Frank's Revivification. TK Field+. Selective Translator (active). Empowered Telepathy. Telepathy Overdrive(nobody in range).
Special Status: Electricity resistant.
Location: Standing upright on the rug in the large valley.
Equipment: Covered with some lingerie, but otherwise naked. Wields an RPG-7 (empty). Holds a brown leather hold-all bag.
Health: Unharmed.
Abilities: Enrage Other. Enrage Self. Extended TK Healing. Remote Body Control. Selective Translator (active). Wideband Omnisensor (active, UV).
Special Status: Omnilight on right hand (active). Flesh turned into steel. Thermal stress. Rollerblades in the forearms.
Location: Standing upright on the rug in the large valley.
Equipment: Some large gray-striped pants on the left shoulder. Wearing a set of armor consisting of (severely torn up) hard black studded leather armor and (somewhat burned) fur-quilted iron shoulderpads with horns. Wields a +Steel Battleaxe+. Holds a crude magnifying glass and the metal suitcase.
Temporary Status: Dazed (-1ment).
Health: Unharmed.
Abilities: Can perform heavy metal. Haywire Regenerator. Disease Resistant.
Special Status: Splitting lower jaw. Horselike lower body.. Four extra arms. Four fingers on each arm. Head hair transformed into flexible spikes. Body covered by patches of very hard tissue. Body covered with short thick black hairs. General -2 penalty to charisma when communicating with humanoid creatures, and another -1 if the creature's not hairy.
Location: Standing upright on the rug in the large valley.
Equipment: Wearing underwear, and a white/pink/yellow suit and top hat made of underwear. Also wearing the armor set: <<+Iron chain Cuirass+>>, -Iron chain gloves-, Iron chain greaves, and Iron low boots. Wielding a *Evil Aluminum tower shield*. Holding a piece of dwarven armor with a small key embedded. Holding a toolbox. (no free hands now) Owns a set of binoculars.
Health: Unharmed.
Abilities: Long Distance Runner. Improved mimics. Power of Peace. Power of Persuasion (suit bonus does not apply). Selective Translator (active).
Special Status: Peacekeeper (active on non-zombies).
Location: Standing upright on the rug in the large valley.
Equipment: Wearing purple stretchy shorts. Useless shreds of underwear on right arm. Holding a chain of strung-together underwear.
Temporary Status: Nauseated (-1phys).
Health: Unharmed.
Abilities: Novice Wrestler. Basic TK Healing. Blood of the Blood God. Blood Rage. Basic Pyrogenesis.
Transportation: Yellow personal mech, actually a glorified Corpse-steel power armor. Shows signs of self-awareness. Can absorb inanimate and living objects. Scramjet Attachment. Copper weave enhancement. Augmented Chest Armor.
Transp. Equip.: A collection of axes and swords, a long tri-blade claw, and steel clawed fists. 12 unspent bolts for internal launcher.
Location: Standing upright on the rug in the large valley.
Equipment: Wearing underwear.
Temporary Status: Dazed (-1ment).
Health: Unharmed.
Abilities: Strong. Aerogenesis/Aerokinesis. Possible undiscovered abilities.
Location: Standing upright on the rug in the large valley.
Equipment: Wearing underwear and a worn cloth jacket with spacious pockets. Has a cigarette lighter, and a baseball. Wields a broken crowbar.
Temporary Status: Dizzy (-1phys).
Health: Unharmed.
Abilities: Freestyle runner. Slick crawler. Experienced Climber. Uncanny jumping. Night vision. Heightened senses.
Special Status: No longer fears fire. Covered with fur. Mii'Ari physique. Mii'Ari hand claws.
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Artifacts: "A massive, massive, MASSIVE sword. It is three meters long, 1'3'' (~40cm) wide, and dazzingly bright. Its fine steel has been polished to reflect light like a mirror. Its one edge is curved, jagged at the hilt, the other is straight and so sharp it could probably slice adamantine blocks like salami. Down the center of the sword, which is at least 2'' thick, runs a hollow slit 3'' wide, in which yeat another, smaller and straighter sword is concealed. The entire surface of both swords, except of course the sharp cutting edges, is finely engraved with uncountable images, among which the launching of the Challenger, world war II, a nuclear explosion, a trainwreck, and a rotary excavator. The hilt itself (being at the same time the hilt of the smaller sword) is decorated with gold and emeralds you can only assume you've taken from someone, arranged in beautiful patterns, and the handle is woven with three lines - one is a scaly snake with two small rubies in the eyes, and two seem awfully like DNA strands. You get a feeling you could decipher the human genome if you looked closely enough. The guard of the hilt is exquisitely detailed as well, but right down the senter of it, spanning the breadth of the sword, is a solid rectangular golden plate, with the single word: ""ASHCRAVER"" deeply embossed onto it. The entire thing is so immeasurably brilliant, you almost don't want to touch it fearing it'll stick to your hand and corrupt you like some magic ring. Overcoming this fear, you pick it up. Despite its size, it is relatively lightweight, relatively, of course, to anything else so large and made of steel. (+2 to damage, +1 to attack, -1 agility)
The second form is a smaller (comparatively) blade, that together with the folding hilt guard looks like an overgrown sai. It's also exquisitely detailed, but lighter. (+1 to damage).
The Ashcraver seems to accumulate the energy released by the deaths it causes. The process is admittedly rather slow, but has good uses."
"The ring consists of a toroidal adamantine core surrounded by a shell of tempered steel with thin bands of gold along the rims of the ring. Set into an adamantine frame on its top is a Star Sapphire imbued with the dark soul of a Greater Demon, under absolute control of the wearer. The steel surface of the ring is covered by three hundred tiny tiles of granite, engraved with images of various creatures, all being dead.
The wearer of the ring may call onto the soul of the demon, which can manipulate darkness and fire - anything from direct projection to creating sentient forms to giving protection against.
The wearer can also give an order to summon a creature mad with rage (any creature from the DF world you have seen), which will use up one or several of the stone tiles, depending on the power of the creature. The tiles may be restored, but only through personally killing sentient creatures with bare hands and absorbing their essence with the ring, which also adds that creature to the ""summonable creatures"" list.
The price to pay for all this power is a constant aura of darkness that any living being will feel (and will react accordingly), and the wearer may, under critical stress, give in and become controlled by the trapped demon soul.
(No passive bonuses. In a single turn, you can either perform an act of darkness/fire manipulation (including creating a prolonged effect), or summon a creature/creatures, but not both. The magnitude and potential of both depend on your skill - the ring grants ""basic level"" only. You can only absorb the essence of a creature you killed with your own bare hands, and only if it died last turn, at most.)
Currently applied effects: (-1 to relevant ability for every active effect)
Darkfire halberd - haft of materialized darkness."
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Environment:
Unknown planet: The planet seems to be barren as a whole. The sky is green here, and the air is cold. Or maybe it's just autumn here.
Large Valley: A rather dull and barren valley covered by reddish clay soil with patches of some unknown weeds or moss.
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Background: [4] Neo faintly hears sounds of explosions, but he can't discern the exact direction except that it's "far far away". You also notice rather strange-looking footprints some distance from where you're standing.
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