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[freeformschooler]

Turn 32

Location: The Mushroom Kingdom
Time: Afternoon
Weather: Sunshine and Rainbows
Light: Plenty Enough

Turn Intro

Shop selection has been revealed, and certain heroes have crafted an elaborate plan to get what they want. Will they?

Shop list

Spoiler: The Silversmithy (click to show/hide)

Silver Sword - 500 coins
Silver Lance - 500 coins
Silver Hammer - 500 coins
Fang of the Colossus - 1000 coins

Spoiler: Ye Olde Armor Shoppe (Oomph, Fuzz) (click to show/hide)

Cloth Robe - 100 coins
Bronze plate armor - 300 coins
Iron Armor - 600 coins

Spoiler: Bronze Works (Zachary, Joe, Red) (click to show/hide)

Copper Longsword - 200 Gold
Refined Bronze Sword - 400 coins
Bronze Greatsword - 500 coins

Spoiler: The Magic Shop (Bradley) (click to show/hide)

Spellbook of the Elements - 300 coins
Spellbook of Healing - 300 coins
Spellbook of Light - 200 Gold
Advanced Spellbook of Light - 600 Gold

Turn Results

Red: Wrong shop. Go to Bronze Works.

Going to Bronze Works is definitely a thing you're going to do. You wave goodbye to the shop owner and head out along the main roads again. Eventually, using your keen Koopa senses (these may or may not be real), you find yourself at Bronze Works!

A scruffy human guy person greets you. He looks baffled to have this much business. Also, you see Joe and Zachary here!

Bradley: Go to the magic shop. For reals.

You float pass the strange, childish humans and end up at the magic shop. It seems slightly different than the last one you visited. Books of varying potency adorn the shelves behind the Goomba that runs the place.

The Goomba shop owner speaks to you. Goombas have some difficulty enunciating words, but you can clearly hear him say "Hey! That mini-forge! I'll give ya' 400 for it!"

You suddenly remember that you've been lugging around that mini-forge all this time. You COULD keep it and use it to craft an extremely powerful piece of weaponry or armor... OR, you could sell it for some quick coins. You don't know which to choose.

Oomph: Sell the bronze shortsword, then attempt to buy iron armor.

You tell the highly armored shopkeeper to wait one moment. You jog out of Ye Olde Armor Shoppe, and head to Bronze Works. When you get there, a bunch of idiots consisting a Toad, a Human and another Koopa are standing around doing nothing. You ignore them, and head right up to the shop keeper.

You put your useless bronze shortsword on the desk. He examines it carefully, and understands your intent to sell.

"My! What a finely crafted bronze shortsword! And in such pristine condition," says the shopkeeper. "I'll give you 150 coins for it, instead of the regular 50."

You don't hesitate, and grab the gold. You head out of the shop, and jog all the way back to Ye Olde Armor Shoppe. When you get there, the armor-laden shopkeeper hasn't moved. Not like he could, though, with all that armor.

You put the 500 coins down on the desk, and say you're willing to haggle for the iron armor. The shopkeeper eyes your Haunting Club, but also noticing something else in your inventory.

Only now do you notice you've been carrying around some other club. Is that... oh man, it IS. It's a genuine, straight-off-the-forge Koopaball Club from Bowserbowl '51. This is amazing. You have to keep it. Such nostalgia!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Now you just have to decide what else to haggle with. You're short 100 coins!

Fuzz: Imitate Oomph again.

You put down your entire stock of coins for some iron armor. The shopkeeper says he would oblige, but the mean-looking turtle-like one is currently haggling for the only set. You can wait, or buy some bronze armor instead.

You decide to buy some bronze armor instead. Besides, you could buy some magic with the leftover money, if you wanted! You put down 300 coins, and receive bronze armor. Huzzah!

Zachary: Tip your hat, and ask for favors.

You tip your truly high-class headwear shop-keeper-wards. Then, instead of buying something, you ask if he has anything SPECIAL for the heroes of the Kingdom.

The shopkeeper winces. Then he walks out from behind his desk, and heads right up to you, and puts his finger on your forehead.

"Listen, punk," he says. "I don't have anything for you. Do you know what happened the last time some bright-eyed, golden-haired 'HERO' wandered in and wanted something free?"

You shake your head. You're terrified.

"That kid stole my most powerful magical lance replica. Then he ran out of the shop, and headed out of the city before the guards could catch him," continues the shopkeeper. "So NO FREE WEAPONS FOR HEROES!"

You had no idea this was coming. But you wonder who this bright-eyed dude was?

Joe: Buy the bronze greatsword.

You put down your entire stock of coins to buy the greatsword. The shopkeeper hands it to you, and is surprised with the ease at which you wield it! (wielded Bronze Greatsword)

Player List

Spoiler: Red (Darvi) (click to show/hide)

Name: Red
Race: Koopa Paratroopa (Red)
Bio: A swordsman who got fed up with Bowser and left the army.
HP: 15/15
MP: 10/10
Other stats:
Armor Value +1
Slashing +1
Piercing +0
Crushing +0
Active skills/spells:
Shell Cover (Two 6's away from upgrade!)
Passive skills/spells:
Air Fighting
Flying
Shine the Way
Thick Shell II
Equipment:
200 Gold
Bronzelight (worn)
Bronze Shortsword (wielded)
Piranha Plant thorns
Wingblade
200 coins

Spoiler: Bradley Oliver Oakes (SeriousConcentrate) (click to show/hide)

Name: Bradley Oliver Oakes
Race: Boo
Bio: A rather cowardly ghost even by Boo standards. However, he's always admired the story of Mario and Luigi, and when he learned they were captured, he decided to take a stand for once in his life and try to rescue them!
HP: 15/15
MP: 10/10
Other stats:
Armor Value +0
Slashing +0
Piercing +0
Crushing +0
Active skills/spells:
Darkness I
Fire I
Ice I
Lightning I
Passive skills/spells:
Flying
Chronic Shyness
Equipment:
Spellbook of the Elements (bound)
Iron Club (wielded)
Red mushroom x3
Smithy's Mini-anvil
Frostknife
200 coins

Spoiler: Oomph (Dwarmin) (click to show/hide)

Name: Oomph
Race: Koopa (Green)
Bio: A former football player who kicked out of the bowser leagues for falling in a pit chasing after Mario.
HP: 15/15
MP: 10/10
Other stats:
Armor Value +0
Slashing +0
Piercing +0
Crushing +1
Active skills/spells:
Shell Cover
Heal I (2 natural 6's from upgrade)
Passive skills/spells:
Thick Shell I
Spook
Equipment:
Haunting Club (wielded)
Spellbook of Healing (bound)
Koopaball Club
Iron Armor
500 coins

Spoiler: Fuzz (FuzzyZergling) (click to show/hide)

Name: Fuzz
Race: Human
Bio: A blacksmith recruited by the Mushroom Kingdom, he is tall and well built, with black hair and grey eyes.
HP: 15/15
MP: 5/5
Other stats:
Armor Value +0
Slashing +0
Piercing +0
Crushing +1
Active skills/spells:
Fireball I (Two 6's from upgrade!)
Power Strike
Passive skills/spells:
Quick Learner
Equipment:
300 coins
Steel maul. (wielded)
Cute One
Bronze plate armor - 300 coins

Spoiler: Zachary Jones (Zako) (click to show/hide)

Name: Zachary Jones
Race: Human
Bio: Used to be an ancient histories teacher and part time archaeologist and has never been shy of going out into the world to find artefacts and forgotten cultures. When the call for heroes came, naturally he answered as he saw it as his chance to explore the world!
HP: 10/10
MP: 0/0
Other stats:
Armor Value +0
Slashing +0
Piercing +0
Crushing +0
Active skills/spells:
Fireball I
Power Strike
Passive skills/spells:
Quick Learner
Equipment:
500 coins

Spoiler: Joe (TherosPherae) (click to show/hide)

Name: Joe
Race: Toad
Bio: Having been kicked out of the military for excessive violence against a superior officer, Joe sees this as an opportunity to worm his way back into the military system.
HP: 10/10
MP: 0/0
Other stats:
Armor Value +1
Slashing +2
Piercing +1
Crushing +1
Active skills/spells:
Empowered Attack
Passive skills/spells:
Thick skin
Uncanny strength
Kingdom Training
Short and Squat
Slash Stun
Equipment:
Bronze Greatsword (wielded)

Turn Outro

Some plans go better than others. Oomph's is in progress, and looking like it's going to work, but Zachary's failed spectacularly. Oh well!

Spoiler: OOC (Please read, important, need opinions) (click to show/hide)

Okay so this is a problem. Fuzzy hasn't been on since the 2nd of this month. What do I do? I don't want to just replace him, but having someone else control him isn't as fun, I'm sure, as having their own character. And autoing is lame.

[Darvi]

Pacify the shopkeeper. The man probably didn't mean it like that (also, getting favors from other PC's is always good). Then sell my obsolete weapon.

[Dwarmin]

"Oomph would trade this club, for the armor-let me tell you the tale of how I found it...

Spoiler: The Legend of the Haunting Club! (click to show/hide)

The further adventures of Oomph and Bragley!

Oomph saw his qarry was in sight. He was not afraid-he had the HAUNTING CLUB-which he had long ago hacked from the roots of the vile World Eating Tree he had defeated in the underground realm. It had killed so much evil since then, it had become evil-and had the ability to release fear spirits when it struck his enemies.

Thus the quarry, Super-Bubba, scourge of the seas had finally shown his ugly, buck toothed face. The massive fish had been destroying and eating so many ships and their crews, NO ONE LIVED to tell the tale-that's why you haven't heard of him btw.

Oomph was not afraid-he strode boldly up to the creature, and said "For the destruction of Kingdom Property, I, Oomph the lone hero who no one helps win, challenge you to THRILLING SINGLE COMBAT!"

Bragely let out a ghosty scream and hid in a nearby pickle barrel.

Super-Bubba grunted...and swallowed Ooomph WHOLE! Lesser Heroes would have been digested, but not Oomph-though use the Ki-Chen-Chaos breathing technique he had learned from his years among the sand monks, he stored his breath in his legs and was able to stay conscious.

Next, he pulled forth his Haunting Club, and BEAT HIS WAY OUT OF THE MONSTERS STOMACH. He tunneled to the creatures only weak spot-it's fishy hellbound heart.

But, as he rose the club to smite the being, he saw something-there was a mean little spiked Fuzzy sleeping on it's heart, no doubt causing the creature great agony-and thus, the reason for it's destructive actions. Oomph, being the empathetic and rational hero he was, smote the fuzzy instead, freeing Super-Bubba from it's pain!

After teleporting outside, using his teleport stone of course, the Super-Bubba thanked Oomph by ferrying him to a Coral Castle under the sea where he spent the next year being entertained by totally cool Sea Maidens, who were a bit stuck up and work oriented, but in most other ways nice.

But, alas and alack! He eventually had to leave. And he left all that awesome weapons and other stuff behind, too, since the Maidens needed it more than him to protect themselves. He only kept the HAUNTING CLUB, because they would have been afraid to use it!

Bragley spent the year in the pickle barrel, only coming out when Oomph retrieved him. He smelled like pickles, and still does to this very day.

Thusly did Oomph come to this humble shop-having heard of the owners legendary reputation-to barter away his Haunting Club, used to save the kingdom umpteenth times, for a piece of humble armor with which to coat himself.

Oomph is probably months away from dual wielding!

He offers to sell the shopkeeper the Legendary Haunting Club-and the above tall tale to embellish it-to finish the deal and maybe make extra money!

[freeformschooler]

Oh lord that just made my day. Bravo, Dwarmin

[Dwarmin]

From what I understand, you like to draw and animate as much, if not more, than you like to write Freeformschooler.

Thought I'd help you out by giving you something to do. 

Edit: I vote to Replace Fuzz. We got alot of people on the waiting list, and if we do while we're in the Kingdom, it will make sense in-character wise, rather than just having him disappear or get modkilled in the wilds.

[Darvi]

And if he gets back, he can rejoin the party with his old character!

After he got through the waiting list, of course.

[freeformschooler]

From what I understand, you like to draw and animate as much, if not more, than you like to write Freeformschooler.

Thought I'd help you out by giving you something to do. 

Edit: I vote to Replace Fuzz. We got alot of people on the waiting list, and if we do while we're in the Kingdom, it will make sense in-character wise, rather than just having him disappear or get modkilled in the wilds.

I do like to draw and animate more than I like to write. The bad part is I am much, much WORSE at it than I am at writing. I cannot do something like this, though, without drawing stuff to go along with it. I would just get too bored. Anyway, I look forward to drawing this fiction-inside-fiction as a comic.

Fuzz represents a complicated situation since he has some link to a major NPC, but that can be worked out in time. Or... nah, spoilers. I'm going to have the next person on the waiting list post their character sheet again and join up next turn.

[Firelordsky]

"Ah... the joy of doing nothing." Some Italian Proverb.

Name:Amadeus Septimus Jormund Flake Hanser Cook
Race:Podoboo
Super awesome bio thing:Named Podoboo 3 at birth he changed his name to Amadeus Septimus Jormund Flake Hanser Cook at 13 when he was having problems with not being unique, after he set off to the world to clean the monsters out of the lava pipes. When he came back his friends Podoboo 1 and 2 told him about Bragely and Oomph, and like the unique Podoboo he was he set out to go with them

[SeriousConcentrate]

Can I use the mini-forge to combine books? If so, would it be possible to combine two Tier 1 books to get a Tier 2 book?

[Dwarmin]

It's funny how his character coming in coincides with the next phrase of the legend.

Who he will find out very soon is not quite so legendary after all!

[freeformschooler]

Thanks Firelordsky! I'll work you in next turn (and somehow work Fuzz OUT). Being a podoboo will probably be interesting, at worst.

Can I use the mini-forge to combine books? If so, would it be possible to combine two Tier 1 books to get a Tier 2 book?

Yes. I cannot guarentee what the results will entail, but that sounds like a thing that is likely to happen.

It's funny how his character coming in coincides with the next phrase of the legend.

Who he will find out very soon is not quite so legendary after all!

Wait, what legend is this again?

[Dwarmin]

You know.

The Legend Of Oomph, Hero of the Kingdom!
~and Bragely, the Wimpy Ghost!~

[SeriousConcentrate]

Bradley coughed nervously and ducked the question of the mini-forge. "U-um, actually, I would like a spellbook of light," he said, putting his coins on the counter.

De-equip Spellbook of the Elements in preparation of combining it with the Spellbook of Light. Buy Spellbook of Light. If possible on this turn, use mini-forge to combine books, equip result.

[TherosPherae]

Loiter while waiting for everyone else to finish their shopping. Man, why can't they just quickly pick what they want like REAL MEN do?

[Zako]

"If you were to have waited a moment, I would have told you that I was willing to pay. No real hero would steal from an honest merchant! You have been swindled by a thief. If you can give me his description and name, I could look for him and bring him to you if possible. So, if you are going to be civil to a customer, then I ask again, do you have anything special for sale?"