Action 1 + Action 2 + Texter's Rifle + Particle Wand: I spin around, rapidly unleashing a barrage of shots on a variety of targets, catching the letters as they're knocked harmlessly free:
The capital A from the ruins of the Power Anchor
The W and a from an Ice Wall, the former of which I proceed to turn upside down
The S from a Snare, which I flip around backwards
The o and n, again from the ruined Power Anchor
The I and a from a different Ice Wall
The n from the other Snare
The capital A and lowercase r from Aurora's name and the c from Iceberg's (good dog. best friend.)
And, spinning the rifle around backwards, the h from the end of my very own "Splash".
I assemble the letters together in my hands, forming the name of a particular alchemy...
AMaZonIan Arch
I return the Rifle to my inventory and draw my new bow experimentally. It's not a true alchemy, more of a typographical hodgepodge from a dozen different sources, but it should hold together for long enough for one good shot. I pick up a long, straight splinter of the broken Power Anchor. Even with the Anchor destroyed, it's as strong a piece of wood as I might ever find, and who knows what sort of power-sapping potential might still be contained within. It should make a fine arrow shaft.
It's lacking in a head and a shaft, though. There are no feathers around to fletch with, but many modern arrows are fletched with plastic and have heads of carbon fiber, and there's no shortage of hydrocarbons in the arena. In fact, pretty much every organic material around could be broken down and reassembled into plastic with sufficient application of energy. My eyes roam over the various potential sources... I could use the remains of the Power Anchor again, but that seems repetitive. And in fact, I might be able to do even better. I take out the Particle Wand and point it at a stain of the Ranger's own blood, left behind on the ground after the wound dealt to her by the Mirror Golem. There's not nearly enough for a whole fletching, but even mixing that with the Anchor derivatives should make for a fine magical arrow, perfect for seeking her heart. So I split the blood's ingredients in half, mixing as many non-carbon components as I can use with hydrocarbons from the Anchor's wood to produce a plastic fletching and the carbon with more carbon from the ash left behind when the lightning struck the Anchor to produce a razor-sharp carbon fiber point.
I nock the arrow to the bow and take aim.
"Sure. You're a player. You can do anything we can. But that means that we can do anything you can, too."
The bow shatters in my hands as I release the arrow, the letters flying across the arena wildly until they fall back into place in their source objects. But the arrow flies true, striking the Ranger directly in the heart.
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Action 3: I throw my other two Multifunction Snares, putting them on BC21 and BH14 respectively as those seem to be the ice walls through which the enemies are trying to break. I'm rather concerned by the west wall coming under fire: We entered the arena from the west, so if enemies are coming through there, that means we've been flanked.
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Entity Orders:
The Mirror Golem shoots a narrow laser through the west Ice Wall, melting a pinprick hole in it: Not nearly enough of an opening to enter through, but plenty of an opening through which to laser whoever's trying to break through from the other side. They attempt to copy something about one of its abilities, which should also hopefully give us a sense of what exactly is about to come through those walls.
Winks stands around a bit with the dogs, expecting something to happen from the shattering of the Power Anchor... Asides from this new well of power he's feeling. Seeing as nothing is going on, (and the massive cache of CP that the Companion now has, but he's purposely ignoring that) Winks look into past records of things that happened after a power anchor is destroyed...
Players getting a power up... Check.
Enemies increasing their difficulty bar... Uh, happening a LOT sooner than expected but Check.
And some re-adjusting of Entity stats...
A glances to dogs to see that no, they haven't receive any re-balancing. Sooo... Not Check.
Ah, I guess he found his focus of this turn, asides from panicking of course.
Grasping at straws, Winks follows the theme of wordplay that's been going on as of late, slicing and borrowing Anchor from the Power Anchor, turning the the ice wall that hasn't been assailed by supposed reinforcement, and tossing them into Iceberg, that just took it like a champ.
The merging of words quickly settles down and giving the large husky the ability to manifest a wall of ices that circles around the tanky boi acting as the wall's anchor.
With that done, Winks takes one look at the updated map and with the blessings of FREE MOVEMENT, he peeks into the Deep well room after skipping over the water of the lake to find no enemies of the supposed reinforcement battering at the wall!
This can only mean one thing, THE SOUTHERN ICE WALL IS A BRIBED ACTOR! Angered over such corruption, Winks FIRED the Ice Wall! And dramatically too as he fired the Ice Wall in style, giving a flying kick that fired the Wall into the air of the Arena and onto the Ranger as Winks lands in the Arena right after. Glaring at the northern Ice Wall and wondering if that Wall was paid as well for faking his job of holding back reinforcements.
Alchemies!
[LVL 3 Weapon] Hunter's Longbow - A longbow made of sturdy oak, complete with plenty of fletched arrows made of the same tree.
- Adds 15 damage per action, or 30 per action if more than one action is used in the attack.
[LVL 2 Weapon] Chemist's Wand - A wand that looks a bit like a really narrow beaker, but closed off. An unknown liquid sloshes inside.
- Adds 8 damage to attacks utilizing it, along with a 20% chance of Chemical Confliction (10 damage to another enemy) occurring.
(x1)The dragon discards the Microscopic Needles in the Well, reducing my Alchemies back to a comfortable 8. But. Of course, that's not to say they are just going to languish at the bottom of the Well. Nope.
They're just going to be consumed as he invokes a paradoxicality.
The Needles flash in a silver luight before dissolving into the surroundings waters, fading away as somewhere where the water originates from a Spring, the Drone readies itself, synchronising with the Dragon of Paradox's Action.
Invoking the Earth and Sky Embrace and Inverting the Water Cycle and not, the Dragon and the Drone turns the Well and Spring into inversions of themselves; the spring turns from a place where water burbles up from beneath the ground into a place where the water falls down constantly from the sky, while the Well stops being a place where water ends, but where it insteads evaporates, turning into so many clouds as the rocks crackle with heat and the water boil into steam and mist.
The Dragon opens ups his wings and flaps, landing onto the lowest cloud with a soft bounce of the cloud before gazing upwards.
Inverting the locations has also inverted the location where any possible treasure might be hiding, placing them at the highest peaks, but with the clouds solid with the sacrifice of the Microscopic Needles, it shall be done.
(x1) Flapping on wings that are too small to physically lift him up, the Paradoxical Dragon yet flies and glides from cloud to cloud, ascending into the atmosphere, past any obstacles with grace and speed, hopping, bounding across the fluffy white shapes upon wings that stretch. Even as the air thins and the world becomes colder, the internal furnace and a quickly turned fishbowl keeps the Dragon bounding up, higher and higher, until the highest cloud is reached. If there is treasure here, he collects it. If not, he stops to admire the stars for just a moment. Either way, he plummets down after doing what he did back into the place where the Well was and move to the zone on the Right.
(x1)(1 CP) The Dragon summons another Drone, just a Drone, to get to exploring the cave on the left of the Waterfall
Entity Orders: The Exploratory Drone, tired after invoking such Magic to turn the Spring into a constant delurge of waer, peers down into its depths to see if there's anything under all that water before picking up the loot and resting.
The Other Drone explores the Cave to the left of the Waterfall as mentioned
The Hospital and its workers plants a strange Acorn onto the ashes of the Fire Pit, seems they aren't going to be going anywhere for a bit while using the fertiliser of the ashes to grow an Oak Tree or something
Being rushed and a bit uninspired, I decide to just work on some alchemies for now...
Heavy Crossbow && Theia Magnified Scope == Sniper's Crossbow [Lvl.3] (+X damage per action used, increased to +Y for the first shot)
I craft the Sniper's Crossbow! It deals the most damage upon an initial shot, but gets less benefits from continuous use, unlike the Hunter's Longbow.
Retreating Spear [Lvl.2] && Dodge Boulder == Avoiding Spear[Lvl.3] (+X damage per action used, user gains a +Y% chance to dodge attacks, reducing their damage by Z, when used during your last action)
I craft the Avoiding Spear, now that combat isn't (as?) dependent on your positioning! This way if I use it to end the combat, I can reduce the damage I take.
Dapper Stovepipe [Lvl.1] && A Generous Amount of Felt && Charming Pin == Distinguished Stovepipe [Lvl.3] (X% chance to inflict Confusion (Y% miss chance) to foes that attack you)
I craft the Distinguished Stovepipe, an upgraded version of the Dapper Stovepipe!
These are Level 3 alchemies, these are going to cost me... 2400 Build Grist, 540 Talc, and 270 Bismuth... which I should have. Feel free to apply numbers to these stats as you see fit.
Inventory:
- Heavy Crossbow [Lvl.2] ( +15 damage per action used)
- Retreating Spear [Lvl.2] (+8 damage per action used, moves user back one space after action)
- Hunter's Longbow[Lvl.3] (+15 damage per action used, increased to +30 damage per action used if more than one action is used)
- Periodic Wand [Lvl.1] (Gift from Splashcat, +3 damage per action, 20% chance to proc Chemical Reaction, dealing 2 additional damage)
- Dapper Stovepipe [Lvl.1] (20% chance to inflict Confusion (30% miss chance) to foes that attack you)
- Trickster's Tailed Coat [Lvl.3] (40% chance to deduct 60 damage from the total dealt by an attack)
- Warlock's Timepiece [Lvl.3] (30% chance for your attacks to chain off to another enemy, dealing 25% (Up to 75) of the attack's damage to them)
[[Quick adjustments on the EOTB - Xorm should have 11 CP, and the CP Containers should be removed from the Combo Kit's stat block. In addition, I don't think Xorm ever took that 200 Damage... He should be at 117 HP, not 317 HP. Thank you!]]
The room had cleared up quite a bit, now. And a quick skim through a digital lorebook revealed what that burst of power was.
A Power Anchor had just gone down. Xorm clenched his jaw tightly. He needed a little destruction in his life right now... And that Resistance Defender looked perfect to mess with.
[Action 1 + Sacrifice Combo Kit: MESS WITH IT.]
"Jets, point the Combo Kit at me... And bail!" he says, a wild gleam in his eyes, and a suspicious sharpness to his teeth.
[["Huh. Didn't know he had those pointy teeth." Kit mutters aloud.]]
"I'm sorry you want me to crash this into you?" Jets says in one breath.
Xorm smirks confidently, then takes a wide stance... Like someone trying to catch and stop a freight train with his bare hands. "Trust me. I can catch it."
Jets considers this... Then smiles back. "If I had known you'd be this suicidal, I'd have let you jump."
"You love me."
"And I hate it." he says back, aiming his Vehicle at the Avatar, then slamming the gas and jumping off. It whirs its way at Xorm with malicious intent... Only for him to duck under its primary blades, to pick it up by the rear tire, heft it above himself with both hands, and throw it at the Resistance Defender, who winds up crushed in a pile of shattered LEGOs and random bundles of Grist. The Combo Kit now lies broken, a pile of scrap metal. But Xorm can't help but smile.
[Summary: Throw the entire vehicle at The Defender. Chuckle at the burning scrap metal.]
[Action 2 + 4 CP: Replacement Troops]
The casualties, though... Were steep. Those Infantry might have been weak, but they were numerous, and that had it's own advantages. So he gathered up some of his own power to do something that might make up for those losses...
And opened a portal to a certain ship. The swirling red hole sat there on the wall for a minute, before a small humanoid with an eyeball for a head walked through and looked around.
"Ugh, all these dimensional holes... Oh!" he mutters before noticing the alien mercenary in the room. "Xorm, old pal! Great to see you again!" he says happily. "I'm assuming the hole in the Watchdogs' armory was you, then?"
Xorm greets the eyeball fellow with the same sort of fondness. "Yup. I need to phone a favor from you, Commander Peepers." he replies. "I'm fighting a war here, and my side could use Watchdog reinforcements."
Peepers blinks. "I'm sorry, you want me to funnel Watchdogs away from Hater's army to bolster yours?" he says incredulously.
Xorm nods."That's the gist... But don't think of it like that. Consider it more... Helping Hater get a foothold in a place he'd never know about otherwise. When we win, it'll be with your help, which means Hater's help, which means he'll be entitled to some of the spoils... like rulership..." he trails off with a smile. Peepers smiles [[In spite of the fact he has an eyeball for a head]] and salutes.
"Well, I wouldn't want to let Hater pass up such an opportunity! I'll get right on it!" Peepers says with enthusiasm, before hopping back through the portal. Moments later, a slightly smaller eyeball-person... A "Watchdog," apparently... with a smaller lightning bolt on his hat, hops through into the building, blaster at the ready.
"I heard the cafeteria here had more than one thing to eat on any given day! Let's goooooooo!" he says, overly enthusiastic about such a minor thing.
[Summary: Spend 5 AP to create a Watchdog Portal that spawns one Watchdog every turn. The portal itself is as fragile as glass, but the combat skills of the Watchdogs should hopefully prevent further [AG] incursions.]
Then he pulls out that crystal from earlier.
[Action 3 + 7 CP: Fond Memories] [And Broken Promises] [[Hey, Kit, what were you saying about a Monster Core earlier?]] [[Monster Core - An energetic remnant of a monster, that contains their soul, their spirit. Break it and you kill them. Cut it out and you basically own them.]] [[That's... Kinda dark. Were you planning on reviving this one?]] [[Yup! Pretty sure I know who it is, too~]] [[How? It's just a crunchy-looking glowy stone.]] [[But you pulled it from a mess of undeserved deaths. If there's one monster that could be, it's Ranieh.]] [[Who is...?]] [[A proud Drider who featured in maybe 5 episodes before dying kinda brutally.]] [[Kit, your xenophile is showing.]] [[H-Hey! Public channel!]] [[I just like messing with you. Alright... Channeling now.]]
Xorm sits down, closes his eyes, and holds the crystal gently. His essence flows into it, searching, investigating... Finding. Deep inside that weak glow was a pinpoint of cold determination.
[[Found her... Pulling.]] he messages quietly. He reaches out to take her soul, and is rebuked. He tries again, and is shoved aside. No, not yet. Ranieh growls. Xorm growls back. If not now, when? There's no time in here - Now and a thousand years from now are the same. So come out. Now. he resounds, grappling her soul and pulling. Ballyhoo: Callback. Xorm's soul mutters.
Something enters the slipstream on the way out, something eldritch, ancient. He had called back that familiar voice. [[Xorm, something's wrong, I'm picking up some odd chatter from the IDPD.]] Xorm cringed - He forgot she was a Class III Corruptional Biohazard. [[Maybe they're just looking for me.]] he responds, pulling on those twinned souls as they twisted. My King... The corruption whispered. [[No, they're mentioning... A Sliver Queen? Xorm. What did you do?]] You came back~ The second soul says as it overtakes the first. [[I didn't do anything-]] [[Ha! He knows what he did.]] [[Warden?!]] [[Your Avatar is bringing back an old flame of his. Of course, she's even higher on the IDPD's hitlist than he is.]] [[Oh, boys~ Be quiet.]]
The machines cut out as Xorm's work finishes. There's an unsettling screech as dark energy flows from the crystal to form into a spider's body with a humanoid form extending from where its head would be. Spikes cover the spider abdomen, and the legs clink as if they were made of metal. And the humanoid form... It's covered in scales, but has a feminine form... And a predator's grin. Her purple hair flows to her back as she looks around with magenta eyes.
"This form is wrong, but at least I breathe again..." she says. Everyone in the room is staring at the demon-drider. "What? Never seen a Sliver Queen in all her glory before~?"
[Summary: Summon Ranieh, Sliver Queen.
A high-HP entity with a few tricks up her sleeves... Venom Drench [||]: Inflict heavy Poisoned [Damage Over Time] to a target. Numberless Brood [|]: Spawn a "Sliver" entity every other turn.
...And a Class-III risk level on her head. Known Hazard [??]: Randomly spawns [H] Interdimensional Police Forces on this Entity's location.]
[FREE ACTION: NARRATOR TO NARRATOR]
Kit closes his laptop for a minute and looks around. Does some math. And then he goes to the Collector and smiles. "Hey..." he starts quietly. "Listen. I have a man on the outside who's setting up Plot Hooks. I need something I can use to dispel debuffs... Like a microphone to recite an inspiring story through. Your payment? Access to the outside world when this is over with. Deal?"
You proceed to pick up the entirety of the Power Miner Combo Kit and hurl it at the Resistance Defender, dealing 295 damage in total to the golem and completely annihilating it and the now slightly outdated Power Miner Combo Kit in one fell swoop! Although the Bismuth Golem drops 200 Build Grist and 30 Bismuth (As expected, from something named the Bismuth Golem), the Grist barrels from before stubbornly refuse to break and begin rolling across the cleaned-out floor.
... Wander over Yonder, huh? Wow, been a while since I've seen that particular canon referenced. Summoning the Watchdog Portal in the North Entry, you watch as a Watchdog emerges and immediately runs off to the place's presumed cafeteria. The original soldiers here cast a hesitant glance at the sheer amount of Watchdogs this thing could spawn, but... hey, it'll be fine, right?
And then, immediately after that, Ranyeh is summoned. I'm glad I at least know their appearance, but... this is a literal demon. I get it's kinda par for the course when it comes to these wars, but... geez. I guess it's good to start the snowballing early, I guess, considering there's the entirety of Tonnerre and a good chunk of the outside city before the AGs reach here.
[Narrator to Narrator will be covered in a sidedop occurring tomorrow. Please ping me if this doesn't happen.]
>< I run the visual portions of my spiritual mass in circles while manipulating the parts at Position(x, y, z) - where x, y and z were never initialised so that Position doesn't have a value- until I am suddenly back in my cave, causing the visual portions in woodgrave to evaporate in a puff of logic. >< I send the real-world players the Alchemy Code for Godmodding Energy, lesser Player Locks, and lesser Godmodder Locks and tell them that if they can alchemize the first, they can probably make a proper Player Lock out of it.
> I set down the Player Lock around my Cave and lock it. I'll leave the Godmodder Lock off for now, I don't want to be trapped if I have to run... Or, wait. Actually... Well, there's no in principle reason the locks have to be motionless or any given shape, so before doing that I try setting up the Lock to be attached to my location and conform to the shape of my body, Like a nigh-indestructible energy shield which I can reform to protect larger areas by growing more skin.
> I preview Godmodding Energy ||(container of fire energy&&container of air energy&& container of mana &&container of light && container of power), or in simpler terms, Godmodding energy||Container of [something].
> I then preview Player Energy || Ex nihilo Generator
E> The Drone finishes the tileable Mana Generation Formation. The Mana in the Orb reaches 50 and is expended to create a Mana Generation Formation. The Lightmantle tries to preform a healing magic of light, providing ambient healing. Also, with the tileable Mana Generation Formation complete in the real world, 100 Mana is expended to make another 2 of them of the Orb kind.
You warp back to your cave! Despite your attempts to send the alchemy codes for the above objects, I don't believe that any of those exist - especially the Godmodding Energy one. The various Locks aren't alchemiter-created either. Although you tell the real-world Players that they probably could make fully-operational Player Locks if they managed to make the previous one, they respond by stating that it seems nearly impossible to obtain the Godmodding Energy necessary to make it.
The Player Lock, ironically enough, does not seem attachable to Players. You simply place it down, creating a forcefield around your cave that can only be breached with Player Power or a total of 10000 damage.
Godmodding Energy || Container of X == 1 Godmodder CP - 1/1 Use[LVL 22 Consumable]
- One CP that a Godmodder could create, allowing for a powerless action that scales according to the opposition.
- Use with caution. It is incredibly likely that this would draw the Godmodder's attention.
Player Energy || Ex-Nihilo Generator == Player Power Generator - 1/1 Use [LVL 12 Consumable]
- When placed, becomes an entity that grants 10,000 extra Player Power in the area.
- Use with caution - it's incredibly likely this would draw a lot of attention from various groups.
somewhere beyond the edge of the horizon there is a scale somewhere at the ends of that scale are six weights somewhere at the center of the scale it's clear to see the sides are imbalanced somewhere at the heavier end of the scale sit three red weights somewhere at the lighter end of the scale sits one blue weight somewhere at the base of the scale sit two gray weights somewhere at the lighter end of the scale...
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It was nothing and it was eveЯything and more.
Well, that's concerning. Considering I know a few of these and their sources, well... this could be interesting to watch. ecneserP ehT appears in the North Entry at the Lodestar, due to this being the primary PG-controlled zone currently on the map. Welcome to the game! Though I'll keep track of your CP and alchemized items, actually keeping track of the various types Grist you obtain is on you. Now then... what will you do?
Action 1 + Action 2 + Texter's Rifle + Particle Wand: I spin around, rapidly unleashing a barrage of shots on a variety of targets, catching the letters as they're knocked harmlessly free:
The capital A from the ruins of the Power Anchor
The W and a from an Ice Wall, the former of which I proceed to turn upside down
The S from a Snare, which I flip around backwards
The o and n, again from the ruined Power Anchor
The I and a from a different Ice Wall
The n from the other Snare
The capital A and lowercase r from Aurora's name and the c from Iceberg's (good dog. best friend.)
And, spinning the rifle around backwards, the h from the end of my very own "Splash".
I assemble the letters together in my hands, forming the name of a particular alchemy...
AMaZonIan Arch
I return the Rifle to my inventory and draw my new bow experimentally. It's not a true alchemy, more of a typographical hodgepodge from a dozen different sources, but it should hold together for long enough for one good shot. I pick up a long, straight splinter of the broken Power Anchor. Even with the Anchor destroyed, it's as strong a piece of wood as I might ever find, and who knows what sort of power-sapping potential might still be contained within. It should make a fine arrow shaft.
It's lacking in a head and a shaft, though. There are no feathers around to fletch with, but many modern arrows are fletched with plastic and have heads of carbon fiber, and there's no shortage of hydrocarbons in the arena. In fact, pretty much every organic material around could be broken down and reassembled into plastic with sufficient application of energy. My eyes roam over the various potential sources... I could use the remains of the Power Anchor again, but that seems repetitive. And in fact, I might be able to do even better. I take out the Particle Wand and point it at a stain of the Ranger's own blood, left behind on the ground after the wound dealt to her by the Mirror Golem. There's not nearly enough for a whole fletching, but even mixing that with the Anchor derivatives should make for a fine magical arrow, perfect for seeking her heart. So I split the blood's ingredients in half, mixing as many non-carbon components as I can use with hydrocarbons from the Anchor's wood to produce a plastic fletching and the carbon with more carbon from the ash left behind when the lightning struck the Anchor to produce a razor-sharp carbon fiber point.
I nock the arrow to the bow and take aim.
"Sure. You're a player. You can do anything we can. But that means that we can do anything you can, too."
The bow shatters in my hands as I release the arrow, the letters flying across the arena wildly until they fall back into place in their source objects. But the arrow flies true, striking the Ranger directly in the heart.
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Action 3: I throw my other two Multifunction Snares, putting them on BC21 and BH14 respectively as those seem to be the ice walls through which the enemies are trying to break. I'm rather concerned by the west wall coming under fire: We entered the arena from the west, so if enemies are coming through there, that means we've been flanked.
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Entity Orders:
The Mirror Golem shoots a narrow laser through the west Ice Wall, melting a pinprick hole in it: Not nearly enough of an opening to enter through, but plenty of an opening through which to laser whoever's trying to break through from the other side. They attempt to copy something about one of its abilities, which should also hopefully give us a sense of what exactly is about to come through those walls.
The Amazonian Arch is temporarily formed in your hands, Player Power allowing the name manipulation to truly have power and quickly form the bow! Quickly, you get a grasp on the bow's statistics as well when you hold it, despite it being a mere typographical copy...
Amazonian Arch [Unique Weapon] - The Ranger's weapon of choice - a dark green longbow etched with Player Power for excellent durability and strength.
- Adds 40 damage per action to an attack with a 20% chance of inflicting Restrained [Attack halved, 2 actions to break]. Scales with Player Power.
And despite everything and the sheer power behind the arrow, the Ranger deftly grabs the arrow as it's fired. The Ranger - One arrow will never be enough, regardless of the bow. Nice try. The arrow, however, breaks into vines and entangles the Ranger, inflicting Restrained due to the properties of the bow! The Ranger curses at her luck, seemingly having chosen a target for her turn...
You place down the snares, using the last of your set! You'll have to make more of them soon...
Winks stands around a bit with the dogs, expecting something to happen from the shattering of the Power Anchor... Asides from this new well of power he's feeling. Seeing as nothing is going on, (and the massive cache of CP that the Companion now has, but he's purposely ignoring that) Winks look into past records of things that happened after a power anchor is destroyed...
Players getting a power up... Check.
Enemies increasing their difficulty bar... Uh, happening a LOT sooner than expected but Check.
And some re-adjusting of Entity stats...
A glances to dogs to see that no, they haven't receive any re-balancing. Sooo... Not Check.
Ah, I guess he found his focus of this turn, asides from panicking of course.
Grasping at straws, Winks follows the theme of wordplay that's been going on as of late, slicing and borrowing Anchor from the Power Anchor, turning the the ice wall that hasn't been assailed by supposed reinforcement, and tossing them into Iceberg, that just took it like a champ.
The merging of words quickly settles down and giving the large husky the ability to manifest a wall of ices that circles around the tanky boi acting as the wall's anchor.
With that done, Winks takes one look at the updated map and with the blessings of FREE MOVEMENT, he peeks into the Deep well room after skipping over the water of the lake to find no enemies of the supposed reinforcement battering at the wall!
This can only mean one thing, THE SOUTHERN ICE WALL IS A BRIBED ACTOR! Angered over such corruption, Winks FIRED the Ice Wall! And dramatically too as he fired the Ice Wall in style, giving a flying kick that fired the Wall into the air of the Arena and onto the Ranger as Winks lands in the Arena right after. Glaring at the northern Ice Wall and wondering if that Wall was paid as well for faking his job of holding back reinforcements.
Alchemies!
[LVL 3 Weapon] Hunter's Longbow - A longbow made of sturdy oak, complete with plenty of fletched arrows made of the same tree.
- Adds 15 damage per action, or 30 per action if more than one action is used in the attack.
[LVL 2 Weapon] Chemist's Wand - A wand that looks a bit like a really narrow beaker, but closed off. An unknown liquid sloshes inside.
- Adds 8 damage to attacks utilizing it, along with a 20% chance of Chemical Confliction (10 damage to another enemy) occurring.
You quickly throw the Southern ice wall into Iceberg, who happily receives the upgrade and a slight bonus to HP to boot! He'll be able to use this to block off exits and attack from on top of it, serving as a weak although effective shield for him.
Proceeding to exit through the now open area (and presumably saying hi to Paradox as you pass through), you find nothing in the Riverside area and proceed to fire the Ice Wall at the Ranger! The Ranger, unable to react in her usual method, twists her bow and slams the tip in the ground, creating a thorny wall of vines for the ice block to shatter against! The Ranger - You all made that thing anyways, and it didn't have a will to rebel with. It's ice.
The Ranger - Do what you want with your things, though - I don't mind.
(x1)The dragon discards the Microscopic Needles in the Well, reducing my Alchemies back to a comfortable 8. But. Of course, that's not to say they are just going to languish at the bottom of the Well. Nope.
They're just going to be consumed as he invokes a paradoxicality.
The Needles flash in a silver luight before dissolving into the surroundings waters, fading away as somewhere where the water originates from a Spring, the Drone readies itself, synchronising with the Dragon of Paradox's Action.
Invoking the Earth and Sky Embrace and Inverting the Water Cycle and not, the Dragon and the Drone turns the Well and Spring into inversions of themselves; the spring turns from a place where water burbles up from beneath the ground into a place where the water falls down constantly from the sky, while the Well stops being a place where water ends, but where it insteads evaporates, turning into so many clouds as the rocks crackle with heat and the water boil into steam and mist.
The Dragon opens ups his wings and flaps, landing onto the lowest cloud with a soft bounce of the cloud before gazing upwards.
Inverting the locations has also inverted the location where any possible treasure might be hiding, placing them at the highest peaks, but with the clouds solid with the sacrifice of the Microscopic Needles, it shall be done.
(x1) Flapping on wings that are too small to physically lift him up, the Paradoxical Dragon yet flies and glides from cloud to cloud, ascending into the atmosphere, past any obstacles with grace and speed, hopping, bounding across the fluffy white shapes upon wings that stretch. Even as the air thins and the world becomes colder, the internal furnace and a quickly turned fishbowl keeps the Dragon bounding up, higher and higher, until the highest cloud is reached. If there is treasure here, he collects it. If not, he stops to admire the stars for just a moment. Either way, he plummets down after doing what he did back into the place where the Well was and move to the zone on the Right.
(x1)(1 CP) The Dragon summons another Drone, just a Drone, to get to exploring the cave on the left of the Waterfall
Entity Orders: The Exploratory Drone, tired after invoking such Magic to turn the Spring into a constant delurge of waer, peers down into its depths to see if there's anything under all that water before picking up the loot and resting.
The Other Drone explores the Cave to the left of the Waterfall as mentioned
The Hospital and its workers plants a strange Acorn onto the ashes of the Fire Pit, seems they aren't going to be going anywhere for a bit while using the fertiliser of the ashes to grow an Oak Tree or something
You convert the Deep Well into the Ascent Pond and the Spring into the Skyfall Spring, using the increased Player Power and a now-consumed alchemy to do so! The deep hole leads into an vaguely defined underground cave that was probably a river, formerly. It doesn't appear as if there is anything down there, though.
At the top of the clouds, however, there is a easily breakable loot chest that you open cleanly! Within it is 30 Cerium, which is nice, but somewhat dissapointing compared to the interesting alchemies normally in these chests.
You summon a second drone, calling it the Other Drone! It will do as you say, along with the exploratory drone.
Being rushed and a bit uninspired, I decide to just work on some alchemies for now...
Heavy Crossbow && Theia Magnified Scope == Sniper's Crossbow [Lvl.3] (+X damage per action used, increased to +Y for the first shot)
I craft the Sniper's Crossbow! It deals the most damage upon an initial shot, but gets less benefits from continuous use, unlike the Hunter's Longbow.
Retreating Spear [Lvl.2] && Dodge Boulder == Avoiding Spear[Lvl.3] (+X damage per action used, user gains a +Y% chance to dodge attacks, reducing their damage by Z, when used during your last action)
I craft the Avoiding Spear, now that combat isn't (as?) dependent on your positioning! This way if I use it to end the combat, I can reduce the damage I take.
Dapper Stovepipe [Lvl.1] && A Generous Amount of Felt && Charming Pin == Distinguished Stovepipe [Lvl.3] (X% chance to inflict Confusion (Y% miss chance) to foes that attack you)
I craft the Distinguished Stovepipe, an upgraded version of the Dapper Stovepipe!
These are Level 3 alchemies, these are going to cost me... 2400 Build Grist, 540 Talc, and 270 Bismuth... which I should have. Feel free to apply numbers to these stats as you see fit.
Inventory:
- Heavy Crossbow [Lvl.2] ( +15 damage per action used)
- Retreating Spear [Lvl.2] (+8 damage per action used, moves user back one space after action)
- Hunter's Longbow[Lvl.3] (+15 damage per action used, increased to +30 damage per action used if more than one action is used)
- Periodic Wand [Lvl.1] (Gift from Splashcat, +3 damage per action, 20% chance to proc Chemical Reaction, dealing 2 additional damage)
- Dapper Stovepipe [Lvl.1] (20% chance to inflict Confusion (30% miss chance) to foes that attack you)
- Trickster's Tailed Coat [Lvl.3] (40% chance to deduct 60 damage from the total dealt by an attack)
- Warlock's Timepiece [Lvl.3] (30% chance for your attacks to chain off to another enemy, dealing 25% (Up to 75) of the attack's damage to them)
Heavy Crossbow && Theia Magnified Scope == Sniper's Crossbow[LVL 3 Weapon]
- A crossbow made of heavy, but durable materials. Has a scope attached to it, allowing for clearer shots if time is taken to align.
- Adds 15 damage per action used in an attack, which is increased to 30 additional damage for your first action in a turn using it.
Retreating Spear && Dodge Boulder == Avoiding Spear [LVL 3 Weapon]
- A spear designed around manuverability and the ability to dodge. Despite that, the edge is still strong and can deal some damage.
- Along with adding 15 damage per action using it, grants a 30% chance to give Evade (reduces damage taken per attack by 10, 1 turn).
Dapper Stovepipe && Large Amount of Felt && Charming Pin == Dsitinguished Stovepipe [LVL 3 Armor] - A charming top hat that fits immaculately with the rest of your outfit. Would give a +1 to charisma checks, except this isn't D&D.
- When you're attacked, the hat has a 30% chance of inflicting Confusion (30% chance to miss attacks) on the foe that hit you.
You craft all of the above, and you correctly calculated the Grist cost! These three alchemies have been added to your inventory.
-=+=-
End of Turn Battle -
Slated Cliffs - A Mana Generation Formation is created in Sdieve's Cave, using 50 mana! The Lightmantle would provide ambient healing, but there isn't anything to heal in the proximity. Additionally, three more Mana Generation Formations are formed outside the Soul Orb, which becomes four as the Drone finishes its project!
Woodgrave -
Elsewhere - The Exploratory Drone quickly checks to make sure that there's nothing under the water and again, reveals nothing particularly interesting. (Oddly enough, it seems like this was an oversight on theis place's part.) It then fires on the oddly durable loot crate, dealing 25 damage!
As the other drone attempts to enter the cave under the waterfall, there's a bit of a backlash - it seems to enter some sort of trap kill zone before promptly disintegrating. Whatever that place is, it's well defended... not even any Grist comes out of it.
The Battlefield Hospital plant, using the Produce Item charge that the hospital has to monitor it's growth! I wonder what will happen when it reaches maturity.
The Arena -
The Mirror Golem, although unable to shoot through the Ice Wall on the account of it being non-existent, still fires out into the Riverside and deals 180 damage to... something! As a result, their attack increases by 10, which is annoyingly vague. Considering the ice wall is gone, though, at least that mystery will be resolved. The Huskies, Akimbo Sniper, and Jake's Defender quickly assume a defensive position to prepare against the reinforcements that are incoming!
Speaking of those, they quickly break down the remaining Ice Wall and enter the room through both the north and west! Seems like there's a Gloom Stalker that has arrived to back them up, which you can visibly see thanks to them kinda ruining their stealth when entering the room. Even beyond that, there seems to be one more elite enemy, a Fey Wanderer, for the entities to face off against!
The Ranger quickly uses 1 Action and 1 CP to free themselves from the Restrained status, before using their second action and 1 CP to shoot a arrow directly through the Mirror Golem, dealing 600 damage and quickly dispelling the form into a pile of Grist for herself! Unlike the shared Grist drops everyone I can see the actions of gets, the Ranger seems to have her own pool. With their third action and 7 CP, she buffs the HP of both of her reinforcement entities by 1200 points, making them tougher and more annoying for the remaining forces to take down!
The Lodestar - Now that the battle's calmed down, not much of interest happens here. The previous entities there regard esneserP ehT's arrival with mild confusion, but... it isn't actively attacking, at least.
General/Miscellaneous -
Plague's remaining alchemies are currently up for grabs by any AG! This excludes entities named the AG this time!
Across the Soul Orb (and outside of it), everything upticks!
I've fixed the banner up above so the Ranger won't be able to steal the alchemies through name shenanigans anymore, but... yikes. That's a lot of CP that she has, and with... 300 Player Power, it's definitely not gonna be easy to defend against her attacks! Stay ready, everyone!
Landing Page Alchemiquest Maps Sheet Rules of advice: Silver sheets mark incomplete areas, where the story objectives have not been finished. Golden sheets mark areas where the story objective's completed, but side objectives remain. Crimson sheets mark areas where all side and story objectives...
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Itinerary - [AG] - Destroy the Godmodder! [AG/N] - Increase Player Power by destroying the Power Anchors! [N] - Find your own goals! [PG] - Stop the AG effort to increase Player Power! [PG] - Reconvene with the Godmodder somewhere a bit more PG Biased...?
Player List - Player Power set to 200.
General Inventory / Key Items:
- The Alchemiter: allows for alchemy wherever and whenever! Required Grist for Upgrade to [LVL 5] -
5,800/12,000 Build Grist, 680/960 Gallium, 200/480 Bismuth, 60/480 Cerium
Ninjatwist - 8/8 Inventory Slots used.
Dapper Stovepipe && Large Amount of Felt && Charming Pin == Dsitinguished Stovepipe [LVL 3 Armor]
- A charming top hat that fits immaculately with the rest of your outfit. Would give a +1 to charisma checks, except this isn't D&D.
- When you're attacked, the hat has a 30% chance of inflicting Confusion (30% chance to miss attacks) on the foe that hit you.
[LVL 3 Weapon]Hunter's Longbow - A longbow made of sturdy oak, complete with plenty of fletched arrows made of the same tree.
- Adds 15 damage per action, or 30 per action if more than one action is used in the attack. [LVL 3 Weapon]Sniper's Crossbow - A crossbow made of heavy, but durable materials. Has a scope attached to it, allowing for clearer shots.
- Adds 15 damage per action used in an attack, which is increased to 30 additional damage for your first action in a turn using it. [LVL 3 Weapon]Avoiding Spear - A spear designed around manuverability and the ability to dodge.
- Along with adding 15 damage per action using it, grants a 30% chance to give Evade (reduces damage taken per attack by 10, 1 turn). [LVL 1 Weapon]Crossbow - A fairly simple wooden crossbow. Effective and easy to fire!
- Deals an additional 4 damage per action used. [LVL 1 Weapon]Periodic Wand - A wand with a really, really small version of the Periodic Table wrapped around its side lengthwise.
- Adds 3 damage per action to attacks. Also has a 20% chance to trigger Chemical Reaction (3 damage to another enemy) once a turn.
[LVL 3 Armor]Trickster's Tailed Coat - A coat that seems to be an optical illusion in itself. Seems to make some attacks hit a bit less, at least!
- Grants a 40% chance to deduct 60 damage from the total dealt by an attack. [LVL 3 Armor]Warlock's Timepiece - A small timepiece that seems to glow with malevolent energy.
- Grants a 30% chance for your attacks to chain off to another enemy, dealing 25% (Up to 75) of the attack's damage to them.
[LVL 3 Armor] Distinguished Stovepipe - A charming top hat that fits immaculately with the rest of your outfit.
- When you're attacked, the hat has a 30% chance of inflicting Confusion (30% chance to miss attacks) on the foe that hit you.
Paradox - 8/8Inventory Slots used. [LVL 4 Weapon] Wand of Contradictions - A slender wand made of dark oak. Flecks of green scales hint at the nature of the wand.
- When used as a part of an attack, deals 40 extra damage per action to the target's Max HP. Also has a 10% chance to double the damage dealt. [LVL 3 Weapon]+1 Broadsword - Seems to be a mildly enchanted broadsword, with nothing more to it. Still cool, though.
- Adds 25 damage to an attack and negates up to a 15% chance of dodging. [LVL 2 Weapon]Paradoxic Wand - A wand with the power to create and control previously unknown paradoxes.
- Deals an additional 10 damage to the Max Health of a creature, due to mind-breaking paradoxes implanted within. [LVL 2 Weapon]Pinpoint Needles - Two needles with weak-point sensing tech inside, allowing them to be incredibly precise with their aim.
- Deals an additional 10 damage per action, with a 10% chance to double all damage dealt in the attack. [LVL 2 Weapon] Chipped Pickaxe - An iron pickaxe with a small chip in it. Seems effective at what it does.
- Adds 20 damage per action to an attack used to break down walls and other structures.
[LVL 3 Armor]Destiny Scarf - A dark-blue scarf with several bright teal markings across its surface.
- Grants 10% dodge chance and deducts 10 damage from attacks that go through. [LVL 3 Armor] Draconic Plate - A cloak of green dragon scales that seems to blend in with the forested background.
- Grants 5% dodge chance and automatically deducts 20 damage from attacks that hit.
[LVL 1 Armor] Lucky Ribbon - A green ribbon... simple enough, honestly. It does blend in with the scales, though.
- Grants a 5% dodge chance to the player wearing it per attack.
Sdieve - 7/8 Inventory Slots used. [LVL 3 Weapon]+1 Broadsword - Seems to be a mildly enchanted broadsword, with nothing more to it. Still cool, though.
- Adds 25 damage to an attack and negates up to a 15% chance of dodging. [LVL 3 Weapon]Formation Computator [Cooldown: 0/2] - A far more capable computer, running the latest in calculation technologies!
- Usable to add roughly 50 damage per action or a weaker status effect to an attack using formations. Has a cooldown of 2 turns. [LVL 2 Weapon]Chipped Pickaxe - An iron pickaxe with a small chip in it. Seems effective at what it does.
- Adds 20 damage per action to an attack used to break down walls and other structures. [LVL 1 Weapon]Formation Calculator [Cooldown: 0/3] - A lightweight laptop with programs on it for creating and designing formations.
- Usable to add roughly 10 damage and an average chance of a status effect to a formation per action. Has a cooldown of 3 turns.
[LVL 1 Consumable]Encyclopedia of Magical Structures [1/3 Uses] - A purple leather-bound book filled with magic. Perhaps this has some info?
- Two functions here: Either can be used to learn for lore [0 charges used] or can create an example for 1 charge. Examples have varying effects.
[LVL 2 Passive]Heaven Comms Router - A small device, capable of being carried in a pocket. It works!
- Enables communications with Heaven, or what remains of it. From there, who knows what you can do?
Shin Kicker (Plague) - 8/8 Inventory Slots used. [LVL 3 Weapon]Thunder Mirror - A mirror rimmed with magically infused copper. Seems to hold back immense levels of sound.
- Adds 10 damage to an attack action, along with a 30% chance for Paralyzed (cannot switch squares) for 1 turn. [LVL 3 Weapon]Sylphic Shovel - A lightweight shovel with a white and blue color scheme. Contains the power of the winds.
- Adds 20 Damage per action to an attack, with a 10% chance of dealing Airbound (cannot change squares) for one turn. [LVL 3 Weapon] Rainbow Reloader - A multicolored pistol, using the same return-shot system as the Returning shot.
- Can use Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, or Purple shots. Effects vary depending on color. [LVL 2 Weapon] Adjustable Shovel - A shovel split into two halves of a blade, seemingly creating an adjustable width and length of the tool.
- Adds 10 damage per action to an attack, with a 50% chance of dealing Buried (cannot switch zones) for one turn. [LVL 2 Weapon] Laser Slugger - A metallic bat with a laser gun duct-taped onto the handle.
- When used as a part of an attack, deals 10 extra damage per action with a 15% chance of inflicting Stunned (Misses actions) for 1 turn.
[LVL 3 Armor]Lifetime Extender - A secondary golden timepiece, seeming to run a bit slower than time itself...
- Increases Max HP by 40 when worn. [LVL 1 Armor]Golden Watch - A golden watch. If you look closely, it seems to always be exactly on time, no matter what.
- When hit, has a 20% chance to give Slowed (-10% Attack Damage) on the attacker in return.
[LVL 1 Consumable]Health Amplifier [4/4 Uses] - A mix between radio and medical kits, boosting the signal of one's vitals to restore their health.
- When used, restores 30 HP to anything on the field.
Splashcat - 8/8 Inventory Slots used. [LVL 3 Weapon]Lodestone Sword - A sword composed of some sort of magnetic stone, infused with mercury in the process.
- Adds 30 damage per action to its attack, but subtracts 2/3rds of that amount from another. [LVL 3 Weapon]Reactionary Bat - A bat that seems to react to the slightest touch of anything upon its wooden surface.
- When attacks are countered, allows the user to take up to 40 of the countered damage and sends it back at the original attacker as an action. This damage is still able to be countered. [LVL 3 Weapon]Texter's Rifle - A black and white rifle-typewriter thing. Uses the power of wordplay to deal damage to opponents.
- Deals anywhere from 15-25 extra damage per Action, now dependent on quality wordplay! This can include puns. [LVL 3 Weapon]Particle Wand - A wand that looks more like a baton than anything, seeming to direct the very particles around it.
- Adds 20 damage per action to an attack, along with a 10% cumulative chance per action of a minor negative status effect being inflicted. [LVL 3 Weapon]Sylphic Shovel - A lightweight shovel with a white and blue color scheme. Contains the power of the winds.
- Adds 20 Damage per action to an attack, with a 10% chance of dealing Airbound (cannot change squares) for one turn.
[LVL 3 Armor]Warded Dress - A nice dress, but seems somewhat stiff when given a second glance. Still very magic, lightning, and bulletproof.
- Deducts 20 damage from the total you take per attack. Rather nice effects, too!
[LVL 2 Consumable]Multifunction Snare [0/4 Uses] - A very complex device based on the classic bear trap. Now with about 15 extra functions!
- Placable in an area as an action. The first enemy to enter the area then takes 100 damage from stepping on it! [LVL 2 Consumable]Capcharoid Camera [3/5 Uses] - Prints out Homestuck-styled Capchalouge Cards for anything it takes a picture of.
- Can be used as an action to easily determine how to alchemize something! Does not tell the level, though.
Winkins - 2/8 Inventory Slots used. [LVL 3 Weapon]Hunter's Longbow - A longbow made of sturdy oak, complete with plenty of fletched arrows made of the same tree.
- Adds 15 damage per action, or 30 per action if more than one action is used in the attack. [LVL 2 Weapon]Chemist's Wand - A wand that looks a bit like a really narrow beaker, but closed off. An unknown liquid sloshes inside.
- Adds 8 damage to attacks utilizing it, along with a 20% chance of Chemical Confliction (10 damage to another enemy) occurring.
Xorm - 3/8 Inventory Slots used. [LVL 3 Weapon]Octuple Barreled Shotgun - It's taken on a standard revolver design, but with 8 slots for shotgun shells. The barrel still unhinges.
- Adds 25 damage per Action to an attack. Still rather simple, but effective...
[LVL 2 Armor]Formation Badge - A small badge with the same coloration and everything as the uniform of a Formation Soldier.
- Takes 10 damage off every attack launched at you, along with showing loyalty to the PG side. [LVL 1 Armor]Reactive Shield [20/20 Shields] - A shield that builds up deflection energy over time, compressed into a small trinket on your form.
- Builds up 2 HP of shield per turn. When you're hit, the damage is first taken from the shield and then your health bar. Caps at 20 Shields.
[AG] Ninjatwist_ - 1000/1000 HP - 12 CP [AG] Paradox - 1000/1000 HP - 2 CP [N] Sdieve - 4500/1000 HP - 24 CP - Has 1 Attack Shield! [AG] Splashcat - 896/1000 HP - 33 CP [PG] ecneserP ehT - 1000/1000 HP - 3 CP [N] Winkins - 1000/1000 HP - 2 CP [PG] Xorm - 234/1000 HP - 11 CP
Godmodder HP - 69/70
Field Effect: RADIO ZONE! (Lasts as long as Radio!Xorm is alive!)
- All entities that choose a frequency have a 50/50 chance to dodge attacks!
- This effect can be negated if the attacker has a frequency exactly double or half of the defender's.
- Frequencies for both you and your entities can be chosen as a free action once a turn.
Current Players - None!
[N] Radio!Xorm - 130/130 HP, 30 Attack (Frequency 0) [N - Radio!Xorm]Radio Towers (x3) - 180/180 HP, Radio Zone Broadcast [ON] [N - Radio!Xorm] Wicked Witch of the Wavelength - 300/300 HP, 25 HP Regen per turn, 10x5 Attack + Weakened (-5 Attack) for two turns. Also inflicts Weakened when hit. This can stack! (Frequency 1)
Current Players - None!
[N - Winkins] Talc Snail - 300/300 HP, 50 Attack, 100 Talc Eaten (Inventory: 60/60 Talc)
- Eats all available Talc, converting half of it to stats and gaining 3 HP and .5 Attack per Talc converted. Stores the other half in its inventory.
[RS] Forcefield Projector - -1000/-1000 Shields, heals for -100 HP every turn! Protects the entire zone.
Current Players - Sdieve
Current Mana Reserve - 0 [N - Sdieve] Lesser Player Lock - 10,000/10,000 HP, can be broken with 1 Player Action, keeping things from entering or leaving! [N - Sdieve] Lightmantle - 100/180 HP, 40 Attack
[N - Sdieve] Mana Wellspring - 50/50 HP, Generates 10 Mana per turn! [N - Sdieve] Mana Generator - 60/60 HP, gathers 5 Mana a turn!
[PG - RN] Fey Wanderer - 1900/2000 HP, 200 Attack [ll] 0/2 - Charm Entity - Inflicts Charmed (Entity joins faction of charmer for 2 turns) on one entity. [lll] 0/3 - Misty Step - Dispels location-based effects on this entity. [PG - RN] Gloom Stalker - 1320/1700 HP, 150 Attack [l] 0/1 - Stealth Walk - Activates Stealthed on this Entity.
[PG] The Ranger - 4/5 HP, 3 Player Actions, 42 CP [300 Player Power]
Current Players - None!
[AG - Paradox] Outpost Hospital - 400/400 HP, Adds 120 points of healing to Player or Entity Heal Actions! [lllll] 1/5 - Produce Item: Makes 1 LVL 3 Alchemy!
Current Players - None
[N] Fisher - 700/700 HP, 40 Attack [lll] 3/3 - Fish Up: Obtains 1d4 fish. What a peculiar entity.
[AG - Paradox] Exploratory Drone - 250/250 HP, 25 Attack, has 1 Attack Shield, Stealthed [lll] 3/3 - Stealth Drive: Grants Stealthed to the Drone, causing grounded traps not to trigger and the drone to be the last entity attacked!
[PG - Xorm] Jets - 100/100 HP, 25 Attack, Everything's Second Best Pilot, Vehicular Bodyguard Everything's Second-Best Pilot - Multiplies HP & Attack stats of any vehicle he's piloting by 1.5x! Vehicular Bodyguard - Cannot be targeted while inside a vehicle! [PG - Xorm] Ranyeh - 1000/1000 HP, 150 Attack [ll] 0/2 - Venom Drench - Inflicts Poisoned [150 damage per turn, lasts 3 turns] on one target. [l] 0/1 -Numberless Brood - Summons one Basic Silver [100 HP, 25 Attack] when used, under Ranyeh's command. Said Silvers can be specialized. [lllll] 0/5 (1d4+3) - Known Hazard - Summons [H] Interdimensional Police Forces around Ranyeh semi-randomly. Activates automatically.
[PG - Xorm] Watchdog Portal - 400/400 HP [ll] 0/2 - Summon Watchdog - Summons 1 Watchdog Infantry with 150 HP and 50 Attack.
[PG - F] Soldiers x2 - 900/900 HP, 100 Attack [10% chance to double damage] x2
Soldier - 450/900 HP, 100 Attack [10% chance to double damage] Soldier - 750/900 HP, 100 Attack [10% chance to double damage] [PG- F] Banneret - 1350/1500 HP, 250 Attack [lll] 2/3 - Rally Cry: Heals all members of it's faction for up to 300 HP!
Current "Players" - Sdieve's Projection
Current Mana - 0
[N - Sdieve] Constructor Drone - 50/50 HP, Constructor
Current Project - Mana Generation Formations - [lllll] 0/5
[N - Sdieve] Player Projection Formation - 100/100 HP, Allows for Player Projection. Protect at all costs! [N - Sdieve] Mana Generators x7 - 60/60 HP, Gathers 5 Mana a turn! (x7)
...If the alchemy code doesn't exist, how did I, ah, use it in... alchemy?
>Hm, my inventory still says I have a Weak Player Lock in it, and what I placed down is listed as a Lesser Player Lock. ...what's lesser, a Lesser Lock or a Weak Lock? I attach the non-active Weak Player Lock to my Soul, and set it to activate if I'm ever mortally wounded. I'm very... death-averse, as you can see.
>The Lesser Player Lock is great for defence, but it can only defend my Soul Orb resources; the real ones are harder to produce, but also less likely to be attacked, I think. So I use the Formation Computator to design a new Formation for the Constructor Drone to work on, one which bends space. It's... fairly similar to pocket dimension creation, based on what the Computator says, but I leave a small unwarped area deep underground so I can still send things from the base to the rest of the world. Once it's set up, it should be self-sustaining... I think? most of the difficulty is bending the space, not keeping it that way.
>Man, but both of those consumables are waaay out of my price range... hm. Maybe I can still learn something from them? I bring up the preview of the Player Power Generator and start sticking my viewpoint inside the hologram or Whatever the preview is, looking for the inner workings.
E> The Lightmantle is told to give ambient healing energy Anyway. If it already did that, it is told to look at its own healthbar and keep doing it. besides, if there Is nothing to heal, the ambient energy won't get used up, and it's sure to come in handy eventually. Like if someone gets a papercut or a mild spot of gaping wounds.
Drone gets started on that Space-bending Defence Formation
CP: 24
Grist: 12,020->12,220
Talc: 2035
Galium: 1170
Bismuth: 250->280
Cerium: 300->330
Items: Encyclopedia of Magical Structures [1/3]
Formation Calculator [3/3 Chargeup]
Heaven Comms Router
Broadsword +1 (damaged)
Formation Computater [2->0/2 Chargeup]
Alchemiter (Backup)
Assets:
0->35 Mana(Real)
0->15 Mana (Orb)
Drone (Real)
P.Assistance, P.Projection Formations(Real)
Mana Generation Formations x7 (Real) (req.5 Turns or 50 Mana to emplace.)
Lightmantle (Orb)
Mana Wellspring (Orb)
Mana Generation Formation x1 (Orb. costs 50 Mana.)
Lesser Player Lock
Weak Player Lock
Weak Godmodder Lock
Xorm is basically the only one in the room nonplussed by the chaos he's letting loose. Why would he be bothered? He causes this on a daily basis. Besides, as risky as it was, his Queen had returned. Xorm actually took a moment to embrace the eldritch demon drider, to the confounded horror of his allies.
[[Xorm. We are going to have so many words about her. But for right now, a warning - The IDPD has a location lock on her. I can give you estimates on how far out the next wave is, but nothing else. Now please, don't kiss - Aaaaand you kissed her.]]
Xorm mostly ignores the message, but takes note of the little timer that pops up in his HUD... 5 turns to the first wave, eh? Plenty of time to get a few things made. He took note of ecneserP ehT and smiled.
"I'd ask questions, but we're fighting a war. I'd suggest you take this, it'll save you headaches later."
[Free Action: Take This, They Won't Shoot You.]
He plucks off his Formation Badge and flicks it over to ecneserP ehT. The identification code linked to it automatically scrambles on leaving Xorm's person, reforming into a unique identifier ecneserP ehT can use on comms.
"Now to whip up a new one for myself~"
[Action 1: Another One.]
He pulls up the Alchemical Submenu and inputs
I ditch my 0 Multiform Snares for Plague's Rainbow Reloader.
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Action 1 + Lodestone Sword + 3 CP: I run up next to the Ranger and attack her head-on, reasoning that since she's a Ranger, she must not be much of a Meleer. I flick the sword side-hand at her head, slashing out from my left to my right, only for it to melt back into the hilt and invert its momentum to come at her from the right. After that stroke, I bring it back, up and around for an overhand stroke. An obvious attack, but less obvious is the Ranger's own arrowheads, pulled out of their quiver by the sword's magnetic force and stabbing her in the back of the head right before I bring the Lodestone Sword down towards its front. The sword melts and streams through the air into my waiting left hand, allowing me to make an offhand cut at her side before leaping backwards, then throwing the sword, the hilt remaining in my hand as the blade continues like a liquid javelin at her chest. I pull it back once more and crack the stretched-out length of liquid metal like a whip, slashing at her from the opposite side as my previous side cut. Finally, I leap in up close once more, the blade acquiring a sudden excess of inertia mid-stroke, refusing to move further down and instead acting as a leverage point on which I can pivot, pushing down with my arms to lift my body up and do a somersault midair, the sword finally breaking free once more to come up over my head as I fall and plunge it down point first into the Ranger.
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Action 2 (reduced power from Lodestone Sword) + Particle Wand: I cover the Gloom Stalker in magnesium dust. Heavily pyrophoric, the dust ignites immediately in the oxygen-rich air. The bright white flames make it impossible for the Gloom Stalker to hide! ...oh, and also burn it. That's a thing flames do.
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Action 3 + Sylphic Shovel: I shove it into the ground under the Fey Wanderer, then jump on the shovel handle, launching them as if fired from a catapult as a sudden updraft boosts their flight... right over the northern Ice Wall and into the unexplored room beyond.
Kit closes his laptop for a minute and looks around. Does some math. And then he goes to the Collector and smiles. "Hey..." he starts quietly. "Listen. I have a man on the outside who's setting up Plot Hooks. I need something I can use to dispel debuffs... Like a microphone to recite an inspiring story through. Your payment? Access to the outside world when this is over with. Deal?"
The Collector, shocked that someone even has the guts to talk to him seemingly, turns to you. As with all stereotypical mysterious shopkeeps, he seems to be wearing a dark robe with not a glimpse of his face visible beneath it. As he does this, it becomes apparent that he's been here for a while... regardless, it seems strange that he's not Shackled to me. The Collector - ... Deal. Good luck. You're handed the Portable Stage, in exchange for another route to the outside world! This somewhat strange item seems to be able to dispel otherwise non-dispellable debuffs and increases Shenanigan-based attack power by 1000... Player Power. Redundancy aside, that was surprisingly simple. Seems like you haven't drawn any suspicion just yet...
-=+=-
Ex Machina Prison - Prison Yard [N?] KitRougard - Not Injured
[N?] Narrative Prisoners x15 - 10,000/10,000 HP, 2000200 Attack, x15 Shackled (power decreased by 90%!) [N??] The Collector - I have no idea what's going on with this guy. Supposedly sells stuff?
[Unique Weapon] Portable Stage - A portable stage of sorts for your own actions. Seems like something straight out of Paper Mario: TTYD.
- Makes dispelling otherwise permanent status effects possible.
- Also grants 1000 additional Player Power to shenanigan-based actions. This effect scales with base Player Power.
[LVL -- Passive] Laptop - Hey, it's your laptop! Seems a bit outdated, but still works great.
- Allows for write-ins for actions as Xorm. You and he still share three Actions, though!
(x2)(Wand of Contradictions) The Dragon invokes the Wand of Contradictions, zapping the Gloom Stalker with Paradoxical Energy that sears at it's very being, twisting it's nature into a creature that can only reveal itself useless, that is, nullfying it's stealth ability and turning it into the useless ability to reveal itself harder, making it take even more damage, that kind of stuff.
(Orders) The Hospital observes as the Acorn grows into a Sapling, the air twists as something strange happens and the Sapling grows...not higher but outside, as it passes through the cracks in it and reaches the place outside of it, where it conjures its own reality and begins...synthesising the nature of the Outside into more fuel for itself, turning it into the Growth Resource as it prepares to grow into a World Tree. The Hospital continues nurturing it.
The Exploratory Drone realises this loot box might be a mimic, or it's just too durable for it to break in any reasonable amount of time...unless, it uses the power of telekiesis of bullets it definetly always had to lift the Loot Box remotely and than toss it into the Springs, where the deluge of falling water crushes it under so much pressure as to break it open, or kill the mimic. whatever it was. the Drone stands ready to reap the rewards either way.
Kit counted up a little bit of math, thin grinned something wicked.
"Time for a magic show~"
[Reserved Action: Ladies And Gentlemen!]
He walked into the middle of the nondescript yard, and flicked out that compressed piece of paper. It flourishes into a fully sized stage, with enough decoration for any act of any sort. There's even a burst of confetti to draw the intrigue of the other prisoners - And the ire of the guards.
Kit flips onto the stage, and conjures up some generic stageman's clothes to go with the art he was about to perform.
"Ladies and gentlemen! I am here on this stage today to show you everything is not as it seems! The folds of spacetime are paper thin, and paper-sharp! Once I remind you all how to use them..." he begins proudly. Then there's a dark gleam in his eyes, a predatory curl to his smile.
"Why. I daresay that even Ex Machina couldn't hold us." he growls, provoking a defensive reaction from the guards. One of the nearby Cell Block Guards rushes the anthro wolf on the stage, foolishly.
"Inmate Kit, return to your cell right now, or I will report your actions to the War-MMMPH!" he begins, before being folded up like he was a mere piece of paper.
"See? Once you take a moment to think it through, put a little elbow grease into it..." Kit says, purposely oblivious to the other guards creeping towards him. He's folded the first Guard into a key, now... And with a flick of his paw, there's a lot more keys. 15 of them, in fact. "The key to whatever Ails you is right at hand~" he croons, dealing paper keys to the Shackled inmates like a poker professional.
He hears the other guards converging on the stage, and with a whimsical hand to the side, a cane appears from offstage to try to yank him off. "Oh, looks like that's my cue!" he smirks as the cane grabs him by the waist and pulls him into the curtains. Following the disappearance of the wolfish stageman, the stage itself folds back up, causing the guards to crash together comedically over it.
Kit is back in the crowd, helping one less dexterous inmate unlock his cuffs with a paper key. Afterwards, he clears his throat.
"In case it wasn't clear what I was trying to pull for you guys..." he says loud and clear.
"PRISON BREAK!"
Kit screams with glee, hopefully whipping the newly unshackled inmates into a minor frenzy~
Oof... things just keep getting dicey and dicier does it?
Staving off the minor dread in this situation, Winkins decided to calm his nerves with a game... Picking through his stacks of games, he walks towards the Ranger and plop a neat mahogany table in front of her.
What follows next is the curiosity of PG Entities and the Companion herself joining in for a looong session of DnD where Fey, the Warlock, Gloom, The Rogue, and Ranger, the Mysterious Ranger banded together and travelled to the Sacred and unsealed continent For riches and glory!
Ruins were scoured and Caves dove into, already hours had somehow passed by as the beginning left the trio of confident as some the easy battles hadn't even left them any scratches and immerse themselves! However the stakes grew and with a bit of improv on Winkins part from the PG's unexpected actions... mainly from the Ranger, they explored this "sacred" continent and uncovers its not so holy "truths".
So immerse into the campaign that they don't notice the damage their characters were taking were being reflected on their actual being... Then again, they were all relatively squishy classes made sure to not get hit, which makes it harder to find out asides from the few grazes on their person.
Finally, they reach the BBEG of this season in which, surprise surprise! The Church... wasn't bad? All those traps and sabotages they set up for the Church... quests that was given by the one NPC who hinted the party of the Church's "ominous" nature since the near beginning led to the binding of the party as the man neared the pedestal of the exhausted High Priestess .
And so a head rolled as the feeling of despair permeated the IC party so deeply that even without the bond to the characters that the PGs felt the hopelessness of the situation. And so the BBEG corrupted the ritual that the party had attempted to stop, but with the party failing roll after roll, he grasped the power of the sacred continent and was about to lower entirety of the continent's power onto the party, the Ranger had one last saving throwing to either save or doom the game...
The dice bounces on the table as the Ranger stares intently at the die... to find it land on a nat 1.
Horror shows on the PGs faces as a shard of the shattered Mirror golem somehow made it on the mahogany table. A broken mirror something that's known to give bad luck... appearing next to the die of the one that shattered it? It looks like the Mirror gave its last hurrah.
Winks stared at the results, having immersed into this campaign himself even though he knew the the effects that would occur on his players, he can only grimly continue his role as the GM and narrate the next and final scene.
Having failed to get free and save her compatriots, the BBEG gave a dark laugh, thanking the party of their work to get him the final piece for the continent and and that their final reward being to witness the first full extent of his power being used... on them.
With a lift of his arm the space around them shift before violently folding them inwards. And finally, he closed his hands and there was WHITE.
Thus, season 1 ends with the continent now under controlled by an unexpected evil NPC... And the Players at the table with broken bones and many, MANY singed body parts.
"... Sorry about the character binding. I'll need some time for season 2 but we can play again? You guys played great! Oh and without the character binding next time." With that Winks cleaned up after the incapacitated PG around the table.
Alchemies!
[LVL 3 Weapon] Hunter's Longbow - A longbow made of sturdy oak, complete with plenty of fletched arrows made of the same tree.
- Adds 15 damage per action, or 30 per action if more than one action is used in the attack.
[LVL 2 Weapon] Chemist's Wand - A wand that looks a bit like a really narrow beaker, but closed off. An unknown liquid sloshes inside.
- Adds 8 damage to attacks utilizing it, along with a 20% chance of Chemical Confliction (10 damage to another enemy) occurring.
I'm wondering how the Stovepipe would improve Intimidation checks... would the target(s) be awed into terror by the sheer ostentatiousness of the headpiece?
Alright, time to take care of these reinforcements...
I'm going to focus on the Fey Wanderer, since Charm Entity seems like a stupidly good power. First off, let's open up with a shot from my Sniper's Crossbow, as I take the time to aim and fire the thing, then fire it off with an aimed shot on the Fey Wanderer. Putting away the Sniper's Crossbow, I equip the Hunter's Longbow and draw the Fey Wanderer's attention- if it wasn't aware of me yet, it is now! I motion for it to try to take a shot at me- then, regardless of its next action, I get off a quick shot on it with the Longbow to try and disrupt its action and train of thought. After that shot, I draw another shot and wait again, hoping it'll make a rash action out of spite- with this next Longbow shot, I aim for the Fey Wanderer's center of mass, hoping to get a shot when or before it gets a chance to fire a shot of its own. If I somehow manage to shoot its arrow out of the air, that'll just be a bonus.
I can do bow tricks too, you know.
Inventory:
- Sniper's Crossbow[Lvl.3] (+15 damage per action used, increased to +30 damage for the first action in a turn using it)
- Avoiding Spear[Lvl.3] (+15 damage per action used, 30% chance to grant Evade (reduces damage taken per attack by 10, 1 turn) upon use)
- Hunter's Longbow[Lvl.3] (+15 damage per action used, increased to +30 damage used if more than one action is used)
- Periodic Wand [Lvl.1] (Gift from Splashcat, +3 damage per action, 20% chance to proc Chemical Reaction, dealing 2 additional damage)
- Distinguished Stovepipe[Lvl.3] (30% chance to inflict Confusion (30% miss chance) to foes that attack you)
- Trickster's Tailed Coat[Lvl.3] (40% chance to deduct 60 damage from the total dealt by an attack)
- Warlock's Timepiece[Lvl.3] (30% chance for your attacks to chain off to another enemy, dealing 25% (Up to 75) of the attack's damage to them)
Seems correct! Sure, the colors are a bit strange, but I suppose that's to be expected...
Hm. Would you like some starting Grist to begin with? That might help to get some stuff up and running.
...If the alchemy code doesn't exist, how did I, ah, use it in... alchemy?
>Hm, my inventory still says I have a Weak Player Lock in it, and what I placed down is listed as a Lesser Player Lock. ...what's lesser, a Lesser Lock or a Weak Lock? I attach the non-active Weak Player Lock to my Soul, and set it to activate if I'm ever mortally wounded. I'm very... death-averse, as you can see.
>The Lesser Player Lock is great for defence, but it can only defend my Soul Orb resources; the real ones are harder to produce, but also less likely to be attacked, I think. So I use the Formation Computator to design a new Formation for the Constructor Drone to work on, one which bends space. It's... fairly similar to pocket dimension creation, based on what the Computator says, but I leave a small unwarped area deep underground so I can still send things from the base to the rest of the world. Once it's set up, it should be self-sustaining... I think? most of the difficulty is bending the space, not keeping it that way.
>Man, but both of those consumables are waaay out of my price range... hm. Maybe I can still learn something from them? I bring up the preview of the Player Power Generator and start sticking my viewpoint inside the hologram or Whatever the preview is, looking for the inner workings.
E> The Lightmantle is told to give ambient healing energy Anyway. If it already did that, it is told to look at its own healthbar and keep doing it. besides, if there Is nothing to heal, the ambient energy won't get used up, and it's sure to come in handy eventually. Like if someone gets a papercut or a mild spot of gaping wounds.
Drone gets started on that Space-bending Defence Formation
CP: 24
Grist: 12,020->12,220
Talc: 2035
Galium: 1170
Bismuth: 250->280
Cerium: 300->330
Items: Encyclopedia of Magical Structures [1/3]
Formation Calculator [3/3 Chargeup]
Heaven Comms Router
Broadsword +1 (damaged)
Formation Computater [2->0/2 Chargeup]
Alchemiter (Backup)
Assets:
0->35 Mana(Real)
0->15 Mana (Orb)
Drone (Real)
P.Assistance, P.Projection Formations(Real)
Mana Generation Formations x7 (Real) (req.5 Turns or 50 Mana to emplace.)
Lightmantle (Orb)
Mana Wellspring (Orb)
Mana Generation Formation x1 (Orb. costs 50 Mana.)
Lesser Player Lock
Weak Player Lock
Weak Godmodder Lock
Only things that are actually alchemized tend to have an alchemy code, I think - I'm still fairly new to this, but the concept of having an alchemy code for every single object seems to be something that this version of the alchemy system has diverged from.
Err... no. Sorry - I'd normally let you get away with this sort of thing cause it falls under generalized Player Shenanigans and I can get away with it by the rules of this place, but that'd have some major repercussions down the road and probably violate some term or condition or another. You already have 4500 HP, which is 4.5x the max HP for this place right now...
You quickly draft up the plans for a pocket dimension-like orb to surround your base in, sending them to the real world drone! It seems like this will take a while, but hey - once it's done, the base will be much more well defended. Works out well! It begins building the formation immediately.
Trying to view the interior of the Player Power Generator, you see... a lot of complex wiring, sigils, and in general, a complete mess of both magic and technology altering the "code" of reality itself. It would definitely take some time to decode the whole thing and make it yourself, not to mention still need some pretty costly components, but it would be possible.
Xorm is basically the only one in the room nonplussed by the chaos he's letting loose. Why would he be bothered? He causes this on a daily basis. Besides, as risky as it was, his Queen had returned. Xorm actually took a moment to embrace the eldritch demon drider, to the confounded horror of his allies.
[[Xorm. We are going to have so many words about her. But for right now, a warning - The IDPD has a location lock on her. I can give you estimates on how far out the next wave is, but nothing else. Now please, don't kiss - Aaaaand you kissed her.]]
Xorm mostly ignores the message, but takes note of the little timer that pops up in his HUD... 5 turns to the first wave, eh? Plenty of time to get a few things made. He took note of ecneserP ehT and smiled.
"I'd ask questions, but we're fighting a war. I'd suggest you take this, it'll save you headaches later."
[Free Action: Take This, They Won't Shoot You.]
He plucks off his Formation Badge and flicks it over to ecneserP ehT. The identification code linked to it automatically scrambles on leaving Xorm's person, reforming into a unique identifier ecneserP ehT can use on comms.
"Now to whip up a new one for myself~"
[Action 1: Another One.]
He pulls up the Alchemical Submenu and inputs
You hand off your old Formation Badge to ecneserP ehT.
Formation Badge && Civilian-Grade Stat Clock == Timer Badge [LVL 4 Armor] - A Formation Badge combined with clocks and plenty of statistical processing units.
- Takes 40 damage off of every attack thrown at you. Additionally... - [lllll] 0/5- Self Upgrade - Upgrades this item's statistics by a small amount. 0/3 upgrades achieved.
Volcanium X || Tank == Volcanium Tank Deployer - 1/1 Uses[LVL 3 Consumable] - A small box inexplicably filled with all the parts needed to build a volcanium tank. Some assembly required.
- When used, creates a Volcanium Tank. Said tank has 300 HP and 50 Attack, with it's attacks inflicting a small Burning effect.
Not a bad series of alchemies! Adding all the costs together, that should be... 4000 Build Grist, 180 Talc, 240 Gallium, 90 Bismuth, and 120 Cerium. Pretty costly, but at least they seem alright!... upgrading the tank might be good though, considering the recent Player Power increase.
Your third action is taken by your narrator, and will be addressed in the next sidedop update!
I ditch my 0 Multiform Snares for Plague's Rainbow Reloader.
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Action 1 + Lodestone Sword + 3 CP: I run up next to the Ranger and attack her head-on, reasoning that since she's a Ranger, she must not be much of a Meleer. I flick the sword side-hand at her head, slashing out from my left to my right, only for it to melt back into the hilt and invert its momentum to come at her from the right. After that stroke, I bring it back, up and around for an overhand stroke. An obvious attack, but less obvious is the Ranger's own arrowheads, pulled out of their quiver by the sword's magnetic force and stabbing her in the back of the head right before I bring the Lodestone Sword down towards its front. The sword melts and streams through the air into my waiting left hand, allowing me to make an offhand cut at her side before leaping backwards, then throwing the sword, the hilt remaining in my hand as the blade continues like a liquid javelin at her chest. I pull it back once more and crack the stretched-out length of liquid metal like a whip, slashing at her from the opposite side as my previous side cut. Finally, I leap in up close once more, the blade acquiring a sudden excess of inertia mid-stroke, refusing to move further down and instead acting as a leverage point on which I can pivot, pushing down with my arms to lift my body up and do a somersault midair, the sword finally breaking free once more to come up over my head as I fall and plunge it down point first into the Ranger.
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Action 2 (reduced power from Lodestone Sword) + Particle Wand: I cover the Gloom Stalker in magnesium dust. Heavily pyrophoric, the dust ignites immediately in the oxygen-rich air. The bright white flames make it impossible for the Gloom Stalker to hide! ...oh, and also burn it. That's a thing flames do.
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Action 3 + Sylphic Shovel: I shove it into the ground under the Fey Wanderer, then jump on the shovel handle, launching them as if fired from a catapult as a sudden updraft boosts their flight... right over the northern Ice Wall and into the unexplored room beyond.
The Ranger, having no easy way to parry all the blows, quickly reacts by creating a blast of thunder and pushing you outwards to gain some range! This consumes one of her actions for the turn, and even then, she's on the edge of losing another point of HP from the flurry of strange blows you threw at her - even with her range re-established, there isn't any easy way to ignore the hits you did land. Though superficial at first, they still add up...
The Gloom Stalker is now currently caught on fire, and unable to hide from the flames surrounding their person! Though it's a weak burning effect, it still does the trick well.
The Fey Wanderer is catapulted out of the room!... wait, no, Winks is playing D&D with it. Politely waiting for the session to end, you then proceed to use leverage and excavate the Fey Wanderer over the wall to the north! That's... that's one way to deal with it, I suppose. It begins walking back around, mildly annoyed at being thrown from the fight!
(x2)(Wand of Contradictions) The Dragon invokes the Wand of Contradictions, zapping the Gloom Stalker with Paradoxical Energy that sears at it's very being, twisting it's nature into a creature that can only reveal itself useless, that is, nullfying it's stealth ability and turning it into the useless ability to reveal itself harder, making it take even more damage, that kind of stuff.
(Orders) The Hospital observes as the Acorn grows into a Sapling, the air twists as something strange happens and the Sapling grows...not higher but outside, as it passes through the cracks in it and reaches the place outside of it, where it conjures its own reality and begins...synthesising the nature of the Outside into more fuel for itself, turning it into the Growth Resource as it prepares to grow into a World Tree. The Hospital continues nurturing it.
The Exploratory Drone realises this loot box might be a mimic, or it's just too durable for it to break in any reasonable amount of time...unless, it uses the power of telekiesis of bullets it definetly always had to lift the Loot Box remotely and than toss it into the Springs, where the deluge of falling water crushes it under so much pressure as to break it open, or kill the mimic. whatever it was. the Drone stands ready to reap the rewards either way.
Inverting the Gloom Stalker's ability, you convert it into Distract! This one multiplies all damage it takes by 1.2x, but draws entity fire towards it for the next turn. Still useful to it (kinda), but at least it can't deal damage while avoiding all directed towards it anymore.
The Hospital and Exploratory Drone will continue to do as you say!
Oof... things just keep getting dicey and dicier does it?
Staving off the minor dread in this situation, Winkins decided to calm his nerves with a game... Picking through his stacks of games, he walks towards the Ranger and plop a neat mahogany table in front of her.
What follows next is the curiosity of PG Entities and the Companion herself joining in for a looong session of DnD where Fey, the Warlock, Gloom, The Rogue, and Ranger, the Mysterious Ranger banded together and travelled to the Sacred and unsealed continent For riches and glory!
Ruins were scoured and Caves dove into, already hours had somehow passed by as the beginning left the trio of confident as some the easy battles hadn't even left them any scratches and immerse themselves! However the stakes grew and with a bit of improv on Winkins part from the PG's unexpected actions... mainly from the Ranger, they explored this "sacred" continent and uncovers its not so holy "truths".
So immerse into the campaign that they don't notice the damage their characters were taking were being reflected on their actual being... Then again, they were all relatively squishy classes made sure to not get hit, which makes it harder to find out asides from the few grazes on their person.
Finally, they reach the BBEG of this season in which, surprise surprise! The Church... wasn't bad? All those traps and sabotages they set up for the Church... quests that was given by the one NPC who hinted the party of the Church's "ominous" nature since the near beginning led to the binding of the party as the man neared the pedestal of the exhausted High Priestess .
And so a head rolled as the feeling of despair permeated the IC party so deeply that even without the bond to the characters that the PGs felt the hopelessness of the situation. And so the BBEG corrupted the ritual that the party had attempted to stop, but with the party failing roll after roll, he grasped the power of the sacred continent and was about to lower entirety of the continent's power onto the party, the Ranger had one last saving throwing to either save or doom the game...
The dice bounces on the table as the Ranger stares intently at the die... to find it land on a nat 1.
Horror shows on the PGs faces as a shard of the shattered Mirror golem somehow made it on the mahogany table. A broken mirror something that's known to give bad luck... appearing next to the die of the one that shattered it? It looks like the Mirror gave its last hurrah.
Winks stared at the results, having immersed into this campaign himself even though he knew the the effects that would occur on his players, he can only grimly continue his role as the GM and narrate the next and final scene.
Having failed to get free and save her compatriots, the BBEG gave a dark laugh, thanking the party of their work to get him the final piece for the continent and and that their final reward being to witness the first full extent of his power being used... on them.
With a lift of his arm the space around them shift before violently folding them inwards. And finally, he closed his hands and there was WHITE.
Thus, season 1 ends with the continent now under controlled by an unexpected evil NPC... And the Players at the table with broken bones and many, MANY singed body parts.
"... Sorry about the character binding. I'll need some time for season 2 but we can play again? You guys played great! Oh and without the character binding next time." With that Winks cleaned up after the incapacitated PG around the table.
Alchemies!
[LVL 3 Weapon] Hunter's Longbow - A longbow made of sturdy oak, complete with plenty of fletched arrows made of the same tree.
- Adds 15 damage per action, or 30 per action if more than one action is used in the attack.
[LVL 2 Weapon] Chemist's Wand - A wand that looks a bit like a really narrow beaker, but closed off. An unknown liquid sloshes inside.
- Adds 8 damage to attacks utilizing it, along with a 20% chance of Chemical Confliction (10 damage to another enemy) occurring.
As the shard of the mirror lands on the table, the bad luck sends all three of the forces flying away from the table from the magic implosion caused by the BBEG! This deals 300 damage to both the Gloom Stalker and the Fey Wanderer (which is then promptly launched by Splash), and deals 1 damage to the Ranger! Keep it up!
... The Gloom Stalker also gives you a thumbs up for season 2. The Ranger gives them a glare, but... The Ranger - "That was actually fairly fun. If we weren't on opposite sides, I'd be willing to try my hand at it..."
The Ranger - "Unfortunately, you're fighting me. I believe, for the time being, I'll have to decline."
I'm wondering how the Stovepipe would improve Intimidation checks... would the target(s) be awed into terror by the sheer ostentatiousness of the headpiece?
Alright, time to take care of these reinforcements...
I'm going to focus on the Fey Wanderer, since Charm Entity seems like a stupidly good power. First off, let's open up with a shot from my Sniper's Crossbow, as I take the time to aim and fire the thing, then fire it off with an aimed shot on the Fey Wanderer. Putting away the Sniper's Crossbow, I equip the Hunter's Longbow and draw the Fey Wanderer's attention- if it wasn't aware of me yet, it is now! I motion for it to try to take a shot at me- then, regardless of its next action, I get off a quick shot on it with the Longbow to try and disrupt its action and train of thought. After that shot, I draw another shot and wait again, hoping it'll make a rash action out of spite- with this next Longbow shot, I aim for the Fey Wanderer's center of mass, hoping to get a shot when or before it gets a chance to fire a shot of its own. If I somehow manage to shoot its arrow out of the air, that'll just be a bonus.
I can do bow tricks too, you know.
Inventory:
- Sniper's Crossbow[Lvl.3] (+15 damage per action used, increased to +30 damage for the first action in a turn using it)
- Avoiding Spear[Lvl.3] (+15 damage per action used, 30% chance to grant Evade (reduces damage taken per attack by 10, 1 turn) upon use)
- Hunter's Longbow[Lvl.3] (+15 damage per action used, increased to +30 damage used if more than one action is used)
- Periodic Wand [Lvl.1] (Gift from Splashcat, +3 damage per action, 20% chance to proc Chemical Reaction, dealing 2 additional damage)
- Distinguished Stovepipe[Lvl.3] (30% chance to inflict Confusion (30% miss chance) to foes that attack you)
- Trickster's Tailed Coat[Lvl.3] (40% chance to deduct 60 damage from the total dealt by an attack)
- Warlock's Timepiece[Lvl.3] (30% chance for your attacks to chain off to another enemy, dealing 25% (Up to 75) of the attack's damage to them)
The tophat itself is intimidating because of the sheer authority it exudes. At least, I think that's how it would work...
Either way - as the Fey Wanderer rounds the corner back into the main area, you fire off a series of three shots that deal a total of 830 damage to it, due to its surprise and then the inability to defend properly! Rushing back into the arena and using its bow to cover from your arrow fire, it seems flustered. Between Splash's efforts and your suppressing fire, it doesn't seem like it'll be able to attack this turn!
-=+=-
End of Turn Battle -
Slated Cliffs -
The Lightmantle realizes what exactly you're trying to have it do, and proceeds to actually heal itself by 20 HP! Seems like its HP is far less effective than its attack potential...
The mana generation stuff produces 15 mana in Sdieve's cave and 35 mana in the real world!
Woodgrave -
Elsewhere - The Hospital continues to nurture this plant using their Produce Item charge! Though I doubt that the World Tree will be a level 3 item of some sort in its fully grown state, it should be interesting to mark its progress...
The Arena -
Alright. Let's try this again... only to get interrupted by things.
To start off, the Akimbo Sniper, Glacier Huskies, and Resistance Defender launch a coordinated attack at the Fey Wanderer for 595 damage! Jake and Murai attempt a coordinated flurry of attacks similar to Splashcat's, but are quickly stopped by the Ranger wielding... a narrative curse? The Ranger - The Curse of Repetitiveness is a constant, my foes. ... Yeah, that makes sense in retrospect. Still fighting a Godmodder...
The Gloom Stalker decides to utilize its new ability to be an effective distraction, drawing entity fire for the next two turns! The Fey Wanderer charges up its specials as it re-enters the room, but loses its turn due to spending its action walking back around.
The Ranger themselves has two actions this turn, having lost one of her actions to countering! Using more and more magic now, they shoot a lightning arrow into the sky with their second action and 5 CP, calling down a lightning bolt that seems to shock the ground and deal 200 damage to all AG, Neutral, and Resistance entities! Finishing off their turn, they attempt to... wait, hey! Stop messing with the battle display! The Ranger - "Why? They don't seem to."
...
Through their meddling, The Ranger uses the Amazonian Arch and 3 CP to break off not letters, but numbers from the Arena - specifically, @Ninjatwist_'s and the Fey Wanderer's HP values! Performing a quick swap, Ninjatwist feels their vitality drain as the numbers begin to take an effect! How would someone even counter this?...
The Lodestar -
Things progress as is normal. The Banneret uses Rally Cry to heal its wounded soldiers, and Xorm is healed for 300 HP because of the wording of the ability - which is certainly better than being at 1/5th of his max health. Additionally, Ranyeh spawns a Basic Sliver - but other than that not much happens!
General/Miscellaneous -
Ninjatwist will effectively take 815 damage from their HP value being swapped with that of the Fey Wanderer if they cannot counter it!
The Exploratory Drone, now in Tonnerre Ridge, uses... telekinesis, which it apparently always had, to throw the Loot Chest into the Skyfall Spring! It takes 150 damage from the sheer deluge of water that tears at it!
Landing Page Alchemiquest Maps Sheet Rules of advice: Silver sheets mark incomplete areas, where the story objectives have not been finished. Golden sheets mark areas where the story objective's completed, but side objectives remain. Crimson sheets mark areas where all side and story objectives...
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Itinerary - [AG] - Destroy the Godmodder! [AG/N] - Increase Player Power by destroying the Power Anchors! [N] - Find your own goals! [PG] - Stop the AG effort to increase Player Power! [PG] - Reconvene with the Godmodder somewhere a bit more PG Biased...?
Player List - Player Power set to 200.
General Inventory / Key Items:
- The Alchemiter: allows for alchemy wherever and whenever! Required Grist for Upgrade to [LVL 5] -
5,800/12,000 Build Grist, 680/960 Gallium, 200/480 Bismuth, 60/480 Cerium
Ninjatwist - 8/8 Inventory Slots used. [LVL 3 Weapon]Hunter's Longbow - A longbow made of sturdy oak, complete with plenty of fletched arrows made of the same tree.
- Adds 15 damage per action, or 30 per action if more than one action is used in the attack. [LVL 3 Weapon]Sniper's Crossbow - A crossbow made of heavy, but durable materials. Has a scope attached to it, allowing for clearer shots.
- Adds 15 damage per action used in an attack, which is increased to 30 additional damage for your first action in a turn using it. [LVL 3 Weapon]Avoiding Spear - A spear designed around maneuverability and the ability to dodge.
- Along with adding 15 damage per action using it, grants a 30% chance to give Evade (reduces damage taken per attack by 10, 1 turn). [LVL 1 Weapon]Crossbow - A fairly simple wooden crossbow. Effective and easy to fire!
- Deals an additional 4 damage per action used. [LVL 1 Weapon]Periodic Wand - A wand with a really, really small version of the Periodic Table wrapped around its side lengthwise.
- Adds 3 damage per action to attacks. Also has a 20% chance to trigger Chemical Reaction (3 damage to another enemy) once a turn.
[LVL 3 Armor]Trickster's Tailed Coat - A coat that seems to be an optical illusion in itself. Seems to make some attacks hit a bit less, at least!
- Grants a 40% chance to deduct 60 damage from the total dealt by an attack. [LVL 3 Armor]Warlock's Timepiece - A small timepiece that seems to glow with malevolent energy.
- Grants a 30% chance for your attacks to chain off to another enemy, dealing 25% (Up to 75) of the attack's damage to them. [LVL 3 Armor]Distinguished Stovepipe - A charming top hat that fits immaculately with the rest of your outfit.
- When you're attacked, the hat has a 30% chance of inflicting Confusion (30% chance to miss attacks) on the foe that hit you.
Paradox - 8/8Inventory Slots used. [LVL 4 Weapon] Wand of Contradictions - A slender wand made of dark oak. Flecks of green scales hint at the nature of the wand.
- When used as a part of an attack, deals 40 extra damage per action to the target's Max HP. Also has a 10% chance to double the damage dealt. [LVL 3 Weapon]+1 Broadsword - Seems to be a mildly enchanted broadsword, with nothing more to it. Still cool, though.
- Adds 25 damage to an attack and negates up to a 15% chance of dodging. [LVL 2 Weapon]Paradoxic Wand - A wand with the power to create and control previously unknown paradoxes.
- Deals an additional 10 damage to the Max Health of a creature, due to mind-breaking paradoxes implanted within. [LVL 2 Weapon]Pinpoint Needles - Two needles with weak-point sensing tech inside, allowing them to be incredibly precise with their aim.
- Deals an additional 10 damage per action, with a 10% chance to double all damage dealt in the attack. [LVL 2 Weapon] Chipped Pickaxe - An iron pickaxe with a small chip in it. Seems effective at what it does.
- Adds 20 damage per action to an attack used to break down walls and other structures.
[LVL 3 Armor]Destiny Scarf - A dark-blue scarf with several bright teal markings across its surface.
- Grants 10% dodge chance and deducts 10 damage from attacks that go through. [LVL 3 Armor] Draconic Plate - A cloak of green dragon scales that seems to blend in with the forested background.
- Grants 5% dodge chance and automatically deducts 20 damage from attacks that hit.
[LVL 1 Armor] Lucky Ribbon - A green ribbon... simple enough, honestly. It does blend in with the scales, though.
- Grants a 5% dodge chance to the player wearing it per attack.
Sdieve - 7/8 Inventory Slots used. [LVL 3 Weapon]+1 Broadsword - Seems to be a mildly enchanted broadsword, with nothing more to it. Still cool, though.
- Adds 25 damage to an attack and negates up to a 15% chance of dodging. [LVL 3 Weapon]Formation Computator [Cooldown: 0/2] - A far more capable computer, running the latest in calculation technologies!
- Usable to add roughly 50 damage per action or a weaker status effect to an attack using formations. Has a cooldown of 2 turns. [LVL 2 Weapon]Chipped Pickaxe - An iron pickaxe with a small chip in it. Seems effective at what it does.
- Adds 20 damage per action to an attack used to break down walls and other structures. [LVL 1 Weapon]Formation Calculator [Cooldown: 0/3] - A lightweight laptop with programs on it for creating and designing formations.
- Usable to add roughly 10 damage and an average chance of a status effect to a formation per action. Has a cooldown of 3 turns.
[LVL 1 Consumable]Encyclopedia of Magical Structures [1/3 Uses] - A purple leather-bound book filled with magic. Perhaps this has some info?
- Two functions here: Either can be used to learn for lore [0 charges used] or can create an example for 1 charge. Examples have varying effects.
[LVL 2 Passive]Heaven Comms Router - A small device, capable of being carried in a pocket. It works!
- Enables communications with Heaven, or what remains of it. From there, who knows what you can do?
- Backup Alchemiter
- Weak Godmodder Lock
- $140
Shin Kicker (Plague) - 8/8 Inventory Slots used. [LVL 3 Weapon]Thunder Mirror - A mirror rimmed with magically infused copper. Seems to hold back immense levels of sound.
- Adds 10 damage to an attack action, along with a 30% chance for Paralyzed (cannot switch squares) for 1 turn. [LVL 3 Weapon]Sylphic Shovel - A lightweight shovel with a white and blue color scheme. Contains the power of the winds.
- Adds 20 Damage per action to an attack, with a 10% chance of dealing Airbound (cannot change squares) for one turn. [LVL 2 Weapon] Adjustable Shovel - A shovel split into two halves of a blade, seemingly creating an adjustable width and length of the tool.
- Adds 10 damage per action to an attack, with a 50% chance of dealing Buried (cannot switch zones) for one turn. [LVL 2 Weapon] Laser Slugger - A metallic bat with a laser gun duct-taped onto the handle.
- When used as a part of an attack, deals 10 extra damage per action with a 15% chance of inflicting Stunned (Misses actions) for 1 turn.
[LVL 3 Armor]Lifetime Extender - A secondary golden timepiece, seeming to run a bit slower than time itself...
- Increases Max HP by 40 when worn. [LVL 1 Armor]Golden Watch - A golden watch. If you look closely, it seems to always be exactly on time, no matter what.
- When hit, has a 20% chance to give Slowed (-10% Attack Damage) on the attacker in return.
[LVL 1 Consumable]Health Amplifier [4/4 Uses] - A mix between radio and medical kits, boosting the signal of one's vitals to restore their health.
- When used, restores 30 HP to anything on the field.
Splashcat - 8/8 Inventory Slots used. [LVL 3 Weapon]Lodestone Sword - A sword composed of some sort of magnetic stone, infused with mercury in the process.
- Adds 30 damage per action to its attack, but subtracts 2/3rds of that amount from another. [LVL 3 Weapon]Reactionary Bat - A bat that seems to react to the slightest touch of anything upon its wooden surface.
- When attacks are countered, allows the user to take up to 40 of the countered damage and sends it back at the original attacker as an action. This damage is still able to be countered. [LVL 3 Weapon]Texter's Rifle - A black and white rifle-typewriter thing. Uses the power of wordplay to deal damage to opponents.
- Deals anywhere from 15-25 extra damage per Action, now dependent on quality wordplay! This can include puns. [LVL 3 Weapon]Particle Wand - A wand that looks more like a baton than anything, seeming to direct the very particles around it.
- Adds 20 damage per action to an attack, along with a 10% cumulative chance per action of a minor negative status effect being inflicted. [LVL 3 Weapon]Sylphic Shovel - A lightweight shovel with a white and blue color scheme. Contains the power of the winds.
- Adds 20 Damage per action to an attack, with a 10% chance of dealing Airbound (cannot change squares) for one turn. [LVL 3 Weapon]Rainbow Reloader - A multicolored pistol, using the same return-shot system as the Returning Shot.
- Can use Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, or Purple shots. Effects vary depending on color.
[LVL 3 Armor]Warded Dress - A nice dress, but seems somewhat stiff when given a second glance. Still very magic, lightning, and bulletproof.
- Deducts 20 damage from the total you take per attack. Rather nice effects, too!
[LVL 2 Consumable]Capcharoid Camera [3/5 Uses] - Prints out Homestuck-styled Capchalouge Cards for anything it takes a picture of.
- Can be used as an action to easily determine how to alchemize something! Does not tell the level, though.
ecneserP ehT - 1/8 Inventory Slots used. [LVL 2 Armor]Formation Badge - A small badge with the same coloration and everything as the uniform of a Formation Soldier.
- Takes 10 damage off every attack launched at you, along with showing loyalty to the PG side.
Winkins - 2/8 Inventory Slots used. [LVL 3 Weapon]Hunter's Longbow - A longbow made of sturdy oak, complete with plenty of fletched arrows made of the same tree.
- Adds 15 damage per action, or 30 per action if more than one action is used in the attack. [LVL 2 Weapon]Chemist's Wand - A wand that looks a bit like a really narrow beaker, but closed off. An unknown liquid sloshes inside.
- Adds 8 damage to attacks utilizing it, along with a 20% chance of Chemical Confliction (10 damage to another enemy) occurring.
Xorm - 4/8 Inventory Slots used. [LVL 3 Weapon]Octuple Barreled Shotgun - It's taken on a standard revolver design, but with 8 slots for shotgun shells. The barrel still unhinges.
- Adds 25 damage per Action to an attack. Still rather simple, but effective...
[LVL 4 Armor]Timer Badge - A Formation Badge combined with clocks and plenty of statistical processing units.
- Takes 40 damage off of every attack thrown at you. Additionally, shows loyalty to the PG side, and... - [lllll] 1/5- Self Upgrade - Upgrades this item's statistics by a small amount. 0/3 upgrades achieved. [LVL 1 Armor]Reactive Shield [20/20 Shields] - A shield that builds up deflection energy over time, compressed into a small trinket on your form.
- Builds up 2 HP of shield per turn. When you're hit, the damage is first taken from the shield and then your health bar. Caps at 20 Shields.
[LVL 3 Consumable] Volcanium Tank Deployer - 1/1 Use - A small box inexplicably filled with all the parts needed to build a volcanium tank.
- When used, creates a Volcanium Tank. Said tank has 300 HP and 50 Attack, with its attacks inflicting a small Burning effect.
[AG] Ninjatwist_ - 1000/1000 HP - 12 CP, 815 damage threatened by Ranger Shenanigans! [AG] Paradox - 1000/1000 HP - 4 CP [N] Sdieve - 4500/1000 HP - 24 CP - Has 1 Attack Shield! [AG] Splashcat - 896/1000 HP - 33 CP [PG] ecneserP ehT - 1000/1000 HP - 3 CP [N] Winkins - 1000/1000 HP - 2 CP [PG] Xorm - 534/1000 HP - 11 CP
Godmodder HP - 69/70
Field Effect: RADIO ZONE! (Lasts as long as Radio!Xorm is alive!)
- All entities that choose a frequency have a 50/50 chance to dodge attacks!
- This effect can be negated if the attacker has a frequency exactly double or half of the defender's.
- Frequencies for both you and your entities can be chosen as a free action once a turn.
Current Players - None!
[N] Radio!Xorm - 130/130 HP, 30 Attack (Frequency 0) [N - Radio!Xorm]Radio Towers (x3) - 180/180 HP, Radio Zone Broadcast [ON] [N - Radio!Xorm] Wicked Witch of the Wavelength - 300/300 HP, 25 HP Regen per turn, 10x5 Attack + Weakened (-5 Attack) for two turns. Also inflicts Weakened when hit. This can stack! (Frequency 1)
Current Players - None!
[N - Winkins] Talc Snail - 300/300 HP, 50 Attack, 100 Talc Eaten (Inventory: 60/60 Talc)
- Eats all available Talc, converting half of it to stats and gaining 3 HP and .5 Attack per Talc converted. Stores the other half in its inventory.
[RS] Forcefield Projector - -1000/-1000 Shields, heals for -100 HP every turn! Protects the entire zone.
Current Players - Sdieve
Current Mana Reserve - 0 [N - Sdieve] Lesser Player Lock - 10,000/10,000 HP, can be broken with 1 Player Action, keeping things from entering or leaving! [N - Sdieve] Lightmantle - 180/180 HP, 40 Attack
[N - Sdieve] Mana Wellspring - 50/50 HP, Generates 10 Mana per turn! [N - Sdieve] Mana Generator - 60/60 HP, gathers 5 Mana a turn!
Current Players - Splashcat, Winkins, Ninjatwist, Paradox
[PG - RN] Fey Wanderer - 185/2000 HP, 200 Attack, healing for 815 HP if Ninjatwist_ doesn't counter the Ranger's attack! [ll] 1/2 - Charm Entity - Inflicts Charmed (Entity joins faction of charmer for 2 turns) on one entity. [lll] 1/3 - Misty Step - Dispels location-based effects on this entity. [PG - RN] Gloom Stalker - 1020/1700 HP, 150 Attack, Burning [60 damage a turn, 2 turns left, cancels Stealthed status], Distracting [2 turns left] [l] 0/1 - Distract - Gives Distracting [draws enemy fire, 1.2x damage taken] to this Entity for 2 turns.
[PG] The Ranger - 3/5 HP, 3 Player Actions, 34 CP [300 Player Power]
Current Players - None!
[AG - Paradox] Outpost Hospital - 400/400 HP, Adds 120 points of healing to Player or Entity Heal Actions! [lllll] 1/5 - Produce Item: Makes 1 LVL 3 Alchemy!
Current Players - None
[N] Fisher - 700/700 HP, 40 Attack [lll] 3/3 - Fish Up: Obtains 1d4 fish. What a peculiar entity.
[AG - Paradox] Exploratory Drone - 250/250 HP, 25 Attack, has 1 Attack Shield, Stealthed [lll] 3/3 - Stealth Drive: Grants Stealthed to the Drone, causing grounded traps not to trigger and the drone to be the last entity attacked!
[N - Sdieve] Player Projection Formation - 100/100 HP, Allows for Player Projection. Protect at all costs! [N - Sdieve] Mana Generators x7 - 60/60 HP, Gathers 5 Mana a turn! (x7)
>Well, I can't make heads or tails of this. my first thought is to hand it off to someone competent, like Steffan, but...
So my second thought is to remove the Alchemiters projector and attach the data-cable- or equivalent- feeding into it to my Formation Computater and save the file to the disk. Then, I throw darts at a list of file types until I get the right file type with Player Powers, and convert the holoprojector-or-whatnot into a file the Formation Computater can at least render. And Then, I send a message to Heaven that I've discovered a machine that can generate... or maybe just amplify?... Player Power around it, and start uploading the schematic through the Router.
>Hey, here's a... weird question. Souls produce Mana, right?
I mean, they've got to, yeah? The Lightmantle can do it and I've used magic, and this is the Soul Orb.
But clearly, souls don't produce Mana all the time. for a lot of technologically-focused species or civilizations, there isn't a point. Of course, those species don't encounter mana much unless they branch out, anyway- A lot of magical reactions only work in high-Mana environments or at specific thresholds, Steffan said so that one time he wanted to turn Frovens into Mana.
...change of plans, time to turn Frovens into Mana. I was going somewhere else with this about ramping up soul-based Mana production, but the amount of energy in the mass of a couple Frovens is obviously a way better use of my time, if I can copy Steffans design.
Uh, let's see, it had... a Lead block in a cylinder made of Lead, I think... probably lubricated?... Wait, no, it was a block of Mana Crystal to absorb the produced Mana... there was some kind of electricity-powered reaction which made Mana as a Byproduct... Or, no, the reaction was inside a block of material inside a block of Mana Crystal, on a circular track, and it was spinning so the Mana, comparatively motionless or at least not adjusting direction, would hit the Mana Crystal and be absorbed... I guess there must've been a thin hole in the Mana Crystal for wires to power the reaction... and I also place a Mana-siphoning Formation around each of the rail tracks to take the Mana from the Mana Crystals and pour it into my non-alchemical Mana Generation Formations so the Crystals don't get past capacity. I think that should work? (((The above description was created from memory to simulate Sdieve's actual position. Looking it up, the original design was a container of lead, containing the reaction chamber and a separate block of Mana Crystal, with Mana Crystals being slotted in and out periodically, and 'six pages of differential equations to show the required tolerances' which are implied to be moreso necessary for it to work for more then a few hours, rather then for it to work at all. Additionally, I suspect the reason the crystals were slotted in and out was that Transferring Mana would leave a residue which could prevent or influence the reaction-the shift from a block of crystal behind to solid crystal around the reaction might stop that, or it might not. Overall, the creation should Probably work, but maybe not reliably or for very long. And Sdieve forgot to actually make an auto-alchemizer, fusion reactor, deconstruction table, or pool of liquid death, so the construct doesn't have any electricity to power it. I'd fix that, but I only noticed it because I was going over it repeatedly to explain the differences, and Sdieve doesn't have the original for comparison or enough things to beat himself up over lately. I mean, making Player/Godmodder locks worked out great, the dimension thing seems to be fine, the weak lock thing was so blatantly a long shot I can't imagine Sdieve expecting success, and the Generator thing has potential. So yeah, I'm letting an action intentionally be sort-of a failure.)))
>I read a bit from the Encyclopedia of Magical Structures. who knows, maybe it'll be useful?
E> Drone continues work. Back at full health, the Lightmantle releases its excess Mana into the air within the base, supplementing Mana generation.
CP: 24
Grist: 12,220
Talc: 2035
Galium: 1170
Bismuth: 280
Cerium: 330
Items: Encyclopedia of Magical Structures [1/3]
Formation Calculator [3/3 Chargeup]
Heaven Comms Router
Broadsword +1 (damaged)
Formation Computater [0->1/2 Chargeup]
Alchemiter (Backup)
Assets:
35->0->0 Mana(Real)
15->30 Mana (Orb)
Drone (Real)
P.Assistance, P.Projection Formations(Real)
Mana Generation Formations x7 (Real) (req.5 Turns or 50 Mana to emplace.)
Dimensional Defense Formation x0.125 (Real) (req. 8 turns, 280 Mana to emplace.)
Lightmantle (Orb)
Mana Wellspring (Orb)
Mana Generation Formation x1 (Orb. costs 50 Mana.)
Lesser Player Lock
Weak Player Lock
Weak Godmodder Lock
(x1)(Wand of Contradictions) The Paradoxical Dragon raises it's wand and removes the "er" from all enemies, turning the Ranger into the Rang, quickly dissapating if it doesn't act soon to counter it, the Fey Wanderer into the Fey Wand and the Gloom Stalker into a Gloom Stalk.
(x1) Picking up the Fey Wand, he stores the "er"s into a quickly crafted Bag to store them for later before blasting the Fey Wand at the Gloom Stalk, expending all the magical charges of the Fey Wand in turning the dark slip of grass the Gloom Stalk is into cinders. With Magical Capability thus removed, the Fey Wand is promptly tossed into a meteoric Woodchipper before the "er"s explode out of the bag back to their respective owners.
(x1) The Dragon quickly spread their wings over Winkin's Doggos, protecting them with his body to prevent their deaths when the Ranger makes her Move.
(Orders) The Hospital upticks it's Create Item Charge as well as that of its previous turns as the full charge would be the one used to create Bonsai World Tree whose main purpose is to exist Outside of the Soul Orb and Grow...for later potential
The Drone continues waiting for the pounding waters to destroy the Loot Box while reading a magazine or something.
Winkins scoffs at the Gloom's ability, drawing fire to itself?
Well then! Ice would mean that it be repelled by its distracting state as ice is simply the opposite element! With that thought out, Winkins easily makes a rolls up a ice boulder that then shatters to reveal a massive ice mallet!
With a well aimed toss, mallet spins its way to the Gloom Stalker, only to be violently pushed back once it got far too close! Once again flinging the hammer towards another... calculated direction which was evident when the mattle bashes itself into the Fey's face.
Done with the first attack, Winkins eye his dogs with worry before giving in to the decision. Calling the attention of Snow with a sign for him to unleash his Snowstorm, Winkins saunters his way to the dog while fiddling with a megaphone in hand. As the Glacier Husky was about to bark up his Snowstorm, Winkins drops a tri-pod with a specialized megaphone attached to it in front of the dog. This in turn, amplified the Bark to cover the whole field and turning the Snowstorm into an AoE attack that pelts the PGs in snow.
The wide spread of the Snowstorm also makes for great cover as Winkins called his dogs to retreat back to the Campfire area where Aurora can use the Field Hospital to aid in healing her brothers but leaving them out of the fight... For now.
Alchemies!
[LVL 3 Weapon] Hunter's Longbow - A longbow made of sturdy oak, complete with plenty of fletched arrows made of the same tree.
- Adds 15 damage per action, or 30 per action if more than one action is used in the attack.
[LVL 2 Weapon] Chemist's Wand - A wand that looks a bit like a really narrow beaker, but closed off. An unknown liquid sloshes inside.
- Adds 8 damage to attacks utilizing it, along with a 20% chance of Chemical Confliction (10 damage to another enemy) occurring.
Well, I'm in a bit of a conundrum. So, the Ranger's having my HP swapped with one of their lackies, aren't they? This is a bit of an issue... I can't really dodge or block out of this, I feel like... but what if I made it so that my HP didn't matter really in the first place?
Just real quick, I'm going to use my Hunter's Longbow- I quickly fire off arrows into the forest before my vital energy gets sapped! I was actually aiming fairly carefully- I managed to kill enough giant rats and assorted blights lurking in the shadows of the forest to quickly level up, taking a level in Wizard. I manifest myself a Level 9 spell scroll- this should be just what I need, when it becomes clear what's written on the scroll! I quickly read from the scroll, allowing the world-shaking conjuration magic to bring itself from the Weave into the world...
"I Wish to cast Clone!"
My mystical clone immediately (thanks to the instant summoning of the Wish) starts growing within a hidden sarcophagus I've placed earlier in the forest- with that underway, it's time for these rangers to get a bit more than they can chew from this sort of healing they'd expect. I wish I coulda had a more magical solution, but that was my one spell scroll I can get right now. I bring up my Sniper's Crossbow to my chin, loaded with explosives, acids, thermite, and the like to make sure whatever's on the receiving end of its bolt- me, in this case- gets dead.
"See ya, suckers!"
Using my big toe, I press on the trigger, releasing the bolt. Hopefully, this body doesn't survive, and ideally, neither should the Fey Wanderer.
Now, getting that Clone up and running is going to be another issue entirely...
Inventory:
- Sniper's Crossbow[Lvl.3] (+15 damage per action used, increased to +30 damage for the first action in a turn using it)
- Avoiding Spear[Lvl.3] (+15 damage per action used, 30% chance to grant Evade (reduces damage taken per attack by 10, 1 turn) upon use)
- Hunter's Longbow[Lvl.3] (+15 damage per action used, increased to +30 damage used if more than one action is used)
- Periodic Wand [Lvl.1] (Gift from Splashcat, +3 damage per action, 20% chance to proc Chemical Reaction, dealing 2 additional damage)
- Distinguished Stovepipe[Lvl.3] (30% chance to inflict Confusion (30% miss chance) to foes that attack you)
- Trickster's Tailed Coat[Lvl.3] (40% chance to deduct 60 damage from the total dealt by an attack)
- Warlock's Timepiece[Lvl.3] (30% chance for your attacks to chain off to another enemy, dealing 25% (Up to 75) of the attack's damage to them)
Action 1 + 3 CP + Texter's Rifle: While the Ranger is busy meddling with Ninjatwist and the Fey Wanderer's health values, I take aim at her own battle display representation and shoot the l out from her "Player Actions". She's still got three actions... but they don't come cheap any more. If she wants to keep using her Payer Actions, she's going to have to fork over some CP.
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Action 2 + Rainbow Reloader: Unsure what exactly this weapon's various color modes do, I perform some highly scientific experiments by shooting the Gloom Stalker with some red ones on the left side of their body and some orange ones on the right side of their body.
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Action 3: I throw a boomerang past the Ranger. While she's checking to see when it's coming back, I throw an anvil up in the air over her head. While she's checking to see when it'll come down, I throw a time bomb at her feet. While she's checking to see when it'll explode, I throw a paper airplane at her. While she's checking to see whether it's going to hit her or not... she blows up, because there were Explosive Runes written on the paper.
Kit counted up a little bit of math, thin grinned something wicked.
"Time for a magic show~"
[Reserved Action: Ladies And Gentlemen!]
He walked into the middle of the nondescript yard, and flicked out that compressed piece of paper. It flourishes into a fully sized stage, with enough decoration for any act of any sort. There's even a burst of confetti to draw the intrigue of the other prisoners - And the ire of the guards.
Kit flips onto the stage, and conjures up some generic stageman's clothes to go with the art he was about to perform.
"Ladies and gentlemen! I am here on this stage today to show you everything is not as it seems! The folds of spacetime are paper thin, and paper-sharp! Once I remind you all how to use them..." he begins proudly. Then there's a dark gleam in his eyes, a predatory curl to his smile.
"Why. I daresay that even Ex Machina couldn't hold us." he growls, provoking a defensive reaction from the guards. One of the nearby Cell Block Guards rushes the anthro wolf on the stage, foolishly.
"Inmate Kit, return to your cell right now, or I will report your actions to the War-MMMPH!" he begins, before being folded up like he was a mere piece of paper.
"See? Once you take a moment to think it through, put a little elbow grease into it..." Kit says, purposely oblivious to the other guards creeping towards him. He's folded the first Guard into a key, now... And with a flick of his paw, there's a lot more keys. 15 of them, in fact. "The key to whatever Ails you is right at hand~" he croons, dealing paper keys to the Shackled inmates like a poker professional.
He hears the other guards converging on the stage, and with a whimsical hand to the side, a cane appears from offstage to try to yank him off. "Oh, looks like that's my cue!" he smirks as the cane grabs him by the waist and pulls him into the curtains. Following the disappearance of the wolfish stageman, the stage itself folds back up, causing the guards to crash together comedically over it.
Kit is back in the crowd, helping one less dexterous inmate unlock his cuffs with a paper key. Afterwards, he clears his throat.
"In case it wasn't clear what I was trying to pull for you guys..." he says loud and clear.
"PRISON BREAK!"
Kit screams with glee, hopefully whipping the newly unshackled inmates into a minor frenzy~
Neither side of the prison yard saw it coming! As the now-unshackled inmates regain their abilities to their fullest potential, the unprepared guards quickly draw their weapons and prepare to quell this uprising as they have so many others.
... An end of turn battle section doesn't really make sense here, due to there only being one participant in this "sidequest..." I guess I'll just fill in the rest of the battle here, then! The Narrative Prisoners, moving first, quickly manage to deal enough to overwhelm the generic Cell Block Guards and deal 5000 damage to one of the Yard Wardens!
The Yard Wardens split their attacks, dealing 5000 damage to one of the Narrative Prisoners and reinflicting Shackled on it! The other one begins moving to suppress you, swinging a simple baton that crackles with purple energy at you! Though it'll inflict damage, the more worrying thing to worry about is that Shackled effect... but that seems simple enough to counter now, doesn't it?
-=+=-
Ex Machina Prison - Prison Yard [N?] KitRougard - Not Injured
[N?] Narrative Prisoners x14 - 10,000/10,000 HP, 2000 Attack, x14
Narrative Prisoner - 5000/10,000 HP, 2000200 Attack, Shackled (5 turns left). [N??] The Collector - I have no idea what's going on with this guy. Supposedly sells stuff?
[EX - Elite] Yard Warden - 20,000/20,000 HP, Imprison (Deals 5000 damage and inflicts Shackled for 5 turns.)
Yard Warden - 15,000/20,000 HP, Imprison (Deals 5000 damage and inflicts Shackled for 5 turns.)
Inventory -
[Unique Weapon] Portable Stage - A portable stage of sorts for your own actions. Seems like something straight out of Paper Mario: TTYD.
- Makes dispelling otherwise permanent status effects possible.
- Also grants 1000 additional Player Power to shenanigan-based actions. This effect scales with base Player Power.
[LVL -- Passive] Laptop - Hey, it's your laptop! Seems a bit outdated, but still works great.
- Allows for write-ins for actions as Xorm. You and he still share three Actions, though!
Xorm picked up the Build-A-Tank box and considered another Alchemy...
[Action 1: You See, Ivan...]
Alchemize Tank Turret && Helicopter Blades == Tankcopter Turrets Eight tank barrels, each one fully functional, arranged in the 8 cardinal directions. Capable of being spun so fast a tank can achieve liftoff. Who thought this was a good idea?
[Actions 2, 3: Reserved for Sidedop] [[Kit, are you alright over there? Action economy over here's been taking a half-brick to the temple...]] [[Yeah, I'm... Kinda starting a good-sized prison riot right now, sorry!]] [[This is something I'd inquire more to later. But I think I'll forgo this talk if you ignore Ranyeh.]] [[...Fine. Now gimme a second I have a few guards to trounce.]]
"Alright. Now then... time to focus on the main update!... wait, what's that?" The cameras are picking up an intrusion rapidly focusing inwards on Torix's location. There's little to no time to prepare... and so, locking the door and barricading it with the office chair that he has, the Arbiter readies his powers to defend himself and the terminal.
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