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“Lackwits! Halfwands! Maginards! Good gods, why are you just sitting around!? Can't you sense there's been an Arcane- Whoopsy!” With those immortal words, your Headmaster was blasted into ash by a pulse of chaotic energy. You and the rest of your College fled into the night as Alabaster Hall was pulled deeper and deeper into a crackling rent in space. And now the rent is growing larger and larger, and the people of the surrounding towns are looking pointedly at you to do something about it, drat it. One problem - your grimoires were in there. And your, well, your teachers. And your clothes and money? But these friendly, welcoming people are growing less friendly and less welcoming as you wear out your welcome and the chaotic infection of the Arcane Whoopsy spreads further towards them. You guess it’s time to make a… ~*WIZARDS’ LAST STAND*~ WHAT posted:It’s a blackjack joke. Because you stand in blackjack, you see? And in this game you use blackjack mechanics to... Anyhow. So yes, there’s a spreading disaster slowly growing from the ruins of your former school, and only you can do anything about it. Probably. There’s actually a good chance that you can’t fix this by yourselves? There’s just a much larger chance that if no one tries to stop it it’ll spread faster than you can run away… so. WHO posted:Character creation is easy enough: You are a CRAPPY STUDENT WIZARD. You have a NAME. You have 10 HP. Your MIGHT is 1D2 because SOME of you are slightly LESS CRAPPY. You have an ELEMENT (Pyra, Hydro, Terra, Aero). Your attacks deal damage according to your Element, dealing 1 more damage per strike to a vulnerable enemy and 1 less damage to a resistant enemy. Dog Kisser fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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Name: Benny "Twinkletoes" Broccolini Health: 10/10 HP Might: Might: 1d2 1 Element: Hydro "Eyy, don' woirry yer little heads off, ya little goobersnatchers!" said Benny "Twinkletoes" Broccolini to the assembled crowd. It was his second year at the academy, and he'd been forced to take all his first-year classes over again for reasons that no one currently living was aware of. "Benny's got dis woin in tha bag!" He crowed, rolling up his oversized sleeves. Attack E3 to F3: 1d6 1 Benny squinted at his materializing foe. "Oh, a woise guiy, ey?" Lux Anima fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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Name: Ozzy The (Not) Great And (Literally) Terrible HP: 10/10 Might: 1 Element: Aero Inspiration(s): 0 Armour: 0 Spells: What spells? "Yes, okay! Okay! I'll do something about the Whoopsy! I'll just go straight for it and sort it all out by tomorrow afternoon! Just... will you please lower the pitchforks already?" Technically-by-default-apprentice Ozzy stepped forward, knees trembling, the stick-substitute-for-wand raised. He snivelled out a snot-and-tear-ridden incantation as he crossed the boundary into the currently-corrupting region, one half from memory, the other substituted with nonsense words and snuffles. No-one was more surprised than he when smoke erupted from his makeshift wand and the swirling fog cloud it spewed forth cleared to show a... figure even tinier than he, but considerably more badass-looking. "BEHOLD my.... uh. SUMMONED... ah. Imp? Yes, IMP!" Ozzy declared, sweating slightly, turning in the direction of the nearest other apprentice. "That IS an imp, right? Don't we need binding spells for those?" Fortunately for Ozzy, the creature just grinned, its razor sharp teeth glinting as it began to look around for something meatier than its summoner to bite. Might roll 1d2 1 Ozzy (accidentally) summons some extra help! (Attack F6 from E6) 1d6+ 6
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Name: Szymon Flametame HP: 10/10 Element: Pyra "Oh good! A chance to test out my cleansing fire! Time to burn!!" Might: 1d2 1 Attacking F9: 1d6 6 Cloud Potato fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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Name: Ning HP: 10/10 Might: 1d2 2 Element: Terra Inspiration(s): 0 Armour: 0 Spells: - Location: E10 Attack: F10: 1d6 1 Ning stumbled out of the tear in space-time that had just grabbed her, straight into what looked like a battlefield taking shape. She tried drawing on her Geo vision, but the magic responded only sluggishly to her commands, leaving her unable to call up her strongest abilities. sheep-dodger fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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Name: Gimlet Hittemlow Health: 10/10 HP Might: Might: 1d2 1 Element: Terra Location: E11 "Behold the might of a fully inebriated conjurer!" The dwarven caster pointedly does not wobble. Several rocks around him do. Attack F11: 1d6 6 Not Alex fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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Name: Gizzard, the Lizzard Blizzard Wizzard HP: 10/10 Might: 2 Might: 1d2 2 Element: Hydro Inspiration(s): 0 Armour: 0 Spells: - Location: E4 Attack: F4 Attack: 1d6 1 "Freeze scum! And feel the ssslimy frozen tentacles of Lizzard Blizzard fear!!!" Gizzard cried as he sent out icy tendrils into the building. "Just, uh, be careful not to slip," he said, falling on his own scaly tail when he stepped too quickly onto the ice. Slaan fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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Name: Bob Health: 10/10 Might: 2 Element: Aero Location: E1 Bob removes his wand-flute from its case and follows the other wizard-wannabes into danger. Not because he felt any sense of duty to protect the townsfolk, he just needed to retrieve his stuff. Attacking F1: 1d6 1
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Cloud Potato posted:"Oh good! A chance to test out my cleansing fire! Time to burn!!" Off In The Distance posted:"Wait, cleansing fire...? Is this why the dorms always smelled of burnt hair?!"
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Name: Arthur 'Three wands' Pugglesford Health: 10/10 Might: 1d2 2 Element: Pyra Location: E6 Attacking F6: 1d6 2 Arthur squinted at his wand, shrugged, tucked it away and drew out another.
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Name: Jimmy "The Gross Son" Bobson HP: 10 Might: 2 Element: "Aero" Location: E8 To the disappointment of literally everybody else, Jimmy somehow managed to not die during the cataclysm that annihilated their college. He shambled forward, casting 'project body odor' at an unseen foe in the haze. Attack F8 from E8: 1d6 5
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Name: Adila Goldline HP: 10 Might: 2 Element: Terra Location: E2 "Ohohohohohoho! These foolish enemies will be no match for the might of the new heir of the Goldline family, the most beautiful, wealthy, and talented line of mages on this earth!" Adila holds up her wand, ready to drop a giant statue made of gold onto her foe. First Roll vs F2: 1d6 5
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So… yeah. The Wizards (such as they were) considered the matter of the Remains of Alabaster Hall. It wasn’t so much a gothic castle estate anymore as the outline of a gothic castle estate, pressed into the sky like a shape punched out of paper. And beyond the outline… madness. Sparkles, mostly. Crazy patterns. Really exciting stuff if you were were a dumb artist who made their living with things like really neato colour gradients - really awful stuff if you had a smidgen of magical talent. Which, (un)fortunately, rather neatly described you lot. Most teachers hadn’t made their way out, and those who had had… succumbed in their own way. There was your old Herbology teacher right over there down the mountain path - rooted to the naked stone, a twenty foot tall iron tree constantly screaming like a pipe organ. So the Wizards had to make do with Wumpo, the Hall Monitor, who was just as useless in many respects as the name implied. What he HAD brought with him was his Monitoreum, a sort of arcane tablet that the various Hall Monitors had used to communicate. Between your noggins, you’d managed to figure out a way to disconnect the various… unfortunates who were still responding. Wumpo had protested, but Jimmy had burped on him and that was the end of that. The Monitoreum, you figured, could work in a pinch to act as a sort of long-distance Arcane Circle, allowing you to share knowledge and communicate from a distance. As long as you left the book here in town in the Inn (well guarded by the stout Innkeeper who refused to let you leave anyhow without paying or indeed at all ever until the Whoopsy was resolved) it SHOULD work. THE MONITOREUM posted:
EXPLORATION posted:A - Ozzy rolls 6, bringing their total to 6. Possessed Potion rolls 3, bringing their total to 3. Dog Kisser fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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Adila HP: 10/10 Might: 2 Element: Terra (Good against Hydro, Bad against Aero) Location: E2 "Hold still, you ghastly grimoire!" The mass of gold above the book, flapping wings like a bird or a butterfly, shifted left and right to keep up with it's motion. Curses! For all that the Goldline's family was powerful, they couldn't erase elemental affinities. But still, such a minor problem would be nothing compared to Adila's might! Second Roll: 1d6 1 Combine with the 5 from my previous roll, which makes it currently a 6. Adila was still a bit away from defeating this nauseating novel, but, at the very least, she was in a position where she couldn't Overload immediately.
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Name: Gizzard, the Lizzard Blizzard Wizzard HP: 10/10 Might: 2 Element: Hydro Inspiration(s): 0 Armour: 0 Spells: - Location: E4 Attack: F4 Roll 2: 1d6 2 ---Rolls: 1, 2 -----Total: 3 Gizzard got back up to his feet and grabbed his wand using his prehensile tongue once more. He made the motions and thought up the perfect quip to disarm this lantern with. "Lantern? More like... lampreys!" he laughed as he magicked up an eel to assault the item.
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Name: Jimmy "The Gross Son" Bobson HP: 10 Might: 2 Element: "Aero" Location: E8 Jimmy furrowed his brow as he focused on the possessed potion, trying to wriggle his scent cloud through the stopper. It was a struggle. Two choices here: push harder and potentially break through, but risk going too far and dipping his thaumic essence in furious alchemics, or keep a careful pace and try to stall for a better position. Eh. Jimmy wasn't big on putting himself on the line. Attack F8 from E8, Round 2: 1d6 4 I Stand
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Name: Bob Health: 10/10 Might: 2 Element: Aero Location: E1 Recovering from the ear-splitting screech of his first few notes, Bob calmly retuned his wand-flute, before resuming where he left off. This time, the air began to swirl lazily around the diminutive musician, with the hopes of maybe gaining enough strength to snuff out the flame of the floating lantern. By smashing it into a wall, or another strange abberation, or perhaps another wizardling, Bob wasn't picky. Attacking F1 - Animate Lantern: 1d6 6 Total vs Animate Lantern (F1) is now 7
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Name: Benny "Twinkletoes" Broccolini Health: 10/10 HP Might: 1 Element: Hydro A magically-animated lantern swung its flame at Benny Twinkletoes' head but the man was too nimble on his feet and ducked out of the way. Squaring up his fists for a scrum, Benny looked around himself at the other wizards and gave a quick shrug. "Eyy, what kindsa fire codes we breaking heyah anyways?" he said, bobbing from foot to foot. Water drained from the air began to collect around Benny's hands. > Action: E3 Hits F3: 1d6 3
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Name: Arthur 'Three wands' Pugglesford Health: 10/10 Might: 1d2 2 Element: Pyra Location: E5 After some brief jostling for position, Arthur aimed some more bzowts at the... inanimate pillar? O...kay... Attacking F5: 1d6 3 Current total 5 Arthur drew his third wand in his off hand. This was going to take some doing, and dual wielding against something that couldn't dodge deemed valid.
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Name: Gimlet Hittemlow Health: 10/10 HP Might: Might: 1d2 1 Element: Terra Location: E11 Gimlet blearily eyes his foe. "I've got a margarita rim with your name on it." Attack F11: 1d6 3 Not Alex fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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Name: Ning HP: 10/10 Might: 1d2 2 Element: Terra Inspiration(s): 0 Armour: 0 Spells: - Location: E10 Attack: F10: 1d6 1 "Why am I fighting a flying Catalyst?" Ning wondered out loud with exasperation as she threw a boulder at her opponent. Attack F10: 1d6 6 Cumulative attack: 1+6=7
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Name: Bluemonty Health: 10/10 Roll for Might: 1d2 1 Element: Hydro Location: E7 Bluemonty, desperately tightening the buckle on some donated pants, (he was sleeping in at the time of the incident, okay?!?) finally scoots into the fray. Raising his hands on high, he waves them around a little and says something that he hopes vaguely sounds like the thing he heard a teacher say one day. Attacking F7: 1d6 5 His spell starts taking shape!
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Szymon Flametame HP: 10/10 Might: 1 Element: Pyra "Oh, a grimoire! You're gonna burn real good!" Attacking F9: 1d6 5 Puts me on 11, I'll Stand.
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Name: Ozzy The (Not) Great And (Literally) Terrible HP: 10/10 Might: 1 Element: Aero Spells: What spells? "Mighty Imp, assault this vile concoctive!" ... "Uh. Please?" Attack F6! 1d6 1 Total is 7! Scribbleykins fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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So far so good. The Wizards checked up through the Monitoreum, confirming that none of them had been, you know, exploded or turned into a screaming tree. That last one was going to be a hell of an in-joke if any of them survived this, which wasn’t at all clear yet. Hall Monitor Wumpo was awake back at the Inn, apparently, so the link said. The reserves waiting back in town relayed a truly awkward story of how the man had tried to steal his precious book back from the innkeeper, who had promptly slapped him hard enough to make him cry. Sorry Wumpo, the brave Wizards on the front need your diary more than you do!EXPLORATION - TURN 2 posted:A - Ozzy rolls 1, bringing their total to 7. Possessed Potion rolls 3, bringing their total to 6. THE MONITOREUM posted:
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Name: Ozzy The (Not) Great And (Literally) Terrible HP: 10/10 Might: 1 Element: Aero Spells: What spells? Ozzy bargained desperately with the Unbound Imp. "Okay, so if I let you nibble me just a bit every now and again, you'll try to drink that thing for me, okay?" He wasn't sure the creature actually understood him, but at least it stopped gnawing on his ankle and went to reach for the ominously hovering bottle. Attack F6! 1d6 2 Total is 9! - Ozzy STANDS!
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Name: Benny "Twinkletoes" Broccolini Health: 10/10 HP Might: 1 Element: Hydro Benny Twinkletoes did a fancy shuffle with his feet that would have distracted a lesser opponent while he primed a water-laden uppercut. "How 'bout you try on wonna deez for soize, ya jumped up nightlight!" The burning lantern swerved aside when the mage's fist drew near. E3 Hits F3: 1d6 4 - Total: 8
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Name: Ning HP: 10/10 Might: 1d2 2 Element: Terra Inspiration(s): 0 Armour: 0 Spells: - Location: E10 Attack: Attack F10: 1d6 3 Cumulative Attack: 10 Submit! Ning yelled as she landed a devastating hit on the wayward book. Stand
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Name: Arthur 'Three wands' Pugglesford Health: 10/10 Might: 1d2 2 Element: Pyra Location: E5 Attacking F5: 1d6 1 Total 6 Well, that didn't work. The interference of thaumic rhythms had produced an outcome that could only be described as 'subpar'. Tucking away both wands, Arthur drew his initial weapon of choice, not standing just yet. Attacking F5: 1d6 1 Total 7 Oh, narf it. ALL THE WANDS! Attacking F5: 1d6 6 Total 13 ...bugger. AJ_Impy fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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Name: Gimlet Hittemlow Health: 10/10 HP Might: Might: 1d2 1 Element: Terra Location: E11 Gimlets starts burping mid-incantation. Attack F11: 1d6 5
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Szymon Flametame HP: 10/10 Might: 1 Element: Pyra "Hah! First blood to me! Or ink, or sap, or whatever." Attacking F9: 1d6 5
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Name: Bob Health: 10/10 Might: 2 Element: Aero Location: E1 By now the air around Bob had started to pick up some speed, so with a shrill note he directed it towards the lantern, knocking it away from him and towards...well, somewhere else. Bob hadn't learned how to aim this attack yet. Attacking F1 - Animate Lantern: 1d6 4 Total is now 11, Bob will Stand.
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Name: Gizzard, the Lizzard Blizzard Wizzard HP: 10/10 Might: 2 Element: Hydro Inspiration(s): 0 Armour: 0 Spells: - Location: E4 Attack: F4 Attack 3: 1d6 6 ---Rolls: 1, 2, 6 -----Total: 9 Stand All right, the cooling period was over. No more easy icicle spells. It was time for the big one! GIZZARD LIZZARD BLIZZARD GO!
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Name: Jimmy "The Gross Son" Bobson HP: 10 Might: 2 Element: "Aero" Location: E8 Success, if a minute one. After extended struggle, Jimmy had managed to force some of his battle gas into the bottle, partially curdling the contents with the sheer power of his vileness. But it was not a very fruitful affair. His gaze slithered about, leaving a slimy trail of cognizance over everyone it passed, until his eyes locked on Gimlet. Poor Gimlet who was about to die because he could not control his burps. Jimmy snorted. The fool deserved it for letting such a source of power go to waste. Reinforce E8: Automatic success
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Adila HP: 10/10 Might: 2 Element: Terra (Good against Hydro, Bad against Aero) Location: E2 Third Roll: 1d6 6 Oh, would you look at that! I already had a 6 so this gets me to 12, granting me an Epiphany! Adila felt the magical energy surging into her! Victory was within grasp! The golden statue above the book grew larger, and larger, until... it came down!
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Name: Bluemonty Health: 10/10 Might: 1 Element: Hydro Location: E7 Attacking F7: 1d6 4 Total: 5 + 4 = 9 Stand Bluemonty's magical power begins to coalesce within him, and he sends a powerful blast of pressurized water at his opponent, a terrifying...lantern.
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Things were getting a little dicey out there, but the Wizards were holding their own. So far. The little bit of the fighting, the bursts of sparks and explosions and whatnot, were visible from the village, and people stood outside watching. They muttered among themselves, some prayed, some clutched children to their breasts and watched, others just stared and drank. Not much that they could do, at this point, and those few foolhardy enough to flee the village had already done so. No, may as well sit and watch the lights in the distance and try to ignore that they seemed to be coming closer!EXPLORATION - TURN 3 posted:A - Ozzy rolls 2, bringing their total to 9. Possessed Potion rolls 5, bringing their total to 11. THE MONITOREUM posted:
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Adila HP: 8/10 Might: 2 Element: Terra (Good against Hydro, Bad against Aero) That one little page had to shoot out and slice Adila's cheek! Awful! Truly, this catastrophe was horrible! She'd have to wear a band-aid and it would TARNISH the BEAUTY of the GOLDLINE CLAN! But the book was dead. Adila moved the golden statue away and began to absorb the ambient chaotic magical energy. Aero was a weak and transient element. Adila had no use for it. So she focused on the general, neutral energies instead. Neutral Spell Gain: 1d10 4 4 on the Neutral table means I get Boost +2. A little lacking, but still useful as a way to gain a bit more energy without risk. Now that the area had been surveyed, Adila knew where here talents would be used best: Pounding pesky possessed potions. "Ugly smelling wizard whose name I don't care about! I will take on your putrescent place! Go away! You smell. But grant your gaze to the glorious golden girl who will defeat this vile vial!" Moving to Bob's spot, E8 "Now perish, under a rain of gemstones!" Vs Potion!: 1d6 4 Junpei fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Sep 1, 2021 |
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Name: Benny "Twinkletoes" Broccolini Health: 10/10 HP Might: 1 Element: Hydro The bravely boisterous mage Benny Twinkletoes quickly wiped at his nose with his thumb as he hopped from foot to foot with his dukes up. He made a couple jabs at the air and proceeded to taunt the flying fire hazard threatening his space. "Y'now what my moms used ta say ta me? She used ta say, 'Eyy, I'm tryna cook a you dinner, so don'chou gimme no heart attack playin' wit fiyuh.' Heh - if only she could see me now!" The animated lantern responded to this japery by causing its oil to bubble over and its metal pieces to grow red hot. "Eyy, I'm casting heyah~!" Benny shouted at the filthy rich girl Adila Goldline, who'd gotten between him and the airborne flame elemental. "So watch it, toots!" The animated lantern lunged for Benny as soon as he looked away at the passing Adila. E3 Hits F3: 1d6 2 - Total: 10 - Benny STANDS
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Name: Jimmy "The Gross Son" Bobson HP: 10 Might: 2 Element: "Aero" Location: E11 Jimmy didn't pay particular attention to the fussy girl who was accosting him. Instead, he let out a loose, wet fart, suffusing the area with protective qualities but also rendering it quite unpleasant to hang out in. With a gross, guffawing laugh, he walked over to Gimlet's corpse, kicked it aside, and started to taint the Pillar of Salt by summoning a whirlwind of greenish-brown hue around it. Attack F11 from E11: 1d6 6
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