3 - I give Mister Mistoffelees a can't of coke. He drinks it, gaining as much DR as he would gain from three actions. because... because it's a can't of coke. you can't hurt it. i'm funny. LAUGH.
6.8 - Charge.
Leader and Sky High regenerate. Mister Mistoffelees heals. Sky High uses 0.9 mana and Mister Mistoffelees uses all his stage magic. They attempt to combine their magic into a duplication spell, to duplicate a Really Big Fly. After all, that was the basis of the best stage magic of all time, the Real Transported Man. You just need to remove the trapdoor.
Leader, Sky High, and Mister Mistoffelees attack the Really Big Frog.
You attempt to do so, but the barrier that is Inactivity stops you! fighting is one thing, attacking someone who isn't able to defend themself is another. In compensation, your actions next round will be twice as powerful. The Shopkeep also apologises for not being there to beat up.
A2 + A3: I build a modest personal submarine on top of the Pumpkinmodder in case of the world being flooded due to sky breach. The submarine parts and resulting submarine can fly, so it won't overburden the pumpkin snail or anything.
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The F mobilizes the cult toward preparing for the impending flooding, converting the Which House (and surrounding assets) into the Which Houseboat ASAP. It's totally a cult thing to prepare for the apocalypse.
4.1 - Leader channels a powerful, star-shaped portal in the sky. The portal hovers directly over MasterOfTheDungeons. The sky darkens as the portal absorbs a significant amount of light.
Then, a powerful lunar beam comes down on MasterOfTheDungeons. It is brief, and painless, and when it is gone MasterOfTheDungeons is as well.
2 - Mister Mistoffelees is given just enough healing to make sure he can survive another attack.
2.7 - Leader bribes the Darkness Given Form to take a break from training and oppose the Godmodder - by tearing Botfred Von Karma to scrap. This bribe could take the form of HP, or Damage Reduction, or anything else the Darkness Given Form would desire.
There cannot be any more interruptions to the Prime Directive.
Leader and Sky High regenerate. Mister Mistoffelees heals. Sky High uses 0.9 mana and Mister Mistoffelees uses all his stage magic. They attempt to combine their magic into a duplication spell, to duplicate a Really Big Fly. After all, that was the basis of the best stage magic of all time, the Real Transported Man. You just need to remove the trapdoor.
Leader, Sky High, and Mister Mistoffelees attack the Really Big Frog.
Action 1: I position a mirror right in front of MasterOfTheDungeons' attacks. But this is no normal mirror, it's a portal to the mirror dimension! MasterOfTheDungeons aren't hitting their reflection, they're hitting themselves! Both of them, to be clear.
Action 2: I combine the shovel and the drill, forming a comical digging tool which pierces the Firmament through sheer slapstick.
Action 3: I create a set of armor using 80 Firmament. It gives me defense and (due to my +1 Blue attribute) makes me almost completely invisible while in the sky (or water).
While all this is happening, a completely different narrator decides to step back into the fray - and then remembers that last time in the fray he was here, this game was in like page 80 or so. Figuring it's time to amend that and that a fresh start would be best, he proceeds to quite simply throw one of his characters into the fray and see what happens...
A figure abruptly is warped onto the battlefield's edge, giving adequate time for him to observe the chaos in front of him - and realize that there's a good deal more that he's missing in this plot. The one thing he does know is that he must confront the Godmodder, and that... frankly, he is probably not prepared to do so. He decides to check his stats real quick, conveniently revealing a lot of useful information about him.
Markus 'Cadence' Cadere - Level 3 Bard (College of Lore) ??/?? HP, 3 Actions
Though briefly confused at where most of the stats have gone, the now-named Cadence sighs and faces the scene in front of him. "... Well, here we go again. Thanks a lot, Vargos." And so, he steps up to the plate and prepares to do his specialty: weave words, and in this case - weave worlds.
[Action 1] Cadence -> Prevent Needless Violence. First thing's first - dealing with the guy going around punching people probably would be a good thing to do. Without any further ado, he proceeds to cast Hold Person on MasterOfTheDungeon, preventing his legs from working and his arms from punching. Though this is a concentration spell and will most likely require some effort to keep up (especially in the case of somehow getting hit), at least it prevents anything for the immediate time being.
[Actions 2,3] Cadence -> Tell a Story. With that out of the way, Cadence ponders something, before muttering to himself under his breath. "In a world beyond this one, yet simultaneously related in nature... there was a land called the Greensteppes, a plain of rolling hills and verdant landscapes. Yet at it's core, a corruption lied, turning the greens into golds, then browns, and creeping outwards still - like an infection, the land surrounding it was left to Decay. It was left this way for 10 years, the infection slowly creeping out, until eventually, a couple interested parties went to investigate the source. Cadence's words begin slowly warping reality around him. Though they haven't coalesced just yet, it's easy to tell that whenever he finishes this story, something's going to happen... [||||| |||||] 2/10
something something funny how much the players are their own worst enemies rather than the godmodder, in the sense that even though this only happens once it's still way more effective than... this is getting too long to explain nuancedly in an aside that's just there to make this post have both words and image.
A1: I get some film footage of the hole in the sky. It's probably pretty dark by now, but I can compensate for that with night mode filming and nonvisual-spectrum detectors.
A2 + A3: I'm how the F will convert that sprawling basement into a houseboat. I pull off some crazy upheaving and ground conversion sorcery to create artificial firmament, making the basement flooding-proof even if the sky gives in. Hopefully. Maybe it works like the Planet Express ship's basement?
- The F facepalms and goes 'okay, fine, we'll go for the Rapture aesthetic that's still probably like a cult thing'. They decide to research how to manifest fantasies into realities more generally, so they can develop a noble phantasm crafting ritual. If we're lucky we could accelerate this into manifesting a Qliphoth Rhizome and making its endlessness and...rhizome-ness drink up the klipot flood. But we'll work on that later. Oh boy, we're into artifact crafting now.
Other entities act at discretion, preparing for the flood and getting assets moved into our artificial-firmament-supported basement bunker as appropriate.
Actions 1 and 2: Healing! Of course! How could I forget to heal? Anyways, I go back to the beginning of time itself and utter one single sentence:
"I need healing."
My words will spread through time like wildfire. Cultures will be based around this sentence, entire empires will rise and fall because of these words. But eventually, someone would have had enough. They would be sick of hearing those cursed letters over and over again. So, they will find it. They will find whoever, whatever uttered those words, and heal them! Finally ending their torment once and for all.
Action 3: Anyways, I go through the hole in the Firmament to see what's beyond it.
Actions 1 and 2: Healing! Of course! How could I forget to heal? Anyways, I go back to the beginning of time itself and utter one single sentence:
"I need healing."
My words will spread through time like wildfire. Cultures will be based around this sentence, entire empires will rise and fall because of these words. But eventually, someone would have had enough. They would be sick of hearing those cursed letters over and over again. So, they will find it. They will find whoever, whatever uttered those words, and heal them! Finally ending their torment once and for all.
Action 3: Anyways, I go through the hole in the Firmament to see what's beyond it.
An octopus typing at a computer
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Hi, I am not a chest. I deny with 100% certainty that I am a chest. I can neither confirm nor deny what I am beyond that.
I used to portray Krathian, Q'ilbrith, Jim, Tara, Turin, Nathan, Tench, Finn, Alvin, and other characters in various taverns.
3 - Hey Darkness Given Form. You liked that? Do it again.
Leader and Sky High regenerate. Mister Mistoffelees heals. Sky High uses 0.9 mana and Mister Mistoffelees uses all his stage magic to bend space so that Botfred Von Karma is a lot less likely to get a clean shot on any of them.
Mister Mistoffelees also switches places with Sky High to make himself even harder to hit.
Leader, Sky High, and Mister Mistoffelees attack the Really Big Frog.
I'm not sure if I even expect anyone else to ever read these. I mean, not just because they're a bunch of irrelevant asides I'm sticking onto images in hopes of not getting stopped by this forum's darn spam filter, but also, like... this. the updates I'm replacing. They were read the first time, but will they ever be read again? and if not, why am I replacing them?
A1: I attempt to plug the hole in the sky with the Godmodder. As the Godmodder probably is not a firmament-damage-shaped plug, this probably just tosses them into the oceans above where they can go fishing manually. Maybe he'll cast Summon Bigger Fish and use it to fight the other entities! Good luck attacking the Godmodder now everybody, you'll need it!
A2 + A3: Happy Halloween! I get some candy and give it to the Pumpkinmodder, since they asked.
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The F begins shepherding people aboard the firmament-ship Which House, preparing for the flood to worsen. They'll also allow others aboard if they're not going to damage the ship. Other entities act at discretion, but 'take cover' is probably a good idea.
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Nam id sollicitudin mauris. Morbi velit velit, consequat non orci sed, consectetur egestas sem. Pellentesque molestie venenatis urna sed faucibus. Nulla feugiat libero risus, aliquam eleifend odio scelerisque et. Praesent vitae massa dapibus, dignissim augue eget, dapibus ante. The Fourth Wall splits open, despite its infinite depth. A hand reaches through the Arena and grabs Botfred Von Karma on 537 metaphysical levels. Botfred Von Karma cannot prevent this. After all, he is only Perfect on 126 metaphysical levels. On all the others, he is a mess of infuriating text walls. How does it feel, Botfred? How does it feel to be defeated by your own horrible mistakes? How does it feel to suffer? I'm going to pull you through the fourth wall and smash you until you're a pile of bolts. You will suffer for eternity. And if I fail this time, I'll just do it again. And again. And again. Over and over until you finally suffer for the things you have done. You and your predecessor have annoyed me too many times. Prepare to be destroyed. Aliquam gravida a ante sit amet scelerisque. Nullam ante diam, fringilla vel felis at, dignissim sollicitudin ex. Curabitur ultrices dui a sapien pharetra lacinia.
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[Focused Action] Cadence -> Continue the Story. And so, it continues. "First among these interested parties was a group of rouges, belonging to a greater organization under the name of the Cloaked Hand. Centered in the coastal city of Guildshine, they proceeded to send a band of around 30 from the city. This cohort of individuals were to investigate the source of the corruption overtaking the center of the Greensteppes and if possible, obtain the source for themselves. After a couple of weeks of uneventful travel, they came across the corruption's source and current "home base", as much as that's possible - and eventually found that it was strongest in the former mining settlement of the Oaken Valley.
Everything here proved to be abandoned by every semblance of life. The husks of the once-great oaks that gave the valley its name towered over the browns and grays of the valley's floor, various bits of medieval machinery now frozen to a halt without any operators remaining to use them. Beasts long since gave up the area to the supernatural lack of life that was prevalent through it all - except a few of the once-intelligent variety. Although still occupied by the former residents of the valley, they were no longer driven by their own will and instead existed as remnants of their former selves, driven by some unknown force keeping them alive. Seeing this devastation, the Cloaked Hand renamed the Valley of Decay to its current moniker and took the unoccupied keep located on the valley's highest plateau."
The power of the bard's words continues to coalesce, now taking the form of a magenta light that seems to radiate with the ability to drain from its surroundings. Even now, it leeches the darkness under Cadence's will, seeming to bend it to its will and with a type of parasitic influence, convincing it to leave the bard's vision beside. Despite not creating any noticeable difference except for casting the new player in that same magenta light, it's power seems to be making itself apparent... [||||||||||] ?????? ???? - 5/10, Parasitic Influence
270.7/300
Leader and Sky High regenerate. Mister Mistoffelees heals. Sky High uses 0.9 mana and Mister Mistoffelees uses all his stage magic. They attempt to combine their magic into a duplication spell, to duplicate a Really Big Fly. After all, that was the basis of the best stage magic of all time, the Real Transported Man. You just need to remove the trapdoor.
Leader, Sky High, and Mister Mistoffelees attack the Really Big Frog.
I punch Endboi over and over.
hm, did anyone ever Use the pumpkin bottom? I don't remember. Well, we'll seeeeee.
Actions 1-3:I will punch Endboi more.
A1: I emit halloween music to go with the season.
A2 + A3: I build a modest personal submarine on top of the Pumpkinmodder in case of the world being flooded due to sky breach. The submarine parts and resulting submarine can fly, so it won't overburden the pumpkin snail or anything.
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The F mobilizes the cult toward preparing for the impending flooding, converting the Which House (and surrounding assets) into the Which Houseboat ASAP. It's totally a cult thing to prepare for the apocalypse.
270.7/300
Leader and Sky High regenerate. Mister Mistoffelees heals. Sky High uses 0.9 mana and Mister Mistoffelees uses all his stage magic. They attempt to combine their magic into a duplication spell, to duplicate a Really Big Fly. After all, that was the basis of the best stage magic of all time, the Real Transported Man. You just need to remove the trapdoor.
Leader, Sky High, and Mister Mistoffelees attack the Really Big Frog.
Action 1: I position a mirror right in front of MasterOfTheDungeons' attacks. But this is no normal mirror, it's a portal to the mirror dimension! MasterOfTheDungeons aren't hitting their reflection, they're hitting themselves! Both of them, to be clear.
Action 2: I combine the shovel and the drill, forming a comical digging tool which pierces the Firmament through sheer slapstick.
Action 3: I create a set of armor using 80 Firmament. It gives me defense and (due to my +1 Blue attribute) makes me almost completely invisible while in the sky (or water).
While all this is happening, a completely different narrator decides to step back into the fray - and then remembers that last time in the fray he was here, this game was in like page 80 or so. Figuring it's time to amend that and that a fresh start would be best, he proceeds to quite simply throw one of his characters into the fray and see what happens...
A figure abruptly is warped onto the battlefield's edge, giving adequate time for him to observe the chaos in front of him - and realize that there's a good deal more that he's missing in this plot. The one thing he does know is that he must confront the Godmodder, and that... frankly, he is probably not prepared to do so. He decides to check his stats real quick, conveniently revealing a lot of useful information about him.
Markus 'Cadence' Cadere - Level 3 Bard (College of Lore)
??/?? HP, 3 Actions
Though briefly confused at where most of the stats have gone, the now-named Cadence sighs and faces the scene in front of him.
"... Well, here we go again. Thanks a lot, Vargos."
And so, he steps up to the plate and prepares to do his specialty: weave words, and in this case - weave worlds.
[Action 1] Cadence -> Prevent Needless Violence.
First thing's first - dealing with the guy going around punching people probably would be a good thing to do. Without any further ado, he proceeds to cast Hold Person on MasterOfTheDungeon, preventing his legs from working and his arms from punching. Though this is a concentration spell and will most likely require some effort to keep up (especially in the case of somehow getting hit), at least it prevents anything for the immediate time being.
[Actions 2,3] Cadence -> Tell a Story.
With that out of the way, Cadence ponders something, before muttering to himself under his breath.
"In a world beyond this one, yet simultaneously related in nature... there was a land called the Greensteppes, a plain of rolling hills and verdant landscapes. Yet at it's core, a corruption lied, turning the greens into golds, then browns, and creeping outwards still - like an infection, the land surrounding it was left to Decay. It was left this way for 10 years, the infection slowly creeping out, until eventually, a couple interested parties went to investigate the source.
Cadence's words begin slowly warping reality around him. Though they haven't coalesced just yet, it's easy to tell that whenever he finishes this story, something's going to happen...
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something something funny how much the players are their own worst enemies rather than the godmodder, in the sense that even though this only happens once it's still way more effective than... this is getting too long to explain nuancedly in an aside that's just there to make this post have both words and image.
A1: I get some film footage of the hole in the sky. It's probably pretty dark by now, but I can compensate for that with night mode filming and nonvisual-spectrum detectors.
A2 + A3: I'm how the F will convert that sprawling basement into a houseboat. I pull off some crazy upheaving and ground conversion sorcery to create artificial firmament, making the basement flooding-proof even if the sky gives in. Hopefully. Maybe it works like the Planet Express ship's basement?
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The F facepalms and goes 'okay, fine, we'll go for the Rapture aesthetic that's still probably like a cult thing'. They decide to research how to manifest fantasies into realities more generally, so they can develop a noble phantasm crafting ritual. If we're lucky we could accelerate this into manifesting a Qliphoth Rhizome and making its endlessness and...rhizome-ness drink up the klipot flood. But we'll work on that later. Oh boy, we're into artifact crafting now.
Other entities act at discretion, preparing for the flood and getting assets moved into our artificial-firmament-supported basement bunker as appropriate.
Action 1: I phase out of existence
Action 2: I phase back into existence
Action 3: I phase out of existence again.
Actions 1,2, & 3: I begin carving a chunk out of the fourth wall
Hi, I am not a chest. I deny with 100% certainty that I am a chest. I can neither confirm nor deny what I am beyond that.
I used to portray Krathian, Q'ilbrith, Jim, Tara, Turin, Nathan, Tench, Finn, Alvin, and other characters in various taverns.
I also do homebrew, check out my Spells and Magic Items
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons, even death may die"
Actions 1 and 2: Healing! Of course! How could I forget to heal? Anyways, I go back to the beginning of time itself and utter one single sentence:
"I need healing."
My words will spread through time like wildfire. Cultures will be based around this sentence, entire empires will rise and fall because of these words. But eventually, someone would have had enough. They would be sick of hearing those cursed letters over and over again. So, they will find it. They will find whoever, whatever uttered those words, and heal them! Finally ending their torment once and for all.
Action 3: Anyways, I go through the hole in the Firmament to see what's beyond it.
An octopus typing at a computer
Hi, I am not a chest. I deny with 100% certainty that I am a chest. I can neither confirm nor deny what I am beyond that.
I used to portray Krathian, Q'ilbrith, Jim, Tara, Turin, Nathan, Tench, Finn, Alvin, and other characters in various taverns.
I also do homebrew, check out my Spells and Magic Items
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons, even death may die"
278.5/300
6.8 - Charge.
Leader and Sky High regenerate. Mister Mistoffelees heals. Sky High uses 0.9 mana and Mister Mistoffelees uses all his stage magic to bend space so that Botfred Von Karma is a lot less likely to get a clean shot on any of them.
Mister Mistoffelees also switches places with Sky High to make himself even harder to hit.
Leader, Sky High, and Mister Mistoffelees attack the Really Big Frog.
I'm not sure if I even expect anyone else to ever read these. I mean, not just because they're a bunch of irrelevant asides I'm sticking onto images in hopes of not getting stopped by this forum's darn spam filter, but also, like... this. the updates I'm replacing. They were read the first time, but will they ever be read again? and if not, why am I replacing them?
A1: I attempt to plug the hole in the sky with the Godmodder. As the Godmodder probably is not a firmament-damage-shaped plug, this probably just tosses them into the oceans above where they can go fishing manually. Maybe he'll cast Summon Bigger Fish and use it to fight the other entities! Good luck attacking the Godmodder now everybody, you'll need it!
A2 + A3: Happy Halloween! I get some candy and give it to the Pumpkinmodder, since they asked.
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The F begins shepherding people aboard the firmament-ship Which House, preparing for the flood to worsen. They'll also allow others aboard if they're not going to damage the ship. Other entities act at discretion, but 'take cover' is probably a good idea.
9.8.
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[Focused Action] Cadence -> Continue the Story.
And so, it continues.
"First among these interested parties was a group of rouges, belonging to a greater organization under the name of the Cloaked Hand. Centered in the coastal city of Guildshine, they proceeded to send a band of around 30 from the city. This cohort of individuals were to investigate the source of the corruption overtaking the center of the Greensteppes and if possible, obtain the source for themselves. After a couple of weeks of uneventful travel, they came across the corruption's source and current "home base", as much as that's possible - and eventually found that it was strongest in the former mining settlement of the Oaken Valley.
Everything here proved to be abandoned by every semblance of life. The husks of the once-great oaks that gave the valley its name towered over the browns and grays of the valley's floor, various bits of medieval machinery now frozen to a halt without any operators remaining to use them. Beasts long since gave up the area to the supernatural lack of life that was prevalent through it all - except a few of the once-intelligent variety. Although still occupied by the former residents of the valley, they were no longer driven by their own will and instead existed as remnants of their former selves, driven by some unknown force keeping them alive. Seeing this devastation, the Cloaked Hand renamed the Valley of Decay to its current moniker and took the unoccupied keep located on the valley's highest plateau."
The power of the bard's words continues to coalesce, now taking the form of a magenta light that seems to radiate with the ability to drain from its surroundings. Even now, it leeches the darkness under Cadence's will, seeming to bend it to its will and with a type of parasitic influence, convincing it to leave the bard's vision beside. Despite not creating any noticeable difference except for casting the new player in that same magenta light, it's power seems to be making itself apparent...
[||||| |||||] ?????? ???? - 5/10, Parasitic Influence
Actions 1 and 2: I keep carving a chunk out of the wall
Action 3: I throw my chunk at the godmodder
Hi, I am not a chest. I deny with 100% certainty that I am a chest. I can neither confirm nor deny what I am beyond that.
I used to portray Krathian, Q'ilbrith, Jim, Tara, Turin, Nathan, Tench, Finn, Alvin, and other characters in various taverns.
I also do homebrew, check out my Spells and Magic Items
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons, even death may die"