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I would expect a single spell capable of drastic change to weather and able to kill an army, would be significantly mana-intensive. Like, more than the Earth Elemental Summoning. I find it highly unlikely this would be anywhere near our magical ability for quite some time, and would probably have both a high casting cost, and a high maintenance cost in mana/stamina.
 
IchibanSamurai said:
Now, I don't nescesarily agree or disagree with the spell's purchase, but this argument is invalid. It doesn't matter if it hits us. We have a fire spell. And an underground labyrinth. All we have to do is burn a route to the surface and we'll be fine. Even if we're in a city other than our own, if we know it's coming, we could build an igloo. There's a reason the Inuit build those things, after all.
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You are assuming we are casting it to harm a town.
I was talking about casting it in combat
why would we ever want to do this to a town? we want revenge not evulz
 
mrttao said:
You are assuming we are casting it to harm a town.
I was talking about casting it in combat
why would we ever want to do this to a town? we want revenge not evulz
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What if it's a desert and we're feeling overheated? Wouldn't you like to screw with nature and force a blizzard to happen? No? Well you're no fun, that's what I have to say to that.
 
I need a vote tally.

Also, tomorrow is my birthday and I am going on a two week vacation after that, so the update speed will likely slowdown.
 
Vote tally:
##### 3.21
[X] Don't buy it.
[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
[X] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
No. of votes: 1
mrttao

[X] Don't buy it.
[X] Head into the forest. (ONLY one encounter).
[X] Practice the summoning spell in The Forest.
-[X] Angelic form
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
No. of votes: 1
Arkatekt

[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
[X] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
No. of votes: 1
Night_stalker

[X] Don't buy it.
[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there.
[X] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
No. of votes: 1
Smugraptor

[X] Don't buy it
[X] Major: Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost. (Can not be take if you choose to sell the pelt as is)
[X] Buy a book and educate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
-[X] Magical objects and regents, in particular unicorn horns and Ferric pelts.
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
No. of votes: 1
Elder Haman

[X] Buy it
[X] Major: Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost. (Can not be take if you choose to sell the pelt as is)
-[X] Make it a fluffy Cloak. It'll be almost as hard to cut as the armor, fluffy, cover your entire body, fluffy, able to conceal any other armor or other conspicuous details your body may have (such as being covered in blood, or missing an arm, or any number of unsavory looking injuries), fluffy, and fluffy. Did I mention that it'd work as a wearable blanket for when we're travelling?
[X] Buy a book and educate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
-[X] Magical objects and regents, in particular unicorn horns and Fenric pelts.
[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
No. of votes: 1
chocolote12

[X] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost.
[X] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.
[X] Train your base magical ability, by trying to form shapes out of ice. Swords, figures, orbs, or even a spear tip. Also, try and drop it, without launching it, to see if we can. Even if we can't make a sword as such, having a sharp edge in combat could be useful if we drop our sword.
No. of votes: 1
IchibanSamurai

[X] Buy it
No. of votes: 1
Trondason

Vote tally:
##### 3.21
[X] Don't buy it.
No. of votes: 4
mrttao, Arkatekt, Smugraptor, Elder Haman

[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
No. of votes: 2
mrttao, Night_stalker

[X] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?
No. of votes: 3
mrttao, Night_stalker, Smugraptor

[X] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?
No. of votes: 6
mrttao, Arkatekt, Night_stalker, Smugraptor, Elder Haman, chocolote12

[X] Head into the forest. (ONLY one encounter).
No. of votes: 1
Arkatekt

[X] Practice the summoning spell in The Forest.
No. of votes: 1
Arkatekt

-[X] Angelic form
No. of votes: 1
Arkatekt

[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there.
No. of votes: 1
Smugraptor

[X] Major: Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost. (Can not be take if you choose to sell the pelt as is)
No. of votes: 2
Elder Haman, chocolote12

[X] Buy a book and educate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
No. of votes: 2
Elder Haman, chocolote12

-[X] Magical objects and regents, in particular unicorn horns and Ferric pelts.
No. of votes: 1
Elder Haman

[X] Buy it
No. of votes: 2
chocolote12, Trondason

-[X] Make it a fluffy Cloak. It'll be almost as hard to cut as the armor, fluffy, cover your entire body, fluffy, able to conceal any other armor or other conspicuous details your body may have (such as being covered in blood, or missing an arm, or any number of unsavory looking injuries), fluffy, and fluffy. Did I mention that it'd work as a wearable blanket for when we're travelling?
No. of votes: 1
chocolote12

-[X] Magical objects and regents, in particular unicorn horns and Fenric pelts.
No. of votes: 1
chocolote12

[X] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost.
No. of votes: 1
IchibanSamurai

[X] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.
No. of votes: 1
IchibanSamurai

[X] Train your base magical ability, by trying to form shapes out of ice. Swords, figures, orbs, or even a spear tip. Also, try and drop it, without launching it, to see if we can. Even if we can't make a sword as such, having a sharp edge in combat could be useful if we drop our sword.
No. of votes: 1
IchibanSamurai

-.- Seriously? I finally agree to vote for the summoning and nobody else voted for it...

winner by plan: all the ties.
winner by line:

buy/don't buy the thing: don't buy it
Major: Explore the tunnels
Minor 1: Practice Aim
Minor 2: Train Base magic
 
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Well, I guess that is that. In the interests of getting an update out today, I will lock it, although I am not particularly happy about It.

Edit: That is interesting
Dark Ness threw 1 100-faced dice. Reason: Exploration Total: 24
24 24
Dark Ness threw 1 100-faced dice. Reason: Aim Total: 75
75 75
Dark Ness threw 1 100-faced dice. Reason: Base Total: 9
9 9
 
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I've decided to stop despairing every time we get a ridiculously low roll. I mean, the Base roll is basically a 2 on a D20, which sucks, so we've probably lost the base while we were exploring, or we've messed it up somehow beyond repair. In short, bad rolls are things to laugh at, because otherwise we'll cry.




;_;
 
chocolote12 said:
I've decided to stop despairing every time we get a ridiculously low roll. I mean, the Base roll is basically a 2 on a D20, which sucks, so we've probably lost the base while we were exploring, or we've messed it up somehow beyond repair. In short, bad rolls are things to laugh at, because otherwise we'll cry.




;_;
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The Base roll was us training our base magical abilities (non-spell magic). We were probably lifting rocks in the hideout... again.
 
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    • You wake up, go eat, and just go through your general everyday routine. When you are done, you head to your hideout to explore the tunnels. You go to the right side, and while nothing bad happens, you don't find anything good either. All you find is more rough tunnels, that often lead to dead ends, so you end up backtracking a lot.

    Eventually, you just get tired of it and you have other things you want to do today, so you leave. You then go to the place where you trained with the sword, the training grounds. You know that they have archery targets, you can practice with your spells there. You talk to the instructor, and ask if you can train your spell casting. He is resistant, but agrees, on the condition that you pay a sliver. You do so, of course.

    You then focus on the targets, starting with the twenty yard one and ending with the hundred. You fire ice bolt after ice bolt until you can hit the bullseye on the twenty yard, hit close on the rest, and get with the target on the last. You do this for what must have been over an hour, so focused on practicing that you don't pay attention to the time. Good aim could save your life one day, hell, it probably will with the way things have gone.

    By the time you start to lose steam, and stop, you look around and notice that several people are watching you. Spellcasters are probably rare surround here, and you bet that little to none of them actually practice around here. You then go to train your magical ability, and lift some rocks for practice. You are about to pick up some rocks near the target, except you yank the first one way too hard and it goes straight through the target.

    This causes the target to colapse and break. The instructer then storms up to you and demand you pay for it. You fork over four slivers, he is likely overcharging you, but you did break it. Embarressed, you quickly leave, your face burning in shame. You then go back to the inn, it is already a bit late, right? You better go to sleep. And you definitely didn't stay up for an hour thinking about how everyone will know by tomorrow. Nope, you were just focusing on what you are going to do.


    Major Actions: Choose One

    [] Head to Taras. (Will take around a week) May include random encounters

    [] Look for a mage seeking an apprentice.

    [] Buy some books and educate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
    -[] Write in topics. You can pick as many as you want, but if you choose too many, you will get less of a benefit. It will also cost more. Some topics are unavailable.

    [] Buy some magic books and learn more spells, or maybe even something else. Then, take some time to practice what you learned.
    -[] Write in topics. You can pick up to two, which will also cost more. Some topics are unavailable.

    [] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost. (Can not be take if you choose to sell the pelt as is)

    [] Take some more sword lessons, and improve your melee abilities. You aren't exactly a master, after all.

    [] Head into the forest. (ONLY one encounter).

    [] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
    -[] Left
    -[] Right

    [] Write In

    Minor Actions: Choose Two

    [] Buy a book and educate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
    -[] Write in topic. You can pick only one.

    [] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.

    [] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there.
    -[] Left
    -[] Right

    [] Sell Items (Can choose as many as you want)
    -[] Sell the Wolf Pelt as is
    -[] Sell the Unicorn Horn
    -[] Sell the Shoddy Chainmail
    -[] Sell the Leather Vest
    -[] Imp summoning spell instructions.
    --[] How do you explain how you got it?
    --[] Or, maybe you would rather sell to a unscrupulous merchant?

    [] Train your base magical ability, which mainly involves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?

    [] Clean up the hideout, hopefully you won't knock anything over this time.
    -[] The mundane way
    -[] The magical way No more.

    [] Maybe you could ask around the less prosperous part of the city about whoever ran away. Of course, you might also tip them of or draw suspicion on to yourself.

    [] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?

    [] Practice your speed. Yes, it reduces your accuracy, but the faster you fire your spells, the more you can cast. Since you can cast only the ice bolt and fireball spell, you will be practicing with both of them.

    [] Practice the summoning spell in your hideout. Comes with a lessened risk of discovery.
    -[] Angelic form
    -[] Regular form
    -[] Both?

    [] Buy something. It might use up part of your finances, but sometimes you need a something.
    -[] Supplies for the journey to Taras.
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in
     
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    • Guys, just make the Fur into a fluffy cloak already. It's concealing, will protect us against exposure, allows us to wear armor in public without anybody noticing, and will be hard to cut through because it was stripped off of a magical wolf who was barely penetrated by sharpened, magical fence posts flying at about 40 miles per hour.

    And it's fluffy.

    What more could you ask for?
     
    [X] Look for a mage seeking an apprentice.
    [X] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.
    [X] Supplies for the journey to Taras.
     
    [X] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost.
    Let's make the armour already.

    [X] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.
    It's been a while since we read it.

    [X] Practice the summoning spell in your hideout. Comes with a lessened risk of discovery.
    -[X] Regular form
    Cast the damn spell already.
     
    sgtbaker47 said:
    [X] Look for a mage seeking an apprentice.
    [X] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.
    [X] Supplies for the journey to Taras.
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    If we do that now, we'll find a Mage in this city, so getting ready to go to Taras right afterwards is a bad idea; in fact, not getting a master in Taras (Unless what'shisface actually lives in a different city) at all is a bad idea. We should also try to get a few more gold pieces so that we aren't scraping the bottom of the Master-barrel and actually get one that won't take just anybody, so that it becomes money well spent.

    [X] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost.
    -[X] As a fluffy cloak, for concealment. Anything going through the cloak will probably go through regular armor just as well, and it's much less conspicuous.

    [X] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.

    [X] Practice the summoning spell in your hideout. Comes with a lessened risk of discovery.
    -[X] Both forms
     
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    chocolote12 said:
    If we do that now, we'll find a Mage in this city, so getting ready to go to Taras right afterwards is a bad idea; in fact, not getting a master in Taras (Unless what'shisface actually lives in a different city) at all is a bad idea. We should also try to get a few more gold pieces so that we aren't scraping the bottom of the Master-barrel and actually get one that won't take just anybody, so that it becomes money well spent.
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    He's in Taras to kill a dragon, we have maybe 2 weeks until he leaves for someplace else.
     
    [X] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost.
    -[X] As a fluffy cloak, for concealment. Anything going through the cloak will probably go through regular armor just as well, and it's much less conspicuous.

    [X] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.

    [X] Practice the summoning spell in your hideout. Comes with a lessened risk of discovery.
    -[X] Both forms
     
    The advantage of getting a master in Taras isn't that the hero lives there, it is that Taras has much better mages. I believe I said that in the previous update? Although, as Taras is a bigger city and gets much more news, it may be easier to keep track of him there then here.
     
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    [X] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost. (Can not be take if you choose to sell the pelt as is)

    [X] Buy a book and educate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
    -[X] Magical objects and regents, in particular unicorn horns and Ferric pelts. (Note, do this before treating the Ferric pelt).

    [X] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.

    So now all of a sudden everyone wants to practice summoning again? In the hideout, where we can easily be discovered (because seriously, look at our luck). I don't understand any of you.
     
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    Arkatekt said:
    [X] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost. (Can not be take if you choose to sell the pelt as is)

    [X] Clean up the hideout, hopefully you won't knock anything over this time.
    -[X] The mundane way

    [X] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.

    So now all of a sudden everyone wants to practice summoning again? In the hideout, where we can easily be discovered (because seriously, look at our luck). I don't understand any of you.
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    Sabrina's brain damage came from us, not the other way around. :V
     
    [X] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost.
    -[X] As a fluffy cloak, for concealment. Anything going through the cloak will probably go through regular armor just as well, and it's much less conspicuous.

    [X] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.

    [X] Practice the summoning spell in your hideout. Comes with a lessened risk of discovery.
    -[X] Both forms
     
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