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Nyctohylophobia (Perma-death Quest)

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Alright everyone, closing the vote! Looks like investigating the shadow is the winner!
Dexterity said:
Question, are we allowed to "prepare" a spell for later usage?
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Sorry I missed this! At present time you have no spells to prepare. But if you guys do successful cast a spell I'll allow you guys to prepare spells so Medea can auto-use them without needing to vote for said spell's usage, but you'd need to reprepare the spell once used, you can only prepare one spell at a time, and your ability to cast spells will be turned off while you have a spell prepared (but I'll allow you guys to give up the prepared spell to cast a different spell). In fact, I'll add it to the rules!
 
Wait, what?
TheLordofAwesome said:
Once a spell has been successfully cast it will be added to Medea's spell list (see below), where players will be free to use it without needing to re-roll for it. However, if the players want to use the same spell but with a better result they will need to re-roll.
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I thought that a spell is 'prepared' when we cast it, and then it can be recast freely for the same effect. Is it not the case?

Once we learn a spell, we know that spell.
 
Nevill said:
Wait, what?

I thought that a spell is 'prepared' when we cast it, and then it can be recast freely for the same effect. Is it not the case?

Once we learn a spell, we know that spell.
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I think I'm interpreting their usage of the word prepare differently. From my understanding they are asking if you guys can cast a spell, but rather than Medea using it right then and there, you save the actual casting for a later point in time.

But yes, you know the spell the moment you successfully cast it.

Then again, I'm kind of an idiot so I could be horribly wrong about what @Dexterity meant. So ignore my last decision if that is the case. :oops:
 
You are probably right in interpreting the word... but does such a use make sense? What is the difference between having a spell 'prepared' or casting it anew? Just not requiring a vote?

We'd still need to roll for its success once the time comes to actually cast it, and if it's a failure, well...

I dunno, I just find it hard to think of a use for such a mechanic, as opposed to having a simple conditional 'if so and so, try casting this thing'.
 
Nevill said:
You are probably right in interpreting the word... but does such a use make sense? What is the difference between having a spell 'prepared' or casting it anew? Just not requiring a vote?

We'd still need to roll for its success once the time comes to actually cast it, and if it's a failure, well...

I dunno, I just find it hard to think of a use for such a mechanic, as opposed to having a simple conditional 'if so and so, try casting this thing'.
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You make a good argument.

So with that in mind, everyone kindly ignore my last decision. I'm going to go into a corner and write.
 
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Chapter 29: Chasing Shadows
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    • [X] Investigate the shadow
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    You decided to go investigate the shadow. The shadow could be someone, whatever was making that grinding noise could be anything. You didn't want to take the risk. You head off in the direction of the shadow, speeding up your stride to distance yourself the grinding noise which continued to slowly get closer to you.

    You round the corner of the hall and see the corridor stretch out before you, and you see a rather disturbing sight. The torches that had once lined the walls had been torn from their positions and had been cast to the stone ground, still burning brightly. Decorating the walls were the bones of what had to be countless animals, fused to the walls by black fluvial grime. There was occasional bare patch of stone, but scrawled on them were messages that didn't make sense in what had to be dried blood.

    THE MONSTER INSIDE ME IS GROWING

    ENVY

    THE GATEKEEPER DREAMS

    WELCOME TO THE FAMILY, SON

    For some reason, the more you read the words on the walls your head begins to hurt. A pulsating pain of an intense headache.

    WHAT WILL THAT PERFECT SEA BRING?

    I AM EMERGING

    THE HORROR IS COMING

    IT WILL BE AGAIN

    You pull your eyes away from the words on the wall and focus on the end of the hall, you see there is a split in the hall, with one turn going left and the other going right. You see the shadow flashed against the wall by an unseen flame, whatever casting it shifting around where it stood in waiting.

    As you began moving towards the shadow again you see another shadow come down quickly, striking the shadow with a resounding smack of something hitting against flesh echoing off the walls and the shadow disappeared from view. With the smacking sound came a horrid noise, like some sort of animalistic screech. The sound stopped you dead in your tracks as you stared wide eyed in the direction of the shadow. The animal-like screeching continued with the sounds of something thrashing around, something heavy smacking against flesh over and over again.

    After a moment you see... something dart by from the right side of the hall to the left and disappearing from view just as quickly, hunched over and running on all fours, but it was on fire and screaming a horrific scream. You weren't really sure what it was, and with the fire and how fast it was moving you couldn't really make out proper details, but you knew it wasn't any sort of normal creature.

    You begin footsteps from the right turn in the hall soon you see Lucas walking into view, a torch in hand.

    "Lucas!" You yell.

    He turns to face your direction, his eyes wide and holding the torch in a defensive posture. He is clearly freaked out, but after a brief moment he recognizes you and his stance relaxes. You rush over to him and he rushes over to you. In moments you reach each other and wrapped your arms around one another.

    "God, Lucas, I'm glad you are okay..." You say as you tighten your hug.

    "I'm glad you're alright as well..." He says, patting your back reassuringly.

    After a moment you break off the hug and take a step back. Lucas was quite disheveled looking right now and looked pretty tired, and his right arm was covered in... blood?

    "Lucas, your arm..."

    "Oh this?" He says as he lifts the blood covered limb up. "That's not mine. When I woke up I was in some sort of morgue. That old guy... He kidnapped us... I mean... Holy shit..."

    "Lucas," You say, placing a hand on his shoulder to reassure him. "Stay focused. Explain what happened."

    "Right..." He says with a nod. "I woke up and I played this record player. The old guy told me he hid a key to the room in a corpse in that room I woke up in and that I had to find it. Of course, the bodies were all headless and I had to shove my hand down the throats to get it. He said I had a time limit and that if I didn't get the key to open the door then a hatch on the ceiling would open."

    "Something like that happened to me." You explain. "I woke up in a cell and was told to search the cell are to find a key to get out or a hatch would open."

    "What the fuck is going on?" Lucas asked. "This shit isn't suppose to happen to us. And then there are these... things running around!"

    "What was that thing that ran by, Lucas?"

    "I don't know, man! I don't fucking know!" He yells, both unsure and terrified. "It wasn't an animal that's for sure. It was like something that crawled out of H.R. Giger's nightmares!"

    "Doesn't seem to like fire." You comment. You eye the torch in Lucas' hand. "How'd you know to light it on fire?"

    "Not my intention, but yeah." He nods. "I pulled the torch off the wall and sneaked up on it when it wasn't looking to hit it. Looked like it was waiting for something."

    You go pale at that.

    "I think it was waiting for me..." You mutter. "I saw it and thought it could be someone so I went to investigate. if you didn't attack it when you did..."

    "Hey, at least we found each other. That's a start." He shrugs.

    "Yeah, and there is still someone else up here."

    "What do you mean?" He asks.

    "I cam across another room. It seems someone else was forced into playing a game if they wanted to escape." You explain. "It seems they won as a ladder lead up here. So someone else is up here."

    "We better go find them then."

    "Yeah," You nod. "But I have no where they could have gone. Seems they did it a while ago. Could be Eli, Danielle, or Sierra..."

    "Or someone else." He suggests as he offer you the torch, which you accept.

    "Maybe, but we don't really know..." You sigh as you look back from where you came. "I heard some sort of grinding noise earlier, we could start there."

    "Lead the way, Medea." Lucas says as he reads the text scrawled on the walls. "I think once we're out of here I'm going to stop watching horror flicks for a while..."

    [ ] Go in the direction the burning creature went.

    [ ] Go in the direction Lucas came from.
    -[ ] Ask Lucas to take you back to the room he woke up in.

    [ ] Go investigate the grinding noise.

    [ ] Cast a spell - Write In (Secondary action may be taken)
     
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    • TheLordofAwesome said:
    "Oh this?" He says as he lifts the blood covered limb up. "That's not mine."
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    Lucas, you are getting me worried. What's 'not yours', the blood or the arm? :o
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    "When I woke up I was in some sort of morgue."
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    Lucas, bruh, you are not making this any easier.
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    "I think it was waiting for me..." You mutter. "I saw it and thought it could be someone so I went to investigate. if you didn't attack it when you did..."
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    Then we'd get all the exp to ourselves! :mad: Now we'll never level our magic up.
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    "Lead the way, Medea." Lucas says as he reads the text scrawled on the walls. "I think once we're out of here I'm going to stop watching horror flicks for a while..."
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    You just pulled the 'if we get through this' card. Good, good!

    [X] Go investigate the grinding noise.
    [x] Cast a spell - light.

    Ah, well. If anything, it'd be fun to watch his reaction to Magical Girl Medea.
     
    [X] Go investigate the grinding noise.

    Still not sold on trying out spells. The risks in the system are so high that Medea will be dead before she builds up any decent spell library. I would prefer to restrict magic to emergency use; as a second chance to survive if we fuck up. If we get a repeatable spell from this, so much better.

    If you definitely do want to learn spells, though, I would certainly prefer something that isn't made redundant as soon as we have a flashlight. (The Locate Object spell sounded like a much better idea, for example.)
     
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    [X] Go investigate the grinding noise.
    [x] Cast a spell - light.

    Well I would like to see magic be useful plus the reaction from Lucas could be fun
     
    If we want to try a spell, could we go for something like Darkvision or Infrared Vision? As said, I don't want to risk using magic for something as mundane as a light.
    Adhoc vote count started by Higure on Mar 19, 2017 at 5:41 PM, finished with 677 posts and 7 votes.
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    The potential downsides of magic get more severe the more complex the spell.

    Darkvision is something that is affecting our eyes, so that's a risk of temporary or permanent blindness. Low-key spells are less likely to doom us, or so I understood. Searching for an object, or something equally subtle would be fine with me, though.

    And, well... light is only mundane while you have a source of it.
     
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