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The Wall
Jul 27, 2016 6:20:06 GMT
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Post by Piono on Jul 27, 2016 6:20:06 GMT
Tell him you found the bag you're using, a pair of manuscripts on knightly combat, a spellbook and a map, maybe even tell them about the thieves locator. Remember, you did just barely find the thing, and the truth spell will verify that you just barely found it and so far had only intended on using it as a compass.
As a corollary to that, if they ask for the locator, give it to them. These two are more likely to be useful in figuring out where you are than the locator is.
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Post by eerr on Jul 27, 2016 16:54:17 GMT
>There are no explosives on me, and I was not going to make you explode.
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immemorAugur
Bravesprout
"I'm a Wizard, Lizard, and about to cast a Blizzard." -My level 109 Argonian mage
Posts: 88
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Post by immemorAugur on Jul 27, 2016 23:24:34 GMT
Tell him you found the bag you're using, a pair of manuscripts on knightly combat, a spellbook and a map, maybe even tell them about the thieves locator. Remember, you did just barely find the thing, and the truth spell will verify that you just barely found it and so far had only intended on using it as a compass.
As a corollary to that, if they ask for the locator, give it to them. These two are more likely to be useful in figuring out where you are than the locator is.
>There are no explosives on me, and I was not going to make you explode. To calm the fears of the guard and company, you quickly blurt out that you are not carrying anything volatile, nor would you carry them with the intent to kill even if you had been carrying them, which you aren't. Trying to save this disaster of a conversation, you list the items in your bag, and tell them that you just starting being over there, and have no real memory of anything prior to just a few minutes ago, and how you learned a near useless martial technique, and a few spells from the tomes, and you offer to hand over the locator if they deem it contraband of a sort, so that you may be on your way and be promptly unlost. Upon the mention of a spell book, the guard's interest seemed to pique. The mage verifies that yes, you are in fact carrying no explosive materials, and that the rest of your story is completely true. The guards interest does not waver. He proceeds to ask you to come with him, if you would.
>First, explain your situation. Second, forget previous quest to be the strongest warrior, and instead attempt to become the world's most powerful wizard
You consider the possibility of becoming the world's greatest sorcerer. There are, as with the knight, many things that interest you about the world of magic. The power and energy behind just the force of ones own thoughts to make the universe bend to your whims is a very intriguing idea. However, the more powerful a spell, the longer you have to study and contemplate the intricacies of its casting before being able to do it, and you'd rather not rot in a library at the end of your days. Then there's the fact that wizards are just... "squishy". They never wear armour for whatever reason, and you just find that idea unbearably idiotic. Hmm... Wait a second. What if you took the best elements of a knight, and merged them with the best qualities of a wizard! You could be a... You could be a... Sorceright? Maybe. you can probably come up with a better word later, but for now you go with this because it fits with the alliteration. You would be an unstoppable force in a battle. The tough armour of a knight and the destructive capabilities of a wizard, not forced to tie yourself down to an organization, and studying only when necessary to learn new knightly abilities and combine them with arcane energies!
(Why are you ignoring my commands)
Immemor: Dig to China with your ears First off, you don;t think you've ever heard of china? What is that, a far off land? Maybe. You do not know. The name sounds made up. Secondly, you don't have ears!!!1111! Well, okay, you do, but the artist has not rendered them because you are a stick figure. And stick figures almost never have anything more than eyes and a mouth. It is possible you will never see your ears because the artist doesn't know what IA should look like other than a stick figure, and feels that the character would be very different if he was ever to receive a real face. It would also make the art style even more inconsistent that it already is and that would probably not look good. Now, you should probably decide what you would like to do in this situation. The guard is just kind of staring at you. He asked you to follow and you stood and contemplated for a minute and then proceeded to point at your ears all suprisedly. ----CHARACTER MENU---- You currently posses [150 SPIRIT], [120 STEADFASTNESS], and [120 SALUBRITY]. [MAGIC]
----[DESTRUCTION]----
[FIRESTREAM, 5SP/SEC]
[FIREBALL, 50S]
[STATIC BURST, 60S]
----[RESTORATIVE]----
[MINOR HEALING, 25 SP=15 SAL] (spell's cost has decreased due to mental breakthrough)
[RECUPERATE, 60 SP=10 SAL, 20 STED]
----[SUMMONING]----
[SUMMON SHIELD, 40S] (spell's cost has decreased due to mental breakthrough)
[SUMMON WEAPON, 50S]
[SUMMON SHADE, 100S]
----[PSIONIC]----
[WEAK PSYCHIC LINK, 80S] (spell's cost has decreased due to mental breakthrough)
[MODERATE PSYCHIC LINK, 140S]
[POSSES LESSER, 150S]
[INVENTORY]
----APPAREL----
You're wearing something. Just don't question what.
----WEAPONS----
[EMPTY]
----[BOOKS]----
[TOME OF CHARMS, INTERMEDIATE HEXES, DESTRUCTIVE INCANTATIONS, RITUALS OF THE MUNDANE, RITUALS OF THE ARCANE, RITUALS THAT ARE ILLEGAL (BUT ONLY TO PREFORM, HAVING THEM IN WRITING IS TOTALLY OK.], AND SPELLS RIVALING THE POWERS OF THE PRIMEVAL FORCES OF THE UNIVERSE THAT YOU WON'T EVER PREFORM BECAUSE YOU THINK THESE MIGHT KILL THE CASTER LIKE HOLY SHIT]
[MANUSCRIPTS ON KNIGHTLY COMBAT Vol. 1]
[MANUSCRIPTS ON KNIGHTLY COMBAT Vol. 2]
----[TOOLS]----
[MAP]
[COMPASS/THIEVES' LOCATER]
[BOTTOMLESS(?) BAG]
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Post by Piono on Jul 28, 2016 0:41:40 GMT
>It appears we have found our plot hook, let's go with the guy.
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immemorAugur
Bravesprout
"I'm a Wizard, Lizard, and about to cast a Blizzard." -My level 109 Argonian mage
Posts: 88
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Post by immemorAugur on Jul 29, 2016 6:16:13 GMT
>It appears we have found our plot hook, let's go with the guy. You decide to follow, but your [SIGHT] skill lets you notice that there are no steps or ladders up the wall, nor do you see a gate in the vicinity. You point this out to the two fellows, and the mage simply chuckles. No. Cackles. He might not be all there. Or maybe there's an invisible ladder or something? You ask him why he's laughing, but instead of answering, he throws his hands up, and they begin glowing with arcane energies.
You could be wrong but he's trying to cast a spell of some sort. Maybe a summon staircase spell? Uh. You don't thing his eyes would burn with purple fire in that case. Your [SMARTS] is too low to identify what spell he is casting, but you think its rather powerful. Maybe he could teach you some of his magic? Who knows, why don't you ask him? Hey wait a second.
Your bag is glowing with magic. This can't be good. You feel as if the bag is becoming lighter as the seconds pass, and the mage instructs you to grab a hold of your straps. You wrap your hands (sticks?) around the cloth just as you feel the force of gravity completely reverse its hold on your satchel.
Instead of floating gently up to the edge of the wall so that you might get up to them, you sort of just float there in the air for a minute. Its a great workout for the arms and core though. Ow this is starting to hurt. Oh well. This is your life now. Best just accept it. Hey wait a second, you might be going back up now. You're kinda speeding up too.
FUCK. OKAY. TOO FAST.You shoot up to the mage faster than you anticipated.You're up at the level of the wall though, so there's that. The mage sets you down on the walkway before you lose your grip on the straps, and asks you to follow them once more, after you vomit your guts over the side of the wall because of your low [STAMINA]. The two men walk off, leading you to a trap door and into a dimly lit room below.They ask you to sit, and place your bag upon the table. You comply rather quickly, as you're a little afraid of wether or not the wizard could crush your internal organs like that. When all three of you have entered the room, the bar on the door closes. Not like its supposed to hold you in or anything, but it makes you wonder if anything could be trying to get in?Your hands are suddenly, and psychically, locked to the table, and although it would appear you could just slip your hands out of the cuffs, you do actually have hands but unlike your feet they are much more difficult to render quickly, so we must assume that for the sake of convenience that you in fact have hands and you are trapped. Anyways, on with the narrative. This may have been a bad decision . This really doesn't look good. Whatever "this" is.
Well, what will you do now?----CHARACTER MENU---- (you sill have [TWO] skill points to spend) You currently posses [150 SPIRIT], [120 STEADFASTNESS], and [120 SALUBRITY]. [MAGIC] ----[DESTRUCTION]----
[FIRESTREAM, 5SP/SEC] [FIREBALL, 50S] [STATIC BURST, 60S]
----[RESTORATIVE]----
[MINOR HEALING, 25 SP=15 SAL] (spell's cost has decreased due to mental breakthrough) [RECUPERATE, 60 SP=10 SAL, 20 STED]
----[SUMMONING]----
[SUMMON SHIELD, 40S] (spell's cost has decreased due to mental breakthrough) [SUMMON WEAPON, 50S] [SUMMON SHADE, 100S]
----[PSIONIC]----
[WEAK PSYCHIC LINK, 80S] (spell's cost has decreased due to mental breakthrough) [MODERATE PSYCHIC LINK, 140S] [POSSES LESSER, 150S]
[INVENTORY]
----APPAREL----
[PSYCHIC CUFFS]x2 [EQUIPPED] You're wearing something. Just don't question what.
----WEAPONS----
[EMPTY]
----[BOOKS]----
[TOME OF CHARMS, INTERMEDIATE HEXES, DESTRUCTIVE INCANTATIONS, RITUALS OF THE MUNDANE, RITUALS OF THE ARCANE, RITUALS THAT ARE ILLEGAL (BUT ONLY TO PREFORM, HAVING THEM IN WRITING IS TOTALLY OK.], AND SPELLS RIVALING THE POWERS OF THE PRIMEVAL FORCES OF THE UNIVERSE THAT YOU WON'T EVER PREFORM BECAUSE YOU THINK THESE MIGHT KILL THE CASTER LIKE HOLY SHIT]
[MANUSCRIPTS ON KNIGHTLY COMBAT Vol. 1]
[MANUSCRIPTS ON KNIGHTLY COMBAT Vol. 2]
----[TOOLS]----
[MAP] [COMPASS/THIEVES' LOCATER] [BOTTOMLESS(?) BAG]
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Post by Piono on Jul 29, 2016 19:04:36 GMT
>Inquire as to why you've been locked to the table.
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immemorAugur
Bravesprout
"I'm a Wizard, Lizard, and about to cast a Blizzard." -My level 109 Argonian mage
Posts: 88
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Post by immemorAugur on Jul 30, 2016 4:43:05 GMT
[mildly important announcement]There will be no update today, or over the weekend. Away visiting family. Will continue with The Wall upon return. Though I doubt many of you are on the edge of your seat at the moment. Okay, gotta go, update y'all on monday hopefully. Until then, i leave you with a parting gift of: Nothing. I didn't get you anything because I'm cheap. Bye for real now.
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immemorAugur
Bravesprout
"I'm a Wizard, Lizard, and about to cast a Blizzard." -My level 109 Argonian mage
Posts: 88
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Post by immemorAugur on Aug 11, 2016 9:31:16 GMT
>Inquire as to why you've been locked to the table. -------NOTE-------
Sorry for the wait. I'm going to proceed to dodge any questions out of shame, not like y'all care anywhere.
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You proceed to ask the men detaining you what their reasons for your sudden imprisonment are. The Legionnaire looks at his companion and proceeds to rifle though your bag. He opens and briefly skims the manuscripts before ultimately discards them before pulling out the [TOME OF CHARMS, INTERMEDIATE HEXES, DESTRUCTIVE INCANTATIONS, RITUALS OF THE MUNDANE, RITUALS OF THE ARCANE, RITUALS THAT ARE ILLEGAL (BUT ONLY TO PREFORM, HAVING THEM IN WRITING IS TOTALLY OK.), AND SPELLS RIVALING THE POWERS OF THE PRIMEVAL FORCES OF THE UNIVERSE THAT YOU WON'T EVER PERFORM BECAUSE YOU THINK THESE MIGHT KILL THE CASTER LIKE HOLY SHIT]. he proceeds to examine the contents, pouring over every page with a strange intensity. He says something you do not understand to his compatriot in a language you can only assume is their native tongue. You are able to pick out a few similarly sounding words however, as your [SMARTS] allow you to identify shared words in the languages. "Magus" would clearly be "mage", and you don't think you need that high of a stat to understand "captivus". So, given that they appeared to use it in the same scentence along witha few othe words you think you maybe kind of got but not all that well, you're positive they're talking about you and the book. Without so much as a pause, the legionnaire switches to english. He proceeds to tell you that you have been taken in for your own safety, as well as the safety of others, as you appear to be a person of natural magical capacity without training, and thus are practically a weapon of mass destruction without any known trigger, but that it is only a matter of time before said trigger is activated. Only death can follow. The psionic mage supports his claim, stating he was trained by the government proper and has become immensely powerful, yet is in complete control of the forces of nature that allow for the casting of magic. The legionnaire explains that there have been numerous instances of Rouge Capables that have attacked Tempus property. Whether they are under the influence of demons, spirits, Foul Gods, or if they have their own agenda is up for debate, the matter still remains that this only occurs in mages not trained by the Tempus Academies. They state that they have restrained you until they can determine whether or not you are in fact a threat, and would like you for you to accompany them to the nearest training facility so that you may help you, and in return, help the empire. Compliment them on their respective garments, and ask where they got them. Maybe you can snag some nicer apparel for yourself.
As a quick aside, you mention that you love the mage's robes, they just fit him so perfectly, and wonder where you could get some for yourself. Your current clothes, while they cover you, are odd. to say the least. The mage proceeds to blush furiously, and tells you that the robes are standard issue for government wizards. What do you do now? ----CHARACTER MENU---- You currently posses [150 SPIRIT], [120 STEADFASTNESS], and [120 SALUBRITY]. [MAGIC]
----[DESTRUCTION]----
[FIRESTREAM, 5SP/SEC]
[FIREBALL, 50S]
[STATIC BURST, 60S]
----[RESTORATIVE]----
[MINOR HEALING, 25 SP=15 SAL] (spell's cost has decreased due to mental breakthrough)
[RECUPERATE, 60 SP=10 SAL, 20 STED]
----[SUMMONING]----
[SUMMON SHIELD, 40S] (spell's cost has decreased due to mental breakthrough)
[SUMMON WEAPON, 50S]
[SUMMON SHADE, 100S]
----[PSIONIC]----
[WEAK PSYCHIC LINK, 80S] (spell's cost has decreased due to mental breakthrough)
[MODERATE PSYCHIC LINK, 140S]
[POSSES LESSER, 150S]
[INVENTORY]
----APPAREL----
You're wearing something. Just don't question what.
----WEAPONS----
[EMPTY]
----[BOOKS]----
[TOME OF CHARMS, INTERMEDIATE HEXES, DESTRUCTIVE INCANTATIONS, RITUALS OF THE MUNDANE, RITUALS OF THE ARCANE, RITUALS THAT ARE ILLEGAL (BUT ONLY TO PREFORM, HAVING THEM IN WRITING IS TOTALLY OK.), AND SPELLS RIVALING THE POWERS OF THE PRIMEVAL FORCES OF THE UNIVERSE THAT YOU WON'T EVER PREFORM BECAUSE YOU THINK THESE MIGHT KILL THE CASTER LIKE HOLY SHIT]
[MANUSCRIPTS ON KNIGHTLY COMBAT Vol. 1]
[MANUSCRIPTS ON KNIGHTLY COMBAT Vol. 2]
----[TOOLS]----
[MAP]
[COMPASS/THIEVES' LOCATER]
[BOTTOMLESS(?) BAG]
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Post by Piono on Aug 11, 2016 18:24:08 GMT
>Shrug. Sure, why not. This is now a magical school simulator.
Well then. I completely derailed your plans, didn't I?
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KittenCollector
Nipper Cadet
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Post by KittenCollector on Aug 12, 2016 23:27:21 GMT
>So, is that like, a "for life" helping the empire deal, or is there a chance you could still secure some personal agency if you went along with their magical training?
>Also, do the robes come in other colors? If not to indicate rank, then for conveying aesthetic savvy?
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immemorAugur
Bravesprout
"I'm a Wizard, Lizard, and about to cast a Blizzard." -My level 109 Argonian mage
Posts: 88
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Post by immemorAugur on Aug 15, 2016 10:04:02 GMT
>So, is that like, a "for life" helping the empire deal, or is there a chance you could still secure some personal agency if you went along with their magical training? >Also, do the robes come in other colors? If not to indicate rank, then for conveying aesthetic savvy? You ask wether or not the robes come in any other colours. The wizard shakes his head, and tells you that the robes only come in the colour of The Empire.
Running out of ways to stall from answering the legionnaire, you decide to bring it back to the real issue. Before you can answer however, you need to ask him something first. After all, a smart decision is an informed decision. You question him on whether or not your service to the empire would be something that would go on until you rid yourself of your mortal coil, or if, like one would hope, you would maintain the freedom of a citizen after you had served a set amount of time in service to repay them for the education. the guard looks up from the book, and with an expression of complete indifference, tells you that any and all members of the Mage Collective of Tempus are to be held in service to the Glory of The Empire of Tempus of the length of their life. It is the best way to ensure the safety of the people, he says.
The crimson robed mage nods his head in agreement.
What do you do?
----CHARACTER MENU---- You currently posses [150 SPIRIT], [120 STEADFASTNESS], and [120 SALUBRITY]. [MAGIC]
----[DESTRUCTION]----
[FIRESTREAM, 5SP/SEC]
[FIREBALL, 50S]
[STATIC BURST, 60S]
----[RESTORATIVE]----
[MINOR HEALING, 25 SP=15 SAL]
[RECUPERATE, 60 SP=10 SAL, 20 STED]
----[SUMMONING]----
[SUMMON SHIELD, 40S]
[SUMMON WEAPON, 50S]
[SUMMON SHADE, 100S]
----[PSIONIC]----
[WEAK PSYCHIC LINK, 80S]
[MODERATE PSYCHIC LINK, 140S]
[POSSES LESSER, 150S]
[INVENTORY]
----APPAREL----
You're wearing something. Just don't question what.
----WEAPONS----
[EMPTY]
----[BOOKS]----
[TOME OF CHARMS, INTERMEDIATE HEXES, DESTRUCTIVE INCANTATIONS, RITUALS OF THE MUNDANE, RITUALS OF THE ARCANE, RITUALS THAT ARE ILLEGAL (BUT ONLY TO PREFORM, HAVING THEM IN WRITING IS TOTALLY OK.), AND SPELLS RIVALING THE POWERS OF THE PRIMEVAL FORCES OF THE UNIVERSE THAT YOU WON'T EVER PREFORM BECAUSE YOU THINK THESE MIGHT KILL THE CASTER LIKE HOLY SHIT]
[MANUSCRIPTS ON KNIGHTLY COMBAT Vol. 1]
[MANUSCRIPTS ON KNIGHTLY COMBAT Vol. 2]
----[TOOLS]----
[MAP]
[COMPASS/THIEVES' LOCATER]
[BOTTOMLESS(?) BAG]
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The Wall
Aug 16, 2016 2:05:45 GMT
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Post by Con Air on Aug 16, 2016 2:05:45 GMT
<Chomp his plume off
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Post by Piono on Aug 16, 2016 2:17:59 GMT
I have no idea what to do here. Uh...
>Continue?
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