Previous game stuff (to be archived)

[Kathy]

Re: Battle for Ascension OOC Thread (former interest check thread)

If I may foolishly suggest... perhaps a central thread for starting at the library would be best, letting everyone act and interact freely until we leave the library and things move into our individual threads?

 

[Kathy]

Game Start! (At the summoning library)

(Due to a few uncertainties, I'm hoping Inky won't mind me taking the liberty of giving everyone a joint starting thread.

We're all beginning at the summoning library, as listed on the "first floor" map of the resources thread. The master has just informed us of the rules, and we're all free to converse, make deals, and generally act together until we begin to leave the library.

Please post your ACTIONS (what you do for the turn, 10 moves / 3 actions) in your individual threads so Inky can review them more easily. But RP fluff, conversations, and whatever else we get into, I encourage to put here until you move out of the library, at which point your individual thread will become your main thread. That way we don't need to all read each other's threads back and forth to get started.

As players run across each other beyond the library, it will be up to you to decide which thread to pick up as the main one.)


Map:

Spoiler

 

[Kathy]

Re: Game Start! (At the summoning library)

The young runemage looked more than a little frazzled, as usual, as the master gave out instructions. Her shirt haphazardly buttoned up wrong, and mostly held together by the sweater she wore over it. If she wasn't such a prodigy of creating runes out of standard spells, she would have never made it this far.

She wasn't entirely sure what to say to the master as he made the announcement, they'd been together for a while, all of the students had been. When he left, it felt less like a gracious act, and more like a test that was about to get underway... 'Thank you master, for... dropping this test on us to see who casts the most ugly thing to wipe out our fellow classmates first.' she thought playfully to herself, actually giggling aloud for several moments as she pranced up to the bookshelves, her false cat-aspects swaying happily. She'd become far less clumsy after having created them for herself, often catching her balance by her tail, or hearing people with those pointed ears before she stumbled face first into them... it was hardly an advantage, barely keeping her on par with the other students. Neither she, nor, she hoped, the master or her classmates, even considered it magic anymore, it was simply a part of the ditzy girl.

Lilly watched the other students passively as she began to rifle through the central tomes, spending a moment exploring the bookshelves, each one in turn (do we search them all, or have to search each square independently?).

"So... Who's up for a trip to the lounge for some casual studying? Or we could head to the dining hall for some light snacking while we work..." she began to offer, unsure if the others would take her up on her suggestion or not... this was a competition after all, but she quietly hoped that if even a couple of them worked together, they might put themselves at an advantage to the others who're more inclined to study on their own in private.

Though each of the students was headstrong and firm willed, they had mostly learned to work around one another, even help each other when required, or so she hoped. 'Whoever declines the offer is hurting themselves more than hurting the rest of us... which means this whole thing may come down to dirty tactics around the study group we form...'

 

[Kathy]

Re: Lillian's Thread

(Actions: Roam the library. Lillian flitters about left and right across the map, expending her turn watching what the others are doing, while using her 3 actions to search the shelves, starting with the ones in the center. - If each square must be searched individually, she'll search 3 of the 4 for her turn. Otherwise, she searches the center first, then the two side stretches of bookshelves.

Direct actions: Starting at around 74:AA, all 10 movements are generally pacing the area directly in front of the shelves. (1N, 1E, 3N, 3W, 2S generally just grabbing at any books that look of interest.)

3 actions: Explore shelves, search for books. (If each shelf must be chosen individually, then she searches the bottom right, top right, and top left of the central 4 shelves as she passes each one.)

 

[Incubus]

Re: Battle for Ascension OOC Thread (former interest check thread)

Damnit, no wonder...

I had a map for starting positions, and I was sure I put it up in the game update thread, but it's obviously not there...

 

[Incubus]

Re: Battle for Ascension OOC Thread (former interest check thread)

Not sure. I think everyone wasn't aware we'd begun because of no official announcement and you said that you had issues for the next week and a half.

Kinda thought the game update thread was pretty much an official announcement of commencing. Apparently no one else did however. As far as my time issues, that really only affects my ability to post things, not everyones

Might be an idea to get everyone still playing to post up within a deadline and allow for late entries. Unfortunately, games that take too long to start are often stunted by player boredom.

I've found as soon as I start having players drop out uninterested, or can't be bothered updating, my own enthusiasm plummets. Ideally, we won't reach this point.

How often do you expect turns to roll over?

Once I no longer have an insanely busy schedule, at least often once a week. More if I get everything I need faster.

Looking at your map again, your movement system almost seems a little too constricting, it'll take me two turns just to get to a nearby room of my choice from the summoning library. And that's assuming I want to leave the library at all yet, since odds are, my character has already thoroughly explored most of the rest of the mansion/school/whatever. It almost doesn't make sense to bother leaving at all.

Whether or not you leave is your decision, but see the part in the game rules where characters will automatically look over others shoulders if they get too close when studying. In order to keep your information secret, you'll need to get away from the others, but obviously, a lot of the useful information is in the summoning library. As far as the movement restriction, I feel increasing it would only lead to problems, as if one player ends up with an active summon before the others, they could fly around the place and get in range to attack people far too easily.

And on the matter of bookcases, yes, you need to specifiy exactly which bookcase you search.

 

[Kathy]

Re: Battle for Ascension OOC Thread (former interest check thread)

Heh... it's okay, I think it's safe to assume we're all in the library, and we can post in as we'd please.

In response to your comments on increasing movement: That's not really what I meant. I rather meant I just feel a little constrained by the movement system vs. what I see Lillian doing. It feels a bit hindering to rigidly march to each square during a turn. It's mostly just my notion of RPing vs. tactical strategic movements.

I'd want to move the same "distance" each turn, perhaps, but be allowed a bit more freedom of actions within a given section.

 

[maikochan]

Re: Deneb's Thread

Move actions, 1U, 2R. Search Upper Right bookshelf with one action, search the one opposite with another and reserve the last action for now.

Edit: 3rd action: search advanced bookshelf again.

 

[maikochan]

Re: Game Start! (At the summoning library)

Deneb, with Roger floating over her shoulder, looked around at the other students after the master took his leave. Currently she was wearing a red tube top and black skirt with an incongruous witch's cape and hat that she had worn for halloween. She'd changed herself that morning into a short, somewhat busty girl with pointed ears with hair matching her top.

Making a childishly rude gesture at the space once occupied by the master and muttering "I could do that too, if he ever taught us." Walking over to the books next to Lillian, Deneb also started looking through the books, focusing on a single shelf before turning around and looking at the books behind her, the ones not for beginners.

With an impish grin, she leaned over to Lillian and whispered to her. "Hey Lil, your panty's showing." Even though it wasn't, Deneb loved to tease the ditzy runemage. Behind her, Roger let out the sigh of a long suffering friend. "But sure, we can form a super team!" She punched her fist in the air exaderatedly. "You can be my sidekick."

 

[Kathy]

Re: Game Start! (At the summoning library)

"Yeek!" Lilly cried out softly, grabbing at her skirt and tugging it every which way to try to cover up her panties, which weren't showing...

The end result is that after a good amount of tugging, her tail got snagged just over the hem of her skirt and she angrily began to wave it until it snaked free from it's position, causing her skirt to sag in the back and actually leave her panties exposed, as she frustratedly gave up, tugging her sweater down in the back to try to cover herself instead, causing it to pull tight in the front and show off her busty nature. Not anywhere near the other woman, who purposely changed for the occasion, but still, well stacked, as her shirt beneath her sweater seemed to open up more, showing she'd missed more than a few buttons in her haste to not be late to the opening of the summoning library.

Flustered and turning red in the face, she bowed as gracefully as she could, before mumbling softly, "I didn't mean like that... I just... figured... everyone would enjoy studying together for once... since... ya know... it's a new subject... something none of us have done before..."

 

[maikochan]

Re: Game Start! (At the summoning library)

Deneb hid her face in a book to hide her mirth at the other girl's panic and ensuing wardrobe malfunctions. "Th-there. It... it looks f-fine now." Deneb found it hard to speak properly from the suppressed laughter, but she forced herself to calm down and put an arm around the other girl. "You know, I like your idea better. Let's grab some books and head off to the lounge." Looking around at the other students, Deneb extends the offer to them, as though it were her idea. "Anyone else coming?"

Really, Deneb wanted to work with Lillian, possibly forming a team to fight together until they were the last two. What would happen then, even Deneb wasn't sure.

 

[lurker]

Re: Morgana's Thread

Quietly Morgana started perusing the shelves, trying to find a section that would catch her eye at being related to her darker powers. Idly she'd also try to watch the other students, just not directly. She didn't want to make any attempts to get into contact, but she wanted to get a general idea what people were looking for in summons before she got her own familiar.

((Move to AB-69 and begin searching shelves to the east. Focusing search on dark-based summons))

 

[The Alpacalypse]

Re: Cassandra's Thread

Actions:

1) Search for book from noob bookcase

2) Search for book from noob bookcase

Move) East 1 square

3) Search for book from advanced bookcase

Move) [depends]

 

[The Alpacalypse]

Re: Game Start! (At the summoning library)

Cassandra chuckled at the back-and-forth between her fellow students. "Really, Lilly, you should know by now that Deneb's only teasing you." She smiled warmly at the slightly taller rune mage. Today the fire mage had on, apart from her characteristic gloves and locket, a knee-length brown skirt and a white sleeveless blouse. Nothing exactly revealing, but not prudish either. At Deneb's suggestion of working together the blonde girl nodded enthusiastically. "Of course we should work together, we'll learn more that way than we ever could on our own. I'll grab a couple beginner's books, and one of the harder ones so we won't need to come back when we're ready for it."

 

[DeMatt]

Re: Delilah's Thread

"Bah, speak for yourselves." Delilah rolled her eyes at the antics of her fellow students. Quickly grabbing three books off the shelf, ones related to each other on first glance, she strode towards the door. "Start off working together, if you like, but eventually you'll be fighting each other anyways. Only one person can be the master's successor, after all."


Delilah stalks out of the library, her chosen texts tucked away in her shoulder bag, heading for her bedroom to study in solitude. It's obvious that Delilah dislikes the idea of being tied down, "educating" youngsters in the rudiments of magic. On the other hand, being master of the academy would give her a head start towards joining the rich and powerful...

(Search basic bookshelf 3 times, grabbing 3 books.

(Move South 3 squares.
(Move East 1 square.
(Move South 1 square.
(Move West 5 squares.)

 

[DeMatt]

Re: Game Start! (At the summoning library)

"Bah, speak for yourselves." Delilah rolled her eyes at the antics of her fellow students. Quickly grabbing three books off the shelf, ones related to each other on first glance, she strode towards the door. "Start off working together, if you like, but eventually you'll be fighting each other anyways. Only one person can be the master's successor, after all."

It's obvious that Delilah dislikes the idea of being tied down, "educating" youngsters in the rudiments of magic. On the other hand, being master of the academy would give her a head start towards joining the rich and powerful...

 

[Kathy]

Re: Game Start! (At the summoning library)

Lilly smiled happily after her outfit was "fixed", nodding to the other girl, "Thank you..." she whispered meekly, her tail sliding down her leg and half curling around her ankles shyly. "I uhm.. am grabbing some books... it's a bit hard to tell what's what... but as long as we don't all grab too many copies of the same thing, we should do well studying together, right?"

Grabbing several books from the central shelves, hoping to get something useful and unique with each choice, she was quietly happy that at least some of the others were going to come with her. Even if someone else was claiming credit for her idea, she had high hopes of getting a leg up by doing the basics as a team before they split off to study their own things each in turn.

"...you know delilah... you're not as great as you think..." she found herself muttering as the fiery mage rushed off, biting back making more remarks. "I know it's going to be everyone for themselves eventually... but I don't see why we can't at least help each other get started... right?" she tried to defend her idea to no one, as the two girls with her already seemed to like the idea, while the others who didn't like the idea, weren't going to be swayed by a few casual words tossed from the ditzy seeming catgirl.

Lillian was completely sure that if not for having shown her mastery over runic magic on several occasions, none of the others would respect her even in the slightest... though with her panties hanging out and her shirt half falling off after such an easily played prank, it was hard to think that any of the other girls respected her at all for that matter.

 

[Vina-Fran]

Re: Game Start! (At the summoning library)

Hai had been, as usual, quite stuck in her own little world, those eyes staring upward, most likely missing the extravagant exit of their tutor and most of what was going on around her. As the voices of reality began to creep back into her consciousness, her eyes only widened further and further, her small features at the brink of trembling to keep her off-focus focus.

She finally crashes to reality once more, with a few blinks and a darting gaze around the room. She giggles and smiles with a sweet voice, "Oh... We're starting?" She sweeps up her sun dress and coasts around the bookshelves, barefoot as usual. Her toes wriggle against the floor as her eyes, dancing in and out of concentration, scan the towering shelves of knowledge. She frowns her features, furrowing her brows.

"Oh, just get me to the right book for now..."

She whispers to herself, chewing upon her bottom lip as she wanders in front of the shelves, but finding herself pulled more and more to the more gentle and subtle spells.

 

[Incubus]

Re: Game Rules and Contest Rules

To clear up a few things:

Firstly, I need to know which bookcase you search, but I don't need to know the exact square of said bookcase. Just to clarify. So in the summoning library, the four in the middle count as one bookcase, while the other bookcases in the room are all separate.

This means that you can access the same books as anyone else searching that bookcase from any adjacent square; there are no super spots on a bookshelf.

Secondly, I'd like to point out to people trying to search for specific things: Can you tell where the dark magic section is by looking at the map? The section on demons? The section on fluffy bunnies? Obviously, the answer is no. Likewise, the books on these shelves are a mess, they may be vague sorted, but there's a reason you're spending an action digging through it to find something useful. The books you obtain are randomly generated, although you'll never obtain a book you've already read or is in your inventory unless there are no other useful books on the shelf (something that may occur in certain bookcases in some of the more specialised rooms) Only through word of mouth and trial can you actually determine what kind of books one can find where.

Oh, and you'll only ever pick up books related to summoning. I've got enough books to deal with without adding in other magic.

 

[Incubus]

Re: Delilah's Thread

You retrieve three books from the shelves and make your exit. (Your inventory has been updated)

You can see in the distance, Nurse Flora of the infirmary, one of the master's familiars. She is a tall and thin woman, and always rather strict as you'd expect from the saying "all healers are tyrants". Her eyes are a deep brown and hair hair is bright pink; her skin has a slight greenish tint, and she obviously has a strong affinity for plants, given that the infirmary walls are carpeted in vine growth. While a potent healer, the master did specify that her skills would not be available during the battle.

Map:

Spoiler

Char Sheet:

Spoiler

Name: Delilah
Forumite: DeMatt

Magic Specialty: Enhancement
Gender: Female
Health: 100%
Mage Armour: (inactive)
Mana: 100%

Summon: (none)

Inventory:
Book: Intro to Summoning 2
Book: Basics of Angels
Book: Basics of Spirits
(empty)
(empty)