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As the four of you walk through the great oaken door of the Academy, you turn to Chryssa. “Lets drop our purchases off in our rooms, then start looking for a training room of some sort. I'm betting sparring will help you wrap your head around channeling.” She nods, and Fulvia speaks up. “I believe I will return to my task copying your purchases via the Archeota. The only tome I have left is the Five Effects Every Vatis Should Know; however, this is also the largest tome.” Profectus looks between the two of them and shrugs. “Guess I might as well pop my head in the library and look around. If everyone is being 'productive' all of a sudden wouldn't be fair for me to go off and have a good time.”

“Good, I'd rather not find you beaten and drunk in a whorehouse waiting to be carted off to prison two nights in a row.” You comment while the party makes its way through the grand entry hall to the guest suites. Profectus squares himself up and does his best to look offended. “I'll have you know that the Golden Cat is a perfectly legitimate bath house, and that five gold was an outrageous price to pay. They hiked up the cost purely due to my deformity.” You sigh as you make your way up the stone steps. “Well if that's the case you certainly didn't need to hire four of them.” He folds his arms in front of his chest, much like a pissy teenager, but at least keeps his mouth shut.

After you put your new purchases away in your suite, you and Chryssa set off to explore the campus. Surely it won't be too hard to find a sparring room, there are directions posted at every corner. The halls are scattered with apprentices babbling about one thing or another, but it's not nearly as crowded as it was this morning. The large, arched windows are shut tightly against the rain and torches have been lit to provide light to read by. It takes some effort to find the training rooms but you manage it in a timely fashion.

The room is empty, compared to the rest of the Academy. One apprentice, a young man, jabs at a sand-filled bag hanging from the ceiling. Odd, but probably good exercise. Someone wearing the robes of a full fledged Vatis meditates in the center of the sparring ground, the sand that covers the floor formed into tiny figures which fight each other with swords of congealed quartz. The rest of the room is thankfully empty, providing you and Chryssa plenty of room to spar.

She turns to you as you enter. “I believe I promised to teach you how to handle weaponry with some modicum of skill. Would you like to spar with fist or blades first?”

>Fist, focus on helping Chryssa wrap her head around channeling vys.
>Blades, focus on learning to poke people with the pointy end.
>Write-in

>>31184198
>>Blades, focus on learning to poke people with the pointy end.

>>31184198
>Fist, focus on helping Chryssa wrap her head around channeling vys.
How was being drunk for a week?

>>31184178
>Fist, focus on helping Chryssa wrap her head around channeling vys.

Feels like forever since the last thread.

>>31184198
>Blades, focus on learning to poke people with the pointy end.

Rolled 1

We're at an impasse and I'd like to get to writing, so I'll roll for it. You'll probably end up doing whatever doesn't get picked later.
>1
Fist
>2
Blades

>>31184348
It was a good time, exactly what the doctor ordered after exams.

>>31184441
Dam too late to vote blades, i wanna get used to our new sword

>>31184635
same. i actually got here the minute he decided to roll.

>>31184198
Earth training method, or water, or fire, or nature.

Create little people out of the Element we're meditating on and wage full fledged battles. Good for control, multitasking, and details.

>>31184669
Yeah, it's okay though, fist supplements spear nicely. When they get inside our spear we can drop it and surprise them with our fists.

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You think about the question for a moment. While you're certainly eager to get whacked repeatedly with a wooden sword, for now you'd like to show you can at least sort of handle yourself in close quarters. “Lets start off with hand to hand, I'd like to set you on your way towards proper apprenticeship before I worry about getting beaten back and forth across the room.” The corner of her mouth curls just slightly upwards in a smirk. “I'm touched that you care so much about my magical education.”

The two of you find a nice spot on the sandy sparring grounds well away from the meditating mage and assume fighting stances. Her style is obviously defensive, one foot planted firmly forward with the other held back in a striking position and guard already raised. Yours is much more aggressive. One hand is held forward to guard, while the other is pressed into your abdomen in a striking position. Your feet are spread apart, one braced behind you while the other is held slightly elevated.

>Rooll 3d6.
>I'm not going to make you roll for every attack or anything of the sort, just for your overall performance

>>31184718
that sounds awesome..lol
But its good we get helping her out of the way we can spend meditating on water magic or our meta magics we read about and gain more vys.

Rolled 1, 1, 1 = 3

>>31184781

Rolled 1, 1, 2 = 4

>>31184818
fuck me...lol this bitch is going to hit us in the troat or some shit..

>>31184839
>>31184818
*throat
I hate my rolls. ima just not roll for the next three asked rolls. >.>

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Rolled 6, 2, 6 = 14

>>31184818
>>31184839
We're fucked.

>>31184781

Rolled 6, 4, 6 = 16

>>31184781

>>31184889
if 14 isn't a success then use Vys

>>31184781
Use Vys to be sure that we at least do decently.

>>31184818
>>31184839
>>31184889
>3,4,14
I honestly feel like I should do something special for the nat 3. It's 1 in 1000.

>>31184945
It was really more of a sliding scale, with 14-16 being average.

You could spend vys if you wanted to maybe bump that up a bit. I did recently realize I'd been employing my own system incorrectly though. In the magic pastebin it states the maximum amount of vys you can spend on any one roll is 5.

Anyway, writin' either way while people decide.

>>31184979
it's actually 1 in 216

So not that bad

>>31184889
>3d10

>>31184979
Average is fine, don't need to use Vys.

I'm used tot the 3d10s where 14 is shit

>>31184998
Oh crap I just realized I said 3d6. Sorry folks I'm still getting back into the swing of things. I should've said 3d10.

I'll shake the cobwebs out eventually.

>>31185031
so, reroll with 3d10?

>>31185043
Yes sir. Sorry for the delay.

>>31184979
that 14 was a decent roill. the max possible roll is 18

Rolled 1, 2, 5 = 8

>>31184781
>>31185031

Rolled 5, 10, 10 = 25

>>31185055
>>31185031
Rollan again.

Rolled 1, 10, 4 = 15

>>31185055
now watch as we roll even worse

Rolled 6, 7, 4 = 17

>>31185043
FUck yeah both my shity rolls don't count then. :D

>>31184718
>>31184788
The army if little ice people assaulting the earth castle, using their water magics to wear down a hole in the wall. Then the Water and Earth are forced to band together when the powerful fire people attack both groups from the flank.

Meanwhile Nature sits in hiding waiting to finish off the victor. Silently praying it is Earth or Water.

Our small unit tactics training would also help our organization and execution of this.

>>31185087
>>31185079
>>31185070
>8,25,15
>Not bad!
(Re)Writin'

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>>31184818
>>31184839
Glorious.

>>31185103
Seconding this or something like it for the next training session.

We could have so much fun with this.

>>31185103
this sounds interesting but im not sure we can control that many elements at once.
Ice and nature should be some what easy since master and we have the staff. So adding another might be possible.
But I think we should first try meditating with two elements before we make it to 3 elements.

>>31185145
Of course, always start small and work your way up.

But i think we can control many different elements as long as we are proficient in them and aren't focusing expending too much Vys on any of them, which we wouldn't if they were miniaturized.

My problem with the mini war is that it focuses too much on elaborate and not enough on sympathetic.

Remember that meditation needs to directly relate to what you are trying to achieve.

>>31185122
Tanpopo, like the dice, is a cruel mistress

So, anyone else up for asking prof if he also wants to become our apprentice. Specifically by suggesting fire vatis would make him be able to use his arm more and longer without exhausting (probably) and earth vatis to keep it from growing too big due to lava deposition

>>31185175
I am up for this with water and nature.
since even doing intricate parties on both nature and water shouldn't be to expensive. and we could level nature pretty darn quick. using water as a crutch and gain a water bonus of 1-2 if it's a ferice battle or some shit.

>>31185210
I feel like both are needed.

We will obviously do other types, this will just increase our control and ability to multi task while meditating on many different elements.

>>31185231
not now. I recommend we focus on chysa and ourselves for now.
we don't want to play with lava. Not right now at least. when we're half way to grand master we could prolly take enough water from the area to defend against a lava blast so we don't lose a limb trying to help him master his arm.

I am down for giving him tips and let him train on his own. how chysa started, so he can gain better control by himself.

>>31185316
>Master his arm
The vatis training would have absolutely nothing to do with his arm. Heck most of it is meditating and controlling his vys and expanding his pool.
It would just benefit his arm control as a side effect

You step kick yourself forward with your back leg, catching her leg as it swings around to strike you and driving your shoulder into her gut. She jabs you, and you tense up expecting to get a few broken ribs for your trouble, but by her standards it's surprisingly gentle. Knocks the wind out of you, sure, but you're still alive. Her leg snaps back and she tries to disengage, but you strike her twice in the abdomen before elbowing her in the cheek. For the rest of the match she's doing her best to put some distance between the two of you and get her guard up again, although towards the end it's just a straight slugging match.

Throughout he fight, you subtly channel vys into your attacks. Not enough to really make a difference, not even enough to effect you really, but just enough that hopefully she can sense what you're doing and get a feel for how it's done. When the two of you eventually call the match, breathing heavy and bodies bruised, you find a comfortable spot to sit in the sand and materialize two cups made of ice from thin air. You hand one to Chryssa when she sits down across from you, filling it with water, and keep the other for yourself.

“You are better with your fist than I expected, the form you use is very difficult to counter.” You shrug. “It's the same style everyone from El-Amin learns. I barely remember all the forms really. If you hadn't been holding back I would've been out of the fight with your first punch.” She shakes her head. “If you hadn't been holding back, you would've paralyzed me before the fight started.”
(1/2)

After you're both rested and you've healed both her and yourself, you broach the magical aspect of the fight. “Were you at all able to sense the vys I was channeling during the fight?” She nods. “Yes, I could. You collected it at the shoulders and then release it with your strike.” You fill your cup with more water. “Did that help you conceptualize channeling at all?” She shrugs her shoulders. “I think, to some extent, yes. I have a better idea of what it should look like now. We still have more sparring to go though.”
>Move on to blade training.
>Spar hand-to-hand again.

>>31185486
>Move on to blade training.

>>31185486
>Move on to blade training

>>31185461
he knows how to blast lava out of his arm.
power is always being sucked from him constantly since the magic is always active.
He could cut the power or lessen the drain so it's not as much an inconvenience for him

>>31185486
>Move on to blade training.

>>31185486
>>Move on to blade training.

>Blade training
Writin', been writin' really.

>>31185486
>>Move on to blade training.
fuck yeah, we need to master our super sword.

>>31185486
hand-to-hand again

>>31185546
I am saying that:
1. if he became vatis, he would have a larger power pool
2. if he became vatis, he would regenerate vys faster
3. higher ranked vatis get efficiency discount to their usages. This applies to enchanted gear too like the earth mace. So it stands to reason that his arm would be more efficient if he learned to be a vatis.

>power is always being sucked from him constantly
We have seen him nearly pass out from vys drain after a couple of shots. Yes power is always being drawn, but it is drawn at an accelerated rate when he actively uses it

>>31185609
Does our sword take 1 or 2 hands?

Or can it be either?

Cause Sword/Staff is a deadly combo.

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>>31185702
Either/Or, though you need at least one hand free to cast most spells unless you use the Weapon Channeling metamagic.

>>31185682
The passive drain is probably pretty insignificant.

Remember, the blasts were quite strong, probably like 3vys a piece, so his Vys pool is probably like 10

>>31185738
>>31185682
btw, he is in pain, But the more he uses it is training in it's self.

“You're right, I still need to figure out sticking things with the pointy end.” She pushes herself up, and stretches out her arms. “Whacking them with the sharp edge is also acceptable. Some swords don't even have pointy ends.” A quick survey of the room reveals a rack of dulled practice weapons in both metal and wooden versions. Most of the wooden swords are just sticks with leather wrapped around the handle, but the blunted metal swords come in all varieties of curved, straight, long, and short blades.

Chryssa selects a long, leaf-bladed metal sword from the rack, not dissimilar to a stretched out gladius. You select a saber with a sharper curve and a thicker blade than most, since it resembles your own actual blade. With your weapons in hand, the two of you return to the sparring ground and square off. You hold the blade in a horizontal guard in front of you, wielding it one handed as that's what you've had the most experience with. She holds her sword confidently in two hands, tip angled towards you.

>Roll 3d10+1 vs DC 15 to learn something, DC 25 to not ultimately lose.

>>31185720
The Nature staff comes with the spell amplifier correct?

Also, could we channel fire or water through the Nature staff?

Rolled 1, 7, 8 + 1 = 17

>>31185781

>>31185794
>Spell amplifier
Sort of indirectly for nature magic. It's 1/2 priced, which means it's basically twice as powerful.

>Channel Fire or Water through staff
Yes, though it wouldn't get any sort of special bonus.

Rolled 5, 7, 8 + 1 = 21

>>31185781

Rolled 5, 9, 1 + 1 = 16

>>31185819
Wait does that mean we can only pay half vys for an effect or do we have to pay full vys but we get double the potency? Or both?

>>31185738
I am not sure what argument you think you are making here. Or why you say "remember" as if this counters anything I have said.

Also, there is no such thing as a 3 vys blast because the cost depends on your current rank. This means that a blast of size X could be 10 vys for a novice, and 5 for the next tier, 2 for the next tier, 1 for the next tier, and 0 for the next one.

>>31185855
I am pretty sure its both

>>31185855
Both, I'd present the options such that both are possible. It also means you can use more metamagic and it will still be half off.

>>31185795
>>31185836
>>31185855
>17,21,16
>You learn the shit outta that sword.
Writin'

>>31185882
>>31185855
To clarify, both but not at the same time. either or, our choice

>>31185794
do remember that we can use the gun for ranged magic.
like balls of fire and the such the gun seems to have been made to use magic out of it.

>>31185950
adding to that I would like to practice shooting more fire out of the gun. and using blast out of the gun more accuracy and that could counter what we learned from the book of adding more vys and focusing less on accuracy for a bigger spell for just a bit more vys.

>>31185950
We can channel ranged magic through our sword and spear right?

Though the sword just absorbs vts and releases it in a wave. Can we have that wave be of a certain element? Like a wave of fire?

>>31186060
We can channel magic through that without bullets in it right?

Just shoot a ball of fire?

>>31186081
Nope, it'll always be pure energy.

>>31186103
No IIRC the reason we can use ranged magic with our gun is because the bullet moves so fast the vys doesn't dissipate

>>31186103
I believe so. I'd have to go through the previous threads. or soma could answer? :D
>>31186081
we can i guess but it would spend more vys..ranged magic + possibly moving it through the weapon via weapon affinity or something.
the staff half's nature magic vys cost. + meta magic cost.

Guys. Guys. What if we channeled a single point of Vys into our sword every day. Just kept storing more and more and more, never swinging it.

Then, when we really wanted to make someone dead, we could just pull the blade and magi-nuke the area.

>>31186174
YES.
Or it could back fire and blow up in our faces!
It might be nice to experiment with the sword a bit later on when we're not in a city or something.

>>31186174
Does it have a limit? If not then that's a great idea

>>31186174
This

>>31186154
>>31186103
This dude has it right.

>>31186174
That's entirely possible, if y'all wanted to commit to it. I'd just subtract 1 vys/day and keep track of it in your char sheet.
>Start storing vys daily in the sword
>Need to experiment more first.

>>31186174
We could just meditate and instead if taking the Vys into us we put it into the sword.

Could drop like 20 per session. Might be good if we were about to assault somewhere.

>>31186278
Yeah, let's try it. It will pretty much give us a free win in some convenient situations.

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You don't have to wait long for her to come forward. Her strike slips by your guard and the flat of the blade slaps you in the ribs. You grunt and try to swing at her, but she blocks it without much trouble and smashes the blunt edge of her sword against your fingers. The blade slips from your hand as you instinctively let go to make sure nothing is broken, and she pokes you in the chest with the point of the sword. “I win. The guard you're using is only meant to protect against strikes from above. Your reflexes could also use some work.”

A pattern evolves in which you get the snot whacked out of you for a minute at a time, then she lectures you about what you're doing wrong and why you suck so badly, and then you repeat. You get a few good hits in (mainly when you channel a little more vys than was really necessary into a blow), and by the end of the fight you're actually able to dodge or block her hits with some sort of consistency, but it was a fairly one sided fight all things considered.

You do feel like you learned quite a bit though. Pain is a terribly efficient teacher. Hopefully it'll be enough to keep you alive and not stabbed during a real fight. You heal your various welts, bruises, and cuts while Chryssa watches with a vaguely amused smirk. As you finish healing your aches and pains she speaks up. “I think I got a better expression of how to channel vys that round, since I didn't have to focus very hard on the fight itself.” That certainly was a back asswards compliment.

>Go another round of fist fighting
>Go another round of sword fighting
>Call it a day on the sparring, she should meditate

>>31186278
I think we should pump a whole load of vys into it at once, like 15 or more, just to see if it can take it first.

>>31186278
>>Need to experiment more first.
I don't think we will be using much when we meditate today.
Start off with a wave of about 10 vys when we test it out.

>>31186174
This would be great, because once we learn the Leech metamagic it would basically be a giant repository of spare vys to draw from.

>>31186320
>>Go another round of sword fighting

Works for us, works for her.

If we used our fire magic to keep something like wax in a liquid state, could we move that liquid with our water magic? If so wouldn't that count as combining fire and water? or am i talking out my ass?

>>31186320
>>Call it a day on the sparring, she should meditate

>>31186320
Depends on how late it is, but I'm leaning towards
>Call it a day on the sparring, she should meditate

>>31186320
>Go another round of sword fighting

>>31186320
>>Go another round of sword fighting
fuck her. we need the experience. and she still getter s better understanding as we learn. will get her better reaction time as well as our own.
>>31186330 this was me.
>>31186322 -> don't mind trying 15.
we just need enough so we don't lose power when meditating with something big.

>>31186378
"Water" refers to basically anything that isn't a metal or somehow earth related and can be a liquid, so yes you could heat wax with fire and move it with water. It wouldn't be using the elements together though. The water would be used for one thing, the fire another.

>>31186353
I like you. this was smart.
run into a large group of 10 or more charging at us. one swipe of that. none will be defending.. and cut a few of them in half. scare the others. and wrap shit up quickly..

Also it seems like most people want to stress-test the sword before committing to 1vys/day or any large input of vys.

Writing for
>More sword fighting

>>31186320
>>Go another round of sword fighting

>>31186278
Do it

Oh, while I write. Roll 3d10+3

Rolled 2, 3, 1 + 1 = 7

>>31185781

Rolled 9, 6, 3 + 3 = 21

>>31186576

Rolled 8, 8, 2 + 3 = 21

>>31186576

Rolled 5, 4, 8 = 17

>>31186576

>>31186320
>“I think I got a better expression of how to channel vys that round, since I didn't have to focus very hard on the fight itself.
Good, this means we are both learning

>>31186608
>>31186612
>>31186616
>21, 21, 20
>Damn good
Writin'

>>31186612
>>31186608
Yes.

How did we do

>>31186631
what kind of bonus do we get from using a sword? :D

After giving yourself a quick once over, you pick up the blade again. “Lets go another round, this time with feeling.” You give her your best cocky grin in a desperate attempt to convince yourself that you can handle the inevitable beating that is about to come, and then assume your stance. Chryssa nods her head and straightens up, twirling her sword once before assuming a stance.

Ah well. It helps you and it helps her, even if it's painful it's useful. Can't be as bad as some of the things that Grandmaster put his apprentices through. At least you never got sprayed with liquid fire and laughed at until the other apprentices managed to put you out. Maybe you should try screwing with Chryssa like that, just toss her into a pit full of stray dogs or something and let her fend for herself.

You're pulled out of your daydream by the flat of a blade slapping against your shin, knocking you off balance, and after that the fight is on. This is a much more even fight. The two of you push each other back and forth across the sandy fighting grounds. You can't really get a good hit in, though you manage to whack her a few times. She's landing blows noticeably less often than she was the first time around.

The first time she disarms you, she comments that you're a quick learner and makes a few adjustments to your stance. Tells you to keep your feet wider apart, don't block with the edge of the blade so often because you'll chip it. The first time you disarm her, you remind her not to get too cocky lest the student become the teacher. Your arrogance is almost immediately rewarded with a whack to the ribs that nearly knocks you off your feet.

When the two of you are both tired out, Chryssa calls the spar. The two of you discuss mistakes the other made, and ways to avoid making those mistakes in the future. She's doesn't watch you heal your wounds with a smirk this time around, mainly because she has some cuts of her own that need healing.
(1/2)

>Gained Trait: Saber Training-+4 to attack rolls when using sabers, +2 with any sword. Cumulative with other bonuses.

The apprentice who was punching the bag of sand earlier has left, though the mage still meditates in the center of the sparring ground. The battle has become a siege, as one side (You note, marked by a band of quartz around their heads) has retreated into a small castle made of sand. The other launches rocks from tiny catapults at the walls, rattling their quartz swords against stone shields. The vatis must be rather skilled to maintain such an intricate scenario.

>Wait and see how this pretend battle plays out
>Head to the library to do some reading and meditating, maybe see Profectus
>Head back to the suite instead.
>Go for another round of blade sparring, though you probably won't get much out of it at this point.
>Go for another round of hand to hand, though you probably won't get much out of it at this point.

>>31186831
>>Head to the library to do some reading and meditating, maybe see Profectus
we can just copy it.. using nature and ice. and make it more and more intricate as we progress.

>>31186831
>Wait and see how this pretend battle plays out

Maybe he can teach us? Either directly or indirectly

>>31186831
>>Wait and see how this pretend battle plays out

maybe we can ask him for some meditation tips

>>31186831
>. The battle has become a siege, as one side (You note, marked by a band of quartz around their heads) has retreated into a small castle made of sand. The other launches rocks from tiny catapults at the walls, rattling their quartz swords against stone shields.
That's neat.

>>31186760
>Maybe you should try screwing with Chryssa like that, just toss her into a pit full of stray dogs or something and let her fend for herself.
You really shouldn't
don't be a dick, bro

>>31186831
head to library.

Lets watch the battle and see if we can learn anything from him afterwards.

Writin for
>Watch the battle

>>31187003
ask him about his training methods afterwards.

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You refill the ice cups you'd created earlier and sit down to watch the battle unfold. Chryssa follows suit. As the siege wears on, a section of the wall collapses and the non-marked sand soldiers rush forward. You note that it's not a mad dash, but rather they're organized into sort of loose battalions, each portion has its own leader who 'gives orders' by pointing. Rather than clash with the enemy at the breech, the quartz-marked soldiers pour stone pots of molten rock down on their enemies. This vatis must be rather skilled with fire as well then.

Though the unmarked soldiers are bogged down by the magma, they eventually get through and start laying into the marked soldiers. The marked soldiers start to route, first one or two, then en masse as more and more are dissolved into the sandy sparring ground under the blows of the unmarked. They make one last desperate stand in the fortress keep, unmarked soldiers forced to bring in a battering ram to break down the doors. It's a fight through the hallways and up the towers of the keep, soldiers being thrown from windows and sand flying every which way. By the end of it, the unmarked soldiers have won what you would call a costly victory. If they fought many more battles like that, they'd be without an army.

As the battle ends, the fortress dissolves into sand. The magma, which has cooled to rock, breaks itself apart as well. The only indication that anything had gone on to begin with is a slight irregularity in the sand of the sparring ground. The vatis, whom you decide must be a Grandmaster in at least one element judging by the coloration of their robes, opens their eyes and stretches luxuriously.
>1/2

He looks at the two of you and blinks several times. “I didn't realize I had an audience. Did you enjoy the show?” Both you and Chryssa nod. You take the opportunity to speak up. “That was really quite impressive. You know, I consider myself an Earth Vatis of some slight skill, but I don't think I'd be able to work up nearly such a grand display. Would you mind terribly giving a beginner some tips?”

He smirks. “Oh, asking for some free lessons, eh? Just who are you that you shouldn't have to take my class to learn my secrets?”

>Roll 3d10+2 vs DC 18 to brag.
>Write-ins may provide a larger bonus.

Rolled 2, 10, 9 + 2 = 23

>>31187398

Rolled 5, 10, 5 + 2 = 22

>>31187398
How about instead of just bragging we show him our skill with water and have a mock battle of ice soldiers siege his earth fortress? mite b kool

>>31187398
"Me? Oh just a friend of the HeadMagister is all."
(Or whatever his title is)

>>31187454
I like this idea.

>>31187454
This.

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Rolled 3, 3, 2 + 2 = 10

>>31187433
>>31187454

Damn son.

>>31187398

Also seconding the ice soldiers battle.

>>31187398
Tell him we're about to take our Water Master test aswell.

>>31187454
Siege time with ice legos.

>>31187579
This in addition to the headmaster.

>>31187454
You know what will help us with this? Our unit tactics.

Ask if he would like to do battle against an army of ours made if ice.

500 per person and duke it out.

>>31187617
Yes, best idea. Training and character interactions at the same time.

>>31187460
>>31187579
>>31187617
These.

Our small unit tactics will help a lot.

>>31187676
In more ways then one.

You materialize a small group of ice bandits and have a team of horsemen, similarly crafted from the water in the air around you, run them down. The bandits were just bait though. They lead the knights into a near-by wood where more wait for them in ambush. As the knights ride by archers, which you noted were absent from his battle of stone, fire arrows from delicate bows of ice. The knights dismount and take cover behind trees, and another team of bandits sneaks around from the other side to finish them off.

The leader falls to his knees in despair before the bandit king, whom you've crafted a small crown for. The bandit king draws a dagger from his flowing robes and draws it across the knight's throat, water leaking out of the gash as he collapses to the ground. “A criminal, an interested party, a friend of the Archmagos, an adventurer. Take your pick, as long as I get to expand my knowledge of the Earth element it doesn't matter.”

The vatis nods their head, speaking to you now as a peer instead of as a (potential) student. “I didn't realize, I assumed you were merely a student freshly graduated. You should consider testing into the master robes soon, if your control is such you can produce water from the air as if it were a simple trick.” You smile. “I'll actually be taking the test at noon in two days.” The vatis snaps his fingers. “Ahh! So that's why the Archmagos sent out the call for the water masters. Well, I'm sure you'll do fine.”

After that the two of you swap trade secrets. He's apparently a master of fire and a grandmaster of earth. He's just started studying the metal element recently and has been making fast progress thanks to his understanding of Earth. He recommends some good books to check out in the library, namely Stone, Gem, and Sand. Apparently it's a book that really goes into depth about what Earth Magic can do and how one should meditate on it.
(1/2)

He also talks about the methods he uses most. He likes to go out to the coast and weaken the cliff face in such a way that it collapses into the sea, forming statues or carvings in their wake. It's good training for weakening armor and weapons in combat, apparently. He also likes the method you just saw, hosting big elaborate battles to train his control.
>Ask to host a big Earth vs Water battle, will count this as a water meditation session.
>Ask to host a big Earth vs Water battle, but make it a big event in the entry hall. Get Profectus to take bets on who wins.
>It's probably not wise to challenge a Grandmaster as only a Master. Lets just thank him for his time and leave.
>Write-in

>>31187990
>>Ask to host a big Earth vs Water battle, will count this as a water meditation session.

>>31187990
>Ask to host a big Earth vs Water battle, but make it a big event in the entry hall. Get Profectus to take bets on who wins.
We're basically inventing wargaming here.

>>31187990
>>Ask to host a big Earth vs Water battle, but make it a big event in the entry hall. Get Profectus to take bets on who wins.

We need more street cred in this town since we're not leaving quite yet.

>>31187990
>>Ask to host a big Earth vs Water battle, will count this as a water meditation session.
We will learn and it will be a great fun. Lets do this.
We can have Prof watch too but i dont think its really necessary.

>>31187990
>Ask to host a big Earth vs Water battle, will count this as a water meditation session.

>>31187990
>Ask to host a big Earth vs Water battle, but make it a big event in the entry hall. Get Profectus to take bets on who wins.
I mainly just like the idea of tiny entrenched stone golems being harried by ice archers.

>>31187967
>>Ask to host a big Earth vs Water battle, but make it a big event in the entry hall. Get Profectus to take bets on who wins.
>>31188049
>We're basically inventing wargaming here.
/tg/ recreate /tg/, you can never escape

Okay, so we're obviously hosting a big Earth vs Water battle. It looks like making it a big event has just barely squicked by making it a private session.

Writin' before we're all tied up again.

>>31187990
>Ask to host a big Earth vs Water battle, but make it a big event in the entry hall. Get Profectus to take bets on who wins

“Say, you know... this gives me an idea. I bet there would be a lot of interest from the student body in watching two Vatis duke it out with elemental armies.” He rubs his chin for a moment, nodding his head. “So you propose we set up an arena of sorts, charge them entry to watch?” You shrug your shoulders. “Maybe, at some point. For now I was thinking of making it a big event in the entry hall. I have a friend who could take bets. We split the profits fifty fifty.”

The two of you hash out some quick rules. Each unit will be worth a 'point' and can be any sort of small unit. That means you can have plenty of archers and he can have testudo formations of sand warriors. Units like siege engines will cost two points, and 'giants' will cost three. Things like soldiers made of quartz or stone will also be more expensive. All soldiers on the battlefield must be created at the start.

After some negotiation, the two of you agree on a one thousand point match, and leave the sparring ground. It doesn't take long to find Profectus in the library reading an Ancient Rhynian book on fire magic which would probably cost you an arm and a leg to actually buy. You convince him without much trouble to start stirring up excitement for the match ahead, and as the two of you take your positions in the entry hall, him on one side and you on the other, a small crowd has already gathered.

He sets about organizing an intricate network of trenches and fortifications, organized around a central fortress. You, on the other hand, construct an elaborate ice city with a tall spire in its center. You surround it with a thick wood, and cover the whole thing in a layer of snow. You're going to need to tempt him out of those defensive positions if you want to make full use of that training the Vys Array forced into you via spinal tap.
(Options in next post.)

>Create some big scary units and siege engines, along with a lot of mixed archers and infantry. Launch a fake offensive and fall back after the big units die, tempt him into an assault.
>Create lots of horse archers and infantry. Harass his lines until he's forced to attack or be pinpricked to death. Then wage guerrilla war in the woods.
>Go full bore, all giants, siege engines, and infantry. Crush his puny defenses under the might of Ice!
>Create a bunch of seeming noncombatants in the city and just have them go about their lives. He'll be confused, and march on the city. When he attacks, the citizenry will take up arms and he'll be stuck trying to clear out the city door-by-door.
>Write-in

>>31188476
>>Create lots of horse archers and infantry. Harass his lines until he's forced to attack or be pinpricked to death. Then wage guerrilla war in the woods.

>>31188476
>Create lots of horse archers and infantry. Harass his lines until he's forced to attack or be pinpricked to death. Then wage guerrilla war in the woods.

>>31188459
oh god....magical table top

>>31188476
>>Create lots of horse archers and infantry. Harass his lines until he's forced to attack or be pinpricked to death. Then wage guerrilla war in the woods.

After all, small unit tactics is what we're well versed in.

>>31188476
>>Create a bunch of seeming noncombatants in the city and just have them go about their lives. He'll be confused, and march on the city. When he attacks, the citizenry will take up arms and he'll be stuck trying to clear out the city door-by-door.

>Go full Ghengis
Writin'

>>31188459
>All SOLDIERS on the battlefield must be created at the start.
Guys we can just be a dick and make ice spikes impale his troops

>>31188632
and then he'll do the same thing
and as a fire master and an earth grandmaster he'll win
easily

>>31188476
>Create a bunch of seeming noncombatants in the city and just have them go about their lives. He'll be confused, and march on the city. When he attacks, the citizenry will take up arms and he'll be stuck trying to clear out the city door-by-door.

>>31188689
But if we wipe his troop all at once then he won't be able to counterattack

>>31188719
except with giant flaming earth boulders

>>31188731
I don't mean like that, I mean the game will be over, we will have won

>>31188749
he has a giant earth fortress
it is literally impossible to take down every single troop he has at once

>>31188799
We can literally condense water from the air

Can we make it rain constantly on the battlefield?

>>31188848
We're not that rich son.

>>31188830
and? there isn't infinite water in the air

Sorry folks, got a call. I tell yah, getting a passport is some tough shit these days.
Back to writin'!

>>31188857
Well, affects weren't stated to cost points. Unless you're referring to our skill as a water vatis.

>>31188892
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=make+it+rain

>>31188892
you are sheltered and white

>>31188910
Neither, just thick.

You create six hundred horse archers and have them sally worth, riding around the battle ground displaying their banner (a snowflake pierced by an icicle) to the gathering crowd of onlookers and hosting wrestling matches in the snow. Meanwhile, he raises his own banners (a diamond clenched in a stone fist) and troops materialize to man the trench works. You note he has a mix of heavy stone soldiers carrying large shields and larger swords, and smaller sand troops wielding quartz spears. He also has a few catapults stationed behind the trenches and men manning the fortress itself.

The battle begins with your horse archers firing the first shots. The hooves of their frozen horses clatter against the marble floor of the entry hall, their bows quietly twanging as they fire arrows at the enemy lines. The arrows shatter against the stone soldiers, but the sand soldiers dissolve under their withering fire as they ride by.

When he sends forwards his stone soldiers to take care of your horse archers, your infantry mob them and force them back. They work blades into the joints and faults of the stone, prying it apart. Many are lost, but the stone crumbles. Eventually he's forced to withdraw his stone soldiers, catapult fire covering their retreat and devastating your massed infantry, forcing you to pull them back and wage skirmish warfare against his larger troops. Fortunately, your horse archers are too agile and too spread out to really be valid targets of bombardment.

The battle is evenly matched. You'd never break through his lines, and it will take forever to pinprick him to death. Unfortunately he's not taking the bait and leaving the trenches to attack just yet.
>Roll 3d10+4 from Small Unit Tactics vs DC 20

Rolled 9, 3, 1 + 4 = 17

>>31189044
here we go

Rolled 6, 1, 10 + 4 = 21

>>31189044

Rolled 5, 7, 6 + 4 = 22

>>31189044

>>31189097
>>31189099
It all rides on me, oh gosh, I don't know if I can handle this pressure.

>>31189097
>>31189099
>>31189131
>17,21,22
>Success!
Writin'

His infantry proper suddenly go up and over the trenches, charging your horse arches with their spears in one massed advance. It catches you by surprise, and some of your troops fall before you can order a withdraw. You move your infantry forward to cover their retreat, and it becomes a brutal slog in the open field of your infantry versus his. Initially, you have the advantage because you have archers supporting your line. After he moves in with his few giants and his stone and quartz soldiers though your infantry is broken. The horse archers retreat and dismount at the edge of the woods, dispersing into bands of ten to thirty and hiding in the woods. Your infantry route and don't stop until they reach the ice city, where they take up defensive positions.

He follows your infantry into the woods, and you let him get deep into your territory before you spring your ambush. His forces are attacked from all sides, trees collapsing to block his escape routes and archers harrying his lines. He starts to take massive losses as order breaks down and he breaks his army apart to assault each of your bands of archers. Since he doesn't have ranged capabilities though it just becomes a chase through the woods, and he frequently loses sight of your troops only to be ambushed again.

He beats a retreat after taking massive losses, and your archers follow him once more into the open field. They mount up again and run down the routing soldiers, spearing them on lances or picking them off from afar. Your infantry leave the relative safety of the city to storm the trenches, taking them from the shadow-force that remained behind to man them. The battle has turned decisively in your favor!

>Press the advantage! Storm the castle!
>Quick! Capture the catapults before he can destroy them! Use his own siege units to destroy the walls of his fortress!
>Wait, it might be a trap! Pull back for now and regroup, then take stock of the battle.
>Write-in

Also, I'm gonna go grab some dinner. Back in 30-ish.

>>31189357
>Quick! Capture the catapults before he can destroy them! Use his own siege units to destroy the walls of his fortress!

>>31189357
>>Quick! Capture the catapults before he can destroy them! Use his own siege units to destroy the walls of his fortress!

>>31189383
This
>>31189383
But send a quarter of our infantry to our city invade of a retalitory strike at our castel

>>31189357
>Quick! Capture the catapults before he can destroy them! Use his own siege units to destroy the walls of his fortress!

Maybe light the projectiles on fire?

Send in a small scouting unit before taking the catapults (it's a tarp!) but keep archer support closeby to cover a possible retreat

>Capture the catapults!
Writin'

>>31189538
>>31189475
>>31189383
feel pretty confident that it wasn't his plan to take heavy losses just to lure us.
+ we have archers..we can attacl before he gets back to his seige units.

Probably not part of some suicidal plan but he might have thought hmm my catapults are undefended, better have some dudes guard them and when the infantry retreated they might have reenforced the catapult guards.

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You send your horse archers and infantry to the siege engines, hoping to capture the slow-moving catapults before he can get them behind the walls of his fortress. They're under heavy guard, and he's fighting viciously to keep them. At the same time as the catapult offensive you split off a portion of your troops to mop up any remaining Earthen scum in the trenches. You find that he's left a few traps for you, pitfalls with spikes at the bottom mostly, but you manage to clear out any stragglers with only minimal losses.

Eventually the catapults are seized. Partially, at least. He destroyed several of them in a last ditch effort to deprive you of siege weaponry, but you managed to secure three working catapults. You think that at this point your victory is inevitable, you need only bring down his fortress walls and the battle will be all but over. You start to get maneuver the catapults into positions and materialize ice boulders to load the catapults with. Your archers take potshots at the Earth soldiers manning the fortress walls in the meantime.

>Send an emissary forward to demand his surrender.
>Begin bombardment of the walls immediately! The earth scum shall receive no quarter from you!
>Write-in

Send forward emissary

>>31189842
>>Begin bombardment of the walls immediately! The earth scum shall receive no quarter from you!
Sounds good.
this is an aggressive but friendly match.

>>31189842
>Begin bombardment of the walls immediately! The earth scum shall receive no quarter from you!

We're giving these people a performance, and I think that a surrender would be a pretty anticlimactic ending.

Rolled 4, 10 = 14

>>31189842
>>Send an emissary forward to demand his surrender.
>>Begin bombardment of the walls immediately! The earth scum shall receive no quarter from you!
>>Write-in
Stall like a motherfucker and prepare a trap.

>>31189842
>>Send an emissary forward to demand his surrender.

>>31189842
>Begin bombardment of the walls immediately! The earth scum shall receive no quarter from you!
I have the feeling he's planning something.

>>31189887
Forgot to add that while we stall we are preparing our catapults and a sneaking mission prepared to attack from behind and when they betray us or try to surrender is when we let them have it.

>>31189878
this.
ending a fake war in a treaty won't net us more customers if/when we do this again.

>>31189922
So you want to attack him now.

Writing for
>Begin bombardment immediately.

You have his catapults begin shelling his own positions, the walls withstanding the assault for now, but it is inevitable that eventually they will fall. As ice boulders rain down upon his fortress, some sort of stone construction is wheeled up to the walls. They remind you vaguely of those statues you saw in the Rhynian ruin, the ones covered in that fleshy growth. There is a boom shortly after he has the constructions positioned, and the barrels of the construction slam back as smoke spews forth from the bore. There is an explosion as the shell it fired lands amongst your massed troops, sending ice shards and water flying everywhere.

By the gods! He's got tiny guns! The bombardment keeps up, shells landing throughout your formations and scattering them. You're forced to get your soldiers into cover, some falling back to hide within his trenches and others surrounding the catapults to defend them. You don't know how much of this

It doesn't look like he has many of these tiny siege guns, but if he manages to destroy your three catapults this battle will end in stalemate. You'd be forced to either storm his walls and try to batter down his gates, or settle in for a siege. Since stone troops don't eat, drink, or sleep the second method would probably prove ineffective, and the first is likely to result in massive losses.

>Focus your own bombardment on those weapons of his, try to destroy them!
>Focus all fire on the walls! You have to bring them down!
>Retreat! Back to the city!
>Write-in

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>>31190086
Oh, and roll 3d10+4 regardless of your choice. DC varies between options though.

>>31190086
>>Focus all fire on the walls! You have to bring them down!
>>Retreat! Back to the city!
fighting retreat

Rolled 5, 8, 8 + 4 = 25

>>31190106
>>31190107

Rolled 6, 8, 1 + 4 = 19

>>31190086
>>Focus all fire on the walls! You have to bring them down!

we can rush this fucker.

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Rolled 2, 1, 3 + 4 = 10

>>31190086
>>Focus your own bombardment on those weapons of his, try to destroy them!
I'm so sorry he forced me to same fag the whole thread please run away, and don't look back.

Rolled 7, 8, 6 + 4 = 25

>>31190086
>>Focus all fire on the walls! You have to bring them down
we will destroy them from inside for doing this to our ice people!

>>31190188
>>31190160
>>31190124
Since these were all for the walls do they count or is it first 3 rolls?
>>31190086

>>31190124
>>31190160
>>31190172
>25,19,10
>vs DC 19
Barely made it. Writin'

>>31190210
I generally just do first 3 linked rolls, since otherwise people would vote for options with good rolls, not options they liked.

>>31190172
thats what i wanted to do, but with a 25 as a roll thought i'd back that up and seems like we may kill a gun or two around the entrance with such a good roll

>>31190222
thats funny.
x.x

>>31190222
>Barely made it.
?

>>31190222
about how much longer do you have? x.x
>I generally just do first 3 linked rolls, since otherwise people would vote for options with good rolls, not options they liked.
well then thats a good rule.

>>31190391
Probably about... 4-ish hours?

>>31190391
>x.x

Fuck off.

His artillery knocks out one of your catapults early, but the remaining two keep up the pressure on the walls. They start to crack, and crumble. Flakes of stone chip off and the ramparts have been reduced to rubble. At one point, a big chunk falls off but the walls themselves remain standing, if weakened. It isn't long after that when another one of your catapults is pulped by an artillery shell, and you're forced to move your last remaining siege engine to throw off his aim.

It's a close thing, but you're eventually victorious. His walls crumble and his soldiers charge forward in one last glorious attempt to win this battle. Your infantry meet them, with support from your archers. It's a tough fight, his last remaining giant taking out a fair portion of your infantry before they manage to bring it down, but eventually the battle is won. You send in some archers and infantry to mop up the last of his troops in the castle, but the battle is over.

When you finally open your eyes, you see a crowd of somewhere between fifty and a hundred apprentices packed into the large entry hall. They sit by the ponds, at the edge of the battlefield, on the walkways, just about anywhere they can and Profectus is sitting cross legged behind you, counting out stacks upon stacks of silver coins. It seems your little endeavor was rather successful, all told.

There is some clapping, a few cheers. Quite a lot of grumbling. It doesn't seem like you were the favorite to win, judging by the amount of people who looks upset with the outcome. Then again, that just means more money for you and the Earth Vatis, who's name you neglected to ask.

>Clean up the battlefield, then go and shake their hand. It was a good match.
>Ask Profectus how much money you made.
>Bask in the glory of victory!
>Write-in

>>31190437
how about you fuck off. if you don't like it here you are free to leave.

>>31190507
>>Ask Profectus how much money you made.

>>31190507
>Clean up the battlefield, then go and shake their hand. It was a good match.

Probably ask his name as well. Then:

>Ask Profectus how much money you made.

>>31190507
>Clean up the battlefield, then go and shake their hand. It was a good match.

>>31190517
It's generally accepted on 4chan that emoticons and the like are shit, so you're in the wrong here.

Clean up battlefield and shake hand
Gotta keep up good sportsmanship!

>>31190507
>>Clean up the battlefield, then go and shake their hand. It was a good match.
then
>>Ask Profectus how much money you made.
lets be some one polite to the person who just helped us meditate and earn a "little" money.

>>31190507
>Clean up the battlefield, then go and shake their hand. It was a good match.

>>31190559
You can generally get pissy with some one else.
If it is or isn't accepted does not give anyone a reason to act like a child over something as small as some one trying to express them selves better via text.

>>31190507
btw what kind of bonus did we get from that. And what time is it now?
Is it even still the same day? sounded like a long battle.

>Clean up, shake his hand
>Then ask about the money.
Writin'

>>31190629
You'll get a +2 on your next attempt at water meditation, cumulative with any other bonuses.

Okay, so now that we've invented magical wargaming, how do we invent magical RPGs? Figures and scenery out of ice? It seems like with all five elements trained you could make some really awesome terrains to adventure through.

You let your various soldiers and animals dissipate into the air, and do the same with your forest and city. You use some water to clean up any dust that might have been created from your little battle and then let that disperse as well. For his part, your opponent repairs any chips in the marble and gets rid of his trenches and fortifications, the castle receding into the marble tile. Once the battlefield is good as new, the two of you stand and approach one another. After a firm handshake, you both turn and wave to the gathered crowd. A polite cheer goes up in response.

“You know, that was really quite fun. I think I might go ahead and formalize a set of rules for this sort of thing.” You smile. “I think that sounds like a great idea, as long as I get a little credit, a mention at least.” He looks confused for a moment. “You wouldn't want to help me make them?” You shrug your shoulders. “I don't tend to stay very long in one place, I'm something of a vagabond. I'd be happy to contribute whenever I'm in town though.”

Now that the crowd has started to disperse, the two of you approach Profectus. You also note that Chryssa has shouldered her way through the milling apprentices to join you. “I'm Mikhael by the way, Mikhael Abdul-Hakim.” He claps you companionably on the shoulder. “Demetrios Zabat, a pleasure.” He turns his attention to Profectus. “So! How much did we make?”
(1/2)

Profectus finishes dishing out the last of the winnings to the luckier, or perhaps wiser, apprentices who bet on you. “Two hundred seventy eight silver all told. I guess that will be a hundred thirty nine for you, and a hundred thirty nine for us.” He nods, and the money is divided. A tidy sum, really. You could make a living off hosting these sorts of matches if you really wanted to.

>Part ways with your new gaming buddy, go to the library.
>Part ways with your new gaming buddy, return to your suite.
>Go to the library and get the basic ruleset hashed out, you want apprentices playing this in the halls!
>Write-in

>>31191017
>Go to the library and get the basic ruleset hashed out, you want apprentices playing this in the halls!

>>31191017
>>Go to the library and get the basic ruleset hashed out, you want apprentices playing this in the halls!

Oh god we gonna be like magical GW in this bitch.

>Go to the library and get the basic ruleset hashed out, you want apprentices playing this in the halls!

>Hash out these rules quick, before someone else gets to it.
Writin'

>>31191017
>>31191044
>>31191055
this is tg and you just invented table top wargames in universe....was there any other way this could go..

>>31191160
lol we should make a name and collect royalties.
We could say that our royalties go towards the academy. As a way to show thanks, and gain some good will amoungst the staff. That + archmages good standing with us might open the doors to let us study

>>31191215
study for free, or atleast a steeply reduced student fee to join the academy.
any way that lets us study the books for free.

>>31191215
I am not sure royaltees exist. also, if you are too eager to prematurely monotize you can torpedo the whole thing. better get your name out there first, gain some fame.

Also, mfw a bunch of people are going to sign up for mage college to learn just enough to be able to play table top games :)

>>31191269
ok, replying to self here. I thought of a good way to monotize.
Organize matches (and the associated gambling), concessions (food/drinks) to the crowd, etc. Basically, form a proper league... think like the NBA or NFL, but for mage duels.

>>31191269
eh we can leave it up to them.
Just leave information that if a game appears out of it, royalties goes to the academy. or something of the sort. and if it builds up from there they can make a table top game out of it for non mages. :P
my point is not to make money but to get us free access to books.

You look around at the dispersing crowd and scratch your chin absentmindedly. “You know, I bet there is a load of money to be made selling things like rulebooks to these apprentices. You could even sell premade stone figures to non-vatis along with the rulebooks, make a ton of money that way.” He smiles. “I was thinking of setting up some kind of club that runs gladiatorial-style games in the training room, then charging an admission fee.”

An idea strikes you. “Why not both? You could set up some kind of professional circuit, then charge an admission fee to watch the matches. Then at those matches you could sell rulebooks to the spectators so they could imitate the matches they're watching at home.” He nods along, but raises a good question. “What about after that though? Eventually everyone will own the rulebook, and our revenue stream will vanish.”

Profectus adds his two cents to the conversation. “Well that's easy. Just toss out a new edition every few years with rule changes or new aspects added. Maybe only start off with rules for Earth vs Water, but release supplements for fire, metal, and nature magic. You could also intentionally make errors in the rulebook and then release errata later to explain those errors.”

Chryssa also butts in. “You could also release something like maps of battlefields with interesting features, so all they'd have to do is recreate the maps. Maybe release novels and short stories in predetermined settings tied to the rulebooks. Maybe even expand the rules to accommodate things like adventurers diving ruins or something of the like.”
(1/2)

The four of you make your way towards the library, tossing ideas back and forth the whole while. You find a nice secluded table to plot your get rich quick scheme, and someone pulls out a piece of paper to start taking notes. You end up filling almost thirty pages full of rules, regulations, fun facts, and various little irrelevant blurbs. Eventually it gets late though, and everyone starts to get a little tired. Demetrios is the first to announce that he's going to bed. Profectus follows, saying he'll meet you in the suite. Chryssa says she plans to meditate instead of sleep tonight anyway.

>She's got the right idea, head back to the suite and meditate.
>The night is young, and you're going to be rich! Go out on the town!
>Maybe explore the Academy grounds a bit? There is a lot you've yet to see after all.
>Write-in

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>>31191355
>Profectus adds his two cents to the conversation. “Well that's easy. Just toss out a new edition every few years with rule changes or new aspects added. Maybe only start off with rules for Earth vs Water, but release supplements for fire, metal, and nature magic. You could also intentionally make errors in the rulebook and then release errata later to explain those errors.”

>>31191331
What royalties? Royalties is a modern concept based on intellectual property. A concept I doubt they even have. And even in modern times you don't get royalties for derivative games which are sufficiently different (od&d might have been groundbreaking, but it didn't make all that money). And it is very easy for people to come up with derivative games.

I would be better to try to build a business around organizing matches. Rent stadiums, sell tickets to spectators, cut deals with food vendors and bookies, offer prize monies to winners. those kind of things.

>>31191355
>Profectus adds his two cents to the conversation. “Well that's easy. Just toss out a new edition every few years with rule changes or new aspects added. Maybe only start off with rules for Earth vs Water, but release supplements for fire, metal, and nature magic. You could also intentionally make errors in the rulebook and then release errata later to explain those errors.”

>Future GW CEO.png

>>31191395
>>31191374
I am glad he is on our side.

>>31191373
>The night is young, and you're going to be rich! Go out on the town!

Time for random encounters!

>>31191373
>The night is young, and you're going to be rich! Go out on the town!
What could possibly go wrong?

>>31191373
>Chryssa says she plans to meditate instead of sleep tonight anyway.
She's turning out just like us. I'm so proud of our little apprentice.

>>31191373
>>She's got the right idea, head back to the suite and meditate

>>31191392
we can do both.
I wouldn't mind investing some cash towards this. and spending a few days of doing this for more investment money. It gets us towards grandmaster slowly but gets us there.

>>31191373
>She's got the right idea, head back to the suite and meditate.

>Go out on the town
Writin'

>>31191543
wat?
;-;

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I sleep for half a day and wake up to us inventing Tabletop
10/10 would bang

>>31191543
Scratch that folks, 4chan X wasn't updating. We're all tied up.

I'll do final destination style.

Vote
>1
To go out on the town.

Vote
>2
To stay in and meditate.

>>31191577
1

>>31191577
1

>>31191577
1

>>31191577
1

>>31191577
2

>>31191577
2

>>31191577
>1

>>31191595
>>31191617
>>31191621
>>31191652
shit stinks of same faging..

Seems pretty unanimous for going out. Writin'

>>31191668
The whole point of Final Destination style is that they can't be samefagged.
>>31191652 doesn't count.

>>31191668
>shit stinks of same faging..
>Final destination style voting
>mfw
>mfw no face

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>>31191668

>>31191684
>The whole point of Final Destination style is that they can't be samefagged.
don't know what that even means.

just don't know where 5 votes came from where only two votes for it happend. and they just so happen to be 1 minute apart from each other..
but alas To city we go, let pick up our stuff since we're pretty close to our armor and shit.

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>>31191707
Is this your face sir?

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>>31191752
Well I can confirm at least one of those votes was legit.

>>31191840
Mines was the quoted 1 I fucked up with

>>31191752
4chan limits posts that have the exact same text to 5 minutes apart. Final Destination voting lasts for only 5 minutes. No samefagging, you're just paranoid and new.

“I think I might hit the town. I need to celebrate my victory.” Chryssa nods her head. “I will join you, to ensure no one is dragging anyone out of bathhouses or prisons in the morning.” You roll your eyes exaggeratedly, a gesture you haven't made since you were fourteen and your master said that there was no way you would survive being thrown into the middle of the ocean and left there. You showed him! “I'm not Prof. I have some modicum of self control and common sense.” You pat your courier's bag. “Plus, I'm rich. I could pay my own bail.”

“Says the man who got banished from his native land.” Chryssa retorts. You actually feel a twinge, just a twinge, of anger and regret at the mention of it. It's not as stinging a wound as it used to be though. “Well, I'm not looking to repeat that travesty. Now if you're coming, come on!”

The two of you set off and leave through the large front doors. The rain has stopped, finally, and the clouds overhead moved on. The air smells vaguely sweet, and Chryssa mentions that some common plant always smells that way after the rain. It's pleasant, though slightly overpowering. The two of you mount up on your respective guar and set off into the city, to try and find some sort of entertainment.

>That district with the Golden Cat seems pretty happening, might find a good bar there.
>Maybe we should try the lower quarters, interact with the common folk.
>Lets go pick a fight, you've been cooped up too long.
>Write-in

>>31191752
The waiting period between identical post is 5 minutes. Thus, as long as you keep the voting period to 5 minutes, you can't samefag Final Destination votes.

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>>31191968
Forgot my image.

>>31191968
>That district with the Golden Cat seems pretty happening, might find a good bar there.

>>31191968
>That district with the Golden Cat seems pretty happening, might find a good bar there.

>>31191968
>That district with the Golden Cat seems pretty happening, might find a good bar there.

>>31191968
>That district with the Golden Cat seems pretty happening, might find a good bar there.

Rolled 3

>Entertainment District
Rooooll me a d20 for random encounters.

Rolled 19

>>31192046

>>31191968
>Maybe we should try the lower quarters, interact with the common folk
no reason in going out just to drink if we had a pitcher at home. * if it got restocked*
might as well go around town and see if we find anything usefull or some info

Rolled 9

>>31192046

>>31192068
lol, sounds like we're not going to get stabbed?

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You set off for the Entertainment District, where the Golden Cat was. It had things besides disreputable bathhouses after all. Plenty of bars and shops. The walk there is calm as usual, a few guards patrolling the sidewalks, but as you get closer and closer the streets become more and more crowded. Eventually you're forcing your way through thickets of milling pedestrians, who seem reluctant to move out of the way even despite your guar. This area is as crowded as ever despite the earlier storm, with Vatis dancing and displaying their powers at every corner. There are also plenty of bars, whore houses, stores selling fake antiquities, and snake oil salesmen offering miracle cures to every ailment imaginable.

You end up picking a more respectable looking bar with a big, burly bouncer sitting out front. Two women dressed in revealing silk and lace outfits dance next to the doorway, shooting flames from their hands and making fire dance according to their whims. They're Pidjatan, their ears pointed and skin dark. They're also quite talented, and a crowd of onlookers stares mystified as they weave their way around one another.

Inside, the place is packed. There are two seats available at the bar, but not a single table in the entire establishment is free. Waitress bustle this way and that carrying trays of drinks and food stacked high, doing their best to serve every table and every customer as quickly as possible. You notice a familiar face sitting in one corner talking to himself. That adventurer from Licae. The young, weird, one who you spoke with your first day there. He looks no worse for wear.
(1/2)

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You also note a table full of men wearing rather extravagant armor. It's all gold filigree and silver detail, fine jewelry and expensive weaponry. Completely impractical, of course, but certainly flashy.

>Sit down with the lone adventurer.
>Schmooze the rich armored folk.
>Sit at the bar and order some drinks.
>Write-in

>>31192322
>Schmooze the rich armored folk.
Yay rich friends

>>31192322
>Sit down with the lone adventurer
Talk a lil shop then buy him a drink if went on job and came back alive

>>31192294
lonely guy could use some company

>>31192322
>Sit down with the lone adventurer.

Rolled 9

>>31192322
>Sit down with the lone adventurer.

>Sit with brooding loner
Writin'

Also, full disclosure. I've been drinking. Posting quality may decline and/or improve. I may and/or may not pass out.

>>31192495
drunnk soma is good to us before

>>31192567
>drunnk

Looks like Soma isn't the only one hitting the bottle.

>>31191577
2

You decide the loner could use some company, and slide into his booth across from him. Chryssa slides in next to you. For a few minutes the adventurer doesn't notice you, seemingly waxing nostalgic about the architecture of Rhynian ruins as best you can tell. Eventually he sees you sitting across from him and damn near jumps out of his skin. “Gods! How long have you been sitting there? You know it's rude to easedrop on someone else's conversation!” Chryssa says. “I'd hardly call talking to oneself a conversation. Co-nversation. Requires two people.”

He ruffles, squaring his shoulders and pulling himself up to his full height. “Ma'am, I'll have you know talking to yourself is healthy! It helps you clarify your thoughts and put plans together! Don't go counting me off as loony just yet.” You cut in at that point. “You were at Licae to dive the Rhynian ruin discovered there, right? How'd that go?” He looks at you confused for a moment. “Oh, pretty well I suppose. It looks like someone beat us inside though. The whole place was basically emptied out except for constru-... wait a minute. Don't I know you?”

You reach your hand across the table and give him a firm handshake. “I'm Mikhael” Chryssa introduces herself with “Chryssa Avci, a pleasure.” After your introductions, he pushes himself up. He nearly ends up knocking the tables over. “OH YOU ASSHOLES!” He shouts, getting the entire bar's attention. “Suck it? Really? You WROTE SUCK IT in the table! I can't tell you how many people would pay for the opportunity to kick your ass right now!”

>Placate him, you don't want no trabble.
>Bring it, man! You don't know who you're messing with!
>Ask him how it they finally got past the generator, brag a little.
>Write-in

Rolled 1

>>31192707
>Ask him how it they finally got past the generator, brag a little.

I come back from babysitting and you guys turned my battle idea into magic tabletop.

I am pleased.

>>31192707
>>Ask him how it they finally got past the generator, brag a little.

>>31192707
>don't want no trabble
i love you

>>31192707
>It was Chryssa. She was the one who wrote that. I swear I told her not to.

>>31192707
>Write-in

"Brah you wanna do this? Cuz we could throw down Brah. You wanna fucking wrassle?!"

No but really
>Placate him, you don't want no trabble.

If that fails we just kick his ass jackie chan style