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Medals 2
Medals are earned through hard work and given one player at a time, sometimes with a ceremony. Together with titles, they are what the realm holds as true about Pothos.
Character
Combat stats tap a row for its sources
327.17 initial = 327.17
The plain force your creatures strike with when you send them into a ritual.
Treasure from won fights, where it is the cheapest of the nine to raise. Worn weapons lend it, and some shop and reward items grant it.
Damage is your attack less the target's defence, and most abilities start their sum from it. Your total is shared out across the creatures in your ritual, so the same attack goes further in a ritual of two than in a ritual of six.
224.68 initial = 224.68
How much of a blow your creatures shrug off before it touches their vitality.
Treasure from won fights, at three and a half times the cost of attack. Worn armour lends it, and some shop and reward items grant it.
It is subtracted from nearly every incoming blow, so a defence above the enemy's attack leaves them doing the minimum of one damage. Like the rest, your total is shared out across the creatures in your ritual.
57 initial = 57.00
The strength behind everything your creatures do that is not a plain blow.
Treasure from won fights, the second cheapest of the nine to raise. Worn gear lends it, and some shop and reward items grant it.
Healing, protecting, stealing life and poisoning all measure themselves against power and ignore attack entirely. Stealing life is capped at 20 percent of a creature, and an aimed hit at 25.
65.99 initial = 65.99
How early your creatures move when a round opens.
Treasure from won fights, at five times the cost of attack. Worn gear lends it, and some shop and reward items grant it.
The whole field acts in order of initiative, highest first, so it decides whether you land a killing blow before the other side answers or after.
114.15 initial = 114.15
How readily the realm's heat answers to you, in a fight and on the road.
Treasure from won fights, and one of the dearer of the nine. Worn gear lends it, and some shop and reward items grant it.
It is added to the heat you get for a fight you start, and a quarter of it is added to the heat of every step on your own land, or on any land while you belong to none.
33.30 initial = 33.30
The realm's willingness to tilt a moment your way, or against you.
Treasure from won fights, but only on about one win in eight, so it grows in jumps rather than steadily. Clickables in the lands hand it out, and worn gear lends it.
On roughly one scene in three, luck finds you Winertia; luck below zero loses it instead. In a fight, luck on either side can double an effect or cancel it outright.
76.65 initial = 76.65
How readily your vitality comes back to you.
Treasure from won fights, and by far the dearest of the nine to raise. Worn gear lends it, and some shop and reward items grant it.
It swells the vitality your house pays you on every refresh, by up to half again, with half of that reached at 2,000. After a fight, every creature you sent is brought back up to at least its regeneration as a percentage of its maximum vitality. Your regeneration is shared out among them like the other stats.
51.59 initial = 51.59
Your nose for a price, and how hard you are to overcharge.
Treasure from won fights, at one of the higher costs of the nine. Worn gear lends it.
It takes up to 25 percent off a dwelling, a weapon and your house rent. The discount climbs fast at first and then flattens, reaching half its maximum at 750 and never quite the whole 25. It is the one of the nine the fight engine never reads.
108.85 initial = 108.85
How well you hold together while crossing land that is not yours.
Treasure from won fights, at one of the higher costs of the nine. Worn helms and shields lend it.
Stepping into another house's territory costs you vitality, and your energetic immunity cancels that percentage of the loss. At 100 the crossing costs nothing at all.
initialweaponsterritoryalliancemagicillusion
Skills that only grow
5.28 initial = 5.28
The weight of your own will, built by going where the realm pushes back.
Every scene you enter that costs action points. Going in above the viscosity minimum pays more than going in below it. The secured day streak pays as well.
Your share of a forge wish. There are five bands, from a tenth to a half.
80 initial = 80.00
How far your character can still be reshaped. It starts at 80 for everyone and is only ever spent.
Nothing raises it yet. Every card you take by converting permanent stats lowers it by one.
The price of your next card. At 80 a card costs 10 points; each point of plasticity you lose makes the next card dearer (59, then 69, then 81 ...), and each point above 80 makes it cheaper, down to a floor of one.
Leanings
Woodcutting2.8
Herbalism2.4
Filtering2.1
Mining0.5
Finesse0.4
Excavation0.3
Waterhandling0.0
The Leanings are thirteen crafts that pull against each other: what a player practises grows, and what they neglect falls away.
Principles
Time Principle 4,000 · Darkness Principle 46.81 · Principle of Balance 4,000 · Element Principle 2,508.30
Realm
No Homeland
No alliance
Armoury
No set pieces worn.
Writings
Comments on self
Pothos is a normal man on the surface, Six foot even, with waist long black hair that is normaly tied into a single braid down along his back, ending just below his waist. His Clear blue eyes are active, taking in much, but show no emotion, no matter what he is feeling or showing. On his right hand, marked as a silvery scar, is a rune. It's meaning is known only to few.
The best way to find him is to ask him. Little is known about where he came from, where he plans to go, or what he plans to do.
All evidence says he is a simple man who walks around with a bag that always has room for an extra item, but yet is always full of scarves which he passes out as he pleases.
Common things that he can do are reshaping any object he touches as he pleases, inability to fall, capability to avoid any attack he sees, and an ability to create pockets of darkness. More subtle things he does are most often missed.
He commonly carries his bag, which has the distinction of being his own, personal bag from which only he can draw his items. The bag contains a large quantity of scarves/scarf material, a loom, a chain mail scarf of seemingly six feet, but if looked at in from any other view, gives flickers of a much larger length (actual length cannot be seen by anyone, not even pothos), a bullwhip, a flask of unknown liquid that causes him to breath smoke, bone chopsticks, a large gold key embossed with the #6 for his room at Windy's pub and a black ring on his right hand made of an unidentifiable material.
Pothos is the Only supplier of scarves with pockets. Any one who claims that they attained one from someone else, or says that they came up with it, are liars, or where conned.
The scarves have the approval of Mya Celesta, Awiiya, SageWoman, Gort Hedera and Windy. These can and will be changed acording to getting further aproval, or getting asked to remove a name.
Pothos's cook book and list o scarf things Personal hate list
Shadow Tea
Shadow tea is not a particular type of tea, it is infact, a class of teas, all made in the same basic way. In this, I shall list what is needed to make a single teabag of it.
3 small peices of cloth, cheese cloth would be best, but in a pinch the loincloth of a grassan can be used. 4 tea leaves 2 unidetified herbs 2 toxic plants
Combine the herbs and plants in a mortar, grind them with the pestle until you acheive a fine grain. Lay this out to dry in a dark room, it is important that from the time that the herbs are ground, to the time that they are made into tea, that they never come in direct contact with sunlight. During the drying process all light should be avoided, with exception of light to work by and such light should be kept to the barest minimum.
Once the herbs have dried seperate it into three equal amounts, which should be tied up in the cloth to form small bags. These are your teabags.
Sun tea can be made from the same process, but must be kept in sunlight as much as possible, never being in darkness till they are dried.
Grey tea is made by getting an exact ballence of light to dark maintained from start to finish. - It would be a great failing not to warn that these teas will be strongly affiliated with a principle matching the method of it's creation. Care should be taken in the imbibing of these, for there is danger for the drinker should they not have an understanding of the principle affiliated with what they drink.
Shadow Tea promotes subtler thoughts, allows for a more fluid tongue, and may lesson others awareness of the imbibers presence.
Sun Tea promotes bolder thoughts, allows for a more blunt tongue, and may increase others awareness of the imbibers presence.
Grey Tea Promotes evener thoughts, allows for a more clear tongue, and will not effect others awareness of the imbibers presence.
Ingredients: 4 freshly hatched elementals 1 remains, must be fresh. 1 aramour 1 barren soul 1 water being
Must be made at fenths press. Run the water being through the press to clean it, do not collect this.
Feed the first fire elemental into the press, followed by the aramour, this will heat the aramour, and allow the essence to strengthen your lungs when drinking the mixture. After this, you should slowly feed in two more of the elementals, followed by the fresh remains. Make sure that it is less than a day old, and try to remove as much of the armor as possible. Feed in the last of the elementals, then follow it with the Barren soul, who's essence will heal your body any damage done by the smoke.
Older and stronger aramours are to be ballenced with stronger elementals, otherwise the strengthening effect could cuase lasting breathing problems.
Older Barrens, up to and including hollows are never a bad thing, the healing will only be augmented, and spread to other parts of the body.
3 Birds, of respectable age 1 newly hatched bird. 1 Fire Elemental 1 Water Being 1 loom of good quality.
Sacrafice both the Fire Elemental and the Water Being at the same time, so that Their elements cancel each other out leaving their true essence behind.
Pluck all three Aged birds, try to preserve the feathers in as good of condition as possible. Pluck the newly hatched bird, make sure to place the feathers into a small soft bag so that they do not get blown away.
String the loom with the essence of the fire elemental and the water being. Then begin making the scarf, place the flight feathers at the two ends of the scarves, and as you grow closer to the center, begin using smaller feathers, with the down from the newly hatched bird at the center. Be careful to use all of the small feathers, as you will need to do the process in reverse as you draw further away from the center.
If done properly the end result should be a light, flexable, and warm scarf of whatever color feathers you used.
-blank- Military ways and beliefs
-in progress-
-excerpt from his journals-
It's been about a half year since I first awoke in this land, and I still do not remember exactly where I came from, or just exactly who my past self was. Energy flows freely in the form of magic in this land, matter bends easily, but it all seems.. segmented. I chose few to to work with, types of energy with wide ranges of aplications. I cannot escape the feeling though, that I am.. limited in some new way.
I have met many people who are amusing, some more than others, and thers I seem to have an inate emotion about. Some hate, others atraction, in one case, I found myself compelled to harvest certain bones from a younger indevidual, and used them in the creation of a bow.
Being a journal, I will admit puzzelment at this, Not knowing exactly how I created the bow, how to do it again, nor why I did it in the first place, given that I have made my name in the making and giving away of scarves, the creation of which seems to remind me of past pursuits.
On the topic of scarves, I am also not sure why I make them. I know How I make them, Somehow I remeber crystal clear the methods, the different uses for materials, and with these new energies I can manipulate, I have begun new designs, with material none have used before, sand, water, air itself and even smoke so far have been fashioned into scarves.. But enough about that. I shall end my writings today.
- another excerpt-
I began Experimenting with my scarves a while ago, beyond new materiel. I had a sucess. The chainmail scarf, seemingly short, but that is only an illusion that not even I can see through. I have yet to find a true end to it, always it streches out, though perhaps it's weight has something to tell? The shorter it is, the heavier it becomes.. Though I learned this by accident. It always feels only a couple pounds to me, but once layed apon the table, it fell through, it's weight so extream that it punched a perfect hole in it's shape.
it's length is not the only thing. By accident I have bound it to my own mind, my subconcius to be exact. I can controll it with thought, But it will at times move on it's own, normaly in protection of me. The upside of this is that it has become a perfect conduit of my natural energy, and when charged, can fend off almost everything, plus I can change it's shape to my will, But the downside has been that I cannot leave it far from me, It will simply follow me, attacking anyone or anything between us. Another downside is that, the more I use it, the more.. I feel my mind sliping. Growing tired.. Sleeping recovers it, but I worry of what my limits could be, and what might happen if I push them.
That is all for now. note: Look over the experiment notes tomorrow, perhaps I can find a way recreate this effect Amendum: Having looked over the process I figured out a way to bind something to a person, as well as how to set things to react to certain stimuli
-Final entry- This will be the last page in you, because I no longer need you to record my thoughts. Thanks to the.. exploration. Of my mind by a person, my past memories have returned to me.. mostly. They are trigered by things it seems, by other memories, or just by words and phrases. It could be that they have all returned but like a normal memory, need something to poke at them to have me remeber again.
It doesn't matter however.. I know enough. I cannot return to who.. No.. I cannot return to what I was, so I shall remain what I am. A false persona made out of the jealousy of another. This is fine though.. But my plans are changing, and I no longer need evidence of my sanity.. or insanity, I realy cannot tell.
One last thing, if this ever falls into the hands of another. Never think the man of scarves to be a simple man. Even the humble have their secrets.
Creatures 33
Elemental Vlevel 6 · 3 held
Walking Treelevel 5 · 3 held
HoraceRevolted Skill Vampire, level 4
LiftielUnholy Pope, level 3
LucyImperial Aramor, level 1
Imperial Aramor Assassinlevel 3 · 3 held
Master of Puppetslevel 3
Water Daimon IIIlevel 7 · 2 held
Majestic Winderwildlevel 6 · 2 held
Master Sharptearlevel 4
Master Lorerootian Archerlevel 4 · 2 held
BloodPact Dark Archer IIIlevel 5 · 2 held
The most experienced kinds, of 33 creatures in all.
Oh no! The drachorns have left the area...phrog watches in horror as the flames fight to stay lit, but they cannot keep warm. Freezing once more, phrog drops immediately back into a deep sleeplike state with no flames to comfort him.
This story involves real player characters and grows every few hours. Read the rest in the game: you could become part of it.
Woodcutting
Herbalism
Filtering
Mining
Finesse
Excavation
Waterhandling