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Ice Queen

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:13 pm


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Moon Hunter
PRINCESS ISLAND



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General Information
Maintaining a superior defense is the pride of the Moon Division, defending even at the expense of attacking. However, this can be hard, especially for trainees who just got new magic weapons full of glowing and powers. Thus the Princess Island. At the center of the island sits a princess who will do absolutely nothing to protect herself, and it's up to you to build defenses that will withstand shadowling attacks so she she doesn't die in a horribly realistic manner.

There's four main paths for shadowling's to travel through, and you have 3 types of building materials to create your defenses from: straw bales, wood, and bricks. The sturdier the material, the sturdier the barrier, but the fewer you can build in the allotted time. After a set amount of time, the princess will crush a pumpkin pill, attracting varying amounts of lurking shadowlings. You get to watch helplessly from the observation station, without getting to attack yourself.

These creature are extremely weak and ill formed, coming up against a solid defense they will disperse, but in turn they also weaken said defense. When a defense goes down, they go right to the princess and attack her. Should she survive the wave, you get to go back down, rebuild, and do it again.

If you fail: the princess has died, horribly, and you've wasted a lot of time on this only to look fairly incapable. All things considered? Most pleasant course to fail.

If you win: peen points and bragging rights go to those with the healthiest princess and lasted through the most attack waves.
If you choose to go beyond 5 rounds, switch the enemy dice roll to 4 d20s.


    Mechanics
  • Your princess has 20 hp
  • First, roll the strength of you defense, using the dice for whichever building type you choose.

    Brick: 4 d12
    Wood: 8 d6
    Hay bales: 12 d4

    The order of the die determine the HP for each barrier location. For example, with bricks, rolling 5/6/8/1, would mean that path 1 has 5 HP, path 2 has 6 HP and so on. With a wood roll of 3/3/3/1/2/5/5/2, the first 2 dice would equal the amount of the first path. Brick would be the least math-y of the building materials (you lazy asses.)
  • Roll 4 d12 for the attacking forces. Once again the order of the dice correspond with the path being affected. Then do the math to determine the status of your defenses and princess.
    Example:
    My defenses are 5/6/8/10
    The attackers are 3/7/3/8

    The result defenses are 2/-1/5/2
    Negative numbers are taken off the princesses HP, leaving her at 19 HP.
  • Go back and rebuild your defenses in the same manner as before, you'll be building on top of old defenses so you add the new defense HP to the remaining defense HP. Negative numbers = 0 HP for the defense, not negative HP.
  • Minimum rounds to complete the course is 3

    Bonus Mechanics
  • Their defense expertise allows them to build slightly sturdier barriers. This applies to all paths that start at 0 hp. They do not stack. So if you are re-building on a barrier that lasted from an existing round, this bonus does not apply, as it is already still in effect.

  • Trainees: 0 hp bonus
  • Moon Trainees: +1 hp bonus to each path
  • Hunters: +1 hp to each path
  • Moon Hunters: + 2 hp to each path




Status

Wave: (current wave number)

Path 1 HP:
Path 2 HP:
Path 3 HP:
Path 4 HP:

Princess HP: /20


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[b]Path 1 HP:[/b]
[b]Path 2 HP:[/b]
[b]Path 3 HP:[/b]
[b]Path 4 HP:[/b]

[b]Princess HP:[/b] /20
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:27 pm


Syd figured it was a good day for training. ... Of course, that might have been because she'd finally recovered from her last fight and was looking for something to do. She didn't like being coped in when there were things to do--

So she was heading for the moon obstacle course, when she saw a moon symbol out of the corner of her eye--and a simplistic design, which meant that the girl was a trainee. Ahhh... she headed for the redhead. "Excuse me," she said with a slight smile. "Are you busy at the moment?"

Scyerline

Ice Queen

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Scyerline

Shameless Gawker

PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:01 pm


Hazel had no idea why she was in the area in the first place. Come to think of it, she doesn't recognize this place at all. There is stil a lot that she hasn't discovered on the island yet, and this is definitely one of them.

She curled a lock of her frizzy hair around her finger and let it loose when her attention was caught by someone calling. "Hm? Busy? I'm busy futzing around if that's what you call this," giving a smile back at the misty as she shoved a free hand into her bulging pocket. There wasn't anything in particular she was trying to grab, but she managed to fish out two sticks of gum.

"... Gum?" she offered to the chick.

Ice Queen
PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 7:56 am


"I'd love some," Syd said, taking the piece and unwrapping it to stick it in her mouth. It'd been a while since she'd had a piece of gum, she thought. "I'm Syd--Sydney Lowe, Mist Intermediate Trainee," she said, adding her division and level absently. "And you're a new trainee, right?" It was pretty obvious, she thought with amusement.

"Have you been here long?"

Scyerline

Ice Queen

Dapper Lunatic


Scyerline

Shameless Gawker

PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 11:06 am


"Jaeger. Hazel. er. Hazel Jaeger. Just call me Hazel." Why is it that every time she introduces herself, she keeps saying it the same way? It was like a routine or something. "Uhhh- Moonie," she flicked the strip of gum to Syd, "just trainee. For now. But, I've been around for a couple of months."

Hazel looked around the area and was still wondering what in the world did she come across. When Syd asked if she'd been there long, she looked at her red watch on her freckled arm. It was broken and seemed to be broken for a long time. "Maybe a few hours?" It wasn't.

A thoughtful look came upon her face, "Have you been here before?"

Ice Queen
PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 11:22 am


"This is where they have training courses," Syd explained. "As a Misty I need to make sure I can do all of them reasonably well. But they're a very good way to learn your own division's skills--have you been taught much about being a moon? It's one of my favorite divisions to work as, actually, but it can be extremely dangerous."

She should know, she'd dealt with the horsemen lava last time she did it. She popped the piece of gum into her mouth, grinning slightly. "I might not be a moon, but I can help you train to be, if you're interested."

Scyerline

Ice Queen

Dapper Lunatic

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