Rootborn

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You shouldnt mix booze and weed.

> Next day hangover syndrome: Happen.

<<Next day hangover syndrome: Happen.>>



A hangover isn't all too likely, since you only had the one ale, and perhaps more importantly,
you drank reasonably responsibly.

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Having scaffolded up the previous day, rest allows you to distribute your 2 free First Tier
Power Points. You may allocate them as you please.

Tutorial: Every time a Player Character scaffolds up, they receive 2 free First Tier Power
Points to spend immediately, and 8 more to potentially gain through training. There are also
more Feats and Spells to allocate Power Points to than just the recommended choices presented.

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<<Aiden: Feast on delecious breakfast of fried food and sugary substances with colorful dyes.>>
<<Daren: Finish up embalming fae heads.>>

Select Spell:Elemental Detonation
Select Featraft Magic Item

>You need more will power to meet the requirements in the thing you are going to train in, two points into it

> 2 willpower.

<<Aiden: Add 2 to willpower.>>
there

<<Aiden: Add 2 to willpower.>>



You allocate both points to Willpower.

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Now it's Daren's turn.

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Time to allocate 2 Power Points for Daren.

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>all points into being more Intimate, you need to get closer with the lady friends.
>Actually all into strength, it raises everything after all

> 1 Strength
> 1 Vitality

i second dreamscythes pointspread.

<<Daren: Add 1 to Strength and add 1 to Vitality>>



You allocate 1 point to Strength and 1 point to Vitality.

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> Guys: Wake up. Feeling harder,better,faster,stronger.

<<Guys: Wake up. Feeling harder, better, faster, stronger.>>



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Aiden: Ominously tell the elder druid [i think] of what you say mind jacking a dead druid fae corpse.
Daren: Crash the druid party by accident.

<<Dugald: Stop your text from being mint green, it looks terrible against the white background. Also, use some eyedrops man. Its to early for your eyes to be that red>>
<<Aiden: Make Kealan explain himself then.>>
<<Kealan: Explain you must go, for your planet needs you. Leave in poorly edited jumpcut.>>
<<Daren: Crash druid party, asking awkward question about taxidermy of Fae heads.>> (good suggestion dreamscythe)
Did well on your finals eh? Good work my ginger friend. And not a single flashdrive lost this time around ^^

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So i'm guessing the setting's High Fantasy with some anachronism mixed in here and there [Like Sir Huffington's suit].

Humans - are split into kingdoms and are still fighting each other.
Elves - Are a thing
Dwarves - Are helping one of the human kingdoms.
Giants[or whatever they're called] - Are neutral as a race though some if not most are helping the fae
Fae - are currently the big bad and have annoying text speech

And the Druid Order is getting weaker having influence only in sporadic areas.... probably to the war.

Did I get all of these correctly?

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That is more or less right on the money, Dreamscythes, and quite succinctly I might add.

> Map of the world : Appear to the audience while the druids talk more world building.

<<Map of the world: Appear to the audience while the druids talk more world building.>>



This is a map of the continent of Astarpa.

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<<unseen narrator: explain why bigger countries have not absorbed smaller countries.>>
magic? Ehtical concerns? Financial logistics?

<<Unseen narrator: Explain why bigger countries have not absorbed smaller countries.>>



These smaller nations, colloquially known as the Independent Kingdoms, have yet to be
annexed for any number of reasons. Some are declared neutral territory, some are contested
territory, some are undesirable targets, some have formed alliances or treaties, and others
yet have their own standing armies or mercenary support.

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<<Unseen expositor: Continue with the background info or the plot, either/or works. Just progress>>
<<Adventurers: Judge your creator harshly for problems outside of his control, strike for better update schedules/facial expressions.>>
<<SCOTWHE: Rule against adventurer unions, ending the strike and forcing the characters back to work like the property they are.>>
This comment is brought to you by weed and the time of 1:00 a.m.

<< So why is everyone fighting? What's the claim for all the wars.>>
<< What is this Mesmyrdia Conflict?>>
<< And is magic commonplace or is a rarity over the whole?>>

I mean, why isn't the Druid order also more powerful than normal if it's a conclave of nature magic users unless other people have other magic.... right?

<<What is this Mesmyrdia Conflict?>>



The current conflict is being fought over pride and religious creed, following the Sinking of
Mesmyr, capital city of the Mesmyrdian Empire at the hands of the Druidic Order five years ago,
and the subsequent collapse of the empire that followed soon after. The war began sweeping
through Astarpa thirty-five years ago, when the mutual intolerance of the opposing sects
of Munostianity erupted into a series of insurrections and inquisitions throughout the empires.

That was until Mesmyrdia enacted laws breaking tenants of Druidic tradition. Within a month,
the tip of the tallest tower in Mesmyr was dozens of fathoms below sea level. In the five years
since, the former empire's provinces have risen up as independent kingdoms and those that haven't
either declared fealty to another of the empires or were annexed. Mercenary warbands roam in the
wake of the clashing forces, scavenging anything the locals manage to hide from the imperial armies
like scraps of carrion.

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<<Narrator: Answer this question: "Thats nice. How does that relate to our heroes?">>
<<Aiden: Get the willies as you feel a supernatural force relaying your past to strangers.>>
<<Daren: Get confused at sudden arousal as a supernatural force relays your past to strangers.>>
<<Huffington: Chastise author for rudeness. Even if he is your creator, as a gentleman you cant let him off lightly.>>
Infodumps are always fun for submission based comics

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Huh.......

HUH.

So i'm guessing DnD is a huge influence on this web adventure I take it.
Druids are both well, druids and have the function of Clerics in which they can revive people/things.
Unsure if Fae could be revived since they are not from the realm thus Outsiders but there being a canon Fae druid means that they could be revived and he probably has that purpose on the small Fae.... group thing? Army? Court? IDK.

Mesmyrdia was a super empire which along with having a ruler have [in this settings standards] atheist beliefs (formerly pagan, though i'm curious what pagan worship entails, it can't be worshiping the earth since that's a Druid thing [in this story maybe] which wouldn't be called pagan, this calls into question what's the actual main beliefs/deities.... maybe pagan worship is the worship of fae? That would be a shocker since Fae are canonly bloodthirsty speciest hell bent on omnicide/genocide from what I gather.....maybe)

Along with being an Atheist, the ruler of Mesmyrdia is also pretty stupid [maybe a God Complex... or an ANTI-God Complex] since he broke the rules of an Order KNOWN TO HAVE MAGIC/NATURE POWERS, THAT CAN REVIVE WILLING PEOPLE BACK FROM THE DEAD. (Though alternatively, the whole Mesmyrdia fault may be on purpose and due to wanting to seize power they staged it to justify sinking a capital city/country filled with innocents into the ocean, plus he declared atheist, all heretics must die probs in their eyes. Great! This is delicious, the moral ambiguity. WOOH!)

However, it could seem to be a failed attempt at a show of power (not that i'm saying it is, but maybe, who knows if the Druidic Order is truly good.....maybe not since they've fully willing to sink a city.) since this MAY have lessened the charm of the Druidic way as a religion.

The two countries may be fantasy counterpart France and England probs or is it Spain and Portugal, either way, two biggest competitors trying to seize the tiny individual citystates.

Huh, maybe the main religion/pagan is the whole Nordic Pantheon....

Also maybe I missed it but where are the people currently, I mean what country are our protagonist in? I'm talking confusedly and rambling I should sleep. Although I guess non-druid magic is possible, but maybe hereticized due to the power of the Druid Order or the main religion.... IDK, so many thoughts

<< Aiden: Now would be the perfect time to tell everyone what you saw using your creepy vine/nerve thing. As in, tell them about Sidhe.>>

EDIT:
After scrolling a few pages back, ressurection was mentioned earlier so I goofed up, woops.

<<Aiden: Now would be the perfect time to tell everyone what you saw using your creepy vine/nerve thing.>>

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