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Post by cajun on Nov 18, 2019 2:32:45 GMT
The slime floats, motionless. It seems to be observing its surroundings, but doesn't seem aggresive. Further inspection may reveal new details...
If Jhanu leaves it unnattended it may slip out of the orb, apparently through nowhere. If he is more cautious, though, this new thing will just observe him and every move he makes.  Sorcery  Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library. Its controller may scry 3.
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Post by WindyDelcarlo on Nov 18, 2019 3:12:13 GMT
Seiva looks to Haia. "Are you ready?" Haia nervously looks between Pidge and Seiva before returning an unconvincing nod.
"I-I hope so. We can't let her..."
Seiva looks back up at Pidge. "If you know where she resides, I would appreciate you guiding us there. We need to find her as quickly as possible."
I like the SILENT a lot. 10/10
It might be better if the Pidge-guided crew goes to hunt Kei down than have me attack you for it.
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Post by cajun on Nov 18, 2019 3:52:26 GMT
With every passing day, the Arena location was looking like a worse and worse idea. The nightmares when they arrived destroying the first outpost, the sudden disappearance of Sanaerti making hiring additional staff almost impossible, the troubles arising from planeswalkers being the only customers, and now this with the Kei woman and the letters...
The Arena was full of troubles. She'd seen many troubles, and she'd done her best to fix em before. She was gonna do her best this time, but she was increasingly worried her best wouldn't be enough.
In one hand, she held the MANA, patiently watching for spells from a potential murderer. In the other, she clicked on the SILENT disc, hoping against hope the device worked better than it had last time...Pidge has spent 2 skill points and opened the vault twice, unlocking The MANA and The SILENT. 
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Post by cajun on Nov 18, 2019 4:22:17 GMT
Pidge breathes a quiet sigh of relief at the clearing of Jhanu and Januti. It had already seemed unlikely, but she had been too scared to find out the truth on her own.
It seemed Lettie had been doing far better detective work of Pidge's problem than Pidge herself. She was going to have to pay her back somehow once this was over.
She gathered some pages to prepare another letter. Jane and the deity kid she had no idea where to find, but she could follow up on Brayden. She may need to close the outpost for a few days to shut down the flow of the letters.
Outside, a blue stick atop six spindly legs whirred and clicked its way back to the outpost. Electricity swirled along the THING. It swiveled around, firing five blue balls at the outpost building.
Each of the FIREs exploded as they struck the outpost.Offensive Unit Artifact - Vehicle Blueprint  (Unlock a blueprint ability as a sorcery by paying its unlock cost and adding a draft counter.)[ ] — Whenever a player searches a library, Offensive Unit deals 2 damage to target player. [  ] — Whenever Offensive Unit deals combat damage to a player, search your library for a card and put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. [  ] — Offensive Unit is an artifact creature with trample in addition to its other types. 4/4
Conniving Tutor - looks good 9/10
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Post by mrlozano on Nov 18, 2019 15:50:32 GMT
One night Jhanu checks in on the contained substance, only to find it has vanished...Without A Trace Sorcery Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library. Its controller may scry 3.  Artifact At the beginning of your upkeep, put a research counter on another target artifact without research counters on it. If you can't remove all research counters from all artifacts instead. Then ~ becomes a copy of that artifact, except it has this ability. If it becomes a copy of an Equipment this way, attach it to target creature you control. Without A Trace: I like that you let your opponent avoid a dead draw if the thing you bounced becomes useless at that point of the game, but I think that most of the time that card will end up on top anyways. Also it can target your own stuff... 8/10 |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2019 4:48:04 GMT
As it does so, the world shifts.Something unnatural has occurred. Something is very wrong. Or maybe, something is horribly right.In the morning, when it wakes, something has sparked within it. Something odd... Strange... and dangerous. Something... living, and full of chaos.This magic, it belongs somewhere far from here. And yet, it has arrived.Electroanimation   Instant Target artifact becomes a creature in addition to its other types until end of turn, with power and toughness equal to the number of instants and sorceries in their controller's graveyard. Some bolts of lightning destroy life. Others create it.
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Post by test on Nov 26, 2019 2:45:44 GMT
Pidge breathes a quiet sigh of relief at the clearing of Jhanu and Januti. It had already seemed unlikely, but she had been too scared to find out the truth on her own.
It seemed Lettie had been doing far better detective work of Pidge's problem than Pidge herself. She was going to have to pay her back somehow once this was over.
She gathered some pages to prepare another letter. Jane and the deity kid she had no idea where to find, but she could follow up on Brayden. She may need to close the outpost for a few days to shut down the flow of the letters.
Outside, a blue stick atop six spindly legs whirred and clicked its way back to the outpost. Electricity swirled along the THING. It swiveled around, firing five blue balls at the outpost building.
Each of the FIREs exploded as they struck the outpost.Offensive Unit Artifact - Vehicle Blueprint (Unlock a blueprint ability as a sorcery by paying its unlock cost and adding a draft counter.)[ ] — Whenever a player searches a library, Offensive Unit deals 2 damage to target player. [ ] — Whenever Offensive Unit deals combat damage to a player, search your library for a card and put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. [ ] — Offensive Unit is an artifact creature with trample in addition to its other types. 4/4 Lettie will return to this board once her confrontation with J has ended, if she survives.
Offensive Unit — This is the first blueprint I'm attempting to rate. What I see are three one-time payments, each at varying levels of efficiency. The obvious most efficient option right away is the creature mode. I would have said the second one, option, but it's usually nonfunctional without the third. It is even more efficient, brutally so. I'm also not fond of the repeated shuffles in terms of gameplay. I have no frame of reference for the first ability's development, but there is at least merit in a novel trigger design-wise. 7/10 |
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Post by cajun on Nov 28, 2019 6:00:01 GMT
The strange offspring explores the warehouse, unnoticed. Attracted by artifacts, it touches every device it can, covering them completely, then retracting, like assimilating the information. It takes its time in ones, but almost completely ignores others. It takes special interest in the STOP, stopping on it, and remaining there all night.Laboratory Unit Artifact At the beginning of your upkeep, put a research counter on another target artifact without research counters on it. If you can't remove all research counters from all artifacts instead. Then ~ becomes a copy of that artifact, except it has this ability. If it becomes a copy of an Equipment this way, attach it to target creature you control. As it does so, the world shifts.Something unnatural has occurred. Something is very wrong. Or maybe, something is horribly right.In the morning, when it wakes, something has sparked within it. Something odd... Strange... and dangerous. Something... living, and full of chaos.This magic, it belongs somewhere far from here. And yet, it has arrived.Electroanimation Instant Target artifact becomes a creature in addition to its other types until end of turn, with power and toughness equal to the number of instants and sorceries in their controller's graveyard. Some bolts of lightning destroy life. Others create it.
uhhh, dunno how to write for the Thing secretly screwing with stuff so have an equipment that synergizes with these two
Charged Paralyzer Artifact - Equipment Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. Equip
Laboratory Unit - would probably reword the counter reset cause had to read it a few times to figure out what it was doing. could probably be a fair bit cheaper 7/10Electroanimation - wording is wrong and so makes it unclear if the pt is including Electroanimation and any spells you cast after it. probably fine but seems hard to use given you need U and R and artifacts and inst/sorcs. 7/10
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Post by test on Nov 29, 2019 4:07:49 GMT
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Post by cajun on Dec 28, 2019 20:58:33 GMT
A the end of the day in which the woman in the shawl had delivered the letter tied in twine, she returns, just behind Pidge's building, her coat stained with blood and mysterious substances, stumbling out of the blind eternities, trailing fumes of particularly unpleasant bitterness. Lettie's face is plainly visible, with the skin just near her eyes tinged with burns, and her knees are shaking as she struggles to stay on her feet. If it weren't for the adrenaline high, she'd have probably fallen unconscious by now. She tries to get her bearings. What is the state of things?Pyrrhic Stalemate  Sorcery  Sacrifice any number of creatures. Then, each opponent sacrifices that many creatures. Lettie finds the PB&J half-collapsed and burning. Some distance away, a spindly blue device assess the wreckage to prepare another shot. A wooden beam flies up from the collapsed section, and Jhanu sloooooooowly pulls himself from it, some unknown spell forming in his claws. Pidge is no where to be seen.
Cursed Creations Artifact - Blueprint (Unlock a blueprint ability as a sorcery by paying its unlock cost and adding a draft counter.) Whenever an ability of a Blueprint you control becomes unlocked, create a 1/1 colorless Construct artifact creature token.
[ ] — Constructs you control have first strike. [  ] — Constructs you control get +1/+1.
paying to make a pair of constructs after the stalemate Pyrrhic Stalemate — effect's fine at cost, but not at rarity. 8/10
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Post by test on Dec 28, 2019 21:46:05 GMT
Lettie finds the PB&J half-collapsed and burning. Some distance away, a spindly blue device assess the wreckage to prepare another shot. A wooden beam flies up from the collapsed section, and Jhanu sloooooooowly pulls himself from it, some unknown spell forming in his claws. Pidge is no where to be seen. Cursed Creations Artifact - Blueprint (Unlock a blueprint ability as a sorcery by paying its unlock cost and adding a draft counter.) Whenever an ability of a Blueprint you control becomes unlocked, create a 1/1 colorless Construct artifact creature token.
[ ] — Constructs you control have first strike. [ ] — Constructs you control get +1/+1.
paying to make a pair of constructs after the stalemate Pyrrhic Stalemate — effect's fine at cost, but not at rarity. 8/10
"Jhanu Pidge where happened-" Lettie grits her teeth, claps a hand to her temple, and forces out single syllables in their intended order. "Where... is... Pidge?"
Selective Smog  Sorcery Choose one — • Artifact creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. • Nonartifact creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Cursed Creations — This seems to be costed without accounting for its self-contained synergy. Besides costing, I think this is good design. 8/10 |
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Post by cajun on Jan 2, 2020 23:52:36 GMT
Lettie stares for a moment, paralyzed, but when she sees Jhanu, she snaps into action, picking out one of her unused corrosive vials, and hurling it as close as she can to the device, imbued with a sliver of black mana. Where the vial strikes the ground, it bursts into a cloud, which, with a flash of mana, expands into a bank of smog that sweeps over the landscape, instructed to devour artifice. Lettie takes a few staggering steps at the end of her throw, and raises a hand to Jhanu, as she tries to ask where Pidge is.
"Jhanu Pidge where happened-" Lettie grits her teeth, claps a hand to her temple, and forces out single syllables in their intended order. "Where... is... Pidge?"
Selective Smog Sorcery Choose one — • Artifact creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. • Nonartifact creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. There is a shriek from the device as the corrosive cloud eats away at its legs. The baton-body detaches from them with a bang, putting a meager distance between itself and the cloud. A cone grows from one end of the baton, emitting a very high pitched sound...
The green glow of the turtle's spell began creeping down his claws. As Lettie stammered, his gaze turned to where the workbench would have been, if not for the collapsed roof covering the half of the room. Flames burn through the outpost's backrooms, creeping towards the planeswalkers with every second.
"There."
A wall of rubble before her, a wall of flames coming closer. Through the gaps in the beams and smoke, Lettie can't tell if the kithkin is even in there. She was a planeswalker, after all...
"Go." Sorcery Return from your graveyard up to one target permanent card with power 3 or less, up to one target permanent card with toughness 3 or less, and up to one target permanent card with converted mana cost 3 or less to the battlefield.
revive some thing's that'd killSelective Smog - seems good 9/10
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Post by test on Jan 3, 2020 6:01:28 GMT
There is a shriek from the device as the corrosive cloud eats away at its legs. The baton-body detaches from them with a bang, putting a meager distance between itself and the cloud. A cone grows from one end of the baton, emitting a very high pitched sound...
The green glow of the turtle's spell began creeping down his claws. As Lettie stammered, his gaze turned to where the workbench would have been, if not for the collapsed roof covering the half of the room. Flames burn through the outpost's backrooms, creeping towards the planeswalkers with every second.
"There."
A wall of rubble before her, a wall of flames coming closer. Through the gaps in the beams and smoke, Lettie can't tell if the kithkin is even in there. She was a planeswalker, after all...
"Go." Sorcery Return from your graveyard up to one target permanent card with power 3 or less, up to one target permanent card with toughness 3 or less, and up to one target permanent card with converted mana cost 3 or less to the battlefield.
revive some thing's that'd kill
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Lettie glances back at Jhanu, and then back at the collapsed room. What's wrong with me? Jhanu's already entrusted me with her fate, and I've invested too much in her, what with J, and all the visits... Wait..."Heh, I'm already in the business of moving some of that, and can certainly getcha some of the rest. Can convert most kindsa currency too..." She reached for a pocket on the bag just before Lettie disappeared, turning back confused with her page.
"Hrm, well, if you can hear me still, keep in touch!" she said, scribbling a tiny map to her outpost on it, and setting it and a small box with a red button on the counter.PB&J Delivery
Fastest service in the Verse!
(Now on the Arena!!)
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PING (Pidge Instant Notification Gadget)
For even faster service, use a PING to get the attention of our head courier faster than ever before! Choose a nonland card name. Target opponent reveals their hand and exiles all cards with that name from their hand and graveyard. You may cast those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast those spells. "Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind."
—John Donne, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Reunion of the Three — I adore the aesthetics, and it would encourage some creative decisions in building, but I'm leery of the potential value for the cost... which is part of the aesthetic. And that's real sad to me. 9/10 |
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Post by cajun on Jan 3, 2020 22:04:31 GMT
Lettie doesn't jump in immediately. Her mind is racing. She might not be there. I'd rush in, risk my life, and possibly do it all for nothing. It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, if Pidge were dead. That would be one threat I wouldn't have to deal with myself. I could just save myself, and risk nothing. J might not have a medium anymore either...
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Lettie glances back at Jhanu, and then back at the collapsed room. What's wrong with me? Jhanu's already entrusted me with her fate, and I've invested too much in her, what with J, and all the visits... Wait...Lettie starts fishing for the PING; She'd put it with all her ledgers, and she'd taken those before her escape. How was the PING supposed to get the head courier's attention, again? Maybe it's like a bell pull, so that would be ringing. I hope it's something like that. If she's already out, she might come and let me know herself.Lettie soon feels a corner that doesn't feel like that of a book, and pulls the PING out of her bag, before holding down the button and advancing into the wreckage, keeping her ears open for the sounds of anything that isn't crackling fire. When Lettie looks back to Jhanu, the turtle is on his feet and sloooooooowly moving for the burning backroom. The spell had advanced over his body, healing off the scrapes and the heat.
A few seconds after Lettie pushes the button, there is a faint ping ahead of her. Somewhere in the mess, a device lights up to relay her location. Town Bell Artifact ,  : Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Return those cards to your hand at the beginning of the next end step. For a fledgling town, a good warning system can be the difference in life or death.
The Bell Tolls - 8/10
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Post by WindyDelcarlo on Jan 3, 2020 22:21:13 GMT
A letter eventually ends up in Pidge's possession, written in Seiva's curvy script.Miss Pidge,
Kei is now under anti-spell bracelets, so she's no harm, but she's around our outpost to learn what it is that we're doing. When we next meet, don't worry about her. She's now completely safe and under our watch as part of her sentence. However, that means that we've gone to Entela and come back, so when you're available, we need to discuss payment. Come find me at our outpost and we can discuss further.
~ Seiva Zeni, Head Advisor of EPICFavors Repaid Instant Target opponent searches their library for a nonland card, reveals it, puts it into their hand, then shuffles their library. Draw two cards. (I am unsure whether blue or black, so here.)
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Post by test on Jan 3, 2020 22:42:40 GMT
When Lettie looks back to Jhanu, the turtle is on his feet and sloooooooowly moving for the burning backroom. The spell had advanced over his body, healing off the scrapes and the heat.
A few seconds after Lettie pushes the button, there is a faint ping ahead of her. Somewhere in the mess, a device lights up to relay her location. Town Bell Artifact , : Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Return those cards to your hand at the beginning of the next end step. For a fledgling town, a good warning system can be the difference in life or death.
Lettie rushes forward as soon as she sees the light, and gets as close as she can without disturbing any wreckage. The fact that the building had been made entirely of wood was terrible for defense against fire, but in this case, it was a blessing. She begins consuming the remains of the roof in order to summon elementals, which she orders to clear wreckage alongside her, and she prays that the light belongs to a still living Pidge.Reclaimed Elemental Creature — Elemental As Reclaimed Elemental enters the battlefield, exile any number of artifacts or lands you control until it leaves the battlefield. Reclaimed Elemental gets +2/+2 for each card exiled with it. 0/0
Town Bell — A quirky effect I'd expect to see at rare, but otherwise, it seems like the time efficiency justifies the cost, compared to Gustha's Sceptor. It's also less likely to screw you over. 8/10 |
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Post by cajun on Jan 4, 2020 0:13:12 GMT
A letter eventually ends up in Pidge's possession, written in Seiva's curvy script.Miss Pidge,
Kei is now under anti-spell bracelets, so she's no harm, but she's around our outpost to learn what it is that we're doing. When we next meet, don't worry about her. She's now completely safe and under our watch as part of her sentence. However, that means that we've gone to Entela and come back, so when you're available, we need to discuss payment. Come find me at our outpost and we can discuss further.
~ Seiva Zeni, Head Advisor of EPIC Pidge makes a note to make a visit to EPIC before she heads off the Arena again. Express Delivery Artifact While you're searching your library, you may exile Express Delivery from your library. When you do, you may cast it as long as it remains exiled. Flash Artifact spells you cast have flash.
Favors Repaid - blue seems fine, but is a rough alternative to paying the {2} for Weave Fate. 7/10 |
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Post by cajun on Jan 4, 2020 1:48:42 GMT
Lettie doesn't fully understand how Jhanu managed to move so quickly, but she decides not to waste her time looking back at him. It looked like he had things under control, last she checked.
Lettie rushes forward as soon as she sees the light, and gets as close as she can without disturbing any wreckage. The fact that the building had been made entirely of wood was terrible for defense against fire, but in this case, it was a blessing. She begins consuming the remains of the roof in order to summon elementals, which she orders to clear wreckage alongside her, and she prays that the light belongs to a still living Pidge.
The elementals shove aside beams and boards, following the pings and the glow. Finally one uncovers a gloved hand, the source of the light wrapped around its wrist.
The kithkin groans as they move to unpin her. Lettie can see some cuts and bruises on her, but it didn't appear anything was too out of place.
She sharply screams as the elementals move a heavy beam that had fallen on her back. A pool of aether flowed out around the feet of the constructs.
Pool of Aether Artifact , : Target creature loses all abilities until end of turn.
// If Lettie looks under the beam, she'll find Pidge's shirt partially eaten away by the aether. A device of metal and glass is embedded in her back, crushed by the beam. Her back is laced with cuts from the glass, as well as old scars.
Reclaimed Elemental - You've managed to make Wood Elemental but not awful, beautiful. 9/10 |
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Post by test on Jan 4, 2020 2:52:56 GMT
The elementals shove aside beams and boards, following the pings and the glow. Finally one uncovers a gloved hand, the source of the light wrapped around its wrist.
The kithkin groans as they move to unpin her. Lettie can see some cuts and bruises on her, but it didn't appear anything was too out of place.
She sharply screams as the elementals move a heavy beam that had fallen on her back. A pool of aether flowed out around the feet of the constructs. Pool of Aether Artifact , : Target creature loses all abilities until end of turn. // If Lettie looks under the beam, she'll find Pidge's shirt partially eaten away by the aether. A device of metal and glass is embedded in her back, crushed by the beam. Her back is laced with cuts from the glass, as well as old scars.Choose target creature. That creature's controller reveals their hand, and that creature gets -1/-1 for each creature card revealed this way.
Pool of Aether — Taken as similar to a tapper, I think this is fine, and it has some funny corner cases, like the one just demonstrated. 9/10 |
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Post by WindyDelcarlo on Jan 4, 2020 5:10:54 GMT
Pidge makes a note to make a visit to EPIC before she heads off the Arena again. Express Delivery Artifact While you're searching your library, you may exile Express Delivery from your library. When you do, you may cast it as long as it remains exiled. Flash Artifact spells you cast have flash.
Favors Repaid - blue seems fine, but is a rough alternative to paying the {2} for Weave Fate. 7/10I don't know how much I like that with fetches this just allows you to play a 56 card deck. Otherwise also Shimmer Myr. 6/10 |
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Post by cajun on Jan 6, 2020 3:31:00 GMT
Lettie cringes at the scream. Aether. That would be from the PORTAL. Lettie tries to take a good look at what has happened once the beam is out of the way, and sees the cuts. Damn it, I'm an apothecary, not a doctor...Lettie shakes the memory out of her mind, and all the light about her seems to flicker once more. Bitter Stars, if this keeps up I'll be in delirium before long. But we're both conscious, so we'd better use this time while we can. She kneels down, and starts checking Pidge's vital signs, while speaking to her. "Pidge, it's me Lettie, talk to me, please." Lettie starts measuring out laudanum for Pidge, adjusting it for factors such as pulse and size, before administering it. "Pidge, your PORTAL's broken, and I don't know that I can fix it. I need to know what the plan is for this situation. Hold still, this might sting." Lettie indeed isn't a doctor, and it's clear from how gingerly she removes any remaining shards of glass. However, she works with more confidence as she applies what disinfectant she has left over to the cuts, before measuring out a regeneration potion for Pidge and offering it to her. "How do you-" Another shock of pain cut her off. "You can't. I can't. Can't 'walk."
Pidge takes what Lettie offers and grimaces. "Jhanu? Can you... get us to him?"
// Lettie may hear the sound of another FIRE exploding outside. Jhanu contains the flames in a bubble, then traps the THING in another. One of its spindly legs taps at the edge of the containment. Elsewhere, a blue STOP still emits a high pitched shriek.
Monument of Descendants Artifact Play with your hand revealed. Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each creature card in your hand. "You do not own this land, but borrow it from those who will come after."
- Monument inscription
Intrusive Memories - fun hate piece, don't think is very good at two mana tho. 7/10
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Post by test on Jan 6, 2020 4:41:13 GMT
"How do you-" Another shock of pain cut her off. "You can't. I can't. Can't 'walk."
Pidge takes what Lettie offers and grimaces. "Jhanu? Can you... get us to him?"
// Lettie may hear the sound of another FIRE exploding outside. Jhanu contains the flames in a bubble, then traps the THING in another. One of its spindly legs taps at the edge of the containment. Elsewhere, a blue STOP still emits a high pitched shriek.
Monument of Descendants Artifact Play with your hand revealed. Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each creature card in your hand. "You do not own this land, but borrow it from those who will come after."
- Monument inscription
"Jhanu? Can you... get us to him?"
Lettie lets out a nervous laugh. "Maybe. One moment." Lettie takes out an everwake potion, and glances at it. This is a bad idea. I'm already on laudanum, an analgesic. If I take this, I might cancel out the negation of J's earlier spell, and there might be lurking reactions between the two... but I've gotten this far, and I can't be fainting while carrying Pidge. Lettie downs it, waits a moment to start feeling the buzzing at the back of her skull, and the warmth behind her eyes, and she picks up Pidge with both arms, and starts carrying her to Jhanu. "Jhanu! Pidge can't walk! What's the plan?" Lettie is looking down at Pidge and occasionally watching her step as she walks, ensuring that nothing important slips out of place, or that Pidge doesn't start turning an unusual colour.Unwitting Slip Sorcery Reveal any number of cards from your hand. Target opponent reveals that many cards from their hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card. Sike, it's another hand attack!
Monument of Descendants — Oh wow. This seems to expect two to three creature cards at any one time, which seems about correct. Kind of causes a weird curve of benefit for an anthem, which traditionally becomes more powerful as you play more creatures, but otherwise awesome. 9/10 |
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Post by cajun on Jan 6, 2020 5:51:57 GMT
Lettie silently curses herself as she remembers that Pidge wasn't supposed to know that she had found that out.
"Jhanu? Can you... get us to him?"
Lettie lets out a nervous laugh. "Maybe. One moment." Lettie takes out an everwake potion, and glances at it. This is a bad idea. I'm already on laudanum, an analgesic. If I take this, I might cancel out the negation of J's earlier spell, and there might be lurking reactions between the two... but I've gotten this far, and I can't be fainting while carrying Pidge. Lettie downs it, waits a moment to start feeling the buzzing at the back of her skull, and the warmth behind her eyes, and she picks up Pidge with both arms, and starts carrying her to Jhanu. "Jhanu! Pidge can't walk! What's the plan?" Lettie is looking down at Pidge and occasionally watching her step as she walks, ensuring that nothing important slips out of place, or that Pidge doesn't start turning an unusual colour. Jhanu growls until Lettie looks down. "Thereisn'tmuchofaplan,it'sprettymuchjustrun," spewed forth from him while she did. "Pleasekeepwatchingthegroundforamoment."
// There is a scurry nearby Lettie as Jhanu runs past her. There's a heavy breath as he tries to slow himself down.
"Please set her down. Then distract that for a minute. Without watching us. I'll get her out. Then you get you out."
At first, the THING seems safely contained within Jhanu's spell. At this distance, Lettie may be able to see the plain looking box of wires taking shape on it's handle. The antimagic field of the NOPE activates, dissolving Jhanu's spell. Despite the field, the baton of the THING crackles with electricity, and it charges at Lettie. Mindbreaker Artifact Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Mindbreaker or another card, Mindbreaker deals 2 damage to that player.
// While Lettie does her thing, Jhanu repairs the PORTAL enough to safely planeswalk away with Pidge, shouting "Now!" before they go.
so can keep attacking the THING or end the interaction here Unwitting Slip - neat, probably too good a thoughtseize at B, but not there at 1B. conflicted. perhaps nonland card? 8/10
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Post by test on Jan 6, 2020 6:21:05 GMT
Jhanu growls until Lettie looks down. "Thereisn'tmuchofaplan,it'sprettymuchjustrun," spewed forth from him while she did. "Pleasekeepwatchingthegroundforamoment."
// There is a scurry nearby Lettie as Jhanu runs past her. There's a heavy breath as he tries to slow himself down.
"Please set her down. Then distract that for a minute. Without watching us. I'll get her out. Then you get you out."
At first, the THING seems safely contained within Jhanu's spell. At this distance, Lettie may be able to see the plain looking box of wires taking shape on it's handle. The antimagic field of the NOPE activates, dissolving Jhanu's spell. Despite the field, the baton of the THING crackles with electricity, and it charges at Lettie. Mindbreaker Artifact Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Mindbreaker or another card, Mindbreaker deals 2 damage to that player.
// While Lettie does her thing, Jhanu repairs the PORTAL enough to safely planeswalk away with Pidge, shouting "Now!" before they go.
so can keep attacking the THING or end the interaction here
Lettie briefly glances into the miasma of the blind eternities to see Pidge's signature retreating, before letting her body fall into the ground, the fumes enveloping her, the world around vanishing.
She slams into the ground next to Jhanu and Pidge with a puff of fumes smelling of the usual gall and bile, and briefly glances at them before the light around her flickers one last time, and the darkness swallows her mind, the buzzing in her skull fading.
Mindbreaker — Cool. Seems to expect to trigger twice when cast, and once when discarded, which is perfectly reasonable. Appropriate rarity too, of course. 10/10 |
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Post by cajun on Jan 6, 2020 6:34:05 GMT
The THING stops in its tracks as its quarry vanishes yet again. Discs spawn under each of its legs and activate, the SILENTs hiding it away from Lettie's summons. It crawls back to the now motionless STOP that had summoned it. A BAG unfurled from the back of the THING, collecting up the scrap to begin work on more backups. A pair of googles builds itself up on top of the baton. It swivels around, searching for the magical signature of its target. It takes a step.
The THING has opened the Vault, unlocking the Limb Extension and Generation System and the Nullifier Of Planar Energy.
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Post by cajun on Jan 9, 2020 16:50:04 GMT
The aftermath of J and the THING's fights, co-written by test
Lettie comes to in a room much like the PB&J from the Arena, but larger and constructed from metal more than wood. She finds herself on a cot in a larger area behind the courier’s counter, which is being manned by a very pale person with a metal arm, who wasn’t paying her any mind. As she looks around, she finds another cot surrounded by a dozen different tools, with Pidge laying, back up, on it.Lettie groans as she comes to and sits up. Almost immediately, she draws a sharp breath and starts frantically searching around for her bag, and quickly finds it nearby. "Pidge?" she calls out. The kithkin shifts only slightly to look to her. "Who’s supposed to be looking after us right now?""Ilarion, at the minute." One finger pointed at the vampire behind the counter. "We had a cleric in here earlier looking at you. Something about your heart? Was hard to keep straight.""Sounds plausible, considering I took two potions with opposite effects on the heart… no any- no one put anything in my bag out of place did they?""I don’t think so? Do you have something better for it in there?""No." Lettie pauses for a long moment. Pidge, unsure what to say, let the silence hang for once. "Are you alright?"Pidge makes a strained noise that was supposed to be a laugh. "Been better. Coulda been worse. Sounds like the PORTAL ate enough of the blow that there’s not permanent damage. Gonna be a bit before I’m back in running shape, though. How’s it feelin’ on your end?""I’ve been through far worse. At least it’s just body- it’s just all of my body."
"The cats are probably starving. I think that’s bothering me more." Lettie attempts to stand, and feels a pain in her abdomen sharp enough that she falls back onto the cot. "Or perhaps they could just die," she says with a strained voice. "The Witch made them, after all.""They should be fine unless ya locked em up. Cats are pretty good at that. But ‘all of your body’ seems pretty bad to me."Lettie sat in silence for a moment. "You’re probably right about the cats. Anyway, I can get back to them soon enough. It’s not like that damaged my spark, or… uh, I mea- my spark. I’m going to be fine, really. Last time I nearly died- it doesn’t matter, I’ll be fine.""If you say so…" Lettie’s words didn’t sit well with Pidge. "Y’know, ya can hold out here as long as ya need. We can get someone to check on the cats. Got a few walkers who owe me a favor or ten."Lettie seemed to makes a sour face upon the mention of owing favors. "Celestial Spheres, thank you, please. I haven’t got any place of my own to stay until I clean out my shops too. I didn’t want J to attack any other place when I went to challenge her, then she started breaking my vials in my home… I only hurt her once, and now I have to decontaminate every store I had before that point.""You actually fought her? Did you figure out anything more than your last letter?"Lettie waved her arms around her. "We’re… safe, right? You remember... the last letter too… right?""Jhanu’s been contacting other branches while we were out. It seems like the Arena’s been the only place getting her letters.""During the fight, these tendrils of shadow appeared all over my shop. Reminded me of the shadows that gave me my letter back. It… looked like illu- like held- like they were being held behind this illusion. One she created… It’s just a guess, a hunch, but did you notice any other illusions that J had cast?""Uh…, when Michi gave me a letter, there was something from his first letter that did cast one. Made it look just like his, aside from being addressed to me now."Lettie cackles "I knew it. I had thought she could see through the letters like I see through my alarms, and then I could challenge her by writing on my letter, and the letters are illusions too. I… I’m not sure how wor- how exactly it works, but I think she is… well, not exactly is, but might as well be the illusions... I’m not making much sense, am I?""It’s like havin’ another set of eyes? Think I get that much, at least." "But eyes-," she was yelling now. The vampire grumbled. "It’s not just the eyes! I can’t cast spells through my alarms! It’s the eyes, and arms, and if it spreads from letter to letter, the legs too!""So there’s no telling how much trouble those can get up to." Pidge sighs. "I think… I think we just need to call off the Arena outpost. Between the nightmare holes and that war and the big city just up and walking away, and now this witch that seems to have a grudge on the place… it might be best if we just leave."Lettie’s face fell instantly. "You’re not going to vanish, are you?"Pidge shows a bit of a smile. "I’ll still be around. Delivering stuff to the bakery. And ya got a PING, after all."Lettie stares at the smile, looking somewhat worried. "If you say so… and my books?""I bring by new ingredients and stuff I find to the bakery all the time, can do the same with plant and potion and whatever else books if ya like.""Good… the routine survives. Thank you.""Now how about a question for you? Ya said my PORTAL was broke… how’d you figure out a thing like that?"Lettie is silent for a really long time. A really, really long time. She stole a few glances at Pidge. "It was… just something I found out when… oh Bitter Stars…" She closes her eyes and covers her face with a hand and lays on her back. "I had to… figure outpost- figure out when you wouldn’t be at the outpost. T-to deliver my letter to you. A few things came up when I…" Lettie trails off into nothing. Pidge’s face turned quickly to concern. "Ya coulda asked when I’d be away, ya know. And I don’t see how being there when I ain’t tells you about it.""No I couldn’t! I decided I’d write you that letter after… after I got my letter for the second time. I didn’t want J to see me talking to you again.Pidge’s eyes narrow "Why not? Seemed to me like the only thing she wanted was the letters sent. Wouldn’t think talking to me woulda done much… unless you know something more about her.""No, I don’t! I thought-" Lettie panics and her breaths become much deeper. "I couldn’t talk to you again. I didn’t think I could even be seen by you before you had read my letter.""But… why? What made you think that?""Because I’d made a damn fool of myself!" she yelled. "How am I supposed to face-," her stammering started to quiet down. "Even in the last fa- few seconds, every twitch... of your face staring at me made me feel like I should have died on the spot... I had to get a word in to you without having to see myself being seen that way for another second. That’s why I had to send that letter when you weren’t there."Pidge’s face falls slightly, and she shifts to look away from Lettie. "I didn’t mean… I’m sorry. I didn’t know you…""It’s nothing you meant, or did, it’s just… I couldn’t bear to be reminded of how I’d failed… again… it was my fault. All of it. I don’t even remember if it was Januti’s yelling, or you staring through these eyes into me. I decided… I’m not even certain now.""I don’t see how any of this mess has been your fault?""The mess right after you burned the letter was my doing. I don’t know what I was thinking. I suppose I… jumped to a conclusion, then… I just felt betrayed and confused and frightened. I spoke without thinking, then I left before you could get a word in." Lettie struggles with her words, then seems to give in and move on. "You were my only friend. After all that had happened, I was afraid that I had no one, and that if we met face to face before I could say anything, that you’d confirm that. I haven’t got a home to go back to, either…"Pidge weakly waves her hand. "That mess being what, you getting worried and shouting up the place? Not much of anything to be worried about. Ya got scared, and why wouldn’t ya? We saw what that witch was trying to do."
"Know what ya did do though? You pulled me outta that burning wreck. That’s a whole lotta plusses in my book. Might’ve been a whole lot worse without ya. Might not’ve made it at all."Lettie guiltily looks at Pidge as she says it could have been worse. She works through something in her head for a bit before continuing. "...You’re right. Maybe I’m just missing perspective. For a moment, I suppose I thought having one’s back nearly snapped was a fate only slightly worse than making a fool of oneself."Lettie stares at Pidge’s face, still somewhat worried. "Thanks for saying that… out loud. I think I haven’t got any perspective on any of this. It’s… difficult to explain… It must seem out of the blue, and I hope I’m not being rude by asking this, but could you tell me what the thoughtweft is like?""Heh, don’t know I’d call it rude, but it’s a bit of a doozy ain’t it. Thoughtweft...when I’m home you can feel everyone around ya, feel em trying to help out in their little ways. Get these little thoughts to pick ya up when your stuck, either on your work or on your troubles. When you’re there, ya don’t really think much about it, cause it’s all ya know. Out here, and everywhere else though, that all goes away. It’s just so staggeringly quiet. Makes ya feel pretty alone if you stop too long."
"But… at the same time… at home, it’s not so lonely but really reminds me that I’m… different from the rest of em. Don’t see quite right, and get to know all the time that everyone around me does. It’s got its comforts and its discomforts, like pretty much anything I guess. Just moreso, cause it’s stuck in your head."Lettie’s eyes well with tears with the last sentence. "Thank you… I think… I know what this is now. I used to think that humans had something similar. It certainly looked like it. I think… that if I were a kithkin… I’d be the only one without a connection to the thoughtweft. Everyone around you can feel the whole picture in their head. And they never say what it is, out loud. They just keep it between themselves."It had been many years since Pidge’s first steps out of Lorwyn, and she’d had a long time to get used to the silence. But that initial panic had remained one of the scariest times of her life… and Lettie lived like that all the time? It explained… a lot. "I don’t think I help ya make a thoughtweft, but I can work on that ‘out loud’ if that’ll help.""I don’t know. It would be less… exhausting, but I don’t know that I’d want to be treated like I was anything but a... person like any other… please don’t tell anyone about this. I only told you this because… well, I didn’t want that last mess to happen again, or for you to think it was your fault.""I… alright. If ya ever need to talk again, I can be around for it. Bout all I’ll be good for for a bit anyway."
"On that note, whatever it was you figured out about the PORTAL… please keep that to yourself, too. Something we’d rather keep… unknown. Would like to avoid someone less friendly looking to make their own.""Deal." |
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Post by cajun on Jan 9, 2020 18:22:47 GMT
The PB&J Delivery sign plopped to the ground. A layer of paint washed over the letters. Jhanu sloooooooowly set the sign aside the rest of the wreckage.
Pidge couldn't even try to smile looking at the mess. The Arena location had proven itself far more dangerous than it was worth, and without Sanaerti there was no chance anyone other than her and Jhanu would be able to staff it. Thankfully, Lettie's actions had ensured they could save a lot of what had been here, beside the building itself, but it was time to call it off.
Jhanu nodded slightly and vanished into a planeswalk. Pidge looked over the mess a while longer. A mrrp from Brownie finally broke her thoughts. With one last vmm, a green portal opened up, and Pidge and Brownie stepped inside. PB&J have left the Arena. {Pidge's Character Sheet} You encounter a quickly made wooden building, adorned with the sign PB&J Delivery! Fastest service in the Verse!
Inside the room is divided in two. A very large turtle is slooooooooowly working with mail and packages at one counter, while a kithin tinkers with some device on the workbench on the other half. A gray cat is curled up in the back, asleep on some makeshift mattress.
"Hiya!" calls the kithkin. "Nice to meetcha! What can we do ya for?" Illus. iwangaPidge, Interplanar Courier
Brownie, A CatColors:
CMC: 10
Type Masteries: Artifact, Planeswalker, Sorcery
Keywords: Investigate
Abound (To abound, you may cast a nonland card that costs less than this from your hand without paying its mana cost.) [Abound originally designed by HerziQuerzi]
Perks:
Magus of the Forgotten (Pink)
Sigil of the Commander (The PORTAL)
Questmaster (Pidge can design legendary cards.)
Tactical Imperator (Pidge can design two cards at once.)
Rarity Upgrader (Pidge can design rare and mythic cards.)
Flusterstorm (Pidge gets additional valor against multicard attacks.)
Artificer (Pidge can design Contraptions, Equipment, Fortifications, and Vehicles.)
Open the Vault (The SIGHT, The FIRE, The STOP, The MANA, The SILENT, The LEGS, The NOPE)
Valor: 730
Skill Points Used: 35/38
Achievements Unlocked:
Epic Proportions, Evil Twin, Arbiter of the Ideal, Lotus Bloom, Cartouche of Zeal
Conjure Sets: Lorwyn, Morningtide, Novea, Worlds Away, Core SetsCommand Zone/Vault: |
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Post by cajun on Jan 9, 2020 18:58:08 GMT
A stranger planeswalks to the Arena, much like many before her.
She falls directly on her face and does not move for several minutes, unlike most before her.
Rift scanning commencing. What is this place? Elsewhere scanning commencing. Oh. This place. Prime directive initiating.... [ERROR: prime.ins not found] Secondary directive initiating.... [ERROR: prime-backup.ins not found] Hey, are you alright?
survival.ins initiating....
Experiment Zero has entered the Arena!
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Adelyn
3/3 Beast
Posts: 183
Formerly Known As: Sir Martikov
Favorite Card: Adeliz, the Cinder Wind
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red
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Post by Adelyn on Jan 12, 2020 17:57:41 GMT
cajunContinuing from my thread... When Zero finally stops running, Brayden starts huffing and puffing, clearly he isnt very athletic (And I imagine Zero could theoretically run quite a long time because she is essentially a robot). "Please... Can you stop running... I just want to help you..." he says, before collapsing on the floor, "And you seem conflicted 'bout something... Something 'bout your head? Is there some sort of voice in your head?"Conflicted Shapeshifter Creature - Shapeshifter As Conflicted Shapeshifter enters the battlefield, it becomes your choice of 3/1 with haste or 1/3 with flying. */*
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Post by cajun on Jan 13, 2020 5:15:29 GMT
"Please... Can you stop running... I just want to help you..." he says, before collapsing on the floor, "And you seem conflicted 'bout something... Something 'bout your head? Is there some sort of voice in your head?" Zero seems to be moving more sluggish as Henry catches up. Her metallic voice comes out noticeably slower.
"I cannot trust your help," she says. "No citizen has the means. Even if you do mean well, you will cause only harm." False Start  Instant Nonland permanents enter the battlefield tapped this turn. Draw a card.
Conflicted Shapeshifter - no problems here 8/10
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