Seraphi

Hakon- There is no crystal left. You place the armour on yourself. You feel that this will stop you casting magic, but also make you very resistant to most forms of magic. Umbra- There is no effect. Jen- You show the map to the mage and ask what to do. He scowls at you and tells you to stop wasting his time. (It's a map. What to do with it should be rather obvious.) Kemios- You drop a hammer on your toe and break it.

I'm mostly doing the space mission for the proespect of asteroid mining and general resource gathering.

Kemios- You sprain your wings. Jen- Nothing happens. He hands you another map, which is exactly the same, down to the ink splatter, before blasting you down the mountain again.

Jen- The hermit seems slightly...insane. He gives you a map which you think shows a mountain, and then a large "X" at the very summit. There is a scribble of a shoe in the corner, with a circle around it. He then uses the most powerful force blast you've ever seen to knock you down the mountain, miraculously leaving you unharmed. Kemios- +.2 flight. Umbra- There is nothing which differed from the normal world, except the total lack of any noise aside from that which you make, and the irregular flow of time.

Australia thinks Russia should keep out of it.

Kemios- +.2 flight Umbra- You feel a sudden pain as if your head is about to explode, and then faint. You wake up some time later. You have no idea how long it was, since time doesn't seem to apply here.

Umbra- How?

Umbra- Your hands go straight through the staff. You don't think it is fully within this realm. Kemios- You flap around for a while, making minor progress. +.2 flight.

Umbra- You cast a shadow spell, and to your surprise you cast a light bolt instead. The mage seems to be gone, but the ethereal cape is on the floor, and you can see the faint outline of the staff nearby. Jen- Doesn't work that way. You arrive at the foot of the mountain (What are you questing for at the moment?) Kemios- You fling yourself into the air without any control, and hit the ground quite hard.

Umbra- After about an hour, the sun still hasn't set. Strange. It just hangs there, casting a permenant dusk on the world. You haven't seen any sign of life since the incident. Nothing at all, not even birds or insects. Jen- I'm going by what I had here, and that said that you had 1.2 intelligence. Kemios- "This will take a while to get used to" you think to yourself as you clumsily flap around and jump, propelling yourself several meters before landing flat on your face. You note that your face doesn't have any feathers, but your skin has changed into a dark cyan colour. The feathers are a deep blue.

I don't want to seperate my landmass by that much though. Indonesia was pretty much perfect. Plan B should be finished in 7-9 years. Plan C might follow, if I'm unlucky.

Umbra- You get up, and the sun appears to be setting, it only felt like you were out for a few minutes, yet hours seem to have passed. Kemios- You have a set of arms with talons at the end. It looks like you can still hold regular weapons and items with them. You have feathers covering most of your body, and a large set of wings. Jen- Intelligence was part of the last 1.3 you had.

Great, stuck with 30 million or so population. Guess plan B is go. Plan B is secret of course.

Umbra- You hear nothing. Your vision becomes blurred suddenly, and the world starts spinning. You fall to the ground, but do not feel injured. Kemios- something goes wrong. You transforms Yourself, and at first, you don'tt notice anything different. Then you realise you have feathers and a set of wings. Jen- Nope, I have here that you have 1.3 total that isn't ice magic. You now have 10.6 ice magic, and no other skills.

I can provide dismantling and transport for that, if you wish. Free of charge, of course. Hell, I'll even pay you to move it.

Umbra- He is still unconcious. Jen- I actually calculated your freezing as if you said you were trying to freeze or kill all seven. You actually only have 1.3 xp that isn't ice magic at the moment. You return to the area, but the brigands have scarpered. Kemios- The tree becomes a staffsword. Which is a long blade with a magic orb at the end. You see no feasible way this could be used.

Retech, the only thing Indonesia is defending you from is me. And really, if you were to give me the island, I would never really think to attack you anyway. On the other hand, if I ever end up raging again, I have no idea what I'd do. I can repay you for the defenses over several dozen years, instead of you dismantling them, if you want, I just really need the extra population. Indonesia doesn't really form a buffer between you and Rocco anyway.

Jen- You don't need to keep reminding me about the armour. I am taking it into account, otherwise that last hit would have knocked you out. It's 11.6. You fail to freeze the brigands, and now have seven attacking you. You kill three with ice shards, and then the other five move in for the attack. The first bandit badly damages your shield, the second one breaks it, along with your arm, the third does nothing, and the fourth brigand kills you. -2.3 xp. Umbra- The man has some torn robes, and looks like a fairly powerful mage. There is a staff nearby, and the mage seems to be wearing a slightly ethereal cape. Kemios- You turn a tree into a larger tree. +.1 transmog.

Retech, if you give me Indonesia, I will allow you to dismantle most of the defenses, and I'll pay a specified sum of money over 20 years or so.

Jen- You succeed in freezing 16 of them, the rest continue towards you. You fail to make the floor slippery and instead freeze yourself to the spot, reducing your chance of dodging their attacks. The ice shards do little damage, and they keep coming towards you. You kill one with your mace as he approaches. +.3 ice, +.1 bludgeoning. The 3 remaining brigands attack you, one of them hits you on the back of the head and makes you feel dizzy, reducing your chance to dodge even further, while the other two miss. 4 brigands break out of their icy tomb. Kemios- The ability to recreate the metal seems to have temporarily escaped you. Umbra- The man is unconcious.

I could always refund the money spent over a specified timespan.

Umbra- You come across a wounded man at the side of the road. Jen- The brigands are ambushing you, so they're literally right there. I'll give you a chance to reconsider your actions with that new knowledge.

Retech, I know it's a rather bold request, but I would ask you to allow me to relinquish Indonesia, to bolster my population. The only thing the islands are acting as a buffer state to is me, and if you were to give me the islands, I highly doubt I'd ever invade you anyway. You have well over 500 million people, wheras I have 22. Some people are okay with lower numbers, but I'd much prefer to have a medium-high population.

Okay, go.

Righto, lemme sort this stuff out, then we can start.