Basic Rules
1.) This event is open for any who might want to participate but please keep things to 2-4 people per thread
2.) To earn contribution, join with a story post in this thread and start a separate thread to accumulate Contribution and reply to this thread with a link to the last post in your thread in the form of a comm message detailing your success.
3.) Bonus Contribution can only be earned up to 2 times per thread.
4.) Since this is more of a test, your own player character death can be decided or excused by you.
5.) if you would like a randomized event, roll 1D4 to decide.
It had been a long time coming for Lucia, a bitter smile upon her face as she'd try to greet people to the best of her abilities and exchange pleasantries. Any who knew her would know that while she might be charming, she lacked a lot of social grace which was why she found herself giving a speech with a bitter smile. "I've gathered you all here, as friends, family, or hires to accomplish a job. I understand that perhaps I'm asking too much, this is a personal vendetta of mine. I understand a lot of you have no real reason to participate in this and yet here you stand, ready and waiting. I'm afraid this is a foe I cannot allow to grow any longer though, what is a threat to me, might one day become a threat to you all, so I hope we can quench this flame before it becomes a forest fire." She offered, for a moment, trying to gauge the crowd to see how well she was doing. Good or bad though, she had to go on, turning her attention to one side.
Mortimer, her Wraith steward took over, in his gentleman's coat, his porcelain mask face and specter like figure that lacked legs gestured towards the wall behind the small improvised stage. "Ladies and gentlemen, our foe is the Archlich known as 'The Tomb King'. Not only is he a powerful mage, he is a demented inventor and schemer. I will not mince words, this may be a difficult battle but you will not be fighting alone. You know your own skills better then we do, I advise you to maintain small squads and spread out to sew chaos within the enemy base, that would be the pyramid." The Wraith King gestured to the drawn rendition of the black jeweled structure. "Once we have properly carved away his protections, we will all charge him together as one in hopes of ending this conflict once and for all." Mortimer concluded with a firm nod. Once more the attention shifted though, Mortimer stepping back, making way for the next speaker.
Sylvanas, the disciplined commander of her paladins was the last speaker. Crimson red eyes scanning the crowd from within heavy armor. "It will be our role to distract the bulk of the arch Lich's forces. We will engage them in battle on the surface in a separate location here. You will all make your entrance on this side of the Pyramid, once all of his forces have left to engage us. We will keep his main force occupied, leaving behind only his elite royal guards and some left over constructs within. Beware of traps and do not be consumed by your greed-- there will be time for looting when he is dead." Sylvanas lectured firmly, as if suspicious of the crowd's desires for gold and gems. Eventually the Wight Queen relented though and continued, gesturing to a member off stage, a gilded pirate undead smoking with madness in her eyes carved from gemstone. "Morgana will be dropping your teams off around the back of the pyramid before coming back to engage his forces with us. You will leap off the ship team by team to begin your work. You have your assignments, you are free to switch teams and arrange manpower as you please... Just, please work hard." Sylvanas added at the end, knowing that while the players would be fighting and looting in the pyramid, Lucia and the undead would be waging war on the surface. The sooner the pyramid's interior was ruined, the sooner they could combine their forces for a final assault. "Are we ready?" The knight would ask, scanning the crowd once more to gauge the volunteers and their willingness to participate.
MiniBoss Battle: Hiero-Titan
Within the Pyramid, alongside the undead, the ArchLich has sent patrolling constructs. Heavy siege weapons shaped as a towering humanoid 2 story tall humanoid carved from stone, inlaid with gold and powered by an entombed mummy trapped within it's frame. The Design and weaponry used by the titan can be decided by you but must have Egyptian themes. Hiero-Titan's Masteries scale based off of each participants highest mastery and it's HP scales based on each player's weapon levels.- HP Count: 400x per participant + 10x per weapon rank
- SP Count: Starts with 100 total, gains 10 per player post starts full
- Weapon Mastery: Deals 1d25 + 5 per Mastery Rank to 1 person every post.
- Magic Mastery: Deals 100 flat damage when taunted or 100 flat damage spread among party members at 100 SP and drains SP
- Support Mastery: Vulnerable and immobilized targets become exhausted reducing their next roll by a matching roll. If their roll becomes negative, take that as damage.
- Loot: Upon Completing your thread, each participant can post an event in another active thread where the death of the Titan adds +50 to that thread's contribution.
Puzzle: Laboratory
The ArchLich is a known magical artifact craftsman and has many labs that support different types of deadly magical researches. Protected by golden and chained doors and even further with boobytraps and undead guards, you can flavor the traps and guards but they must have egyptian and undead themes.- Contribution Count: 300 per person
- Advantage: Using Astramancy, Rogue arts, Magitech, Hypersense or Knack gains advantage
- Disadvantage: If using a Mastery under C rank or a proficiency under 25 roll with disadvantage.
- Modifiers: After using the same stat twice gain -5 with every further use.
- Combat: You can engage a weak Skeleton guard in combat with 100 HP and -10 retaliation damage instead of rolling for contribution. Add half of it's health to contribution on death.
- Loot: Upon Completing your thread, each participant can post an event in another active thread that gives each participant advantage using a looted item from the lab.
Horde Battle: Elite Tomb Guards
The Pyramid is teeming with undead controlled and raised by the Archlich, his armies on the surface might be scattered but his home is not completely unguarded. The Design and weaponry used by the elite guard can be decided by you but must have egyptian themes and be combat ready for the encounter.- Contribution Count: 500 per person
- SP Count: Starts with 100 total and gains 10 per player post, starts full
- Weapon Mastery: Deals 5 per Mastery Rank to each person per post
- SP Count: Starts with 100 total, gains 10 per player post starts full
- Magic Mastery: Cannot be Taunted, Vulnerable players take half of their damage as retaliation ((Unmodified by Vulnerable status))
- Support Mastery: Reduces Contribution by 100 when SP is full, drain SP and immediately deal Weapon Mastery Damage
- Loot: Upon completing your thread, each participant can post an event in another active thread where the death of the elite guards add +50 to a thread's contribution.
Sand Trap!
The Archlich is a brilliant and sinister foe, his lair littered with both deceptive traps and sculpted monsters. His Magnum Opus is the large Antlion sand trap that most pitfalls in his base lead to. You can flavor the nature of this trap as you like but it must include a long tumbling slide and/or a whirlpool of sand sucking in your team.- Contribution Count: 200 per person
- SP Count: Each player starts with SP equal to their HP
- Advantage: Using Geomancy, Piercing Weapons, Chronomancy, Dynamism, or Fitness gains advantage
- Disadvantage: Every post, make a reflex save and take -25sp, if failed, get disadvantage when rolling for contribution.
- Exertion: Pay 50sp to force a success on a reflex save. Use a recover or heal action to gain SP instead of HP. One can use protect for -25sp or Ultra protect for -50sp, protecting does not gain contribution, but protected people automatically succeed reflex saves.
- Exhaustion: If contribution is not completed in 5 cycles, the sands wash your party away and out of the labyrinth resulting in Thread Failure.
- Loot: Upon Completing your thread, each participant can post an event in another active thread that gives each participant Advantage by disabling traps.
Pyramid Raid Contribution
0 / 10,000 HP