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HELIODOR

You find yourself back on the race track, this time with a variety of materials scattered across several tables. The audience cheering has died down, but you can still hear distant voices, murmuring, waiting.

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Your task is to design and build a chariot that best represents your team. You will be given 600 points to spend on materials that you wish to use to construct your chariot, or spells to sabotage other teams. Each material will have certain stat bonuses, based on strength, defense, speed, stamina, and style. How you balance these stats out is entirely up to you.

Once you have completed this task, the race will begin! You will have an opportunity to pit your mount against other teams, and, if you spend points for them, use boosts to your benefit--or sabotage others. Keep in mind that other teams have this option as well, and your team may end up being the target of a sabotage spell. Certain stats may protect you from sabotage spells, but if they’re too low, you might have a problem. Lastly, although a well-balanced chariot may help you in the race, it does not guarantee a win in the game.

Your chariot right now is a plain-looking two wheeler that creaks a bit when you ride it. It’s big enough to fit your entire team, but you’ll be somewhat cramped. Your mount is a single horse, who is somewhat old and lazy. Your wheels are bronze and slightly rusted. The reigns are made of coarse rope. You get the sense that this chariot will certainly do the trick if necessary, buuuuut it won’t be great.

Your current stats are:

Attack: 1. Defense: 1. Speed: 1. Stamina: 1. Style: 1.

You have 600 points to spend. NOTE: You cannot race with a chariot that has a stat of 0 or less; all stats must have a value of at least 1 to race in the final product.

To see what upgrades and bonuses you can spend with your points, go here!

[he frowns.]

This is a very detached method of building a chariot; surely we could do better if given our own materials to work with.

I wouldn't be much help in that case.

*browsing the list*

Ah, perhaps then that is the purpose of such an approach.

I am Maitimo; I shall do my best to help you in this game, however you should wish.

Thanks. You knights are pretty helpful.

How are people likely to play this? Seems like speed would be good to focus on, but if it's going to turn into a fight we shouldn't neglect attack or defense.

I know not, for I have not been here long enough to see a similar game. I believe it would depend upon whether the attack would do another harm, for if it did I doubt any team would choose to do so. However, if it is for the purposes of play and winning, it may be that they will.

Sounds like we'd better pay attention to it, then. Good thing most of these give us more than one thing...

Yes; though the mounts may not all be compatible with one another if it is truly to be drawn by only one.

Probably. But all the little things are cheaper. I bet we could make up for a lot there. Look, if we put wings on the chariot and take the eagles as mounts we'd get better than that pony, only for less.

[he nods.]

A wise choice. Will you increase attack and defense as well?

*running a finger down the list*

I'd like to. We've got ninety-five points if we want to upgrade to a four-wheeler, and not much to spend if we don't...that means that anyone who doesn't probably has that sabotage magic, so we should watch for them.

Yes. There are four minor upgrades that afford a measure of defense and attack, and in total their purchase would cost 85 points, should that be of interest to you. It would, however, leave only 10 remaining, and the only upgrade after that changes only the style attribute.

That works...maybe the paint job would blind the other teams. Or we could take iron wheels instead of the stickers and the paint and go for more speed.

[he laughs.]

I would favor the latter suggestion over the former, though I have no objections to either.

*grins*

Let's go with the wheels, then. And the big upgrade.

(please tally up your stat totals from any upgrades, add-ons, bonuses, etc. and note which sabotage spells you chose, if any)

Final stats: 8 ATK, 8 DEF, 9 SPD, 11 STA, 9 STY

Upgrades purchased: Four-wheel chariot, eagle mounts, BIGASS FEATHERY WINGS, iron wheels, wheel spikes, leather reins, shields

[THE RACE]

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HELIODOR

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