Scramble for Scrolls

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* Elevator Pitch Scramble for Scrolls is a 2D, timed, simultaneous-turn PvP multiplayer game in the style of the old flash game classic 'Jelly Battle'. At the historic Library of the Scrolls, a repository for centuries of magical knowledge, a furious storm has caused significant damage to the grounds. Worse still, hundred or maybe even thousands of scrolls, magical implements, and hats have been swept away by the winds! In the hopes of recovering as much of their lost items as possible, the library has offered to pay for every lost item a person can recover. Unfortunately, this may have led to even more chaos. Citizens, ne'er-do-wells, scholars, and wizards have all taken to the streets to take advantage of the situation for power and wealth! Take to a series of locations in competition with other scholars, wizards, and more in a competetive synced-turn PvP combat game with some unique twists. Each match takes place during the course of the storm, with strong winds blowing single-use scrolls, power-boosting wizard's hats, magical implements, and some unique dangers onto the playing field. Up to 8 players take their places on the stage, racing from spot to spot in order to snatch up as many of these items as they can, fight off their opponents, and get that bag! * Systems and Gameplay Each match takes place on a grid-based map somewhere within the area of the storm's path. After taking their starting places, the match begins, and artifacts are spread onto the field as the storm winds hit. In the subsequent turns, players will have two turn phases - /action/, and /movement/. Play continues until there is one or no player(s) remaining, or until the storm passes, at which point a free-for-all occurs. Free for all lasts only a handful of turns until the librarians arrive, at which point no reward is granted for the match. ** Match Progression *** Starting Round - Players may take their spot on the stage in a first-takes-the-cake scramble for positions - In this stage, combat may not occur - Once a position has been selected, a player may not move again - If no position is selected before the round timer expires, a random position will be selected *** Storm Rounds Storm rounds (aka normal rounds) are separated into multiple phases, one environmental and two control. **** Wind Phase 1. Item Scattering a) On the first round, the storm phase will randomly scatter a selection of artifacts across the stage. In subsequent rounds, those artifacts will be pushed across the stage by the wind some distance depending on the intensity of the next round's wind strength and direction, which is indicated by decoration on the stage's borders, or by hovering over an item during a control phase. b) On rounds excluding the first round, artifacts are moved across the stage based on wind strength and direction. New artifacts may be deposited in empty cells along the border from which the wind acted. 2. The storm continues to pass, and the winds shift and change strength as it does. 3. The stage decoration is updated to display the next round's wind strength and direction. **** Control Phase The control phase is further divided into two sub-phases, /action/ and /movement/. ***** Action sub-phase If the cell the player occupies on this sub-phase contains an artifact, the player automatically picks it up. They are then given the option to choose between a set of possible actions to perform with that artifact. a) USE - the player can choose to equip or expend the artifact, reducing its value by 75% but acquiring any stat improvement, or enacting any spell effect that the item confers. If the player uses a scroll, they begin to read its contents and the effect takes place at the end of the action sub-phase. b) KEEP - the player stores the artifact in their inventory, preventing it from being used but retaining the full value of the artifact should the player win the match. c) HOLD - the player does not use the artifact, but retains it in their hands for potential use on the next action sub-phase. Once all players have selected their action, or the phase timer has expired, USE actions take effect. For equipable artifacts, this happens immediately. For spell artifacts, the order of actions is determined by the player's /Wit/ stat minus the /complexity/ of the spell. Should two players' actions have the same resulting turn order value, those effects happen simultaneously, potentially resulting in /spell collision/. ***** Movement sub-phase Once the action sub-phase has completed, players must choose to either move to a new cell, or defend the cell on which they are standing. a) MOVE - depending on the /speed/ stat, the player may move up to floor(speed/2) cells, which occurs during the next /wind/ phase. b) DEFEND - the player does not move to a new cell, gaining a temporary +1 bonus to their /strength/ stat during the proceeding wind phase. This bonus can exceed the natural maximum of the stat. **** Player face-offs Player face-offs occur during the /wind/ phase when two or more players attempt to occupy the same cell. During a face-off, each player's strength stat is compared against the cumulative value of the other players'. If no player is able to exceed the cumulative strength of all other players involved in the face-off, everyone is knocked back up to two cells. If one player is able to exceed the value, they knock their opponent(s) back, and remain on the new cell. *** Free for All Should more than one player remain standing once the storm has passed, a scramble to be the last person standing before the librarians arrive takes place. There will be 5 rounds of play, with the librarians arriving after the resolution of the final round's combat. Should more than one player still be standing, all winnings are forfeit. - During free for all rounds, any held artifacts can be equipped or used from the player's inventory. The same loss-of-value rules as normal play will apply. - No new artifacts will be scattered onto the stage, but any still leftover from the last storm round will remain on their cells until picked up. ** Character Each player character starts a match with the same stats, which are only temporarily boosted by equipped artifacts and spell effects during the course of a match. Characters may be customized with purely cosmetic clothing items purchasable with winnings from previous matches. *** Stats - Strength - Default: 1 - Natural Max: 10 - Effect: strength impacts the damage delt during a face-off should two or more players move to the same cell during a wind phase. - Wit - Default: 1 - Natural Max: 10 - Effect: wit determines the turn-order execution of artifact spells in conjunction with that spell's /complexity/. - Speed - Default: 2 - Natural Max: 14 - Effect: speed determines the distance a player can move each /movement/ sub-phase - Power - Default: 1 - Natural Max: 11 - Effect: power increases the potency of spells (namely, damage) by a percentage over the base potency for each point above one. - HP - Default: 25 - Natural Max: 25 - Effect: the total hit points a player has available. Reaching zero results in a K.O., and all held artifacts being marked as /damaged/. - Barrier - Default: 1 - Natural Max: 11 - Effect: barrier reduces incoming damage by a percentage per level above one. ** Scrolls The primary artifact type scattered by the storm is the /scroll/. Scrolls are a magic-imbued, one-time-use magical artifact that allows the user to cast powerful magic without any resource costs. Because they must be imbued with magic, upon use they are rendered inert, reducing their value as the scroll's contents will need to be copied to a new magic-imbued parchement. *** Fireball :artifact:scroll:damage: Type: damage Description: Conjure a fireball, which travels to a targetted cell up to floor(4 + (4*PowerFactor)) cells away Hit Mode: particle Complexity: 5 Damage: 5 + (5 * PowerFactor) *** Prisma Beam :artifact:scroll:damage: Type: damage Description: Channel light energy into a powerful beam, firing in a straight line. Cells in the center of the beam are hit for full damage, cells on either side of the beam are hit for 30% of the total damage. Hit Mode: scan Complexity: 8 Damage: 6 + (12 * PowerFactor) *** Aether Blast :artifact:scroll:damage: Type: damage Description: Harness raw aetheric energy, causing an explosion effecting all adjacent cells for full damage, and cells adjacent to those are half the damage. Hit Mode: scan Complexity: 6 Damage: 3 + (5 * PowerFactor) *** Ice Lance :artifact:scroll:damage: Type: damage Description: Conjure a spear of ice which travels to a targetted cell up to floor(4 + 2*PowerFactor)) cells away, dealing damage to the first player hit and freezing them in place, preventing movement. Hit Mode: particle Complexity: 5 Damage: 6 + (3 * PowerFactor) *** Soul Drain :artifact:scroll:damage: Type: damage Description: Harness necromantic dark arts to steal the energy of life itself, creating a aether-miasmic cloud around the player. For each enemy hit, the player gains 1 stack of shielding. Hit Mode: scan Complexity: 6 Damage: 2 + (6 * PowerFactor) Shielding: 20 Stacks: 1/enemy effected *** Protect :artifact:scroll:shield: Type: shield Description: Channel the power of magic to create a shield around you, negating damage and spell effects for one turn. Hit Mode: n/a Complexity: 4 Shielding: 100 *** Invigoration :artifact:scroll:buff: Type: buff Description: Magically enhance your strength until the end of the match. Complexity: 2 Stat Target: Strength Stat Boost: 1 *** Harness Wind :artifact:scroll:buff: Type: buff Description: Harness the energy of the wind, granting extra speed Complexity: 2 Stat Target: Speed Stat Boost: WindStrength *** Aetheric Infusion :artifact:scroll:buff: Type: buff Description: Connects your body to the aether for a time, granting extra power Complexity: 2 Stat Target: Power Stat Boost: 1 *** Earthen Skin :artifact:scroll:buff: Type: buff Description: Infuse your body with the earthen elements, granting damage reduction Complexity: 2 Stat Target: barrier Stat Boost: 1 *** Aetheric Rage :artifact:scroll:buff: Type: buff Description: overload your body with aetheric energy, granting a temporary large enhancement to power. Complexity: 4 Stat Target: Power Stat Boost: 3 Stat Boost Timer: 2 *** Mend :artifact:scroll:heal: Type: heal Description: Repair your physical form by weaving new tissue from aetheric fibers Complexity: 3 Healing: 4 + floor(6 * PowerFactor) ** Hats Wizard hats also took to the skies with the scrolls. Unfortunately, since wizards refuse to do things simply, upon equipping a hat it binds to the wearer, requiring a complicated procedure to make it usable by someone else. *** Gemio's Hat of Knowledge :artifact:hat:uncommon: Description: Always looking to one-up his fellow wizards, Gemio crafted this hat to give him that extra little edge in wits over his peers. Stat Target: Wit Stat Boost: 2 *** Shuria's Hat of Lifting :artifact:hat:uncommon: Description: More interested in adventuring and adrenaline than studying over tomes, Shuria created this hat to give her that extra little edge in strength. Stat Target: Strength Stat Boost: 2 *** Hat of the Nameless Old One :artifact:hat:rare: Description: A terrifyingly potent artifact, crafted by a wizard of immense power aeons ago. Stat Target: all Stat Boost: 2 *** Standard Student's Hat :artifact:hat:common: Description: A standard worn by students at wizarding schools, designed to help improve studying. Stat Target: Wit Stat Boost: 1 *** Avanya's Coal Walker Hat :artifact:hat:common: Desccription: A hat commonly worn by members of the temple of Avanya, to aid in enduring potentially painful meditative rituals. Stat Target: Barrier Stat Boost: 1

1	* Elevator Pitch
2	Scramble for Scrolls is a 2D, timed, simultaneous-turn PvP multiplayer game in the style
3	of the old flash game classic 'Jelly Battle'. At the historic Library of the Scrolls, a
4	repository for centuries of magical knowledge, a furious storm has caused significant
5	damage to the grounds. Worse still, hundred or maybe even thousands of scrolls, magical
6	implements, and hats have been swept away by the winds! In the hopes of recovering as
7	much of their lost items as possible, the library has offered to pay for every lost item
8	a person can recover. Unfortunately, this may have led to even more chaos. Citizens,
9	ne'er-do-wells, scholars, and wizards have all taken to the streets to take advantage of
10	the situation for power and wealth!
11
12	Take to a series of locations in competition with other scholars, wizards, and more in a
13	competetive synced-turn PvP combat game with some unique twists. Each match takes place
14	during the course of the storm, with strong winds blowing single-use scrolls,
15	power-boosting wizard's hats, magical implements, and some unique dangers onto the
16	playing field. Up to 8 players take their places on the stage, racing from spot to spot
17	in order to snatch up as many of these items as they can, fight off their opponents, and
18	get that bag!
19
20	* Systems and Gameplay
21	Each match takes place on a grid-based map somewhere within the area of the storm's
22	path. After taking their starting places, the match begins, and artifacts are spread
23	onto the field as the storm winds hit. In the subsequent turns, players will have two
24	turn phases - /action/, and /movement/. Play continues until there is one or no
25	player(s) remaining, or until the storm passes, at which point a free-for-all occurs.
26	Free for all lasts only a handful of turns until the librarians arrive, at which point
27	no reward is granted for the match.
28
29	** Match Progression
30	*** Starting Round
31	- Players may take their spot on the stage in a first-takes-the-cake scramble for
32	positions
33	- In this stage, combat may not occur
34	- Once a position has been selected, a player may not move again
35	- If no position is selected before the round timer expires, a random position will be
36	selected
37
38	*** Storm Rounds
39	Storm rounds (aka normal rounds) are separated into multiple phases, one
40	environmental and two control.
41
42	**** Wind Phase
43	1. Item Scattering
44	a) On the first round, the storm phase will randomly scatter a selection of artifacts
45	across the stage. In subsequent rounds, those artifacts will be pushed across the
46	stage by the wind some distance depending on the intensity of the next round's
47	wind strength and direction, which is indicated by decoration on the stage's
48	borders, or by hovering over an item during a control phase.
49	b) On rounds excluding the first round, artifacts are moved across the stage based on
50	wind strength and direction. New artifacts may be deposited in empty cells along
51	the border from which the wind acted.
52
53	2. The storm continues to pass, and the winds shift and change strength as it does.
54	3. The stage decoration is updated to display the next round's wind strength and
55	direction.
56
57	**** Control Phase
58	The control phase is further divided into two sub-phases, /action/ and /movement/.
59
60	***** Action sub-phase
61	If the cell the player occupies on this sub-phase contains an artifact, the player
62	automatically picks it up. They are then given the option to choose between a set of
63	possible actions to perform with that artifact.
64
65	a) USE - the player can choose to equip or expend the artifact, reducing its value
66	by 75% but acquiring any stat improvement, or enacting any spell effect that the
67	item confers. If the player uses a scroll, they begin to read its contents and the
68	effect takes place at the end of the action sub-phase.
69	b) KEEP - the player stores the artifact in their inventory, preventing it from
70	being used but retaining the full value of the artifact should the player win the
71	match.
72	c) HOLD - the player does not use the artifact, but retains it in their hands for
73	potential use on the next action sub-phase.
74
75	Once all players have selected their action, or the phase timer has expired, USE
76	actions take effect. For equipable artifacts, this happens immediately. For spell
77	artifacts, the order of actions is determined by the player's /Wit/ stat minus the
78	/complexity/ of the spell. Should two players' actions have the same resulting turn
79	order value, those effects happen simultaneously, potentially resulting in
80	/spell collision/.
81
82	***** Movement sub-phase
83	Once the action sub-phase has completed, players must choose to either move to a new
84	cell, or defend the cell on which they are standing.
85
86	a) MOVE - depending on the /speed/ stat, the player may move up to floor(speed/2)
87	cells, which occurs during the next /wind/ phase.
88	b) DEFEND - the player does not move to a new cell, gaining a temporary +1 bonus to
89	their /strength/ stat during the proceeding wind phase. This bonus can exceed the
90	natural maximum of the stat.
91
92	**** Player face-offs
93	Player face-offs occur during the /wind/ phase when two or more players attempt to
94	occupy the same cell. During a face-off, each player's strength stat is compared
95	against the cumulative value of the other players'. If no player is able to exceed
96	the cumulative strength of all other players involved in the face-off, everyone is
97	knocked back up to two cells. If one player is able to exceed the value, they
98	knock their opponent(s) back, and remain on the new cell.
99
100	*** Free for All
101	Should more than one player remain standing once the storm has passed, a scramble to
102	be the last person standing before the librarians arrive takes place. There will be 5
103	rounds of play, with the librarians arriving after the resolution of the final round's
104	combat. Should more than one player still be standing, all winnings are forfeit.
105
106	- During free for all rounds, any held artifacts can be equipped or used from the
107	player's inventory. The same loss-of-value rules as normal play will apply.
108	- No new artifacts will be scattered onto the stage, but any still leftover from the
109	last storm round will remain on their cells until picked up.
110
111	** Character
112	Each player character starts a match with the same stats, which are only temporarily
113	boosted by equipped artifacts and spell effects during the course of a match.
114	Characters may be customized with purely cosmetic clothing items purchasable with
115	winnings from previous matches.
116
117	*** Stats
118	- Strength
119	- Default: 1
120	- Natural Max: 10
121	- Effect: strength impacts the damage delt during a face-off should two or more
122	players move to the same cell during a wind phase.
123
124	- Wit
125	- Default: 1
126	- Natural Max: 10
127	- Effect: wit determines the turn-order execution of artifact spells in conjunction
128	with that spell's /complexity/.
129
130	- Speed
131	- Default: 2
132	- Natural Max: 14
133	- Effect: speed determines the distance a player can move each /movement/ sub-phase
134
135	- Power
136	- Default: 1
137	- Natural Max: 11
138	- Effect: power increases the potency of spells (namely, damage) by a percentage
139	over the base potency for each point above one.
140
141	- HP
142	- Default: 25
143	- Natural Max: 25
144	- Effect: the total hit points a player has available. Reaching zero results in a
145	K.O., and all held artifacts being marked as /damaged/.
146
147	- Barrier
148	- Default: 1
149	- Natural Max: 11
150	- Effect: barrier reduces incoming damage by a percentage per level above one.
151
152	** Scrolls
153	The primary artifact type scattered by the storm is the /scroll/. Scrolls are a
154	magic-imbued, one-time-use magical artifact that allows the user to cast powerful magic
155	without any resource costs. Because they must be imbued with magic, upon use they are
156	rendered inert, reducing their value as the scroll's contents will need to be copied to
157	a new magic-imbued parchement.
158
159	*** Fireball :artifact:scroll:damage:
160	Type: damage
161	Description: Conjure a fireball, which travels to a targetted cell up to
162	floor(4 + (4*PowerFactor)) cells away
163	Hit Mode: particle
164	Complexity: 5
165	Damage: 5 + (5 * PowerFactor)
166
167	*** Prisma Beam :artifact:scroll:damage:
168	Type: damage
169	Description: Channel light energy into a powerful beam, firing in a straight line.
170	Cells in the center of the beam are hit for full damage, cells on either
171	side of the beam are hit for 30% of the total damage.
172	Hit Mode: scan
173	Complexity: 8
174	Damage: 6 + (12 * PowerFactor)
175
176	*** Aether Blast :artifact:scroll:damage:
177	Type: damage
178	Description: Harness raw aetheric energy, causing an explosion effecting all adjacent
179	cells for full damage, and cells adjacent to those are half the damage.
180	Hit Mode: scan
181	Complexity: 6
182	Damage: 3 + (5 * PowerFactor)
183
184	*** Ice Lance :artifact:scroll:damage:
185	Type: damage
186	Description: Conjure a spear of ice which travels to a targetted cell up to
187	floor(4 + 2*PowerFactor)) cells away, dealing damage to the first player
188	hit and freezing them in place, preventing movement.
189	Hit Mode: particle
190	Complexity: 5
191	Damage: 6 + (3 * PowerFactor)
192
193	*** Soul Drain :artifact:scroll:damage:
194	Type: damage
195	Description: Harness necromantic dark arts to steal the energy of life itself,
196	creating a aether-miasmic cloud around the player. For each enemy hit,
197	the player gains 1 stack of shielding.
198	Hit Mode: scan
199	Complexity: 6
200	Damage: 2 + (6 * PowerFactor)
201	Shielding: 20
202	Stacks: 1/enemy effected
203
204	*** Protect :artifact:scroll:shield:
205	Type: shield
206	Description: Channel the power of magic to create a shield around you, negating damage
207	and spell effects for one turn.
208	Hit Mode: n/a
209	Complexity: 4
210	Shielding: 100
211
212	*** Invigoration :artifact:scroll:buff:
213	Type: buff
214	Description: Magically enhance your strength until the end of the match.
215	Complexity: 2
216	Stat Target: Strength
217	Stat Boost: 1
218
219	*** Harness Wind :artifact:scroll:buff:
220	Type: buff
221	Description: Harness the energy of the wind, granting extra speed
222	Complexity: 2
223	Stat Target: Speed
224	Stat Boost: WindStrength
225
226	*** Aetheric Infusion :artifact:scroll:buff:
227	Type: buff
228	Description: Connects your body to the aether for a time, granting extra power
229	Complexity: 2
230	Stat Target: Power
231	Stat Boost: 1
232
233	*** Earthen Skin :artifact:scroll:buff:
234	Type: buff
235	Description: Infuse your body with the earthen elements, granting damage reduction
236	Complexity: 2
237	Stat Target: barrier
238	Stat Boost: 1
239
240	*** Aetheric Rage :artifact:scroll:buff:
241	Type: buff
242	Description: overload your body with aetheric energy, granting a temporary large
243	enhancement to power.
244	Complexity: 4
245	Stat Target: Power
246	Stat Boost: 3
247	Stat Boost Timer: 2
248
249	*** Mend :artifact:scroll:heal:
250	Type: heal
251	Description: Repair your physical form by weaving new tissue from aetheric fibers
252	Complexity: 3
253	Healing: 4 + floor(6 * PowerFactor)
254
255	** Hats
256	Wizard hats also took to the skies with the scrolls. Unfortunately, since wizards
257	refuse to do things simply, upon equipping a hat it binds to the wearer, requiring
258	a complicated procedure to make it usable by someone else.
259
260	*** Gemio's Hat of Knowledge :artifact:hat:uncommon:
261	Description: Always looking to one-up his fellow wizards, Gemio crafted this hat to
262	give him that extra little edge in wits over his peers.
263	Stat Target: Wit
264	Stat Boost: 2
265
266	*** Shuria's Hat of Lifting :artifact:hat:uncommon:
267	Description: More interested in adventuring and adrenaline than studying over tomes,
268	Shuria created this hat to give her that extra little edge in strength.
269	Stat Target: Strength
270	Stat Boost: 2
271
272	*** Hat of the Nameless Old One :artifact:hat:rare:
273	Description: A terrifyingly potent artifact, crafted by a wizard of immense power
274	aeons ago.
275	Stat Target: all
276	Stat Boost: 2
277
278	*** Standard Student's Hat :artifact:hat:common:
279	Description: A standard worn by students at wizarding schools, designed to help
280	improve studying.
281	Stat Target: Wit
282	Stat Boost: 1
283
284	*** Avanya's Coal Walker Hat :artifact:hat:common:
285	Desccription: A hat commonly worn by members of the temple of Avanya, to aid in
286	enduring potentially painful meditative rituals.
287	Stat Target: Barrier
288	Stat Boost: 1
289