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97	97		knocked back up to two cells. If one player is able to exceed the value, they
98	98		knock their opponent(s) back, and remain on the new cell.
99	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	+
100	111		** Character
101	112		Each player character starts a match with the same stats, which are only temporarily
102	113		boosted by equipped artifacts and spell effects during the course of a match.
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138	149		- Natural Max: 11
139	150		- Effect: barrier reduces incoming damage by a percentage per level above one.
140	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
141	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

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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	+	** Character
101	+	Each player character starts a match with the same stats, which are only temporarily
102	+	boosted by equipped artifacts and spell effects during the course of a match.
103	+	Characters may be customized with purely cosmetic clothing items purchasable with
104	+	winnings from previous matches.
105	+
106	+	*** Stats
107	+	- Strength
108	+	- Default: 1
109	+	- Natural Max: 10
110	+	- Effect: strength impacts the damage delt during a face-off should two or more
111	+	players move to the same cell during a wind phase.
112	+
113	+	- Wit
114	+	- Default: 1
115	+	- Natural Max: 10
116	+	- Effect: wit determines the turn-order execution of artifact spells in conjunction
117	+	with that spell's /complexity/.
118	+
119	+	- Speed
120	+	- Default: 2
121	+	- Natural Max: 14
122	+	- Effect: speed determines the distance a player can move each /movement/ sub-phase
123	+
124	+	- Power
125	+	- Default: 1
126	+	- Natural Max: 11
127	+	- Effect: power increases the potency of spells (namely, damage) by a percentage
128	+	over the base potency for each point above one.
129	+
130	+	- HP
131	+	- Default: 25
132	+	- Natural Max: 25
133	+	- Effect: the total hit points a player has available. Reaching zero results in a
134	+	K.O., and all held artifacts being marked as /damaged/.
135	+
136	+	- Barrier
137	+	- Default: 1
138	+	- Natural Max: 11
139	+	- Effect: barrier reduces incoming damage by a percentage per level above one.
140	+
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