I just made Appearance a much more valuable attribute. High Appearance (i.e. great beauty) can now cause opponents to ogle you and thus falter in combat. This makes it easier for you to hit them, and hit them hard. It also makes it harder for them to hit you. Or hit you hard. The Appearance description and Skills section (melee combat skills and ( Read more... )

hot dog
Effectively a large vienna sausage made of assorted organic materials, served on a bun with toppings. You wish you were!

Or...tin of vienna sausages
A little peel-open can of extremely cheap sausages in broth. Food and drink all at once? You bet your lunch it is!

Or...peachA bizarre explosive fruit with a callipygian shape, covered with a ( Read more... )

Considering eliminating the Disarming skill from Soulthieves. Disarming mechanisms could be folded into the melee combat skills; they'd probably be more appropriate there anyway, since as it stands it seems clunky ( Read more... )

New in the manual:

Campus Resources

As you might be aware by now, much of the Ockham University campus has been magically sealed off, depriving you of many of its resources. Luckily, however, quite a bit of it is still within your reach. It's a good idea to familiarize yourself with the area at hand. You might well find these resources handy.

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I had an idea for working a religion system into SouthLab, so I wrote it up in the manual. It's school spirit. Having school spirit means your dean is willing to help you when you appeal to him/her, but you have to accumulate school spirit by donating things to the university at a donation box ( Read more... )

$ - ScripOckham University's campus economy is basically within the institution's dominion, and as such it issues scrip to students and faculty for purchasing things on campus. These credits come in the form of papery notes produced in conjunction by the Finance Office and the Print Shop. They may be used to buy things, such as goods and/or ( Read more... )

For Eric's fun, possibly:
Conjuration: Practised when you cast conjurations, which are magic spells that have an immediate tangible manifestation. Spells for attacking and causing damage are mainly conjurations, although there are some other conjurations as well.

Enchantment: Practised when you cast enchantments, which are magic spells that have ( Read more... )

Contemplating magic skills ( Read more... )

football armour
A suit of the heavy armour worn by the University's football players (that is, the players of the football that requires armour rather than fake injuries). It's surprisingly unencumbering; the only thing that could stop you from moving freely while wearing this would be having the body of an offensive guard.
Adapted the Soulthieves ( Read more... )

On my mother's laptop. Probably shall be much of this week. Explanation to come ( Read more... )