Mage Dada
Combat Strength 0; Water Consumption 1; Leadership 2, Life Points 1/3.
You are Dada, one of the excentrics of the Council of Mages. As all Illusionist, you have specialised yourself in the art of changing reality, but unlike those who seek solid results or pursuit the art of changing the perception of reality, you wish to present your public with the most fleeting, most obviously change in the realm of imagination. You change and provide dreams.There are more who can do what you can do, but none are as good, and that makes of you one of the most expensive entertainers in Madeena-al-Salaam, not to mention, the confidant of many, many powerful people. You know what they want to dream of, you know their most secret wishes (quite often rather unpleasant, too) and you shape their desires.
A less scrupulous man would have made stacks and stacks of dinari through blackmail and mind-altering thoughts and commands, but you fancy yourself an artist, and take pride in shaping the dream according to your clients' specifics, demanding just two rights in addition to your payment: a copy of the dream, and the placement of your signature: the blue dwarf that is your djinn and compatriot, Nefhet, Djinn of the Dreamed Desire.
In your role as dream-shaper, your obvious strength is the power of your abilities: it seems safe to say that few have as much knowledge of your subject as you do. However, your abilities are ridiculously expensive and most of the goods you produce, you will need for the additional costs of your abilities and summoning and maintaining Nefhet. Luckily, you have your special contracts, which, when purchased, ought to raise enough money for you to keep going again for a little while.
Home: Dada's Palace of Pleasant Dreams
Building Slots: 20
Occupied Slots: 13
Open Slots: 7
Production buildings:
3 Mystic Altar (dawn only: produce 3x 2 Magic)
2 Gemcutters (dawn only: produce 2x 2 Gemstones)
2 Stone Groves (dawn only: produce 2x 2 Sandstone)
1 Deep Wellspring (dawn only: produce 1x 3 Water)
Workshop Buildings:
1 Quack (dusk only: 2 Magic → 500 dinari)
1 Transmuter (dusk only: 4 Magic → 1 good of your choice)
1 Alchemist (dusk only: 1 Gemstones → 1 Magic, 1 Gemstones → 1 Powder, 2 Magic → 1 Essence)
1 Stonecutter (dusk only: 1 Sandstone → 500 dinari)
1 Glassblower (dusk only: 2 Sandstone → 1 Glass; 5 Mud → 1 Glass)
Well: 3 Water per day/ night cycle
Surroundings: 6 Magic, 4 Gemstones, 4 Sandstone
Treasury: 8000 dinari.
Storage: 5 Water, 5 Magic, 2 Glass, 1 Jewelry
Potential Retainers
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Dada's Dream Dancers
Combat Strength: 0
Leadership Requirement: 1
Recruit Cost: 2 Dancers + 2 Jewelry + 1 Essence
Water Consumption: 1
Special: each time a contract created through the Dada title is fulfilled, gain 2000 additional dinari.
“They work in pairs: one dances, the other holds your head in her lap, massages your temples, her fingers dancing on your lips and tongue, coated in a sleeping potion that tastes of honey. Ah, to watch that slow flowing gracious dance and slowly sink into sleep in anticipation of what awaits you there... my friend, you should experience it yourself!” - Prince Tepsis of the Nepeth
Items
Nefhet's Dreamcatcher
Summons Nephet, Djinn of the Dreamed Desires. To summon Nephet, destroy Nephet's Dreamcatcher and pay 4 Magic, 2 Worship and 2 Essence.
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Nefhet, Djinn of the Dreamed Desires
Combat Strength: 0
Leadership Requirement: 1
Recruit Cost: NA
Water Consumption: NA Instead, Nephet consumes 1 Essence and 1 Powder each day.
Special 1: if you are Mage Dada, Read the Dreamed Desires has all its costs reduced to 0 once per day+night cycle. If you are not Mage Dada, you gain the ability Read the Dreamed Desires.
Special 2: Day phase only. Target a player. You will perform Read the Dreamed Desires on him during this Night Phase, without cost. This counts as a use Nefhet, Djinn of the Dreamed Desires.
Titles
Mage: you can use the Summoner action.
Dada: you can put the following contracts on the market:
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1. The first player to pay # dinari will learn the faction, titles and a used night action (if any) of player Y.
Condition: Player Y must be a player you have previously subjected to Read The Dreamed Desires.
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2. The first player to pay # dinari and send the name of another player to P-S, will be made lovers with that player for the duration of the next day.
Condition: If you wish to fulfill the contract, you must use Dreamtalk on both players. If failed, both will learn your identity as per a failed contract.
Illusionist: you are immune to finds and item theft.
Abilities
Read the Dreamed Desires.
Phase: night phase only. Cost: 1000 dinari. 2 Essence, 2 Glass
You learn target player's faction, titles and this night's action. You may not publish the result on thread.
Dreamtalk
Phase: night phase only. Cost: 2500 dinari, 2 Essence, 1 Powder
Target two players. During the next day, they will become Lovers.
Nefhet's Friendship
Phase: any. Cost: 4000 dinari, 1 Essence, 1 Glass
Once per game, you can summon Nefhet, Djinn of the Dreamed Desire without paying the summoning cost. This does not destroy Nefhet's Dreamcatcher (so if Nefhet dies, you can summon him again, then consuming the item).
Upgrades:
Upgrade 1: Leadership. 2 Grain, 1 Silk
Upgrade 2: New ability (item creation) 4 Silk, 4 Worship, 1 Powder, 1 Essence, 3000 dinari
Upgrade 3: New ability (contract manipulation) 4 Magic, 3 Paper, 1 Scribe, 6000 dinari
Upgrade 4: New ability (item creation) 6 Magic, 2 Paper, 2 Essence, 2 Powder
Upgrade 5: upgrade of Read the Dreamed Desires 6 Magic, 6000 dinari