Hear ye, hear ye. I hereby call to order this meeting of the most illustrious Mages Guild! The annual Mageball league starts once again! As the biggest magical institution in the lands, we, as usual, get to ratify the rules. Before you all is a copy of the great rules tome, all 2105 volumes of it. Try and familiarise yourselves with how the game works. Yes, Yes, I'm well aware we also change the rules halfway through the season, but that doesn't mean we should leave the issues from last year's finals unchecked. Many of the other institutions have complained that there are too many rules, including that a team should no longer have to put the ball through college, or that the ball should not count as its own team. For some reason they also don't like that the goal is one of the home region's epic monsters either. Pansies. Get to it, lets try to not end up with another five figure score draw like last year.
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Blake Edwards
I like the rules as they are, except we could put some more chaotic stuff in there?
Jordan Lewis
We have to checkmate all the other team's captains to win, right?
Ethan Baker
Could it get any more chaotic? I guess we could make is so Wild Magic is cast every-time someone makes a pass. That's a possible win state. Most teams hide their captains at the back and force you to win by points however. We're currently in a stale meta.
Austin Bell
Not throwing them over a lava pit like last month?
That is quite frankly still not enough. Only everytime someone makes a pass?
Michael Stewart
>From the back comes a voice of reason >Quick, crush it before it's vial illness infects the others I say we simplify the scoring system then make moves to make the game less lethal for players and spectators alike
Asher Walker
>is wearing a referee's outfit, looking irritated Why did all the magical girls get put as cheerleaders and referees...
Charles Powell
What's the team limit again? I can't remember if it was three or 30...
Every other round the teams have to pause the game and rotate team position counter-clock wise.
No need, we have it so healing alchemy is poured on all contestants at all times, right?
Brandon Lopez
but that causes chaffing- err or so I heard
Colton Robinson
Is there a point system for chaffingness?
William Garcia
Counter clockwise? You´re aware that this game only uses an hourglass?
Aiden Gomez
Alright. Then every-time somebody trips as well. Both of those suggestions would strip the fun out of the game! What's wrong with you? Because your department is just plain wired, and filled with weirdos. Well, at the start of the match two pentagonal trapezohedrons are rolled, one for single digits, the other for double digits, and that's how many players are on both sides.
Alexander Smith
No I say! I would make it so that the players and fans actually know who's winning! and you know die less
Brody Smith
Everyone knows who's winning! That's what the announcers and commentators are for. ...and you know. Those of use who predict the wins.
Chase Hughes
>She throws a large rock at Aphelion's head
Cameron Torres
MAGEBALL STATUS: RULE-BLOATED POTENTIAL VERDICT: ADD MORE RULES AWAITING CONSENSUS
Jace Reed
Yeah, but that's for time, not movement rotation.
True, but then you roll the funny bones and kick the amount of rolled people out of your group to be part of the barbarian warherd group.
Kevin Garcia
And how do we make them trip? Making them need to drink before gaming?
Why not making the field itself move then? Would be fun to see.
Daniel Baker
Sounds good, we can use the new rules to overwrite the old rules while still keeping the old rules a part of the game for unnecessary reasons!
Henry Jackson
Because it already does backflips!
Carter Phillips
OW! Why'd you do that! I don't try to predict these things in meetings! Takes the fun out of them. A fantastic idea! I agree wholeheartedly. We should print the tome in multiple editions and then include links to previous editons for rules, but not the actual rules themselves. I thought it was two funny-bones and a tibia?
Jacob Wilson
Oh right, the halfway point rotation when the teams are changing the field sides, kinda forgot with all those rules. Thing is, the rules are part of it´s charm.
Eli Ortiz
DON'T FORGET TO DECIDE WHO IS THE BALL THIS YEAR! I vote for the angry poser in the referee outfit!
Elijah Smith
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Daniel Cook
We switched to using five patellas instead of a singular tibia twenty seasons ago.
I thought we stopped using people when we decided that a flaming chimera would be more fun?
Jack Rodriguez
Chimeras are stupid, you're stupid, and none of you know what fun is.
Bentley Nelson
D..Did you just call me a poser?! A poser?! Who do you think I am! You fool! You naivist, conformist prick! >She starts screaming a hundred insults at him
Cameron Baker
Oh shut up and go do the same thing all your "non-conformist" friends are doing.
Nolan Howard
I vote we use one of the guild leaders, or maybe that idiot in the corner who keeps screaming about quests to himself. Damnit. My edition of the rules must be out of date. Does the goalie still have to cast a warding ritual at half time?
Zachary Cook
SUGGESTION: THIS ONE PROPOSES CONSPIROMANCER CONSPIERRE FOR MAGEBALL ORB
AWAITING CONSENSUS
Carter Carter
No, Antruthius was banned in the twelfth edition rulebook. Too OP, the ball kept winning.
Jordan Diaz
You´re here again? You damned cat. >Clutches her reverse tinfoil hat protectivelly.
Tyler Sullivan
I CONCUR. Oh, you sad sacks are IN FOR IT NOW! Oh look, the woman INSISTING ON MAKING A MOCKERY OF THAT POOR HAT!
Joshua Baker
I vote yes. >her face turns red with anger.
Jonathan Reed
Oh right, you already are. Poser. Real non-conformists play as the ball.
Chase Cook
Sorry to break up the discussion guys, but someone summoned a weird orange monkey in the east wing of the library. Do any of you know how to banish summoned literary figures?
Noah Butler
No no no, the ball is supposed to be at a disadvantage. I've heard enough from Secretus to know this is not a favorable idea. Really? He used to love playing the ball. ...Wonder if we could draft Secretus or Lupa. Lupa would make an interesting ball. Death's would probably triple. Return the books on time. Easy. ...You HAVE taken out some books recently, right?
Kayden Lewis
HEY GUYS! THE CAT VOLUNTEERED TOO BE THE BALL THIS TIME AROUND!
Tinny is no mockery! He is a proper tinfoil hat with an penchant letting things out and not keeping them in! And you will refer to him as such! He deserves SOME RESPECT!
Landon Nguyen
So are we gonna change it this year?
I thought the goalies were replaced with koalas that shit bricks!
Bring the orangutan, he shall be the match's dragon.
Jaxon Reyes
>THE CAT VOLUNTEERED TOO BE THE BALL THIS TIME AROUND!
SELF-CONSENSUS: THAT SASSY-ASS FELINE IS GONNA GET WHAT'S COMING TO IT IF IT TRIES TO INTRUDE ON THIS ONE'S GLORIOUS MAGEBALL
Michael Green
Yes sir, right away sir.
>Muffled shrieking comes from the library
Brayden Gutierrez
We should have FIVE balls this game! Instead of the usual one ball, three discus, twelve pucks, and 24 birdies.
Sounds like the dragon has tasted blood already!
Kevin Collins
That was 8th edition! Back when they were literally allowed to build brickwork in front of the goal posts. Now there has to be at least fifteen feet of empty space aside from players. You forgot the Javelins! Please tell me the Javelins are still part of the rule-set, I've been missing from the guild for some time.
In my day we left it up to our row talents and mastery! I say we throw the rules in the rubbish and start anew.
Rule 1: A mate from the hosting region provides one of their apprentices to serve as the ball.
Anthony Morgan
If we're using expendable goblins, can I bring my prototype inter-planar goblin flinger? "It thrills as it kills!"
Chase Lopez
RESPONSE: PROTOTYPE GOBLIN FINGERS ARE NOT WITHIN CELESTIAL BUREAUCRACY-APPROVED MAGEBALL RULES
Lucas Phillips
Oh, that trophy is gonna be MINE you infernal polygon! YOU RUINED ALL THAT HE STANDS FOR! Secretus is terrible at ball and you know it.
David James
SELF-CONSENSU: MY FORM IS EXCEPTIONALLY AERODYNAMIC IN 5 OF THE 7 GRAVITY STATES WITHIN A MAGEBALL GAME. YOUR ASS IS THE GRASS.
Dylan Martinez
Are javelins scoring tools?
Boo! That sounds like simplistic talk to me!
Can we make them part of the rules?
I think all catboys must do the Kitty Cat Dance every time a person scores a point via bull-frogging!
Blake Turner
It seems my magical ink is changing itself again. Troublesome.
What team was it that won last year? I can't remember if I forgot or if I forgot to remember.
Jordan Young
No, I did not! I raised him from when he was a mere sock!
But don´t you need 7 gravity states to function?
Colton Johnson
I think it was red team number 63.
Tyler Ramirez
POTENTIAL VERDICT: GOBLIN-FLINGERS ADDED TO MAGEBALL RULES.
AWAITING CONSENSUS
Isaac Stewart
I vote we make a rule to ban them, then make another rule specifically to unban them.
Jackson Martin
PROCESSING RESPONSE PROCESSING RESPONSE PROCESSING RESPONSE ...RESPONSE: THAT IS IRRELEVANT
Liam Lewis
Goblin Flingers can be added but with the rule of thumb that the goblins have to have large chain balls attached to them!
Ayden Rogers
The hosting regions are already afraid of losing their star players. Besides, I'm from the first age and we only had 100 rules then. I know it, but I'd just like the chance to see him in uniform again so I can laugh at the picture of him in the team lineup from the ninth season. Glad I found it in one of the drawers. They are if you throw them sideways. Only if they're in the wing back position!
Nathaniel Parker
Team stank wrangle won it. BULFROGGING IS ONLY ALLOWED AT THE APOGEE OF AN ORBIT YOU IMBECILE! Non-euclidean hexahydra is going to take your lunch money just like he does every year! THERE IS NO POINT TO A TINFOIL SOCK, NOBODY IS GOING TO TRY AND READ MY FOOT'S MIND!
Henry Evans
Where do you score them? In the pig skin baskets?
YOUR POINT!? I'm gonna do it at least five times to spite you!
Connor Gray
No logic bomb? Damn shame. Say could you tell me about the first rules ever made again?
Which is why he grew up to be a hat! And besides he exposes your mind, not protectign it! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO REPEAT MYSELF!?!
Dylan Butler
>Non-euclidean hexahydra is going to take your lunch money just like he does every year! SELF-CONSENUS: GOOD THING THAT THIS ONE IS BRINGING HOME LUNCHES LIKE A TRUE PATRICIAN
Nathaniel Reed
No no no, in the bat wing nets. The rule was added specifically to make the ball retrievers work harder. It was always so exciting watching them dodge sharp objects!
Jack Gray
>Say could you tell me about the first rules ever made again? MODIFICATION: FOR SIMPLICITY'S SAKE THIS ONE WILL ONLY LIST THE FIRST 7, SINCE IT IS THE MOST AESTHETICALLY PLEASING NUMBER.
RULE ONE: KICKING THE BALL IS FORBIDDEN
RULE TWO: EXPLOSIVE FROGS ARE ONLY ALLOWED IN THE BACK QUADRANT
RULE THREE: NO GREMLINS
RULE FOUR: MAKE SURE TO ADHERE TO THE POINT COST
RULE FIVE: SNACKS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO KICK THE BALL
RULE SIX: 4 OF THE SEVEN GRAVITY STATES MUS TBE ACCOMPANIED WITH AS THE DOCUMENT SAYS, "TRIPPY LIGHTING."
RULE SEVEN: RULE SEVEN
Andrew Sanders
Wait wait wait. I was ALIVE when those rules were made. You've mistaken rule Seven for rule Eight.
Jacob Murphy
You do remember that there where only 7 and a half rules at first, right? I mean who exactly forgets - RULE 7 1/2: ADDITIONAL RULES MAY BE ADDED AT THE WHIM OF THE MAGES CURRENTLY ALIVE:
Eli Ward
RESPONSE: YOU ARE CORRECT. PLANAR SELF-FLOGGING SCHEDULE FOR THE TWENTY-FIFTH HOUR.
SELF-CORRECTION:
RULE SEVEN: ORCS ARE AN ACCEPTABLE ALTERNATIVE TO GOBLINS IF THE GOBLIN SUPPLY IN THE CURRENT MAGEBALL PLANE IS RUNNING LOW.
Brandon Sullivan
CAN WE START ALREADY!? This outfit hurts!
Xavier Lopez
CORRECTION: THE GAME HAS ALREADY STARTED. TEAM SLOW-MOVING BACTERIA IS CURRENTLY HEADING FOR THE BALL AS WE SPEAK.
Jordan Powell
So, what about the Juggernaut Frisbee? That's still a thing, right?
Then get in a cheer leading outfit. >He tosses Dove a heavy fur outfit that looks like it will cover Dove head to toe
Daniel Wood
Yes, but that got corrected in the 4th expansion - RULE π: ONLY MAGES OF A NON-HIVE MIND INTELLEGENCE CAN ADD RULES
Had to be added after the sentient ozzes kept trying to get the mageball plane moved to the semi-elemental plane of hydrochloric acid.
Bentley Hughes
Oh! Never forget rule about using moon elves as flag-posts. I love that rule. You started the game the second you threw that rock. Shame the pitch is outside. It seems to be, however one is only placed on the field every seventeen and a half minutes. That's IF the keg is still empty as well.
Aaron Myers
How do I into this?
James Anderson
Show a bit more pride in your clothes. They make the woman!
I heard about that era. Wasn´t born yet then. Wasn´t that the one with the hardened ooze balls as equipment? Gave alot of broken bones.
Noah Morales
Pick a name and act like you're the only sane one in the room. It's what we do. The Mageball topic is essentially Calvinball, make up some rules!
Adrian Evans
No no no, that was the era before that, besides, we just made sure we all knew how to cast 'Ooze to gas'
Hunter Turner
RESPONSE: INDEED. IT IS A GOOD THING THAT RULE 870, "ALL OOZE BALLS DETONATE WITH GREAT AND TERRIBLE FORCE UPON ENTERING THE MAGEBALL PLANE," ELIMINATED THAT META. UNFORTUNATELY MANY TEAMS STILL TRIED TO BRING IN OOZEBALLS, RESULTING IN EVEN MORE BROKEN BONES.
Daniel Perez
It still explodes if it's held by the same person for thirty seconds, right?
Well you slap your nametag on. aka enter a character name into the Name Field Make sure you got at least a short version of your tragic back story memorized. Best to be prepared, but it's fun to make things up on the fly too! And suggest rules for this year's Mageball that are totally logical and are definitely not silly in any way or manner, just like goblin-chucking and exploding frisbees.
Nathaniel Murphy
Goblin throwing is a perfectly sensible rule! Plus I get to use orcs now too.
Henry Johnson
And got gas attacks banned as a result. >Hold up a copy of Mageballs: A history
Just a question. Do you get that info from an archive or where you there? I don´t see a dent in you.
Evan Turner
>Steals the ball and makes his escape Via diving out the window
Isaiah Thompson
Twenty nine and a half seconds. So basically yes. Do you remember if the war drums were legal or not after the finals in the north? I got thrown through time before I could see the match. Gas attacks were the best! Gods, this new season is going to be a drag. AAAAAAAND HE'S OFF!
Ian Wilson
Stop thief!
Wait, isn't the ball a dragon?
Xavier Bennett
>Just a question. Do you get that info from an archive or where you there? I don´t see a dent in you. INFORMATION: WHAT YOU ARE SEEING IS ACTUALLY THIS ONE'S SHADOW ON THIS MATERIAL PLANE, ALL SCARS ARE SITUATED ON THIS ONE'S MUCH LARGER "NATURAL" FORM. THAT BEING SAID, THIS ONE IS MOSTLY HERE TO OVERSEE POTENTIAL VERDICTS.
Hunter Sanders
You look like the guy that used farts as a substitute last year. Didn´t last long the moron.
And what´s your verdict on the game? I don´t know the other team.
Tyler Morales
OH NOOOOO~ DONT GO RUNNIN OFF WITH ME NOW!
Owen Clark
Rolled 5 (1d20)
Remember, Orcs are more dangerous than goblins!
>The sea-elf runs after through a paper wall for dramatic effect
>Throws a birdy to Aphelion >Roll is for birdy throw and for possible interception
Zachary James
seriously gentlemen cut it out , s w
Xavier Reed
Rolled 2 (1d20)
I've never played, I mostly just do post match analysis. ...and I set the odds for the betting. Because all the other divination mages seem to have run off. I KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO DO THAT! >Catch attempt
Jace Taylor
VERDICT: EVIDENTLY THE BALL HAS BEEN STOLEN BY SOME IDIOT.
THE OTHER TEAM IS COMPOSED OF EXCEPTIONALLY FAST HARPIES. AS SUCH THEY ARE KIND OF DOOMED WHEN COMPETING AGAINST THE TRIED-AND-TRUE TEAM SLOW-MOVING BACTERIA.
Brayden Cruz
Go team... >she makes sure no one is looking and throws off the stupid pom poms
Alexander Murphy
Rolled 18 (1d20)
Head for the 4th gravity state, that's where all the best cover is, I'll give you covering fire.
>Charges up goblin launcher
Jose Stewart
Harpies VS Bacteria? That´s unhygeniec fight if I ever saw one. ... Can I play on Bacterias side? >Tries to grab the ball or what now counts as ball from somewhere.
Camden Robinson
Rolled 9 (1d20)
>Uses the diving board to do a triple flip and throw a bomb-kid at the goblin launcer
Adrian Perry
What the fuck is happening in here right now? >Suddenly entered
Jason Cox
>MEANWHILE THE BALL WORKS ON HEADING TOWARDS ITS OWN GOAL! I'M ALREADY THROUGH FRESHMAN YEAR OF COLLEGE SUCKERS! LIFE GOALS IS THE REAL PRO STRATEGY! Psst, I'll give you a knighthood if you write my term paper.
Jackson Sullivan
You wouldn't happen to have any undead minions would you? The one issue with a goblin launcher is that it burns through ammo fast.
Jaxson Perry
I don't want to be a pompous knight.. ..where is green. >She looks around, absolutely annoyed.
Liam Diaz
Rolled 19 (1d20)
Too late monsieur >a spanish guitar plays in the background when he speaks Assure you my intentions are honourable
>Fuck that was cool >in the spirit of one upmanship, Heyzues leaps out a window
My thanks mon amie!
Isaac Sanchez
What, you think I just carry around undead all the time?
