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Yet another episode project. I had an old one, but due to A. lack of interest, and B. lack of backing up my computer, I abandoned it. So I decided to start another project, this time with a bit less of a morbid story (the other was generally multiple murder followed by suicide by the main character)

Episode 1: Initium
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The download is almost 17MB, seeming as I'm using mp3s from random commercial anime/games (too lazy to find proper midis, I may in the future).

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You may want to read up a bit, mainly on the characters, considering I feel the need to interchange first and last name pretty regularly without exactly pointing out who is who.

The technique of Augury is taught at L'Académie De Montagne [Mountain Academy], one of four Augury academies strewn throughout the four countries. L'Académie De Montagne is located within the Dysrai Mountains in the country of Karule. The students there simply call it the Mountain Academy for simplicity. Every recognized Augurist must have ties to one of the academies, or else they are not nationally certified and are considered rogue if they take on bounties or missions.

CERTIFICATION
~ To graduate from the academy, an Augurist must take a test, judged by three certified Augurists from that particular academy. There are three tests total, one for matter-based Augury [Transformation and Transfiguration], one for energy-based Augury [Conjuration], and one general test, where usage of all Augury is allowed. Not many certified Augurists exist, since Augury is a relatively new practice, being put into first use only about 40 years prior to now. The academies were founded consecutively 17 years prior, and the founders were the only certified, given the blessing of the country governments, yet they allowed any Augurists permission to take the tests for certification for a total of 4 years, until a 6 year course in the school became mandatory for attempt at certification. Most students try at least 6 times to be certified, and only one certification attempt is allowed per year.

LEADERSHIP
~ The leader of the schools is called a Head Master (In similar practice with the public school system common to all the countries) and holds absolute power over matters in his/her school. Under the Head Master is the Council of Augury, who vote on rule changes, and can overturn rule changes the Head Master proposes, these people are generally where the certification testers come from. Under these are the instructors, who teach classes and have pupils. Each instructor is assigned four pupils, students who report back to the instructor, and are generally in the care of that instructor. This instructor generally teaches them specific techniques, and helps them in classes they have trouble with.

STUDENTS
~ Students spend 6 years of training at the academy, after which they may take the Certification Test at any point they want. Students of a particular year tend to stay together, and in many respects, the Mountain Academy is similar to a normal school, excepting the strict class schedule the Academy keeps. Students are expected to take five classes every year, a class for each of the Augury types, and two extra classes, assigned by the administration. These extra classes are basically just general education, and include things such as chemistry, physics, math, writing, and etcetera. If a student fails the Certification Test the first year, the years afterwards are spent on personal studies, given the free time to improve on any area needed, and to develop skills.

CLASSES
~ There are three main classes taken every year, Transformation, Transfiguration, and Conjuration. Each of these three classes teach the basic principles of the Augury, and encourage constant practice, and technique training. As the students go through the years, the technique training gets more advanced, and more specialization is encouraged. It’s common for most students to develop a technique unique to them by the fourth year at the Mountain Academy. Other classes include practical education (1st year students take this for both of their auxiliary periods) which teaches the principal understandings of things like math, science, writing, and combat. Second year students take Physics and Hand to hand combat. Third year students receive classes in Trigonometry and Physical Training. Fourth year students take classes including a more advanced Hand to Hand combat, and Writing. Classes for fifth year students are Chemistry, and Combat Training. Sixth year students take Anatomy and Technique classes.
Augurists use inner energy, an energy source that doesn’t really have a name since it comes from an unknown source, to change things around them. There are three main types of Augury, 1. Transformation, the changing of shape and position of a material, solid, liquid or gas. 2. Transfiguration, the changing of the molecular shape of material, an example being changing lead to diamond. 3. Conjuration, the usage of the inner energy to form pure energy formations for a variety of uses.

TRANSFORMATION
~ Transformation is the simplest form of Augury, requiring only to move material about, but it follows some ground rules. 1. The farther from the body the material is, the more energy it requires to transform it, energy travels easiest through solids, and hardest through gases, so transforming the ground 4 feet from your boots would be much easier than transforming the ceiling without touching it. 2. Transformation requires bulk energy, while simplistic and easy to use, it requires a large amount of energy to do it in large scale, an example being raising a stone tower out of the ground.
Transformation can be used in a variety of ways, to use the ground to assault your foes, to make a weapon out of materials found in the wall, or even to suffocate your foe by taking the air away from around him. A noted usage of transformation is the Stone Augurist, who transforms the ground to the shape of his body in exact amounts, and continually moves himself through the ground, effectively making it able to move through objects.

TRANSFIGURATION
~ Transfiguration is the more advanced form of Augury, and requires deft precision and knowledge of the material you’re transfiguring. The first rule of transformation also applies to transfiguration, distance is the enemy. The second rule is the opposite: transfiguration does not take much energy, but requires extreme accuracy and precision, or will result in a failed transfiguration, possibly making a dangerous material, so battle usage is designated solely for the well-trained Augurists.
Transfiguration can also be used in many ways, most notably to turn one material into another, stone into iron, coal into diamond. A noted user of transfiguration is the Star Augurist, who transfigures the air, separating the oxygen from the air and gathering it to create a large explosion from a spark.


CONJURATION
~ Conjuration is perhaps the most precise form of Augury, and also draining. The rules of conjuration are similar, but different than those of dealing with matter, for one, it is impossible to maintain or create an accurate conjuration without contact with the body it originates from. Conjuration also requires precise energy usage and a vast amount of energy. Conjuration is perhaps the most dangerous of Augury because if not done with enough precision or raw energy, the resulting flawed version is basically uncontrollable and unstable.
Conjuration is perhaps the most powerful of Augury, and is used in different ways, one being creating destruction beams, a mass of energy that uses itself to nullify the matter it touches, utterly destroying anything it touches. A noted user of conjuration is the Vampire Augurist, who by making physical contact, inserts an energy flow into the foe, and siphoning the foe’s energy into himself.
~Malermo Agustas
Age: 64 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Head Master
Title: Stone Augurist -- Description: Malermo Agustus, AKA the Stone Augurist, is well known as the Head Master of the Mountain Academy. He hasn’t been seen to engage in battle often, yet is rumored to be able to use his superior skill with transformation Augury to be able to transport himself through solid materials.

~Jared Tynus
Age: 34 – Gender: Male – Position: Certified Augurist
Title: Magnetic Augurist – Description: Jared Tynus, AKA the Magnetic Augurist, is known as the youngest founding member of the Mountain Academy, but isn’t known well, because at age 19 he left to train in solitude at an undisclosed location. His fighting style is rumored to rely almost solely on his sword skill (He wields a katana). Conjecture has been made about his Augury technique, but this is mainly based off his title, no concrete evidence to his technique is known.

~ Karima Magachi
Age: 39 -- Gender: Female -- Position: Instructor
Title: Anatomy Augurist -- Description: A founding member, Karima Magachi, AKA the Anatomy Augurist, is extremely adept at Augury pertaining to the human body, and how it works. Staying an instructor was a rare decision for a founder, and she is the leading instructor on chemistry and human anatomy. In battle, she disables the enemy by transforming a bone out of place and using the resulting lapse in balance to render them unconscious. In a battle to the death, Karima is vicious, either transforming the veins or nerves of the foe outside of the body, or simply transfiguring the blood into solid, effectively killing the opponent almost instantly either way, without using much energy. Karima Magachi is instructor of Chemistry, Anatomy, and Conjuration classes.

~ Sarah Melamine
Age: 42 -- Gender: Female -- Position: Council Member
Title: Spark Augurist -- Description: Sarah Melamine, AKA the Spark Augurist, is a founding member of the Mountain Academy, and is an expert in the art of misdirection. While not possessing much strength in energy, Sarah uses small amounts to make distractions. An advanced technique that many have seen is her mirror image technique, where she uses Augury to create reflections of light, making images of herself to confuse the enemy.

~ Marij Jakim
Age: 46 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Council Member
Title: Star Augurist -- Description: Marij Jakim is a founding member of the Mountain Academy, his title is the Star Augurist, and he is the most active member of the council in missions, usually not being there to sit in on decisions regarding rules, nor available to judge Certification Testing. If there was a leader of the hiring aspect of the Academy, Marij would be it. His battle technique involves the transfiguration of the air, separating the oxygen in the air and transforming it to guide a flame to a concentrated oxygen pocket, which explodes at contact with the flame. He produces a spark with a small amount of conjuration, and uses that to ignite the oxygen trail he leaves, making aimed and concentrated explosions possible.

~ Luke Chambers
Age: 42 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Council Member
Title: Vampire Augurist -- Description: Holding the appearance of a 20-something year old man, Luke Chambers is an anomaly, some say it’s because of his technique that he retains a young appearance, others because he’s careful, but everyone agrees that it’s strange. The Vampire Augurist’s technique in battle comprises of stealing the opponent’s inner energy. At the start of a battle, Luke creates a connection to the foe, gradually draining his/her energy and establishing a target for him, the closer he gets, the more rapidly the energy is drained, until he makes physical contact, where he can drain most Augurist’s whole energy supply instantaneously. Feared by most the students, Luke Chambers is a founding member and sits on the Council of Augury.

~ Maria Karasova
Age: 37 -- Gender: Female -- Position: Council Member
Title: Void Augurist -- Description: The Void Augurist, Maria Karasova, is one of the younger founding members, and sits on the Council of Augury, she also judges the vast majority of Certification Tests. Maria's battle technique is largely similar to Sean's, though she focuses more on using the surrounding air to affect an objects path through it. Tasks such as guiding a throwing knife to a target are common for this augurist.

~ Sean Karasova
Age: 35 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Council Member
Title: Air Augurist -- Description: Maria’s younger brother, Sean Karasova, AKA the Air Augurist, is the second youngest founding member of the Mountain Academy, and is the second person to sit on the majority of Certification Tests, the third position has no regular member. The Air Augurist uses a variety of techniques to attack his foe, the most common of which is to transform the air in subtle movements to create invisible blades of vacuum, which cut cleanly, and bleed the foe. Another technique is to take the oxygen out of the air so the foe cannot breathe. Not known to be particularly dangerous in battle due to his problems with concentration, Sean is a slow thinker and a good council member.

~ Tom Baklizar
Age: 40 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Council Member
Title: Forest Augurist -- Description: Tom Bakilzar, AKA the Forest Augurist, is the last of the founding members of the Mountain Academy. Tom uses Augury on wood mainly, he is an expert at advancing growth in trees, even succeeding in growing an elm tree in 2 weeks where it normally takes decades. Seemingly unaffected by the range rule in transformation and transfiguration, Tom can affect wood from as far away as 200 feet, the longest distance recorded for any Augury to work, and at less than that, can use Augury almost as effectively as if he were touching the wood. In a room with wood as part of the construction, Tom is truly a frightening opponent, whom can attack from any side, any angle, no matter where you are. In a room lacking wood, Tom isn’t very dangerous however.
~ A.H. Karadime
Age: 21 – Gender: Male -- Position: Certified Augurist
Title: Blade Augurist -- Description: One of the first students at the Academy, Karadime was there from the beginning, at age 4, and amazingly passed the Certification Test at just age 12, after failing just once. Karadime’s fighting technique uses a combination of transformation and transfiguration to form metal blades out of any part of the environment he happens to be near and using them to assault the opponent from all sides. Another skill he uses is taking the iron from his blood and transforming it into hand blades to use in hand to hand fighting as a surprise attack.



~ Marime Katakora
Age: 28 -- Gender: Female -- Position: Certified Augurist
Title: Water Augurist -- Description: Marime Katakora is also an Augurist from the first year of the Academy, but is not quite as young as Karadime, starting when she was 11, she failed the test 3 times before passing at age 20. The Water Augurist uses water to her advantage, either finding it in her enemy through transfiguration, or in the ground, she can slow the molecules down with amazing precision and create ice and form it into spikes from a noteworthy distance and speed.

~ Albern Hale
Age: 35 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Certified Augurist (Instructor)
Title: Burly Augurist -- Description: A mountain of a man, Albern Hale, the Burly Augurist, is one of the few students to pass the Certification Test on the first try, and was the first student of the Mountain Academy, he became an Augurist at age 25 after his training. Albern uses his strength most in battle, relying on Augury to amplify his striking power by creating a piston force within his strikes, he also is quite skilled at transforming the ground to create an uneven battleground, benefiting his quick footed fighting style. Albern Hale is the instructor of all 5 periods of hand to hand combat.

~ Alastor Cenon
Age: 29 – Gender: Male -- Position: Certified Augurist
Title: Bullet Augurist -- Description: Passing after 6 tries at the Certification Test, Alastor Cenon, the Bullet Augurist, was 24 when he became a Certified Augurist, he stands next to Marij Jakim as a mission expert, and is good friends with him. The Bullet Augurist is a specialist in guns as his name implies, being able to create a gun from most anything, and carrying ingredients for gunpowder, is able to effectively make a firearm at any location simply by touching the ground. He doesn’t carry any metal or guns on his person however, relying solely on his Augury ability.

~ Petruso Danya
Age: 31 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Certified Augurist
Title: Bone Augurist -- Description: The Bone Augurist took seven tries to pass the Certification Test, mainly due to the fact that for the first 6 tries, he couldn’t find a way to effectively use his bone Augury without a live opponent or a corpse. Now Petruso has a technique in which he transforms his own bones into weapons to slash at the enemy. Against a live opponent he’s allowed to kill, Petruso renders bones useless by rearranging the structure of the bone with transfiguration.

~ Hoa Diu
Age: 29 -- Gender: Female -- Position: Certified Augurist (Instructor)
Title: Floating Augurist -- Description: The Floating Augurist, Hoa Diu, joined the Academy in it’s second year, graduating on the second try at the Certification Test, becoming a Certified Augurist at age 21, she is known as the Floating Augurist because of her unique ability to transform material into a platform, and use conjuration to make it float while she stands upon it. She also uses this ‘floating’ ability to fling projectiles at the opponent, seemingly with her mind. Hoa is an instructor of conjuration and transformation.

~ Charlene Aldis
Age: 32 -- Gender: Female -- Position: Certified Augurist (Instructor)
Title: Mist Augurist -- Description: The Mist Augurist, Charlene Aldis, is a student from the 4th year of the Mountain Academy, failing 6 times before passing her Certification Test. Charlene is the teacher of practical education all 5 periods of the day. Charlene isn’t particularly dangerous in battle, though does have a technique which allows her to close distances effectively while maintaining stealth, she always carries around water bottles, and using transformation and conjuration, increases the humidity in the air enough to create a mist, obscuring vision enough for her to move unseen, where she gets closer and attempts to bring the enemy down from behind.
~ Kioshi Makoto
Age: 17 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Academy Student
Year: 4th Year -- Description: Kioshi Makoto is a primary conjuration user, but is rather weak in his transformation and transfiguration abilities. He joined at the age of 13, at the 13th year of the Academy’s existence. Kioshi’s most unique technique involves using conjuration to create a beam of energy instead of a creating a sphere then changing it to a beam shape, and even more amazing is the ability to create the origin of the beam apart from his body, literally ignoring the second rule that applies to conjuration. He is a hopeful to be powerful if he can develop this technique to increase the distance at which he can create a beam, though he’s not a very good student, excelling only in conjuration classes.

~ Hoshi Makoto
Age: 14 -- Gender: Female -- Position: Academy Student
Year: 2nd Year -- Description: Kioshi’s younger sister, Hoshi joined 2 years later than Kioshi, and is an excellent student, albeit lacking a special technique at the current time. She likes to take after Sarah Melamine, the Spark Augurist, but cannot muster the energy precision it takes to create more than minor distractions. Hoshi is a good student, but lacks the enthusiasm or ambition to stand out like Kioshi does, she sticks around her brother though, and is generally the only reason he’s not failing his classes.

~ Inapo Kurihi
Age: 18 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Academy Student
Year: 4th Year -- Description: Inapo is an average student that doesn’t show much promise, yet almost always wins his mock battles. He hangs out with Kioshi and Hoshi, completing their trio of friends, and tries to help along Kioshi in the classroom, but fails quite a bit. Inapo has an odd ability rather taking after the Forest Alchemist, although he can only affect plants other than trees at distances, and carries with him a variety of herbs and living plants soiled in his pockets. In order to not disturb the plants, his movements are very minimalist, yet he usually uses the plants to win his battle by creating an opening by catching a stray arm and allowing Inapo to use a form of martial arts to render his opponent unconscious.

~ Addo Elimu
Age: 16 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Academy Student
Year: 3rd Year -- Description: Addo is a third year student, and mainly average in all subjects, he excels only at transformation pertaining to materials found in the ground, changing the battleground to assault the enemy or to change his position. While skilled in this, Addo is not overly proficient at the other sections of Augury, and often loses in mock battles due to his inability to focus under stress.

~ Sam Aidan
Age: 17 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Academy Student
Year: 4th Year -- Description: Sam is the third member of Karima Magachi’s pupils, along with Kioshi and Inapo and his twin sister, Erica. Sam excels in transfiguration, being able to change the structure of objects at a whim, if he knows the structure beforehand. Which due to his study habits is rare, of a kind with Kioshi, Sam is not a very hard worker, only differing in the fact that he does not win most of his mock battles, due to his reliance on transfiguration, which alone is not the most useful of skills. The only way Sam has won in the past is by transfiguring the floor into a semi-liquid, and catching his opponent by surprise and using hand to hand combat to bring him/her down.

~ Erica Aidan
Age: 17 -- Gender: Female -- Position: Academy Student
Year: 4th Year -- Description: Almost the opposite of her twin, Erica does excellent in all areas and wins most her mock battles. Erica is the final member of Karima Magachi’s pupils, and the one with the best performance and grade records. Erica doesn’t have any particular special technique or method she uses to win, she just uses the environment in standard ways, but at a higher than average speed, pretty much always resulting in a win.

~ Maliru Dasque
Age: 17 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Academy Student
Year: 5th Year -- Description: Maliru is a sub-par 5th year student, and barely earns passing marks in his classes and doesn’t really fit in with the other 5th year students, so he hangs out with 3rd years, a friend of Addo’s. Maliru only has one special technique, involving transformation, where he creates weapons from any environment to take advantage of his above average hand to hand skill. The only problem with this is his speed, he cannot dodge attacks very well, and thus loses often.

~ Dominic Palaquel
Age: 19 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Academy Student
Year: 6th Year -- Description: Dominic is a 6th year student at the Mountain Academy, and is a grade A student, there’s even speculation that he may pass the Certification Exam on the first try. Dominic is currently working on a technique involving very delicate and precise transformation, using any material to move multiple swords around at once. His largest accomplishment thus far is being able to effectively combat an opponent controlling 7 swords with hands of stone. He was even able to hold off the Burly Augurist (The instructor for hand to hand combat) with a masterful display of 4 swords controlled at once, almost defeating the instructor through a display of controlling a sword with air.

~ Aldo Brydger
Age: 16 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Academy Student
Year: 2nd Year -- Description: In the same instructor’s group as Hoshi, Aldo is an average student all around. No special techniques, no oddities, he’s so average, it’s odd. Aldo joined the Academy at age 14, a little later than most, and is generally friends with everyone, while not becoming close with anyone. Aldo doesn’t usually win his mock battles, but does hold his ground through an average use of all three Augury techniques.

~ Byron Covell
Age: 14 -- Gender: Male -- Position: Academy Student
Year: 2nd Year -- Description: Another of Hoshi’s pupil group, Byron is horrible at conjuration. It seems he is literally unable to conjure at all. He excels amazingly at transfiguration and transformation, already able to perform an odd sort of shield made out of stone that simply folds in on itself when taking pressure, and always wins his mock battles, except when forced to use conjuration.

~ Ashley Fayre
Age: 12 -- Gender: Female -- Position: Academy Student
Year: 2nd Year -- Description: The final member of Hoshi’s pupil group, Ashley Fayre is a testament to resilience. Despite being younger than even most first year students, Ashley holds out to keep her grades up and keep from flunking a year, which is what’s expected, to at least fall into a year closer to the age expectancy. Ashley is ridiculed by her classmates, and has only one real friend among them, Hoshi. Ashley wins a few of her mock battles by using a technique where she creates a multitude of mirrors and shoots a conjuration beam, confusing the enemy as to the trajectory of the attack, but mostly loses because she gets scared, even though it is a mock battle.
Note of course that this is a pretty small amount of characters regarding, I'll add more to this later.

Script Credits!

~Dubealex [Advanced Message System]
 
Prexus said:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/Andy6000/MaiScreen03.jpg

This screen alone makes this game good. Why? Because it reminds me of the thieves hideout in Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past.

I have never played that game. But if it garners your respect (which I value), then damnit I'm willing to say that yes it was designed after it.

Also kids, yes my mapping is terrible. Some of the worst out there, the best part is that I can't really get it to look much better.

I'm starting work on the second one about now. I'm sure it'll probably go unnoticed, but whatever, this time I don't plan on losing all my work.
 
it may be awhile before i can watch it... but i saw that screenie Prexus posted and it looks interesting enough... im in the downloading process right now...

edit: uhmm... its a bit short dont you think? its good... but still abit short...
 

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Ah man, do I have to download the full thing to find out the ending :mad: We are not amused.

But since I know ya' I guess I'll shoot at it again. Hell I know its got some kick ass animations and damn good story so Its definatly worth downloading again and again and again.
 
Hmm I love where this is going, but honestly some of the shit bored me into drowsiness. Then, there was a loud ass BOOM and I was wide awake and nearly shit my pants...You put effort into this to say the least, but you've always had a problem with getting the next episode done.
 
Well kids I haven't been working on it much because I've been trying to spend a lot of time with my brother this past week due to the fact that he shipped off to Korea yesterday, where I won't see him for a year, possibly two. Anyways, I did a bit of animation for the second episode, so I figured I'd show it, since I have no real due date for myself to finish this (school should be pretty light for a while, on account of it only being an hour a day)

Anywho, here you go:

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Expect more at... Some point.
 
Man I'm fuckin pissed this doesn't get more attention...
Andy you rock man please keep going even if this doesn't get the responses it so richly deserves.

Also I see you are a man who like FFT. You have superb taste.
 
If anyone's interested, here's what I have so far of the second episode. I know it's unpolished and the pacing really needs work (not to mention that map won't be making an apperance in the episode at all, I just put that there for fun) and the lack of sound effects, etc. Basically all this is is like 15 seconds of fun fight scene without talking, and it repeats itself. Enjoy if you dare.

EDIT: http://www.savefile.com/files/42740

Oh right link lol.

EDIT2: Oh and what I've been forgetting for bloody EVER. I have been forgetting to credit Dubealex for his AMS. I missed out putting that in the credits of the first episode and that makes me feel stupid. I'll be sure to put it in the credits on this one.
 

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