The Bottom

 

 

The Bottom by Tomáš Dvořák AKA Floex!

 The VaM-style spell today is The Bottom- the title coming from this song by Tomáš Dvořák!

I love Machinarium - it is in my top ten games - and I have listened to my family's burned CD of the soundtrack ever since we played the game, when we got it in a humble bundle.

The game is beautiful and striking and well executed and one of the best pieces of media ever - and the music has a lot of what makes the game have it's own atmosphere.

 

 Here are definitions the and bottom!

 

denoting one or more people or things already mentioned or assumed to be common knowledge.

used to refer to a person, place, or thing that is unique.

denoting a disease or affliction.

(with a unit of time) the present; the current.

used instead of a possessive to refer to someone with whom the speaker or person addressed is associated.

used with a surname to refer to a family or married couple.

used before the surname of the chief of a Scottish or Irish clan.

used to point forward to a following qualifying or defining clause or phrase.

(chiefly with rulers and family members with the same name) used after a name to qualify it.

used to make a  generalized reference to something rather than identifying a particular instance.

used with a singular noun to indicate that it represents a whole species or class.

used with an adjective to refer to those people who are of the type described.

used with an adjective to refer to something of the class or quality described.

used with the name of a unit to state a rate.

enough of (a particular thing).

(pronounced stressing “the”) used to indicate that someone or something is the best known or most important of that name or type.

used adverbially with comparatives to indicate how one amount or degree of something varies in relation to another.

used to emphasize the amount or degree to which something is affected.

 

 

the lowest point or part of something.

the ground under a sea, river, or lake.

the lowest surface on the inside of a container.

the furthest part or point of something.

the lowest position in a competition or ranking.

the lower half of a two-piece garment.

another term for bottomland.

the keel or hull of a ship.

a ship, especially considered as a unit of transport capacity.

a person's buttocks.

stamina or strength of character, especially of a horse.

a man who takes the passive role in anal intercourse with another man.

the second half of an inning.

in the lowest position.

in the lowest or last position in a competition or ranking.

denoting a flavor (variety) of unstable quark having an electric charge of - 1/3. Bottom quarks have similar properties to down quarks and strange quarks, but are distinguished from them by having a larger mass.

(of a performance or situation) reach the lowest point before stabilizing or improving.

 

 No Lyrics!

 

Ok - here is the spell's effects! 

The Bottom

Duration: 1 Turn per caster level

Range: Caster

The caster increases their wisdom by one for each fifty meters below ground level they are. This lasts one turn per caster level.

Miscast Table

(If they miscast, pick the result that is equal to the bonus they would have received – if greater than 12, roll twice.)

1 – The caster gains darkvision – but is blind in normal sunlight.

2 – The caster grows suction cups and mucus dispensers on their hands – they now have 6/6 climb but feel repulsive when they touch anybody, and they have a really hard time letting go of objects.

3 – The caster’s entire body shrinks and thins, -1 Constitution and -1 Strength – but they are now better at squeezing through gaps and may dodge an attack twice a day.

4 – The caster loses all hair and their teeth lengthen an inch.

5 – The caster is now carnivorous, and only eats meat raw.

6 – The caster grows pale and tumorous, +1 Constitution and -2 Charisma.

7 – The caster has some dark realization that acts like a grain of sand in the oyster that is their brain – the pearl is madness, which is up to the referee to concoct.

8 – The caster molts their skin, and are now scaly and green. -3 Charisma and oh man, people scream when they see you.

9 – The caster’s head implodes, and blood and bone fly like shrapnel from a grenade as their head’s contents exit the vacuum. They do not die however. They are just nearly unthinking – and are at best of animal intelligence.

10 – The caster may now only eat metal, which their teeth, saliva, and tongue cause to rust and disintegrate – they eat the rust.

11 – The caster may now eats only green slime.

12 – Roll three times. If all results are rolled, the caster just transforms into a hideous cave centipede thing.