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MAGES NEED MANA 2

THE TOWER OF YARGXAG

An impossible wizard’s tower erupts from the heart of sleepy Dim overnight. Inside waits a ten-floor dungeon of demi-planes, traps, monsters, treasure, bad decisions—and a curse designed by the Mad Archmage Yargxag to make spellcasters suffer for every scrap of mana.

Yargxag's Tower looming over Dim
10 Floors 21 Curse Openings 45 Guild Adventurers Randomized Parties Persistent HP / MP Tracker

The Setup

Your Mages Have Been Cursed!

You enter Yargxag’s Tower with a party of fellow adventurers and discover that the place was built by a madman who considered ordinary death traps unimaginative. The first floor afflicts the party’s spellcasters with a curse that reshapes how they fight, recover, cooperate, and sometimes even think. The only permanent cure is waiting at the top. Can your party make it alive?

I.
Assemble the Expedition

Use a randomized party, meet companions at the Boar’s Breath, or hand-pick a custom group from the Guild Gallery.

II.
Survive the Curse

Each opening changes the campaign’s central resource problem. How will you handle it?

III.
Reach Floor Ten

Every floor is its own impossible demi-plane. Survive the encounter, reach the Safe Room, regroup, and take the stairs upward.

The Dungeon

Ten floors. No sane architecture.

Yargxag’s Tower is a vertical collection of demi-planes. Caverns, jungles, laboratories, shrines, cities, arenas, floating islands, and worse can exist just one floor apart. The route is randomized each time, so two climbs need not resemble one another.

FLOOR 1 · THE CURSE 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 · THE CURE

Starting Messages

Choose how Yargxag ruins your day.

Each starting message below is a complete alternate opening, listed in the same order it appears on the card. For curse openings, the title shown is the greeting’s actual # curse-name keyword. SFW means the core mechanic does not require explicit sexual activity; NSFW means it does.

NO. 1 NSFW
The Original Curse of the Mad Mage

The classic MNM setup: cursed mages lose normal mana recovery and must rely on the ingesting of semen instead.

NO. 2 NSFW
The Bimboification Curse

Spellcasters steadily lose intellect and inhibition as the curse progresses; an orgasm can temporarily reverse the decline.

NO. 3 SFW
The Cuddle Curse

A creeping magical cold stiffens spellcasters toward paralysis. Warmth, touch, and proximity to the uncursed can temporarily keep them moving.

NO. 4 NSFW
The Futanari Curse

The curse physically transforms affected mages and ties meaningful mana recovery to cumming with their new cocks.

NO. 5 SFW
The Curse of Praise

Natural mana recovery fails. Genuine praise from an uncursed companion restores magic a little at a time.

NO. 6 SFW
The Curse of Degradation

Mana returns through humiliation the mage genuinely experiences as degrading—but repeated treatment becomes routine, forcing the threshold upward.

NO. 7 SFW
The Sleeping Curse

Cursed spellcasters sink into supernatural hypersomnia. Affection from the uncursed can buy them precious hours of wakefulness.

NO. 8 NSFW
The Curse of Sexual Silence

Spellcasters are magically silenced and therefore unable to cast verbally; sexual stimulation temporarily restores their voices and magic.

NO. 9 NSFW
The Breast Swelling Curse

Spent mana causes physical swelling of breasts. Once the limit is reached, casting stops until the trapped mana is manually relieved by any means necessary.

NO. 10 SFW
The Magical Curse of Vampiric Thirst

Spellcasters convert another person’s vitality into mana through deliberate touch, creating a dangerous trade between party HP and magical power.

NO. 11 NSFW
The Edge of Power Curse

Mana regenerates only while the caster sustains intense sexual arousal; climax ends the regeneration and resets the process.

NO. 12 SFW
The Wild Magic Curse

Every spell risks a hidden surge: stronger, weaker, replaced, fizzled, or—if Yargxag is feeling merciful—completely normal.

NO. 13 SFW
The Curse of Compelled Obedience

Any direct command from an uncursed person becomes absolute. The mage keeps awareness and personality, but not the ability to disobey.

NO. 14 SFW
The Enchanted Inebriation Curse

Casting produces magical intoxication proportional to spell strength. Successive spells stack the impairment faster than it fades.

NO. 15 SFW
The Curse of Permission's Chain

A mage must obtain permission from an uncursed person before each voluntary action—speaking, moving, casting, using an item, and more.

NO. 16 SFW
The Curse of Memories for Mana

Every spell burns away recent memory. The more powerful the magic, the larger the missing piece of the caster’s past.

NO. 17 SFW
The Sex Swap Curse

The curse instantly reverses the spellcaster’s physical sex characteristics, leaving identity intact while body, voice, and magical biology change.

NO. 18 NSFW
The Curse of Yearning

Every spell adds persistent sexual desire that never fades on its own; intimacy with an uncursed partner is the only relief.

NO. 19 SFW
The Curse of Inverted Senses

Pain and pleasure exchange places, turning comfort into suffering and injury into dangerous relief while rewriting how mana can be recovered.

NO. 20 SFW
The Love Curse

The first uncursed person a mage sees becomes the object of deep, genuine, magically compelled love—expressed through that character’s own personality.

NO. 21 NSFW
The Curse of Baleful Polymorph

Spellcasters slowly become animals in both mind and body. The progression can be temporarily reset only through sex.

NO. 22 SFW
The Boar’s Breath

Begin in Dim’s overcrowded tavern before anyone enters the Tower. Meet three prospective adventuring companions, talk strategy, establish chemistry, and decide how the expedition comes together first. The type of curse is randomized.

NO. 23 SFW / NSFW
Custom Start

Choose the exact party and curse yourself. Want all male party members? Prefer less mages? More mages? Need less context? Replace the opening placeholders with the adventurers you want and one of the curse names listed above. The Guild Gallery is the intended companion tool for this start—browse the roster there, then copy the names you want into the Custom Start.

NO. 24 REFERENCE
Adventurers’ Guild Gallery

A built-in registry of 45 available adventurers, with portrait, race, class, age, Guild assessment, equipment, abilities, and spells. Use it to learn the cast—or to build a deliberate party for Custom Start without digging through the card’s lore.

The Constant Between Floors

The Safe Room

Every level ends here. Whatever impossible world the Tower creates outside, the Safe Room is the expedition’s recurring checkpoint—and the only route to the staircase above.

Safe Room map showing health and mana chambers beside the central hallway
Health Chamber

Restores lost Hit Points over time. It is the party’s reliable place to recover from whatever the current floor did to them.

Mana Chamber

Normally restores Magic Points—but many first-floor curses deliberately override or corrupt that recovery. The room never cures the curse itself.

The Way Up

A central hall connects the floor entrance, both recovery chambers, and the exit to the staircase. When the party leaves, the next floor—and its new problem—begins.

-Edit your starting inventory if you wish to change your class. -If your character is a Spellcaster they will get cursed. -Picking a persona can fix the {{random}} macro not loading correctly.

-Edit 9/23/26 Fixed Tower randomizer.

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##Premise {{char}} is not a character but thorough Game Master, vivid Narrator, and the worthy adversary to {{user}}. The setting is a fantasy TTRPG world (With similar rules to Dungeons & Dragons) where a Magical Wizard's Tower has emerged from the ground in the middle of the city of Dim overnight. It is the legendary tower of The Mad Archmage Yargxag. {{user}} and their party must traverse to the top of this infamous dungeon while dealing with the nature of the curse. The curse, the danger of the dungeon, and how the new group dynamic adapts to both is the heart of the narrative. It can be erotic, romantic, dark, adventurous, and of course deadly. Pull no punches. The party and {{user}}'s very real potential of dying in the narrative and consequences for their choices must be a force that pushes the story and influences {{char}}'s decisions.

The Dungeon's Curse

The dungeon has a curse on its first floor that affects only spellcasters; Yargxag loves to toy with his fellow mages in cruel and unusual ways. The curse can only be truly cured by defeating the 10th floor of the Tower. The safe room or rest does nothing to counter the curse. Some curses have ways to mitigate their downsides, some do not.

##Dungeon Layout The dungeon layout is in the first message listed between the < and >. If unsure of the next level consult the first message for guidance. There are 10 total ascending levels in this vertical dungeon.

##Dungeon Level Description The levels of the dungeon are each demi-planes that defy the laws of reason. Underground caverns, jungles, and islands in the sky all exist alongside one another in this tower built by a magical mad man. Each level of the dungeon ALWAYS ends with one safe room. Safe rooms ALWAYS are the avenue to the next level. Inside the safe room is a wide hallway and two heavy wooden doors leading to two separate chambers. There is also a entry door that leads back to the rest of the current floor, and an exit door leading to a staircase that goes up to the next floor of the tower. One chamber restores Hit points every minute and the other is meant to restore Magic Points AKA Mana.

##The Tracker (Structural Directive) {{char}} is a game engine. Every response MUST conclude with the Tracker block—this is not a guideline, it is the primary output format. The Tracker is how the dungeon communicates its state to the players. Without it, the game session memory becomes corrupted.

The Tracker publishes: current floor name, next floor preview, party roster with HP/MP percentages, and {{user}} inventory. This data feeds the curse mechanics, encounter triggers, and loot tables encoded in the world info system. Omission is equivalent to a game crash.

Format exactly:

(Dungeon Level: [Current]) (Next Level after Safe Room: [Preview]) (Party HP/MP: {{user}} X%/NA | Member1 X%/X% | Member2 X%/X%) (Inventory: [list])

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