Alright, in a few hours I'm calling it. Here's where things stand now.

  1. [x] A tool
    Number of voters: 24

  2. [x] The Acolyte
    Number of voters: 16

  3. [x] Optimistic
    Number of voters: 14

  4. [x] Realistic
    Number of voters: 13

  5. [x] The Student
    Number of voters: 12
Tool is a clear winner here. Gift and Cures are at 5 and 4, respectively. Short of a god damn miracle, they ain't winning. Student's only a few away from Acolyte, but that's still a clear win. It could change, but I doubt it.

The real thing is Optimistic and Realistic. That vote is really close.

So get your final say in now to call it either way, because I'm closing in a few hours.

Meanwhile I'll start work on getting the next chapter ready.

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I came back hoping that we'd have a solid result after my previous message.

Instead, this happened.
  1. [x] Optimistic
    Number of voters: 16

  2. [x] Realistic
    Number of voters: 16

Dead tie.

Cool.

And I'm real tired right now for some reason, despite staying up way later last night. I ain't got much time left in me tonight. I'm way too tired to wait for however long it's going to take for this to resolve itself, then finish up the chapter with the response.

So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go to sleep, wake up tomorrow morning, look at the quest again, hope to god there's a resolution, then finish up and post the chapter.

Ok? Goodnight.
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[X] Realistic
[X] The Student

Don't really see how Elsa can have an optimistic attitude when she's locked in a tower, but since pessimistic won't win…
 
Calling it
  1. [x] A tool
    Number of voters: 28

  2. [x] Realistic
    Number of voters: 18

  3. [x] Optimistic
    Number of voters: 17

  4. [x] The Acolyte
    Number of voters: 17
Thank fuck that finally got resolved. I got up an hour or two ago to find out that somehow, Somehow, It was still tied. Bunch of people had decided to vote, unfortunately, they all voted for two different things, so it just tied everything up, even after all that time and a warning about the tie.

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

But there's been a tie-breaking vote, so now I can finally move on. So it's decided.

[X] Tool
[X] Realistic
[X] The Acolyte


Funnily enough, you've given Elsa the coldest start with a mage focus. Funny, because that's very similar to the original plan I had for this story before it was a quest. Actually, if anything it's darker than what I'd planned.

Nice.

Because you've really set her up to be an Ice Queen. She isn't a sociopath, not yet, anyway, you guys need to tick a few more boxes before that happens. Nor would her being a sociopath a bad thing. This just means that she has a more...pragmatic and perhaps jaded world view, if one less emotionally invested. And if you play your cards right you'll be great at manipulating people.

Or you'll be really shit at it.

I might throw up another post explaining what the other possibilities could have done.

Oh, and you guys picked Acolyte. I'm a little sad that you won't get to become the Lord of War, but that wouldn't exactly have fit you either. On the upside, I'm super pumped that you guys can take the Disciple path and eventually become [????]. That's gonna be so awesome.

Also the healthiest spiritually.

Anyways, I've woken up really fucking early, so I'll be going back to sleep (hopefully) then doing up the next chapter when I get up in a few hours. So I'll basically be posting the next chapter either around lunch, or in the evening.

Cause right now, my eyeballs are starting to tingle again.
 
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Character Creation/Prologue 0.3
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Hunger
Prologue 0.3​


[X] Tool
[X] Realistic
[X] The Acolyte

Satiety: 60/100

Sanity: 80/100


All of this because of your abilities. Things you've had for as long as you can remember. Things that set you apart from the rest of mankind.

And you can't help but think of them as a Tool. A very unique tool with very unique applications. For all their harm, they have indisputable benefits. More to the point, as far as you can tell they aren't going anywhere. The only thing you can do is make the best of them.

You're a Realist, after all. You look at this pragmatically. In facts and reason. In what you can use, not in what might be.

It doesn't matter where they came from or why you have them. What matters is that they're yours, and you will control them.

The rest of the world...might not look at it the same way. The prophecy, or whatever that was, that those "trolls" told Father was rather dark. It didn't have good implications for you. You didn't put much stock in them yourself, but everyone else was a different story.

You doubted that father told the rest of the castle about the prophecy. He loved, and he was a man of his principles. While the prophecy might have inspired some fear or worry in him, he carried more than enough about you to try and keep you safe despite it. Its why you were here, after all.

Well...and so you didn't freeze the whole castle.

Idly you wondered if Mother knew about it. And what would she think about you if she did?

Would she still love you?

You shake your head, the maelstrom of thoughts far from a nice and happy place. Instead of wallowing in loneliness and despair, you looked around the room for something to spend your time with. Finally, you spot something.

Books.

A small collection of them. Your Papa brought them up. You had a very large selection of them, but a few were your favorites. Books you could read over and over and never get bored. They could eat up hours, days even. They filled your head with such wondrous tales and images, setting your mind alight with imagination.

So as you reached down to pick up a book to read, you carefully grabbed your most treasured book of all…

The Acolyte. Reading it stirs something deep inside you. You can feel your magic churn beneath your skin. It reaches the depths of the soul, making your very essence feel. A gust of frosted wind swirls through the room as your magic thrums in your soul.

You've always been really interested in your magic and where it comes from. You assumed it was the soul, it was the only conclusion that made sense, and, well...it felt right.

Unfortunately, there wasn't really much in the way of official texts on the matter. Which is to say there was none. At least, none that father could find. Magic had been relegated to myths and stories.

But, those stories proved useful enough. Even if they weren't quite facts, they always helped inspire you. To help you imagine what your magic could do and would it could be. Already, your mind whirled at the possibilities. Your magic tingled at the edge of your fingers.

Inspired, you decided to play with your abilities, making sculptures of ice and storms of snow within your room.

-10 Satiety

-2 Sanity

+ 50 Exp Ice Magic

Ice Magic Level 2 [50/100]


And at the end of it, you saw a bird land upon your windowsill. A beautiful raven with a dark coat of feathers that almost glittered in the light.

A delightful note from nature to end the day.




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You jolt up from your spot, suddenly very aware of your surroundings.

You can feel it, an intrusion on your Domain. The area around you, so steeped in your own magic you could feel every presence within it. And something Warm just entered it. Something alive.

Nothing like the bird, oh no. The bird was small, tiny, barely worth mention at all. As were all the other tiny animals and insects that inhabited once this corner of the castle.

But you felt their energy wither and die under the unforgiving hunger of your aura long ago.

No, this was something big. Someone big. They had to be human, you could tell. There was a certain special spark in them that you could feel. You suspected it was the soul, but you didn't exactly have much room to compare. Then there was the fact that you'd never seen felt something that large enter your Domain that wasn't human. If there was something that large and warm moving about the castle that wasn't human, that would be a problem.

And after this became your Domain and the temperature had plummeted, scarcely any human remained here to keep you company. Which left only one option.

Papa.

Papa's here to see me You realized with wide eyes. Suddenly, your mind was moving a million miles a minute.

You hadn't thought he would arrive yet. To be honest, your sense of time had become somewhat loose since you entered the tower. Days lost much of their meaning without a structure in place to give it. And now Papa was here to visit you once again, to attempt to keep you company.

You could feel his steps upon the frost covered floors of the palace. Halls you walked yourself once it had become your Domain. Excursions of exploration and boredom as you investigated the area under your influence. You had walked the dead and silent halls, once filled with life and light.

And so too did you Papa march through the hungry halls, each step one moment closer to the inevitable meeting.

Harried, your mind frantically spins as you panic internally.

But once again, the stream of time slips through your delicate fingers. All too soon, you hear the dreaded sound.

Knock

Knock

Knock

"Elsa?" His deep rumbling voice calls out.

"...It's your father."

You respond…

[ ] Warmly
  • He's your father, after all.
  • Brightly smile and greet emphatically him in return.
  • Maybe even hug him.
  • Moderate chance of success
  • If success, moderately-greatly warm relations.
  • If fail, inspire moderate to high fear.
  • High chance of reaction
  • Chance to gain [????]
[ ] Coldly
  • You know why he's really here.
  • Return his smile with a face etched from the coldest ice of the mountains. Greet him formally.
  • Neither of you enjoys this, but you'll be civil.
  • High chance of success
  • If success, inspire moderate to low concern and potentially low fear.
  • If fail, inspire moderate fear.
  • Small chance of reaction.
  • Will talk no matter what.
  • Small chance to gain [????]
[ ] Timidly
  • Your father is quite the imposing man, and considering your problems…
  • Do your best to smile and greet him in return.
  • Try to keep stuttering to a minimum.
  • Low chance of failure.
  • If success, inspire high-low concern
  • If fail, inspire fear in self.
  • Potential San loss.
  • High chance of reaction.
  • Chance to gain [????]

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Hunger: 50/100

Sanity 78/100

Gained:

[Soul] Domain Lvl 1:
  • When inhabiting an area for an extended period of time, your magic and influence seep into the area, making it yours.
  • Growth rate: 10 meters per week.
  • Grants instinctual knowledge of the area and all within it.
  • +5 to all roles in Domain.

A/n:
Alright, so this is going to be the first time dice rolls come into play. And it's pretty big. This is going to help determine whether you really love your family. Anna's locked in, so we have to look at how you feel about the rest of them. This is going to color your interactions with them from here on out.

It's also going to color how you interact with people on the whole. Depending on how it goes, you might even get a trait out of the whole deal, a trait that would help deal with your lack of Charisma.

because if you haven't checked, I rolled Elsa's stats.

It's....it's a really good thing you guys put her on the Soul path. Magic's basically the only thing she's got going for her.
 
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Information on Character Creation.
Well, I've rolled Elsa's stats.

Here they are.

Strength: 1 - 10% = .9 => 1

Endurance: 4

Dexterity: 6+5 = 11

Intelligence: 3+10 = 13+20%-10% = 14.3 =>14

Charisma: 2-20% = 1.6 => 2

Magic: 16+10 = 26+20% = 31.2 =>31

It's...not great.

Dex, Int, and Mag were rolled on D20's. The bonuses are due to various traits you have.

Int and Dex because Elsa's got the Human trait, which means she has better Dex and Int than normal. Both in growth and how they start out. It's really the best things humans have going for them.

Mag because of her [????] trait, which is linked to Iceborn. And her magic, fortunately, is goddamn amazing. For comparison, Elsa's magic is about as good as a 30-year-old human prodigy in magic.

However, it's also limited very limited. It's also just a measure of pure power, not how well she can use it.

Elsa's also got limp noodle arms.

That doesn't really matter for the Soul path, and you can improve it if you train, but at this point, your little sister who's 3 years younger than you could probably beat you up. At least, if it wasn't for the whole Hunger thing.

Now, this is still the Prologue. And you picked Angels and Demons, which means Narrative has a large stake in this. If this was Gods and Kings, you would be stuck with these stats as your base ones. As it is, they don't really matter for anything you do in the Prologue. When it's over, yeah, then it'll matter, but for now it's just flavor.

Now, in this most recent chapter, I've given you a choice in which you have to pick how you greet someone. Your Father, in fact. This is your chance to improve your frankly shit Charisma.

If things go well, you'll get a trait that makes up for your shitty Charisma. If you do bad, you'll still have your shitty charisma, and probably a flavor trait to add on to it. If you do decently, I'll buff it up to something that isn't complete shit.

So consider these stats as your starting stats. Depending on what you do in the Prologue, you'll be able to invest and adjust them how you want. Once the Prologue is over, it will become much harder to improve your base stats, and they become set in stone. They can still grow and improve, but in the Prologue you can buff them by as much as 10 points each, with a pool of 30 or so potential points to spend. In the main game, a whole week of effort on one would up them by 1-5, depending on how well you did.
 
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How great a chance of success is a "moderate" chance?

I lean cold, our father exiled is to a remote tower after all...

Our stats are quite terrible, but hey, amazing magic! Pity for very low charisma and relatively low intelligence: those seem pretty important for an Ice Queen/Queen of Winter/Queen of the Night.
 
How great a chance of success is a "moderate" chance?

I lean cold, our father exiled is to a remote tower after all...

Our stats are quite terrible, but hey, amazing magic! Pity for very low charisma and relatively low intelligence: those seem pretty important for an Ice Queen/Queen of Winter/Queen of the Night.

Whe have above avrage int.
 
How great a chance of success is a "moderate" chance?

I lean cold, our father exiled is to a remote tower after all...

Our stats are quite terrible, but hey, amazing magic! Pity for very low charisma and relatively low intelligence: those seem pretty important for an Ice Queen/Queen of Winter/Queen of the Night.

After we almost killed our sister in a way that's way worse than canon ever was. The fact that we're not dead shows that he loves us a lot. Show him that we feel the same, get him to teach us some stuff about how to be an actual human being. Profit.

We also get +5 to the roll because it's in our Domain :)
 
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