Consumption
- Thread starter Alivaril
- Start date
- Original
[4] Conjurer
[2] Healer
[5] Shaper
[3] Scout
[6] Haunted
[1] Imperfect
[x] Female.
[2] Healer
[5] Shaper
[3] Scout
[6] Haunted
[1] Imperfect
[x] Female.
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
... Editing vote.
[2] Conjurer
[3] Healer
[] Shaper
[4] Scout
[] Haunted
[1] Imperfect
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
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You don't think even famous heroes can be a match for the more dangerous magical creatures out there without access to magical enhancements of their own. You believe said enhancements are usually temporary, although some of them—usually improvements to the durability of the human body— can be permanent.
Yes, although you don't think the capstone on merely-human traits is nearly as high if you don't help the process along via exposure to mana and/or proper magic.
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Further questions:
1) Is mana storage a thing? Ie can we spend some mana to infuse a crystal / charge a runic array, etc, and then use the stored mana later?
2) Is ambient mana blocking a thing? Ie if ambient mana is like air, can mana pressure / vacuum chamvers be made uaing existant knowledge?
3) Dragons existing indicates that sapient non-humans exist in the setting. What are interracial relationships? Basically, would Imperfect (if we mutate to look inhuman) cause us to face social issues on an institutional level? Like, risking being burned as an unholy offspring of cross-species union by a local church / facing exile from the country?
4) Same questions concerning conjurer and haunted. Depending on social customs those two can be a boon or a curse.
1) Is mana storage a thing? Ie can we spend some mana to infuse a crystal / charge a runic array, etc, and then use the stored mana later?
2) Is ambient mana blocking a thing? Ie if ambient mana is like air, can mana pressure / vacuum chamvers be made uaing existant knowledge?
3) Dragons existing indicates that sapient non-humans exist in the setting. What are interracial relationships? Basically, would Imperfect (if we mutate to look inhuman) cause us to face social issues on an institutional level? Like, risking being burned as an unholy offspring of cross-species union by a local church / facing exile from the country?
4) Same questions concerning conjurer and haunted. Depending on social customs those two can be a boon or a curse.
- Location
- United States
[3] Conjurer
[5] Healer
[4] Shaper
[6] Scout
[1] Haunted
[2] Imperfect
[x] Female.
[5] Healer
[4] Shaper
[6] Scout
[1] Haunted
[2] Imperfect
[x] Female.
- Location
- the Netherworld Dood
[3] Conjurer
[1] Healer
[4] Shaper
[5] Scout
[2] Haunted
[6] Imperfect
[X]Male
[1] Healer
[4] Shaper
[5] Scout
[2] Haunted
[6] Imperfect
[X]Male
- Location
- Earth
[1] Conjurer
[2] Healer
[] Shaper
[3] Scout
[4] Haunted
[] Imperfect
[X] Male.
[2] Healer
[] Shaper
[3] Scout
[4] Haunted
[] Imperfect
[X] Male.
- Location
- The Shrine of the Muse
- Pronouns
- She/They
Hersey, we play the one who pisses off the support characters
sainen
Elder Lich
from reading the class descriptions Imperfect makes for a better Muscle Wizard than Healer would, so long as we hit the right mutations.
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Once it's been absorbed by a living being, no. When it's still suffusing an area or in a naturally solid form, yes. Some people make their living off going to high-mana areas, charging objects designed to slowly release stored mana, and selling said objects in areas with significantly less ambient mana.
You don't know if magic has gotten to the point where it can completely prevent mana from entering or exiting an area. It can, however, reduce the amount which actually gets through. Some of the stories you know of involved using mana-absorbing armor, accessories, or spells when entering the lairs of particularly nasty monsters;* without it, the hunters would've either died or... had whatever other nasty side-effects are born from exposure to too much mana at a time. You still don't know what such side effects even are.
*While the monsters themselves didn't output mana, they did make their homes in high-mana areas in order to maximize the amount they absorbed.
The other major intelligent races (elves, dwarves, and goblins?) are similar enough that some believe each race was broken off from one of the others through deliberate magical modification. Which race is the "original" is a point of major contention. Elves and humans frequently live in the same areas, while goblins and dwarves occupy a different set. You think it's rare to find all four living in the same place.
You might face discrimination from some other people of this world, but you don't know of any religions or governments which persecute modified individuals. Either way, you don't think most people would actually think you look good unless you're very careful about where you absorb mana from.
Mediums have tried to distinguish their own trade from Necromancers despite them belonging to the same school of magic. Basically, calling up the souls of the deceased (for short periods of time) is generally fine. Binding animal ghosts is also usually fine. Going around and animating the physical corpses of dead creatures? Not so much. Animating the corpse of an intelligent creature is a capital offense in some places.
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Eh, Imperfect is the only character power I'm not interested in at all.
The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
[6] Haunted
[1] Conjurer
[5] Scout
[4] Imperfect
[3] Shaper
[2] Healer
[X] Female
[1] Conjurer
[5] Scout
[4] Imperfect
[3] Shaper
[2] Healer
[X] Female
DeepWaters
No one will be the wiser.
- Location
- Land of Spiders and Shipping Charts
[1] Conjurer
[3] Healer
[6] Shaper
[4] Scout
[2] Haunted
[5] Imperfect
[X] Female.
[3] Healer
[6] Shaper
[4] Scout
[2] Haunted
[5] Imperfect
[X] Female.
Madou Sutegobana
Autocorrupt has been disabled.
- Location
- Twin Realms Mandala
[2] Conjurer
[4] Healer
[1] Shaper
[5] Scout
[3] Haunted
[6] Imperfect
[x] Female.
[4] Healer
[1] Shaper
[5] Scout
[3] Haunted
[6] Imperfect
[x] Female.
[4] Conjurer
[3] Healer
[6] Shaper
[5] Scout
[2] Haunted
[1] Imperfect
[X] Male.
My reasoning:
Haunted - magical archaelogy / PI route is a go! But, really, having access to the knowledge of the ancients sounds fun. Plus, having friends on the other side.
Imperfect - be a center of attention, and possibly a start of a whole new race. Easier to get researchers interested (on our terms too, since we are a unique specimen).
Healer - muscle wizard! But, more seriously, healing should be useful if we go for self-modification (surgical, for example, to recover from otherwise damaging procedures), training (boosts probably work better if you are already fit)
Conjurer - actually.. @Alivrail , can elementals die and leave behind a ghost? You know, "and with strange aeons even Death may die". Some parallels with haunted here, mayhaps a similar ability from a different angle.
Scout - well, if we are going exploring this should be helpful, plus, it could be helpful when researching magic
Shaper - depends on precision, really. Might be quite interesting too. If coupled with some rudimentary healing magic might give us cybernetics and such.
I am torn between imperfect and haunted, only moving to haunted for additional social interactions with ghosts. But... Damn, no, I'll switch for the fifth time to imperfect.
[3] Healer
[6] Shaper
[5] Scout
[2] Haunted
[1] Imperfect
[X] Male.
My reasoning:
Haunted - magical archaelogy / PI route is a go! But, really, having access to the knowledge of the ancients sounds fun. Plus, having friends on the other side.
Imperfect - be a center of attention, and possibly a start of a whole new race. Easier to get researchers interested (on our terms too, since we are a unique specimen).
Healer - muscle wizard! But, more seriously, healing should be useful if we go for self-modification (surgical, for example, to recover from otherwise damaging procedures), training (boosts probably work better if you are already fit)
Conjurer - actually.. @Alivrail , can elementals die and leave behind a ghost? You know, "and with strange aeons even Death may die". Some parallels with haunted here, mayhaps a similar ability from a different angle.
Scout - well, if we are going exploring this should be helpful, plus, it could be helpful when researching magic
Shaper - depends on precision, really. Might be quite interesting too. If coupled with some rudimentary healing magic might give us cybernetics and such.
I am torn between imperfect and haunted, only moving to haunted for additional social interactions with ghosts. But... Damn, no, I'll switch for the fifth time to imperfect.
- Location
- West Michigan
[3] Conjurer
[4] Healer
[6] Shaper
[5] Scout
[2] Haunted
[1] Imperfect
[x] Female.
[4] Healer
[6] Shaper
[5] Scout
[2] Haunted
[1] Imperfect
[x] Female.
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
As far as you know, the vast majority of magical body changes to your body persist even after you've been healed. Restoring your body's baseline to the way it started out is supposedly even harder than changing it in the first place. You such efforts might not even be restoring anything, but simply changing twice.
You don't believe so. If their corporeal form is destroyed, they usually just return to the closest major concentration of their element until they've regained their strength.
Nope. I wouldn't exactly be able to use the "Original" tag if it was.
Nixeu
Lord of Madness, Harbinger of Llamas
- Location
- Your nightmares.
We don't necessarily have to tell them we spoke to the ghost. Knowing where to look, or at least more information on the subject, is generally helpful.
Only in the sense that nothing is original, everything is derivative. There are certainly echoes of things I know Alivaril has read, here and there.
No, I mean, like, open up our ribcage and brand runes into our still beating heart (exaggeration here) using healing magic to survive the procedure.
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
O_O
...Ah. Carry on. Keep in mind that you'd need to find some way to keep the branded runes from being healed afterward. And painkillers/dampeners for during, and a lot of other things...
Mages are just... there. You don't understand why anyone would "need" them; they're a part of the world, just like everything else.
You're not sure there is one. Oh, many creatures/monsters are always a threat to intelligent races, but they're not exactly an "enemy;" you feel like that implies some sort of malice or intent. They're just there and people happen to be food.
How do I rule the world.
You don't think anyone is daft enough to try.
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