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Empty Night [A Dresden Files Quest]

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Current Tally , visiting Andy and Delving into the casting part of the book are currently tied.

[X] Go visit that girl in the hospital. - 6

[X]Go visit Andy. - 5

[X]Delve further into the book. 5
-[X]Cast

[X] Go visit David at work, grab some food and maybe process through what happened yesterday - 3

[X]Delve further into the book. 1
-[X]Craft

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    • The night was long and dreamless, you woke up multiple times due to the pain, but somehow managed to get a good night's rest. At around eleven you got up, April was still asleep and David had already left for work. You made yourself some toast, and started translating the 'Cast' section of the book.

    The start grabbed your attention instantly

    The Gods bless each individual differently, some are more talented with other elements and areas of magic than others. The words below will be different for each individual reading this book, and will show what areas the gods have blessed you in.

    Below the paragraph there were five words in the middle of the page

    What order where they in?
    [Plan format, order the options below. The top will be our strongest, the bottom our weakest. The middle option we'll have an average affinity towards and so on.]
    Fire
    Earth
    Water
    Air
    Spirit


    This will continue on into the next part, while we also go visit Andy.

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    Short post after alot of waiting, sorry.

    I really wanted to do both actions this post, but what we pick here will affect visiting Andy as well. I should have gotten this out of the way last post, it honestly just slipped my mind.

    Christmas is behind me now though, so i'll have the next post up soon after we get a consensus on what you guys want here.
     
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    • [X] Plan Kill Things With Fire
    -[X] Fire
    -[X] Spirit
    -[X] Water
    -[X] Air
    -[X] Earth
     
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    [X] Plan Stolen Breath
    -[X] Air
    -[X] Fire
    -[X] Spirit
    -[X] Earth
    -[X] Water

    I want a high affinity for Air because it would make taking down some types of enemy's extremely easy. It's just extremely versatile, for instance just take away all the air in a bubble around there head and they will suffocate. I also want fire up there because as Harry proved burning things can be really fucking useful. I have spirit as the middle because it's good to be decent at that sort of thing and I have water as the lowest because it's the least useful out of all the options.
     
    [X] Plan Water you looking at?
    -[X] Water
    -[X] Spirit
    -[X] Earth
    -[X] Air
    -[X] Fire

    A few things:

    1. Hydromancy is ridiculously difficult in Dresdenverse. I think the closest thing we see is Ramirez, who plays around with Entropy in hilarious fashions. Who doesn't want bitchin entropy magic?
    2. Water grounds out magic. Hydromancy? Does not give a shit.
    3. It's just really unique.
    Fire is a common combat magic in DF- but water has a lot of utility of it's own and isn't frequently used. Earth magic because it's also gravity magic. Don't just think about the elements in terms of what you can directly conjure, but what they represent. Water erodes all things given time, Earth is ponderous but devastating while being omnipresent, etc.
     
    [X] Plan Water you looking at?

    I could wax poetic for an hour and half about how he's right, Hydromancy is ridiculously hard, and while Fire is good at obliterating shit, it's not really good at anything else, and we don't need a high affinity to do stuff like that.

    I could do that. But really, I just want to scream "DANCE, WATER, DANCE!" at someone.
     
    Spirit is much less impressive than it sounds- mainly relating to parts of thaumaturgy and regular old kinetic energy. Yeah, it's generally going to be widely applicable but at the same time- it's trying to do everything with a hammer rather than grabbing a specialty.

    And moreover- it's been done by like every single wizard we see in DF. Dresden does it, Mort does a variant of it, the sorcerers do variants of it. It's not nearly as impressive as you guys seem to be considering it. At least Air plays into making lightning, magical!chemical weapons, and light shows from what we see of Elaine in action.
     
    Magic

    Heres a link to the wiki on magic in the dresdenverse.

    Harry's would probably be
    Fire
    Air
    Spirit
    Water
    Earth
    maybe interchange the water and earth.
     
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