Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
That's why my vote focuses on the bars and runes, not the vision.
Functional Sorcery [Mage: The Awakening / Naruto]
- Thread starter Spector29
- Start date
I think you're misreading the situation. We didn't come to him with this info. He asked us what was bothering us and we're telling him we had a weird vision where Sasuke looked like a traitor.
It's more like Sh:"What's bothering you?" Us:"Had a weird vision of Sauske doing vaguely traitorous things, might be crazy. And now my head hurts." He'll probably roll his eyes and go to sleep.
Depends on the situation. Intensively.
It's not always possible or viable to contain Paradox, and we need to have the option open.
Yeah, but just being in a desolate area isn't a remotely sufficient condition.
Legend of Ruina
Growing eyes on the inside
[x] Talk about it
-[x] The strangely consistent dreams and odd sight, don't mention the premonition yet.
[x] Teal - Fate
[x] Green - Life
[x] Contain Paradox
Want to get a start on Life quickly. Even at one dot it includes spells like knowing where all lifeforms within a radius around you are or instantly diagnosing any wound, disease, or poison, meanwhile second dot gets us basic healing, which will be invaluable. Fate meanwhile is just great bread and butter stuff. Time is good too, but a lot of its better parts are annoyingly obvious.
Unsure if part of what the GM meant by mixing is that it still causes Paradox without witnesses, but it does mean we're in for a kinda rough ride during the Wave mission. Meanwhile the Forest of Death will be great for us since there won't be random civilians around to mess things up.
-[x] The strangely consistent dreams and odd sight, don't mention the premonition yet.
[x] Teal - Fate
[x] Green - Life
[x] Contain Paradox
Want to get a start on Life quickly. Even at one dot it includes spells like knowing where all lifeforms within a radius around you are or instantly diagnosing any wound, disease, or poison, meanwhile second dot gets us basic healing, which will be invaluable. Fate meanwhile is just great bread and butter stuff. Time is good too, but a lot of its better parts are annoyingly obvious.
At least for default 2E it's that Supernal Magic is harsh on witnesses because of the whole greater realities and truths thing. It's a matter of the actual techniques being used not playing well with baseline human minds, partially due to the Abyss lightly touching all Sleepers. Notably it also actually requires a Sleeper (human with no magic abilities) to witness the spell for Paradox to happen from it being obvious. Over Reaching is by far the easier way to get Paradox, especially when you're still unsure of the limits of your reach. On the downside we're currently at the very nadir of casting capability and will likely be needing to throw in Yantras to cast consistently, which basically consist of doing vaguely mystic looking stuff to power up your spells. The GM does seem to be indicating that if we can pass it off as Ninjutsu we're good though, so hand signs seem like an excellent option.
Unsure if part of what the GM meant by mixing is that it still causes Paradox without witnesses, but it does mean we're in for a kinda rough ride during the Wave mission. Meanwhile the Forest of Death will be great for us since there won't be random civilians around to mess things up.
Spector29
It Only Gets Worse From Here
Fake it till ya make it.
So I'm amused with the chapter considering I seemed to have hid a pretty big bit of info without anybody figuring it out. Or if they did, they didn't comment on it. Compare the scene on the night of Sasuke's betrayal with canon.
I'd never pretend to be clever, since I'm just assuming people highlight over my posts anyway. :3
All in all, I'm more than willing to let you guys fail without perfect information, get a little scraped, and then when the situation happens again you're more prepared. Like with Paradox. Take calculated risks, and everything will be fine. HAHAHAHAHAHHA
EDIT: That's not to say you will fail, that is. Sure, the Paradox thing wasn't a choice, but by that same token you guys took about the maximum damage I would've allowed. Railroading you to literal death seems a bit pointless.
Specifically, I will say that This Choice, the Next Choice, and the Choice After are what will decide if you pass or fail the Academy.
Pass or fail, the Story will continue. You're a Fate Mage, after all.
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I don't follow. 2 dots of Life just lets us speed up the healing process. We don't have the dice to make that effective for healing lethal. 3 dots lets us heal bashing outright and four is needed for healing lethal/aggravated. It's going to be a while before we can have proper magical healing, if ever. I do agree that the first dot of Life would be amazingly useful but I feel that hitting 2 in both of our ruling arcana should be priority. They are the ones we can rely on. Getting our hands on mana to fuel spells from the other arcana probably isn't going to be that easy.
Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
TBH I kind of expected this, we kicked Sakura from the scene, so someone else had to fill the slot, and since we are always in the present, never the past or the future, Naruto took her place. I presume different kicks would have had different results for the shown scene?
TL;DR The fight was between S and S, not N and S.
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- Location
- Nowhere
Funnily enough the first thing you said can actually be done with multiple chakra-based techniques, so we may be able to get a pass here, but I get what you mean.
And? What's wrong with keeping an eye on a future traitor so that he can be dealt with before he causes too much damage? * Granted, it can backfire on us as well, but hopefully it won't come to that.
What a shame. The morality equivalent stat continues to be an annoyance even here. Doubly so if the "sanity stat" is used to contain Paradox, which means that the less Wisdom we have, the more releases will be, which means they will provoke more breaking points. Too bad Mages cannot adopt Paths like Vamps did, it would have removed these kind of issues.
Well, it will be a bit difficult for us to continue if Sakaya fails to become a ninja. She won't be allowed to do much until she spends another year at the Academy, which will be a grating experience, unless we run away from the Village, become a Missing-Nin, somehow another teacher gives us a special test to prove ourselves, or we stumble upon another party of Mages.
That may be possible. I thought the sequence was set in that valley where the two started punching each other, but I guess you're right.
*You may have noticed that I have a slight bias against the Uchihas, but it is just a slight dislike and nothing else, really.
I would assume only intentional releases of Paradox hit Wisdom. Cannon definitely treats failed containment differently to release, one gets you a Paradox Condition, the other affects your spell or creates an Abyssal Manifestation.
Civilians probably have more chances to leave the village, since they're not super powered and won't have village secrets. We can also mess with Fate without having to go anywhere, especially if we get Space 2.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
The best place to release paradox would be the forrest of death. Everyone expects that to be a hell hole anyway.
There's usually nothing stopping Abyssal Manifestations from following us out, though it obviously depends on the nature of the intruder.
If you wait long enough, the universe will kick it back out leaving behind nothing but a world that is slightly worse then when they entered. Aside from that, it depends on what the manifestation is. They can be anything from straight forward evil corrupting spirits, to a set of equations that infect anyone who tries to understand them, but they all have weaknesses.
[x] Keep Quiet
[x] Teal - Fate
[x] Purple - Mind
[x] Specify when you want to Release/Contain
Let's focus on what cannot be recreated with Chackra.
- Life? There are medics. Nothing special in Naruto-verse.
- Space? Substitution techniques. High-speed techniques. Sealing... only very top-end space is special.
- Time? Nice one, but damn high-paradox most of the time.
Fate: impossible to influence with chakra. Undetectable. Priceless.
Mind: mind detection, secred retrieval, mind control. Whole realm of mind travel, dream-travel, internal mindscapes. No counterpart of that exists in Naruto universe.
[x] Teal - Fate
[x] Purple - Mind
[x] Specify when you want to Release/Contain
Let's focus on what cannot be recreated with Chackra.
- Life? There are medics. Nothing special in Naruto-verse.
- Space? Substitution techniques. High-speed techniques. Sealing... only very top-end space is special.
- Time? Nice one, but damn high-paradox most of the time.
Fate: impossible to influence with chakra. Undetectable. Priceless.
Mind: mind detection, secred retrieval, mind control. Whole realm of mind travel, dream-travel, internal mindscapes. No counterpart of that exists in Naruto universe.
Paradox manifestations run the gamut from "The grass turns bright pink" to "Cthullu says hello" depending on how big a backlash it is.
Containing Paradox is great....if you are in a reasonably safe setting. In combat? Not so hot.
- Location
- scrabbling
The Yamanaka roll their eyes at that.
Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
I was gonna say!The Yamanaka roll their eyes at that.
Oh, I remember about Yamanaka. They simply do not compare.The Yamanaka roll their eyes at that.
Mage with Mind, can do much much more than them.
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Spector29
It Only Gets Worse From Here
Maybe i shouldn't be doing this at work. *shrug*
1. Off the top of my head, only high level techniques can teleport, so seeing a Genin do it most definitely would invoke Paradox.
2. No comment.
3. Releasing severe paradox without trying to contain it, or purposefully casting in front of witnesses because Fuk Da Police degenerates Wisdom. Then again, once you hit Wisdom 3-4 even that doesn't degenerate.
4. You're a Fate Mage, and SV are smart people. I'm sure Sayaka will be fine.
Huh, I hadn't really thought of that. 'Obvious' magic probably isn't all that obvious when your moderately skilled soldiers can spit fire as long as you make a few hand-signs first.
Spector29
It Only Gets Worse From Here
Mhm, hence why witnesses only invoke Paradox when you do something wildly out of what Chakra is widely known to do.
Widely. Meaning if you would attract attention doing it with chakra at genin, you most certainly would using magic.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
The substitute technique is one of the basic 3.
Spector29
It Only Gets Worse From Here
Yes, i was talking about things on a grand scale, like the Flying Thunder God.
I see your point, and i maintain that as long as you can fake it, You can make it just fine.