Fixed, thanks for the heads up. I still need to go over the fluff to actually make it relevant to Olivia, but at least now I have all of it if... hypothetically you guys were to get into combat.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
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Fixed, thanks for the heads up. I still need to go over the fluff to actually make it relevant to Olivia, but at least now I have all of it if... hypothetically you guys were to get into combat.
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Loosing control disables anything but melee.
If she stays in control it can enhance shooting.
I think they're more likely to look before they leap unless he seems to obviously be in danger, which gives us some time.
If we've gotta choose then I'd pick crafting some stuff for Molly over talking to them, simply because we'll never have time if we don't make it and we've invested a lot in crafting over personal power for Molly.
I get why and it makes sense, I'd just like to get something cool for us now that we potentially have the opportunity.
Both for the direct benefits and for how funny becoming (even more of) a puzzle boss is.
Isn't Molly the exact sort of being described as being the source for that sort of curse? Could we learn to do it ourselves and just cheat the conditions?
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
With BMI, we no longer have a reason to worry about armor we wear being concealed. We can craft something with greater protection and just hide it using BMI, up to the limit of what we can use without negatively affecting our Dexterity or mobility. The only time the illusion will fail is if we flare our anima, and at that point the least of anyone's concern should be whether or not we are wearing armor.
Olivia needs weapons that she can carry around at all times without being obvious. Lugging around a sniper rifle in day to day life isn't very feasible, but small concealed handguns shouldn't be overly difficult to manage, especially with FFCF magitech.
She's a university student, so she would have a good reason to regularly walk around with a backpack or something with a laptop in it. Laptops from the 2006 era were normally pretty beefy, so hiding a plasma pistol and some power cells in a fake laptop shell should be very simple to manage.
Olivia needs weapons that she can carry around at all times without being obvious. Lugging around a sniper rifle in day to day life isn't very feasible, but small concealed handguns shouldn't be overly difficult to manage, especially with FFCF magitech.
She's a university student, so she would have a good reason to regularly walk around with a backpack or something with a laptop in it. Laptops from the 2006 era were normally pretty beefy, so hiding a plasma pistol and some power cells in a fake laptop shell should be very simple to manage.
That would be the process yes, you would have to figure out how the curse works and then inflict a version of it as a blessing on others.
Vote closed.
Arc 12 Post 16: Test of Power, Test of Sight
Test of Power, Test of Sight
23st of January 2007 A.D.
You are not sure what you had expected to find in Karl's apartment, maybe the stereotype of a guy living alone for the first time on his life, clothes festooned upon every surface and something growing on the leftover takeout box. Instead the apartment is clean and remarkably ordered, particularly for someone who owns three dogs, good boys as they may be, though when you lay eyes on the scavenged laboratory equipment things start to make sense. If he was running a magical distillery out of here he'd have to keep from contaminating the work surfaces.
The flame kindles to life, clean alcohol burn, the glass of the beaker begins to heat and his movements grow almost ritualistic: full measure, half measure, sixth measure. Wait there's a name for that named for a dead German guy, Swiss, a demonic voice hisses in your mind in a tone most fitting for the imparting of mathematical wisdom. Euler's Number. Of course unlike the endless spiral of Euler's mathematical construct Karl does have to stop eventually, he runs out of stuff, out of time, in a sense out of energy so that is what the potion does, permit the finite to be infinite. Or at least that is what you are given to understand it does. As closely as you watch for it, as much insight as you've dredged for it, you cannot see a single telltale ripple or unnatural agitation.
Then a thought. "Drink it."
"I'm not hurt," he protests and part of you wants to jokingly reply 'not yet', but you do not know him well enough. It is a relief to be able to speak with minor practitioners without the shadow of your power ever before you, no different to his eyes than Lydia playing with the trio of dogs or Olivia looking though the unevenly spaced bookcase crammed in a corner, but that is not an invitation to scare him more.
"Technically everyone is hurt all the time, little micro-tears in muscle are how it builds up..."
"Hard to observe," he shakes his head, then without another word runs the knife he had been using to cut ginger along his left palm until the blood wells up. "Bottom's up."
The wounds pulls together like a video on fast forward... including a short lived scar.
Lost 1 Essence -> Now at 9/15 (Occult Excellency)
Lost 1 Willpower -> Now at 7/9 (ATB)
Alchemy is the study of ideal transformations, while an alchemical potion may certainly fail to heal something that is beyond the work of its brewer at no point would be produce a scar, unless for some reason it had been the intent of the brewer to do so, certainly not a scar that vanishes in a matter of seconds.
"It is not alchemy at all!" you exclaim. You pause thinking of how to phrase this... and give up with a warning. "This is going to sound incredibly corny."
"Hit me," Karl insists.
"The magic was inside you all along."
Olivia bursts into surprised laughter as Lydia looks on in equally startled bewilderment.
"Your gift is healing, or more specifically your gift is life-shaping, which is very rare for the record, many full wizards struggle with it. The thing is it's manifesting though tools and intermediaries, probably because healing by the laying on of hands like would feel impossible to you so it is."
"What? Magic works like Dumbo's Magic Feather?" he asks, looking more alarmed than a cartoon elephant merits.
"Kind of yeah..."
"Fuck! That means Manifesting works doesn't it? Like that movie that came out last year, the Secret? Mom will never let up about it if she finds out. If..."
As he is considering the virtues of secrecy against filial duty Olivia is the one to set him at ease. "For most people Manifesting is a thing the way a personal gravitational is a thing, technically there but practically insignificant. You need to shape that potential into power." On the last word you feel the cold/burning essence of Sanctuary kindle into brief life and she is across the room in a fraction of a second, still clear to your enhanced sight, but to Karl she must have been a blur.
Olivia loses 1 Demon Chi -> Now at 2/3
"Got it you're the Flash," Karl gulps.
"The Red Ranger," you correct, recalling a random bit of Power Rangers trivia to an eyeroll from the girl in question. "Anyway as I was saying because your magic spun outwards, though such a complicated medium you are able to heal more readily in other regards. I think that if you did do it as an act of will you would only be able to do it to yourself. This way you heal and enhance the dogs and... I think the reason it works on other people sometimes, unreliably is because you internalized the fact that man is an animal."
Which is a very wierd thing to have internalized on one's own. "Karl, the first time you healed someone else, gave them a potion, how well did it work?"
"There was this guy at Hollis hall, he had been burned, pretty bad..." the words are flat, drawn out of his as it with a barbed hook. "Like someone had hit him with a hot iron, I had to do something, so I gave him some and he got better., breathed easier laid down."
"Someone?"
"This is... you're going to think I'm crazy." He sounds very sure of himself.
Instead of answering with words you motion at Lydia, silently communing with dogs on the couch. We're going to think you're crazy.
"I went to get help and I found a bunch of people downstairs but when I tried to find the room with the burned student again, it was gone, the room, the patient, everything. They called it a bad joke."
"That sounds like you slipped into the spirit world," Lydia offers. "You were given a test, you passed it, by the very edge of what your magic would allow and then you were allowed to leave. The Well if a proving ground, that is why they choose an university to anchor it, not just any university one of the best in the world. It is an unfinished proving ground."
Lydia lost 1 Essence -> Now at 6/7
"Did you see anyone else in there? Beside the burned man I mean" you ask after a moment.
"I didn't even know I was anywhere different!" Karl protests
Still if Lydia's right, everyone else on your list must have passed some kind of test and been granted power in some way commensurate to their abilities.
What do you do next?
[] Keep going down the list, maybe you'll find someone else like Karl in need of direction, maybe you'll find something worse
[] Now that you know it's some kind of test and that it works on mortal magicians, why not see what a wizard of your acquaintance
-[] Carlos Ramirez
-[] Harry Dresden
[] Write in
OOC: For obvious reasons neither Morgan, the Merlin nor Wu Min are likely to be up for 'want a dubiously sourced power-up?'.
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Goldfish
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Woah, the Well sounds like serious mojo. Now how do we go about gaining control of it?
Well, at least it wasn't the power of 'Love'.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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[X] Keep going down the list, maybe you'll find someone else like Karl in need of direction, maybe you'll find something worse
-[x]Leave the number of one of your Cyber devils to act as your secretary
--[x][Stunt]"Also if you are ever considering leasing your soul for power please consider me before all other offers. I will give you a better deal then any of my compensation."
--[x] Elaborate the deal if he asks awakening the soul and control over that so long as he serves.
Except God of course if he actually follows though on eternal paradise, but we aren't actually in competition.
-[x]Leave the number of one of your Cyber devils to act as your secretary
--[x][Stunt]"Also if you are ever considering leasing your soul for power please consider me before all other offers. I will give you a better deal then any of my compensation."
--[x] Elaborate the deal if he asks awakening the soul and control over that so long as he serves.
Except God of course if he actually follows though on eternal paradise, but we aren't actually in competition.
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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Maybe word it a bit differently?
Something like, "And if you ever desire more power, please consider reaching out to me before making any deals with less savory entities. There are many such beings out there if one knows where or how to look for them, and none will deal with you as fairly as me."
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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- Tempe, AZ
It deserves to be said seriously. Inner Darkness Unchained is actually a big commitment. But maybe I can change sell to lease.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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We don't have to be overly specific in what kind of power we offer, just mention 'power' in general.
He doesn't have to get the IDU treatment to be empowered. We could simply provide resources or contacts, mystic lore, training in FFCF magic, etc. It's a sliding scale of power vs commitment.
No need to scare him off with talk of bartering away his soul.
@DragonParadox do we actually know what the Proving Ground did for him is it what let him externalize his bio control or extended it to other people
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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- Tempe, AZ
I don't really feel like offering this stranger we know nothing about anything without some commitment or reciprocity on his part. Now if the Paranet existed yet I might offer him membership of that, but what you are offering sounds like just dropping Molly's valuable time down a hole.
Allowed him to extend it to other people and giving him the potential to get better at it, he already had the affinity to animals which allowed him to heal and enhance them, though perhaps had be not proven himself that would have been the unreliable part and other humans flatly impossible.
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Delete 'like'
Insert comma
weird
'him', 'if'
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- being near locations is my passion.
Proabably a true statement, but is the sort of thing that tends to be said by pretty unscrupulous folk trying to exploit people, there's better ways to convey the what you mean, methinks.
Brainfuzz has me drawing a blank as to ideas atm, sorry.
Holy moly we need to get Dresden here holy crap this allowed someone who had a path magic to break path Magic. In regular world of Darkness terms he is most the way to having life sphere 3 now. Sure it's not as flexible as life sphere three but he can work life effects on other organisms and himself.
Well I don't think it would break Harry's sphere magic the same way. It might grant him a whole new sphere in general whether that be an upgrade or just a new one. That's possibly putting away that it might be like a Seeking in a pocket Realm which is a thing that can happen in regular Mage but I wasn't expecting to possibly see here.
Edit: seekings are things Mages do to increase their Arete/ power stat.
Well I don't think it would break Harry's sphere magic the same way. It might grant him a whole new sphere in general whether that be an upgrade or just a new one. That's possibly putting away that it might be like a Seeking in a pocket Realm which is a thing that can happen in regular Mage but I wasn't expecting to possibly see here.
Edit: seekings are things Mages do to increase their Arete/ power stat.
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