MagiQuest (Failed)
- Thread starter Gear
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- Original
Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
*rates informative.*
*Cracks Knuckles.*
Omake: He sleeps in a sleep like death
Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
Omake: He sleeps in a sleep like death
(Highly unlikely to ever be canon.)He retained a very faint perception of his surroundings, even in his state of complete incapacitation. It was just enough to know that he had been moved since he had collapsed after a having fled a lost fight with his mortal enemies. Given that he hadn't been destroyed, he reasoned that he had not ended up in his enemies hands. How long he slumbered, laid low by his wounds, he could not say. Perhaps it was aeons uncountable, or perhaps it was, like, a week, tops.
However long it was since the first time, he felt a sensation of motion once more, and once more came to rest. It was not long after that that he first felt the touch.
It was so light that he would scarce have noticed it even had he not been nigh-catatonic, but it carried with it a certain quality that he could neither explain nor recall ever having felt before. It came and went, moving about his body, stopping and starting in patterns that his sleep-addled mind could not comprehend. One thing he could tell, though, was that the touches brought change. He had no idea how, but he could tell that he was being made whole.
In short spurts interspersed with long periods of nothing, the touch acted upon him, working on this or that part and bringing it back into alignment, mending breaks, and unbending bends. As his body became more whole, so too did his mind start to return. Piece by painfully slow piece, he began to feel more alive over the course of the next few weeks, and grew ever more aware of his surroundings. In time his sight was restored, and he became aware of a young man, dark-skinned and lanky, who would come and work on him on most days. He had never seen such a mechanic before, that could fix him with but the touch of a hand, and an intense frown of concentration, but he was no less grateful for his wonderment. When his hearing returned, he learned that the young man was called "Daryl", when the boy's mother called him to dinner.
Only when his mind had been fully restored to consciousness, and his body restored to merely crippled did he decide to make contact. He knew that the boy's mother was out, as the other car had been taken, leaving him alone with the young man when he entered the garage as usual. Before Daryl could sit down, he began to transform and rise, limbs splitting away from his boot and bonnet, and head folding out from its normal hiding place.
He looked down at the startled young man with a friendly grin on his rust-marred face.
"Hello Daryl" Rasped Bumblebee. "Thank you for saving my life."
SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
[X]Small talk with Chandra and Liliana.
-[X] Ask about Nessa
Also just a thought, maybe we want to start thinking about healing magic. We have a friend whose missing an eye.
Might not be a good idea to do anything about it now but when we eventually comes out that Daryl can use magic fixing that problem might be a nice 'gift'
-[X] Ask about Nessa
Also just a thought, maybe we want to start thinking about healing magic. We have a friend whose missing an eye.
Might not be a good idea to do anything about it now but when we eventually comes out that Daryl can use magic fixing that problem might be a nice 'gift'
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Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
I think healing magic requires both the mind ad the matter elements, meaning that we need level 3 spells for it. It is a fair investment, but one that is probably worth making at some point.
Omake: What if Daryl was a Pyromaniac?
JoshieWoshie
Mister Doge
Omake: What if Daryl was a Pyromaniac?
Fire, fire was such a wonderful thing. Men fear the flame, yet are strangely drawn to it. Fire provided warmth, comfort and light on the coldest and darkest of nights . Yet as fire provides for the needs of men, it also takes away. Fire was a detroyer, primal and wild. It broke down and incinerated. The heat melting flesh off bone and breaking bone down into ashes.
Yet as fire destroyed it also cleansed. Disease was purged, decay burned away, the old destroyed to make way for the new. And from the ashes of all that men once loved consumed by fire, new life may spring forth. Like the mythical Phoenix rising from death into immortality.
Yes, I loved the flame. I loved watching as the flames danced in the controlled setting of a fireplace, I loved feeding the primal destroyer with logs on those dark cold nights. The patterns of heroes and monsters formed of flame doing battle unto death for my amusement. I loved using the focused power of sunlight to create a flame, watching devour the leaves whole. Watched as it spread further and further until the entire tree was alight in glorious inferno. The carcass of the tree groaning and moaning under the cleansing destruction of the fire.
Yes, I love fire. And now fire is mine to command.
It was remarkably easy, to set things alight. A small spark of a lighter could turn into a fireball of fantastical proportions under my control. A tiny bit of focused sunlight, and a mysterious inferno could consume a building.
I loved to set things alight, studying the flames as it consumed objects, things, animals. One day after causing that over aggressive bastard Jace's lawnmower to 'explode' a thought struck me. How well does a human being burn? Jace was injured not from flame but from shrapnel, so I could not observe, watch.
I needed to find a subject, and I already had one... no two in mind.
One weekend, after doing some research. I set off to find my 'subjects'. I tailed them for the better part of the day, soaking in all of my hatred and anticipation of what was to come.
They entered a car, both of them drunk out of their wits. They began to... 'fornicate' with each other. Disgusting.
My power was not over flame alone, but over reality itself. All security cameras in the area were set alight. The short circuited electronics within providing me with ample sparks to make fire. The car doors sealed themselves shut, the door mechanism melding into the body of the car itself. The car bent itself to my will with screeching metal, the fuel tank twisting and pouring. Every nook and cranny of the twisted car being lined with volatile gasoline.
I walked up to the front of the car, and looked them both in the ye. I twisted, and the spark plug of the car dipped in gasoline and connected via twisted metal did it's job. To create a spark, a flame under my direction.
The car burst into inferno as I stepped back to avoid the glass. I watched them writh in agony as the flames climbed up their bodies. I watched as their screams were drowned by the roar of the flame. I watched my father and the whore he tried to make me call 'mother' burn.
And the flames were beautiful.
[X] Small talk with Chandra and Liliana (Choose One)
-[X] Ask about Jace's parents not letting him come with
Also, a while back I asked about some spells and I don't think you saw them @Gear
-[X] Ask about Jace's parents not letting him come with
Also, a while back I asked about some spells and I don't think you saw them @Gear
Gear
Set Moon to Ramming Speed!
Good show, +4 XP for both.
Mind, Matter, and Energy, since living flesh deals with all three.
JoshieWoshie
Mister Doge
Hey, about that mirror spell. What if, when we reflect the visible light, we focus it into a beam. And where there is light, there is heat. This beam will have the light and heat super focused unto a target.
This beam can be used to destroy/cut/incinerate.
We might have just taken the first step towards weaponising sunlight.
This beam can be used to destroy/cut/incinerate.
We might have just taken the first step towards weaponising sunlight.
JoshieWoshie
Mister Doge
But...but... solar powered death! Praise the sun!
Okay but seriously, can we really transmute someone into cheese?
Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
People, like pretty much everything, but more so, are easy to break and hard to fix.
JoshieWoshie
Mister Doge
@Gear
And idea for a spell.
What do you think? Would it be more appropriate to switch out the Manipulation with transmutation?
And idea for a spell.
What do you think? Would it be more appropriate to switch out the Manipulation with transmutation?
Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
It would have to be level 3 as it is multi-elemental.
As for the spell itself:
@Gear, do we get a better return by making a spell that makes us more durable and allows us to use more of our potential strength, or with a spell that simply makes us stronger?
Diomedea
A piece of the continent
- Location
- The interblag
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Hmm, I wonder what a spell that alters the basic laws of the universe look like (since most spells seem to do this casually).
Specifically, something like altering the energy output of a particular chemical reaction, or is that beyond our reach?
What would a level 1, Energy element, Creation Aspect spell look like in terms of energy created and magic cost?
Can we transmute one periodic element to another, and would that be just a level 1 matter transmutation spell?
Edit: Votes for the Vote Throne
[x] Small talk with Chandra and Liliana
-[x] Ask about Jace's parents not letting him come with
Specifically, something like altering the energy output of a particular chemical reaction, or is that beyond our reach?
What would a level 1, Energy element, Creation Aspect spell look like in terms of energy created and magic cost?
Can we transmute one periodic element to another, and would that be just a level 1 matter transmutation spell?
Edit: Votes for the Vote Throne
[x] Small talk with Chandra and Liliana
-[x] Ask about Jace's parents not letting him come with
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SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
You know I don't see any reason why making gold or platinum or even gemstones shouldn't be pretty trivial for magic. If we want to get some money that is.
Diomedea
A piece of the continent
- Location
- The interblag
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The problem with that is how to explain where you got all this gold/platinum/diamonds/whatever. The car fixing is actually a pretty good way of covering our talents. Buying wrecks, fixing them up and selling them can be very profitable for us, particularly since we don't need to waste money on things like new parts. We would only need to fix up about 4 a year (and only that many because our profit margin shouldn't be as high as it will be) and as long as no one looks too closely it should serve as a good cover for where we got our money. If we buy wrecks (of nice cars) in the 2-8k price range, and sell them for 20-50k, that's 48-192k per year. More than enough for day-to-day living, and that's not even factoring in how we might be able to reduce our cost of living via magic.
1.3a Parental Restrictions
Gear
Set Moon to Ramming Speed!
Sorry for the delay, Muse wan't cooperating on writing the dialogue yesterday.
<< Omake: He sleeps in a sleep like death, Omake: What if Daryl was a Pyromaniac?, Index >>
1.3a Parental Restrictions
A quick inquiry into Jace's situation yielded a rather in-depth response from Chandra and Liliana.
"Jace's parents are very religious, and conservative, so he has a lot of rules on what he can and can't do. Basically, he can't do anything fun."
Liliana sets her coke down as she picks up from Chandra. "I can't really hang around Jace too much because they don't approve of my parents being gay. It's really annoying, and it puts a lot of pressure on Jace, since all he can really do is basketball, PG stuff like the park or the Fun Center, and studying. It's why he's a straight A student as well as being the best basketball player at Dryden."
[] Use magic in the conversation, 11 Magic available
(Choose One)
[] Continue Small talk with Chandra and Liliana (Choose One)
-[] Ask about Dack
-[] Ask about Nessa
-[] Ask about someone new
-[] Write in
[] Or Get up and introduce yourself to someone (Choose One)
-[] Go over and introduce yourself to Dack
-[] See what Nessa's thinking about
-[] Find someone interesting to talk to
-[] Write in
<< Omake: He sleeps in a sleep like death, Omake: What if Daryl was a Pyromaniac?, Index >>
[x] Small talk with Chandra and Liliana
-[x] Ask about Jace's parents not letting him come with
No. of votes: 4
JhonCollins, Prim the Amazing, Orisha91, Skewfiend
[X]Small talk with Chandra and Liliana.
-[X]Ask about someone new
No. of votes: 1
JoshieWoshie
[X]Small talk with Chandra and Liliana.
-[X] Ask about Nessa
No. of votes: 1
SuperSonicSound
[X] Small talk with Chandra and Liliana (Choose One)
-[X] Ask about Jace's parents not letting him come with
No. of votes: 1
Eri
-[x] Ask about Jace's parents not letting him come with
No. of votes: 4
JhonCollins, Prim the Amazing, Orisha91, Skewfiend
[X]Small talk with Chandra and Liliana.
-[X]Ask about someone new
No. of votes: 1
JoshieWoshie
[X]Small talk with Chandra and Liliana.
-[X] Ask about Nessa
No. of votes: 1
SuperSonicSound
[X] Small talk with Chandra and Liliana (Choose One)
-[X] Ask about Jace's parents not letting him come with
No. of votes: 1
Eri
1.3a Parental Restrictions
A quick inquiry into Jace's situation yielded a rather in-depth response from Chandra and Liliana.
"Jace's parents are very religious, and conservative, so he has a lot of rules on what he can and can't do. Basically, he can't do anything fun."
Liliana sets her coke down as she picks up from Chandra. "I can't really hang around Jace too much because they don't approve of my parents being gay. It's really annoying, and it puts a lot of pressure on Jace, since all he can really do is basketball, PG stuff like the park or the Fun Center, and studying. It's why he's a straight A student as well as being the best basketball player at Dryden."
[] Use magic in the conversation, 11 Magic available
(Choose One)
[] Continue Small talk with Chandra and Liliana (Choose One)
-[] Ask about Dack
-[] Ask about Nessa
-[] Ask about someone new
-[] Write in
[] Or Get up and introduce yourself to someone (Choose One)
-[] Go over and introduce yourself to Dack
-[] See what Nessa's thinking about
-[] Find someone interesting to talk to
-[] Write in
<< Omake: He sleeps in a sleep like death, Omake: What if Daryl was a Pyromaniac?, Index >>
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Gear
Set Moon to Ramming Speed!
Enhanced durability would let you use your strength longer, but would require another spell to reduce the bodies natural limits of strength usage. A spell to make you stronger, just makes you stronger.
Energy/Creation would do what it says on the tin, create energy. It would need upgrading of course, as base spells are generally pretty damn weak. And yes, you can transmute dirt into gold, but it will transmute based on mass, so a pound of dirt will give you a pound of gold. And unless you're using a high level spell, it will be a very dirty pound of gold, as it will only transmute the most common element of that pound of dirt, leaving all the other elements untouched.
It would require upgrading the spells, but yes, you can just make pure elements at will. But then you run into:
This.
They want Liliana to have a quality education, and an open mind.
2 XP in what spell? And what are you upgrading?
I'm assuming you mean either decreasing Efficiency's cost, or increasing Daryl's Magic.
Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
2XP into Daryl's magic, if that was unclear.
Gear
Set Moon to Ramming Speed!
Welp, we have one vote. Anyone else want to contribute? I really don't want to write an update with just one vote to go on.
Diomedea
A piece of the continent
- Location
- The interblag
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Continue Small talk with Chandra and Liliana (Choose One)
-[X] Ask about Nessa
-[X] if it can be done at this time, put 2XP into magic.
Information, then meet new person. (Knowing the relationships between people is essential for a social networker)