Gear
Set Moon to Ramming Speed!
You get it all. 4 XP, a fate point, and this is now canon to the story. Grats.
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The Great One
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- Everywhere
Mwahahaha!
Right then, I'm adding how to spend my XP to the plan. Just rounding out some spell upgrades.
[X] Quest
Noticed I forgot to vote...
Edit: We might also want to download some teach-yourself (e)books. And physics/chemistry/etc textbooks. Maybe some science journals? I'm weary of downloading faulty information into our brain, so, you know peer reviewed stuff and actually published stuff would be good.
Noticed I forgot to vote...
Edit: We might also want to download some teach-yourself (e)books. And physics/chemistry/etc textbooks. Maybe some science journals? I'm weary of downloading faulty information into our brain, so, you know peer reviewed stuff and actually published stuff would be good.
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Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
I think it is only fair that I pitch my vote as well. This vote lays the groundwork for actually fixing the car. The internet spells are definitely worthwhile getting, but don't really help with our immediate goals. If they provide XP, that has never been stated, to my knowledge, and their benefits to speeding up the work on the car do not seem sufficiently pronounced to outweigh the delay they impose on actually getting the fixing spells.Let's make an attempt to sway voters to my side. My plan gives us a way to use the internet. With our mind! Our second mind even. This let's us leverage our Social Network Specialist perk at any time and any place.
We can also use this to access and directly download into our heads information from the internet. Like the information of car schematics, and quantum physics. With a combination of our mind spells, we can easily commit and understand the data as needed. We're a genius, remember?
I also have Precision Sensory Perception, which I notice Skewfiend doesn't. This spell let's us analyse and comprehend matter at the molecular level. Using this we can scan our own car, scan completed makes of our car and and use these scans along with the info gained from the internet and make up how to fix our car. We can do this part next turn, and then use a complete repair spell to fix it in one shot the turn after.
I earn more XP, while also planning for how to fix our car and accounting for the nearly non-existent chance that our social rep drops. Plus, next turn we can visit our mechanic friends with "looking at the completed car model" as an excuse. With that, we'll do all our social stuff as well as get the opportunity to scan the completed car model with PSP. It's win-win!
It also tests our mind spells on our mum, harmlessly allowing us to know their affects without actually hurting anyone.
If that's not enough? Well, I'd like to mention some totally unrelated things about myself. As per my avatar, I like blood. I have sharp teeth from which I can drink blood. I am small, fast and dangerous. I can smell you from a world away. I like killing slowly.This last part's a joke.
I did not get precision sensory perception this turn, as we won't really be in a position to exploit it until we have the spells that use it anyway, and it will be purchased along with the next spells in the series.
I would sugget that we start work on the information/internet spells once we are equipped to restore the car.
Edit: Your plan gives more XP, but it also has us neglecting social for the third week running, and not doing any work on the car. It is likely to start worrying our mother.
@Gear you never gave your verdict on this:
if it is not kosher, would a similar spell along the lines of just remaking work?
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Gear
Set Moon to Ramming Speed!
Make it 6 of all aspects and you'll be able to do basically anything matter related within the spells area of effect, if limited by your intelligence and creativity.
Gear
Set Moon to Ramming Speed!
You'll need more than just that spell of course. While it has complete control of matter inside an area, it's still following the directions of your mind. So you'll need a pretty hefty intelligence booster spell going, and know exactly what you want to make, and how to make it, to get precision work from it.
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The Great One
- Location
- Everywhere
So basically these?
Dominance of Matter (Lvl 2, Matter, CreationX6/ManipulationX6/Transmutationx6/Destructionx6) - The caster can sense, create and alter matter freely down to the molecular level.
Pre-req: ???
Cost: 61 XP + 2XP (Range) + 2XP (Duration)
Holy shit. That costs a lot, though it'll probably be worth it. Especially with enchantment later.
For the latter part, PSP and gathering info before hand should work?
For the intelligence boost, which of these work?
Mind Boost (Lvl 2, ManipulationX2/TransmutationX2)
Greatly increases the target's intelligence and speed of thought, allowing the target to handle greater amount of information in a lower amount of time.
Pre-reqs: Thought Excitation, Swift Thought
Cost: 5 XP + 3 Duration
Basically combine the pre-req spells into one and boosted their affect. Would it work in combination with the other aug spells to handle the intelligence part of Dominance? Either way, what kind of a bonus would it give us during magic actions?
Understanding (Lvl 2, Mind, ManipulationX3/Transmutation)
Allows the user to understand and comprehend any incoming information whether from spells or senses, as well as assimilate it into their knowledge base.
Pre-reqs: I'm telling ya, Commit
Cost: 6 XP
Basically knowledge theft, except with a different description.
For the intelligence boost, which of these work?
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Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
So, who who thinks that Amy is still alive?
She could merely be a latent magician using an unnoticeability effect in the style of Discworld's Susan, but some of the signs seem to be pointing towards her being an unknowing ghost.
Passing always unseen, unless she reveals herself is a classic ghostly trait.
Being, as far as anyone can tell, continuously absent from a school in which she is enrolled with no apparent ill-effects, as seems to be the case here, seems unlikely in the extreme.
Again, this could be accomplished by some sort of magical dickery, (maybe suffering the teachers to see her), but it is certainly consistent with the unwitting ghost hypothesis, if she continues to carry out the routines of her last days, which were spent at school.
Maybe I am overthinking this, probably because of the parallells with a certain Dragon Doctors story arc, but it is an interesting thing to think about.
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Gear
Set Moon to Ramming Speed!
Always good to see such debate and planning. Sadly, one vote short of ten though. Also, I'm getting rid of prereqs for the spells. You guys don't seem to remember they exist half the time anyway. Anyway, I added the ROM Memory Lock spell to your buy list, seeing as you needed something to make the photographic memories to use PIP on.
Yet more magic study, and another major expansion of his capabilities, Daryl felt that he had improved greatly over the last week, but it was rather boring. Not something he'd ever thought he'd say about studying magic, but Daryl's barely done anything beside school, eat, sleep, and magic study over the last week. Twice even, in slo-mo.
Also, Mom was looking a little curious about all the time he'd been spending stuck with his notebooks lately.
(37 XP spent, +24 XP gained, 29 XP Available, Magic is now 26, Regen is now 36, ROM Memory Lock has been bought, Photographic Inscription Procedure is bought and upgraded to last a few hours, and Uplink and Precision Sensory Perception have been bought and upgraded to last all day, with PSP's area of effect upgraded to about 6 feet.)
4th Week of School, 3 Regular Actions, 10 IEU actions, $900 available.
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Yet more magic study, and another major expansion of his capabilities, Daryl felt that he had improved greatly over the last week, but it was rather boring. Not something he'd ever thought he'd say about studying magic, but Daryl's barely done anything beside school, eat, sleep, and magic study over the last week. Twice even, in slo-mo.
Also, Mom was looking a little curious about all the time he'd been spending stuck with his notebooks lately.
(37 XP spent, +24 XP gained, 29 XP Available, Magic is now 26, Regen is now 36, ROM Memory Lock has been bought, Photographic Inscription Procedure is bought and upgraded to last a few hours, and Uplink and Precision Sensory Perception have been bought and upgraded to last all day, with PSP's area of effect upgraded to about 6 feet.)
4th Week of School, 3 Regular Actions, 10 IEU actions, $900 available.
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Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
This is precisely what I was warning you about, @Quest.
We can ill afford to spend all our time studying again, for a while.
Also, we might be well-served by adding another train of thought to IEU.
Is that cubic feet?
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Gear
Set Moon to Ramming Speed!
It was kind of boring to write. Also, since you guys went straight to your room for magic study, barely leaving it, you missed Amy entirely.
Perhaps I should put it as 'Everything within 6 feet of the spells target.
Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
Ah, radius. Excellent!
Diomedea
A piece of the continent
- Location
- The interblag
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- She/Her
Well, SV's classic mistake is to treat the MC as a video game character (like a sim), instead of a human being. Why aren't you happy? I've had you watch TV for a full 47.5 minutes! According to the math, that should be more than enough free time for the day, back to work, before you go to sleep to get the standard 8 hours (and no sleeping in!).
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The Great One
- Location
- Everywhere
Wouldn't Photographic Inscription Procedure work for that?
I'm not worried! It's more omake fodder! Plus, if you remember my omake takes place during a school day, while this is/was the weekend. Also, @Gear you haven't commented on the matter manipulation spells I proposed!
I was thinking of given her some magic or similar using my Fate point, but I'm unsure if that'll work.
Guys, guys! That was the weekend action! Just two days. The next week, which is this turn I am including a social action.
Plus? All the time we've spent studying? We can use it. Now that we have photographic memory, we can study magic in that time slot. Just have the note-books open or something. Though I dedicated an action to convincing our mom to drop it, anyway.
Here's a preliminary plan:
[X] Plan Quest Mk1
Free Actions:
[X]Using Magic (26 Magic, 36 Regen per day)
-[X] Cast Student's Boon and Incomparable Efficiency Upgrade throughout the Week (20 Magic used per day)
-[X] Cast Swift Thought and Thought Excitation throughout the Week (6 Magic per day)
-[X] Cast Uplink when your magic recovers.
[X] Attempt a harmless use of I'm just sayin' on our mother as a test. (Have we done this already @Gear? How did it go?)
[X]During the time you spend studying, photographically learn and memorise all of your text-books and note-books (or as well as you can) so that you can keep your new promise.
[X]Memorise your magic notes as well.
[X]Download epic theme music to play, because you totally deserve it.
[X] XP Distribution
-[]To be decided.
Social:
[X] Hang out with Freya and Jason. They should know where to find a complete car like yours, as well as where to check for mechanical plans. Make an outing of it.
-[X]When checking out the cars take a photographic copy of them with PSP and Photographic Inscription Procedure.
[X] Spend some time with family (One action, choose 1)
-[X] Nicole (Mother)
--[X] Ask her mother if you can drop the promise of compulsory studying every week. Tell her that you'll continue to study in your own time. Bring up your consistently improving grades, the fact that you have gotten into the habit of studying by yourself, and that you need the freedom to plan around your friends social calender. Promise her you'll definitely study by yourself each week and keep up your grades. If your grades fall, then you'll resume the schedule and won't bother her about it again.
Study:
[X] You put on your cape and wizard hat.
-[X] You expand you knowledge of the arcane that lies beneath the mortal world.
-[X]One action.
IEU Actions:
Study:
[X] You put on your cape and wizard hat
-[X] You expand you knowledge of the arcane that lies beneath the mortal world (one action, can be taken X times, gives X XP)
--[X] Nine times.
[X] While under the effects of Uplink, use your phone to surf the web.
-[X] Find and download into your mind, all the relevant information you can find on car manufacture and the model of your car in particular.
I also realised how much MP regen we're just wasting of sorts. So I thought of buying Skew's Always On. We'll just put the excess magic into the ritual, and slowly gain a hundred. This is particularly important because the new spells are fairly costly, so it's best to enchant them.
I'll wait until @Gear looks over the new spells before deciding what to buy.
Also, while I think we should I think there was something preventing us from buying more? I'm sure Gear mentioned something.
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We weren't smart enough to handle it at the time. We need to upgrade swift thoughts or some other int enhancing spells before we do it. At least that's how I remember it.
Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
He mentioned diminishing returns if we did not have photographic memories to work off.
Either way, we should be able to do another now.
Quest
The Great One
- Location
- Everywhere
Cool, I'll wait until he confirms and add it in. Any criticisms for the plan?
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The Great One
- Location
- Everywhere
Um..mind fuck?We're just trying out a spell that let's us read surface thoughts and a spell that let's makes her amenable to one request. We'll just try the first while randomly talking to her and the other for something harmless like getting us some water or something, to check how the spell actually works since we've never-ever used them and may need to some day.
Plus, yeah I've been wanting to do that too. I might add an IEU action.
Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
I'll give it a proper lookover, and maybe come up with an XP plan tomorrow.
SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
That's straight up putting the mind whammy on her. I don't see how you can call it anything else.
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The Great One
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- Everywhere
It's more influencing her, but yeah. It's just that consider "mindfuck" to be stronger, like destroying her mind, or making her our slave and sorts. This one is hardly that serious.
Either way, I'm not too attached. I only put it because some people mentioned it at some point and it's a free action. If people are squeamish about it, I'll remove it.