Punching through the Masquerade (Modern Magical Cultivation Quest)

[X] Retrieve one or more of the Books he suggested and purchase them. (Will do damage to your finances) (Opens ending the exploration turns)
-[X] The Hidden Fire (The Typhonian Current, Solid Pyromancy fundementals)
-[X] The Wheel of Elements (Excellent Magic Fundementals, decent Start to Ceremonial Magic, decent Start to Evocation)

Decent plan
 
[X] Retrieve one or more of the Books he suggested and purchase them. (Will do damage to your finances) (Opens ending the exploration turns)
-[X] The Hidden Fire (The Typhonian Current, Solid Pyromancy fundementals)
-[X] The Wheel of Elements (Excellent Magic Fundementals, decent Start to Ceremonial Magic, decent Start to Evocation)

All in all, pretty reasonable, and if we can write those names down we can pick up the other books later on when we're ready to expand on our fundamentals.

The Potions from the Witches guide is tempting as I'm betting that's Temp stat boosts. This is of course assuming this Shop is in fact the Real Deal.
 
[X] Retrieve one or more of the Books he suggested and purchase them. (Will do damage to your finances) (Opens ending the exploration turns)
-[X] The Hidden Fire (The Typhonian Current, Solid Pyromancy fundementals)
-[X] The Wheel of Elements (Excellent Magic Fundementals, decent Start to Ceremonial Magic, decent Start to Evocation)
 
I just like witches.

[X] Retrieve one or more of the Books he suggested and purchase them. (Will do damage to your finances) (Opens ending the exploration turns)
-[X] The Witch's Guide (Excellent Magic Fundementals, Decent start to Protection, Decent start to Cursing. full catalog of low-grade potions)
-[X] The Wheel of Elements (Excellent Magic Fundementals, decent Start to Ceremonial Magic, decent Start to Evocation)
 
[X] Retrieve one or more of the Books he suggested and purchase them. (Will do damage to your finances) (Opens ending the exploration turns)
-[X] The Hidden Fire (The Typhonian Current, Solid Pyromancy fundementals)
-[X] The Wheel of Elements (Excellent Magic Fundementals, decent Start to Ceremonial Magic, decent Start to Evocation)

Don't think we can afford to make potions with our current financial situation, though I think that's next up to my mind
 
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Scheduled vote count started by Useless Writer on May 18, 2023 at 5:31 PM, finished with 8 posts and 6 votes.

  • [X] Retrieve one or more of the Books he suggested and purchase them. (Will do damage to your finances) (Opens ending the exploration turns)
    -[X] The Hidden Fire (The Typhonian Current, Solid Pyromancy fundementals)
    -[X] The Wheel of Elements (Excellent Magic Fundementals, decent Start to Ceremonial Magic, decent Start to Evocation)
    [X] Retrieve one or more of the Books he suggested and purchase them. (Will do damage to your finances) (Opens ending the exploration turns)
    -[X] The Witch's Guide (Excellent Magic Fundementals, Decent start to Protection, Decent start to Cursing. full catalog of low-grade potions)
    -[X] The Wheel of Elements (Excellent Magic Fundementals, decent Start to Ceremonial Magic, decent Start to Evocation)
Useless Writer threw 1 100-faced dice. Reason: A Harried Exit? Total: 71
71 71
 
Yayifications for more content!

We will have book to devour and fundamentals to compare.
 
The Secret Script: Purchases and a harried encounter
The pair of books are wrapped in fine, waterproof paper and stacked in a bag. With a grimace you pulled forth your credit card. You knew this was gonna be expensive, but if it weren't for the extra shifts you'd picked up, the $150 you just spent would have been hunger inducing. Storing your acquisitions under your arm. You made for the exit.

"And where do you think you're going?" A thin, reedy voice asked as a weak hand gripped you by the arm. "You need to give your name to the Smallville Magical Community representative before you go."

"...why?" You asked as you beheld the bespectacled weenie looking you in the eye.

"To ensure we can make sure that you aren't breaking any of our rules of course." The weenie demanded. The fell gleam in his eye indicated you were not going to be able to just walk away from this. Especially as the curious glances from various patrons implied that what would transpire here would be known by the wider community.

(Congratulations! We get to test out combat. There are three forms, Social, Physical, and Spiritual. In each form of combat, the aggressor has one or more goals they would like to achieve, and the defender has to negate or overcome the aggressor's goals. )

The Bespectacled Weenie wishes to affect your reputation within the local magical community, by either subverting you to their group, or making you appear to be a coward. The results of this event would have a noticeable effect on your reputation within the local magical community, though whether positive or negative is unclear at this time given your unfamiliarity with their customs and practices and the relationship between the Smallville Magical Community and the wider community.

The Bespectacled Weenie appears to be preparing to Chastize(Uses his Yellow Bile) you.

How do you respond?

[ ] You Cajole (Uses your Blood)
[ ] You Retort (Uses your Yellow Bile)
[ ] You Ignore (Uses your Black Bile)
[ ] You Deflect (Uses your Phlegm)

[ ] What do you say? (Write in a specific response, may utilize mutliple stats)
 
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[X] You Deflect (Uses your Phlegm)

Deflect him with our Big Brain, that's our strongest stat after all.

Are there any, you know, effectiveness modifiers though?
 
[X] You Deflect (Uses your Phlegm)
[X] This is blatantly a shakedown, and this gang of his can't be very frightening if they're sending him.

This seems correct, yeah. None of these approaches are clearly tactically better than the others so we should go with our high stat.

EDIT: I'm fine with this being our deflection.
 
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[X] You Deflect (Uses your Phlegm)

Lacking too much information on the magic community to even begin a write in.

The Owner would have told us if such a thing was actually required, and given outer purchases our status as a Newbie is evident which means he's coming on way too hard to be legitimate.
 
[X] You Deflect (Uses your Phlegm)
[X] This is blatantly a shakedown, and this gang of his can't be very frightening if they're sending him.

Given our lack of info, let's default to our best stat.
Edit: And the burn.
 
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I don't know what the fuck a Smallville Magical Community is, but if it promotes the practice of weak men accosting cripples because they can't bully anyone else, I want no part of it.

[X] This is blatantly a shakedown, and this gang of his can't be very frightening if they're sending him.

(backup plan: if verbal burns don't stop him, we always have magical ones.)
 
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[X] You Deflect (Uses your Phlegm)
[X] This is blatantly a shakedown, and this gang of his can't be very frightening if they're sending him.

I'm always down to burn a bitch
 
[X] You Deflect (Uses your Phlegm)
[X] This is blatantly a shakedown, and this gang of his can't be very frightening if they're sending him.
 
[X] You Deflect (Uses your Phlegm)
[X] This is blatantly a shakedown, and this gang of his can't be very frightening if they're sending him.

Fuck this guy
 
A weenie... as in a sausage? Huh.

[X] You Deflect (Uses your Phlegm)
[X] This is blatantly a shakedown, and this gang of his can't be very frightening if they're sending him.
 
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