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Xander [Quest]: Reborn on the Hellmouth
- Thread starter Judge Mental
- Start date
[x] Magic
[x] Mental
[X] Do regular friend things. Push your friends to join a martial arts class with you- It's the sort of sport you can all participate in and learn from, after all. Also, try and figure out if you can teach Amy the basics of magic. But finally, make sure your friends stay inside after dark- They may joke about it, but you know what's going on in this city, and hell if you'll let your... Friends, minions, whatever- Be taken by it.
+ befriend redhead.
[x] Mental
[X] Do regular friend things. Push your friends to join a martial arts class with you- It's the sort of sport you can all participate in and learn from, after all. Also, try and figure out if you can teach Amy the basics of magic. But finally, make sure your friends stay inside after dark- They may joke about it, but you know what's going on in this city, and hell if you'll let your... Friends, minions, whatever- Be taken by it.
+ befriend redhead.
[x] More magic.
[x] More physical.
free action: [x] ask brier if she can check the other students for magic potential.
[x] More physical.
free action: [x] ask brier if she can check the other students for magic potential.
- Location
- Little Rock, AR
[x]Physical
[x]spiritual
[x]it's time to get some exercise! Run play, toss the balls around have fun and train to run.
[x] Be nice to the redhead. Desperate and lonely people are easily minionized. And Know it all ...well know it all. Minionizing Zelda in the past well how many problems would that have solved? Pretty much all of em.
[x]spiritual
[x]it's time to get some exercise! Run play, toss the balls around have fun and train to run.
[x] Be nice to the redhead. Desperate and lonely people are easily minionized. And Know it all ...well know it all. Minionizing Zelda in the past well how many problems would that have solved? Pretty much all of em.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
What he said. Besides, it seems like Cordelia is the only one we actually respect and think of as a friend. The other two still have the Minion tag.Tylenol said:
Judge Mental
Stranger In a Strange Land
[x] More magic practice.
[x] Even more social practice.
You have an interesting year. There is somewhat less free play and rather more active education going on, which gives you some opportunity to increase your knowledge base even without specifically focusing on it. Hanging out with Cordelia gives you all sorts of pointers on the social front, and Briar offers further guidance; having Larry around mostly helps you to avoid falling out of touch with how guys do things, and being totally submerged in a sea of estro-whatsit. Between your waking discussions with Briar and the guidance of your dreams, you make significant advances in your magic - you could take on an animal as big as Moblin at this point, if the need arose, with very good odds of victory. This progress once again has a price, however, with your previously brown eyes and hair taking on faint golden and reddish tints, respectively. In addition, your aura has expanded beyond your ability to rein it in. Everybody in class is aware of it to some extent, and most are obviously intimidated by you - Moblin's presence doesn't help - with the obvious exceptions of Amy and Cordelia: the former recognizes magical power for what it is; and the other girl simply refuses to be cowed. Luckily, your improved social skills offset the worst effects of your aura, so you don't drive Larry away or accidentally isolate yourself.
Gained Aura of Power E+++
Gained Intimidating E++
Gained Magical Prowess E+++
Gained Mental Prowess E
Gained Past Life Experience D++
Gained Social Prowess D
Gained Spiritual Prowess E
[x] Do regular friend things, encourage martial arts and staying in after dark, try to teach Amy magic, and be nice to the redhead.
On the social front, you look around for a place that offers martial arts lessons, and then push your three closest friends into joining you for class. Larry is all for the idea, and Cordelia surprises you by agreeing to it - something about flexibility, endurance, and acrobatics being good foundations for cheerleading. She drags her friend Aura and a couple of other girls along. Amy is reluctant, but shows up anyway; her mother apparently got wind of the offer, and thought it was a great idea. Mrs. Madison's reasoning, passed on by Amy, sounds a lot like Cordelia's. This immediately cements the older woman's place in Cordy's good book. While you don't take the training quite as seriously as you could have, it does yield some benefits. Your teacher - a little bald wrinkly smiling man who goes by "Lu-sensei" - seems to know what he's doing, though he keeps the lessons fairly simple. You are just kids, after all.
Gained Combat Prowess E
Gained Powerful Build E
Gained Physical Prowess E++
Forewarned about the dangers of the Hellmouth, you try to encourage common-sense safety consciousness in your friends. With Briar's help, convincing Amy is no problem, but Larry and Cordelia take a bit more convincing. You point out how half a dozen kids from your old daycare just stopped showing up without warning, playing up the mysterious side of the incidents, and that seems to convince Cordelia that she might as well humor you. Larry is resistant until you point out that you are bigger than him, you have a big aggressive dog, you've started learning martial arts, and you're still nervous about being out after dark - so he should be even more so. That seems to do it.
When you offer to teach Amy magic, she is curious, if not excessively eager. With Briar's help, you manage to instill the basics of Hyrulean magical theory into the girl over the course of the year. You also tell Amy about the Hellmouth, advising her against trying to tap into any of the local energy sources, which have been tainted by the chaotic spillover of multi-planar forces. Even your personal reserves are affected to some extent; fortunately, meditation helps filter out some of the contamination when you're actively casting, and Briar has long since taught you purification rituals to take care of the long-term effects.
Gained Minion Amy E
The extra time you're spending with Amy doesn't go unnoticed, and Cordelia makes you hang out with her and do what she wants a fair bit to make up for it. Between this and everything else you have on your plate, your efforts to get closer to the redhead largely come to naught. All you really learn is that her name is Willow Rosenberg, that she gets gold stars on just about every assignment, and that nobody in class seems to want to have anything to do with her - and she in turn wants nothing to do with them.
Little Zelda is growing well. She has watered-down Gerudo features at about the same level as yours - this is actually a good thing, since after several months of everybody who'd seen the two of you commenting on how you looked alike, a tension you hadn't noticed between your parents faded away. Your mother seems pleased that you're making friends, while your dad is obviously torn between approval and confusion; he doesn't seem to know what to make of the fact that more than half of your closest friends are girls. He likes Larry, though, and your request for martial arts lessons gets his support. Tony teaches you a little old-fashioned wrestling on the side, something Lu-sensei notes in later lessons and encourages, citing that a diverse skillset is a useful thing to have.
Having found one kid in your class who could see her, Briar is quite receptive to the suggestion of checking the entire group. Nobody else proves able to see her like Amy could, but almost a quarter of the kids had the same reaction that Cordelia and Larry did, like they could faintly hear somebody talking nearby. On a hunch, you ask the fairy to check Zelda once her vision improves, and your sister proves to have no trouble at all following your fairy companion.
Your birthday comes and goes, and summer draws near. Your real entry into the world of education is about to begin... but before that, your preschool class gets a visitor. A nondescript little man in a stuffy suit who carries a briefcase, smiles in a way that doesn't reach his eyes, and claims to have been sent to oversee a new educational aptitude test instituted by the state.
"He smells of magic," you note quietly to Briar. "Dark magic."
"He should," the fairy murmurs from her favored hiding place in your shirt pocket. "He's a demon."
[ ] What do you do?
[x] Even more social practice.
You have an interesting year. There is somewhat less free play and rather more active education going on, which gives you some opportunity to increase your knowledge base even without specifically focusing on it. Hanging out with Cordelia gives you all sorts of pointers on the social front, and Briar offers further guidance; having Larry around mostly helps you to avoid falling out of touch with how guys do things, and being totally submerged in a sea of estro-whatsit. Between your waking discussions with Briar and the guidance of your dreams, you make significant advances in your magic - you could take on an animal as big as Moblin at this point, if the need arose, with very good odds of victory. This progress once again has a price, however, with your previously brown eyes and hair taking on faint golden and reddish tints, respectively. In addition, your aura has expanded beyond your ability to rein it in. Everybody in class is aware of it to some extent, and most are obviously intimidated by you - Moblin's presence doesn't help - with the obvious exceptions of Amy and Cordelia: the former recognizes magical power for what it is; and the other girl simply refuses to be cowed. Luckily, your improved social skills offset the worst effects of your aura, so you don't drive Larry away or accidentally isolate yourself.
Gained Aura of Power E+++
Gained Intimidating E++
Gained Magical Prowess E+++
Gained Mental Prowess E
Gained Past Life Experience D++
Gained Social Prowess D
Gained Spiritual Prowess E
[x] Do regular friend things, encourage martial arts and staying in after dark, try to teach Amy magic, and be nice to the redhead.
On the social front, you look around for a place that offers martial arts lessons, and then push your three closest friends into joining you for class. Larry is all for the idea, and Cordelia surprises you by agreeing to it - something about flexibility, endurance, and acrobatics being good foundations for cheerleading. She drags her friend Aura and a couple of other girls along. Amy is reluctant, but shows up anyway; her mother apparently got wind of the offer, and thought it was a great idea. Mrs. Madison's reasoning, passed on by Amy, sounds a lot like Cordelia's. This immediately cements the older woman's place in Cordy's good book. While you don't take the training quite as seriously as you could have, it does yield some benefits. Your teacher - a little bald wrinkly smiling man who goes by "Lu-sensei" - seems to know what he's doing, though he keeps the lessons fairly simple. You are just kids, after all.
Gained Combat Prowess E
Gained Powerful Build E
Gained Physical Prowess E++
Forewarned about the dangers of the Hellmouth, you try to encourage common-sense safety consciousness in your friends. With Briar's help, convincing Amy is no problem, but Larry and Cordelia take a bit more convincing. You point out how half a dozen kids from your old daycare just stopped showing up without warning, playing up the mysterious side of the incidents, and that seems to convince Cordelia that she might as well humor you. Larry is resistant until you point out that you are bigger than him, you have a big aggressive dog, you've started learning martial arts, and you're still nervous about being out after dark - so he should be even more so. That seems to do it.
When you offer to teach Amy magic, she is curious, if not excessively eager. With Briar's help, you manage to instill the basics of Hyrulean magical theory into the girl over the course of the year. You also tell Amy about the Hellmouth, advising her against trying to tap into any of the local energy sources, which have been tainted by the chaotic spillover of multi-planar forces. Even your personal reserves are affected to some extent; fortunately, meditation helps filter out some of the contamination when you're actively casting, and Briar has long since taught you purification rituals to take care of the long-term effects.
Gained Minion Amy E
The extra time you're spending with Amy doesn't go unnoticed, and Cordelia makes you hang out with her and do what she wants a fair bit to make up for it. Between this and everything else you have on your plate, your efforts to get closer to the redhead largely come to naught. All you really learn is that her name is Willow Rosenberg, that she gets gold stars on just about every assignment, and that nobody in class seems to want to have anything to do with her - and she in turn wants nothing to do with them.
Little Zelda is growing well. She has watered-down Gerudo features at about the same level as yours - this is actually a good thing, since after several months of everybody who'd seen the two of you commenting on how you looked alike, a tension you hadn't noticed between your parents faded away. Your mother seems pleased that you're making friends, while your dad is obviously torn between approval and confusion; he doesn't seem to know what to make of the fact that more than half of your closest friends are girls. He likes Larry, though, and your request for martial arts lessons gets his support. Tony teaches you a little old-fashioned wrestling on the side, something Lu-sensei notes in later lessons and encourages, citing that a diverse skillset is a useful thing to have.
Having found one kid in your class who could see her, Briar is quite receptive to the suggestion of checking the entire group. Nobody else proves able to see her like Amy could, but almost a quarter of the kids had the same reaction that Cordelia and Larry did, like they could faintly hear somebody talking nearby. On a hunch, you ask the fairy to check Zelda once her vision improves, and your sister proves to have no trouble at all following your fairy companion.
Your birthday comes and goes, and summer draws near. Your real entry into the world of education is about to begin... but before that, your preschool class gets a visitor. A nondescript little man in a stuffy suit who carries a briefcase, smiles in a way that doesn't reach his eyes, and claims to have been sent to oversee a new educational aptitude test instituted by the state.
"He smells of magic," you note quietly to Briar. "Dark magic."
"He should," the fairy murmurs from her favored hiding place in your shirt pocket. "He's a demon."
[ ] What do you do?
- Location
- Little Rock, AR
Hum Demon, Educational Aptitude test hell mouth, us giving off magic like a skunk..... He's a fucking recruiter or marker. You should likely work on getting people to bomb that test or getting him to go away.
how is the question.
Oh and huh ouch. the color change was making them think momma cheated on him and stuff. Damn.
how is the question.
Oh and huh ouch. the color change was making them think momma cheated on him and stuff. Damn.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
Could you tell us what spiritual actually does?
ThatGazzer
Minds Eye Bind
- Location
- PNW
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Ask Blair if she knows anything. Do nothing, but watch him closely. Very closely.
Hm, evading the aptitude test by playing hooky is an option. As is simply killing the demon. The Mayor has been known to cut his losses sometimes.
On the other hand, if he's a recruiter, that's not so bad. I gather our actual magical aptitude is impressive to say the least but not necessarily something that will mark us for immediate elimination. My big concern would be that it's a demon, on a school campus, and demons tend to like to eat or kill people. I don't want to cheerfully skate underneath the thing's attention only to find out that it's eaten Willow because nobody was watching her.
[X] Try to keep an eye on the demon. Don't go to class if that's what you need to do.
On the other hand, if he's a recruiter, that's not so bad. I gather our actual magical aptitude is impressive to say the least but not necessarily something that will mark us for immediate elimination. My big concern would be that it's a demon, on a school campus, and demons tend to like to eat or kill people. I don't want to cheerfully skate underneath the thing's attention only to find out that it's eaten Willow because nobody was watching her.
[X] Try to keep an eye on the demon. Don't go to class if that's what you need to do.
- Location
- Little Rock, AR
Dude him being a recruiter is a bad thing. If he's the type of recruiter that thinks chained maleable brats make good magic fodder.drake_azathoth said:
Master Basher
hYPER Demon
- Location
- UK
[x] Be careful. Be very, very careful. He's a shady Demon after all.
-[x] Failing that, prepare. In case you have to... Remove the threat.
-[x] Failing that, prepare. In case you have to... Remove the threat.
Judge Mental
Stranger In a Strange Land
[x] Maximum stealth.
"Stay out of sight," you advise Briar in a low voice.
"Duh," she retorts, before tucking herself as far down in your pocket as she can go. Even her glow dims, to the point where it doesn't penetrate the light fabric of your shirt. "Dial down the aura, kiddo, and stay as far away from that creep as you can. I'll do what I can to help you hide, but if he's some kind of sensor..."
Briar doesn't need to finish that sentence. Taking her advice, you call on your spiritual training and suppress as much of your magical energy as you can. It's not exactly easy, less so for being something you've never really attempted before, and the results are less than perfect - you'd probably register as a strong, untapped talent if you were directly scanned like this. Then you dimly sense Briar doing... something. You're not sure what, but it causes your aura to diminish further, to a level akin to a weak untapped talent. That feels like it's about as good as you can hope for, under the circumstances.
Gained Spiritual Prowess E+
Quietly telling Moblin to stay at the back of the room, you sidle over to Amy and advise her of the situation. She looks horrified, and starts restraining her aura before you even suggest doing so. She doesn't have as much natural power as you do, and her control is pretty good, so she ends up disappearing from your senses altogether. Cordelia and Larry don't have the training to do anything about their auras, but on the other hand, what magical potential they have is fairly minor and entirely undeveloped. You know from Briar's little spree of "testing" that nobody else in the class is any stronger.
This is probably as good as it gets.
Your teacher instructs everyone to take a seat and get out an eraser - special pencils will be provided for the test. You and Amy pick a table about halfway back from the front, over by the windows, and Larry, Cordelia, and Aura join you momentarily. The demon, meanwhile, has settled in at the teacher's table, silently counted heads, and produced the appropriate number of test papers from his briefcase. You breathe a silent sigh of relief when your teacher hands these out. As you take your test, you can just dimly perceive a spell of some kind linking the paper and the pencil. The one on the paper is entirely passive towards you, but as soon as you touch the pencil, you feel it pulling at your aura. The sensation is feather-light, a whisper that you doubt you'd even notice if your magical training were any less advanced than it already is, and it doesn't feel hostile or coercive, just curious.
A two-part analysis spell, then. The pencil samples your aura and channels a bit of it into the paper, which preserves it for later, more detailed testing. You have to admit that it is a subtle and efficient method of weeding out potential magic-users on a large scale; you wouldn't even need a particularly skilled caster to create these tests or measure their results. Your inner tyrant approves of the practice in theory, but by the same token, you really don't like the idea of some demonic bureaucracy having a copy of your magical signature. There isn't much you can do about it now, though, unless you're willing to take a chance and enchant your test for later tracking and retrieval or destruction.
You glance at the demon. He's talking quietly with your teacher, occasionally peering at this or that student. You've not sensed any active use of magic from him since he entered, it's all been pre-enchanted items. The aura of dark magic you picked up before could have just been his essential nature, not a sign of actual mystical ability. Or he could just be really good at concealing his spellcraft. One point against him is the fact that he doesn't appear to have noticed Moblin.
Do you want to cast the tracking spell?
[ ] Yes.
[ ] No.
"Stay out of sight," you advise Briar in a low voice.
"Duh," she retorts, before tucking herself as far down in your pocket as she can go. Even her glow dims, to the point where it doesn't penetrate the light fabric of your shirt. "Dial down the aura, kiddo, and stay as far away from that creep as you can. I'll do what I can to help you hide, but if he's some kind of sensor..."
Briar doesn't need to finish that sentence. Taking her advice, you call on your spiritual training and suppress as much of your magical energy as you can. It's not exactly easy, less so for being something you've never really attempted before, and the results are less than perfect - you'd probably register as a strong, untapped talent if you were directly scanned like this. Then you dimly sense Briar doing... something. You're not sure what, but it causes your aura to diminish further, to a level akin to a weak untapped talent. That feels like it's about as good as you can hope for, under the circumstances.
Gained Spiritual Prowess E+
Quietly telling Moblin to stay at the back of the room, you sidle over to Amy and advise her of the situation. She looks horrified, and starts restraining her aura before you even suggest doing so. She doesn't have as much natural power as you do, and her control is pretty good, so she ends up disappearing from your senses altogether. Cordelia and Larry don't have the training to do anything about their auras, but on the other hand, what magical potential they have is fairly minor and entirely undeveloped. You know from Briar's little spree of "testing" that nobody else in the class is any stronger.
This is probably as good as it gets.
Your teacher instructs everyone to take a seat and get out an eraser - special pencils will be provided for the test. You and Amy pick a table about halfway back from the front, over by the windows, and Larry, Cordelia, and Aura join you momentarily. The demon, meanwhile, has settled in at the teacher's table, silently counted heads, and produced the appropriate number of test papers from his briefcase. You breathe a silent sigh of relief when your teacher hands these out. As you take your test, you can just dimly perceive a spell of some kind linking the paper and the pencil. The one on the paper is entirely passive towards you, but as soon as you touch the pencil, you feel it pulling at your aura. The sensation is feather-light, a whisper that you doubt you'd even notice if your magical training were any less advanced than it already is, and it doesn't feel hostile or coercive, just curious.
A two-part analysis spell, then. The pencil samples your aura and channels a bit of it into the paper, which preserves it for later, more detailed testing. You have to admit that it is a subtle and efficient method of weeding out potential magic-users on a large scale; you wouldn't even need a particularly skilled caster to create these tests or measure their results. Your inner tyrant approves of the practice in theory, but by the same token, you really don't like the idea of some demonic bureaucracy having a copy of your magical signature. There isn't much you can do about it now, though, unless you're willing to take a chance and enchant your test for later tracking and retrieval or destruction.
You glance at the demon. He's talking quietly with your teacher, occasionally peering at this or that student. You've not sensed any active use of magic from him since he entered, it's all been pre-enchanted items. The aura of dark magic you picked up before could have just been his essential nature, not a sign of actual mystical ability. Or he could just be really good at concealing his spellcraft. One point against him is the fact that he doesn't appear to have noticed Moblin.
Do you want to cast the tracking spell?
[ ] Yes.
[ ] No.
[x] No.
ThatGazzer
Minds Eye Bind
- Location
- PNW
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Yes.
Because we're SB, and we are paranoid.
Because we're SB, and we are paranoid.
samdamandias
Apprentice Plane Wizard
[x] No
It is not certain that we could pull it off.
It is not certain that we could pull it off.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
[x] No. We know they are going to be examining this stuff later to check if anyone has magical potential, they will notice a tracking spell eventually and they might be able to use it to find us. Now, on the other hand, if we can manage to get a tracking spell on his shoes and he doesn't notice it immediately we are probably safe.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
No, being properly paranoid would be doing our best to avoid their attention, not doing something that makes them much more likely to take an interest in us.MrGazzer said:
