/builders/ - Hero and Nation Builders!

>>19969

Oh yeah, POST POST POST

Rolled 8, 62 = 70 (2d100)

1. 2. First I should head to the local electronics stores, there should be something there that will deliver a steady charge of electrical current for the creation of my lens.

Then find an internet cafe with actual outlets for power, crystallize some mana, plug in gizmo and apply to crystallized mana until a lens comes out. Drink coffee until its done.

http://pastebin.com/MKNKVPpn

Rolled 53, 87 = 140 (2d100)

>>19967

1) Go to the University, acquire job. Can/will teach Zoology.

2) Seek out a proper place to make a Nature Crystal for magic

"Audio Journal Entry, Greenlight 1

The journey to the city was successful, although the aforementioned issues prevented me from bringing along too many of my resources. However, I fully expect to be able to obtain proper employment here in Greenlight. I have a arranged a meeting with the local University, and my credentials impressed enough to get a meeting. Hopefully, there's a research professorship open. I wouldn't mind teaching again, either.

Alas, one of the things that I had to leave behind was my focus. I know how to make another, but finding an appropriate spot to make one is going to be as big a priority as finding non-magical work to support myself.

End entry."

Character sheet:

Name: Samuel Atkins

Age: 47

Gender: Male

Backstory: Professor Atkins used to be a professor of Zoological Genetics, messing around with animals of all sorts. When he discovered his magical abilities, he focused upon his area of science, using his magical powers and technological knowhow to enhance animals - and secretly, humans. He also has a fascination with naturally magical animals, and seeks to find them to learn what makes them tick.

School Name: The College of Animism.

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Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Healing (Basic), Detect Animals (Basic)

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 3

Bonus/Flaw:

Chimera Maker - Thanks to your knowledge on life you are better able to heal and merge life to create Chimera, but many people see this as unethical, especially when humans are involved.

Eddwaaard - Don't let people find out about the human experimentation.

Rolled 72, 66 = 138 (2d100)

>>19967

Character sheet:

Name: John Hicks

Age: 37

Gender: Male

Backstory: Finding out you have magic came as a great surprise to many - in most cases these surprises were pleasant. Not so for John: finding out he could command corpses and talk to passed-on spirits was quite traumatic, and the difficulties he faced when other people found he could talk to some of the dead were, if anything, even worse. The specifics of who exactly he can communicate with seem very shaky, but he still gets consultations from the GLPD's Homicide department on occasion. Other odd jobs include working with various museums and supplying manual labour with no questions asked, though those gigs don't tend to last.

School Name: Necromancy - manipulating and communicating with the dead

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Call Ghost (Basic), Create Undead (Basic, Ritual)

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 6

Bonus/Flaw:

Mr Bones - You have special permission by the city to create undead using donated corpses, or animals. They are only allowed on your property due to health concerns though, and people are trying to get that revoked too. This doesn't apply to the ethereal though.

Pitchforks and Torches - People generally don't like your magic and see it as a crime against nature.

1. See if I can get the husband to speak and make some money

2. Search for a cemetery-adjacent property so I can have a home base (where I can work legally and start crystallising mana)

Rolled 25, 62 = 87 (2d100)

>>19969

Name: Jeremy Sanner

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Backstory: Magic is a strange thing. It is fluid, and still a mystery to science. Not for long. Jeremy is a young post grad, his thesis used to be on the feasibility of a colony on Luna, and how to execute colonizing it. Something new has taken his interest of late. The new ability to control the elements, to be exact. Not the old Greek elements, no, the Bill Nye approved periodic table of elements.

School Name: Sanner Institute of Elementalism

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Transmute (Basic, Ritual, Expensive), Control Periodic Element (Basic)

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 1

Bonus/Flaw:

Science! - You know your theories and how to work a hypothesis. You also have a deal with The Central Pillar University to provide you a lab in exchange for you teaching classes. You don't get to choose your disciples, but get some aid from the University.

1) Going through his chemistry textbooks, a small chart hidden in it catches his eye. A list of elements, and their cost per pound. Tritium, a simple hydrogen atom with two extra neutrons, is worth a cool 13 million per pound. Time to start making some using Transmutation.

2) Sleeping in the lab has gotten a bit old, even if his chair is rather comfy. Jeremy takes it up with the dean, requesting a room on campus.

>>19975

1. Check for work - see if there's any job offers

Being able to command the dead is all well and good, but a man has to think about the practical things in life. Coming out from the job and getting into his car (a big black and boring sedan, most notable feature being the spacious trunk, which John deeply wishes he didn't know can fit a surprising number of skeletons), John checks his messages and property listings as his car follows the road into town - ever since being "asked to leave" rather hurriedly in the last city he lived in he's been looking for a new place. Although he acquired a licence to practice his talent here in Greenlight he's not been here long, and to legally practice his magic he needs his own property

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>19982

woops forgot d10 and starting location

even if it should be obvious:

either an old powerplant or radiation shielded complex designed for science and living in

(For best results whisk together until fluffy and bake at 5,778 Kelvin)

Rolled 25, 85 = 110 (2d100)

>Name: Deacon 'Colt' Emerson

>Age: 26

>Gender: Male

>Backstory: Before the revolution Colt was a biker, punk, and general no-do-gooder, on the wrong side of the wall. Then one day during a bar fight he accidentally lit a dude on fire and changed another guy into a goat. After learning of his gaining of magical powers he more or less shrugged it off and continued his life as a wandering tough guy. That was until a number of criminal charges caught up with him and he was given an ultimatum, be sentenced to spend the rest of his life in wizard prison, or open up school to teach the new generation of wizards how to use their powers 'responsibly'. They even set him up with a government funded facility and a court mandated magical parole officer to watch over his classes to make sure he doesn't violate his agreement. Bad side is she's a cunt who won't let him do anything fun. Good side is he's not getting raped in the ass by wizards/

>School Name: Colt's Discount School of Discount Magic

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Ignite (Basic), Polymorph (Basic)

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 1

Bonus/Flaw:

Either this or prison - your movements and research is heavily monitored by the police. One fuck up and 'Gandalf' is going to get to show you how big his 'staff' is.

What the fuck is it you teach? - Your name confuses people as it seems you don't teach any specific type of magic. It will be harder to recruit people.

1:"Welp… I guess I should go check in with my parole officer. They said she'd help me get started with finding a place to teach"

2:"Shit what am I gonna teach? Shit who am I going to teach? Uh first one's easier, lets practice this polymorphin stuff, doubt the government wants me teaching kids how to light stuff on fire."

Rolled 19, 39 = 58 (2d100)

>>19969

Character sheet:

Name: Patrick

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Backstory: Patrick spent a long time in his father's forge, and loved every minute of it. In his 18 years of life, he quickly learned the art of the craft, and was almost a master of the forge, in his own right. When he first heard of magic, he went and bought what was then known as a lens, and put it up in the forge. The next day, he went out to the forge, and created a sword. When he pulled it out of the cooling water, he walked over to his test dummy and gave it a swing. As the sword hit the dummy (as it was not sharpened yet), the dummy began to freeze. This was his first enchantment. After trial and error, he learned that he could enchant both things he made, and also things he did not, although the enchantments on things he made were 100x stronger.

School Name: Enchanting

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: [Knowledge: Infusion (Great)]

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 5

Bonus/Flaw:

Folded over 1000 times - You are a blacksmith, taught by your father. You usually make replicas for collectors, but now you have the ability to make more. You get a bonus to forging and smithing.>>19969

1. Well, since Patrick knows he needs to be able to create a wide variety of enchantments, he also knows he needs to have a few lenses. He researched online what to do, and could only get to the point ot putting solidified Mana near an elemental source, he decided to try it. He tries to create a Mana crystal, and place it near the fires of his forge.

2.He begins to wonder if he can get any students for smithing overall, and maybe he can get some of his father's old students to learn the art of enchanting.

Rolled 72, 79 = 151 (2d100)

Name: Abel Finnow

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Backstory: Abel Finnow came into his powers at the age of twelve, during which he was hosting his birthday party. During said party, he accidentally blew the head off of the beloved Bongo the Clown when he accidentally summoned an imp. Lovely stuff. Luckily Bongo lived alone and no charges were pressed due to it being an accidental magic related crime. From there things went a lot smoother as he moved further into the summoning arts.

School Name: Summoning

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Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Call Spirits (Basic, Ritual), [Knowledge: Spirits (Basic)]

Magic Your Teaching: Call Spirits (Basic, Ritual)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 10

Bonus/Flaw:

Bongo the Imp: Ever since that day that imp has been following you. It even put on clown make-up and shoes and begun to call you 'Clownslayer'. It won't help you for shit, it just likes to pester you and those close to you. At least it helps attract more spirits with just it's presence, too bad most of those are demonic.

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1. Go somewhere I can craft a lens. What's the use in being a magic user if I can't use magic?

2. Perform the ritual and see what I can pull through. Hopefully something big. I'll give it some mana to follow me. Maybe it knows some interesting magics. Also, Bongo stop licking my face.

Rolled 61, 59 = 120 (2d100)

>>19967

Name: Ken Gables

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Backstory: Ken worked as tech support, with martial arts being a major hobby of his. He noticed in both his job and hobby, it was not the strongest that typically got the most done, it was those who applied force efficiently. Brute force is nothing if not applied properly. When his magic kicked in he devoted to the study of how to apply his magic to best effect.

School Name: Gable's School of Applied Kineteomancy

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Enhance Strength (Basic), Enhance Agility (Basic)

Magic Your Teaching: Enhance Strength (Basic), Enhance Agility (Basic)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 7

Bonus/Flaw:

Wax on, wax off - You can also teach martial arts, and gain a bonus to researching magic affecting the user's body. Your students will expect you to teach them martial arts though.

1. Crystallize some mana

2. Work out and apply force to imbue it with the proper element.

Rolled 15, 29 = 44 (2d100)

1 - Before I can begin to bring the wild to civilization, I need to bring civilization to myself. I need a house. And to get a house, I need a job. I'm sure there are plenty of jobs for an aspiring mage with years of… onhand experience.

2 - Activate the crystals, just like the pixie said.

Name: Aife Morgan(e)

Age: 31

Gender: Female

Backstory: In 2020, Brian and Cianna Morgan moved to Greenlight, hoping for new opportunities in their life. With them came their youngest child, Aife. Aife was always a precocious youth, quick to tantrum and short of tolerance. Her sole grace was her love of the forests, which even in her youth had already begun to return. As she grew up, she blistered against the authoritative nature of her parents and education, frequently prone to outbursts.

Her parents were dismayed at how she threw away the opportunities they had worked so hard to provide, but they couldn't reach her. At the age of 17, she left home, seemingly for good.

At the age of 25, her fervors were, in her mind, finally justified by the return of magic. Despite a newfound power among the beasts and plants, the stars and stones, the secret ways of the forests, she was still as headstrong and fiery as ever. Aife returned to Greenlight, having molded her anger and distemper into a singular purpose: to ensure people understood the beings of myth, and to ensure they respected - and feared - the Old Ways.

School Name: Druidry

Location: Suburbs/outskirts of the metropolis

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Animal Shape (Basic), Grow Plants (Basic)

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 8

Bonus/Flaw:

Magic Hippy - you are a practitioner of the 'Old Ways' at least that is what the sprite you learned the basics from said, although he did think you were a duck. Either way you gain strength when near plants and wildlife and rituals are easier to preform in the wilds.

Character sheet:

Name: Samantha Towers

Age: 22

Gender: Female

Backstory:

When she was a young girl, Samantha would always complain to her mother that she somtimes "heard people singing", even when it was completely quiet. As she grew older, the voices and singing would get louder, more common, and she knew if she went to certain places or did certain things, she could hear them higher.

It was the most beautiful song she ever heard, like millions of voices softly singing a great symphony, the sound of every truth and beautiful thing she knew echoing everywhere.

She was, unknowingly, listening to magic itself, mana, the harmonious energy of the planet as it coursed through the air, the ground, and leylines of the world.. She was particularly sensitive to it.

Until one day, she decided to sing with it. It happened that she was playing with a toy pony, and heard the song again. She sung, and in her words spoke about the horse, it's wonderful flowing mane, it's strong muscles, how it galloped on the fields. And the horse sprang to life and galloped before her even as she sang.

That was the first instance of her channeling raw mana into an object. Over the years, many more strange occurrences would happen. Channeling raw mana into objects around her and causing strange events, she found herself more and more secluded and ostracized from her friends and family. One day after her parents shouted at her furiously she ran away from home, tears streaming.

Then she met able Abel. He didn't seem to mind her singing. He seemed to like it! His friends did too, they /loved/ her singing. They were so kind and would always like to hear it. Now she sticks by him, happily singing her song to someone who would hear it.

School Name: Enchanting

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Animate Object (Basic, Concentration), [Knowledge: Infusion (basic)]

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 5

Bonus/Flaw:

Modern day bard - You get a bonus to magic rolls and magic research rolls when you sing, but you must type out the song you sing. You also have a good singing voice under normal circumstances.

>>19982

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Microwave (Basic), Lead Body (Basic, Concentration)

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 7

Bonus/Flaw:

I'm the bomb - Your good with radiation, which makes scientists VERY interested in you. Radiation elemental crystals are hard to make and dangerous to carry, but you suffer no ill effects. There is the small problem of people being scared shitless about you being a walking nuke though.

and I'm 'bout to blow up - Crit fails to research radiation magic will end quite catastrophically.

You are in your cell/test chamber/ living power generator room. It's been a few hours since the scientists last asked you to do something so you have a bit of time to yourself.

Rolled 858, 11 = 869 (2d1000)

>>19969

1) I need a lens and some material for golems. If I use clay for the lens then I can use the clay again to make an assistant golem.Go downstairs and purchase a ball of clay about 2 feet wide [Buy Clay Ball]

2) Create a mana crystal and place it in the centre of the ball [Create Lens]

Rolled 5, 91 = 96 (2d100)

>>20071

Excuse my noobness and sorry for the d1000

Rolled 45, 94 = 139 (2d100)

>>20009

>>20066

1. Head with Abel to make a lense.

"Abel. . .what is a lense?"

2. Abel is doing that thing again where he calls on his friends!

I should write a song about friends. Maybe Abels friends will be able to hear me singing and come faster.

Rolled 43, 19 = 62 (2d100)

>>19968

"Shit."

Despite my vehemence, the word doesn't really do my irritation justice.

"Agh. Fuck!" I turn around and kick the wall in frustration, the toe of my boot bouncing off harmlessly. Things could obviously be worse—it could be winter, for one—but I didn't even DO anything this time! Hell, I'd been having a pretty good day, and that was a rare thing recently. Fucking landlord.

I take a deep breath, and it does about as much to calm me down as I expected, which is to say it does practically nothing. Fine. Let's see how that stupid crackhead likes a taste of their own medicine. Payday was a few days ago, which means that they're is going to be getting high either tonight or soon. I like to think of myself as a pretty fair person, but that asshole has gone after me over stupid shit for long enough that I feel fully justified in making his next trip the worst one he's ever had.

To do that, though, I'm going to need a lens, and to get a lens I'm going to need some suffering. Physical, mental, the kind doesn't much matter, but I'm going to need a lot of it. It looks like I'm taking a trip to the hospital.

1. Go to the hospital and snag a clean blade of some sort, get a drop of my own blood to crystallize mana and serve as a focus for my lens.

2. Do some volunteer work to get close to the patients, and feed their pain to the solidified mana in my droplet of blood to form a lens from it.

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Character sheet:

Name: Rebecca Silva

Age: 25.

Gender: Girl.

Backstory: Rebecca had always been poor, but she'd in a good-enough place and slowly saving money until her subconsciously shoving her aches, pains, and exhaustion onto her coworkers garnered her a substantial-enough aura of "unpleasant to be around" that she was laid off. She's gotten a bit more experience with her powers in the months since, but now she's on the verge of homelessness and only getting worse, and she wants to find control over her abilities so that she can be sure she never uses them unintentionally again. With luck, she'll even be able to make some money off of them.

School Name: School of Scapegoating.

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Inventory: 1000 Credits

Property:

Known Magic: Control Emotions (Basic), Give Pain (Basic, Concentration)

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 8

Bonus/Flaw:

Oh the Illegality! - Your magic isn't legal in any sense. Best not let the cops catch you.

Time Bomb - you don't have full control of your magic yet, while you are untrained when you have a lens with you on low rolls you will lash out randomly with spells.

>>20090

When do I ever say no? Get in here.

>>20088

"It's a focus point, making for reliable mana channeling. You need one for casting proper."

>>19969

'I don't have a location.

>>20143

You start in the Central Tower Mall. Have fun.

Rolled 89, 3 = 92 (2d100)

>>19968

Name: Antonius ,previously Anthony Hopkins

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Backstory: Originally a student of history Anthony delved deep in to magical history after the worlds (and his own) transition researching magical beliefs and rituals from history with the goal of replicating them to find what was real and what was mere showmanship. Almost his entire research grant is spent on acquiring old grimoires and texts written by supposed miracle men and pariahs as well as the study of magic related dieties. Anthony is so obsessed in the history of magic that he feels modern influences will sully his results and refuses to perform any act involving modern conveniences beyond a typewriter for notes and even wears handsewn robes over his thankfully modern undergarments.

School Name: Historical Occultism

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Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Know Language (Basic), Detect Magic (Basic)

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 2

Bonus/Flaw:

Put on your Robes - You refuse to follow many modern trains of thought for magic, and keep your use of personal modern technology to a minimum. You can't learn magic from other magic users, unless they are of the same or similar schools, but you can learn powerful magic from ancient texts and ruins.

And Wizard Hat - You have a deal with the university where you can easily get research material from far away, but you don't get a choice of disciples.

Arriving to his offices for the first time Antonius is in distress

"These offices are atrocious whoever they brought in to reconstruct a 13th century study missed the whole point of it. The glass in these windows were produced using methods from after 1500 ad, who knows what the distortions of light will do to my projects and this atrocious flooring seems to be machine sewn. That will have to be brought up at the next budget meeting."

"Nonetheless I must produce some satisfactory results before i meet with those dreadful students"

After spending the next few hours ripping out the electrics and then being yelled at by the maintenance staff while unloading his personal library Antonius was finally ready to be a professor in this horribly modern establishment.

1. My current work is on the existence of mythological deities. I will once again send messages to the Museum of Natural History to go through their storage rooms and study some of the more esoteric objects and prove a direct link to more powerful spirits.

2. I need my power conduit. I will begin studying through my current library to find anything related to the construction of a magical crystal.

Rolled 3, 66 = 69 (2d100)

>>20151

Thanks boss.

Name: Von Richard III

Age: 46

Gender: Male

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Pact (Basic) [Knowledge: Mana Absorption (Basic)]

Magic Your Teaching: Pact

Disciples: 0

Renown: 10% (How many people know of you)

Influence: -5% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 8

Bonus/Flaw:

A man of your word - Mana is a powerful force and is hard to take by force, you find it easier to pay off people to allow you to take a bit of mana. You find it easier to make buisness deals with Sprites and people alike.

1.First thing I must do is set up shop. Thankfully I have found the mall already let us peruse the area and find a location suitable for both teaching my soon to be students and to once again open a mana dealing business.

2.While I am searching for an office/dojo I keep my hand in my bag and subtly syphon mana in small amounts from the people around me into mana crystals. Some starting capital would do well. Be careful though take too much from someone and they will quickly notice the difference. But do it right and no one will sense what they are missing.

>>20159

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Increase Perception (Basic, Concentration), Harden Body (Basic, Concentration)

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 2

Bonus/Flaw:

I know Kung Fu! - You are a master of martial arts, you can teach people martial arts, get a bonus for fighting, and can concentrate on two spells at once.

Bumpkin - You are from Bumfuck Germany and have lived under a rock your whole life. You get a negative to dealing with technology and usually have no idea what modern issues are.

You start on the outskirts of the industrial district in what is termed the Hobby Shops, as it is mainly consisted of small shops usually owned by hobyists.

Rolled 94, 27, 77, 9, 19 = 226 (5d100)

In other news:

1. City News 1

2. City News 2

3. World News 1

4. World News 2

5. ?????

Rolled 4, 22 = 26 (2d100)

>>20159

Name: Hans Gruuman

Age: 32 Years

Gender: Male

Backstory: See first post in thread

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

School Name: Lethal Weapon (The Human Body and Alteration Magic)

Property:

Known Magic: Increase Perception (Basic, Concentration), Harden Body (Basic, Concentration)

Magic You're Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 2

Bonus/Flaw:

I know Kung Fu! - You are a master of martial arts, you can teach people martial arts, get a bonus for fighting, and can concentrate on two spells at once.

Bumpkin - You are from Bumfuck Germany and have lived under a rock your whole life. You get a negative to dealing with technology and usually have no idea what modern issues are.

Location: Hobby Shops outside industrial area

1. I've heard of the other teachers and their grand academies and gymnasiums. A person needs nothing other than nature to hone their body to perfection. The first thing I'll do is go location scouting in the area to see if there are any parks, abandoned buildings, or areas permanently "under development". Unowned forested areas are preferable, but I am willing to purchase a location using a degree of my funds, should it come to that.

2. When one is in possession of nothing more than solid ground and their own health, they can turn themselves into a potent weapon. My next course of action will be intense physical training and meditation. Perhaps, with time, the secrets of my abilities will unveil themselves.

>>19971

You decide to go to an internet cafe to make your lense without buying anything, the amount of people on their phones and other devices all being used was enough to get you what you needed. The gem is small and light yellow in color, uncut but remarkably clear, every now and then you can see electricity crackle within it. +Small Weak Electricity Mana gem

>>19972

You got the job, but you think it was mainly for the fact your are a magic user. + University Job, lab assistant: +1015 Credits every 14 turns.

After getting the job you decide to check out the lab, which happens to be in the local nature reserve. An hour of riding on the mag-rail later and you find yourself at the entrance of a heavily forested area, the small lights darting between trees marking the nature spirits. When you create a mana gem it takes on the nature element remarkably fast. The gem is small and a deep green in color. It is completely opaque and gives off a sent of pines, flowers, and mountain winds. +Small Nature Mana-gem.

>>19975

You find some easy work with the police. They need to narrow down some leads with a dangerous gang, and some of their dead members could tell them where some bodies are hidden. Easy enough to do, as long as they arn't too obstinate. The job pays 5,000 Credits, and a bit of help with your housing problem. There is this old home near the graveyard, that some say is haunted, and between you and the clerk your talking to is definitely haunted. It was a older model home where some suicides happened and the city wants rid of it since no one wants to buy it. The chief will put it in as a bonus if you get all the body locations from the ghosts, but if you don't you need to chose the credits or the house.

>>19977

Well it was a good idea, but you don't have a lense, or not nearly enough mana. At least the dean gives you a bit of pity and gives you an unused dorm room. +Dorm room key.

>>20003

Well, first you realize that you are going to need to make a lense to even practice magic. Second you realize that the police really don't like you. Your parole officer is Fred, a large African American man with a shaved head and large shades, which he seems to wear everywhere, named Mike, or Officer Jefferson to you. It becomes quite obvious he has heard about you, and does not like you at all. You arn't going to be getting any help from him. He seems more the type to throw you back in your cell with Gandalf. Well, it could be worse.

>>20088

>>20066

"Specters, Wraiths, Ghouls, and Spirits.

Descend from the Void above, from perpetual storm.

Phantoms, Shades, Wisps, and Demons.

Arise from Abyss bellow, into tangible form!"

>>20007

You create a small mana gem then go talk to some of your father's students. Unsurprising none of them can use magic. The day doesn't get better when you find the element didn't stick to the gem. +small Mana-gem.

>>20008

Good news is you bothered enough people that the police chased you away. Bad news is you don't have a place to stay as all the places that are available in the area are taken by other homeless, or are in the light garden.

>>20009

(You are going to need to specify an element if you want to make a lense)

You know that you are going to need more supplies for the ritual and different spirits need different things to attract them. The most basic thing is chalk or paint though, mixed with mana. You think paint would be easier. Blood would work too, if you want to want to summon a demon, although the legality of that is questionable at best.

>>20026

(It only really takes one action to make a mana gem with an element affinity)

To make a mana gem infused with kinetic element you would have to make it experience pure kinetic force for a long period of time, and you do not have the equipment for that. You can easily infuse a gem with mind or body element though, which will work for the spells you know. (free action to chose/ decide something else next turn)

>>20053

You realize a couple of things, for one the pixie is a liar and you don't need to shout what you have been shouting to do anything with magic, and another you don't have enough money to buy a house. You can't even rent an apartment.

>>20071

(Negatives applied for not posting stats or backstory with post)

After tripping over a lot of things in the store, and being forced to pay for what you broke, you lost a lot of money and are banned from the store. -600 Credits.

At least you made a strong enough mana gem to do what you would have needed. +small mana-gem.

>>20077

You read up on your text books, don't want to fall behind other people your age just because your locked up in a nuclear lab/reactor. The rest of the day you spend playing a bit of playbox. Cheap scientists couldn't even be bothered to buy a normal XBox or Playstation. The chinese knockoff broke after the first hour and the scientists doused you with sleep agents when you talked about experimenting with your magic. Well, tomorrow is a new day, maybe then.

>>20088

You hardly need Abel to tell you what a lense is. It is almost instinctual to every magic user, you just need to choose an element. (It also doesn't use an action to talk to people near you)

You sing your quick song, and nothing big happens. Bongo does jump on you and cling to your waist, and he seems VERY happy to see you.

>>20089

That is a lot to do in a day, and you can't do it all. You are able to get a clean blade from one of your neighbors, who was high as balls, and make a weak blood mana gem. The gem is blood red and opaque, when you look at it you feel a bit afraid for unknown reasons. +small weak blood mana-gem

>>20160

(you know how to make mana gems if that is what your second action is for)

Your in luck! The museum has a large amount of ruins from three locations of interest. There are many items of Native American origin such as totem poles and other cultural relics. There is also some pieces of Mesoamerican origins, although much of what they have is only copies. They do have some relics from ancient Egypt, and even have a mummy! They invite you to come any time you want and have a look, as long as the relics are returned to them.

>>20222

(negative applied to not posting backstory)

Apparently someone recognized you, and rumors have begun to spread. It is going to be much harder to get anything done now. -5% Influence.

>>20427

You find a nice place, but have no money to buy it with. As well meditation isn't needed, especially when you were told the basics of magic already.

Rolled 73, 85 = 158 (2d100)

>>20716

Name: Ken Gables

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Backstory: Ken worked as tech support, with martial arts being a major hobby of his. He noticed in both his job and hobby, it was not the strongest that typically got the most done, it was those who applied force efficiently. Brute force is nothing if not applied properly. When his magic kicked in he devoted to the study of how to apply his magic to best effect.

School Name: Gable's School of Applied Kineteomancy

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Enhance Strength (Basic), Enhance Agility (Basic)

Magic Your Teaching: Enhance Strength (Basic), Enhance Agility (Basic)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 7

Bonus/Flaw:

Wax on, wax off - You can also teach martial arts, and gain a bonus to researching magic affecting the user's body. Your students will expect you to teach them martial arts though.

(Free) Body crystal

1. Work on my martial arts

2. Make a mind mana crystal

Rolled 56, 21 = 77 (2d100)

1. Now that I can do magic again its time to go find a job. I'm thinking bodyguard. Best bet is to find someone who needs a status symbol instead of actual protection. Lots of money, very little risk. Since I am in an internet cafe it should be easy enough to put up an ad.

2. Just in case the client manages to actually get into trouble I think I'll go looking for a gun and a vest. It'll clean me out probably but you can't be too careful.

http://pastebin.com/MKNKVPpn

>>20398

News: (It is a free action to read more, these things are stuff that happened during this turn)

Multiple headlines pop up through the day

New Exhibit opens up in the North Tower Museum:

A new exhibit has been opened in the North Tower Museum of art by renowned artist and Magic User Pierre Girard. The exhibit shows the great potential of magic in the arts with many phyiscs defying sculptures and living paintings. Would you like to know more?

Monster on the loose!

A monster has been spotted near the North West industrial complex. Authorities warn that it is still on the loose and it's abilities are unknown. Would you like to know more?

First magic engine created.

The German Institute of Engineering with the aid of renowned Mage Engineer, Dr. Gustav, have created an engine that is powered solely through magic. Would you like to know more?

Dragon Class Monster disrupts South Atlantic trade.

A dragon class monster has begun to harass trade lanes running through the south Atlantic. It's motives are unknown, but entire ships have been known to be taken by it. Would you like to know more?

Post!

>>20728

Quick thing, turns are a day each.

Rolled 54, 47 = 101 (2d100)

>>20728

Character sheet:

Name: Samuel Atkins

Age: 47

Gender: Male

Backstory: Professor Atkins used to be a professor of Zoological Genetics, messing around with animals of all sorts. When he discovered his magical abilities, he focused upon his area of science, using his magical powers and technological knowhow to enhance animals - and secretly, humans. He also has a fascination with naturally magical animals, and seeks to find them to learn what makes them tick.

School Name: The College of Animism.

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Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License, Small Nature Mana-gem

Property:

Job: University with lab assistant, +1015 credits/14 turns [1/14]

Known Magic: Healing (Basic), Detect Animals (Basic)

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 3

Bonus/Flaw:

Chimera Maker - Thanks to your knowledge on life you are better able to heal and merge life to create Chimera, but many people see this as unethical, especially when humans are involved.

Eddwaaard - Don't let people find out about the human experimentation.

Free Action: Read News about Monster on the Loose

Action 1: Familiarize self with lab, assistant, and other staff. Be friendly!

Action 2: Seek housing near the lab. If there's assistance from the University for housing, take advantage of that.

"Audio Entry, Greenlight 2.

Interview went well. Research position, no teaching needed. A lab and an assistant. Went to check out the area, right near some woods. Perfect place for making a mana gem, so I don't forsee any issues; already made a decent one. Going to have to leave constructing a proper focus later, though. Today I'm going to inspect the lab facility itself, and introduce myself to my assistant and the staff there. Once I've done that, need to secure housing. I could live in the lab, but would prefer… not to. For obvious reasons. Would prefer to find a place with a basement, but this is California. They don't have basements here normally.

Endlog."

Rolled 31, 6 = 37 (2d100)

Name: Abel Finnow

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Backstory: Abel Finnow came into his powers at the age of twelve, during which he was hosting his birthday party. During said party, he accidentally blew the head off of the beloved Bongo the Clown when he accidentally summoned an imp. Lovely stuff. Luckily Bongo lived alone and no charges were pressed due to it being an accidental magic related crime. From there things went a lot smoother as he moved further into the summoning arts.

School Name: Summoning

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Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Call Spirits (Basic, Ritual), [Knowledge: Spirits (Basic)]

Magic Your Teaching: Call Spirits (Basic, Ritual)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 10

Bonus/Flaw:

Bongo the Imp: Ever since that day that imp has been following you. It even put on clown make-up and shoes and begun to call you 'Clownslayer'. It won't help you for shit, it just likes to pester you and those close to you. At least it helps attract more spirits with just its presence, too bad most of those are demonic.

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Abel swats Bongo off Samantha. Little shit was getting obnoxious. Well yesterday was a waste and he was still a bum. Doesn't matter, that would be changed today. "Samantha, I need you to go get some paint from the store and meet me at the church. I'm going to make a holy lens and we're going to summon some angels."

1. Abel goes to find an employer, seeing if he could get some high pay in return for a summoning. Hopefully they wanted something expensive and strong. If he got prepaid he would be quite happy.

2. Try creating a lens again. Heading to the church, he sits through mass then goes to speak with the priest. If he will bless the lens and imbue it with holy magic, Abel promises to summon an angel for the priest.

Rolled 36, 49 = 85 (2d100)

Name: Joseph "The Bum" Zhou

Age: 50?

Gender: Male

Backstory: Joseph, is, without a doubt, the most notorious vagrant within Greenlight and possibly the only vagrant that manages to evade the authorities. He is a mixture of traveling ascetic, vulgar criminal, troll, and eccentric. Often compared to a "modern Diogenes" or a "cynical postmodern yogi", Joseph generally stumbles around the city annoying tourists and practicing his eccentric school of magic for similarly strange reasons while being entirely drunk or high. This makes Joseph unreliable, but he has a good heart - at least, generally. The worst thing that could be said about the man is that he's often too distracted by booze and alcohol to develop his skills…

School Name: Hobomancy

Location: Light Park Homeless Shelter

Inventory: 1000 Credits

Property:

Known Magic: Detect Booze (Basic), Snatch (Basic, Random)

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 5

Bonus/Flaw:

Homeless - many people will overlook you and what you do, although your school of magic isn't exactly legally allowed, but what do you care? You get the general flaws the homeless get.

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Actions

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1. Joseph notices a large dog following him around. He tries to feed it and make it his friend. Joseph names the cat "Descartes" because he thinks it's fitting. Descartes seems pretty smart, and Joseph tries to feed him with some scavenged chicken. [Befriend a cat]

2. After that, Joseph tries to establish a proper barrel/lair somewhere reasonable (again). He sort of wanders around for a bit. [Establish barrel lair]

Rolled 57, 64 = 121 (2d100)

>>20724

Name: Hans Gruuman

Age: 32 Years

Gender: Male

Backstory: See first post in thread

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

School Name: Lethal Weapon (The Human Body and Alteration Magic)

Property:

Known Magic: Increase Perception (Basic, Concentration), Harden Body (Basic, Concentration)

Magic You're Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 2

Bonus/Flaw:

I know Kung Fu! - You are a master of martial arts, you can teach people martial arts, get a bonus for fighting, and can concentrate on two spells at once.

Bumpkin - You are from Bumfuck Germany and have lived under a rock your whole life. You get a negative to dealing with technology and usually have no idea what modern issues are.

Location: Hobby Shops outside industrial area

1. If I can't buy this place with my current hoard, I'll have to find some way to make the money I need. Perhaps there's a martial arts tournament in the area. [spoiler]Perhaps, in true 80s Saturday morning cartoons fashion, the prize is the exact amount of money I need to buy the place.

2. While I was location scouting, I came across some interesting areas. I want to investigate the hobby shops nearby, as well as the industrial district if possible.

Free action: Investigate the monster. Surely, there will be dozens, if not more than a hundred people who are more qualified to investigate this monster business, but it'd be good to know what's what. Besides, if it's near an industrial complex, it could be near me! (I don't know if I'm Northwest or not/)

Rolled 67, 16 = 83 (2d100)

>>20724

Name: Antonius ,previously Anthony Hopkins

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Backstory: Originally a student of history Anthony delved deep in to magical history after the worlds (and his own) transition researching magical beliefs and rituals from history with the goal of replicating them to find what was real and what was mere showmanship. Almost his entire research grant is spent on acquiring old grimoires and texts written by supposed miracle men and pariahs as well as the study of magic related dieties. Anthony is so obsessed in the history of magic that he feels modern influences will sully his results and refuses to perform any act involving modern conveniences beyond a typewriter for notes and even wears handsewn robes over his thankfully modern undergarments.

School Name: Historical Occultism

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Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Know Language (Basic), Detect Magic (Basic)

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 2

Bonus/Flaw:

Put on your Robes - You refuse to follow many modern trains of thought for magic, and keep your use of personal modern technology to a minimum. You can't learn magic from other magic users, unless they are of the same or similar schools, but you can learn powerful magic from ancient texts and ruins.

And Wizard Hat - You have a deal with the university where you can easily get research material from far away, but you don't get a choice of disciples.

1. I'll need my mana crystal to teach the ingrates [produce a fire element mana crystal]

2. I still have time before the semester begins and must attend the museum before becoming bogged down in paperwork (will need to contact the school about acquiring some scribes to handle grading). The mummy can wait but any religious artifacts will have to be sorted [go to the museum with intent of rifling through their Egyptian materials]

Rolled 42, 81, 61 = 184 (3d100)

1/2 - Of course, the stifling chokehold of the Almighty Credit. Capitalism extends its corrupting hand, drawing me in. But I have little choice. Dismantle it from the inside, as they say. Fine. I'll just have to get a job, there must be people in the market for someone with talents like mine.

3 - Produce mana crystals pls

>>20716

Name: Aife Morgan(e)

Age: 31

Gender: Female

Backstory: In 2020, Brian and Cianna Morgan moved to Greenlight, hoping for new opportunities in their life. With them came their youngest child, Aife. Aife was always a precocious youth, quick to tantrum and short of tolerance. Her sole grace was her love of the forests, which even in her youth had already begun to return. As she grew up, she blistered against the authoritative nature of her parents and education, frequently prone to outbursts.

Her parents were dismayed at how she threw away the opportunities they had worked so hard to provide, but they couldn't reach her. At the age of 17, she left home, seemingly for good.

At the age of 25, her fervors were, in her mind, finally justified by the return of magic. Despite a newfound power among the beasts and plants, the stars and stones, the secret ways of the forests, she was still as headstrong and fiery as ever. Aife returned to Greenlight, having molded her anger and distemper into a singular purpose: to ensure people understood the beings of myth, and to ensure they respected - and feared - the Old Ways.

School Name: Druidry

Location: Suburbs/outskirts of the metropolis

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Animal Shape (Basic), Grow Plants (Basic)

Magic You're Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 8

Bonus/Flaw:

Magic Hippy - you are a practitioner of the 'Old Ways' at least that is what the sprite you learned the basics from said, although he did think you were a duck. Either way you gain strength when near plants and wildlife and rituals are easier to perform in the wilds.

Rolled 95, 13 = 108 (2d100)

>>20716

Character sheet:

Name: Dirk Levlin

Age: 19

Gender: Boy

Backstory: Dirk grew up in suburbia and learned of his magical potency pretty early on. After internet tutorials and books didn't offer any help he turned to a local general magic school. He really enjoyed it and worked towards getting good enough to be a mage in his own right.

School Name: Rapid Golemancy

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: Create Golem (Basic, Ritual), [Knowledge: Golem Core Creation (Basic)]

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 9

Bonus/Flaw:

Golems - You are used to the crafting and construction of golems. You have a bonus to construction of the bodies for golems, although appropriate skills would help too.

You are in an arts and crafts store called 'Pizaz!' on the second floor of the right next to the central elevator system which go between the super-floors.

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Sorry about the profile thing, I'm a tad noob.

I'm banned from the store so I should probably find someplace else to get clay I head over to the shopping mall. Once I get there I look around for someplace where I could buy the previously mention clayball.

Rolled 28, 3 = 31 (2d100)

>>20716

Character sheet:

Name: Patrick

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Backstory: Patrick spent a long time in his grandfather's forge, and loved every minute of it. In his 18 years of life, he quickly learned the art of the craft, and was almost a master of the forge, in his own right. When he first heard of magic, he went and bought what was then known as a lens, and put it up in the forge. The next day, he went out to the forge, and created a sword. When he pulled it out of the cooling water, he walked over to his test dummy and gave it a swing. As the sword hit the dummy (as it was not sharpened yet), the dummy began to freeze. This was his first enchantment. After trial and error, he learned that he could enchant both things he made, and also things he did not, although the enchantments on things he made were 100x stronger.

School Name: Enchanting

Inventory: 1000 Credits, Magic User License

Property:

Known Magic: [Knowledge: Infusion (Great)]

Magic Your Teaching: (You can teach any spell you want and know and you can refuse to teach something)

Disciples: 0

Renown: 0% (How many people know of you)

Influence: 0% (What people think of you, negative means they think of you as evil, positive as good)

Magic Strength: 5

Bonus/Flaw:

Folded over 1000 times - You are a blacksmith, taught by your father. You usually make replicas for collectors, but now you have the ability to make more. You get a bonus to forging and smithing.

1 Small Mana-Gem

1. Patrick attempts to bond his small Mana-gem with fire again by putting it into his forge.

2. He also creates another lens, and puts it in his freezer to imbue it with cold/ice/thatkindathing.