/cyoa/ - Choose Your Own Adventure

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>Tool

Doll

>Tomes

Necronomicon (-20)

+Yog-Sothoth

+Shub-niggurath

+Cthulhu

The King in Yellow (-10)

+Hastur

+Nyarlathotep

Liber Ivonis (-10)

+Ithaqua

+Atlach-Nacha

Light and Darkness (-5)

+Elder Sign

25-45=-20 Sanity

>Insanity

Unconscious Troubles

Agony Threshold

Touched by the Other

I can get a very powerful stand/waifu/doll at the expense of bad dreams, aches, and a generally creepy vibe which, thanks to Atlach-Nacha, won't affect me when she's near by and I doubt I'd go too far from home without her.

The powers of Hastur and Yog-Sothoth mean that she is better than a car when it comes to transportation as she can run wherever I want to go and then I can trade places with her and then either trade places again or just teleport back home to her.

She's a mind reader and perfect shapeshifter so an excellent spy. According to the description on the last page, she has the strength of a strong man +.5 man strength/tough per power and with 8 powers, that's the power of 5 strong dudes altogether. Add the super speed, freezing powers, and mind reading and she's going to be pretty good in a fight.

Considered Azathoth, but the price in sanity is way too high for only 20 minutes of ZA WARUDO per year.

All things considered, I could probably work for the Templars as a detective or enforcer, but would probably end up with the free mages, because freedom. My only concern is how to make a stable living as a Free Mage. If the council allowed, I'd probably pick up some merc work with the Templars. And yes, I'd be a Pygmalion

>items

Chalks and incenses

>Tomes

King in yellow

Necronomicon

Light and darkness

>powers

Siren song

Spawn

The gate

Oneironaut (stolen)

Skyroad

>faction

Free mages

>insanity

Unconscious troubles

Touched by the other

I'll lock myself in a basement and guard the building with people I've murdered and turned into spawn, as well as gate monsters. I'd loan them out to other mages and templars as a protection business.

Templar Detective

Doll waifu with 3.5x male strength

Necronomicon -20

Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, Cthulu

The R'lyeh Text -10

Dagon, (Cthulu), Elder Sign

The King in Yellow -10

Hastur, Nyarlothotep

Final Sanity: -15

Unconscious Troubles, Amygdal Erosion

Lucid dreaming resolved my nightmares many years ago. Still almost never have them.

If I went Free Mages I'd have left out The King in Yellow or gotten Agony Threshold, but as an investigator a calmer mind could prevent a lot of headaches and save my ass. That is especially true if my beloved doll is destroyed and I need to retreat and make a new one instead of getting pissed and doing something stupid.

My doll would be acrobatic, intelligent, lifelike, read minds, change forms, and have defensive abilities. Water immunity/movement would make some investigations much easier at the risk of blowing my cover, and bubbles might even allow assisting others underwater since I always have the benefits as a passive.

She could appear smarter or more dominant than me while I play the role of the whipped beta to throw enemies off. With mental link she could appear in charge, nagging me to do whatever I decided. Both of us could permanently transform ourselves and gain new identities from the Templars occasionally.

Most of the work could be done with the doll remotely with the psychic and remote viewing links from Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth. Mind reading first to narrow things down, then having her befriend targets and acting innocent/charming. She could even flirt and lead men on, allowing me to aggressively ask questions as the paranoid lover without raising alarms. By being separated, it would be easy to escape any dangerous situation unless simultaneously targeted or suddenly shot.

>>5213

Similar idea to mine, but I went with better passives and sanity for undercover work. Might have gone free mages too, but when I saw yours I decided to go Templar to make it more interesting.

>>5215

Whoops. 4.5x male strength, not 3.5.

Templar Detective

>Two sets of implaments.

hedge magic supplies

amulet sign

Travelers vestments

Gale blade

silver guantlet

dollfu(dreamers respite)

liber lvonis

-20 san

ithaqua

atlach nacha

light and darkness

-10 sanity

elder sign

the king in yellow

-20 san

hastur

teppy

>sanity problems

a darker half

the shadows hide them

unconscious troubles

any gmfags here? id love to play this.

I go ritualistic magic. I get the book of Azathoth and the Celaeno fragments. Nyarlathotep's ritual I use for doing Yog Sothoth's. This puts me at -10 sanity. I also take the Pnakotic Manuscript, and get to -25. My madness manifests as hearing a song as the screams of the damned five times out of 100 (Aria of the damned) and my mind makes me not see my reflection (censor the tainted), plus Unconscious troubles. I almost never have nightmares, though, so whatever.

I then know not what to do. I could go back to my younger self and fix my life, about age 11, hopefully keeping enough memories to warn of impeding events, or just keep at my life and be "the arcane madman" of my uni. That role would be fucking fun: I keep telling them "no, I worship ancient gods of beyond comprehension, they actually exist" and they'd say (since they're all reddit-tier atheists) "oh, but where is the evidence, huh?" and then I could either bring a dead dog that was made alive again thanks to Shub-Niggurath (only to later on get killed by templars), or get into their dreams and play with their heads (this one more probably, half the sleep for the same rest and oneironauting are great things), or whatever, and that'd be fun. I could probably do the two of them, play with them and then afterwards go back and fix myself.

Also, I'd like to make the biggest greater sign on Earth, probably under the guise of an art project or such. Surely templars would be ok with that, wouldn't them?

I'd also like to check on the punk-satanist underground in my city, but just to cringe at them (unless they're serious cultists).

Also, isn't there a spell to like, "make money"? do I have to join the templars? If I do, I use "lure" repeatedly until they get wind of it, or get a shub-niggurathed dog on the street so people see it. If I have to be an attention whore to make them see me, so be it. Nothing wrong with being on the side of humanity for once. Free mages are okay, though, I'd consider it really seriously, especially if I manage to get a normal daytime job. Or maybe I'd just use a night-gaunt to keep stealing banks.

I'd like to vow no to electricity and be an old-school mage, too, with only books and candles. That'd be fun.

Doll; the Rituals are too slow. The Hedge Mage is tempting, but is too bulky with implements. I'd only want to make scale mail out of protection amulets, and maybe a lining of protection index cards for my leather travel coat, maybe flesh-healing if I'm splurging, and that's boring.

Tomes:

Pnakotic Manuscripts -15

+Dagon (Water)

+Shub-niggurath (Flesh)

+Cthugha (Fire)

De Vermis Mysteriis -10

+Yog-Sothoth (Space)

+Nyarlathotep (Illusion)

Liber Ivonis -10

+Ithaqua (Frost)

+Atlach-Nacha (Dreams)

The R'lyeh Text -10

+Cthulhu (Mind)

+Elder Sign (Protection)

Total: -45 Sanity: -20

Unconscious Troubles

Dark Days

Aria of the damned

Powers:

Mage Sign/Resistance, Doll becomes protective

Mind Reading/Psychic Link, Doll become human-intelligent

Tidal Manipulation/Water-breathing and moving, Doll becomes perverse

Thousand Faces/glamour, Doll now has a base set of knowledge and is charming

Incarnation/Reshaping, Doll has a fondness for cute/young things

Pyromancy/heat resist, Doll becomes passionate

Cryomancy/cold resist, Doll becomes wittier or sharp

Binary Summoning/ Location Sense, Doll loses sense of my personal space

Dreamer's respite/insanity relief, Doll now in love with me.

The paln is such: Join up with the Templars and hide myself out in one of their larger bases. My Doll/wife will be her own person who will go out on investigations as a detective. With all her powers, she should be more than capable of defending herself from basic threats and with both of us thinking on it we could make connections fast. Plus with the glamour and being actually human, she could infiltrate extremely well. Combined with the heat/cold immunity, and the water breathing and she can operate anywhere on earth without a problem.

My role would primarily be as the command/support. With the telepathy I'd stay in constant comms, and with the location sense I'd always know where she is, and be able to watch her back and immediate surroundings. Worst case, I am also her bug-out option, teleporting her to my side in an instant if things get hot or we have what we need to call in a squad of enforcers. If she does get hurt, she can just cuddle with me and eat good food to regenerate back up to healthy.

Plus with all the power I've stacked up, we could probably run decent assist for an enforcer squad if needed.

>>5213

>Considered Azathoth, but the price in sanity is way too high for only 20 minutes of ZA WARUDO per year.

20 minutes is long enough to get you out of a few "oh shit" situations per year, either by running away or by killing everybody on the battlefield. It's a nearly unstoppable trump card that will defeat anything that is not immune to time stop.

Also, choosing Azathoth grants you passive immunity to time stop yourself. That by itself is a huge benefit.

Bloodline/Implement: Doll

Tomes: Necronomicon(Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, Shub-niggurath)(-20), Celaeno Fragments(Atlach-Nacha, Elder Sign)(-10)

Sanity: 25-30 = [-5]

Insanity: Nightmares

Following the acquisition of my family legacy, I quickly induct myself into the Templar as an Administrator, putting a little effort into the protection of Humanity…and myself.

My doll takes the form of a short, ginger milf. She is visibly Human thanks to Shub's Doll Magic, and mentally Human-equivalent thanks to Cthulhu's Doll Magic. Her personality is that of a doting girlfriend, being rather protective of me in addition to having a habit of cuddling with me. In spite of having a short female form, she 2.5x stronger and tougher than the average adult male. She is capable of putting up an anti-magic shield, reading the minds of nearby muggles, regenerating flesh and wounds, and putting people to sleep. Also, our habit of sleeping together basically cancels out my Nightmares, because why not.

I gain a resistance to non-direct magic, a psychic link with my doll, alter my body slowly, scry on my doll, and use teleportation shenanigans with my doll.

>>5786

Oops, I forgot to discuss how I will deal with hostile threats. With 9 powers my doll has 5.5x the strength and toughness of a normal man, and we have the blessings of numerous gods so we should be a powerful force. However, I only intend to engage in combat if I have no other choice. I will always try to escape first. At the first sign of real danger I can use Yog-Sothoth's doll power to teleport a kilometer away to escape the immediate threat, then I can use Nyarlathotep's hedge magic to teleport to a far away place where I can start over.

>>5206

Ritual Magic & Hedge Magic

Light and Darkness (-10)

->Greater Sign

->Amulet Sign

The Book of Azathoth (-50)

->Stolen power: Atlach-Nacha's Oneironaut

->Traveler's vestment

->Time leap

->When the clock strikes

Insanity:

Unconscious Troubles

Touched by the Other

Censor the Tainted

Hunted by the Unseen

A Darker Half

Aria of the Damned

I like this one.

Double bloodline and two tomes for 40 insanity. No combat skills but limitless escape potential with Traveler's Vestment/Time Leap/When the Clock Strikes/Greater Sign/Amulet Sign. My only 'offensive' power is the ability to implant suggestions and manipulate dreams. I can remain elusive and wander the world while influencing events and people from behind the scenes and no one can have any hope of stopping me.

As for my insanity penalties, giving off a bad vibe is only natural, not being able to see my reflection is unnerving but it also fits my shade-wandering-the-earth aesthetic. I will always have my Sign Amulet with me and the ability to reload a save at the 'clock'so Hunted by the Unseen shouldn't be a serious problem for me. I like the idea of having another dark self to talk to while living my isolated existence. 5% chance of music sounding like screams is a chance I'm willing to take. And my dream ritual can protect me from the nightmares.

>>5206

What's stopping me from picking Hedge Magic and Tome of Azathoth, in order to achieve a perpetual Groundhog's Day? As long as I always reset the day before 24 hours have passed since my save point, there is never any point cost. Hell, throw in the Celaeno Fragments for that virtual reality lantern, and I'm set to achieve NEET godhood. The 10 insanity it gives is just enough to purchase asexuality, so I don't do something dumb like rape someone after eighty years of looping.

LMAO, looking at Doll Magic, it's obviously waifubait. Makes sense in universe, since it was invented by a bunch of magical libertarians.

>>6509

Groundhog day would eventually get very boring. Intangible illusions would not be enough to stave off that boredom. I can't fathom anybody who would actually want to be an asexual.