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May 10, 2024 7:38:06 GMT -6
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August Appleberry spell book
Casting Costs:
August has two main modes of casting. The first is somatic gestures. Hands motions. Sometimes, her tosses in verbal with the sound, but mostly he just uses his hands. Sometimes, her plays an instrument. This uses ambient magical energy, or the energy he channels. Overuse starts to dip into life energy, ki, chakra, mana, whatever you call the stuff. Which is why he had a second mode.
The alternative cost for casting is items of monetary value, basically, but it is more complicated. While He can use gold and precious stones/metals, He usually uses gold-leaf painted cards. August takes time to paint them with literal gold. The act also lets August imbue each card with magic, to act as a storage device to pay costs. Using magic while holding a card causes the card to disintegrate, or “burn”. There is no physical fire, and even the ash is consumed. It leaves no trace. Small magic does not consume entire cards. Beginner level spells burn half a card, intermediate, a whole card, advanced burns cards, starting at two per spell, and rising. The big suggestion august used on the cataclysm, for example, burned a lot of his remaining cards.
August usually carries a deck of bicycles, 52 in count, and maybe 10 business cards. All imbued, paired with gold. He tried silver as a pairing metal, but it did not work as well. There was less value, which meant greater resource expenditure. A big magic would consume like ten silver cards, or maybe even a whole silver necklace/ring. Gold is better.
Props Deck of 52 cards 10 business cards Jewelry Hand signs
Magic
Arcana Praeditus:
Metation
Arcana Initium:
Illusion
Preferred Foci: Hand signs, or glyphs for stealth. If he uses glyphs, he has a limited supply of glyph cards kept in a pocket. They get burned out of sight, out of mind. Sometimes, he runs out and has to burn life energy through gestures. Doing so tired him out and can weaken him or his immune system.
Magical Theme:
Hexes and Mind Tricks. Minor illusions.
Snap Spell: (A spell of your Arcana Praeditus that you learned innately when you became a Mystic)
Mind Hex - aka Suggestion. August hexes someone, to affect their mind. If their mind is affected, they may be less inhibited and more willing to entertain reasonable sounding suggestions. Suggestions that lead to physical harm instantly fail.
Secondary spell:
Minor Illusion: He has practiced making minor illusions. August can create a sound or an image of an object within range that lasts for 1 minute. The object cannot be larger than a 5 foot cube, and the sound cannot be loud enough to cause harm. Physical examination can reveal it to be false.
AdditionalSpells
Inspiration August can inspire someone with timely words. This inspiration lasts 10 minutes. The spell boosts confidence, and clears away mental distractions, allowing someone temporarily to be the best them they can be. Once while it lasts, one time, they may be able to recall something, be better at a skill, be more accurate, or resist/avoid the effects of an attack. Or not. Who knows?
Discovered in the battle for the mansion by accident, when he inspired Carrick to he faster… and also inspired the cataclysm to be more effective in destroying the mansion. Um. Or maybe the last one was just an unintentional side effect of a really good Suggestion. Inspiration is a tweaked mind hex.
Vicious mockery Metation beginners level The user weaves magic into their words. Target takes a small amount of psychic damage, like a headache, and emotional damage from the hexed up insult. Their next attack is more likely to miss, due to annoyance/insecurity/self doubt. Upcasting can increase the damage and number of targets, to middling levels. Insult the audience.
Silvery Barbs Metation, beginner-intermediate Shout out an insult as an opponent is attacking, to make them rethink their life choices (and miss). Your next endeavor is more likely to succeed, due to how good you feel about yourself. That’s advantage.
Charming pants Metation (casual)
Charm your pants to make them waterproof. (Alternately, hex your enemy’s pants to make them constantly sag.)
Charming pants II Metation (beginner)
Charm your pants to make them dance. (Alternately, hex your enemy’s pants to become too rigid to move comfortably.)
Also works on other inanimate objects, but is not as powerful as a fully animate object. Example: can make a ball bounce on someone’s head annoyingly, but cannot make it hit them like a fastball. Upcasts to target up to three objects of tiny/small size.
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May 9, 2024 6:48:07 GMT -6
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theultimatexmen.proboards.com/thread/15192/august-appleberry
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