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[evilcherry]

You are an initiate, just finished your apprenticeship at ((your magical school)) in the ((name of national university of Magic)) in ((City Name)) of ((Name of Kingdom)).

As initiates, you are still a very junior member, and have a very limited repertoire of skills taught in your apprenticeship. Nevertheless effort is expected from you - feed yourself, hone your skills, and take over the world. So to speak.

Please submit your character using the signup sheet below.

Player name = Forum name
Name:
Age: - Human range. No high fantasy creatures, please.
Gender:
School: Must be a mechanism of magic. So Conjuration, Transfiguration, Alchemy are okay. Fire, Water are not.

Characteristics:

Total is 20. Base level is 2. Maximum for each skill is 5.

Physical: Strength and Agility. Used for Mundane tasks.
Stamina: How much magic you can cast before passing out.
Strength: How strong your magic can be kept in check before losing control.
Intelligence: How fast you learn things, prepare things or careful scheming.
Wisdom: How good you are at perceiving things, keep your head cool, and make quick decisions.
Charisma: How good-looking you are and to alter people's deceptions.

Your Starting Spell: A spell appropriate for an initiate. Please describe it as well as possible.

Your background: Self-explanatory.

Each week consist of 5 days. Gameplay will take place in alternating 4-day workweeks, and 1 day of event resolution.

You can do one action each day, for a total of 4 actions per week. This include researching spells, practicing, doing odd jobs, influencing other people, and things like that.
Please be very, very specific in your actions. Actions will be judged by percentile die, but well thought actions would always yield a bonus (in additional to your skill).

The weekend event would range from nothing to do, a flood, to defending a demonic invasion. Just saying.


-Signup is full-

[evilcherry]

People:

Spoiler: Lucius III the Just (click to show/hide)

Lucius III the Just is the current Archmage and Headmaster of University, Chief Magician of Court, Archduke of Tirona, etc., etc., etc. of the Kingdom. The 3 etcetrea are part of his title. When he was young, he was already a very bright and prominent binding mage. He was the pioneer of the binding of 2 different magical powers, and published the famed book "treatise of magic-mixing" soon after, which shaked the formal understanding of magic, and lead to a more academic and rigorous treatment of it.

He held the post of Archmage and Headmaster since the age of 60, in recognition of his capabilities. Analysts and historians, however, noted it is his distance from politics that landed him the post, so the people underneath can continue with their endless politicking and bickering.

Spoiler:  Marcus Flavius the Brave (click to show/hide)

Marcus Flavius holds the Minister of War and First Deputy Headmaster of the University. He not only known for his incredible ability to conjure anything from heaven to hell in the battlefield, but moreso for his rage and bravery in battle, never retreated nor surrounded. He is responsible for promoting the fighting capability of the University, and in general only promotes arts which has practical use in battlefield, which makes his relationship with academics tenuous at best. He is usually accompanied by a entourage of veteran conjurers, for obvious reasons.

Spoiler: Lev Levovich (click to show/hide)

Lev, Son of Lev, is one of the best time mages around. He is the Head of treasury and vault of the University, more or less because of his capabilities of keeping volatile or perishable things intact. This is a job which is usually hardly challenged by other mages, since they understand their incompetence in doing the job.

[evilcherry]

Events, geography, races and concepts

Spoiler: Quintilian and non-Quintilian theories (click to show/hide)

Just more than 50 years ago, most in the kingdom believed that there are only 5 kinds of magic in Temporal, Binding, Restoration, Conjuration and Necromancy. The discovery by Lucius III has been highly controversal since it sets Binding as a special kind of magic above all. He eventually went on to theorize that there could be more than 5 kinds of mgic, which the other kinds are not yet discovered.

The discovery was opening a can of worms, since the belief of 5 kinds of magic has been very central in social life. The fact that there are 5 days a week, 5 weeks a month, 5 months a season, and 5 seasons a year was an oft stated proof of the quintilian theory at least in layman terms.

There are always challengers to the belief,but most are either summarily executed or incoporated in society treated as non-magic like divination. But Lucius' challenge was too important to dismiss.

This controversy is understood to be similar in scale and importance to the discovery of Americas, lacking a better example.

[Dwarmin]

humm, I guess you got inspiration from Magia?

Player name = Forum name
Name: Dwarmin
Age: 25
Gender: Male
School: Temporal Focus

Characteristics:

Total is 20. Base level is 2. Maximum for each skill is 5.

Physical: 3
Stamina: 3
Strength: 3
Intelligence: 3
Wisdom: 3
Charisma: 5

Your Starting Spell: Lesser Chronosphere/ Dwarmin can create a sphere of temporal energy within in his hands, about the size of a baseball, that can effect the flow of time to things within and around it, either backwards or forwards. Desmond can use the sphere to increase his reaction time to danger-but not his actual, physical reflexes, since he moves just as slow as anyone. Casting the sphere physically at another causes them to age or de-age rapidly, to the point of about a five years or so, usually-this change wears off in a few seconds. Dwarmin can also physically apply the sphere to an unconscious or willing person, at which point the spell is much more potent and lasts longer. He cannot alter his own age with this spell.

Items held within the sphere are also subject to the aging process, but for non-living objects, it only turns time a few months. Food will go rotten, but locks will not rust off, yet.

Your background: Dwarmin is a chrono-masters apprentice to...himself, really. At least, one version of his self from the future or another reality. That's how most Chronomancers get the job. Being fairly young, he's received a wealth of knowledge he quite frankly has no idea how to use-Dwarmin's tampering with his time has made him a target for misfortune, and after numerous incidents of 'bad luck', in and around his home town, then sent the Northrop university so he wouldn't destroy anything, or de-age any more cows...

These days, Dwarmin has found he enjoys the city more than the country-his skills are much more appreciate, especially among the Nobility that wish to stay ever youthful.

That he has a greater destiny than feeding off the entitled during the day, and restoring the youth of grateful women at night (in most ways), he doesn't know it...

Not like he can see the future or anything.

[Demonic Spoon]

Player name = Forum name
Name: Doombound Snarforth
Age: 23
Gender: Male
School: Necromancy

Characteristics:

Total is 20. Base level is 2. Maximum for each skill is 5.

Physical: 2
Stamina: 5
Strength: 5
Intelligence: 4
Wisdom: 2
Charisma: 2

Your Starting Spell: Animate dead: This spell allows you to bring back a corpse as a zombie. Slow and weak, but untiring. Useful for cheap labour for those who aren't squeamish.

Your background: Doombound has just recently completed his apprenticeship at the Necromantic College of Sussura with full honours and is now out and about looking for work to support himself and his magical habits.

[evilcherry]

I would like to limit your field a bit... transmutation seems too broad for a time mage to monopolize.
I would change that to temporal, i.e. messing up time.

p.s. Magia does its bit, butI have many things in mind. Like an absurdly powerful student council.

[Dwarmin]

@EvilC: Changed it. Your OP indicated we shouldn't pick an element, but a school, which is why I chose that.

[evilcherry]

@EvilC: Changed it. Your OP indicated we shouldn't pick an element, but a school, which is why I chose that.

I know. It just looks to me that time mage should not occupy a school that is usually reserved for those who study metals (to change them into another animal) or mutilate animals. And time mages are usually absurdly powerful enough to have its own school.

[Ibid Straydrink]

<Withdrawn>

[Ochita]

Spoiler: Character sheet (click to show/hide)

Player Name: Ochita
Name: Quarrion Ellis.
Age: 23
Gender: Male
School: Conjuration

Characteristics:

Physical: 2
Stamina: 4
Strength: 4
Intelligence: 5
Wisdom: 3
Charisma: 2

Your Starting Spell: Flame lick: The character gestures, and a small burst of flame flies at where the character gestures to, burning the target and possibly setting things alight.

Your background: Quarrion was a boy who demonstrated the fact that he had talent for magic, accidentally burning a patch of ground at a park nearby. He was taken in by the magical college, and has learned to control his magic. He's quite serious about it, as he is afraid of what could happen if he messes up.
      He has just finished his initiation, and he has studied conjuration. He now wants a chance to increase his capabilities, and is looking for a couple of other initiates to adventure, and generally do stuff with.

[evilcherry]

All 3 are accepted, without much alteration.

I would really want 2 more players, since 5 is a number very central to the lore I've planned.

[Wayward Device]

    Player name = Wayward Device
    Name: Julius the Outlander
    Age:  24
    Gender: Male
    School: Binding (the moving of natural forces to unnatural purpose)

    Characteristics:

    Physical: 2
    Stamina: 4
    Strength:4
    Intelligence: 4
    Wisdom: 4
    Charisma:2

    Your Starting Spell: The Lesser Kinetic Binding. Binds one object to another so that any attempt to move one object must move the weight of both.

    Your background: Julius has just completed his initiate training at the College of Force in Sussura, beautiful City State by the sea. Having come out of the distant East as a youth and been accepted into the College on the merits of his abilities he now looks to master the deepest of secrets.

[Dwarmin]

bumping for that last person.

[IronyOwl]

Alright then.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Player name: IronyOwl
Name: Lady Halgriev "The Spider" Malganov
Age: 18
Gender: Female
School: Reconstruction

Characteristics:

Physical: 5
Stamina: 3
Strength: 3
Intelligence: 3
Wisdom: 3
Charisma: 3


Your Starting Spell: Mend Flesh. Regenerates a target's wounds, closing gashes, mending bones, revitalizing burns, and generally returning the area to what its body intended.

Your background: Halgriev is the daughter of the depraved Duke Malganov, a man widely feared even outside his own borders. Halgriev was a model daughter to him, fetching his meals, arranging his books, scrubbing up blood, directing skeletal servants, and healing Malganov's torture victims so they could endure even more. Malganov would sometimes even give her the highest of compliments, telling her she was his "finest little creation."

When she came of age, Malganov had her sent to a magical college for more official and standardized training, as well as an opportunity to compete with those outside Malganov's influence. She's somewhat disdainful and intense, being the daughter of Duke Malganov and all. Her tall stature, long arms, somewhat muscular build, willingness to crouch, crawl, and do other unladylike things while retaining her aloofness, intense stare, disdainful expression, tendency to wear black, and the fact that she's a Malganov have all earned her the nickname "The Spider."

[Spinal_Taper]

((Damn you Irony. I even had an idea.))