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[Harry Baldman]

~Oh, I admit, that would be very...wizard.~ She thought. ~So-how about you teach me, very simply, how to enchant an item of clothing? In return, I promise you one-just one-very wizardly cackle. I'm fickle and hard and please, like you, so let's move forward on that fact, right?~

~Hm... perhaps. You'll have to give me a demo, though. Sort of an introduction before you let loose with the real thing, eh? And this'll be a one-time-only deal - don't wanna set a precedent, y'know.~

[Dwarmin]

~Now we're talking deal.

All right, here we go. Don't laugh. I haven't cackled since...~

In fact, Kat brought up the memory of a girl she had hated in high school. The years of bitter acrimony. The sniping, bear baiting and back beating. And on the graduation stage, she had watched as her erstwhile foe had tripped on the wire trailing from the speaker, falling to the floor below, face first. As if Kats mere will alone had struck her down into abject humiliation.

She had laughed then out of pure spite, and she laughed now-out of pure, wizardly spite. But it's only a demo! Save some for the real thing...

[lawastooshort]

"Right. This time I'm having a read. Try not to look too spaced out guys."

Get a peacefulish spot and read the book.

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Current Name: Halesey
Inventory: Magic Binder, mobile phone, expensive watch, clothes (jeans, grey hoodie, white tshirt, white trainers), keys, cards and cash in his back pocket. Loose change. Half pack of chewing gum.
Stats:

• Body: 1
• Finesse: 2
• Mind: 3
• Affinity: 0

Spell List:

• Displace Beans
• Potato Vortex

[Harry Baldman]

Larry can truly feel the enrichment going around right here. However, he still has a bit of a question that's gone unanswered.

"Hey, magic talking book of unbelievable power, how do I use those last two spells you gave me?  If you can't tell me, you can always just lay more power on me.  You're cool like that."

There is a moment of unnerving silence in Larry's head, but it quickly abates when the booming voice returns.

~WHY, IT IS SIMPLICITY ITSELF, SILLY MORTAL! SIMPLY LOCATE A VIDEOTAPE DEMON KNIGHT OR SAUSAGE ANGEL GOLEM, OF WHICH I ASSUME YOU HAVE NO SHORTAGE, AND EXERT YOUR MAGICAL POWER OVER THEM!~

Ah.

Kat, after a period of negotiation, decides to cave in to the demands of the voice and, with a little help from her memories of good ol' school, breaks into a jolly, vindictive cackle that she wasn't even rightly aware she had in her - she successfully restrains herself before she spends all of that good mojo, though. Have to save some for later, right?

~Lovely work there, baby. I look forward to you trying that again - cut loose, will you? Life's more fun that way.~

Kat feels a particular spell enter her brain - it's a little different than usual, though it proves easy to retain it.

Spoiler: Kat's New Spell (click to show/hide)

1. Enchant Skirt

That's the best I can give ya, baby. Use it well.

Halesey, guessing he's got to get some magic as well if anyone's going to take him seriously, takes up as nice a spot as he can find, which isn't very nice at all by most standards, though it is quite peaceful indeed. He opens the book and tries to get educated.

[Halesey's mind roll: 6-->1+1]

He lets the book reach into his mind, the knowledge flowing through every neuron, bits of it getting caught on his mortal brain and taking up residence quickly and with the greatest of ease.

Spoiler: Halesey's Spell Choices (click to show/hide)

1. Shrink Clothespin
2. Bolt of Indestructible Beans

Take one or both, and don't get yourself killed, m'kay?

As the people do their research, they notice a rather skinny, extremely filthy guy approach them in the alley.

"Um... hey... I heard, like, people laughing and... um... I was thinking, like, what's going on? You got something?"

Spoiler: GM Note (click to show/hide)

It's been over a day, so I just skipped over Errol this turn - it wasn't an overly critical turn, anyway, and I'll let him have two actions next turn if he shows up.

[Dwarmin]

~Thanks...I think...~ Kat said, absorbing the spell.

Too bad she was only wearing jeans.

She looked up at the crazy man who was probably a real drug addict.

"No, we're just practicing magic. Can you go away? We don't want you to get hurt." She said, stowing away her Binder. Feeling such an onrush of magical power gave her the temptation to break the mans jaw with an upperct-Kat was tough for her size, and quite strong-but for now she merely smiled politely.

Spoiler: Kats Stats (click to show/hide)

Street Clothes (A tan leather motorcycle jacket, white undershirt with v-neck, and hip riding blue jeans. White sneakers and long orange socks. Slightly soaked from rain.)
Wallet ($50 dollars cash in tens, fives and change)
Flip Cellphone
Keyring
Notepad/Pencil
Doubtfully Magic Binder
Energy Bar (Half Eaten)

Stats
Body: 3
Finesse: 1
Mind: 1
Affinity: 1

Spells
1. Dinosaur Rain (Works)
2. Enchant Skirt (?)
3.
4.

[lawastooshort]

Well. I guess I'll take both for now. Can't hurt, can it?

Halesey looks up from his study.

"Well. Kinda. I got these mad beans, man. They kinda... make you feel really good. You wanna try one? They make you see some pretty incredible stuff, man."

Offer the man an alcoholic bean. If he takes it, tell him to wait about a minute, and then cast Potato Vortex about ten feet away (and not near my companions!). Pretend not to see it and ask the man what he sees. If he doesn't take it and leaves, then cast Bolt of Indestructible Beans at his back.

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Current Name: Halesey
Inventory: Magic Binder, mobile phone, expensive watch, clothes (jeans, grey hoodie, white tshirt, white trainers), keys, cards and cash in his back pocket. Loose change. Half pack of chewing gum. Some alcoholic beans.
Stats:

• Body: 1
• Finesse: 2
• Mind: 3
• Affinity: 0

Spell List:

• Displace Beans
• Potato Vortex
• Bolt of Indestructible Beans
• Shrink Clothespin

[Toaster]

Larry nodded.  "Noted, Mr. Voice.  Hmmm..."


This book seemed to contain lots of power, but it was a bit fickle.  Perhaps he should have a bit of a run up to it?


Take some time to prepare myself for a deeper book read.

[Errol]

((Sorry for the delays! Sometimes, you have to go to areas without reliable internet access, and I used the time I had for posting in other RtDs...))

Well... sorry about that. There was just so much she didn't understand about her - would it be correct to call it, or her, this? - partner. So much she had to find out.

Say, how would you feel about just... conversation? Am I the first wizard you, uh, communed with? I hope I'm not overstepping your boundaries here, but... trying is the only way I can make sure. If you told me what you don't want me to do when beseeching you, that'd be fine too... because, in the end. I don't want to piss you off. You are, after all, my window to a strange and wonderful world...

Talk. Except, well, mentally. Try to avoid getting more spells thrust upon me.

Spoiler: Elizabeth's Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Current Name: Elizabeth Blanc
Inventory: Magic Binder, clothing (trenchcoat, long-sleeved blouse, cotton pants, shoes), fancy headphones + music player, portemonnaie with keys, $50 and cards, scrapbook, black ink pen, a pulp fantasy novel, cell phone.
Stats:

• Body: 0
• Finesse: 0
• Mind: 3
• Affinity: 3

Spell List:

• Conjure Fragrant Lottery Tickets
• Vortex of Racist Beavers
• Swankify Hat
• Blessing of Sour Cream
• Evoke Deadly Dihydroxyacetone Troll
• Bountiful Portal of Frozen Napkins

The contents of Elizabeth Blanc's scrapbook...

Observation: The fat man needs competent wizards for some purpose.
Hypothesis: The fat man is faking incompetence through appearing like an amicable nerd.
Conjecture: The book may be the brains behind the fat man, or both work together united in ambition.
Priority: Find out the goal of the fat man.
Experiment: Ask an ally for permission to peruse his/her binder. Ask them whether the entity in their book is similar in 'personality' to mine. Compare individual pages with the ones in my book. Test whether I can still commute with the entity linked to me through their book.
Experiment: Copy the binder's pages, put them into a new binder. Test whether a single page, or the new binder still have spellbook properties.
Experiment: Attempt to retrieve a specific spell from the binder, or at least one involving one key word, like 'Ink'. Result: FAILURE. Entity was vocal in disapproval. It appears that it has its mind set to grant spells of her choice and nothing more. Disappointing.

[Harry Baldman]

Kat, fresh from absorbing a brand new spell, does her very best to rebuke the filthy man accosting her.

"No, we're just practicing magic. Can you go away? We don't want you to get hurt."

"What? Magic? Does that, like, mean something? Whaddaya mean, magic? Is that, like, something new?"

This fella's a curious soul, clearly.

"Well. Kinda. I got these mad beans, man. They kinda... make you feel really good. You wanna try one? They make you see some pretty incredible stuff, man." Halesey explains, handing one of his alcoholic beans to the guy, who eyes it skeptically.

"Beans? Uh... okay, I guess?" he says after an appraisal, popping the thing into his mouth. At this point, something occurs to him.

"Wait, shit, are you supposed to chew them? Or just swallow?"

"Wait a minute and you'll see, man."

"Uh... okay."

At this point, Halesey decides to go for broke. He decides to summon the dreaded Potato Vortex.

[Halesey's affinity roll: 3-1]

He strains his mind to the limit, but nothing happens. He even outstretched his hand and everything. Why doesn't the magic work?

"You okay, man?" he says, still intently swilling the bean inside his mouth, looking a bit ponderous.

The others pay significantly less attention to the guy, with Larry taking a moment to prepare his mind for another contact session with the book - he supposes he'll, like, cast a mental net - that's a pretty good analogy, yeah. And in this magical psychosomatic net, he will capture KNOWLEDGE. And POWER.

Elizabeth, though, prefers to take it easy and just talk to the voice.

Well... sorry about that.

~nah, you didn't know. it's just that i'm kinda... sensitive sometimes. i get ideas. lots of ideas. great ideas. bad ideas. oh yes.~

Say, how would you feel about just... conversation? Am I the first wizard you, uh, communed with? I hope I'm not overstepping your boundaries here, but... trying is the only way I can make sure. If you told me what you don't want me to do when beseeching you, that'd be fine too... because, in the end. I don't want to piss you off. You are, after all, my window to a strange and wonderful world...

~well, i'm kinda shy. so i'd prefer if you didn't go nuts with the questions. makes me uncomfortable. and twitchy. you haven't seen me get really twitchy yet. i once had a panic attack, you know. that was really bad. for everyone. that girl couldn't have seen it coming, oh no. we aren't good friends yet, so i'd like it if you gave me space. lots of space. in fact, don't ask me anything for a while.~

[Dwarmin]

((huh, should have done an action for this turn...oh well))

Kat decided to throw logic where it belonged-out the window!

Action: Cast enchant skirt! on my pants?

[Errol]

Sure thing. We'll do this at your pace, so I'll leave you alone for now. If it's not an emergency.

Elizabeth closed her book, feeling somewhat relieved. Whoever the entity was, it was not malevolent. She just needed to avoid pressing its buttons. And, then, maybe... they could get along. Or, even, be friends.

It would quite possibly the weirdest of friendships. Fueled by her curiosity.

And, how curious was the entity on the other side of the book about her...?
...She snapped back to reality. Reality, in this case, was quite unpleasant. Someone else apparently attracted a hobo, well, then it was someone else's job to take care of him. Introspection... She had been forced to accept a few spells, she recalled... went through them a bit...

Suddenly, what she needed to do was as clear as light.

Acquire hat. Swankify.

Spoiler: Elizabeth's Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Current Name: Elizabeth Blanc
Inventory: Magic Binder, clothing (trenchcoat, long-sleeved blouse, cotton pants, shoes), fancy headphones + music player, portemonnaie with keys, $50 and cards, scrapbook, black ink pen, a pulp fantasy novel, cell phone.
Stats:

• Body: 0
• Finesse: 0
• Mind: 3
• Affinity: 3

Spell List:

• Conjure Fragrant Lottery Tickets
• Vortex of Racist Beavers
• Swankify Hat
• Blessing of Sour Cream
• Evoke Deadly Dihydroxyacetone Troll
• Bountiful Portal of Frozen Napkins

The contents of Elizabeth Blanc's scrapbook...

Observation: The fat man needs competent wizards for some purpose.
Hypothesis: The fat man is faking incompetence through appearing like an amicable nerd.
Conjecture: The book may be the brains behind the fat man, or both work together united in ambition.
Priority: Find out the goal of the fat man.
Experiment: Ask an ally for permission to peruse his/her binder. Ask them whether the entity in their book is similar in 'personality' to mine. Compare individual pages with the ones in my book. Test whether I can still commute with the entity linked to me through their book.
Experiment: Copy the binder's pages, put them into a new binder. Test whether a single page, or the new binder still have spellbook properties.
Experiment: Attempt to retrieve a specific spell from the binder, or at least one involving one key word, like 'Ink'. Result: FAILURE. Entity was vocal in disapproval. It appears that it has its mind set to grant spells of her choice and nothing more. Disappointing.
Observation: Entity has communed with at least one other girl previously. Ended in tears.
Notes: Entity friendly at a basic level, but shy and easily irritated thus. Advised me to not irritate her. Do not attempt anything that could make her feel cornered... questions apparently are part of that. She... is it a she?

[Toaster]

Yes... that seemed to do it.  Now, there was but one thing left to do.


Acquire power via book.

[lawastooshort]

"Er... Yeah. I think. I'm fine. I just took too many beans man. I'm totally tripping."

Cast Potato Vortex again, paying particular attention to the mental imagery of potatoes, about ten feet away (and not near my companions!) in the man's line of sight but not too close to him. Pretend not to see it and ask the man what he sees.

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Current Name: Halesey
Inventory: Magic Binder, mobile phone, expensive watch, clothes (jeans, grey hoodie, white tshirt, white trainers), keys, cards and cash in his back pocket. Loose change. Half pack of chewing gum. Some alcoholic beans.
Stats:

• Body: 1
• Finesse: 2
• Mind: 3
• Affinity: 0

Spell List:

• Displace Beans
• Potato Vortex
• Bolt of Indestructible Beans
• Shrink Clothespin

((comrades, if this doesn't deal with the interloper then I am just going to ignore him and rub my book all over my face, because I need some POWAH too. I also need to figure out some kind of easy ritual that'll allow me not to cast like a total noob.

oh crap wait - who had the alcoholic beans? You swapped them out?? I was going to use them to enslave all the hobos))

[Errol]

((look, the vortex of racist beavers was a keeper. then i had to choose between alcoholic beans and lottery tickets, and I thought lottery tickets would be more useful

maybe i should re-swap them, though, if the GM allows it))

[lawastooshort]

((Ok, well, let's see if we can enslave the hobos with racist beavers?))