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[Errol]

Elizabeth reflects the day once more, trying to decide what to do with this new power... the new shard of magic, perhaps.

She realized that a significant portion of the day she'd been clinging onto pipes for dear life, hugged to the ground by insane golems and stuck to the ground by -- uurgh goddamnit her clothes were really ruined she'd need a swankify clothing spell -- frozen snot. FROZEN SNOT. If wizarding was that physically demanding... though she yearned to use this newfound ability for greater magical attunement... she'd really need to adapt to that.

...hm. A few more things to do. She texted Kathryn about the successful leyline claim, tried to clean her clothes as far as she could, jotted down a few more ideas into her scrapbook, and then sat down on a rather clean surface, book in her lap.

How 'bout a few more spells as a victory celebration? ...by the way, I don't even know what I should call you. Any preferences for a name? I'm choosing one otherwise.

+1 Body. Roll the spell dice once more. Then do some exercises to test the power-up!

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

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

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

Spell List:

• Swankify Knight
• Vortex of Racist Beavers
• Swankify Hat
• Glowing Pigeon Barrier
• Conjure Alcohol-Saturated Paper
• 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?
Fact: Leylines are just that, lines of raw magical power. However, the power isn't the important part, it's the attunement to the magical that is the result of exposure.
Question: What happens if a human being becomes a fully magical being?
Question: Where is the tater-hell-imprisioned wizard's book? Is it possible to commune with it even though one is already joined to one mystical being?

[Toaster]

That was it!  Larry knew the power had been within him all along, but SOMETHING had been holding him back.  Clearly, it was this fleshy meatsack that he currently occupied that was doing it.  Well, he'd just have to get past it as best he could.  The binder should be some help.

"Come on, magic man, lay it on me.  Help me get past this weak fleshy form!"

In any case, Larry understood the problem better.  It wasn't a matter of power- it was just a case of wielding it properly.  He would just have to hone his mind in on it so it would flow more to his bidding.

Speaking of weak fleshy forms, Larry continued to ignore the one sitting on him.

+1 Mind.  Check the magic binder for more magic, especially a way to move past my weak fleshy form.

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Current Name:  Larry Malone
Inventory: Magic Binder, Telescopic Teatato
Stats:

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

Spell List:

• Repel Dihydroxiacetone Demon
• Evoke Filthy Mucus
• Alkaline Trouser Golem Beam
• Curse Pudding
• Blessing of Telescopic Tea

[lawastooshort]

"Thanks. Sweet.”

Take an Affiinity point. Lie down along the length of the leyline and just bask in the warm power of it. I'm quite happy with... certain of my spells. Just have a meditate on the nature of magical power, instead. Rest while my comrades spell up, and then we should go see the fat dude.

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Current Name: Halesey
Inventory: Magic Binder, mobile phone, clothes (itchy trousers, hoodie, white tshirt, white trainers). Loose change. Half pack of chewing gum. Some alcoholic beans.
Stats:

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

Spell List:

• Displace Beans
• Potato Vortex
• Bolt of Indestructible Beans
• Stupid Desk Shield
• Musical Garbage Blast
• Rain of Shampoo

[Harry Baldman]

As they happily enjoy the free alterations to their physiology brought by vaguely-understood forces, the wizards in the making also perform certain side activities.

Elizabeth, for instance, tries to text Kat and engage in conversation with her book at the same time. It works out rather well.

~How 'bout a few more spells as a victory celebration? ...by the way, I don't even know what I should call you. Any preferences for a name? I'm choosing one otherwise.~

~feel free. and some spells as well, yes.~

[Elizabeth's mind roll: 2+1]

The calmness of the moment does not play in Elizabeth's favor, and she hardly even notices a great deal of knowledge pass her by, only managing to latch onto one particular word combination this time.

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

1. Swankify Peaches

not a lot to work with, better luck next time.

At the same time, Larry rants from his prone position about the necessity of getting as much magic as he can to become less fleshy.

"Come on, magic man, lay it on me.  Help me get past this weak fleshy form!" he says, burying his face in the tome which he has painstakingly wriggled out of his pants.

"I sincerely hope you are not speaking to me," the man on top of him mentions. Larry does not dignify this with a remark.

[Larry's mind roll: 2+1]

In the moment he considers doing so, though, a lot of magic has passed him right by, rather similarly to Elizabeth's predicament moments before. He catches but a single spell, exerting his newfound mental prowess in a somewhat effective way.

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

1. Summon Hats

HATS! YES! UNLIMITED POWER AT YOUR FINGERTIPS!

Halesey, feeling a tad less proactive, lies down and just soaks up that nice magical radiation. It's like the sun, but tinglier. Maybe magic itself is like sunlight, too. It sure feels refreshing.

[lawastooshort]

"So... fellow wizards. The fat dude told us to get to the leyline, no? We did. What do we do now? I wonder if we should do some kind of ritual or something to... I dunno... ritualise the place? Like sacrifice a goat or something, but, you know, without the goat or the sacrificing, if possible... I don' t know what you've seen in your folders, but I've seen power, man."

Practice shooting a bolt of beans at the man lying on Larry.

[Toaster]

"Did someone get his cell number?  We could just call him."


Sub out Curse Pudding.  Try out the new spell on this dude sitting on me.  Equip the coolest looking hat that gets summoned, preferably a wizard one.

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Current Name:  Larry Malone
Inventory: Magic Binder, Telescopic Teatato
Stats:

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

Spell List:

• Repel Dihydroxiacetone Demon
• Evoke Filthy Mucus
• Alkaline Trouser Golem Beam
• Summon Hats
• Blessing of Telescopic Tea

[lawastooshort]

((you and Elizabeth could just set up a luxury hat business now and become infinitely rich))

[Errol]

Swankify hats. Pick most wizardiest.

[Toaster]

((La, you clearly need to get Summon Skirt then.))

[Harry Baldman]

Halesey, after suggesting a perfectly reasonable plan of action, tries to shoot the terribly droll fellow off his buddy Larry.

[Halesey's affinity roll: 1-->3]

He suddenly becomes aware of a bunch of beans appearing somewhere within him. Judging by the way he isn't dead right now, it probably wasn't anywhere too important.

Larry, in the meantime, tries out his new spell to summon some hats on the guy who's laying on top of him.

[Larry's affinity roll: 4+1]

A whole bunch of hats - at least a dozen - suddenly materializes out of the blue, landing on top of the gentleman clutching onto Larry.

"And now I am being used as a hat rack. Truly, I am moving up in the world."

Nobody pays him any mind, and Elizabeth, no longer the limp noodle of a person she used to be, walks confidently up to the pile of hats and does some fun magic.

[Elizabeth's affinity roll: 2+1]

She picks up a hat, a woolen skullcap in this case, and swankifies it - it becomes a little sparkly as a result. A bit gauche, really. She expected better.

Spoiler: GM Note (click to show/hide)

I think I'll let in the next player sometime around next week if Dwarmin doesn't turn up.

[lawastooshort]

"Oh crap. Um. Eww."

Try to focus on the beans in me. Try to Displace Beans the hell out of me.

[Toaster]

Try to focus on the beans in me. Try to Displace Beans the hell out of me.

((I see all sorts of fun and hilarious ways for this to go wrong.))


Well, that was effective, Larry guesses.  "Okay dude, you gotta go now."


Get the fat guy off me.  Mucus him if I can't shove him off.

[Harry Baldman]

Hm. It's been a while, so it's time to have somebody suggest for Elizabeth. Possibly Errol himself.

[Toaster]

Swanky hats for everyone!

[Errol]

Why did I not post for this.

Also why is Toaster's suggestion perfectly reasonable. Let's swankify the shit out of those hats. Hell, double-swankify one of them.