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Re: Blessed Bronze: 5e-ish pbp game 3/4 OOC - It has begun
« Reply #120 on: September 19, 2015, 09:05:06 am »

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have a labrartory somewherE?

This line in the post made me afraid. :P

Was this unintentional, or did her words slur into the eldritch cant of a necrotic beast from beyond the stars?
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Re: Blessed Bronze: 5e-ish pbp game 3/4 OOC - It has begun
« Reply #121 on: September 19, 2015, 10:33:39 am »

Note to self: Dwarmin will the first for the sacrifice to the Old Ones.
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Re: Blessed Bronze: 5e-ish pbp game 3/4 OOC - It has begun
« Reply #122 on: September 21, 2015, 03:20:44 pm »

When you've got no more questions, you should pick a option and go for it.
I won't enforce acting as a party, but, of course, it will have it's advantages - and disadvantages.
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Re: Blessed Bronze: 5e-ish pbp game 3/4 OOC - It has begun
« Reply #123 on: September 21, 2015, 08:28:29 pm »

The advantage is that you don't die.
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Re: Blessed Bronze: 5e-ish pbp game 3/4 OOC - It has begun
« Reply #124 on: September 22, 2015, 04:37:20 pm »

What's your plan, sjm?
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Re: Blessed Bronze: 5e-ish pbp game 3/4 OOC - It has begun
« Reply #125 on: September 22, 2015, 05:17:47 pm »

Kas'll head down to the docks, where he's more comfortable, and hope he doesn't run into any familiar faces ;)
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Re: Blessed Bronze: 5e-ish pbp game 3/4 OOC - It has begun
« Reply #126 on: September 24, 2015, 08:02:29 am »

Actual update will come when I don't have to use my phone for it.
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Re: Blessed Bronze: 5e-ish pbp game 3/4 OOC - It has begun
« Reply #127 on: September 24, 2015, 03:50:15 pm »

Each of the active players should have recieved a PM saying their words known.

Magic 101: how do you mage spells

You need three things to use a spell; you need a totem, you need magical fuel, and you need to know a word.
To enchant an item, you need to know more words, but you don't need a totem. You still need magical fuel, normally in what the Word is written in.

How you write a word is important: one word can have a lot of alternate meanings, depending how it is written.

For example, if you use the word impact. You could try to write it as increasing the damaging impact of your weapon, and so doing more damage.
You could also write is as knocking the enemy back, or over.
Each time a Word is activated it uses one unit of fuel.
If the Word is written as both Word and fuel, as is easiest (you have advantage on Writing when doing so), the Word is consumed when used. Single shot, sort of thing.

Magic like that is an investment, but can be a potent tool if you use it right. It's up to you to come up with interesting ways to use it, but the more complicated the effect the more difficult to get right.

Church might not like it though.

You can get magic materials and knowledge through the black markets. cough market ward cough

Basic magic terminology:

The Words are magic. Gods speak it. Gods are above the Words, so while they can use it to affect things, it cannot affect them. As they are above the Words, their names cannot be concieved by man, or perhaps they simply don't have any.
Primordials spoke Words, and taught them to man. Below Gods, Words affected the Primordials. Primordials were innately magical.

The World is what causes the magic to happen. The Words tell the World what to do, and the World causes it to happen. When the magic goof up happened, 17th told the World not to listen to mankind - i.e. humans are no longer magical creatures.

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Re: Blessed Bronze: 5e-ish pbp game 3/4 OOC - It has begun
« Reply #128 on: September 24, 2015, 04:25:06 pm »

I have some question marks.

Do we have any information on our specific words? Like the sort of fuel needed?

Also, when you say written, do you mean that literally? What happens if you speak the words? Like, all magic in this setting is enchantment magic? We copy it down on whatever we can, and fling it an enemies? In the RP example, this does seem the case-the fellow has flash grenades and magical bullets, as does the Sacred with the magic knives.

And if you do mean literally, do you mean we essentially have to just write into a sentence of some sort? For example, could I write-"The Impact Shook the Heavens"-and get some sort of effect, is that what you are looking for? Or do we not have to be that specific? Obviously not knowing the words for 'shook' and 'heavens' maybe complicating that...

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« Reply #129 on: September 24, 2015, 04:40:05 pm »

If you're standing empty handed and you Speak a Word, nothing will happen.

You can Speak through a totem, and if you're also holding some magic fuel to can try to direct a magical effect that way.

But mainly, yes, you'd literally have written it down.

If you were powerful enough, then you could Write something like that, yes. If you wrote it literally, well, if you had the power and the fuel for it you could make an effect that shook the heavens when it triggered. Metaphorically might be easier to power, since it just means "big impact", but you'd run into difficulties Writing it correctly. The World goes at things in quite a literal manner.

Writing is more than just scribbling Words. The will and intention behind them matter.


Fuel is mainly ground up bits of Primordial. Primordial bone marrow is the purest, best source of magic; the worst is something like specially-treated kraken powder. The better the material, either the easier it is to get the result you want or the more powerful you can make the effect.

I was planning to introduce this more gradually through play, but it might b good to get it out of the way.
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Re: Blessed Bronze: 5e-ish pbp game 3/4 OOC - It has begun
« Reply #130 on: September 24, 2015, 04:47:42 pm »

You don't have to spoil everything, but it's nice to know what we know in-character. Like is some wahoo comes up to us swinging a bowl of blood and an eldritch chicken foot, he might be a bit suspicious.

Also, last question-say I wanted to make a 'big impact'. Is big a separate word I need? Or are certain descriptors 'free'?
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Re: Blessed Bronze: 5e-ish pbp game 3/4 OOC - It has begun
« Reply #131 on: September 24, 2015, 04:56:01 pm »

The impact would be limited in size, yeah, without the modifier.
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Re: Blessed Bronze: 5e-ish pbp game 3/4 OOC - It has begun
« Reply #132 on: October 19, 2015, 09:28:49 am »

So I wondered why no one was posting.

Apparently the update didn't.

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Re: Blessed Bronze: 5e-ish pbp game 3/4 OOC - It has begun
« Reply #133 on: October 19, 2015, 09:30:46 am »

Yes, the update is there, it's just no one can see it.

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Re: Blessed Bronze: 5e-ish pbp game 3/4 OOC - It has begun
« Reply #134 on: October 19, 2015, 10:24:39 am »

You failed your spot checks so hard it ceased to exist.
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