"Hmmm. Summoning really struck me more as an act of bringing a demon into existence rather that summoning a snake grenade. Swings and round abouts."
Check to see if my chalice has blown up. I'm not sure how this chalice junk works; do I still need that chalice or can I just summon this shit in as needed? Regardless, if it HAS blown up, scamper away to some abandoned area. If not, grab it and THEN scamper. Leave the scene of the crime, regardless. While I am itching to put another blast of snakes through something, I also want to extend my fragile life long enough to die in an extremely interesting way.
No chalice required from now on, you just summon the thing. Magic is convenient like that. Sometimes.
If you want to think of it as an entity, it's a hivemind of reality-bending ghost-snakes that you can (hopefully) control.
"Oooo, fancy!" Walk up to a random passerbye and ask if there are any monsters to kill. "Hello good sir, do you know of any monsters that I can brutally rip to shreds and get more powerful for ripping them to shreds?"
You accost some city type with a suit and briefcase. He edges away from you and keeps walking. Probably didn't hear.
"IN CASE YOU DIDN'T HEAR ME SIR, I WAS HOPING YOU COULD HELP ME ESTABLISH A CYCLE OF BEAST SLAYING AND SELF-IMPROVEMENT VIA MURDER. NO?"Wand seems interesting. Cover eyes, and talk to him. Sir? Do you remember...existing..before now?
Did I turn an animal into that? Did I simply create him? Will be innately want to help me, once he's in a better situation? Also, since I pulled the hand off of a clock, wouldn't that mean I bought a whole clock? Or am I not thinking of something?
He looks at you blankly. And barks. The kids scream even louder.
Well shit.
((You can have the ruined clock face, sure, I'll put it on your sheet))
Go over to the centaurs and ask one of them to pee in the cup. If they agree, make that my chalice(spend a clot)
You wander over to the (creatures? People?) stepping over several mounds of steaming dung.
"Plainclothes urine test!" you shout at one of them, brandishing Belial's certificate.
The centaur, two hunks of steaming and overdeveloped muscle, looks away from his frisbee game unhappily. From the way he's staring at title, you're pretty sure he can't read.
"What is this, like, 1984, mate?" he asks unhappily, but agrees to piss into a sports drink container with the label hastily torn off.
You wander over to the over side of the park, hearing as the centaur gallops off to a friend, "It's fine mate, I conned him proper, I've been doing weed with my human half and he took the piss sample from the horse!"
You prepare the chalice, a mixture of lucozade, protein powder, and centaur urine, then step back to get a good view of what happens. The disgusting yellow-green stuff froths and then overflows from the bottle, leaking away into the ground. Nothing happens for a few seconds. Then a monstrous thing of bulging muscle ten feet high is forced from the earth.
At the bottom is a six foot slab of bulk with a pair of arms twice as large as humans arms should be. On top of that is a slightly more human torso, albeit that of a four-armed obsessive body builder. Instead of a neck and head, the thing culminates in one giant hand half the size of you, formed into a fist pointed up at the sky. The demon flails about from its base grabbing and punching randomly at the air around you, before shooting back into the earth a couple of seconds later.
Head over once they arrive, knife hidden, playing the part of a curious civvie. Look around for the cops, and in particular for the rare cop that actually has a gun. If one is found, go stab him and immediately go for the gun. If one isn't found, just find someone relatively isolated, slash their throat, then run off leaving them to die.
Also, I said to transfer a point from aim to melee, but my sheet doesn't reflect this change.
((I'll be ready just as soon as I'm done playing septuagenarian GTA.))
You can't find a cop with a gun, despite the cries of arson. Seems like nobody heard your terrorist cries. You settle on an elderly officer with a taser in his belt having a quiet smoke round the corner.
2 vs 1+1You sneak up on the police officer, and go for his throat only to recieve an elbow to the stomach. The two of you grapple, and he manages to get a grip on your knife hand before both of you grab the taser at his belt. You're forced to an awkward stalemate despite the array of deadly tools at your opponent's belt, where anyone who lets go risks getting incapacitated nearly instantly. The policeman meanwhile is screaming his head off for help.
Now to "Assemble" my magical weapon.
>"Tie" the light bulb to the "bottom"(Cut off part) of the Antenna using the copper wire by rapping it around the bottom of the bulb in the spirally things it comes with, Continuing upwards as far as I can.
>Next I wrap the Wire with some Cloth, Making somewhat of a Crude handle that I probably won't let go of.
>Finally I try to turn it into a Staff/Wand Depending on length.
Regardless of success I think I'll go a Sight seein next.
Wand by length and thickness. Two spells.
You catch a glimpse of an anchorite meditating in a locked phone booth, and watch a thirty foot giraffe with outsize teeth and horns fight against heavily armoured hunters perched on foortops with crossbows. You see a crenellated and imperious castle floating on the surface of the Thames, a friendly-looking man walking into a NHS surgery carrying a tree limb, a grumpy alchemist's shop in a metro station, and hear an impossibly deep and loud foghorn call as something half a mile wide surfaces in a river before diving to unknown depths.
"I guess I should get one more 'weapon' before I return... how tedious."
Search shops for a Rubix cube, shouldn't be too hard to find. Buy it, make sure it is unsolved and turn it into a pendant with my remaining clot.
Done.
Lucian Faust
Puissant fettle - 1
Ritual potency - 1
Runic Sight - 1
Agility - 2
Melee - 1
Inventory: £35
[Ugly Brass Lamp Body Staff][Rubix Cube Pendant]
Runes:
Puissant clots: 0
Puissance:6/6
Name: Sand
Puissant fettle - 0
Ritual potency - 3
Runic sight - 0
Banal combat - 0
Aim - 0
Melee - 0
Agility - 3
Practicality - 0
Inventory: £20,
[Glass Skull Chalice]
Puissant clots: 0
Puissance:5/5
Goe T. Thelle
Puissant fettle - 1
Ritual potency - 1
Runic sight - 1
Banal combat - 0
Aim - 1
Melee - 0
Agility - 1
Practicality - 1
Inventory: £30, empty jar, clockface minus one hand.
[Dog Collar Pendant] [Molasses Clockhand Wand]
Runes:
Puissant clots: 0
Puissance: 6/6
Jimmy "Car bombs" Castanza
Puissant fettle - 0
Ritual potency - 0
Runic sight - 3
Banal combat - 0
Aim - 0
Melee - 0
Agility - 0
Practicality - 3
Inventory: £35, very rusty saw, length of pipe stuck to block of concrete,
[Lightbulb Antenna Wand]
Runes:
Puissant clots: 1
Puissance:5/5
Ben Breeze
Stats:
Puissant fettle - 0
Ritual potency - 0
Runic sight - 0
Banal combat - 3
Aim - 1
Melee - 1
Agility - 1
Practicality - 0
Inventory: £25, knife
Puissant clots: 2
Puissance:5/5
Micky Roberts
Puissant fettle -
Ritual potency -
Runic sight - 1
Banal combat - 2
Aim -
Melee - 2
Agility - 1
Practicality -
Inventory: £40
[Boxing Glove Pendant][Sports Drink and Centaur Urine Chalice]
Runes:
Puissant clots: 0
Puissance:5/5
Sir Lootington
Puissant Fettle- 1
Ritual Potency- 1
Runic Sight- 1
Melee- 1
Agility- 1
Practicality- 1
Inventory: £50
[Ivory Cane Staff] ("The Staff of Power")
Runes:
Puissant clots: 1
Puissance:6/6