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[Glass]

Oh. :/

If it was already 4 Bs and 3 As, that's not a tie. That's B.
Just have it be B, FoU.

[FallacyofUrist]

Alright, let's go with that.
~~~
Black Goo was one of the worst threats in the local multiverse. It consumed all to create more of itself. Worse, it adapted. Entire universes had been consumed by Black Goo. Once Black Goo took one universe, their directive to consume continued. Black Goo adapted, and learned to create portals to other universes. Black Goo spread.

One drop. The Goo began spreading through the Infinite Mansion. The Mansion resisted, and adapted, but the Goo adapted faster, and consumed. The Mansion fell.

There were remnants. Sections of the Mansion protected by the inhabitants using powerful magic. One by one, they all fell. There was one left.

The mages within knew they were going to die. Still, they held out.

The Black Goo was not the worst threat in the local multiverse. That title went to one Null Nevermore, collector of gods, slayer of ROBs, hunter of all things impossibly powerful, master of nullification magic.

He was busy holding a poetry contest.

His second in command, however, Nowhere Nevermore, the most powerful rune mage in the local multiverse, was not busy.

He was, in fact, the one who created Black Goo.

At a magic override command given by him, the Goo in the Infinite Mansion's plane turned inert. Nowhere triggered a runic sensor array, and marveled at what he had wrought.

The fact that there were survivors was baffling. It was a miracle that they had managed to hold out so long.

Nowhere encoded some information into something like but far better than a lab notebook, and then began a new experiment.

Experiment "Journey".
"Statement of Intent: test response of human mages to mutation and rapid world travel. Hypothesis: Insanity will result within 5 trips."

Nowhere pulled a magical grenade from somewhere, and lobbed it at the shelter the mages had created. The spells designed to ward away Black Goo failed to block the grenade's burst.
~~~
To join, repost your character sheet, or write a new one if you haven't already done so. I'll be prioritizing players over waitlisters and waitlisters over those who didn't waitlist.

Meanwhile, we can vote on what world to visit first.
A: XCOM 2
B: Dwarf Fortress
C: Super Powereds
D: Some other relatively low-powered setting that I'm relatively familiar with. The write-in option.
~~~
Ao: can you please set the thread title to "World Trek: Evolving Magic"?

[Glass]

HELL YES XCOM 2. Time to use "target becomes obedient" to mind-control Avatars.

Spoiler: Octavian Grey (click to show/hide)

Name: Octavian Grey

Appearance: He's a bit taller than the average person, with well-toned muscles and tanned skin due to his training and habit of hunting.

Worn:
* Leather armor

Inventory (8/9):
* Lit Torch (L)
* Scissors
* Knife
* Harp (L)

Spells:
1 - "Caster's clothing smells like a skunk died in it", 7/1, 7
2 - "Caster's clothing smells like a skunk", 7/1, 7
3 - "Caster's clothing acts like a skunk", 1/3, 1
4 - "Caster's clothing acts like armor", 1/5, 1
5 - (P) "Caster's clothing becomes armor", 1/11, 1
6 - (P) "Target becomes armor", 1/12, 1
7 - "Target becomes omnilingual", 1/2, -1
8 - "Target becomes obedient", 1/5, 1
9 - (P) "Target becomes return portal", 1/10, -3
10 - "Target door becomes return portal", 1/4, 1
11 - "Target becomes safe", 1/8, -1
12 - "Target room becomes safe", 1/108, -101
13 - "Caster becomes a Wizard of Second Circle", -19
14 - (P) "Target becomes omnilingual, permanently", 1/7, -6

And just for reference's sake: spells with (P) are permanent.

[FallacyofUrist]

*Considers*

I was going to have the spells you've earned be wiped upon new game, but now I'm thinking that doesn't really make sense.

Still, I would like to balance starting out with more spells somehow. Maybe "more mutations for more spells"? What do you think?

Also, seeing as World Trek doesn't really have "rooms", I'm going to have to adjust the cool downs somehow.

Going from "per room" to "per world" or "per turn" units. It's going to be tricky.

[Glass]

Well, we could move through multiple rooms in a turn, or none at all. How about you do a flat conversion of charges in X rooms to charges in X turns for things less than 10, halve them if they're 20-50 (minimum 10 turns, so an 11-room charge doesn't go down to 5 or 6), and things above 50 come down to that? Or a different set of parameters depending on how long you think you'll be able to run this.

Also, the plan is we can mutate ourselves? Maybe you get to pick between a mutation and a spell each turn, so the people with lots of mutations have fewer spells and vice versa. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean.

[FallacyofUrist]

Well, we could move through multiple rooms in a turn, or none at all. How about you do a flat conversion of charges in X rooms to charges in X turns for things less than 10, halve them if they're 20-50 (minimum 10 turns, so an 11-room charge doesn't go down to 5 or 6), and things above 50 come down to that? Or a different set of parameters depending on how long you think you'll be able to run this.

Hm.

Also, the plan is we can mutate ourselves? Maybe you get to pick between a mutation and a spell each turn, so the people with lots of mutations have fewer spells and vice versa. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean.

Yeah, you're misunderstanding a bit. The idea is that everyone with a preexisting character would get one to a few mutations at random at the start of the game, and mutations could be changed henceforth using cards.
~~~

[darkgamer]

D: Some other relatively low-powered setting that I'm relatively familiar with. The write-in option.

What kinds of settings are you familiar with? Anime, comics, games, what are you familiar with?

also my sheet.

Spoiler: Shannon Webb (click to show/hide)

Name: Shannon Webb

Appearance: Human, feminine but male. With some work can pass off as either. Blond hair, green eyes and fair skin.

Enchantments:
* Regeneration (P)

Inventory (3/9):
* Lit Torch (L)

Spells:
1 - "Touched target doesn't appear attractive to opposite sex", 1/2, 1
2 - "Touched target doesn't appear visible to the opposite sex", 1/3, 1
3 - "Touched target doesn't appear visible to the opposite person", 8/1, 8
4 - "Touched target doesn't appear visible to any person", 1/3, 1
5 - "Touched target doesn't appear understandable to any person", 1/4, 1
6 - "Touched target does appear understandable to any person", 1/3, 1
7 - "Touched target does appear understandable", 1/3, 1
8 - "Target does appear understandable", 1/6 , 1
9 - "Touched target becomes understandable", 1/5, 1
10 - (P) "Touched target becomes understandable permanently", 1/10, -2
11 - (P) "Touched named target becomes understandable permanently", 1/5, 1
12 - (P) "Touched named target gains regeneration permanently", 1/1, -1
13 - (P) "Touched named target gains the ability of regeneration permanently", 1/1, 1
14 - (P) "Touched named target gains the ability of hamon permanently", 1/11, -11

[omada]

Spoiler:  little finger before the goo spread (click to show/hide)

Name: "Little finger"

Appearance: Small, dark hair and dirty looks full of energy as any teenager

Inventory (3/9):
* Bench leg club (L)

Spells:
1 - "Pointed target thinks he has only 20 minutes to live", 3/1, 3
2 - "Looked target thinks he has only 20 minutes to live", 1/1, 1
3 - "Pointed target thinks he has only 20 minutes to kill", 1/1, 1
4 - "Pointed target has only 20 minutes to live", 1/5, 1
5 - "Looked target thinks he has 20 minutes to live", 1/1, 1
6 - "Looked target thinks", 1/10, -2
7 - (P) "Looked target is healed", 1/14, -7
8 - (P) "Target is healed", 1/6, 1
9 - (P) "Touched target is healed", 1/3, 1
10 - (P) "Caster is healed", 1/8, -1
11 - "Pointed target thinks live", -/-, -
12 - "Pointed target knows live", -/-, -
13 - "Touched target is smaller", 1/1, 1
14 - "Touched wings are smaller", 5/1, -1

He must right now or without hope of saving  his brothers, or more desperate of the possibility of the gray goo having invaded his homeworld

[FallacyofUrist]

What kinds of settings are you familiar with? Anime, comics, games, what are you familiar with?

A bit of everything.

To give you an idea:

Risk of Rain, One Piece, Naruto, !!Worm!!, Harry Potter, Deadman Wonderland, Caves of Qud, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Ready Player One... and then some.

I've read, watched, and played, though mostly read and played, a bit of everything.

[OceanSoul]

Of course, the worlds we visit don’t have to be canons of themselves. You could make one be a city of only rock-people, or a grassland of only forms of hair. A single hospital structured like that M. C. Escher painting, even. There’s plenty of possibilities.

Also, you might have annihilated the Mansion a little too much there. You could’ve left a fair amount of it standing, in case Ao ever wanted to reboot the game in the future. Then again, he could just say that a small part remained and that, well, grew back to its original, infinite size. But still.

Char sheet coming soon.

[ATHATH]

Name: Arthur
Background: Used to be a shoemaker in Sigil, the City of Doors.
Appearance: 30-ish. Blue eyes. Brown hair. Has a bunch of tattoos that detail numerous events of his life.

[Glass]

*poke*

[FallacyofUrist]

I have four sheets. I'd like six or seven to start.

[Maximum Spin]

Okay. How about this.
Name: Corey
Background: A twelve-year-old from a fairly posh background in a reasonably Earth-like environment.
Appearance: 12, posh, and ethnically ambiguous.

[Roboson]

Name: Roboson
Background: Player of forum games who stumbled upon the wrong game one day.
Appearance: Lumberjack.