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[Glass]

3 is an absolutely amazing aesthetic, I love it.

[Enemy post]

Quirky ancient junk.

Over years of exploring ruins, you have greedily hoarded anything you could come across that was built by the ancients, whether magical or not. The big stuff became your furniture.

The main places to sit in your living room are all wooden facsimiles of food, which you think the ancients used as advertisements. Your favorite to sit on is a large wooden facsimile of a rounded meat sandwich, but you also have a long sausage in a bun, a low-to-the-ground shredded-meat wrap, and for your bed, an open baked potato. All of these are actually fairly comfortable with a liberal application of pillows.

For end tables, you have various geared axles from larger defunct automated artifacts, and some compelling-looking sleek metal cylinders etched with symbols that look very powerful if only their secrets could be unlocked. They may well be the most powerful end tables ever. (Increased Humor.)

One desk in the corner, made out of the middle finger of a giant golem, is reserved for your "laboratory," humble as it is—or was before your expedition to the sunken academy. The random assortment of automatic trinkets whose power you were trying to unlock now seems like nothing compared to the haul you dump onto the desk: a whole alchemy set, composed of vials, beakers, and burners that you lay out across the desk; the flying serving tray, which lands on the corner of the desk of its own accord; the dragon eggs, still sitting on the serving tray; the torc of life and death from the old laboratory; a few accessories from the dormitories that complement the already dashing look of your duelist's uniform; an assortment of spare automation parts you picked up while exploring the academy; and, of course, the hefty tomes of magic you found, which will form the basis of your further magical study.

You had quite a haul this time around.

Happier than you have been in a long time, you go to your bedroom, a tiny room just big enough for your baked-potato-shaped bed, and drift off to sleep.

When you wake up the next day, you're most eager to continue studying the books of magic you retrieved from the academy.

Which kind of magic will you study the most? Recall that negation is useful for fights but leaves behind deadly clouds; divination reveals information to you but may also reveal information about yourself to someone else in the process; automation creates magical objects but worsens the ever-present storms; glamor makes you persuasive in the short term but wears away at your health; and vivomancy is the magic of life and often has unexpected long-term consequences.

1.Negation.
2.Divination.
3.Automation.
4.Glamor.
5.Vivomancy.

This choice isn't necessarily permanent, it's just what magic we want to practice at the moment.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Foo Orison

Appearance

A bookish, spectacled man wearing a shimmering cloak and a noble duelist's uniform.

Magic
  Negation:5
  Automation:3
  Glamor:0
  Divination:1
  Vivomancy:5

Skills
Ancient History: 2 (Decent)
Fighting: 1 (Bad)
Subtlety: 3 (Decent)
Charisma: 3 (Decent)

Personality
Optimism:50%/Caution:50%   
Humor:56%/Solemnity:44%   
Empathy:34%/Calculation:66%   

Relationships
Romances (Interested romantically, but not sexually, in men and women)
None

Tal: 55 (Good)
Church: 40 (Bad)
Undiscovered relationships: 4

Kingdom
Adoration: 50%/Vilification: 50%

Inventory
Gold: 100 gold
Sword
Alchemy Set
Flying Serving Tray
Torc of Life and Death
Clutch of Dragon Eggs
Golem Manual

Students
None

Pets
None

The Dead
The Academy Inquisitor

Plot Points

Chapter 1

You and Tal stumbled on an ancient magic academy.
You discovered a book of vivomancy, and an inquisitor chased you.
You found an ancient dueling ground.
You killed the inquisitor with negation magic.
You explored the academy library.
A divination revealed a potential ally in the form of a golem, so you took a manual on the operation of golems from the library.
You animated a serving tray to retrieve an alchemy set, but in the process, you released some dangerous chemicals.
You found a laboratory with a trapped specter.
You destroyed the specter.
You obtained a clutch of dragon eggs from the crow's nest of an ancient airship.
It became clear that the spilled chemicals were going to consume the whole academy.

Chapter 2

You flew up the coast of the Negative Sea back to Akriton.

[brewer bob]

5

[Yellow Pixel]

5

[Glass]

“They may well be the most powerful end tables ever.”
Oh my God I love it.

5

[Knightwing64]

1

[Enemy post]

Vivomancy.

You've read that the primary way the ancient vivomancers gained skill in their craft was by creating new life-forms. You've never done anything like that, but it should be educational.

(For the sake of time, I'm showing all the related choices we're about to get.)

What is the overall shape of the life-form you will create?

1.It will walk on four legs.
2.It will have two legs and wings.
3.It will slither like a snake or worm.

And what will its head look like?

1.It will have the head of a dragon.
2.It will have the head of a lion.
3.It will have the head of a blue jay.

And what will its hide be covered with?

1.Scales.
2.Feathers.
3.Fur.

And what will the overall color of this creature be?

1.Red.
2.Orange.
3.Yellow.
4.Blue.
5.Purple.
6.Silver.
7.Brown.
8.White.
9.Black.
10.Green.
11.Pink.

(There will also be a secondary color, based on the head we pick. Which do you want?)

1.Red.
2.Orange.
3.Yellow.
4.Blue.
5.Purple.
6.Silver.
7.Brown.
8.White.
9.Black.
10.Green.
11.Pink.

Finally, what will you call this new kind of creature? A…what?

(Insert name here)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Foo Orison

Appearance

A bookish, spectacled man wearing a shimmering cloak and a noble duelist's uniform.

Magic
  Negation:5
  Automation:3
  Glamor:0
  Divination:1
  Vivomancy:5

Skills
Ancient History: 2 (Decent)
Fighting: 1 (Bad)
Subtlety: 3 (Decent)
Charisma: 3 (Decent)

Personality
Optimism:50%/Caution:50%   
Humor:56%/Solemnity:44%   
Empathy:34%/Calculation:66%   

Relationships
Romances (Interested romantically, but not sexually, in men and women)
None

Tal: 55 (Good)
Church: 40 (Bad)
Undiscovered relationships: 4

Kingdom
Adoration: 50%/Vilification: 50%

Inventory
Gold: 100 gold
Sword
Alchemy Set
Flying Serving Tray
Torc of Life and Death
Clutch of Dragon Eggs
Golem Manual

Students
None

Pets
None

The Dead
The Academy Inquisitor

Plot Points

Chapter 1

You and Tal stumbled on an ancient magic academy.
You discovered a book of vivomancy, and an inquisitor chased you.
You found an ancient dueling ground.
You killed the inquisitor with negation magic.
You explored the academy library.
A divination revealed a potential ally in the form of a golem, so you took a manual on the operation of golems from the library.
You animated a serving tray to retrieve an alchemy set, but in the process, you released some dangerous chemicals.
You found a laboratory with a trapped specter.
You destroyed the specter.
You obtained a clutch of dragon eggs from the crow's nest of an ancient airship.
It became clear that the spilled chemicals were going to consume the whole academy.

Chapter 2

You flew up the coast of the Negative Sea back to Akriton.

[Yellow Pixel]

3 2 3 6 6

Edit:

I found a name for my beast: it's a silver lionwyrm!

[brewer bob]

3
3
3
5
11

First name to pop in my head was 'slitherjay', so I'll go with that.

Edit: Going with Maximum Spin's name suggestion: horse

[Maximum Spin]

23248
Call it a horse.

[Knightwing64]

3 2 3 6 6

Edit:

I found a name for my beast: it's a silver lionwyrm!

+1

[Glass]

22116, and call it a Prideling.
(Wings, lion, scales, red, silver)

[brewer bob]

Call it a horse.

I think I have to +1 this and discard my name suggestion.

[Enemy post]

A horse is a horse, of course of course...

(Also, the secondary color isn't the trim of its feathers, it's based on the head. In this case, it's the beak. Given the spirit of the vote, I changed it to black. Please forgive me.)

A horse? Plural "horses"? Is that right?

Yes, that's what I want to call this creature.

"Horse" it is.

You go into the Mild Woods to collect the living specimens you'll need for the spell: a blue jay for the wings, head, and feathers, and some additional blue and black flower petals for coloration.

On your return, you place the caged blue jay in the middle of your desk and strew the flower petals around it in an intricate pattern dictated by your tome of vivomancy. You feed the creature some special ground meal recommended by the tome for making it docile; surprisingly, it gobbles the stuff right up. You place a hand on its neck.

"Craetura prothea, metamorpha a pedibus usque ad crania!" you say, willing the creature to transform into your desired shape. The flower petals glow blue and black, and their sweet smell fills the air as glowing particles rise from them. Meanwhile, your captive writhes and shudders as similar particles are pulled from it, mingling with the flower particles at the center of the table as its old shell collapses dead.

Finally, there is a flash, and—

Your new horse remains at the center of the workshop table, standing amid the blackened petals. (Gained Vivomancy.) It cozies up to you, and you pet its avian head.

What will you do with this new creature, now that you've created it?

1.I can't part with it. Name it and keep it as a pet.
2.It could fetch a fair price at market.
3.Introduce it into the wild with a partner and see what happens.

Interesting that the game reacted so well to the ingredients of the 'horse'. Normally, this scene involves merging several animals together.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Foo Orison

Appearance

A bookish, spectacled man wearing a shimmering cloak and a noble duelist's uniform.

Magic
  Negation:5
  Automation:3
  Glamor:0
  Divination:1
  Vivomancy:7

Skills
Ancient History: 2 (Decent)
Fighting: 1 (Bad)
Subtlety: 3 (Decent)
Charisma: 3 (Decent)

Personality
Optimism:50%/Caution:50%   
Humor:56%/Solemnity:44%   
Empathy:34%/Calculation:66%   

Relationships
Romances (Interested romantically, but not sexually, in men and women)
None

Tal: 55 (Good)
Church: 40 (Bad)
Undiscovered relationships: 4

Kingdom
Adoration: 50%/Vilification: 50%

Inventory
Gold: 100 gold
Sword
Alchemy Set
Flying Serving Tray
Torc of Life and Death
Clutch of Dragon Eggs
Golem Manual

Students
None

Pets
None

The Dead
The Academy Inquisitor

Plot Points

Chapter 1

You and Tal stumbled on an ancient magic academy.
You discovered a book of vivomancy, and an inquisitor chased you.
You found an ancient dueling ground.
You killed the inquisitor with negation magic.
You explored the academy library.
A divination revealed a potential ally in the form of a golem, so you took a manual on the operation of golems from the library.
You animated a serving tray to retrieve an alchemy set, but in the process, you released some dangerous chemicals.
You found a laboratory with a trapped specter.
You destroyed the specter.
You obtained a clutch of dragon eggs from the crow's nest of an ancient airship.
It became clear that the spilled chemicals were going to consume the whole academy.

Chapter 2

You flew up the coast of the Negative Sea back to Akriton.

[Maximum Spin]

(Also, the secondary color isn't the trim of its feathers, it's based on the head. In this case, it's the beak. Given the spirit of the vote, I changed it to black. Please forgive me.)

Funnily enough, I put black first based on the same thinking, but changed it since I wasn't sure where the colour would end up.

ETA: Oh, and 3, of course.