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flawedmemes2016-08-09 10:27 am
theflaws) wrote in flawedmemes2016-08-09 10:27 am
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TEST DRIVE MEME
| TEST DRIVE MEME |
01. ARRIVING IN PELEA
A cold wind singing down from the white-capped mountains which hang blue-black in the distance stirs your cheek, the tall grass all around you. A bough creaks as the wind makes it tremble, and the dappled shadows drift over you, leaves rustling. As you blink awake, you hear the quiet hiss of water over stones. You are not where you once were!
You and a large group of strangers are blinking awake, pulling yourselves up off the dirt, grass, and rubble near a small wooded stream. There is no evidence of civilization in sight, and as you exchange stories you realize that you must decide what to do.
Will you head past the trees and towards the mountains? Deeper into the forest? Stay put and wait for help to arrive? You might even try to meet everyone else, and either convince them to band together... or head their separate ways.
02. CITY SLICKER
There are many cities throughout the world of Pelea, and in most of them player characters, the Flaws, are welcomed as curiosities. Whether they're among the passionate, oft thought as hot-headed, but hospitable folk of the Banner or the noble and haughty people of the Empire, your characters will find a wide variety of cultures, races and simply people to interact with and investigate. They could be seeking employment, answers to the mystery of their arrival or other folk like themselves, or a quiet place to drink away their worries.
03. WILDCARD!
A cold wind singing down from the white-capped mountains which hang blue-black in the distance stirs your cheek, the tall grass all around you. A bough creaks as the wind makes it tremble, and the dappled shadows drift over you, leaves rustling. As you blink awake, you hear the quiet hiss of water over stones. You are not where you once were!
You and a large group of strangers are blinking awake, pulling yourselves up off the dirt, grass, and rubble near a small wooded stream. There is no evidence of civilization in sight, and as you exchange stories you realize that you must decide what to do.
Will you head past the trees and towards the mountains? Deeper into the forest? Stay put and wait for help to arrive? You might even try to meet everyone else, and either convince them to band together... or head their separate ways.
02. CITY SLICKER
There are many cities throughout the world of Pelea, and in most of them player characters, the Flaws, are welcomed as curiosities. Whether they're among the passionate, oft thought as hot-headed, but hospitable folk of the Banner or the noble and haughty people of the Empire, your characters will find a wide variety of cultures, races and simply people to interact with and investigate. They could be seeking employment, answers to the mystery of their arrival or other folk like themselves, or a quiet place to drink away their worries.
03. WILDCARD!
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Not... really.
Look, I'm trying my best to figure out just where- or possibly when- you're from, or if you're just a really good actor and I'm on Candid Camera right now.
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Did you hit your head when you landed?
[That's why you should wear a helmet, duh.]
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No. Did you?
Okay, okay-- [ He digs into the back pocket of his jeans, withdrawing his now-useless iPhone. ] Do you know what this is?
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Whoever smithed it knew their craft, at least. Aila couldn't get a surface like that and she's hardly a novice.]
A hand mirror?
[Yeah, that's probably not it, but it's all she's got.]
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It’s a communication device, but it hasn’t worked since I got here.
[ He stows his phone back in his pocket. ] I think we kind of got off to a weird start. I’m Charlie.
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[Time travel is easy, you just get an Elder Scroll. You'll probably have to kill a lot of vampires or make a deal with a demon lord and you might go blind, but aside from that, no problem.
...Yeah so that's why she's blase about falling through a hole in reality and waking up somewhere else.]
Does it need to be recharged?
[Okay, clearly this this the part where the Candid Camera reveal happens, because that sounds thoroughly sensible and modern.]
I have some soul gems, but they're empty. I'll fill one the next time I hunt and you can use that.
[Or not.]
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Some what? My phone runs on electricity not… souls? Do you really put souls into those gems?
[ He shouldn’t be asking, because that sounds morally dubious at best, but damn if he isn’t really curious. ]
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But soul gems. Who hasn't heard of soul gems?]
You can argue whether a stag or a bear truly has a soul, I suppose, but the spell captures something.
[She shrugs.]
Now, soul-trapping people...
[It is so dubious.
Aila trails off. She herself has only used a black soul gem a handful of times, on people she wanted to keep from ever weaseling their way back to some semblance of life, but she's never been able to bring herself to use those filled gems.]
It's banned for a reason.
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[ Nurturers and Spiritualists aren’t common schools of wizardry, but Charlie’s managed to make acquaintances with one or two of each. As the names would imply, they’re very passionate about animals and souls, respectively.
But whether she meant to or not, Aila just stumbled upon one of Charlie’s favorite things: learning about different forms of magic. That soul-trapping people is banned doesn’t surprise him, considering the way Necromancy is treated where he comes from, so he doesn’t dwell on that. ]
How does soul-trapping work, do you know? Is it a property of the gems or do they need to be enchanted beforehand? Can anyone do it or do you have to have magical abilities yourself?
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Conjuration school.
[Apparently she's going to discuss magic with weird strangers in the middle of the woods. Sure.
Aila leans back on her elbows, looking out over the stream and holding one hand palm up. It starts to dance with purple-black magical energies as she readies Soul Trap.]
When the soul departs the body, the spell blocks it from crossing to Oblivion or Aetherius and channels it into a soul gem instead.
Far as I know, soul gems are naturally occurring, though I've only seen one place you can mine them. A talented enchanter might be able to create artificial ones, maybe.
[She shrugs the shoulder not connected to the arm with the Soul Trap spell at the end of it. No one would ever describe her as more than an "acceptable" enchanter.]
Any fool can use a weapon enchanted with Soul Trap, but you need training to cast the spell. Not much training, though.
[Since she doesn't plan on capturing any souls right this second, Aila lets the spell die uncast, and the eerie light fades rapidly to nothing.]
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Still, he finds himself fascinated by the swirling energy in her hand, and the explanation she has to give. ]
So it’s the spell that traps the souls, and the gems are just a vessel. By enchanting a weapon, you bypass the need to cast the spell in the first place, am I right?
What do you even use these souls for?
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[This is basic magical theory man come on.]
If you're not drawing on your own magicka like a spellcaster does, you need something. Enchantments of the standard type that any petty mage can do use souls stored in soul gems. Increase someone's health or stamina, protect against the elements, enhance skills, that sort of thing.
[Aila is looking at Charlie dubiously again. What rock are you living under, seriously?]
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I know, you’re looking at me like I’m crazy, but we don’t have anything like this where I’m from. A person’s well of power is passed down through family lines. You’re either born with it or you’re not, and if you’re not, there’s nothing you can really do about it.
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That seems. Odd. And likely to lead to problems.
[Hard to set up a magic-based caste system when any idiot can learn to chuck fireballs, after all.]
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[ Granted, he can think of a great many people, all of whom reside comfortably in the wizarding upper class, who are more than okay with the way things are. ]
We also don’t have, what did you call it? Conjuration?
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[She nods in confirmation.]
The art of summoning. Haven't made a particular study of that one. I find a lot of it to be... [oogy] ...unsettling.
[Conjuration is where all the necromancy spells live, ew.]
The schools are Conjuration, Illusion, Alteration, Restoration, and Destruction. I suppose you could consider enchantment and alchemy to be schools, if you're being broad enough about the definition. And then get yelled at by a pack of theorists, but they're not here.
[She has intentionally not spent much time around academic mages because they are kind of awful and have terrible priorities, generally.]
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Oh. Jeez, okay. [ He ticks them off on his fingers as he talks. ] We have Animation, Elementalism, Enhancement, Defense, Destruction, Mending, Nurturing, Spiritualism, and Illusion.
And Necromancy, but nobody likes to talk about it.
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[Aila's more tolerant of "complicated" than the stereotypical Nord, but ugh, who has the time? Or the patience?]
Necromancers are an unpleasant lot, in my experience.
[So she kills them and takes their stuff.]
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[ No one has the time for all of them, that's for damn sure. Unless they were immortal or something. ]
I haven't met any Necromancers personally, but that's kind of general consensus. I'm an Animator, myself.