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livinglot2017-11-08 09:38 pm
ringleaders) wrote in livinglot2017-11-08 09:38 pm
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⇨ IIIT'S A CR MEME!
A WILD CR MEME APPEARS↴ Given that it's been a while since our last CR/plotting meme, this seemed well overdue! This post is where you talk about what you are looking for in character relationships, and then respond to other people's posts to plot! You can be as long winded or as brief if you like - as long as you communicate what you are interested in doing. New to this post is a 'Collective Objectives' section, which will be a toplevel below. This is for coordinating events or efforts that you want the input/organization of multiple characters on, making a big group log, or developing something have broader ramifications for the Carnival moving forward. There is a form provided below for your convenience, but you don't have to fill everything out! It just needs to be enough information to give your fellow players an idea of what they have to work with. CHARACTER NAME | ( journalname)Canon: (What canon are they from?) Carnival Role: (What is their job? Maybe your characters could be working together.) Length of Stay: (Are they new, a veteran, or somewhere in between?) Skills/Powers: (Self-explanatory; a concise summary of their powers and a link to their IC info page is probably more than enough. ) Routine: (Does your character have a regular schedule people can bump into them easily? A place they like to hang out? Are they a night owl or an early bird?) Current status in game: (What they've been up to recently, their mental state, and any recent important events or developments.) Any current or future plans: (This could be things that you would like to happen, or ideas that you're currently working on. Where would you like to see your character go, or are you looking for suggestions? Is there something you'd like to do at the current carnival location? Are you trying to nail some bonuses/rewards over the next month?) IC Assistance: (Do you have any specific IC goals that your character needs help with? Does your character need help with their act? Do you need someone to fill a specific role in their life?) Desired CR: (Are you most interested in seeking out positive or negative CR? Friends? Dates? New enemies? Be as specific as you can.) Shipping Preferences: (Yay or nay? Is roleplaying sexual content something you are interested in? Are you interested in one sided crushes? Let us know here.) Permissions/Opt Outs: (Please link any permissions/opt out posts, if applicable, here so other people can fill it in. You can also use this to make a note of any content/subject matter you'd prefer to opt out of yourself.) Additional Comments: (Tagging speed? Timezone woes? Funny gifs? Anything else you'd like to address.) |
Mage Club
Feel free to chime in if your character's interested, what sort of magic they've got and would be willing to teach, what sort of magic they specifically want to learn, how garbage they'd be as a teacher/student, things like that!
Likewise, I'd appreciate any sort of input you have for how to structure the thing (a big mingle log? a network post? a network post leading to a big mingle log?). This is all AMAZINGLY tentative and any input on what works best for people is A+ in my book. I don't mind having Strange icly organize the thing as he's a huge creep who already knows a lot about people's magic/wants to learn more but I'd be happy to team up or pass the organizational reins off to someone else if anyone wants.
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Strange is sort of a jack of all trades type of magician who focuses a lot on elemental & reflection magic, but knows some other dumb tricks as well. He knows absolutely nothing about healing magic, mental magic, or defensive magic (wards, barriers, etc.) He would definitely like to learn more about mental magic & how to resist it.
He's 100% up for the idea of mage club and 100% up for teaching anybody about magic if they want, though his teaching style involves a LOT of reading and a LOT of your character putting up with Strange's nonsense. he also thinks he'd be a lot better teacher than he actually is.
AS FOR OOC STUFF, I think that a big mingle log with a handwaved network post that's just "here's how so and so icly learned about this" would be best for the set-up.
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Her specialties: magic technology, magic objects, sciencey magic, spirit magic, golemancy, elemental, offensive, fire magic
Things she wants to learn more about: spirits and spirit magic, fae magic, or any weird otherworld magic she's never heard of.
She's not much of a teacher, but she'd probably be willing to lend advice to someone who seems determined to learn about magic. Unfortunately for anyone who tries to learn from Rita, a lot of her magic is very math+science based, and involves a lot of boring math formulas. She's also game for magic sparring if anyone's into that. After she's recovered, anyway.
For OOC logistics stuff: maybe a network post for characters to ICly connect with people who share their interests, or know something they'd like to learn about? I'm up for whatever, though!
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But you should definitely not let him organize the meeting again lest you end up having another hot tub feet wine event.
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people's feet were in that hot tub water, Sans. that's nasty. and when Jonathan "puts things in his mouth that he probably shouldn't" Strange thinks that something's nasty, it's probably pretty dang nasty
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For what his magic is... Basically Susan's world has magic woven throughout it (creatively called the Weave) and Susan, as a sorcerer, just has an instinctive understanding of how to manipulate it the right way to make it work. This means that it's almost impossible for him to teach, although he would happily show off to others, and of course this is also why he makes mistakes - he knows which 'strings' to pull, but not how to make sure he doesn't accidentally grab the wrong ones too, as a simple explanation.
Which is actually what he would want to learn - he's very happy with his ability of magic, but if someone could help him figure out how to be more... well, precise, with it, and not have so many accidents, that would be great. His brother would appreciate it too.
He does know a couple spells he may be able to teach others though, or explain the theory behind, as he was actually taught these at a magic school - Dancing Lights, Minor Illusion, and (his favorite) Find Familiar.
This of course is all contingent on things happening once he's recovered from, you know. Being imprisoned and then killed.
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on the participation/ic input offering side of things: lambert is the guy who didn't know he was part of mage club bc his friends filled in the signup form for him and turned it in so they'd have enough members to make the damn club in the first place
IN OTHER WORDS, lambert is unlikely to volunteer to be a teacher specifically, but enough people have seen him use magic by now to have some sense that 'hey, this guy knows some shit.' his magic is combat-oriented, and he will actually be trying to make some improvements to his own skill repertoire so he can do shit like this. he knows precisely one (1) spell each of: mental compulsion magic, set things on fire magic, knock things over magic, shield magic, and magic trap magic. that's it.
on the 'learning' side, he's working on his dragon transformation skills and everything to do with that. he's much more reticent about asking for help with that, but he can be bugged to show it off/spar with other shapeshifters. he also will never figure out how to transform with his clothes, so he can also be heckled about that!
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the one TEENY TINY problem with this is he actually can't teach anyone his own magic because basically sharing that knowledge with people who aren't druids is forbidden. so... he can't give anything back but he really wants to learn more about other worlds magicks so. yeah.
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he'd just side-eye Lauren for the "being a no fun funkiller" aspect. c:
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His specialties: Time/space based physics magic, both monster and fae varieties. He's also good at conjuring/summoning magical constructs. Also if you wanna HULK OUT and turn into a big ol' animal, he can give you some pro tips, because he got an affinity for bestial magic as part of a contract with the Ringmaster. That's how he summons his magical dogs
Would like to learn: Wards, mental defense, protection spells, and to experiment with his angelic magic since that's still pretty new.
Willing to teach: Sans has taught a few people how to do magical tricks. He taught joker how to make teleportation charms, and he's been schooling Lambert in the ways of turning into a big fuck-off monster. He's essentially got a PHD in magic and has been working in a lab setting since he was a teenager, and so he has a pretty scientific/mathematical approach to magic. He's not the best teacher but he certainly isn't the worst - his biggest issue is that he may or may not start nerding out about advance concepts his student won't understand.
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Childermass is the same variety of English magician that Strange is, only he's more on par with the typical power level than Mr. OP Protaganist up there when you exclude the shadow magic that he's picked up during his time with the carnival. What he does have over Strange is a fairly decent knowledge of magic, magical theory, history (though only English, so yeah), laws, and so on, since he's the one who had access to the Hurtfew Abbey library (doesn't read much my ass, this man is a liar).
His focus is in shadows, stealth, illusion, tracking to a very small extent, and fortune telling. With fae magic, it's definitely all shadow, all the time, and while he's capable of shapeshifting, he's not sure he's the best one to teach that.
However, he's less willing to act as a teacher for magic. The most he might be willing to try with is teaching his general "don't look here" spell and possibly some shadow manipulation, but he won't be sharing how he manages his shadow-stepping. He could technically also teach people how to read tarot, only he can't impart the actual magical skill for accurate readings. It's not really a spell to be taught.
Also flying, since people seem to keep getting wings around here, but that ain't magic.
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His specialty is necromancy, which he will be openly reluctant to teach, but if you ask, he will. He'll just be a bit weird about it.
That said, you'd better really want it, because as a teacher, Foster is... not that great. Mostly because he has a head full of nasty brain disease and how the FUCK do you use words. But he is actually extremely sharp about magic, and has already cracked how to combine ritual magic with the innate magic of being a Changeling. That's how he made his undead abomination mouse-dogs during the hunt.
Which brings me to him as a student. Foster is very interested in learning to use magic that's innate to him, especially mental magic or magic related to energy transfer, but he'd be totally thrilled to learn elemental magic or barrier magic.
He will outright refuse to learn healing magic; healers can't be necromancers.
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Syrlya would, of course, be interested. He has a lot he can say about Tyrian magic, but mostly Mesmer magic because that's his specialty. Mesmers are illusionist mages except their illusions are tangible, and basically manipulated raw magic. His magic is largely utility, with reflections, invisibility, teleports, etc. Also lots of confusion and misdirection to people's senses. He's got some time manipulation in there but it's super low-scale and time is an illusion anyway. Mostly he just puts things on fast forward or slow-mo.
He's also basically a magical creature since it's something inherent to his actual existence, and it means that he has a natural magic ability to manipulate and sense dispositions of plant life! He's not actually well practiced in the skill to do super grand and efficient things but it's very manageable on a smaller scale.
He's willing to hear about anyone's magic, but he's most interested in the way magic actually functions in each world and really powerful, large scale magic.
AS FOR TEACHING he can't really teach the plant manipulation since it's just a racial trait, but he's completely willing to try and explain Mesmer magic! The energy used for it is technically world specific but fae magic could mimic the end result easily, and other canons that deal with raw, external magic energy might find it easier to devise a version of directly. He's more likely to come at this as working out the logistics or just providing explanations than like, dedicated tutorship.
Edit: OH YEAH also since he's mostly trained how to use his magic offensively he's totally up for magic training spars.
For OOC I think a network post + Mingle Log is probably the best for getting it jumpstarted.
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It seems to be pretty compatible with Foster's magic (his magic is actually about manipulating external magics) too.
....also, maybe he could stand to get a better impression of Syr than "spider box guy they had to set on fire while he hovered impatiently behind them so they could do something actually important."
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He's got an anti-fae warding spell he's willing to share! Otherwise though he's really here to find out about everyone's magic styles and get an idea what kind of magic he wants to learn given his goal is protecting his friends with minimal bloodshed.
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Anyway, she can contribute some transformation magic expertise, but she's a much better student than teacher tbh. She'd mostly want to hang out with the mages out of curiosity bc she loves learning new things SO MUCH
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It's hard, ok. It's very hard.
Carly has two different forms of FIRE MAGIC (one steals energy and is cold, the other is basically Fiend Fire from HP), and a shapeshifting spell-but obviously it's the fire magic she'd be lending a hand with.
DANCE...WITH MAGIC...
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He'd be great for teaching newbies the basics, since that's the majority of the magic he uses is basic elemental/status spells, and he knows a decently wide variety of spells. Nothing fancy, but it gets the job done. On top of that, he's pretty patient when teaching someone a thing, and he'd be super encouraging to anyone who's not getting it on the first try.
He's not. Super interested in learning? But if you have something neat to show him he'll definitely at least take a look.
As for OOC, I vote for a network post followed by a mingle log.
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Since Tamaki isn't a natural at this he's going to need some help getting better at it SO YES here I am. /o/