name: Cecil Andrew Leastwet
species: Cankerman
gender: Male

I was in the library, running after one of my socks which appeared to be speeding away of it's own accord. Much to my distane and confusion you understand. This is not a usual occurrence for me.

name: David Jones or DJ for short

Species: Android

Gender: Uh, neutral I guess, [b]male[b] to keep things simple

I am one of the new N.A.006 model androids that were being showcased form city to city showing off how the new models are better, more sophisticated, and more life like then all previous models. I just got done with one of the shows I was in and getting ready to be transported to the next city... is this the place?

name: Rachel Leonhart
species: Lamia
gender: female
situation: Lamia's are not supposed to fly so why am I 100 feet off the ground in this goddamn plane? At least my sister is here too.

>>508003
This.

Name - Godzilla
Species - Kaiju
Gender - Male
Situation - Invading Tokyo.

Name: Oros Molochim

Species: Giant

Situation: Returning from a holy quest to obtain a sacred cup for our lord.

>>508002
This.

Rachel 2013/04/28(Sun)19:42 No. 508064 ID: 44d0d1
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>>508003
Rachel...Lamia aren't supposed to fly. My surface to volume ratio is horrible; if we fell out right now, we'd be toast. Toast that fell out of plane. Why, then, are we hundreds of feet in the air? At least my sister is here, too.
...
Of course, she's the nutcase flying this contraption.
...
Oh good gravy, don't flip the plane over DON'T FLIP THE PLANE OVER AAUGH NOT AGAIN

By the way, do you mean lamia with a human face or what? From Unnatural Selection, anyway, I've been given to understand that lamia have human faces, whereas nagas have more lizard-y faces. I'll wait a few minutes to see if anyone's around to respond before I start drawing.

>>508064
I'm pretty sure they are more human in the face department

i think of a girl with her legs replaced by snake.

Rachel 2013/04/28(Sun)20:29 No. 508072 ID: 44d0d1
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"AAAAAAhahahahahaha! Yahooooo! Come on, Rachel, look up! You can't say this isn't at least a little fun!"

are you sure you know how to fly this thing, or even better land it, preferably not in a fiery inferno of death and twisted metal!?

yes i CAN say that! i am too scared for fun.

>lamia face?
There's a lot of flexibility on how snakey they could be interpreted (and don't even start in on the naga v lamia mess). UnSe is a silly basis for biology reference anyways, since their bodies are literally set up how they want them.

>snake girl pilots
I am totally okay with this.

C'mon girl, look up! Even in the worst case, you should know what's going on around you. And maybe you'll see something to make this worthwhile, or to distract you. You won't get anything with your head down.

Rachel 2013/04/28(Sun)20:59 No. 508088 ID: 44d0d1
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To the contrary, I would gladly assert such a thing - except for the fact that I am desperately trying not to be violently ill.

Ugh, why am I even here? Er, wait...yeah, why am I here?

Ok; I'll either be back later tonight or, like, next Sunday. This'll be updating pretty slowly, I'm afraid - I'm aggravatingly busy during the week. There maybe a chance I'll still find time in the week, though.

Sorry, I should remember to check for posts immediately before posting. Dunno how I missed the three posts that showed up.

it SOUNDED like a good idea at the time. you were too excited to be scared. but that wore out very quickly but it was too late to abort.

your sister has been doing stupid things since the day she could slither and you have always been there for her to make sure she never screwed up to badly. This time you heard she somehow purchased a bi-plane and was taking it on a test run (you really need to find out where your sister gets all of her money one of these days) and came to stop her since she has never done this before... to your knowledge, but she somehow manged to talk you onto the plane and now her you are.

Because you absolutely had to get somewhere, which meant you finally had no excuse to turn down her persistent offers to take you flying.

As for your sister, this is just what she does. Because she's crazy, as far as you can tell.

>>508093
this sounds good

>>508093
No more need be said.

>>508088
You forgot your snake trousers and had to use a mode of transport that hid the bottom half of your body.

1/3 Rachel 2013/05/06(Mon)05:12 No. 508965 ID: cd236c
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As you think back on what brought you to this new low point in your life (don't think about it don't think about it), you eventually manage to work up the wherewithal to look out of the plane.

...You...suppose...it's rather pretty. Through strict mental discipline, you manage to suppress the terror for about a minute as you look at the scenery.

2/3 Rachel 2013/05/06(Mon)05:13 No. 508966 ID: cd236c
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It was only a few hours ago that she recieved a telegram from an old friend, Professor Nikolai Rasputin. It was pretty cryptic, but essentially said, "I've found something you must know. Come immediately." Your older sister, Bertha, had been the one to answer the door, so she was the one who brought it to you. Upon seeing your look of concern, she asked you what was up.

After you explain, she turns and - wait, why is she calling Sal - OH, DEAR GOODNESS NO; I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING! AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

3/3 Rachel 2013/05/06(Mon)05:14 No. 508967 ID: cd236c
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And that's how you're currently hundreds of feet in the air, hurtling towards Akkena Gol, the subterranean City of Scholars. You think you've had all the terrain-gazing you can stand. Any questions? Or maybe some suggestions on how to pass the terrifying half-hour you have left?

play 20 queations?

You're flying to a subterranean city? But it's underground! Why couldn't have have taken a nice safe subway or something...?

What do you do, anyways? Your sister is a pilot, obviously (crazy), but what's your background? How do you know the professor, and what is he a professor of?

well look at the bright side of this, If the plane does go down or you fall out you most likely won't be anything but a red smear on the ground so your funeral will be dirt cheap. (No body to bury after all)

Think about how thin the hull of the aircraft is between you and the ground. Pretty thin!

>>508988
>>509086
not helping :V

Erhannis 2013/05/14(Tue)05:28 No. 510572 ID: 462d89
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>>508988
>>509086
OH, FOR THE LOVE OF DONUTS

>>508970
Augh, I know, right? But subways take a great deal of energy to build, and our town isn't big enough to merit the expenditure, yet. I swear, though, I'm going to figure out another way to travel if I have to dig the subway tunnel myself....

But my sister isn't exactly a pilot, so much as a nutso mechanic. After spending the last 2 years on this contraption, though, she pretty much qualifies as both. Nuts, either way.

As for me, I'm a journeyman daemancer! With a few drops of knowledge of Thaumaturgy and some Binding to glue everything together. Pretty good grounding in general theory, though. Thaumaturgy is way too scribbly and inefficient for my tastes; I've never been able to muster the willpower to learn it really properly.

Raspberry's been my professor for years; he's a little bit inter-departmental. He's significantly better at Thaumaturgy than I am, for instance, but I daresay I'm not too far behind him in Daemancy. One of his main interests is the ways that the different expressions of magic relate and why they manifest themselves the way they do.

Erhannis 2013/05/14(Tue)05:28 No. 510573 ID: 462d89
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>>508968
Hmm, 20 questions....Ok, I've got one. Is it manmade? Yes. Is it a plummeting deathtrap? Hey, I got it! Score 1 for Rachel Leonhart.
...
Ugh. I'm normally not this bitter and cynical. Looming dismemberment does not do you many favors. I love my sister and all, and logically I'm sure we're reasonably safe, but my senses are screaming death at me.

I can't take this anymore; there's nothing I could do if we were to crash, anyway. I'm going to enter Interconscious Lucid Trance State, which I jokingly call the Scratchpaper Fortress. Maybe I'll review some of the spells I've been working on or something.

Man, I swear if Sal gets us dead while I'm away, I'm gonna kill her.

...So, then, welcome to my head. Have a mug of imaginary cocoa or something. Anything else I can show you, or explain, while we wait out the storm?

Oops, Name field should have been Rachel, not Erhannis.

Huh what kinda things can you summon and bind? Also other spells would be nice to know. Always good to know what we're working with.

>for the love of donuts!
Lucky you, snake-girls have some extra leeway when it comes to delicious, unhealthy snacks. All that extra length comes in handy when your body is looking for a place to dump the junk food.

>Have a mug of imaginary cocoa
*Sluuuurp*

>>510576
Seconded. Review that mental spell list, and what your capabilities are. Maybe elaborate more specifically on what the fields of thaumaturgy and daemancy involve? (Miracle working and... the control and study of daemons?).

Daemancy's a new term to the PURGE (partially unified resolution generating entity) which, is an acronym I just came up with to describe us!
Or alternately, we can go by Leigon, it's a name that's worked before. Your choice... Now, on to the spells! Mages are always fun for us! Daemancy has something to do with the mind, right?

Rachel 2013/05/15(Wed)05:47 No. 510926 ID: 462d89
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Well, let's see; where should we start....

The word "Daemancy" stems from "Daemon." This is in reference to the fact that spells in Daemancy, unlike Thaumaturgy, or aspects of Ritualism, for example, are not directly controlled by the caster. Rather, a caster first inscribes an explicit description of the spell, then activates it and supplies the requisite power for the duration of the spell. The spell effectively governs itself. It was originally believed that mystical beings (known as "daemons") were charged with the proper performance of the different segments of a spell. The existence of actual individual entities is still debated, though the topic now has a rather different tone than it orignally had.

However, given that Daemancy is self-governing, it has no built-in methods for activation from a living mind. This is one of the reasons I know a smidgen of Thaumaturgy. Thaumaturgy (which has been around rather longer than Daemancy, I should add) is much more of an innate form of magic. It requires a good deal of discipline and training, still, but it much more closely resembles thinking really hard at stuff. In a manner of speaking, it is one of the only forms of magic we can truly use, allowing us access to the otherwise inaccessible branches of magic - much in the same way that I technically cannot fly, yet...for some reason...here I am.

Rachel 2013/05/15(Wed)05:48 No. 510928 ID: 462d89
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It is Binding that bridges the gap between the two, and between any other forms of magic. With Thaumaturgy, I provide the raw energy, the intent to cast, and any required information; with these and through Binding I invoke Daemancy, and Daemancy fulfils what has been requested of it, for as long as the energy is there.

As it turns out, the energy requirement is a blessing - self-powered invocations gone awry can be nightmarishly difficult to stop, and can sometimes have horrifying results. Simply cutting the power is a very convenient way of stopping most spells.

I've spent rather more time than is healthy working on the details of this. :3 If you want, I can actually post a formal grammar and syllabary in the discussion thread. :33

Okay, neat!

But what applications can you actually turn these magics to? When you cast spells, what is it they actually do?

sounds like it can do ANYTHING a long as you write it well enough and give it enough juice.

1/2 Rachel 2013/06/18(Tue)01:37 No. 517764 ID: bc3b41
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>>510940
Bingo! Theoretically, completely preposterous things are totally possible. You write really, really specific instructions, provide the power, and the spell just goes. I'm actually kinda worried that even a semi-ordinary world is inconsistent with the ramifications of this form of magic. The general means a spell has of interacting with the world are pretty all-encompassing, too, though frustratingly fundamental. You can detect and control light, force, and speed, for instance, as well as a number of other properties of the universe. It's actually a little aggravating, sometimes. As a Daemancer, you can't really say "Turn that thing green." Instead, you say, "Starting from such-and-such a point, expand each section of a domain of space outward until the density of particles drops by a factor of 10 or more over a distance of 1 mm. Now, block all light leaving that domain that does not fall within such-and-such a range of frequencies." And even that is a massive simplification, and would only properly work for convex objects. The system allows for inconcievable detail, but at the same time almost requires it.

2/2 Rachel 2013/06/18(Tue)01:37 No. 517765 ID: bc3b41
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Luckily, you can at least reuse work you've previously done. Most Daemancers keep crystals to store copies of parts of old spells that could be useful again. Indeed, it's actually common practice to share (and sometimes barter) spell parts; for instance, the light spell I demonstrated earlier made use of a well-known and well-used component that greatly simplifies most practical spells involving light. My spell really only did the work of invoking that component; the component specified all the repetetive technicalities. Without using my crystal, spellcasting would be significantly more arduous.

And sorry; I know there's not really any actual decisions to make yet.

>>517764
energy requirements can easily restrict what can be done. only high class mages with gallons of power can charge up spells big enough to do anything really physics fucking

another idea is that massive spells require massive amounts of energy, enough that it's more profitable to say, have lots of apprentice mages feed into the storage vessels than a few archmages (cause archmages have better things to do with their time&energy.) for spectacular effects like levitating a city, which is why it doesn't happen, or if it does, it's because of some fantastic spellwork, because otherwise the massive energy costs would make it rather prohibitive to perform.

All right, so in theory, you can do anything.

How about in practice? What kinds of spells have you worked out or know how to do? What spell pieces do you have at your disposal?

Memory capacity and/or bandwidth could also be a constraint. The specifics you have to detail look like they would go up exponentially as you increase the scope of influence. At a certain point, a complex enough spell would require enough data to surpass what the the mage or his or her external aids could provide.

Of course, as computer memory crystal technology improves...