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Benjamin

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Forum: General OOC Chat Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:03 pm Subject: Who are you?

Real Name: Benjamin (I go by Ben though)
Occupation: Case Manager for a Private Mental Health company (It's my job to sail the ocean of paperwork for the clients)
Hobbies: Gaming, Photography (old time, with a darkroom), reading, Cooking (and I'm quite good at it if I do say so myself)
Relationship: Single (Honestly, I'm just a little too selfish to spend money on someone else and not resent it a bit)
Kids: Ugh, not in this lifetime

Benjamin

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Forum: Through The Veils (Awakening IC) Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:49 pm Subject: back to discovery park

Invictus picks a stone at random, and kneels down next to it. He opens his mouth and chants something in High Speech and pulling down Stygia to Know what the stone is.

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01-01-2008 10:00 Invictus rolls 7 to Discern Composition (Gnosis + Matter + HS)
4,1,9,9,5,10,3 3 successes

Benjamin

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Forum: Through The Veils (Awakening IC) Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:19 pm Subject: Blackfire's place

Invictus takes the extra wand from Blackfire

Once in the Shadow Realm, Invictus interlocks his fingers and makes quiet chanting noises, recasting his shields.
01-01-2008 10:00; Invictus rolls 9 to Unseen Aegis (Int+Occult+Matter+HS) (10 Again)
2,3,3,5,3,2,9,2,4 - 1 successes

Disappointed with the strength of the spell, he tries again - only to have the magic fizzle.
01-01-2008 10:00; Invictus rolls 9 to Unseen Aegis (Int+Occult+Matter+HS) 2nd casting (10 Again)
3,2,1,1,1,4,2,6,6 - failure

He then takes the water bottles he packed and places them down on the ground with the lids unscrewed. Chanting, he makes a subtle gesture with his right hand and a slightly less subtle with his left. The water remains lifeless.
01-01-2008 10:00; Invictus rolls 9 to Shape Liquid (Int+Occult+Matter+HS) (10 Again)
6,5,2,6,5,5,2,6,5 - failure

He doesn't say anything, but his face creases in frustration as he repeats the process, only a little sharper at the end. This time the water bubbles in their containers.
01-01-2008 10:00; Invictus rolls 9 to Shape Liquid (Int+Occult+Matter+HS)
6,6,7,9,3,8,1,4,5 - 2 successes

Invictus smiles and gestures with his right hand - the water flows up out of the bottles and flattens out like a pane of badly made glass floating in mid air. He takes his hand and pokes it, then he leans into the animate water, putting pressure on it to see how much it can hold. It has a consistency something like really flexible glass. Invictus smiles and snaps his fingers, the water flows back into the containers, which he puts in the pockets of his jacket, while the little plastic lids go back into the backpack.

He looks at everyone else. "What?"

Benjamin

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Forum: General OOC Chat Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:15 pm Subject: Yay vacation yay!

Somebody (me!) got his approval to go to the CASRA conference next month!

Time to throw dignity to the wind and shimmy up and down the hallways!

Benjamin

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Forum: OOC Mage Discussion Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:18 pm Subject: Addressing issues

Invictus' Backpack
4 Bottles of Water
8 Granola Bars
2 Snickers Bars
Hammer
Hacksaw wrapped in a towel
Flashlight w/extra batteries

Benjamin

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Forum: Through The Veils (Awakening IC) Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:32 pm Subject: Blackfire's place

Invictus shoulders the backpack he's spent the last couple of hours putting together and he then steps through the gatway without any comment.

((I'll list the contents of the backpack in half an hour, I have a meeting to get to.))

Benjamin

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Forum: OOC Mage Discussion Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:02 pm Subject: Addressing issues

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Spell Accumulation
A mage can tolerate only a certain number of spells cast on him before the resonance’s signal-to-noise ratio interferes with his ability to cast magic. This effect is called “contagion,” and a mage’s ability to withstand it is called his Spell Tolerance, determined by his natural Stamina. Each spell cast upon him (by himself or others) in excess of his Stamina levies a –1 dice penalty to any spellcasting roll made for him. He suffers this penalty for as long as the total number of spells exceeds his Spell Tolerance. The exception to this rule is a spell that lasts for only an instant (one turn); its effect is too fleeting to interfere, so it doesn’t count toward the mage’s Spell Tolerance total.
Mages are very careful in allowing others to cast magic upon them, even beneficial magic. Likewise, the spells of enemies such as curses and degradations can combine to interfere wth the subject’s spellcasting, making those afflictions even more troublesome than they might otherwise be.
Enchanted or imbued items that a mage wears or carries count toward his Spell Tolerance, but not as strongly. An item counts as only one spell toward Spell Tolerance for every two spells (or fraction thereof) that are enchanted or imbued into it. For example, an item imbued with one or two spells counts as one spell toward Spell Tolerance, while an item imbued with three or four spells counts as two spells. See “Enchanted and Imbued Items,” p. 280, for more details about such items. In addition, multiple spells with the same effect on the same target do not “stack” or accumulate. Only the spell with the highest Potency takes precedence. The other spells of the same kind remain, and may take effect if the Duration of the most potent spell expires, but they have no effect on Spell Tolerance until then.
For example, if a mage casts a “Magic Shield” spell (see p. 222) on a subject, granting two points of armor against spells, and then casts another Magic Shield spell granting four points of armor, the subject has four points of armor, not two or six. If the four-point spell wears off before the other, the subject still has two points of armor remaining (from the first spell). In terms of Spell Tolerance, only the four-point spell applies to the subject’s total.
Note that such precedence applies to only spells with the same effect, not just the same Arcanum. If a subject has a Strength-boosting Life spell, then a Stamina-boosting Life spell, or any other Life spell cast on him, they all affect the subject normally. Another Strength-boosting spell, however, does not stack with the first. Only the most potent spell takes effect, and both count as one toward Spell Tolerance.

Benjamin

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Forum: OOC Mage Discussion Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 3:57 pm Subject: Addressing issues

Spirit Road (Extended Spellcasting)
I'm assuming Animus has Gnosis 3 and Spirit 3

That means you can make 3 rolls at six dice, each roll takes an hour. It's a transatory spell, so you need the X successes required by the spell to breach the guantlet, and then +3 more for a 5 turn duration for us all to dash through. The guantlet is PROBABLY at a Strength 4, since I'm pretty sure that the Sanctum's in a suburban area. That means we PROBABLY need 7 successes

We are mages though, so we should be sneaky. I think that you can make a bigger Spirit Road for +1 success, doubling the number of people who can go through at once from 1 to two people. That means we only need a 2 turn duration (at +1 successes) for the four of us to go through almost at once. This reduces the successes needed from 7 to 6, which is good. Spend 30 minutes chanting in High Speech will net you an extra 2 dice on each roll.

EDIT- crap, you have a familiar, which makes it 5 people. Nuts!

What's even better is that we can put Atlantean Runes down to count as (one of) the duration factors. SO we only need SIX successes to continue.

So anyway-
Chalk out Runes on Doorway
Chant for 30 minutes
Roll Paradox (2 base - 1 for magical tool, successes stack and count together for penalty and eventual nastiness)
Roll Gnosis + Spirit + HS bonus (8 dice)
repeat two more times, 6 successes needed in total

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1. Blackfire used his focus which unless I am mistaken adds +1 to casting

Foci reduce paradox dice only

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2. Since we are going to the Shadow and Paradox is at -2 won't be a problem

Paradox dice stack and increase as you cast more vulgar spells, Invictus has a base paradox pool of 1, his magical tool reduces that by -1 dice, and casting a Rote reduces it by another -1 dice (total -4 dice in the Shadow realm). His first vulgar spell has a Paradox chance dice, his second adds one, but is still a chance, and likewise for the next two vulgar spells cast by him. On the fifth vulgar spell in one scene, his bonuses and penalties even out and his paradox pool is 1 dice, and it just keeps getting bigger.

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3. I am retaining the spell tolerance of the wands, so they don't affect anyone else

You are maintaining the spells, which is Gnosis + 3 (the maximum spells you can have active at one time), The wand counts as half an active spell on your pattern (1/2 a spell rounds up to 1), which is limited to your Stamina before you start taking penalties on supernatural effects you cause.

Benjamin

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Forum: Coteries (OOC) Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:20 pm Subject: Ace Looking for Coterie

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gonna be making a "mindfuck" type character, think the badguys in Saw and Se7en, one of crazy, "i dont have to kill you, you'll kill yourself" kinda characters

I've been working on a Nosferatu for awhile who's kinda like that. You have any room for a Baddacelli mimic that wants to place some space between him and his family?

Benjamin

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Forum: Through The Veils (Awakening IC) Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:30 pm Subject: Blackfire's place

"Eh, I'm just a working stiff. Lived near by. Got phenomenal cosmic powers that I need to practice with. Joined up with the Silver Ladder. Going to night school. Not much to tell really." Invictus doesn't know Animus all that well, and until he does he plans on playing his cards close to his chest.

Once he realizes that they are going to start talking politics, he excuses himself. "Well, I don't know about anyone else, but us Matter wizards need their tools. I'm going to get some things put together for the expedition while you get that gateway built."

Benjamin

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Forum: Through The Veils (Awakening IC) Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:24 pm Subject: Blackfire's place

"I can do blasty, but I'm not very good at it." Invictus admitted. "A boomstick would be nice."

Benjamin

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Forum: Through The Veils (Awakening IC) Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:43 pm Subject: Blackfire's place

"But aren't spirits solid in the shadow? They aren't like ghosts here in twilight, right?" Invictus knew next to bumpkis about spirits-of-things-Spirits, but he was on firmer ground when it came to spirits-of-dead-people-Spirits. "Vulgar is still Vulgar in the Shadow right? It isn't like the Astral?"

Benjamin

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Forum: Through The Veils (Awakening IC) Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:24 pm Subject: Blackfire's place

Invictus is the first one to the front door and once everyone is inside he gets more serious than normal. "Someone should show you around sometime. But now we should get down to business. What are you going to do and are there any exceptional precautions we need to take?"

Benjamin

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Forum: Sanctum (OCC Posts) Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:19 am Subject: Blackfire's Sanctum

Hallow +1
Security +1

Current Total
Hallow 4
Library 1 (Spirits)
Sanctum Security 4
Sanctum Size 3

Benjamin

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Forum: Through The Veils (Awakening IC) Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 6:56 pm Subject: Blackfire's place

Invictus pulls up into the driveway. As he and the others get out, Invictus asks Animus a question. "What do you need for your ritual?"