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  1. ZincAboutIt
    Yes good point. I have a few more ideas that may work better, but I need to type them up properly so this doesn't become an epic ramble.
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    Alright, here's an idea: One of Kuria’s/the area’s (I propose the city of Katin or maybe Streshin on the map) richest crystal mines has begun to manifest some dangerous Natural magic properties. After a full team of miners went missing deep inside the mine with no trace, the workers began to create their own reasons for the disappearance. Now, that thing has begun to manifest, and miners continue to disappear, always leaving no trace. No one can figure out what is actually down there - the miners simply believe that the cause of the disappearance is “the Dark.” The people who run the mine are obviously very concerned. Crystal harvesting has gotten more difficult, with some miners going missing or quitting due to unease. The city and area surrounding the mine has become a hotbed of activity (this could be a good reason for everyone to get together in roughly the same place) I chose a crystal problem because it is crucial to the world, and it’s something that someone would care about, or at least be curious about, no matter their station The Natural magic aspect keeps things rather mysterious Please feel free to offer feedback on this idea! It’s just a very rough sketch, but we could take it many ways if we wanted to
  3. ZincAboutIt
    If I have a plot idea should I just lay it out here?
  4. ZincAboutIt
    Lita nodded at Laurelai gratefully, gathering up her wrap and rolling down her sleeves. "Some sleep sounds wonderful, actually." She had a flat in the city, but suddenly she wasn't sure if she could get there without falling asleep on her feet. Better to be safe. She thought about bowing to Mac, then decided on a respectful nod. He was all business, mind already turned toward something else. If she wasn't so tired, she'd have been curious. Now, however, all she wanted to explore were the secrets written on the insides of her eyelids. Still rather dazed, she walked across the office to where Laurelai stood. "Lead the way," she said. @MacThorstenson @Voidus
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    Lita looked at her forearms, feeling relief flood her body, quickly followed by irritation. She stared at Mac flatly; he looked quite smug. "Much better than I expected," she said archly, looking at the railroad spike in his hands. "Stings a bit but I imagine that's expected." Now that she thought about it, she did feel a little different. Lita looked at the little metallic dots on her forearms, hoping they worked as Mac had said. "Will they interfere with my brassminds at all? Or my tin?"
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    Lita felt her mind go blank the moment she saw the spike, and laid down on her stomach mechanically, feeling the table press into her cheek as Mac continued speaking. The edges of her vision started to fuzz. Let me faint, please, Lita thought desperately. Did they have some ether around here? At least a drink? @MacThorstenson
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    A little bit of Lita's earlier gratitude evaporated at the sight of the table and the... was that blood? By the Survivor, she thought, feeling all the hairs on her arms and the back of her neck stand on end. Lita looked down at her right arm, where the blood had dried in several rusty, blotchy stains along the linen sleeve of her blouse. It was probably all for the best that she'd already gotten her blood on it. She was glad she'd turned off her tin, as she definitely didn't want to feel more of this than she had to. Right, she told herself. You just walked through some kind of weird portal world. You built a rusting path with your thoughts. After that, being stuck through with twenty spikes should be no problem, right? She stifled a rather pitiful giggle with a cough. Lita felt herself stand up, and was rather impressed that she didn't pass out on the way across the room. She sat down on the table, feet dangling over the edge, and waited.
  8. ZincAboutIt
    In this inherently and (at times) unpredictably polytheistic society, I think a rather informal influence is best. Otherwise, the world would possibly be in a constant state of holy war. I favor the former option, with gods advising counselors.
  9. ZincAboutIt
    Wow this is great, thanks! Yeah I’d say “cleric” isn’t quite right, but it’s close enough. He’s in the process of being deified. I was considering replacing him with an Innate woman who can read ley lines, since Kazran is almost incapable of moving around on his own free will anymore. Mehh. I’ll give this a think and decide by tonight.
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    I can do this later this evening, or someone can do it now if you want to. If it’s not in the google doc by tonight, I’ll put it there, then submit it all back in here.
  11. ZincAboutIt
    I just realized I never answered this. I'm more than happy to edit my interpretation of this. Could you give me an idea of your thoughts on how they would use Ritual magic?
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    World cosmology, how/where investiture crystals form, leyline mapping(?) and any potential suggestions on large-scale plot arcs. Anyone who wants to help me and @xinoehp512 plot out the large arc of this should feel welcome. I have some ideas already but I want us to write something that people will actually like
  13. ZincAboutIt
    That's a good point. It would also be a great way to accidentally drive yourself mad, even if it isn't malicious.
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    You'd have professors finding out and being supremely disappointed that they used the incorrect enchantment for getting high. "Foolish acolytes, I will show you the true path to getting lit as hecc."
  15. ZincAboutIt
    With that extended lifespan but endless youth... gosh the depravity
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    This seems fine. I think the allowance for the "outlier" group within the divide would accommodate for this nicely. That way, anyone can technically be anywhere. I think that those whose Innate ability does not follow physical gender would face - not stigma, more like the slight discomfort of being a minority group. Not a terrible discomfort, or some kind of true oppression, because it's a common enough thing. But the slight feeling of being outside the majority would certainly happen in these circles, even if it's not supposed to happen officially. The outlier group would clump together and the majority would also, with cooperation between them but also a preference for someone more familiar. I say this mostly for character development purposes than any kind of real RP scenario, especially since the plotline won't revolve solely around the academy. I also think that Innate ritualists would probably act elitist towards non-Innate ritualists. The internal politics of the academy could be an entire RP all to itself...
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    Yeah that is a sticking point, and I'm not sure if I have a way to sew this up as neatly as I'd probably like to. I think that if you were to begin altering your own gender or creating a new one, you could possibly run the risk of messing with your own Innate magic (and this is just Innate magic we're talking about - if a non-Innate ritual mage were to do this it might work out just fine). It could simply be a risk that some consider worth it, others not. If you're re-writing enough of yourself with Ritual magic, maybe the Innate gift could get suppressed, or edited out? I'm just throwing stuff out here. I do think intersex people would be a tossup on this one, perhaps the Innate magic would just pick one and be done with it?
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    So Sane

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    So Sane
    Honestly men are so hard for me to draw, I'm just glad he doesn't look like a banana with a mustache. It's awkward for me to draw other peoples' RP characters because headcannon can vary so widely, but also sometimes I just go for it. I'm glad you like it!
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    In this first point, your elaboration is what I would definitely prefer. In the second point, I think that the line would fuzz in that regard. We are discussing "gender" here but I was thinking Innate magic would usually follow biological sex, irrespective of gender. I also think that perhaps the Innate magic would respond to a transgender person in kind, flipping someone into the "outlier" portion of their sex. With Natural magic being fueled by belief, I imagine that you could also explain it this way, that the Innate's self-perception has channeled their magic into the opposite expression. I also think that due to Natural magic making both the landscape and humanity itself somewhat "fluid," the idea of gender fluidity would be far less controversial in most societies in this world than one might think for a "medieval" landscape. I think that it would probably be uncommon in relation to the general population, and outside the expected norm, but not abhorrent or taboo.
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    Wooo accidentally factual!
  21. ZincAboutIt
    @Steel Inquisitive @MacThorstenson I have a proposal! I personally like the gender divide, I think it makes the system unique and gives people a need/reason to work together. However, perhaps the divide could be slightly more fluid. Maybe (roughly) 3/4's of all women Innates are more naturally (or ritually, whatever we choose) inclined, and the other quarter are an "outlier" group, switching into the opposite inclination. This would also go for the men. Then, you'd have some overlap in society with the groups mingling, but still have a majority dominance in one field or another. This might be too complicated though. I don't much care how we do it, but for the record I like the divide.
  22. ZincAboutIt
    Twenty spikes, Lita thought, eyes widening just a bit. Where will they find the room to put them? She briefly imagined herself as a pincushion. Not helpful. "No questions," she said. "But I do want to thank you for your help, both of you. I'm not sure what I was expecting, honestly, but I appreciate all your attention." She extinguished her tin and started filling her brassminds, pulling her wrap closer. "I promise to do everything in my power to avoid killing myself, you can be sure of that." @MacThorstenson @Voidus
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    Lita walked through the door and into the new path, shivering a little as Mac closed the doorway. Right, she thought, breathing slowly, trying to clear her mind. You are doing something normally. Nothing is wrong. Lita closed her eyes and remembered the last alley. It was there, in her thoughts. The walls, the cobbles, the nearly-hollow silence in between words. She focused all her thoughts on the alley. Alley 5937. She could smell the air, feel the tiny breeze on her skin. This is real, she thought, her breath coming slow and even. You can do this. She opened her eyes and stepped forward. The path sprang up beneath her feet, one step after another laid down like strands of hair. One, then the other, then the other. There was no room for fear in her mind, there was only Alley 5937. Smooth stone, grey walls, chill breeze. The path went before her, and she looked forward, only forward. Nothing is wrong. The urge to look at the void tugged at her, but less so now. She could do this. She was doing it. There was a sudden pull to her right, an impulse to leave the path. Moment of truth. She held her breath, and turned. The alley was just as she'd left it, Laurelai standing a ways back, smiling a little. The shock of her success was almost enough to make Lita start crying again. Almost.
  24. ZincAboutIt
    Lita breathed out slowly, then nodded. There was something extraordinary about the idea that she could get what she wanted without having to fool someone. That her mind could somehow rearrange this place, and it would do so as she needed. No need to lie about it. No need to hint and nudge. Only her own belief. She wondered if this man knew what he was giving her. "Where should I go?" She asked, standing up straighter. She could do this. She would do this.
  25. ZincAboutIt
    Lita rubbed a hand over her eyes. He wanted to know what she'd been doing, what she'd been thinking, when she barely knew herself. She fought down the urge to kick the wall, instead tapping the toe of her boot against the stone floor. With a sigh, she folded her arms and looked up at Mac. "I suppose I may have thought that I was...fooling the alleys into taking me back here," she said, looking away again. It all sounded infinitely unwise now, but in the quiet of her own thoughts it had made perfect sense. Honesty had never been her strongest suit, but this place was cleverer and more terrifying than she ever would be. What had she been thinking? Rusting idiot. Did you think you could somehow pull one over on this place? "When you say that you 'create a new path,'" Lita went on, hoping she didn't sound too eager to change the subject. "Is it like pushing a needle through cloth?"
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