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I'm afraid I'm going to have to drop out of this. I've been trying to find the time to make a post but I have too many other projects going on at the moment that I can't.
I'll reiterate my interest in a Caster spot.
I'm interested in this. I have an idea for a Caster I'd like to use; they are American, but fairly modern and also obscure enough that any staging ground bonus they might get would be minimal, so hopefully it's okay.
From one test to the next, with barely any space in between to rest or reflect on their performance, thrown from place to place without care or concern for their safety or sanity; Evankhell’s Hell sure was living up to its name, wasn’t it?

Candice smirked as she leaned back in her seat, arms above her and she linked her fingers together behind her head. It was amazing anybody managed to pass through here in order to challenge the Tower proper; taken from wherever they were without warning and flung onto the first floor to be given a test by Headon himself, then tossed carelessly into a fight for their lives as they whittled themselves down from 400 to 200, then given the task of making allies with those they had just tried to murder before being brought here and given a meagre half an hour to recover before being thrown into the jaws of the next test.

It was cruel, the way they drew people in with the promise of fulfilling their wildest dreams only to chew them up and spit them out. The Tower was cruel, with a cruel king and even crueller gods.

If was just her then she wouldn’t have to worry about being chewed up, but unfortunately the test administrators had seen fit to saddle her with two liabilities in the form of teammates. She turned her head to look at them now; besides the idiot who tried to fight her there was also some guy with a white coat and sharp eyes that had shown up in front of them. It was luck rather than anything else that led to him joining them, the short time limit didn’t give any of them the luxury of being discerning, so hopefully he would prove to be useful.

Her eyes slid over to the one who had fought her earlier. He was hurt, which was a problem; he might have been worth something if he wasn’t, but as he was now he was likely to just drag them down. “You better not slow me down in the next test; injured or not, I expect you to pull your weight.” Her eyes then moved to the other one with the interesting eyes. “That goes for you too. What can you do?”

@SilverPaw@Noodles
Mana Sense, as it turned out, was very useful for this sort of experimentation. He could clearly see the natural golden tint of the pebble in his hand as he held it, signifying its earth-aligned Mana. He could see the bluish-white vapour of his own, unaligned Mana flow out and gather around the stone as he suffused it with energy. He could see the stone be filled with this Mana, before the bluish-white began to turn gold as well as the unaligned Mana was converted to Earth Mana within the stone.

There was a flash as he threw the stone and the system helpfully informed him of his rapid skill progression, but it seemed that one or two attempts alone weren’t enough. He used Lesser Force to the pull the pebble back to his hand and began to send his Mana into the stone again, observing it with his Mana Sense until he saw the uncoloured energy turn gold. From his two previous attempts he could say with near certainty that physically throwing it was more effective than trying to propel it with Lesser Force; the flash of light as he released it seemed to be indication of that.

With a fully charged pebble in hand, Oberon reared back and once again hurled the stone at the ground. This time, however, at the moment of release he tried sending another burst of Mana into the stone to send it on its way, overcharging the pebble with Mana at the last second.

Regardless of whether it worked or not, Oberon would take a moment after this attempt to restore his Mana with Gather Light. As he let his reserve of magic power refill he watched Torrent’s own practise, watching in surprise as she began to fire bullets of light from her mouth like a machine gun. He activated Magic Analysis and Mana Sense and observed the spell in action; it looked like another breath-based skill and if he had to guess it was a Light-based ability like his Light Ring. While spells of that type weren’t much use for him, that didn’t mean he might not learn something interesting by analysing it.



@Zeroth
The pebble slapped into the palm of Oberon’s waiting hand, followed almost immediately by multiple system messages for both the completion of the Lesser Force skill and levelling up. Combined, it made for a rather satisfying feeling, especially when the level up was accompanied by a list of evolution options for him to pick from; even if the options available to him were admittedly a little lacklustre. Sprite, Hipixie and Imp remained option from his last evolution, but this time were joined by a variety of elementally aligned pixie-variants, none of which seemed particularly interesting.

Continuing down the Sprite path, further developing his Light Affinity and increasing his ‘potential’, whatever that meant, seemed like the best option at the moment; the system even marked it as the choice that he had the most suitability with, unsurprisingly. Hipixie was also a tempting choice, what with the size increase and the related ability to wield light equipment, but the size increase also came with reduced flight capabilities and also made him a larger target; the ability to use equipment would be useful, but it did come with downsides. Imp was something he had already decided against in the past and nothing had changed there, while the elemental species were interesting but also easily dismissed; the extra affinity for certain types of magic would be nice, but he felt like it would lock him into a single element at the expense of all others. Technically he had already done that by picking Sprite the first time and would be doing it again if he chose Sprite again now… that was an argument he didn’t have a good answer for.

At the end of the day, it was the chance for variance that solidified the choice in his mind. So far he had seen three creatures with variances, two of which were currently in his party, and every one of them seemed to come with an affinity for that element alongside other benefits; Digbie and Ash both had the Mystic variance and both had Mana Affinity, Digbie also had the Earth variance an Earth Affinity as a result. Finally, although it had been a few days since he had last analysed him, the flame-throwing Goblin Crispy from back in the cave was almost certainly a Goblin with a Fire variance. While picking something like Lampad or Nephos might give Oberon an affinity for one element, picking Sprite seemed like it would give him the chance of earning multiple variances and multiple affinities as well; it was a case of taking a gamble in order to potentially have his cake and eat it too. Even if it didn’t work, he didn’t think Sprite was a choice he’d regret.

The Sprite was curious about something however. He had spent the last couple of days learning as much magic as he could, covering as many elements as he could, which apparently played a role in the evolution options he was given; he had learned Fire, Water and Wind based spells and earned the ability to evolve into Lampad, Nixie and Nephos as a result. The fact that he was most suited for the Lampad was probably due to the fact that he had learned more than one Fire spell overall, but did this then mean that if he learned more spells of different elements that he would unlock more evolution options? Would that also mean a greater chance for gaining a variance in those elements?

Oberon tossed the pebble in his hand up and down a few times, catching it and throwing it again each time as he pondered this. At the moment his only Earth spell was Sacred Ground, which was also a Nature spell. If he learned a true Earth spell like Earth Wall or Stone Shot would that affect his evolution options? What about Ice Spike? Oberon caught the pebble again, but this time held onto it as he felt its weight settle in his palm. He began to channel Mana into the stone, much like he had with the water and surrounding air earlier, as he activated Mana Sense and looked at the pebble in his hand.

If he could see the Mana entering the stone and also see the moment it changed colour from non-elemental Mana to Earth Mana, he should be able to create the Stone Shot spell and spells of the same type more easily. He waited until the Mana he was sending into the stone changed colour in his enhanced vision, until he could feel the Mana change within his hand, and then threw the pebble into the ground a foot or so in front of him in his first attempt at a Stone Shot. If that wasn’t enough to complete the spell then he would use Lesser Force to pull the pebble back to him and attempt it again, using more Mana and focusing more on propelling the stone with the magic inside of it.



@Zeroth
In my defense the last post was "I'll continue this if people are still interested", so I didn't know if you were waiting around for reponses or not.
Cosmos doesn't seem to be around anymore.


Yeeaah, sorry about ghosting the RP like that. I thought I'd be able to keep up with all of my RPs alongside work, since theoretically the quarantine should have given me more time; the fact that it took six days to get around to this should tell you how that worked out.

I still have a half finished character sheet I planned on completing but at this point it's obvious I don't have the time to properly participate. I'm dropping out as well.
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