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For the record,

I intend for Ormoneric to be able to learn new spells via spell mixing - with the catch that he will need an entire Aedra-damned Grand Soul Gem for each one. :O Those things aren't exactly uncommon in Skyrim once you get to, you know, level 40 - but they will probably be fewer and further between for our group.

The idea is for it to function as a source of new spells as the plot demands. A lot of the spell effects I have planned are utility-based, meaning a lot of new doors can be opened (figuratively and literally) with each new spell learned.

Here's the list I have so far, partly for the GM to approve/critique, partly to gather suggestions. If you have any ideas, please share!

Spell Combinations

Available Spell Effects:
-Absorb
-Clairvoyance
-Detect
-Dispel
-Lock
-Open
-Reflect
-Silence
-Soul Trap
-Telekinesis
-Recall

Spell Combinations:
Absorb+Telekinesis=Power Sink (Nearby spells are redirected to caster and absorbed)
Absorb+Open=Waterbreathing (Breath water, or any other liquid for that matter. Does not convey poison resistance or resistance to being melted from breathing lava)
Absorb+Soul Trap=Capture Essence (Capture a spell or effect to cast or release later, as with a scroll)

Clairvoyance+Detect=Scry (Discern a specific person's or item's location)
Clairvoyance+Lock=Paralyze (Force foes to remain in place)
Clairvoyance+Open=Ghostwalk (Become invisible and intangible)
Clairvoyance+Recall=Teleport (Instantly move to another location within line of sight)

Dispel+Open=Bleed Magicka (Disrupt the spell of a target spellcaster, causes them to continuously lose mana over time if a spell was disrupted)
Dispel+Telekinesis=Mass Dispel (Unleash a wave of dispelling power in all directions)

Detect+Lock=Bind Magical Entity (Bind and assume control over any summoned, conjured, reanimated, or otherwise magical entity)
Detect+Telekinesis=Animate (Bestow an inert object with self-perpetuating motion - make a broom sweep itself, a hammer pound, a sword swing)

Reflect+Lock=Waterwalking (Walk on any fluid surface normally. Convection of heat from lava will still kill you).
Reflect+Telekinesis=Backlash (Block a physical attack and instantly counterattack with an equal amount of telekinetic force)
Reflect+Recall=Backfire (Reflected spells instantly teleport on top of the original caster))

Silence+Telekinesis=Mass Silence (Unleash a wave of force in all directions that silences all other spellcasters)

Soul Trap+Recall=Disenchant (Drain an enchanted item's charge, and store it in a soul gem if you have one large enough)
Soul Trap+Telekinesis=Telekill (Identical to the Vampiric Grip spell)

The Alessian Resurgence

Any chance of starting the IC soon? The original three are ready (so to speak) and there will be plenty of time before the action starts for the others to finish their sheets and introduce their characters.

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Dinh AaronMk said
An argument could be made that over two-hundred years would be enough time for at least the hardier trees to come back. Most of the very deadly radiation tends to decay rather quickly.

Also, as I mentioned earlier, Harold's little paradise nook reminded me an awful lot of Vault 22. I make a policy of not trusting plants for any longer than it takes them to burn to cinders.

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Crya said
Terminal: Accepted, but please provide/describe an appearance for him. Talipaendrag: Also accepted, but the Mages Guild doesn't exist by the time of Skyrim, so please change his guild to either the College of Whispers or the Synod. rpg: Por que no los dos? An Orc chieftain could see that Orsimer aren't far down on the Elven hit list. It isn't unprecedented; the Orc in the Dawnguard was a chieftain as well.Also, I'm risking totally spoiling a big part of the story, but I have a penchant for deep psychological questions and mind bending existential theories. I currently have like 15 tabs open on CHIM and the hidden Elder Scrolls meta-world. It's very complicated and I'm trying to learn. Maybe some people in Tamriel have also taken interest...

The dreaming godhead's name is Amaranth, incidentally. ;)

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Lucian said
Okay, I know it's probably a lot to ask, but would somebody mind recapping the important parts so far? 121 pages of high-casual writing is a bit more than I'm willing to read through, though I'd like to appropriately mold my character's biography so that I could start in wherever you guys are, or are heading to. Would somebody mind helping me out?

People met at the Lucky 38, and are now meeting at the H&H tools factory to head for New Reno where the maglev trolley is waiting for them. We have yet to establish how interested prospects might know to head for New Reno in order to join us, so until then you may want to either wait or go with serendipity.

The only really important thing that happened in those 121 pages is that Sabin peed his pants.

That may sound like I'm glossing over things, but honestly, I'm not. People showed up and chatted in the Lucky 38 for a bit, Mr. House and Tenpenny showed up, questions were asked, people headed to the H&H, end of story. There was plenty of interpersonal subtext, but no plotshaking elements yet. It has, however, been unanimously agreed that Sabin will never live down peeing his pants.

EDIT: In retrospect, the events surrounding Sweet Gin's progression towards meeting with the crew are also probably important if only for the story of how a Commonwealth Android linked up with the team. If you don't want to read the entire 121 pages, you might consider going through and cherrypicking out Aaron's posts.

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Ormoneric said "Hello me! Have we died again yet, or are we still waiting for the nonsense with the horker tusk and the chair with the broken leg? or wait, am I in Quagmire again? This is not the place for us to complete the circuit, that was done here two years ahead! You dolt, obviously I'm supposed to stand still until you walk behind me and then I fall down de- What are you doing? You got it mixed up again! Stop dying! Everyone, get ready, I messed up again and we need to try again. I promise you'll get it right this time. Just remember to not be me."

Name: His name is on record at the Arcane University as Warlock Ormoneric, but he does not remember. There is much that he does not remember.
Age: He has trouble telling the time, let only how old he is. He is clearly the age of an Elder of at least 60 summers.
Race: Breton
Class: Mage
Birthsign: The Tower
Appearance:
Equipment: Simple clothing (as pictured here), a Malachite Mace, a rusty dagger, Soul Gem Fragments, a copy of Liminal Bridges by Camilonwe, and a copy of Limenflux Transcience by Ormoneric.

Spells

Mysticism is the branch of Magic that the Psijic order was founded upon, and that has often been described as 'Just like any other schools of Magic, but more." Its effects are subtle, and its ways difficult to master. A user of Mysticism must find ways to rearrange the great tapestry of the world to suit their own will, often imposing their will against the truth that is reality in order for a spell to function. Mystics therefore enjoy a diverse and useful assortment of spells, but suffer from the innate paroxysm and idleness most accomplished mages would find unacceptable. A Mystic must accept anything as possible - that the sky can be broken, space swallowed, that time can be danced with, and that the unreal might become real. Many devoted Mystics of the past have thus been claimed by Sheogorath, and those who aren't have found themselves spending decades of time struggling to develop new arcane theories and spells while their colleagues have developed dozens. Masters of Mysticism are masters not of casting spells, but of manipulating the fabric of magic and the world itself.

The following are individual spell effects that Ormoneric has mastered, available for use or for spell mixing.

-Absorb
-Clairvoyance
-Detect
-Dispel
-Lock
-Open
-Reflect
-Silence
-Soul Trap
-Telekinesis

UNIQUE SPELL EFFECT: -Ineffable Grace
Ormoneric has spent so long studying cosmological continuity that they have developed a unique version of the Mark and Recall spell. Expect the unexpected with stranger tides.

Weaknesses

-Stranger Tides: Ormoneric has no idea whenwhere he is! Sometimes he gets confused and has to ask for transliminal directions. He also occasionally forgets who he is, or mixes up who is who, or misremembers something that happened in the future that never was or the past that won't be.

-Aurbis Gambit: Sometimes, Ormoneric can be extremely stubborn. Once he has it in his head that something happened or will happen a certain way, he will fight to the death to ensure all goes as he has seen...At least for as long as he can remember what he was thinking about.

-Daytime Dreamstriding: If you have any idea what this lout is saying, you're way ahead of the curve. Ormoneric certainly doesn't go out of his way to be understood.

-Vacuous Veracity: Ormoneric will believe nearly anything you tell him. He can still discern friend from foe, and knows when not to follow certain orders, but he has trouble distinguishing erroneous details from the truth of the matter.

A Letter of Condemnation

Penned by the hand of second Council-member and Master Wizard of the College of Whispers under the Archmage in the one hundred and seventieth year of the fourth era.

I write now to officiate the expulsion of Warlock Ormoneric from the College of Whispers for conduct unbecoming of a senior mage, and to notify all appropriate coteries that he is neither welcome nor trusted by the magical community of the Imperial Conclave. His competence and acumen are hereby null, and no receipt of his experience shall report anything other than a low association with either the Synod or the College of Whispers.

Warlock Ormoneric has been a notable and respected member of the College of Whispers for just over a decade at the time of this condemnation. Although his return of transcribed spells has been less extensive than any other senior member of the University he nonetheless has contributed several published tomes of research and knowledge to the Arcaneum, and he was often consulted on matters pertaining to ancient spellcraft as known prior to the third era as Mysticism. However, after a time his behavior and professional decorum deteriorated considerably, likely due to several years of strenuous and taxing investigation of liminal theory. After several instances of notable misconduct that I shall forebear to mention here, his madness was made apparent in an incident whereupon Warlock Ormoneric claimed to have convinced the Archmage that they had never existed, and that the current Archmage was actually seamstress from the Marshlands who had been transliminally recalled to obscure the true Archmage's ontological failure. Naturally, no evidence of such an occurrence was found and it is with both great regret and personal concern for Ormoneric as a friend and colleague that I must officiate his expulsion, both for his own safety and for those around him.

In the professional opinion of the members of the College of Whispers, Warlock Ormoneric is not responsible for his own actions and is not to be entrusted in any position of authority or responsibility. Any semblance of competence or magical ability on his part are likely transient and not to be regarded as normal. He is not likely to hurt or endanger others intentionally, but it may be prudent for him to be confined for his own safety should such prove necessary.

Ormoneric said "Why am I here? That's a stupid question! I'm here to ask an old senile hermit why he's joined the Dragon's Eye, and very soon I will walk backwards to the barracks. I still have my lucky septim, the one with the two-headed Akatosh, and so I need to go back to yesterday and remember to forget it.

"You don't need to tell me I'm mad, you already knew that, boy. You aren't mad, you just don't have the senses to see where you are in the cosmological sense! It's been so long since they've been able to truly see whenwhere they are. Thankfully, everything I do is always nearby. Relatively speaking.

"I'm not sure why I'm here nowthere though. All I know is that's therewhen I'm supposed to be. It's the way of things. I have spied it with the finest arguments against that position, and all the data we contributed to the wanderer directed him whenwhere we were supposed to have been will be. You were the outcome boy, and you are the answer that tells me that here is where and when and why and what and who. Not how though. Everyone I've met has agreed that the how wasn't all that important. Which is good. I'm tired of how.

"Does that answer my question? No. I still have that stupid look on his face.

"I am HERE because I traversed the skein of Nirn. I am NOW because from my perspective I have walked forward. I am NEEDED because for what I will see, and what you will do, he must travel forward relatively to see backwards to what they are looking for.

"I am your Mystic, you gibbering old madman, and he shall hold the hated Dragon's Eye safe against the sharpness of our blades and the ferocity of our spellcraft. He is no madman, he is the watcher who stands on every path to guard against our manifold dooms.

"Also because the Cyrodiilic countryside is was and will be boring within that really weirdly shaped window. Where you are going, I will not need eyes to see something new that we will have looked upon with fondness. Also because we couldn't say no to the stupid old man. I needed everyone I could get."

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Brotherhood of Steel is non-canon, and other prominent examples are unique exceptions (High-level End or Penultimate Bosses) to the rule belonging to high-tech factions (Frank Horrigan, The Lieutenant,) with access to experimental pre-war technology as well as developed military installations.

On Cyberdogs:

The Fallout Wiki said Cyberdogs are rare and creating one is extremely difficult, requiring both a high degree of technical sophistication and generalized breeding and training programs. As such, they have only been produced by technologically advanced organizations such as the pre-War US government, the Enclave and the research team of Big MT.

Your character, until otherwise proven, would not have been a unique exception to the rule akin to a penultimate/end boss with access to pre-war technology and a developed military installation, and they weren't bred in a kennel (presumably). It is just as well that you've decided to change them up, because even with the provided listing of Cyborgs in the Fallout Universe, I do believe my prior statements stand, and it would be difficult to explain the circumstances surrounding the inception of your character.

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Lucian said
It's completely plausible in the Falloutverse. As stated above, fully-functioning androids have been made. I assume it'd be even easier to integrate cybernetics into a Ghoul, because of their cellular regeneration factor.

Your statement (easier to integrate cybernetics, I.E. grafting into preexisting wetware) presumes that Androids are initially human. They are not. Androids are, as their name indicates, Robots that have been made to mimic Humans. The term you are searching for is Cyborg - and while cybernetic augmentation is not quite as rare as Androids outside of the Commonwealth, it is notably much less advanced than displayed in your character, and even pre-war standards are not quite up to the task of reproducing your setup. While they had gotten quite good at neural integration - as demonstrated with robobrains and available implants - actually full-blown cybernetics such as integrated plasma weapons were beyond their capabilities. They could manage the lower and higher extremes of the modification spectrum - they could give you minor implants, or they could pull your brain out and stick it in a jar. The more advanced the technology used, the higher the chance you'll wind up disembodied.

Your ghoul is something I might expect to see at Big Mountain, full stop. I don't see any Wasteland Surgeons, the Enclave, The Followers or the Apocalypse, or Vault-Tec experiments producing one. In fact, other than Big Mountain, the only actual faction I see that could have been involved in the creation of such a product would be The Institute. If we are being honest, the equipment - armor, weapons, accessories, the combinition ghoul/cyborg kit - is something I would expect to find in a Min/Max arena character profile. Not in the advanced section.

I'm not the GM, so of course my opinion only carries so much weight: But I would not get your hopes up about being accepted unless you somehow manage to pull together a fabulously cohesive and well-thought backstory, and even then it would be iffy. Other characters here had to make notable concessions for lesser problems than the pile of them your character has.

The Alessian Resurgence: Elder Scrolls at War RP

So we have a Sword, a Battlemage, and a Trickmage. What we could really use to complete the set is an archer and a Restoration expert.

The Alessian Resurgence: Elder Scrolls at War RP

TaliPaendrag said
I'm not entirely sure what character I want to play. I'm leaning towards either a scholarly magic-user or some kind of battlemage. But I don't want to copy Terminal by accident, so I think that I'll wait to see what he's doing before I decide. :3

I was thinking of using a once-prominent member of the Arcane University turned senile hermit. Decades of delving into the paroxysm of Mysticism have severely infringed upon his behavior, irreparably damaging his reputation beyond repair within the Mage's Guild. He is thought of as a failure of a mage, who got too caught up in nonsensical impossibilities and paradoxes of Mystical study and has more delusion than talent.

So not a battlemage, and while he would be a member of the Mage's Guild, he's not the Scholarly, authoritative type - a proper knows-everything Mage would set up a nice contrast.