Oooohhh, questions, I love this sort of game. :D

@Hour Error - Vera is involved in some sort of scheme at the moment. What is it and how is it likely to blow up in everyone's face?

Given the setting, I decided to go for something more interesting than mundane crime.

Having found herself on the streets without a sire or coven, Vera has found the first, best, get-rich-or-die-horribly-in-the-effort scheme. Working for the infamous hobgoblin pawnbroker Herr Wilhelm Strauss, she's currently intimately involved in the theft, and smuggling of an ancient artificial that's positively brimming with arcane power. Far to big to fit in anything but a modest pickup truck, Vera has no idea what the object is, what the object does, other than the fact it's heavy, very heavy, even for a supernaturally strong undead.

All Vera does knows for sure, is that Strauss said it'd be worth their while, and Strauss is dependable, at least when it comes to putting a price on things best left forgotten.

Likelihood of blowing up in everyone's face...well...generously probably not very long (depending on what GM hooks you'd like to use).

Let's see..

Given that I think he would call his friend Father Calbor, the priest with a small church near Thaum's home. Calbor owes him a great debt after saving Calbor's daughter from demonic possession. He tried to give Thaum gifts and offers of help with the spiritual. Thaum however only rarely asked for old books or for a safe place to sleep on hallowed ground after a demon or undead creature had decided to claim his life. The priest is always happy to help even at strange hours because of the debt Calbor is trying to repay.

How's that?

@Penny Flying around in the dark outskirts of Detroit, my character witnessed something that appeared to fall out of the sky. At first he thought that it probably was a random piece of debris, maybe something falling off an aircraft or even a small meteorite that had survived atmospheric entry. He tracked it down to the crash site and found the thing apparently quite intact, but also far different from anything he had expected. He picked up the thing and fumbled around with it during inspection -- only to encounter that sudden moment after which he found himself a few yards away from his original position, the thing still in his hands. However not everything had been moved... In fact parts of his clothing had been ripped apart cleanly with one half resting on the ground where he had been and the other half being where he was now. The same held true for minor parts of his skin, leading to substantial bleeding and pain.

Now all he could do was speculate that this object apparently was some kind of portable teleporter. The problem: Either that thing is experiencing a very major malfunction, it is some kind of early prototype or it simply is not designed to teleport gargoyles. What he pretty much ruled out however was user error: He would have been the second one within minutes to handle it wrongly. What might have happened to the poor fellow causing it to appear in the midst of air, but without him ?

Anyway. Curiosity won and he carried the thing home in a bag very carefully. There it still is, unused and untold. Whoever has designed it might have a massive interest in getting it back and going public with information about a device that is a thief's or assassin's dream has never been a good idea in the first place. Also his reputation can be considered damaged already. Of course just dumping it into the next trashcan would have been way easier...

We have a pretty good soup here. Ill get the first post up in the next day or so

Feel free to ask me if you need/want more information. You are free to make stuff up too but ill ask you to alter it if its too insane...

Wonderful first post.

I'll start tinkering on my own (will probably have it up between today and Wednesday).

Thaum carved into his chest....

Well my life is about to get very complicated.

As for how complicated, I am known to this "seven"? Or the larger magic community? I was working with the assumption that I was somewhat small time compared to the big league wizards and not widely known as a person of importance. Though I would understand that my name might get around to some of the community. Just asking for clarification.

@Penny I'm late with the prompt, but here's mine:

A long time human friend of Cabers, a fortune teller who works for the circus that is a small time mage, has lied to Caber and told him that in the southern area of town, there is a large Oak tree that stands upon a gateway to the Otherworld. Caber travels there and performs an old celtic ritual to see if he can communicate with the Otherworld. Instead, a Demon walks out and nearly kills Caber. The 'friend' of Caber is a wannabe warlock, who wished to make pacts with demons to increase his power, but he was not as in tuned with the enchanted world as Caber. But now there is an opening. Caber has sought out his friend for vengeance, but has yet to find him since.

Also you guys probably at least know OF each other, you will have to decide how that looks.

@Hour Error@Sophrus@Fetzen Caber would likely be a freelance informant for anyone wanting connections to my character, that and a purveyor of ancient knowledge that sells information.

Or we could just be pals.

@Hour Error@Sophrus@Fetzen Caber would likely be a freelance informant for anyone wanting connections to my character, that and a purveyor of ancient knowledge that sells information.

Or we could just be pals.

I have yet to read the current posts, but I'd be happy about some collaboration between our two characters :)

@POOHEAD189 as an information trader would you work with Thaum? Being as a summoner he likely enslaves demons and your brethren fae?

Or a limited trade relationship for example: trading for location of a vampire hide out is fine, but not the true name of another creature for summoning?

Mostly because information and planning are the only reason he gets anything done lol.

@Penny I have a small question. Are the kinds of creatures that could kill a fully fledged wizard generally known ? If so: What kinds are we talking about ?

Wizards are mortal so in theory any one or anything could kill one, but it would be tough for a vanilla mortal to avoid a wizards magic powers.

@POOHEAD189 as an information trader would you work with Thaum? Being as a summoner he likely enslaves demons and your brethren fae?

Or a limited trade relationship for example: trading for location of a vampire hide out is fine, but not the true name of another creature for summoning?

Mostly because information and planning are the only reason he gets anything done lol.

I think the limited trade relationship works great! Sorry it took me a bit to reply!

Sorry for yet another side question, but I have been thinking about my first post. I strongly assume the crime scene has been secured by police and/or other forces ? Because I think it's more than unlikely that my character would discover the event and get there before anyone else does, so I think it could be kinda... ludicrous... to see my gargoyle arrive there and trying to start his own... investigations ?

Sorry for yet another side question, but I have been thinking about my first post. I strongly assume the crime scene has been secured by police and/or other forces ? Because I think it's more than unlikely that my character would discover the event and get there before anyone else does, so I think it could be kinda... ludicrous... to see my gargoyle arrive there and trying to start his own... investigations ?

You are welcome to posit whatever you like. If its to incongruent I'll simply ask you to modify.

Why no more posts? Are you men or mice?

Still sobering up. :'(

Why no more posts? Are you men or mice?

Actually I'm an engineer. Does this fall into any of the aforementioned categories ?
And I've been working on a special kind of ball-bearing with tumbleweeds instead of steel balls inside. Something that keeps rolling on so brilliantly even in the most hostile of environments like your average wild-west desert must exhibit superb mechanical properties. I've been on the search for these things for the last few weeks, but now that you've provided me with hard, moving-picture evidence on where to find more of them I can finally get going again! @POOHEAD189

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Nope... Seriously... I've slept a lot the last few days, then spent a lot of time on Christmas and have been lazy as **** in general. Moving in now!