[OOC] Ologies: A Study of Arcane Specialists {Paranormal Investigations and more}

[Witch Cat]

Oh yay, even now we still manage to attract people!

[EnterTheHero]

So... am I good to go? Can I start making my character sheet?

[jasonwolf]

Sorry I've been thinking on it. It is just a bit hard to gauge right now as immortality is something nigh impossible. the best shifters in the world can use advanced healing magics to basically turn back the biological clock and stay young, but that has a limit. Demonologists trade for it all the time, but it usually is part of a trick or has a terrible cost.

Now while this seems like a masssively unpleasant situation to be in I think the number one thing I need to know is how his immortality works First and foremost, and i assume you know this by now he has to die to normal things. he just can't die of old age. Besides that it is hard for me to understand how this functions.

When you say lich I can only think of advanced necromancy which is highly frowned upon by the world at large. minor stuff like talking to ghosts etc is fine, but lichdom is basically shedding your mortal coil to become a necromatic abomination (what these guys usually would go kill).

It does bring up a good point though. That is Seph's specialty He is a mage hunter as in he kills mages who go to far and are considered a threat to the world, the balance, or something just as important. perhaps we can find something there to explain this situation.

[EnterTheHero]

Well, he never meant to become what he is, and he's not specifically a lich- that's just the best comparison I could come up with for what he is. Gwyn (the character) has used a combination of his half-finished Soma/Elixir of Life recipe, plus magical technology, to preserve his life for so long. He's basically a steampunk or Jules Verne-style cyborg or other magical construct. He can live indefinitely for as long as he keeps replacing parts and maintaining his bodily integrity, but he can still be killed if someone stabs him enough times or destroys his physical body. He's not fully immortal- just extraordinarily well-preserved. Think the Frankenstein monster, if instead Frankenstein inflicted his treatment on himself.

Gwyn does know necromancy, though he usually uses it purely for communication purposes. Some of the methods and rituals Gwyn's used in his designs do stray uncomfortably close to the darker parts of necromancy, though, as you've mentioned, which is what I thought made the character interesting- Gwyn is a serious gray area to the magical community at large. He's an artificially undead abomination against nature with molten iron and eldritch substances flowing through his veins instead of blood, but he's also a fundamentally good person who uses his considerable talents and experiences to help people (even if nowadays he does it for mostly selfish purposes, such as to stave off his boredom).

[BayRat]

@jasonwolf

This is off topic but I always wondered how can you 'kill' undeads such as liches and necromancers. Since they aren't alive and powered in death, wouldn't destroying them only be a temporary result? Wouldn't sealing or some sort of magical imprisonment be more effective then say have some kind of undead recreate its body or re-awaken from destruction after someone obliterates it with physical damage or holy shit?

[jasonwolf]

@dragonmancer Dead things run on mana living things run on well... life (we can debate that to the end of time). You can either stop the magic making it live or you can break the vessel both "killing it"

[BayRat]

@jasonwolf well the logic on life and magic varies between worlds so I really can't debate you on that aspect since this is your world. But yeah I see how it works here now.

[jasonwolf]

@EnterTheHero I suppose the only question left is how the heck is he walking around town and such? After all this isn't a cartoon

[BayRat]

@jasonwolf Full body cloak? it would be shady as fuck though.

[EnterTheHero]

@jasonwolf It's not all obvious modifications. With his clothes on, he just looks like a pallid, ashen-skinned, heavily scarred individual wearing bulky clothes. Sketchy looking, but not monstrous. It's when you peek under the clothes that you see the glowing orb in his chest, or the mechanical right arm, or the magical bronze riveted to his spine.

I suppose he could also be talented in some kind of illusions? Not enough to fool another mage, but enough to make the mundanes ignore him for the most part...? I'm open to suggestions.

[jasonwolf]

@EnterTheHerowell I guess this means we have two amputees then. *wink wink nudge nudge*

[EnterTheHero]

@jasonwolf *shrug* I guess it does. Heh.

[Witch Cat]

So, where is Roses these days?

[fdeviant]

@Witch Cat Where do you keep finding your profile pictures?

[Witch Cat]

@fdeviant T Shirt Design websites, Tumblr, and being so indecisive you can go through 10 different pictures in one day and never look back.

[Polyphemus]

We're terrible at solving mysteries, gang!

[jasonwolf]

@Polyphemus Well the good news is the next one is less mystery more mafia/noire infiltration case. You'll even be getting a covert ops. specialist since Jaklo's been put on desk duty for unnecessary risks taken (getting himself impaled and using high explosives in range of another investigator [that dragonsbreath totally had the possibility to go right through the golem into Mithias]).

I'm sure everyone will like Terry better anyway. I'll probably make him a nice short form CS for easy reference for you all.

[Witch Cat]

Is Roses out of the RP?

[jasonwolf]

@Witch Cat I have no PMs or anything about it, so I really don't know.

[Witch Cat]

@jasonwolfShe hasn't been online for a month, I think it's safe to kick her off.