Rules:
Do not treat the magic like a "super power." Magic is not a bunch of named "attacks" in the vein of most animes and videogames. There are guidelines in place as to how magic works.
PM Me your Applications.
Don't rush it. I am putting a 2 weeks deadline on getting a character to me. But I won't be accepting anyone UNTIL afterwards either. The spots are limited (4 aside myself and Noxious) so make sure you bring your A game. I will however, bounce ideas with you and help clarify things during the deadline
Follow the site rules.
Take up any complaints with me, the GM.
Enjoy yourselves.
Prologue
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Remi Lyon was not a woman without means. She had been in the "Game" for so long she had forgotten what being mundane felt like. Her path to magic had started with a grimoire she bought off some dodgy book salesman back in the 70's. Forty years she had been at it. She was a classical case of a woman lost in her books and research. She never sealed a contract, to risky to be owed to a being from the other worlds. She didn't mess with the arcane directly. That was just to much risk, period. Instead she was the kind to draw carefully made pentagrams, research rituals for months before even considering the next step. And something had gone wrong. Perhaps it was a faulty ward, a crooked rune?
She was enchanter of the old Summerian schools of heavenly magic. Her magic was powerful and nothing should be able to push past her wards. Yet she felt it, felt it all around her. Encroaching on her very being. Like unseen tendrils wrapping around her heart. Not for the first time in her life, Remi was afraid. But for the first time, she saw no way out. She grabbed her cellphone, dialing 911. "I need to police. I think someone is in my apartment. Please hurry."
Suddenly, the radio crackled on and a smooth, jazzy voice flew out singing. Remi felt as if everything briefly froze. She knew the channel. IT kept switching on. A radio station not listed anywhere. And with strange melodies and weird, unsettling DJ's who spoke about things only a magician would know about. Secrets not meant for the radio at all. She stared at the radio. A light went up in her head and she scribbled frantically on as large a piece of paper she could get to.
Oh, sweet baby, won't you dance with me. I think he's coming.
Oh, my honey, swing those hips one last time. He is so very near.
Shake em baby! It's coming here.
Suddenly, the door slid open without a sound. Remi found that she could not even scream. Then everything went dark for Remi.
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When the landlord opened in the door on the behest of the police, the Room stood empty. One the floor lay a tore out page of Remis favorite grimoire. Scribbled across the pages in red was only two words. "Radio Outcast". The police couldn't feel it, but the magic that had guarded the room. The wards that should have made the door unable to open even to the greatest force or reject any key but Remis own, was gone.
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In a world where magic is complex and gods are real, mankind remains blissfully unaware of the many worlds that parallel their own. Everyone but the various magicians who wheal and deal with demons, lost gods and ancient magical rites. Six of these magic practitioners from different disciplines and backgrounds have been drawn in by a common cause.
Having all traveled to find out what happened to a mutual friend and well respected magician. Remi Lyon, a charismatic, well liked personality of the New Orleans magical scene is gone without a trace. Leaving behind her only a room filled with research nobody can make sense off, a old beat up radio and a note saying "Radio Outcast." The six magicians are forced to work together as something sinister start to encroach on their reality and they uncover more disappearances.
WELCOME TO BROKEN CIRCLE, RADIO OUTCAST.
Vital Setting Info Below
Magic is real, You just don't see it
Magics a latent ability that most people if taught or guided can draw upon. It was common in old religions, prominent in darker, less enlightened times. These days people turn to science for answers, and they are right in doing so, as Magic hold very few answers. Magic is a constant riddle, a metaphor given power. Laws of nature bends to it, using it comes with rules that constantly shift and grow ever more complicated. It demands a concentrated and calm mind, but draws on raw emotions and the energies of various cosmic and mythical sources.
But in turning to logic and science, magic no longer exist to the mundane. It is considered fantasy and nothing more. To the new enlightened humanity, Magic now belong with old folklore, and the magic they see is but slight of hand and trickery. But this world harbors secrets. Practitioners still exist. Some hide, some live in the limelight as stage magicians, disguising their talents with that of parlor tricks. In the north there are still people who worship the Norse gods, who still know the runes, in the east there are men and women who speak to Djinn and other such beings. Magic is around, it has just slipped from our collective perception of the world.
-The Realms of magic-
Magic isn't as simple as summoning fireballs or shooting lightning out of your fingertip. Forget all you were taught by fantasy wizards in pointy hats. No, these forces are living entities, powerful in their own rights even without a wielder. Vibrant energies you have to weave and bend to your will. And they all come from different places, different worlds. The ways you can use magic and its sources are diverse and infinitely complex in nature.
The worlds beyond ours do not mirror our own, they have their own laws of physics. They have their own set of rules.
Ours is the realm of mortals, known as Earth, Terra, Gaia and any number of other names. It is governed by the laws of physics, it can be understood and tamed by human science. Our world can only manifest magic from extremely driven minds and powerfull emotions. And even then, mostly by tapping in to one of the other realms. There are still places of power, where leylines intersect. Here, the veil between our world and others is thinner, and the Arcane leak into our world.
Aside from our world there are atleast nine different versions of what we reffer to as the biblical version of hell and there appears to also exist the four hellish plains of Gehenna among many other underworlds, such as the Hellonic Hades and Norse Hel. There is believed to exist 7 realms that make out different forms of what the Abrahamic religions refer to as 'heaven'. But don't think your soul will go there if you are a good christian just becouse a version of heaven appears to exist. Nobody knows how the celestial planes work. None has ever ascended from those to speek to us, nor has anyone tapped into them, unlike how Demons of all kinds seem to really enjoy humans.
In midst of all this exist the Undying Realms. They are places of negative, necrotic energies. Tapping into them is suicide, the energies there devour magic and eats away all living things. These are the places of eternal darkness where gods go to die. Each Undying Realm is ruled by a forsaken god that's older then earths history itself.
There is the Realms of Elements, four in total. Here fires, water, air and earth are in constant shift, vying for dominance.
One of the most well known is the Stream. Among magicians of any calibre, this is the name given to the dimension of pure arcane energy. A constant, never running dry, source of magic. Like a powerline.
There are the Fey Lands where the folklore of old have retreated to. There are the Fields of Ulysses, where the old pantheon of the Greeks supposedly reside. There is Asgard, where the old Norse gods now sleep, supposedly dead from Ragnaro with only Balder alive. The amount of worlds is seemingly endless, and it is all about finding a creature, ritual or other manner of connection to them. Each able to lend unique strengths to those that opens its doors.
The Price of Magic
There is a price however. Power always has a price. One does not strike deals with the powers that be without paying their dues. Every magician have to deal with the consequences and backlashes of their choices. Magic demands sacrifices, personal or trivial. They demand dedication and rituals. Be it carving runes into wood or making summoning circles with salt. Magic is flexible and amazing but it's also risky and wild. Some magic is gotten trough actual deals with entities such as demons and fey. These deals are the basis to contract magic.
Types of magic.
People categorize magic into three groups, divided by the handling and source of the magic. These are very vague and broad terms that are manifested in a myriads of schools and styles. Don't be shy to mix and bend a little.
They are Contract, Arcane Purity and Ritual magic. They each provide different strengths and weaknesses. They all hold different prizes and tributes.
Charachter Creation.
Name:
True Name: The name you and only you know off. Knowing this holds alot of power over you
Taken Name: The name you go, be it a stage name or moniker. I.E Johnny Magic
Given Name: The name you have in legal papers. This is how authorities would know you. I.E John Smith
Age: 19 at the lowest. The older you the more sense it makes that you know a fair bit of magic. 45 as the oldest. The younger you play the less respected, powerfull and the experienced you are. Within the world of magic experience is power. Keep this in mind.
Personality:
Nature of magic: (see magic section.)
Magic practice: (What are you? Voodoo priest? Witch doctor? Priest? Illusionist, necromancer? Any magic practice goes as long as its not to High Fantasy. Magic in this taxing and tricky. It is a matter of intelligence and wit, will and planning. I suggest looking up actual practices if you are out of ideas.)
Brief bio: I don't ask for much. I need to know what makes your character unique. What define him. A little back story. Magic is unique and the paths to it are many. Be it heritage of being a witch from europe to stumbling across a benevolent being in need of servants.
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