[OOC] Recollections: Under The Sycamore Tree Part. 1

[Estylwen]

@Blizz Yoooo, I would love that! Feel free to DM me. And good to see you!

[FernStone]

Second character whoo, I will finish an NPC sheet for Olivia tomorrow... (need to figure out her abstraction / adjoined apparition)

Luciano Alves Oliviera

"Why wouldn’t I use the time I have left to help?"

_______________________________________________ Luciano “Luca” Manuel Alves Oliviera He/They | 25 | Brazilian | 5’3” | 105lbs _______________________________________________ Positivity _______________________________________________ Skills & Talents "I had to give up a lot of what I was good at when it attached itself to me. Maybe one day I’ll be able to play soccer again…" ___________________________________ [+] Information Gathering ⫻ Luca has spent most of the last ten years researching a way to remove the apparition attached to their soul, jumping from paranormal group to paranormal group and finding as many materials they can on the subject. While they haven’t found much to help out they’ve gotten very good at searching for information, whether it's from talking to people or reading books. Optimism ⫻ Luca likes to think his optimistic thinking, always looking on the bright side, is a talent. No matter the bad news or the difficulties he will keep going. He’s very resilient. Wood Carving ⫻ Though he doesn’t do it as much as he did as a teenager, Luca is good at carving figures out of wood. He mostly does animals, and sometimes the paranormal creatures he’s seen. He can only do it for a short period of time at once, otherwise he’ll start rotting the wood, but it’s the one hobby from before he got his abstraction he’s managed to keep up.

Appearance ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ "Huh, I’m bleeding? It’s bad? Don’t worry, this happens a lot." With noticeable dark bags under his eyes, Luciano looks perpetually tired. Dull brown eyes peer out from behind sweeping curtain bangs that they’re constantly having to move to keep them from restricting their vision. Their hair is thick and dark brown, falling in a smooth curve past his eyes and in shorter, light curls at the back of his neck. Their skin is a warm tan, slightly rough. They’re rarely found without at least earrings, often wearing a simple stud in one ear and a hanging one in the other. Their earrings are most commonly made of titanium, which is resistant to rusting. All of their jewellery, which they enjoy wearing, is made of this or other pure metals - anything mixed with iron won’t last long near them. Luca isn’t particularly short for who he was born as, but his small stature is something that annoys him. It makes it more difficult to pass, and their parents weren’t even that short! So why did he get the short end of the stick? Luca is slender, too - currently still a healthy weight, but at risk of becoming underweight. He’s physically weak, though he tries to hide this as best as he can. He has curved scars under his chest from top surgery. He has multiple smaller scars across his body, most of which he can’t remember where he got them from. Most of the time Luca has at least one, if not multiple, open wounds or cuts. Luca is always found with a button down shirt on. They vary from the occasional bright, bold patterns to more lowkey neutrals, sometimes tucked into a pair of baggy trousers and sometimes open over a tank top, but always there. Their favoured colours tend to be shades of green, brown, white and navy blue in striped patterns apart from “special occasions” (days they’re feeling like brightening everything up). Their shirts are normally paired with wide legged trousers, with a white or black top underneath. They tend to cover up, whether it's wearing a long sleeved t-shirt with a short sleeved button down, or a long sleeved button down. Most of their clothes are made of synthetic fibres, polyester or nylon, because it degrades slower and thus he doesn’t have to replace them as frequently. He’s never found without a pair of black, polyester-lycra gloves on. Luca is bright and cheerful, often smiling or chatting. He is generally very expressive, with an inability to keep his immediate reactions off his face. The only expressions he rarely has are those of sadness, the one thing he keeps locked deep down.

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"I want everyone to remember me as someone who never gave up. I want them to remember my positivity.”

MAIN GOAL ⫻ To be free of the apparition he’s adjoined to. After that he just wants to live his life, enjoying all the things he was unable to - spending time with his family, playing soccer again and just using a phone without worrying that he’ll destroy it.

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Live life as if everyday could be your last. Luca has always focused on living life to the fullest, without getting dragged down by the small things. This has only grown stronger when they realised how short their life might be. They believe in focusing on the good and in enjoying himself, rather than the inevitable end. Because everyone dies eventually, some just sooner than others.

SECRETS ⫻ Luca’s biggest secret is his shortened lifespan, and how ill his abstraction has made him. He keeps on a strong front as if it isn’t slowly eating him from the inside. He hasn’t told any of his family, because how could he even begin to explain it? He also hides that sometimes he feels that it's all pointless. This is a feeling he tries to hide from even himself, shoving it deep down everytime it rears its ugly head.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Probably attracted to men, but Luca has never had the chance to be in a relationship. When he was younger he was struggling with his gender, and now he can’t get physically close to anyone without hurting them.

FEARS ⫻ The Rot possessing them. They can constantly feel it prodding their mind, looking for a weak spot to take advantage of. They fear it more than dying, though they also fear dying like most people do. They also fear harming their loved ones, especially their family.

REPUTATION IN OLD COVEN ⫻ Neutral, or slightly positive. Luca joined the coven late, a short time before the final battle. He was helpful and friendly which would’ve given the others a good impression of him but also standoffish as he learned the effects of his abstraction. He stuck with the old coven until it dissolved and while he wasn’t contributing to the petty squabbles his attempted positivity didn’t help towards the end.

ROLE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST THE STYGIAN SNAKE ⫻ Luca joined the coven late, but from then he was very useful in the battle against the Stygian Snake. His abstraction was one that allowed him to directly weaken the emotions fueling apparitions and the Stygian Snake itself through touching them. With this he was able to help them defeat and seal the Stygian Snake on the day of the eclipse.

FLAWS ⫻ Luca has absolutely no filter. He says what he thinks, whether positive or negative. This can come across as blunt and is incredibly tactless. He hurts others often because of this, regardless of his intentions. He is almost toxically positive. Luca hides difficult emotions from even himself, burying them deep down so he doesn’t have to think about them, ignoring all his problems. He can often invalidate others emotions because he doesn’t understand why they’d dwell on the negative. As he’s grown older Luca has become more self sacrificial, and become worse at looking after himself. He’ll neglect his health frequently and in a situation where sacrificing himself would save others, he’d probably do it. While generally optimistic and cheerful, Luca can be somewhat erratic thanks to the apparition adjoined to him that’s constantly trying to corrupt him mentally. This mostly manifests in sudden mood swings and acting outside of his normal, especially under stressful situations since he’s essentially always under mental stress.

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"My life was completely normal till she attached this fucking thing to me."

Luca was born in Brazil, but his parents moved to St Portwell, and the USA, when he was only two for work. Luca has very little memory of his home country, and has only visited a couple of times as a child.

From a young age, Luca knew that he wasn’t who he was born as. His parents called him Isabela, but that wasn’t right. He didn’t have the language to explain it then so he settled for being a tomboy, refusing to wear anything girly and making everyone call him El - it was slightly less feminine, at least. It wasn’t until his teenagers that he began to figure it all out. He wasn’t a girl like everyone thought he was. He wasn’t really a boy either, but he was closer to that than a girl. He settled on somewhere in between and the name Luca. Just, he didn’t have the confidence to tell anyone.

Luca was fifteen when the Stygian Snake’s rampage began, something he was very unaware about until a week before the eclipse. It was just another day for Luca, heading home from school, when he was attacked by a group of Apparitions. He was thrown to the ground and almost killed there but a girl from a few years above him tried to defend him… Before getting injured herself. Both Luca and this girl, Olivia Ruiz, were saved by Britney Williams. Luca passed out from shock.

When he woke up, his entire world had changed. There was something else inside of him, whispering to him. When he grabbed his phone it turned to dust in his hands. Good, goaded the voice in Luca’s head. Destroy everything. Confused and scared, Luca managed to find the girl, Britney, who had saved him. She explained everything to him - that magic existed, that she was part of a coven protecting the city and that a thing called an apparition (which called itself the rot) had adjoined itself to him while he was injured. She invited him to join the Sycamore Tree coven, to help defeat the Stygian Snake that was attacking the city. Partly out of gratitude, and partly out of not knowing what else to do, Luca joined the Sycamore Tree coven. It was the first place he could truly be himself - being Luca, not a girl, from the start.

In the short time he was part of the coven, Luca threw himself into helping. He learned his abstraction quickly, figuring out that he could weaken apparitions and destroy abominables, though he wasn’t sure why. He didn’t dwell too much on anything outside of using it to help the coven and on the day of the eclipse he used his abstraction to weaken the Stygian Snake so that Ashley could stab it with the Apparition Killer. He had his memory wiped with everyone else, and was glad it was over.

He could live peacefully now, right? Except he still had an apparition attached to him - one constantly trying to get into his mind and whispering to him. The uncontrollable nature of his abstraction was more obvious too. He destroyed everything he touched, and everything around him slowly decayed. He felt weaker too, but he put that down to exhaustion.

Luca couldn’t exactly live a normal life like this.

So he stuck with the coven, hoping they could help him. He grew closer with Olivia, the girl who’d defended him what had felt like a very long time ago, who was now in a similar situation to him. They had a shared goal of splitting from their aberrations, though hers wasn’t as debilitating.

Luca was enraged when he found out that Britney was the one who’d forcibly adjoined him. It could hardly be called saving him with the life he had now. Luca didn’t treat her as badly as some of the others - instead he just didn’t talk to her at all. He stuck with the coven till it dissolved, hoping against hope that they’d help him instead of squabbling. But they didn’t. Luca was disappointed when it ended, but it was fine. He’d find another way. There was no point in dwelling in the negativity, as much of it as there was.

So he moved on, deciding to try and figure out how to get rid of his apparition. Olivia followed him, the only person he had left for him - he’d cut himself off from his family out of necessity, as painful as it was. Just being near him would kill them. He took some online courses at college while trying to research the paranormal as much as possible.

Then Olivia found out, through going to the same college, that Emily had formed her own coven. Luca didn’t particularly like Emily (not many did), but his need to get rid of the rot was stronger. He managed to convince them to let him join a seemingly all woman coven… And it was good, at first. They were learning about magic, and with that making progress in understanding adjoined. But it didn’t last. 8th Street’s agenda changed, and Luca couldn’t stay for it.

So they went back to just the two of them trying to figure it out, back to what it had been like just after the Sycamore Tree coven dissolved. At this point he hardly left the apartment he and Olivia shared. Every outing was a risk of hurting someone. He threw himself into research in his spare time, trying to find everything he could, while working a completely remote job. He managed to figure out a setup that worked for him - a desktop and large screen far enough away to not be affected by his abstraction, and a pile of cheap keyboards and mice on hand for when the ones he was using were destroyed. He gained more control over his decaying touch, learning how to turn it off… Even if it exhausted him. It was difficult, but that was fine. It wouldn’t be like this forever. He stayed optimistic and focused on the positives.

After a year of almost no results, Olivia decided to call it quits. Her family was moving to the other side of the country and she wanted to go with them. There were no hard feelings between them when she left, and they promised to keep in touch.

Luca’s life continued much the same. He found joy in the little things - his weekly calls with Olivia, the days where he could control his abstraction enough to do some wood carving without instantly destroying the wood in his hands, and the late night research that seemed to be getting him somewhere. He would go on walks late at night when very little else (human at least) was outside. He tried to meet with other paranormal, or ex-coven members - just anyone who could resist his abstraction a bit. It was relatively peaceful, if a bit lonely.

Of course, there were so many negatives. He never really got a peaceful moment, with an apparition inside of him constantly trying to erode at his mental state so that it could take over. He’d just gotten good at blocking it out and thinking positively. He was also growing weaker and weaker, struggling to walk around the block on some days. It was as if his muscles were wasting away. It was terrifying, and he had no one to talk to.

Finally, a year ago, it got bad enough that he went to a hospital. His uncontrollable aura wasn’t strong enough to destroy anything instantly, and as long as he didn’t touch anything it would be fine. He felt bad for putting the doctors and nurse through the pain of it, but he needed checked. What had started as occasional exhaustion and weakness had grown worse, and he was constantly in pain. Somewhere always hurt. The doctors ran their tests, so many of them, and took his blood.

The results weren’t good. They’d never seen what was happening to him, so they couldn’t give him a diagnosis, but it was as if his entire body was slowly decaying. A new kind of degenerative disease they’d never seen before. The outcomes didn’t look good. At this rate he probably had a few years left. If he was lucky he’d reach thirty. They said they could recommend him to a more cutting edge hospital that would research it and work with him, but Luca declined. He took a prescription of strong painkillers and went home.

After all, he knew the cause. Normal medicine wouldn’t help. He needed to get rid of his abstraction first before it could be treated.

Luca continued trying to find a way, speeding it up. He tried to talk to some of the paranormal groups in St Portwell, namely the Elite, Greenwood Coven and 8th Street again. The Elite was useless, 8th street was concentrating on its new ventures and the Greenwood coven didn’t take too kindly to Luca… after all his abstraction was one of the many destroying nature, even if he couldn’t control it. It was fine. He resigned himself to never getting rid of it, and resolved to enjoy the rest of his life. No point dwelling on what was out of his control, after all! He’d do what he could and that would be enough.

Then he heard that ex-coven members were dying. Then Olivia went missing. There was no news of her death, but she wouldn’t pick up his calls and wasn’t at home. Luca didn’t know what he could do, until he got contacted by Auri. It was an easy decision to join again. Maybe they could help him get rid of this abstraction that was eating him away, and if not, why wouldn’t he use the time he had left to help save others?

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"I wish I’d never gotten it. But I can’t change the past, so I might as well use it for something good before it kills me."

TYPE ⫻ Aberration - Adjoined

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Rotting Decay, the ability to decay and damage all living things, to corrode and weaken non organic materials and to decay the emotions that fuel magic.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻

Aura of Decay ⫻ Luca has a permanent, but weak, aura of decay around him. This aura spreads out about an arms length around him. It slowly decays everything around him, with results and speed varying by what’s being exposed and the size of it. For organic materials, it will take an hour to completely rot something weak such as a flower or grass. For something stronger, such as a tree, it would take days - but it will kill leaves or flowers on the tree. For human flesh it will hurt immediately, then damage the outer layer of skin within an hour, but would take weeks to rot through the bone. For inorganic objects, the aura works best on metals, which it will oxidise and then corrode in days. The effect on emotions is minimal - in the aura, people will perhaps feel their emotions slightly dimmed, but little else.

Decaying Touch ⫻ More powerful than the constant aura, Luca can touch something and instantly cause it to decay. The effect varies by what is being touched. The flesh of the blind would be rotted instantly, and within minutes whatever he is touching would disintegrate and die. The paranormal are more resistant, but initial touch would cause intense pain and eventually decay, then disintegration. It affects apparitions, by decaying the emotion that fuels them and thus weakening them. For nonorganic objects it will take moments to corrode something small - a cup, or a mobile phone. It would start to crumble a brick but take minutes to properly destroy it, and something larger would take hours.

LIMITS ⫻

Aura of Decay ⫻ The aura is too weak to affect apparitions at all, and hardly affects those with Emotional-Fields. They will feel pain, more intense the longer they are in it, but it won’t cause decay. It is limited size wise, only spreading an arms length around Luca. It's always on, so they can’t control it at all. The stronger and larger something is, the longer it will take to decay.

Decaying Touch ⫻ There is no range to the touch. Luca must touch whatever is to be affected with one of his hands. It is only his hands that can be used. The decay only happens in the immediate area touched and doesn’t spread. It can’t straight up kill those with emotional-fields, and can only weaken apparitions or those without substance. It would take minutes of touching to start properly decaying any with defences. The longer he touches something and uses the abstraction the more he will strain himself, physically and mentally, and start damaging him too. While he could technically do it for hours, it would likely destroy him too. This ability is normally on, and he has to be actively concentrating to turn it off. This concentration includes ignoring the apparition itself, which constantly wants him to decay and destroy everything around him.

WEAKNESSES ⫻

The Aura of Decay is always active, and Luca is unable to turn it off, which means he will cause objects that he doesn't intend to decay and rot away. He's used to throwing beds away and replacing his cell phone. The Decaying touch is also consistently active and requires him to consciously turn it off and expend energy to not rot objects away. However, the most debilitating weakness of all is that the Abstraction is causing him to rot away. It's slowly eroding at his skin, organs, and bones, weakening his body, and will eventually induce organ shutdown... or worse if that doesn't happen first. The Power of Decay makes Luca more frail, his skin will tear easier and his bones are way easier to break.

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"It would've been nice to see everyone again, if the circumstances were different."

Luca has no preference between he or they pronouns.
Luca is mostly fluent in Portuguese.
Luca has a box filled with cheap phones in his apartment because he has to constantly replace them. In fact most of his salary (after essentials) goes into replacing all the items that he destroys with his abstraction.

The.Rot

Very Old | The Rot | It/Its "̶̥͈̙̗̔͒̎̀̈́͜È̷̻͔̞͓̜̊v̵͎̠̪͓̅͌ę̷̛͖͇̊ṙ̷͎͗͐y̷̭̗̜͊͝t̷͕̣͖̍͗̚h̶̳̺̍̽ȋ̸̜ṅ̷̗̖̥̤̝̃͐ǵ̷̟̣͛̋̏ ̷̛̘͈͙̬̀̽̈́ẘ̸͔̖̞̥̞̀́i̶̱̖̳̱̦͆͒̓̀l̶̝͙̖͌̚ͅl̴̟̻̱̤͚̓̄̀̆ ̵̫̐̽̀̇͘r̷̢̰̝̹̤̀̃̇̏̿ò̸̠̱̝̦̮̏̚ẗ̸̥͈̜̱̑͘͝ͅ"̸̞̠̯͕̙̔̍

Description: The Rot came to be in this dimension centuries ago, born from the intense desire for destruction from humans waging in petty wars and the corruption of many. All it wants is destruction, to rot everything away until no life is left. It has destroyed towns and cities, feeding off the flesh of poor humans unable to flee from its path. It has corrupted the minds of those that are weak to aid in its path of destruction. However its influence and power was short reaching, and its movement restricted. It could not go to places completely free from corruption and corrosion. Hundreds of years ago the Rot was sealed, the object it was sealed in then lost and forgotten. Until ten years ago, when Britney Williams freed it and adjoined it with Luca Oliviera to help defeat the Stygian Snake. After the Stygian Snake Luca wanted rid of the rot, but it refused to leave him - why would it, when it finally had the perfect vessel to cause destruction from? Luca wasn’t limited like it is. Instead it is constantly trying to corrupt and weaken his mind, so one day it can push out his soul and abscise his body. Occasionally it succeeds in temporary possession, but it has yet to gain complete control. The Rot always remains inside Luca, but it will talk to him from within when it benefits it. Abstraction: Apparition - Decay of All Things The Rot allows Luca to use most of its abstraction - the ability to cause physical and emotional decay. It has another ability it has not given Luca - mental decay. This can completely corrupt or destroy the minds of the blind. It can leave them as empty shells of themselves, or corrupt them to become the worst of humanity and help it succeed in its goal. Those with Emotional-Fields are resistant but not immune. It can slowly plant the seeds of destruction within them, whittling away until it succeeds. It has been doing it with its host ever since they were adjoined.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@FernStone Accepted.

[silvermist1116]

@Punished GN Bruh what's your word count for that first post? Like damn.

[silvermist1116]

The chant is giving Green Lantern.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

The chant is giving Green Lantern.

@silvermist1116

it's giving???

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Punished GN Bruh what's your word count for that first post? Like damn.

@silvermist1116

[silvermist1116]

@Punished GNWow that's a lot.
And yes, giving. "In brightest day and blackest night, no evil should escape my sight yada yada yada, Green Lantern's light!"

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Punished GNWow that's a lot.
And yes, giving. "In brightest day and blackest night, no evil should escape my sight yada yada yada, Green Lantern's light!"

@silvermist1116

The Lux is sort of inspired by the Green Lantern stuff. lol

[silvermist1116]

@Punished GNThat makes sense. Never thought about it before. I've gotten back into the GL comics lately.

[Estylwen]

Nice post, @FernStone. @Punished GN, what is the post rotation? Shall I wait for a GM post before posting again?

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Nice post, @FernStone. @Punished GN, what is the post rotation? Shall I wait for a GM post before posting again?

@Estylwen

Post rotations are 4 scrubs

[Blizz]

Jack Hawthorne

"I have been away for far too long..."

_______________________________________________ Jack Hawthorne He/Him | 29 | White | 5'9" | 178lbs _______________________________________________ Wise _______________________________________________ Skills & Talents "Interdimensional traveler, master of magic, and friend in dark places, at your service." ___________________________________ [+] Loremaster ⫻ Jack has been to many places, met many people, and seen many things. Through his travels, he has encountered virtually every form the Paranormal can take, including the abominable things that aren't normally seen in Shimmer. Give him a minute to think, and he'll likely have many answers to a mystery. Jack's personal favorite subject is the way magic is used by people, and he always dozens of spells for all manners of Abstraction wrote down somewhere, that he can hook others up with if they're looking for something to add to their playbook. Like a mad scientist, most people can simply ask Jack for pointers and he'll throw them dozens. Pokerface ⫻ Jack plays a mean hand. You'll never be too certain if he's cheating or if he's just outmatching you with raw skill once the cards are broken out. This certainly helps when money is at stake, but Jack is also pretty difficult to get an accurate read on, as he doesn't give away any cues when lying. No quiet words, no lack of eye contact, he lies through his teeth like a politician. Musician ⫻ Maybe it's the magic fingers, but Jack can play a guitar well enough to impress a crowd on a stage. Most of what he plays is gloomy, gothic music that flips between mellow and heavy with little in between. Sneaky ⫻ It turns out that being a shadow wizard lends well to staying hidden. Jack has a talent for concealing his presence, and remaining undetected by most people with or without magic. He can get the drop on people better than most, and throw off anybody from crazed witch hunters to the PRA with little trouble. Resourceful ⫻ Sometimes you need to patch stab wounds, and sometimes you don't have a first-aid kit. Sometimes your car broke down but you don't have anything to fix the radiator. Jack's good at finding ways to get around most material needs, and is crafty enough that he can survive where most would perish. When winter comes and all you have is an old kerosene space heater to stay warm, Jack will cook a great breakfast using a pot, a circular pan, and a roll of aluminum foil (or a water bottle instead) as if the stove worked just fine.

Appearance ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ "The Void is cold, around this time of year." Jack stands at 5’9” and always seems to be dressed for winter. Trench coats, wool pants, combat boots, the works. He wears multiple layers to keep himself warm in the cold, but also for the purposes of magic. Jack could easily pass himself off as someone’s eccentric college professor just by his fashion choices. He hasn’t cut his hair in ages, and always has it like a black, shoulder length, frazzled mess that has a mind of its own. Under all of his layers, one would find dozens of scars from cuts, burns, and other forms of damage. One that sticks out most is the destroyed remains of his left shoulder, which still aches from time to time. In place of it, Jack has a hand and arm that are made entirely from magical darkness.

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"I'm not like other Adepts."

MAIN GOAL ⫻ Jack doesn't have a damn clue what he's doing with himself these days. He doesn't have a goal that directs where he goes, and as such, he goes wherever he wishes. But having heard about the recent murders of his home, he has taken it upon himself to do what he can to help, even if he could put infinite distance between himself and St. Portwell.

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Nothing will last forever. Not the good times, not the bad ones, and everything has its season. Jack believes that just because some things are not meant to be now doesn't mean they won't have a place in the world later. So he chooses to enjoy the world as a whole while he occupies it, knowing that he won't do so forever. Jack goes where life takes him, never in a hurry to live too fast. There is a time and a place when it is appropriate to push against the direction that fate is pulling you in, and there is a time to flow with the current, and Jack believes it is best to help those who are drowning as they do either.

SECRETS ⫻ While it isn't the most immediately dire secret, Jack prefers to keep the details of his world-hopping magic close to the chest. It's old news among the coven that he found a way to make this travel nigh effortless, but Jack isn't particularly eager to teach someone else how it works. If the wrong entity learned that spell, it could cause some problems.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Homosexual, as far as he's aware, anyway.

FEARS ⫻ You would think someone who wanders a realm of eldritch horrors like its a sidewalk would fear absolutely nothing. But honestly? Jack is scared of drowning.

REPUTATION IN OLD COVEN ⫻ Jack was always seen as a bit of a nerd. He was more fascinated by magic and the way it worked than most people. He'd always be found pouring over books and making up new spells for the sake of curiosity. Most of these spells turned out to be hits and misses, but Jack was always the one other Adepts went to when they needed a bit of advice on how to go about using magic.

ROLE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST THE STYGIAN SNAKE ⫻ Sometimes you've got to fight fire with fire. It was almost uncanny, the way the Stygian Snake seemed to mimic his own magic. Hiding in shadows, snuffing out the sun with a thought, warping the fabric of reality and more. Jack theorized at one point that the Stygian Snake was some manner of human twisted into an Aberration, as the things it could do were unsettlingly similar to the things he could do. Jack helped find the Apparition Killer, and joined the coven members who went to retrieve it, leveraging his purple Lux to ensure their safe passage back to Shimmer. During the fight against the Stygian Snake, Jack followed it into the shadows beyond the normal world, ensuring it had no peace and that his comrades were kept up to date after time was warped. He was injured during one of these jumps, costing him an arm and most of his left shoulder.

FLAWS ⫻ Above all else, Jack is proud of his magical capabilities. He has just a bit of an ego when it comes to his accomplishments and what he’s discovered, and he’s not afraid to back that up. But beyond that, he had trouble with staying convicted in things. He’ll pack up and leave if he can’t see things working out, before a conclusion is in sight.

Jack is also, for lack of a better term, out of time. In the Void, time does not flow. He has inadvertently displaced himself to an extent, not being as caught up on events as others. The Void has also eroded parts of him, he can’t remember most of his life before the coven, and he hasn’t had a proper night’s sleep in a decade.

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"We broke a demigod. What more needs to be said?"

When he was young, Jack had a kindling event that felt like a dream. It's hard to remember that far back, due to the Void's effects on his mind, but he remembers seeing visions of a horse one minute, and of a bull the next. His homelife was questionable at best, so once he started grasping magic, Jack just ran and ran. He never looked back, since it just felt right to him. The important events begin shortly after he discovered a certain snake terrorizing the mortal world. Ashley Stone and the Sycamore Coven ran into him, and from here he connected with the paranormal world. He met likeminded people and dove deep into studying all that he could, hoping to understand magic on a deeper level and use his shadowy magic against that of the Stygian Snake's days were spent pouring over books and scouting out the city at night, to the concern of a few coven members. No one was entirely sure where he came from or when he’d stop learning so much, but it worked out in the long run, as the Stygian Snake was one day banished into the coven’s namesake. Everything was fine, until it wasn’t.

The coven began falling apart in the following weeks. Leadership lost faith, people couldn’t agree on what they should do with the coven, and some just wanted to move on. Jack personally believed the coven should’ve dedicated itself to protecting St. Portwell from other supernatural threats, not just the ones that reversed time and his in shadows. B t it was never meant to last, so having learned to compensate for the lack of a left hand, Jack made plans to find greener pastures. He packed his things and assured his friends in the coven that he’d keep in touch. On the day he set out, Jack finally broke out the spell that, to this day, is considered his magnum opus: A portal into the Void. Some of the coven members were skeptical, but it worked. He said his goodbyes, opened the portal, and he was gone.

The Void is many things to many people. A land of nightmares, a place that does not exist, or even a purgatory. But to Jack, it was nothing short of magnificent. The horrors of the Void were not so horrific to him, and as the portal snapped shut, Jack hoped he’d stay a while. He wandered with fascination, embracing the eldritch nature of this world and learned so much. Jack stared incomprehensible entities in the eyes, dredged up remnants of distant universes and slept peacefully every night. Any other person would succumb to madness, but not him. He rebelled in this. The god of the Void, an entity known simply as the Child one day crossed paths with Jack. The Child found Jack’s amicability towards incomprehensible nightmares baffling, and decided to send him home after a conversation. When Jack returned to Shimmer, he discovered that time passed differently- He thought he was only gone for two days, but he was actually gone for a month.

He found this fascinating, but decided to spend a some time in Shimmer. But Jack could never simply let things be. Eventually, he trespassed again. The Child eventually got fed up with him, and left Jack to fend for himself. This was the cycle of Jack’s life for the next decade: Enter the Void, explore and bask in the horrific majesty of it, and return home for a while. During his time in Shimmer, he travelled just as extensively, seeing the world and all it had to offer. But in the Void, time got further and further away from him. They say time flies, but ten years passed in what should’ve only been two, or even three. It shouldn’t have surprised him, then, when Auri managed to find him and was very surprised that he never checked in. Ten years, and no one heard a word out of him back home. She called him for help, explaining that the old coven members were slowly being picked off from all over the world. Concerned, and happy to reconnect with old friends, Jack got a location and planned a trip back home.

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"The darkness is not something to toy with, unless you're especially accustomed to it."

TYPE ⫻ Adept

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Red-Purple Lux. Jack's channeler is a curious book.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Jack blurs the lines between red and purple Lux into a form unique to him, allowing him to weave supernatural darkness into a variety of spells that allow him to manipulate his surroundings, protect people, and trespass into the Void.

Voidwalk ⫻ The spell that Jack considers his greatest work. As a kid, Jack developed a way to open up a doorway directly into the Void, and back into Shimmer. Doing this displaces him chronologically, meaning he could spend what feels like a day on the other side, but actually return several days later. The exact details of how he achieved this are a mystery. To open a portal, Jack requires several minutes to focus in a dimly lit area. During this time, he uses his shadowy red Lux to pull away at the "net" between worlds. The portal can only stay open for a few seconds at a time, after which the proverbial net will snap back like a rubber band. This spell is based on the concept of the Gloomy Step, and as a result of this, he can pick and choose certain regions of the Void to enter. One such region is a place he calls the Shadowzone, an area that is relatively untouched by the horrors of the Void, where Jack lives during his extended trips. If Jack does not actively decide where he wants to go in the Void, then his portal will place him somewhere at random.

Umbramancy ⫻ The oldest form of Jack's Abstraction is the ability to transform otherwise normal darkness into something tangible through red Lux, within roughly 100 feet.. He can pull a shadow off the wall, and shape it into strictly solid objects, use it to blind others or play tricks on someone. This expression of his Lux partly explains the amount of layers he tends to wear, as the shadows under his clothes make for a quick and dirty source of power. Jack can also create darkness, dimming down a normally well-lit room to the point that it becomes difficult to see. The light that would be rendered nonexistent by this magic does not go away permanently- Jack doesn't destroy light sources. Rather, he simply replaces it with magical darkness, meaning lights will return to normal when he wants them to, almost like something out of a horror movie.

When Jack makes something solid out of shadows, it has about as much durability as hardwood. You could swing a hammer at them and you might not punch a hole through them but a gun would shoot right through.

Gloomy Step ⫻ If Jack can find a particularly dark area, he can walk into it to vanish on a whim, and appear at an exit point of his choosing. He has to picture this place in his mind, meaning he needs to have been there before, or have a picture of it that he can commit to memory. This means that Jack can suddenly appear on the other side of St. Portwell, but he can’t appear in Dollhouse’s basement. There are two main factors that Jack must consider when using this spell: Distance and light. The more there is of either, the longer he was to wait before teleporting again. Jumping across a city at midnight twice is one thing, but doing the exact same thing at midday would be drastically slower.

Shadow Hand ⫻ Less a spell, and more a permanent replacement for the arm he lost during the battle with the Stygian Snake. Jack's left arm is made of magic darkness, and feels like solid rock when touched. He could use it to punch through windows and not feel a thing, crush tin cans with it, and carry things that would be too awkward to lift for others. The advantages stop there, since having a fake hand isn't the same as being supernaturally strong. It also makes blending in slightly challenging, since people tend to notice when your hand is solid black. For this reason, he'll often walk be seen with just one arm in public, because he can get rid of his magic one and make it appear again at a moment's notice.

LIMITS ⫻ Jack's Abstraction comes with the territory of staying concealed and staying mobile. Intense light effectively starves him of his ability to use most of his magic. Put him on a beach at midday and the best he can do is start looking for shade. In worse cases, the poor bastard can't even open a water bottle, having lost a hand to the sun.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ WEAKNESSES ⫻ The Void is easily the most dangerous element that is known, home to unimaginable horrors and God-like Eldritch abominations. Opening a door there can end badly if he uses it willy-nilly, and something can come through - or quickly kill him if they will it. Umbramancy is countered by light-based magic or magic that generates light, which means Photomancy hard-counters his Umbramancy, and the constructs are far easier to destroy with magic. The Gloomy Step does not indicate what is on the other side and can leave him in a sticky situation if he does it willy-nilly. Light-based magic can, again, render him unable to teleport altogether, if he's being exposed to it.

Also, people will make fun of him for how edgy he is.

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"I should have come home sooner. I will tear the Void open wide as a canyon, and dethrone the Child if it means we stay safe."

Anyyyything else?

[Atrophy]

You know I said two so now I've done two and now you gotta judge number two. @Punished GN

Sully McPherson

"What kind of person wouldn’t protect what they care about?"

_______________________________________________ Sullivan Nicholas McPherson He/Him| 28 | Irish American| 6’5” | 300 lbs _______________________________________________ Abandon _______________________________________________ Skills & Talents "What is it? Jack of all trades, master of being a good-for-nothing?" ___________________________________ [+] [Raw Strength] ⫻ Sully was a linebacker in high school, and while his dreams of going pro have long faded years of working construction and odd jobs has seen his strength linger on. Although he can’t hold a candle to professional strongmen, he’s almost always the strongest person in the room. He can easily heft up heavy loads with hardly a sweat and it would require a gang to keep him down on the ground. [Intimidation] ⫻ Those who know Sully are aware that he’s about as dangerous as a newborn kitten, but it doesn’t change the fact that if he wants to he can look like a tough son of a bitch who can make someone eat their own teeth with just one hit. He actually uses this to dissuade violence, as he detests physical altercations. [DIY] ⫻ Sully has a knack for fixing, tinkering, and crafting. This can range from simple quick repairs that require little more than some tape and elbow grease, to complex mechanical projects that are just shy of requiring an extensive engineering degree, to uncharacteristic like being able to hem a dress or build a computer. He can even perform some rough first aid, although some might be squeamish about his methods. [Woodsman] ⫻ Sully isn’t a full blown survivalist, but he spent his youth camping, hunting, and fishing with his father and has grown to appreciate the outdoors. He feels most at home in nature and can rattle off facts about flora and fauna with ease. [Iron Stomach] ⫻ The man is a bottomless pit, casually able to crush local food competitions and drink anybody under the table. His social media feed is a horror show of gluttony and alcohol abuse, but on the brightside he did win a $100 gift card to a local wing place once.

Appearance ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ "Yeah, I’m pretty hard to miss." Sully isn’t just a big man, he’s a landmark, a lighthouse guiding people towards safety where they can hide in the protective presence of his shadow. His face is an open book, his emotive blue eyes betraying any feelings he might try to keep beneath the surface. He hides the softness of his jawline and the doubling of his chin beneath a short, well-maintained and oiled beard. His brown hair is cut short and has started to thin out in the back. His skin is well moisturized and he always smells faintly of the woods mixed with a good bourbon. He’s a massive man and is almost always the largest guy in the room. He used to be absolutely shredded, but an overly indulgent lifestyle has softened his muscles and rounded out his gut. However, he is still quite strong thanks to him mostly performing physical labor and he holds his weight pretty well. His hands are notably rough, often coated with fresh scratches from screwing around with some kind of household repairs. Sully dresses in flattering if simple clothes, sticking to the traditional look of the local foresters and fishers with his flannel shirts or cardigan sweaters, straight legged jeans, and well-worn boots. Sully knows that almost nobody will be able to see his bald spot, but he’s still too young to learn to accept it. Instead he always wears some kind of hat, sticking with knit beanies in the fall and winter and switching it up for a baseball cap in the warmer seasons. Sully has a welcoming, teddy bear air about him that makes him seem extremely approachable despite his size. His voice is deep and warm, with a rich laugh that is easy to entice out of the man. He’s prone to staring off into the distance as if his eyes are trying to catch up to his wandering mind, yet despite this apparent flightiness he never seems to miss the thread of the conversation. Sully has a tendency to keep his hands in his pockets and moves with all the speed of a tortoise frozen inside of a glacier.

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"Just trying to do something with my life. Nothing more."

MAIN GOAL ⫻ Back in the day Sully had big dreams of being a pro football player. He was so committed to chasing those dreams that even a dimension devouring serpent couldn’t stop them. Nowadays Sully dreams much smaller, visions of making rent and not moving back in with his mom dancing in his head. Really he is just focusing on working on himself at this time, doing what he can to get out of the rut he feels like he has been stuck in since he dropped out of college.

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Try to make things better, and if you can’t do that, at least remember that the last thing the world needs is another asshole. Sully always tried to treat everyone with kindness and respect even if they did not show him the same, adhering to the old adage that you never know what people are going through or where they came from. While he might not agree with certain people, he often tries to understand the whys behind their beliefs while others might rightfully write them off as simply being wrong. Also, while Sully feels that the world is largely full of assholes, he believes that almost none of them are beyond redemption. He’s known to be too forgiving of people to the point of destructive naivety.

SECRETS ⫻ A large number of “workplace accidents” caused by Sully that ruined expensive construction or logging equipment and would wind up getting him sacked from the job were intentional. In fact, over the years Sully has gotten away with causing a significant amount of property damage in the name of environmentalism and, as of lately, the Greenwood Coven. Sully aligns neatly with many of their beliefs and he’s happy to be part of another team, although he has yet to be fully admitted into the Greenwood Coven.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Sully is gay. Although he had confided this to a few close friends while in high school, he did not fully come out until after he’d quit his college football team.

FEARS ⫻ Being inadequate. Sully fears that he is destined to be one of those guys who peaked in highschool. It’s already the case for him with football, and topping the Stygian Snake is a tall order—especially when he firmly believes that the Coven would’ve beaten the beast without him.

REPUTATION IN OLD COVEN ⫻ Largely well-liked. Having been lifelong friends and neighbors with Ashley, Sully was in pretty early with the Coven. Ashley might’ve been the one cheerleading when he was playing football, but Sully was essentially the cheerleader when it came to the Coven. He was always friendly and welcoming to the new members, often going above and beyond to make sure that they felt comfortable with their transition to the paranormal world and the nightmare that was battling the Stygian Snake. He was also seen as an apologist for Ashley’s temperamental behavior and a bit too sympathetic when it came to dealing with Britney. Still, Sully was the one that always got the Coven beer, so if he occasionally sidled with the wrong person it never really mattered to the group.

ROLE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST THE STYGIAN SNAKE ⫻ Sully, like Britney, served as a recruiter for the Coven. Unlike Britney his methods were above board, typically working with other members of the Coven to patrol St. Portwell and rescue anyone targeted by the Stygian Snake’s minions. During the final fight against the Stygian Snake, Sully worked alongside Jade to keep the Coven on their feet with his healing magic.

FLAWS ⫻ Sully is reliably unreliable and is horrible at making commitments. He has never been early to anything before in his life and ‘on time’ loosely translates to ‘within the first thirty minutes’. He often agrees to plans solely because he doesn’t like turning people down and then either forgets or cancels moments before it starts. If Sully ever has to make a choice on his own it is often an agonizing experience. He typically latches onto the first idea someone gives to him, fully championing it up until the moment someone presents a counter argument. Then, he can be easily ping-ponged for eternally between the two options until one of the others eventually backs down.

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"Kind of hard to top these results."

Sully had a fantastic childhood. He grew up in a small two-bedroom home in St. Portwell where he shared a bunk bed with his older brother Sammy. His mom worked part time as a grocer while his dad was often away for weeks at a time working on a crabbing vessel. Sully lived for the time whenever his dad returned, because it typically meant the family was going to spend the weekend camping. His dad would teach him how to fish and hunt and kayak. His dad would also tell him stories of the sea. Later on Sully would realize his dad had just been pulling his leg, but as a kid he was amazed by the sea creatures pops had to do battle with just so he could bring home some dough for his family. Mostly, however, mostly his dad just taught Sully how to slow down and appreciate the world around him, stopping their hikes to breathe in deep and say cheesy dad stuff like, “Wow. This is it, isn’t it kiddo?”

Sully grew up next door to Ashley Stone. The two would go around riding their bikes, skipping stones on the river, and, when they were a little bit older, finding a hidden spot to smoke cigarettes that Ashley had swiped from her mom or drink beers that Sully had gotten from his brother. He doesn’t remember how they became friends. His mom had pictures on the fridge of them as kindergartners holding hands while waiting for the bus, of them as toddlers covered in mud, of them as babies laying on a carpet. They would go to the same high school together and had the same group of friends. Ashley would go on to become a cheerleader. Sullivan would play football.

Football is where Sully would fall in love—not with Ashley, gross man, she was like a sister. He fell in love with being on a team. The comradery, the shared emotions, the shoulder to lean on or the hand to help you up. Plus, the team was pretty good—state champions during Sully’s second and third year. It was always when playing football that Sully began to come to terms with the feelings he had towards the kicker, as well as realizing that while St. Portwell was overall fairly friendly towards gay men, it still wasn’t something that one could share with a highschool boys’ locker room. He came out to Ashley instead, who was a good enough friend to keep the “Oh, I already knew” to herself.

The summer before his senior year was going to be perfect: parties, road trips, and romantic flings. It started with a massive beach bonfire with plenty of booze and drugs to go around. Sully stumbled away from the party to answer nature’s call and walked out to the ocean. After he finished up he stubbed his toe against what he at first thought was a rock, but as he grabbed it to chuck it into the water he realized it was an old cup. No, not just any old cup, his drunken brain told him—it was the king’s cup! He rinsed the sand off of it with beer, filled it up with cheap whiskey, returned to the group, and declared himself king of the beach. “And when the king of the beach drinks from the king’s cup, all drink with him!” was his first royal decree and the last thing he remembered from that night.

During that summer wherever Sully went to party the “king’s cup” came too. It became a running goof amongst his friends to bet how many drinks until Sully would pull the stupid glass out and declare himself king of the party. One party near the end of summer Britney Williams grabbed Sully and dragged him away from the party when he produced the cup, with the two of them getting hooted and hollered at as he proclaimed, “She wants to be with the king!” She did not. She wanted to know how he got his hands on the Chalice. She wanted to know if he was the Cupbearer. She kept saying weird things, about a snake, about how he needed to drink his own blood, creepy shit. She, Sully thought at the time, was clearly high.

Then, life became a nightmare. The Stygian Snake attacked his neighborhood shortly thereafter. His house got destroyed but his family was away. He, however, was inside. Ashley, covered in blood that wasn’t her own, found him under a pile of debris with a metal pipe speared through his stomach. He was going to die, but he remembered what Britney had said and, well, a massive fucking snake destroying his house made him a believer. Ashley thought he was losing it when she told him to grab the cup, one final bit before he bit the dust, but she did so anyway. Together they pulled the pipe out. Then Sully had Ashley pool his blood into the cup and he drank. And, just like Britney had said he would, he lived.

Everything was a whirlwind after that. Ashley formed the Coven and Sully tagged along, dreaming of the one day the world would return to normalcy. Somehow, it did—the Coven defeated the Stygian Snake and saved his hometown. He remained with them through the rest of the school year and following summer, playing peacemaker and throwing raucous parties in their hideout when Ashley would allow him, but being a witch wasn’t really his scene. He still dreamed of being a pro athlete, so when the time came he headed off to a state college. The king’s cup, or the Chalice as Britney insisted on him calling it, stayed in St. Portwell at the request of Sloane Faris. She insisted that if was abandoning the duties, whatever the fuck that meant, then the least he could do was ensure that the Chalice remained with someone who would keep it safe. He obliged and went on to achieve his dreams.

Assuming, that is, if his dreams were to gain a shit ton of weight, develop a drinking problem, drop out of college, and move back to his hometown without a dime to his name or a future ahead of him. Let’s face it, Sully partied too much and worked too little and at the end of the day he just wasn’t good enough to compete on a collegiate level. He was benched and when his grades or his focus on the field didn’t improve he was cut. His dad was able to get him some blue collar work around town, but none of the jobs ever really panned out.

He spiraled into a funk, feeling like a total loser and struggling to find a reason to get out of bed in the morning. His depression was only deepened when his dad passed away. Lung cancer. His dad hadn’t smoked a day in his life. The doctors said it was possibly aggravated by some of the chemicals used on the crabbing vessels. At the time Sully was working on a logging crew. He watched as thousands of trees were chopped down, the same trees that he and his dad would hike through, the same trees that made his dad stop and look in awe, and something inside of Sully snapped.

After the workday ended Sully went home, got his tools, and returned. He dismantled the equipment. When he arrived at work the next day he was frustrated to find out that the logging company had easily fixed his sabotage. His coworkers laughed about how the tree huggers always thought a monkey wrench was enough to get between them and a job. Sully reached out to Sloane, asking if he could have the Chalice back. He was able to toe her line of questioning, promising her that it was for a good purpose. She eventually relented, claiming that she was only holding it for him anyway.

Sully snuck back to work after acquiring the Chalice. Loosened bolts and jammed cogs weren’t enough to stop the logging equipment, but corrosive acid would eat enough through enough of the mechanics to call the thing a total loss. Little did he know he was being watched. As he went back to his truck he was approached by a group of cloaked figures with their faces hidden by masks. The tension eased as Sully chatted with the Greenwood Coven, discovering that they shared a common mindset. He accepted an invitation back to their camp, and by the morning it felt like he had found a potential new team.

Sully was fully ready to give himself completely over to the Greenwood Coven, but they were a little skeptical about accepting new members until they proved himself. They said they would call him the next time they needed help. In a way, Sully found himself once again benched. It was nearly a month after meeting them that Sully got the call, and immediately after he got news that one of his friends had been murdered. Sully bailed on the Greenwood Coven, but he was able to get back in their good graces after explaining the situation and promising them he’d help another time.

When Ashley died, Sully became unreachable as he tried to find the bottom of the Chalice. A voicemail was left by Auri Auclair to no response.

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"Who wants a drink?"

TYPE ⫻ Aberration (Agent)

ABSTRACTION ⫻ The Chalice, an artifact that can produce a never ending amount of any kind of liquid including a healing elixir.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ The Chalice is an artifact that has been around since ancient times, held by kings, messiahs, and so-called god and known by many other names. It somehow became lost, spurring many seekers of its powers to quest for it but never find it. Eventually, the Chalice became little more than a myth, believed to be little more than a flowery metaphor written down by a poet of yore and misinterpreted by the simple masses of days gone by. In reality, the Chalice somehow ended up being discovered by a jock in Oregon.

The Chalice is a large, empty silver goblet that is covered with runic symbols; the inside is stained a brownish red. The Chalice is a normal cup unless it is held by the Cupbearer, who is the only person able to activate its magical properties. A small blood offering is required to become the Cupbearer—about 3 drops in the goblet—and they are able to use the Chalice until another person performs the ritual. The Chalice cannot be damaged by normal means or by the contents summoned by the Cupbearer.

The Cupbearer can fill the Chalice with an endless supply of whatever liquid they want. This can range from mundane uses, like creating water or wine to drink, to dangerous, like calling forth lava or acid and splashing it upon a foe. The most notable liquid the Chalice can produce is an elixir, a magical concoction that can heal recent wounds and restore energy if drank. It’s worth noting that the Chalice is “self-cleaning” in the sense that creating another liquid obliterates whatever of the previous liquid was left in the cup. This also happens when the Cupbearer stops touching the Chalice. Therefore, the Cupbearer cannot accidentally poison others or unintentionally cause chemical reactions.

How much liquid appears is dependent on the wishes of the Cupbearer. Typically, one cupful is what is summoned on each use, but they could continue to call forth more liquid as long as they remain in contact with the Chalice.

LIMITS ⫻The Chalice produces liquid one cup at a time, so while theoretically someone could use it to flood an area it would take an excruciating amount of time. The normal liquid created by the Chalice disappears after a day unless it was consumed by a living creature, so it cannot be used to create stockpiles. Likewise, the healing elixir created by the Chalice becomes benign within a few minutes, so it cannot be used to create potions.

The healing offered by the Chalice is strong but it is not absolute. It is capable of closing any wound and reversing life-threatening injuries, as well as counteracting and eliminating infectious diseases. However, it cannot be used to end curses, it cannot regrow or reattach lost limbs, and it cannot prevent the effects of aging or natural diseases such as cancer or heart disease. As well, the elixir only works if the recipient is capable of drinking it—pouring the elixir on an unconscious person will only result in getting them wet.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ Sully has to live with the knowledge that the Chalice is also a Cum Chalice and a Piss Chalice. Sully possesses no special resistances to what he summons so he can easily injure himself by summoning lava and acid.

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"Why do I let myself be held back?"

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Blizz Could you give me an idea of how strong these shadow constructs are?

He does kinda seem like a single color-Lux user tho since he can easily open portals to one of the hardest places to reach, teleport easily, and shape shadows within a hundred feet of him. lol

[Blizz]

You told me the shaping shadows stuff was a whole different Lux from purple so I was going with that assumption lmao

the shadow construction stuff tho, I'd say that's about as strong as something like the floorboards in someone's house. You could swing a hammer at them and you might not punch a hole through them but a gun would shoot right through.

@Blizz Could you give me an idea of how strong these shadow constructs are?

He does kinda seem like a single color-Lux user tho since he can easily open portals to one of the hardest places to reach, teleport easily, and shape shadows within a hundred feet of him. lol

@Punished GN

[Mixtape Ghost N]

You told me the shaping shadows stuff was a whole different Lux from purple so I was going with that assumption lmao

the shadow construction stuff tho, I'd say that's about as strong as something like the floorboards in someone's house. You could swing a hammer at them and you might not punch a hole through them but a gun would shoot right through.

@Blizz

I mean, the shadow stuff is fine (just add that to the sheet). Just that I want the Purple stuff nerfed a little bit.

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@Atrophy Accepted. You did it again. Another gold standard character, everyone, very unique abstraction.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ Sully has to live with the knowledge that the Chalice is also a Cum Chalice and a Piss Chalice. Sully possesses no special resistances to what he summons so he can easily injure himself by summoning lava and acid.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Blizz His edge gave me cancer. Accepted.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ The Void is easily the most dangerous element that is known, home to unimaginable horrors and God-like Eldritch abominations. Opening a door there can end badly if he uses it willy-nilly, and something can come through - or quickly kill him if they will it. Umbramancy is countered by light-based magic or magic that generates light, which means Photomancy hard-counters his Umbramancy, and the constructs are far easier to destroy with magic. The Gloomy Step does not indicate what is on the other side and can leave him in a sticky situation if he does it willy-nilly. Light-based magic can, again, render him unable to teleport altogether, if he's being exposed to it.

Also, people will make fun of him for how edgy he is.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Alright, here are the relationships for Drake and Britney! I took a few liberties here and there but I'm willing to make some edits if someone has an issue.

Drake's Relationships

Britney.Williams
"The ends do not justify the means because they're shaped and defined by them." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Drake and Britney did not do much interacting during the battle with the Stygian Snake. That mainly was left up to his older sister Victoria; however, once it came out just what Britney was doing to people to rope them into the fight... Drake's opinion of her took a nose dive, and she was one of the main reasons he left the old Coven. Since then, Drake has not heard from Britney as the other Blackmores also cut Britney off.
Alizée.Altieri
"Just because we have magic, does not mean we can go around bullying people." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Drake and Alizée were incredibly close during the fight against the Stygian Snake, with Alizée being an honorary member of the "Blackmore Party." The two fought valiantly, and Drake saw Alizée as his little sister, which hurt when Drake and the others discovered that Alizée was going out at night and hurting people. During his brief time in the old Coven, Drake gave Alizée nothing but the cold shoulder, and the fact she wasn't kicked out was one of the other reasons why Drake left. He had no idea Alizée and Ashley fought, or she was kicked out. Since then, Drake has been hoping to run into her while doing his vigilante work and put an end to her.
Eksa.Thresh
"Surprised she came." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Drake and Eksa did not interact a whole lot in the old Coven. To Drake, Eksa was just another person under that Sycamore Tree. However, during the final battle against the Stygian Snake, Drake was the one who pulled Eksa out of that burning building and gave Jade a chance to save her. Afterward, Eksa ghosted the entire Coven, and Drake didn't blame her - the old Coven was a shitshow.
Linqian.Han
"Firecracker hated Victoria. And I hated Jinhai." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Drake and Linqian got along reasonably well, with their firey personalities and abstractions synergizing well. However, it was ironic given that Drake despised her older brother, and Linqian despised his older sister. Despite that, the two kept in touch, and Drake was saddened to hear that she also lost someone to Father Wolf.
Luca.Oliviera
"He's still dealing with that Apparition?" _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Drake and Luca didn't have much of a relationship of note. Luca joined the Coven towards the end of the battle with the Stygian Snake, and Drake left shortly after. However, he was one of Britney's victims, and thus, Drake feels some guilt for not pushing for the Coven to help him. He is saddened to hear that, even after ten years, Luca still has the Apparition adjoined to him. Drake will stop at nothing until Luca gets help.
Sloane.Faris
"I miss the hours Jade used to spend on the phone with her talking about nothing..." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Drake and Sloane have a bit of an odd relationship. Given Sloane's attitude, she would be just another member of the old Coven Drake would have hated. However, the two have a professional partnership, given that Sloane and Drake have a similar mindset of protecting St. Portwell from supernatural forces. has been marking dangerous Paranormals for Drake to defeat, and Jade saved Sloane's life after she distracted the Stygian Snake. The two have been ridiculously close until Jade's death.
Tayla.Choi
"She looks different. I don't know how she will back up her big words." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Drake and Tayla didn't exactly get along too well, given that she was one of the most scathing critics of Drake's reckless stunts. Drake didn't care; he thought she was nothing but a square... but he felt sorry for her once her boyfriend, James, was killed distracting the Stygian Snake. Afterward, she disappeared, but Drake heard that she had fallen into hard drugs. There's that fleeting thought to try and patch things up with Tayla.
Finn.Reid
"Abominable or not, he's one of us." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Drake and Finn's relationship has been mixed... Drake was one of the frontline members, alongside the other Blackmores, who would openly defend Finn whenever the others picked on him. To the point where Drake threw hands with some of the other members and chided their brave leaders, Ashley and Daisy, in front of the entire Coven. However, Finn didn't keep a secret that he thought Drake was reckless, and Drake justified it by saying he was braver than others. However, after the Coven, he lost touch with Finn but is excited to see him again.
"Edict".Devola
"More things change, the more they stay the same..." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	For starters, Drake refuses to call him Edict. In the old Coven, Drake, and Greyson did not like each other. The two were the classic example of when egos collide, which has led to them being openly antagonistic towards each other. The old Coven probably vividly remembers that they got into a fistfight with each other that was cheered on by some before it was broken up. Drake was probably the most openly antagonistic towards Greyson and called to have him removed due to his shady roots. After the Stygian Snake was defeated, Drake only heard secondhand about Greyson from Victoria and the others. He is thrilled to have to deal with Greyson again.
Kali.Mahendra
"Of all the people to come back...." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Drake's feelings about Kali were probably a highlight of his recklessness and "shoot first, ask questions later" philosophy. From the start, Drake was heavily suspicious of Kali from a mixture of watching too many movies, and, honestly, the guy was a bit shady. In Drake's eyes, Kali was that sleeper agent that the Stygian Snake planted in the Coven to betray the group in their darkest hour. Drake kept on top of Kali whenever possible and took jabs at the guy - which Kali held his own, taking jabs at Drake whenever possible. However, Drake was the first to admit that the guy could fight... but after the battle with the Stygian Snake, Drake noted that there was something different about the guy. He disappeared, and Drake thought that someone else took him out.
Simone.Le.Fay
"She aged well." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Drake and Simone didn't precisely interact much other than fighting alongside each other a few times. Drake always found her hot but didn't act on it because he was more concerned with the Stygian Snake.
Jack.Hawthorne
"Last I heard, he was on his adventure." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Drake and Jack did not like each other... with Drake finding his edgy shtick to be utterly intolerable. Drake made fun of Jack (but was not hostile towards him) whenever he could. Making fun of Jack was a coping mechanism for Drake being around someone edgy. However, Drake can't help but respect how Jack went out and toured the All-Verse.
"Sully".McPherson
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Britney's Relationships

Drake.Blackmore
"He had a lot of growing to do." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Britney and Drake did not interact much, as Britney primarily dealt with the older members of the old Coven, such as his sister and the leadership. However, Britney demanded that the Coven keep an eye on Drake to ensure he didn't do anything stupid again... and lo and behold, the day of the eclipse, he got emotional and tried to fight the Stygian Snake by himself. However, it was very scathing when the shoe was on the other foot, and regretted how dismissive she acted towards Drake.
Alizée.Altieri
"The Coven should have helped her, not pushed her away." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Britney and Alizée initially did not interact much during the battle with the Stygian Snake. However, that changed after the dust had settled and the many sins the group committed in the shadows came to light. Britney, out of guilt for her actions and a desire to take some heat off herself, defended Alizée whenever she could. She stopped the other members from picking on her, pushing the leadership to help Alizée. There was a suspicion that the Void Light had abscised Alizée, pushing her to night stalk. When Alizée had her climactic fight with Ashley, Britney was the one who tried to convince Ashley not to kick Alizée out, but when that failed, the two kept in touch. They became very close friends, and Alizée occasionally gets an invitation to any fashion show that Britney is a part of.
Eksa.Thresh
"I'm glad she's still alive." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Britney did not have much interaction with Eksa, but the two shared similar philosophies, so they got along well. However, Britney felt bad for Eksa when she was nearly killed by the Stygian Snake and wished she could have done more to help. However, Eksa returned to Scotland and ghosted the Coven, so she likely has little idea about what Britney did.
Linqian.Han
"The firecracker hasn't changed much." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Again, Britney didn't deal with Linqian much, as the latter was more of a footsoldier and the former was an advisor. However, Britney had worked closer with her older brother, Jinhai, and thought highly of the guy - despite his refusal to fight on the frontlines against the Snake. Other than that, Britney doesn't feel one way or the other about Linqian.
Luca.Oliviera
"One of my greatest mistakes..." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Britney was the catalyst to ruining Luca's life... as he was one of the victims that she forced an Apparition, known as The Rot, to adjoin to. At the time, Britney was only thinking about defeating the Stygian Snake, which would have killed all of them if not stopped. After it was stopped, Britney was forced to come clean and admitted to adjoining The Rot to Luca to have more footsoldiers in the fight against the Stygian Snake. Since then, the relationship has not been good, and Britney did everything she could to help Luca... which ended with Britney getting kicked out. Britney tried to reach out but was blocked on everything so she could only move on and hope that Luca found help.
Sloane.Faris
"My biggest critic..." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Initally, the two got along well and were considered to be friends, given that they had similar philosophies for dealing with magic. Sloane was essential for defeating the Stygian Snake by distracting it, allowing Ashley to get the killing blow on it and seal it away. However, after the reveal that Britney was responsible for adjoining Luca and Emily and cursing Vashti, their relationship became nosedive. Despite her best attempts, Sloane was not having it and was openly voting to remove Britney from the Coven - which came true one day.
Tayla.Choi
"I'm glad she's still around." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Britney and Tayla honestly didn't interact at all during their time in the old Coven. Britney watched as James was killed by the Stygian Snake and tried to comfort Tayla. However, Tayla didn't want any of it and disappeared, and Britney respected her wishes and did not reach out.
Finn.Reid
"Finn needs to realize that, Abominable or not, he's more human than most humans I've met." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	While not as fevered about it as Drake, Britney also protected Finn from getting mocked by the other members of the Coven. It reached a point where Britney would not help find any new artifacts unless Ashley apologized to him. Though he got distant from Britney after the reveal, Britney did not attempt to fix things before he left the Coven.
"Edict".Devola
"I pegged him with a cactus once." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Britney and Edict have a... complicated past. During the war against the Stygian Snake, their relationship was kept strictly professional, and Britney could not fault how he got them funding. However, things took a turn after the Stygian Snake's defeat, as he was the only member to take her side during the thing. Britney appreciated him for it, and this appreciation transformed into affection. She kept in contact with him after he was booted from the Coven, and after she was voted out, Britney and Greyson formed a relationship. Britney was happy for a time, but the red flags started popping up, and Britney realized that she was being manipulated and used for her Floramancy. It ended with a nasty breakup, and the encounter hurt Britney.
Kali.Mahendra
"He's an oddity among oddities!" _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	To say the least, Kali was very fascinating to Britney, and his strange ways prompted her to keep his eyes on him. The reason for this? A genuine interest in the guy, and to ensure that he was not abscised that he was trying to spy on the Coven. Britney was friendly towards him and got kindness in return - which Britney loved. However, some... things unnerved her about him and forced her to pull back. During the battle with the Stygian Snake, Kali came out strange, and Britney noted something off about him. Before she could get to the bottom of it, Kali vanished like many other members after the Stygian Snake was defeated.
Simone.Le.Fay
"I can't blame her for how she feels." _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Britney and Simone were friends in the old Coven, and the two were amicable towards each other. Britney couldn't help but admit that she found Simone attractive and would like to explore something; however, after the Stygian Snake was defeated, Britney noticed that her entire demeanor towards her had changed completely. Britney had no choice but to pull back and the two have been distant towards each other since then.
Jack.Hawthorne
"... Did he fucking enter the Void?" _______________________________________________ ...................................................................	Britney and Jack worked together a lot in the old Coven, and she was sort of a "magical mentor" towards Jack. Whenever there was a lull in activity, Jack came to Britney to learn about what she knew about the secret world of magic. To say the least, Britney LOVED this and would infodump Jack about magic for hours, and she was the one that told him about the greater All-Verse, the Pit, and the Void. She was there when he left on his adventure... however, since she didn't hear back from him, she assumed he was killed.
"Sully".McPherson
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