deathclawow

Dawn of a New Age - The Return of Magic

Feeling the eyes of the woman upon him Jon began to look quickly for a distraction. The modern age being rife with the allure of electronic screens he quickly found his inspiration. Focusing quickly and clearly Jon plants within her mind the sensation of her phone buzzing and receiving several messages from her mother. These were a black letter of sorts, telling her and convincing her of the death of a family member.
The goal of his mental attack was to disrupt her composure enough so she would forgot the strange feeling of an almost memory. Following his distraction he redoubled his effort to remain forgotten, focusing intently on the concept of nothing and memories long since forgotten.

@Letter Bee

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While the agents were distracted, Jon begins to meld with the scenery becoming hard to distinguish from the scenery, and yet harder to remember.
"We need to see where they're taking ascot I'll take the rear, and keep an eye out for anyone following us." an ethereal whisper appearing in the ear of O'ryan.
From his camouflaged state he climbs up upon the rooftop and begins scanning around looking for suspicious persons. His hand tapping on the matte black of pistol holstered beneath his duster.

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@Letter Bee
Are we allowed to pick out our new spells now that Morgana and Mitsuki have been dealt with?

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I posted, I hope this clears up the Morgana issue.

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Jon Bethlehem approaches and raps on the crystalline structure encasing Morgana and jokingly says in a terrible french accent
"Room Service for Mademoiselle Morgana."
Seeing obviously that she cannot be roused by simple request he changes tactics, shifting the tone of his voice into a melodic and undulating tone. It feels to those around him as if a gentle finger strokes the many intricate folds of their brains and a sense of calm washes over the hearts of his magi spectators and target.
"Morgana you need to come out, we're all waiting for you. All of your friends are here, and they believe in you."
He motions to his fellow mages and causes a few illusory figures to flicker in the mind of Morgana.
"We're all counting on you, because you're one of the most important members of the team, without you we're hopeless."
Turning to the rest of the group he says in hushed tones
"Alright maybe she'll be getting out of bed very shortly." glancing over at the limp form of Mitsuki he remarks
"What's the deal with her? Anyways I'm glad I didn't have to deal with her, she seems a bit incorrigible to say the least."

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I'm still here

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As the Crowd disperses a sole person stays staring. Jon's faded overcoat hangs loosely off his wiry frame, as his shades reflect the hot sun, he lowers his glasses and looks over at the congregation of mages dissappointedly.
"Come on now, you can be subtler than that I hope, and that excuse was pathetic, here's how you do it!" Jon's hands glow as he moves them back and forth in a hypnotic manner manifesting a multitude of road barriers and traffic cones blocking the street off from traffic. He then closes his eyes tightly and snaps his fingers causing a thin wispy essence to emit from his fingers, and wrapping around the heads of the witnesses.
"That should do it, now they shouldn't remember any of this exchange, and think of this area as under-construction for the next week." he loudly sighs and says "If you guys keep being so blatant about your magic use you're gonna all get captured within a month, anyways My names Jon Bethlehem, and I've been expecting more mages to show up here, but I didn't expect such a grand entrance."
Jon offers his hand to Alexander then seeing his missing arm retracts his hand, and offers his other one.

@Letter Bee

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A man in dusty overcoat tugs at his collar as if waiting for something big to happen. It was midday and the hot sun beat down on the necks of of the people coming and going in the market. This man furtively watching the people walk past the street side cafe was no ordinary person, no he was a mage, not just any mage, he was Jon Bethlehem, for what it's worth. Behind his aviator shades hid his baggy eyes he was clearly haggard as if he hadn't slept in days, upon closer inspection one could tell he was drenched in sweat, it wasn't just the heat getting to him, but rather a combination of the aforementioned, and stress.

"It just had to be a market didn't it, so many people that could be watching me, heavens forbid after me because of my magic. No, no I've been careful, I've left no paper trail and thoroughly covered my tracks, there's no way they could have found me yet." He muttered to himself. Yet his doubts still remained, was any of this real, or just a delusion, was he paranoid or were people actually out to get him?

The answer quickly proved irrelevant as he began to perceive the heady odor of ozone filling his mouth and nostrils, he quickly rose placing exact change for his half finished tonic, he set off to find the place where his fellow Magi would be shortly arriving. He was determined to be the first member of the welcoming party, and to see if they could be trusted.

@LetterBee

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Name: Jon Bethlehem
Age: 31
Physical Description: standing at 5'10" with hazel eyes, sandy brown hair, with a look of stoic confidence
Important items: Silenced pistol, an aging flip-phone, a cracked locket with faded photo of a woman and small girl seated on her lap, A pair of aviator shades

Short Bio: Not everyone on the run from the government is a youngster, before awakening he was a happy man with a life and loving family. All this changed however when he began seeing images of angels, and before long the ones who once loved him now revile and fear him due to their inability to comprehend what he had become. Rather than let his loved ones remain afraid he elected to have all memories of himself removed from their minds. Every now and then he gazes longingly at the photos within his locket hoping that all of this magic business was just a dream. Running hasn't been easy on him, and has taken its toll mentally leaving him with constant paranoia of being followed.

Skills
-Marksmanship: Before ever going on the run he was an avid pistol shooter, and would spend his weekends at the range honing his skills
-Light footed: Being on the run for so long he's learned to keep a low profile and can move practically noiselessly and has no trouble dissolving into a crowd.

Flaws
-Paranoid: Is constantly looking over his shoulder for a perceived threats, and is quick to perceive false slights
-Cowardly: avoids fighting where possible favoring manipulation or stealth instead
Spell List

-Mirror Image (mind magic)- creates an illusory clone of himself that acts completely normal, and is difficult for most mages to detect

-Delusions (mind magic)- creates deeply personal and disturbing images within the mind of its target leading to a feeling of abject terror, inhibiting spell casting abilities

-Memory manipulation (mind magic)- excels at creating or deleting memories of his target and replacing them with something that helps him escape detection

-Paralysis bolt (mind magic)- a slow moving bolt when contacted causes the target to immediately freeze in place unable to move, automatic functions like breathing continue working spells that would require spoken or somatic components don't function. Resistance is based on the extent/power of the spell, one merely causing lethargy/ slight impairment of movement being harder to resist than total paralysis which is fairly easy to resist by itself

-Mind sear (mind magic)- A bolt of pure pain that causes psychic damage to those it hits, psychic damage can be lethal, (can cause comas) but it fades over time leaving no lasting impact aside from noticeable twitchyness.

-Illusions (mind magic)- can create convincing illusions affecting all of the senses, though as the more senses affected increase the overall level of detail decreases, thus a less convincing illusion is made

-Blend in (mind magic)- His appearance begins to distort as he becomes almost impossible to perceive, looking away causes those who were looking to be erased from short term memory, but remain in long term.

-Open Book (mind magic)- He gazes at a target intensely for a few seconds and gains the ability to look through their mind like the pages of a book reading both their conscious and subconscious thoughts this also allows him to more discreetly alter and shape the perceptions of the target due to this remote link.
Cantrips

-Quicksilver tongue (mind magic): The characteristics of his voice change to the mental preference of the individual hearing it, it can oftentimes convince non-mages and manipulate their actions, this can affect mages to much lesser extent merely altering his voice to a soothing pitch

-Silent whisper (mind magic): can send quiet message through telepathy to a single mage within line of sight.

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@Eklipse Thank you for reformatting my sheet. I also reworded the paralysis spell to more accurately reflect what I had in mind, changing it to paralysis bolt. It's also my first time doing a forum play by post so help is appreciated.

@LetMeDoStuff I talked with LetterBee over discord

Check the original post for the updated character info