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what the fellhuck with the title and theme changes

2086 - A Cyberpunk RP

Oh my God!

Joseph Joestar

Hard Nights, Dark Streets

The Violet Lady

Name
紫娘 (Zǐniáng, or "Sinning" for those with inflexible tongues)

Look
Asian Female with Fancy Clothing

Demeanor
Ominous

Current Stats
Blood: -1
Heart: 1
Mind: 1
Spirit: 1

Current Factions
Mortality: 1
Night: 0
Power: 1
Wild: 0

Who are you?
I am an inheritor of the ancient art of magic that has been practiced by my ancestors since the time immemorial. The ancient family whence I also descended consists of magic practitioners with long lineage. The true name of my clan is hidden in mystery.

How long have you been in the city?
For myself, I have been living in this city since I was born. However, my family had taught me not to forget the homeland whence they were banished centuries ago. I am still familiar with the tradition we've been upholding until now, and the language we use internally to keep our secrets remain hidden.

What keeps you up at night?
Clients, like the hunters or normies who are aware with the supernaturals; sometimes they need my spell to look for missing stuffs, or things which are more active at night, you know what I mean.

What have you sacrificed for your power?
I got my internal organs involuntarily rearranged and some are even missing, taken as the cost for a certain forbidden spell I cast long ago. I stopped bleeding every month so I guess my childbearing privilege as a woman was taken too. I'd suggest anyone would give me some space whenever I channel my magic, you don't want to see blood flooding out of my mouth whenever I'm out of luck.

What do you desperately need?
Immortality, as I have to preserve the heritage of my clan while also not being able to provide any heir to pass this arcane knowledge upon them. If that's not possible, maybe some way to restore my internal organ, especially my womb, I want to bear my children.

Gear
* A nice apartment (with a partitioning for reception of clients), a crappy car (an old VW Beetle), a decent cell phone
* A mystical focus (Dress of Peony) and sanctum (The Library)
* A jian-type sword, said to be forged by Ou Yezi himself (3-harm hand messy)

Sanctum
Zhūzǐ Bǎijiā Library / Library of the Hundreds / The Library
Features
+a testing ground
+a library of old tomes
+a focus circle
+an apothecary
Downsides
-it contains many volatile substances
-it attracts otherworldly attention

Focus
Dress of Peony.
Without it, take -1 to Channeling.
Focus Benefit:
-Gain 1 additional hold when using Channeling

Beginning Spells
[v] Tracking: Spend 1 hold to learn the location of someone. You must have a personal object that belongs to the target or recent leavings of their body (a lock of hair, fingernail clippings, their blood, etc.).
[v] Elementalism: You conjure the elements to strike out at your enemies. Spend 1 hold to use unleash an attack with your magic as a weapon (3-harm close or 2-harm close area).
[v] Memory Wipe: Spend 1 hold to cause a helpless target to forget some of their short-term memories, up to an entire hour’s worth. You can spend an additional hold and mark corruption to put alternate memories in their place.

Technical Stuffs, copied from the book

Base Stats
Blood: -1
Heart: 0
Mind: 1
Spirit: 1

Starting Factions
Mortality: 1
Night: -1
Power: 1
Wild: 0

Sanctum
Choose and underline 4 features of your sanctum:
an extremely knowledgeable assistant, a testing ground, magical booby traps, a library of old tomes, a scattering of ancient relics, a mystical prison, magical wards, a portal to another dimension, a focus circle, an apothecary.

Choose and underline 2 downsides of your sanctum:
it attracts otherworldly attention, it contains many volatile substances, its location is known by many, it always lacks a key piece or ingredient, it’s tough for you to access.

When you go into your sanctum to work on something, the MC tells you what it will take to complete your task, as if your sanctum was a mystical workspace.

Focus
You have a mystical focus item that helps you channel your magics. Without it, take -1 to Channeling.
Choose a benefit your Focus grants you:
[] Inflict +1 harm with your magics
[] Gain armor+1 while you have hold from Channeling
[] Gain 1 additional hold when using Channeling

Wizard Moves
You get these two and your spells:

* Channeling: When you channel and collect your magics, roll with Spirit. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9, hold 3 and choose 1 from the list below. On a miss, hold 1, but you cannot channel again this scene.
- Take -1 ongoing until you rest
- Suffer 1-harm (ap)
- Mark corruption
Your hold lasts until you spend it. You can spend it to cast any spell you have as per the spell’s details.

* Sanctum Sanctorum: When you go to your sanctum for a spell ingredient, relic, or tome, roll with Spirit. On a 10+, you’ve got pretty much just the thing. On a 7-9, you’ve got something close, but it’s flawed or lacking in some significant way. On a miss, you don’t have what you’re looking for, but you know someone who probably has it in stock.

Spells (Choose 3)
[] Tracking: Spend 1 hold to learn the location of someone. You must have a personal object that belongs to the target or recent leavings of their body (a lock of hair, fingernail clippings, their blood, etc.).
[] Elementalism: You conjure the elements to strike out at your enemies. Spend 1 hold to use unleash an attack with your magic as a weapon (3-harm close or 2-harm close area).
[] Memory Wipe: Spend 1 hold to cause a helpless target to forget some of their short-term memories, up to an entire hour’s worth. You can spend an additional hold and mark corruption to put alternate memories in their place.
[] Shielding: Spend 1 hold to provide armor+1 to yourself or someone nearby, or spend 2 holds to provide armor+1 to everyone in a small area, possibly including yourself. This armor lasts until the end of the scene. You can stack multiple uses of Shielding at once.
[] Veil: Spend 1 hold to make yourself invisible from sight for a few moments.
[] Teleport: Spend 1 hold to teleport yourself a short distance within a scene you’re in.
[] Hex: Spend 1 hold to inflict 1-harm (ap) on someone from any distance. You must have a sample of their hair, blood, or saliva to do so

Drama Moves
-Wizard Corruption Move
When you strike a deal with someone dark and powerful, mark corruption.
-Intimacy Move
When you share a moment of intimacy—physical or emotional—with another person, decide whether you care about them or not. If you don’t, they go about their business as normal. If you do, they take -1 ongoing to escape until they get some intimacy somewhere else.
-End Move
When you die, you may place a devastating curse on someone nearby. Specify the effects of the curse and how they may end it.

Standard Advances
Advances available at beginning of play:
[] +1 Heart (max +3)
[] +1 Mind (max +3)
[] +1 Spirit (max +3)
[] Add 2 features to your sanctum
[] Take 3 more spells
[] A move from another Archetype
[] A move from another Archetype
[] Change your Faction

After 5 advances you may select:
[] +1 to any stat (max +3)
[] +1 any Faction (max +3)
[] Erase a scar
[] Remove a downside from your sanctum
[] Add a benefit to your focus
[] Advance 3 basic moves
[] Advance 3 basic moves
[] Retire your character to safety
[] Change to a new Archetype

Corruption Advances
[] Take a corruption move
[] Take a corruption move
[] Take a corruption move
[] Take a corruption move from another Archetype
[] Retire your character. They may return as a Threat

Corruption Moves
[] The Dark Arts: When you unleash an attack with magic or psychic energies, mark corruption to roll with Spirit instead of Blood for the rest of the scene.
[] Upon a Pale Horse: Mark corruption and speak the true name of an NPC in the scene to inflict 3-harm (ap) on them.
[] Black Magic: Mark corruption to ignore a requirement set by the MC when using your sanctum.
[] Warding: Mark corruption to create a magical ward the size of a small room. The ward lasts for a month and a day or until you release it.

Debts, to be detailed later

Debts
* Someone is helping Ziniang keep her demons at bay. She owes them a Debt.
* Someone is Ziniang's go-to when she gets into trouble. She owes them 2 Debts.
* Ziniang is helping someone keep a dangerous secret. They owe her a Debt.

2086 - A Cyberpunk RP

@Dark Cloud
Here, some thought of my character might have should she notice about yours

[Pseudo-IC: Suzy Chen]
Suzy looked at a profile just given to her by the fixer med-tech, Gecko.
"Looks dangerous, this Sanguinis... I could never risk myself to get involved with him, where did you get the intel for this... assassin?"
"Lawmen's archive, a netrunner helped me to access the database; also a tech-fellow noticed some backdoor purchase in some certain cybernetics combination to a certain address, fitting only for either a contract assassin, or a murderer."
"Is it likely that this person would work under someone?"
"For a right price, maybe."
"That's what I have to take into equation, he's going to be a formidable foe, should he choose to cooperate with the Conglomerate."
"You still have grudge against them?"
"Why do you think I'm still holding onto my life despite having these things inside my stomach? Beside, it's not a grudge, it's about..."
"Nah, nah, we can talk about ethics later, don't let me waste your time, you're here for some maintenance on those things inside your stomach."
"Of course."
[/Pseudo-IC]

Hard Nights, Dark Streets

@rush99999 right, I forgot that; edited with an increase for Heart and Night faction

@Dark Cloud Bruh, that could trigger a corruption for my character, tho idk if it happens before the game starts

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Suddenly got summoned into existence after being declared to be nonexistent. Confused why she wore her fancy dress for dancing with a lute beside her. Kitra thought the voice in the void to be lacking in grammatical regularity in its utterance. Even so, that seemed to be intended for poetic expression.

Children of mankind, struggle
We Watch
Do not run, we will find you
We Watch
Do not hide, we will catch you
We Watch
Nothing will save you
We Watch

Survive, die
Accept death, children
Don't run
Accept your fate, children
Lies, sweet deceptions
Take comfort, children

Kitra arranged some twisted composition to sing those words; the melody, the bassline, the chords, and the rhythms. She then played that song inside the void.

"Metal!"

Hard Nights, Dark Streets

Name
紫娘 (Zǐniáng, or "Sinning" for those with inflexible tongues)

Look
Asian Female with Fancy Clothing

Demeanor
Ominous

Current Stats
Blood: -1
Heart: 1
Mind: 1
Spirit: 1

Current Factions
Mortality: 1
Night: 0
Power: 1
Wild: 0

Who are you?
I am an inheritor of the ancient art of magic that has been practiced by my ancestors since the time immemorial. The ancient family whence I also descended consists of magic practitioners with long lineage. The true name of my clan is hidden in mystery.

How long have you been in the city?
For myself, I have been living in this city since I was born. However, my family had taught me not to forget the homeland whence they were banished centuries ago. I am still familiar with the tradition we've been upholding until now, and the language we use internally to keep our secrets remain hidden.

What keeps you up at night?
Clients, like the hunters or normies who are aware with the supernaturals; sometimes they need my spell to look for missing stuffs, or things which are more active at night, you know what I mean.

What have you sacrificed for your power?
I got my internal organs involuntarily rearranged and some are even missing, taken as the cost for a certain forbidden spell I cast long ago. I stopped bleeding every month so I guess my childbearing privilege as a woman was taken too. I'd suggest anyone would give me some space whenever I channel my magic, you don't want to see blood flooding out of my mouth whenever I'm out of luck.

What do you desperately need?
Immortality, as I have to preserve the heritage of my clan while also not being able to provide any heir to pass this arcane knowledge upon them. If that's not possible, maybe some way to restore my internal organ, especially my womb, I want to bear my children.

Gear
* A nice apartment (with a partitioning for reception of clients), a crappy car (an old VW Beetle), a decent cell phone
* A mystical focus (Dress of Peony) and sanctum (The Library)
* A jian-type sword, said to be forged by Ou Yezi himself (3-harm hand messy)

Sanctum
Zhūzǐ Bǎijiā Library / Library of the Hundreds / The Library
Features
+a testing ground
+a library of old tomes
+a focus circle
+an apothecary
Downsides
-it contains many volatile substances
-it attracts otherworldly attention

Focus
Dress of Peony.
Without it, take -1 to Channeling.
Focus Benefit:
-Gain 1 additional hold when using Channeling

Beginning Spells
[v] Tracking: Spend 1 hold to learn the location of someone. You must have a personal object that belongs to the target or recent leavings of their body (a lock of hair, fingernail clippings, their blood, etc.).
[v] Elementalism: You conjure the elements to strike out at your enemies. Spend 1 hold to use unleash an attack with your magic as a weapon (3-harm close or 2-harm close area).
[v] Shielding: Spend 1 hold to provide armor+1 to yourself or someone nearby, or spend 2 holds to provide armor+1 to everyone in a small area, possibly including yourself. This armor lasts until the end of the scene. You can stack multiple uses of Shielding at once.

Technical Stuffs, copied from the book

Base Stats
Blood: -1
Heart: 0
Mind: 1
Spirit: 1

Starting Factions
Mortality: 1
Night: -1
Power: 1
Wild: 0

Sanctum
Choose and underline 4 features of your sanctum:
an extremely knowledgeable assistant, a testing ground, magical booby traps, a library of old tomes, a scattering of ancient relics, a mystical prison, magical wards, a portal to another dimension, a focus circle, an apothecary.

Choose and underline 2 downsides of your sanctum:
it attracts otherworldly attention, it contains many volatile substances, its location is known by many, it always lacks a key piece or ingredient, it’s tough for you to access.

When you go into your sanctum to work on something, the MC tells you what it will take to complete your task, as if your sanctum was a mystical workspace.

Focus
You have a mystical focus item that helps you channel your magics. Without it, take -1 to Channeling.
Choose a benefit your Focus grants you:
[] Inflict +1 harm with your magics
[] Gain armor+1 while you have hold from Channeling
[] Gain 1 additional hold when using Channeling

Wizard Moves
You get these two and your spells:

* Channeling: When you channel and collect your magics, roll with Spirit. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9, hold 3 and choose 1 from the list below. On a miss, hold 1, but you cannot channel again this scene.
- Take -1 ongoing until you rest
- Suffer 1-harm (ap)
- Mark corruption
Your hold lasts until you spend it. You can spend it to cast any spell you have as per the spell’s details.

* Sanctum Sanctorum: When you go to your sanctum for a spell ingredient, relic, or tome, roll with Spirit. On a 10+, you’ve got pretty much just the thing. On a 7-9, you’ve got something close, but it’s flawed or lacking in some significant way. On a miss, you don’t have what you’re looking for, but you know someone who probably has it in stock.

Spells (Choose 3)
[] Tracking: Spend 1 hold to learn the location of someone. You must have a personal object that belongs to the target or recent leavings of their body (a lock of hair, fingernail clippings, their blood, etc.).
[] Elementalism: You conjure the elements to strike out at your enemies. Spend 1 hold to use unleash an attack with your magic as a weapon (3-harm close or 2-harm close area).
[] Memory Wipe: Spend 1 hold to cause a helpless target to forget some of their short-term memories, up to an entire hour’s worth. You can spend an additional hold and mark corruption to put alternate memories in their place.
[] Shielding: Spend 1 hold to provide armor+1 to yourself or someone nearby, or spend 2 holds to provide armor+1 to everyone in a small area, possibly including yourself. This armor lasts until the end of the scene. You can stack multiple uses of Shielding at once.
[] Veil: Spend 1 hold to make yourself invisible from sight for a few moments.
[] Teleport: Spend 1 hold to teleport yourself a short distance within a scene you’re in.
[] Hex: Spend 1 hold to inflict 1-harm (ap) on someone from any distance. You must have a sample of their hair, blood, or saliva to do so

Drama Moves
-Wizard Corruption Move
When you strike a deal with someone dark and powerful, mark corruption.
-Intimacy Move
When you share a moment of intimacy—physical or emotional—with another person, decide whether you care about them or not. If you don’t, they go about their business as normal. If you do, they take -1 ongoing to escape until they get some intimacy somewhere else.
-End Move
When you die, you may place a devastating curse on someone nearby. Specify the effects of the curse and how they may end it.

Standard Advances
Advances available at beginning of play:
[] +1 Heart (max +3)
[] +1 Mind (max +3)
[] +1 Spirit (max +3)
[] Add 2 features to your sanctum
[] Take 3 more spells
[] A move from another Archetype
[] A move from another Archetype
[] Change your Faction

After 5 advances you may select:
[] +1 to any stat (max +3)
[] +1 any Faction (max +3)
[] Erase a scar
[] Remove a downside from your sanctum
[] Add a benefit to your focus
[] Advance 3 basic moves
[] Advance 3 basic moves
[] Retire your character to safety
[] Change to a new Archetype

Corruption Advances
[] Take a corruption move
[] Take a corruption move
[] Take a corruption move
[] Take a corruption move from another Archetype
[] Retire your character. They may return as a Threat

Corruption Moves
[] The Dark Arts: When you unleash an attack with magic or psychic energies, mark corruption to roll with Spirit instead of Blood for the rest of the scene.
[] Upon a Pale Horse: Mark corruption and speak the true name of an NPC in the scene to inflict 3-harm (ap) on them.
[] Black Magic: Mark corruption to ignore a requirement set by the MC when using your sanctum.
[] Warding: Mark corruption to create a magical ward the size of a small room. The ward lasts for a month and a day or until you release it.

Debts, to be detailed later

Debts
* Someone is helping Ziniang keep her demons at bay. She owes them a Debt.
* Someone is Ziniang's go-to when she gets into trouble. She owes them 2 Debts.
* Ziniang is helping someone keep a dangerous secret. They owe her a Debt.

2086 - A Cyberpunk RP

lol, I should always remind any gms and co-players that I live in UTC+7 region, y'all's "weekend morning" is my "I should have prepared for the next monday already"

and your saturday night is "this is sunday morning already, what takes you so long for posts?"

no pressure tho

Hard Nights, Dark Streets

looks like the wizard archetype is vacant, I'll take it

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wtf with the thread title