Sit back and listen to the Word, help with the wards if we can.

>>23484324
listen to the man sing, try and follow along

Take him up on his offer and listen.

>>23484324
try and get a feel for the language

>>23484335
Agreed. This sounds like an excellent opportunity to learn More Alchemy

"Of course," you say. You've been wanting to hear more of the Word since you heard him singing yesterday. You decide to help him with the wards as he starts a long, lyrical chant. It's phrased in question-answer lines - you get the feeling that it's normally a duet piece. Hearing it makes your insides twist up, like how you felt before your very first date. Your heart beats fast, and you can't help but hang on every word. Selene sits quietly, apparently listening intently.

Roll Alchemy to assist your father with extending the ward lines. I'll consider the first two linked 1d100 rolls.

Rolled 88

>>23484499
Dice

Rolled 73

>>23484499

>>23484508
>>23484521
Nice to know we haven't ruined everything.

>>23484508
>>23484521
At least we're useful

>>23484508
>>23484521
Bless the dicegods

>>23484508
>>23484521
Well damn, nicely done

>XLX
uwotm8

>>23484539
Balls, you're right, I wasn't thinking at all. This is Blatant Fetish Quest L.

>>23484508
>>23484521
>Thread 50
>first two rolls, two successes

The dicegods want this to be special

>>23484584
Stop that, they're just warming us up for a good reaming later.

>>23484584
You jinxed it, now we're going to get 1s for the rest of the thread.

>>23484508
>>23484521
You help your dad out quite well, and he tells you as such as you work. It makes you feel all warm inside to get praised by your dad. You find yourself really enjoying this, working with him on a project as he chants that poem out. Selene toddles off eventually to go explore the ramp and the rooms around it.

"What are you chanting?" you ask him.

"The Paradox of the Self," he says, smiling at you. "It's phrased with questions and answers because of the subject matter. It can't be performed correctly without two people, but in doing so it invalidates individual performance. The mad philosopher-priests would sing one part in a falsetto and the other in tenor or baritone to try to circumvent this. The comments I head on that talked about how they had to split themselves into two parts just to maintain the self - they thought it was still a good expression of the topic."

That all kind of goes over your head a little, but you nod along anyway.

"Was that the whole thing?" you ask.

"No, just the first part. There are twelve more," he answers. "It was an epic."

What do you do now?

>>23484662
we should go find Selen make sure she doesn't get into any trouble

>>23484662
Ask dad if he has any ideas for temporary foci for meditation.We have incense and were thinking about adding some music, but if he has any ideas we'd be glad to here them.

>>23484662

whats day is it?

>>23484662
Get Selene and head back into the tower. I'd see about either working on selene's familiar or finishing the spell (expanding the number of people it targets, removing the need for the hair fetish of the target)

>>23484727
Sunday, somewhere around 3pm

>>23484662
Go check on Selene, make sure she hasn't wandered off anywhere she shouldn't.

If it's a 13 part epic, won't it be a bit long to fit onto us as a tattoo?

>>23484662

check on selene, think on type of ink to use for this epic

>>23484725
Oh right, assuming we have a smartphone download some tracks of chanting useful for meditation.

>>23484662
Ask dad if there's anything he thinks we need to be doing magic wise, go over what focuses we have already, and see if he has any suggestions.

You go look for Selene. At first, you can't find her, and you start to panic a little. You eventually spot her, however, curled up in a corner in one of the rooms and napping contently. You see something surprising, though. The buds on her head have finally bloomed, covering her scalp in blossoms with long, thin petals that are white with just a blush of scarlet as they get close to the center of each bloom. It makes her look almost like she has white hair with red roots, each petal about half the width and twice the length of her little index finger.

What do you do?

>>23484827
Take her to her room.

>>23484827

Get her settled into her room, check up on L&L

>>23484827
Show dad, then >>23484784, then >>23484845

>>23484827
Squee, then gently pick her up and put her in her bed.

>>23484827
Torn between letting her sleep and showing her off.

possibly gently carry her to bed and show her off on the way if we bump into someone.

>>23484827
Pick her up and take her to bed, then ask dad about >>23484784


We really should be asking him more often, we aren't making enough use of our fifth circle personal tutor so far.

>>23484827
snap some pictures then take her to her bed

>>23484827
This is adorable, show dad and maybe Liz if she isn't still busy with breakfast. On the off chance she is busy with breakfast, put Selene to bed and then intervene if appropriate

>>23484878
This. And send it to MOM! Maybe call her quickly to squee when she's out of work

>>23484877
Considering that he's the watcher responsible for teaching illusions and plant cutting to humanity (unless I'm misremembering, happens these days) we should probably focus on practical illusion applications.

>>23484784
Agreed.

>>23484900
>>23484878
Right.

>>23484877
We should ask him to help us study conjuration.

>>23484827

First, Get Selene settled in her room
Second, Take pictures and Squee
Then Study Con with Dad

>>23484933
Oh... right, I didn't understand that he was such a famous person.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samyaza
We should go get the books about him in the library, now that we know he's one of the first and that he might be in a few.

>>23485038

this

You snap a few pictures of her with your phone and send them to your mom before picking her up. You walk back to your dad. "Look, she bloomed!" you tell him in an excited whisper.

"Oh, that's just adorable," he says with a smile. He leans in and gives her head a smell. "They smell like lilac."

"Is there anything I should be focusing on with my magic right now?" you ask your father.

"At the moment, the main thing you need to worry about is staying near the top of your class and any enemies you already have, like Dextra Domini and Nemesis. You shouldn't worry too much about actual rivals until you're in your second or third year at least as long as you stay near the top. The fighting doesn't get bitter at the top until then, for the most part. So, make foci, study, and keep out of the antagonistic societies' crosshairs."

"Okay. Thanks, dad," you say. You take Selene on up and put her to bed.

What do you do now?

>>23485040
But does Max know his real name? As far as I remember we only know him as Dmitri

>>23485124

stats page for max

study conjuration with dad

>>23485124
>make foci,
like ever burning incense would be great
so candles, perfumes,a clock/stop watch,as temp foci

>>23485137
Yes, we do, learning it was part of the blood bond contract. And it's on his sheet.

>>23485040
>there is a tale about Semjâzâ knowing the explicit name of God and making a deal with a human Istahar to tell her the name.
Oh wow, he knows God's True Name. Although God is probably strong enough to resist being commanded by it, being God and all.

>>23485137
We made him tell us his True Name when we did the blood pact thing.

>>23485124
Ask dad for some conjuration lessons. We're kind of lacking in that department.

>>23485144
Correction, study conjuration with Dad and Liz.

>>23485124
Ask him about student lists.
This dextra wannabe we met on the first day here told us his future society had access to student records with names and ancestries.
Can we expect that they already know that who we are ? They don't seem particularily hostile for now. Is it possible that Petrov removed our ancestry from the records ? Or do they just keep their feelings about identified demons under cover until they're ready to strike ?
Is it useful to start masking our aura now ?
How can we avoid attention from those two societies ?

>>23485172
Ah I forgot we knew it. Alright, then it migt be worth looking into his past, though it feels like we should just ask him about it.

>>23485124
Seconding the conjuration practice.

I also a thought about mind wards, would it be possible to set up a secondary ward behind our first one which, rather than keeping people out, acted as a trap, looking like a weak point and sealing anyone who tried to get into our mind inside it, cutting them off from their body. I'm not sure if this would work, because I'm not sure how much of a person's actual 'mind' they have to put into enchantment. Something to ask Dimitry about at least.

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>>23485161
>>23484725
We should get ourself a singing bowl.

>>23485040
I don't think we want to tip anyone outside the house off (maybe not even the Ls, they only know him as Dimitri) to the fact that dad is back in the game, so if we want to learn more about him lets just ask instead of spending god alone knows how long routing through the library...

>>23485124
Go get Lin and Liz to come see our blooming girl.

>>23485209
>>23485232
I thought it would just be fun to compare what's written about him in the books with what he knows himself.

>>23485232
We could just google his name on our phone and see if modern records have anything about in mythology.

You head back down to the basement to see your dad. "Hey, I was wondering if you could help me get some practice in," you request.

"Sure thing, Max. What do you need?" he asks you.

"I was hoping you could help me get in some Conjuration practice," you say.

"Ah. Getting to work on making Selene some kind of familiar to complement that spell you've been designing?" he asks.

What's your response?

>>23485124
Could we study con by conjuring and elemental to use as the base Ron Selene's familiar, or do we already know enough about the process that it doesn't boost our stats?

>>23485337
Got it in one dad.

>>23485337
That, and it'd be nice to be able to teleport safely by myself. It'd save a lot of time and money on airlines, and I wouldn't have to punch out a gypsy for stealing my luggage again.

>>23485337
This, and I want to become able to teleport soonish.

But before that, dad, >>23485186

>>23485364
Seconding this one, because I laughed.

>>23485337
Do light and darkness count as elements (for the purpose of elemental summoning/creation) in this setting FemCOCK?

>>23485337
Sure.
OP, question, Is flight a possible self enchantment?

>>23485337
"Exactly. I'm thinking a cute bat creature that looks like a stuffed animal, with one big eye that can fly around and easily cling to surfaces. I figure we could use them both for Selene's sight and for surveillance outside the tower."

>>23485402
High-level lotuses can levitate, but we don't know exactly how.

>>23485186
We were the result of a summer fling between our parents so it's quite possible mom never entered dads name on any of the records. We should ask if mom is in any danger now that dextra is aware of our existence. (And maybe ask whether there's any truth to the demonic aura detection thing? I'm guessing they can detect spirits and people with spirit hybrid souls)

>>23485385
Well, corrosion apparently did, considering Gaviscon.

>>23485402
You know that Sorcery can be used to fly. Whether or not you can self-enchant with it is unknown.

>>23485441
They told mom we were half-incubus when we were 13, so they must have known at the time.
It might be why we've been selected.

Ask dad how the school selects students.

>>23485502
Good point, I wonder if our doctor was in on our recruitment

>>23485441
Mom knew what he was and said so when they came to offer us the chance to come here.

>"Right. Well, your son registered as female on our scrying spells. People with incubus blood will always have male primary sexual characteristics, but..."

>"What are you saying?"

>"Your son is an incubus-blooded female - or at least we have reason to think he is. As he... develops, you might start noticing female sexual characteristics - a female body with male genitalia, that is."

Thread one, post one.

So the school's records know exactly what we are, though not necessarily who our father is.

>>23485502
>>23485545
It was probably set up by Petrov.

>>23485460
Ok, just trying to figure out if we can get this thing to act as a reading lamp as well as a prosthetic eye for her. And maybe be able to blind (one way or the other) any sight reliant enemies she might face.

>>23485568
We are relatively talented at magic. Not all of Dad's children were, if I remember correctly.

Ask Dad which is more likely - that Petrov made us come here to serve his goals (including releasing Dimitry), or that we were selected for our abilities alone ?

>>23485654
I wouldn't say "relatively," Liz is only passing our skill now because of her SotA classes.

We're probably down at 8th because we hadn't really put anywhere near the effort in honing our mind as we did our body before coming here.

"How does the school select candidates?" you ask.

"Scrying magic. They find people with a talent for magic using incredibly intricate scrying systems. I once used them myself - I broke in to where the systems are set up and jury-rigged a mental assault spell against a rival using them as a targeting system."

"Does the school actually keep a record of my ancestry?"

"Undoubtedly, but a student would have to break in to somewhere, much like I did for the scrying system, in order to access it. What kind of elemental do you want to use as the base for her?"

What's your response?

>>23485750
An air elemental of some kind would probably be a good bet.

>>23485750

Air?

>>23485750
"Air. I'd like it to be able to fly."

>>23485750
"Air. It's going to look like a cute bat which can fly, hopefully."

>>23485778
>>23485779
>>23485781
Airsception

>>23485750
>Undoubtedly, but a student would have to break in to somewhere, much like I did for the scrying system, in order to access it.
Can't information leak ? I assumed a part of the staff were alumni of this school and kept more or less official links with their former societies, and that Dextra didn't have to break in to get the records.

"Air," you say without a moment's second thought. "I want it to be able to fly, and I figure using air has to be helpful, right?"

"Good idea, Max," your dad says. "Okay, go grab some temporary foci - this is pretty tricky for air elementals. Maybe a paper fan or something. I'll be waiting here once you've gotten what you need."

What do you go get?

>>23486033
A feather, if we can find one being underground and all.

>>23486033

paper fan, balloon, a small propeller, bat wings maybe fold a paper plane.

are our pillows stuffed with goose feathers?

>>23486033
A paper fan, a container that we breathe into, and an icecube (You can see your breath when it is cold).

>>23486033
I told you all we needed bat guano.

A paper fan, then. A paper airplane. A paper hot-air balloon.

>>23486033
Maybe a feather out of the mattress or a pillow, a small sealable container (use the air inside it,the resulting vacuum will probably destroy the container), if air governs sound then maybe one of Selene's tuning forks (we'll make her a new one), and anything the other anons come up with...

>>23486098
Where will you get the balloon or the propeller?

>>23486083
Probably not, unless you want to leave the Scholomance to go get ingredients.

>>23486156
Oh well, we could just find a flying insect instead of a feather. Sure we can find some of them around.

>>23486156
So we aren't sleeping on a feather mattress or down pillows?

>>23486033
paper fan, feather, insect wing, bat wing, paper air plain, a bloon/ blow up condom ,paper hot-air balloon the lantern thing with a candle in it,

>>23486102
If you can see it, it's because it condensates and stops being a gas.

Also, can we use a bit of air ? It's everywhere, we just have to want it to use it as a focus, right ?

>>23486178
Maybe if we can figure out a sort of multiplication spell, one that gives you more of whatever you have, we could go get a sample of tempurpedic foam from a store and then just make big chunks of it we can cut to size.

Hell, we could probably offer that as a service. I'm sure some of our classmates would enjoy sleeping on something comfy.

>>23486227
Given the level of paranoid at this school you think there'd be any buyers? Even if we were handing them out for free?

>>23486280
change that to especially.

You get together a paper fan, blow up and tie off a condom, and a folded up paper balloon. To top it off, you step outside the tower and start looking around. You want a bat wing, and for that, you need a bat.

Roll Enchantment to mind-punch a bat out of the air. Your ring gives you a +1 on the mental attack, so I'll consider the first four linked 1d100 rolls.

Rolled 9

>>23486429
Rolling.

>>23486280
In Lotus perhaps, or Sam and Hera. But yeah, outside of that I don't really see it.

Rolled 42

>>23486429

Rolled 52

>>23486429

Rolled 76

>>23486429
BOOM, HEADSHOT!

>>23486429

Rolled 11

>>23486459
Bwahahaha

>>23486459
>BOOM, HEADSHOT!

>>23486459
HAHAHA, I WIN!

>>23486459
Saved it.

>>23486429
>Roll Enchantment to mind-punch a bat out of the air.
This is the best possible description of Max's mental attacks.
"Instead of punching you normally, I punch you in the mind."

>>23486429
Wait, we're talking regular magic bats not library bats right?

>>23486459
You point your finger like a gun at a bat flying above. "Boom," you say, and the bat spirals out of the air, landing on a nearby rooftop. You climb up and, after searching to find it for a few minutes, you eventually locate it. Its mind is broken, and so is one of its wings. You break its neck and bring the bat corpse back inside. You gather up all of your items and go back down to see your dad.

"You have everything, then?" he asks. "I like the condom balloon. Let's head up to the actual summoning circle. Better to do this kind of work inside the wards, in case anyone's monitoring the area for summoning."

You head up to the inbound teleportation circle, your tower key in your pocket. You put everything in the circle and, with your dad advising you, start concentrating.

Roll Conjuration. You get a +4 from your temporary foci and a +1 from your dad assisting you, so I'll consider the first six linked 1d100 rolls.

Rolled 97

>>23486575

Rolled 22

>>23486575
rol

Rolled 75

>>23486575

Rolled 18

>>23486575
moo

>>23486575

P-pls be a pretty air summoned being D:

Rolled 19

>>23486589
aw yeeeeah

Rolled 39

>>23486575
Rolling.

Rolled 37

>>23486575

Rolled 47

>>23486575

alright.

>>23486589

pffffahahaha.

Rolled 47

>>23486575
It only took 50 threads, but Max finally broke a neck.

Rolled 44

>>23486606

mfw not paying attention

Rolled 7

>>23486575
The summoning circle doesn't help ?

Rolled 40

>>23486575

>>23486615
Broke her own when she did her introductory illusion.

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>>23486429
>blow up and tie off a condom
pffft.

>>23486634
That was a fake neck breakage, no necks were actually harmed until now.

>>23486648
It's tradition by now that Max cannot do magic without a condom.

Rolled 75

>>23486620
Wouldn't help anyways at this point.

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>>23486665
Best foci collection ever?

>>23486714
All filled with Incubus semen collected from dad fucking Breakfast.

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>>23486589
>>23486603
With a gust of wind and popping sound... Nothing seems to appear.

"Good, it's here," your father says. "Now, what are you going to do with it next?"

What do you do now?

>>23486761
Alchemize a bat golem shell looking thing for it.

>>23486761
"Let's get it a shell to use as a body."

Did we use up that whole bat, or just the wing?

>>23486761
Alchemy up a bat shell for it.

>>23486784
>>23486792
This, and use a pillow as a focus to make it a stuffed animal.

>>23486761
Get a teddy bear and make it look like a bat. It needs to be cute and soft. And bind the elemental to it.

>>23486822
Or it can just be a normal teddy bear that can fly around.

>>23486792
Just the wing.

>>23486761
"well he need a body "
some fluff from a couch, more feathers some canvas/cloth some bat fir , another condom for joints , some glass /lenses for sight, a pillow, a strip of leather for some thing strong about it,

What's the diminishing returns on foci, if any? Is there ever any reason not to use fifty foci on every single spell every single time?

>>23486871
Well you don't get the foci back.

Oh no, we might lose a few cents' worth of trinkets every time we alchemize a sack of gold.

>>23486855
I find it amusing that we're going to need a new box of condoms soon, not because we're using them for fucking, but because we're using them as foci.

>>23486871
It takes time to gather foci up, and they are one use. There's no reason other than time and availability. Planned and prepared magic is supposed to be the way to go in this setting.

Honestly the boxes we have in the various schools of magic are almost more useful for 'how many times can we use this magic' than they are for another 1d100.

>>23486871
Probably Overkill and time investment.

"I'm going to make a body for it now. Some kind of stuffed flying bat or something," you say. You put together a pillow, what's left of the bat, and one of Selene's toys.

Roll Alchemy to craft a construct body for the elemental. You get a +3 from temporary foci and a +1 from your dad helping you. I'll consider the first six linked 1d100 rolls.

>>23486871
if you can think of fifty go for it

Rolled 54

>>23486997
Time for Lovecraftian Horror.

Rolled 23

>>23486997

Rolled 25

>>23486997

Rolled 59

>>23486997

Rolled 98

>>23486997

Rolled 24

>>23486997

Rolled 66

>>23486997
sexy bat plushie

Rolled 96

>>23486997

rolling

Rolled 76

>>23486997

>>23487018
Well, at least we got one. It isn't going to be the nicest looking stuffed toy in the world though.

Rolled 32

>>23487018
Oh thank the lord.

Rolled 85

>>23487042
Yeah, but once it has a stable form we can tweak it a bit so it's better.

This is why we need fifty foci for everything.

Just wondering, why do we have to expand the spell for Selene's colour vision to multiple people? It would work just as well if she only had her bat golem to see with.

>>23487093
There's a point with rolls allowed where chances for critfail outweigh chances for success, we did math for this

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>>23487018
You craft up a nice plush toy. It has bat wings, a plump body, and a great big stylized eye right on its midsection. It looks positively huggable, and it's primed to serve as the shell for an elemental.

"Can you bind it now, or do you have too much strain?" your dad asks. "I know that Conjuration isn't your best school."

How do you respond?

>>23487141
Yeah, which was why we ditched that system

>>23487169
Well, since we have no full boxes left unstrained, we should probably leave it to him.

>>23487141
They'll never outweigh successes, so why would that matter?

>>23487169
"At this point I give it worse than 50/50 odds I'll get it, you had better."

>>23487169
Ask him if the elemental will keep long enough for Max to go get a quick Breakfast to recover. If so, then do so, if not, then dad can bind it.

>>23487169
"Too much strain, unfortunately. I'd have to meditate for a while to recover."

>>23487169

we're out of conjuration, let dad do it but if possible have him explain how he's doing it. no sense in not trying to learn from this.

>>23487169
"Yeah, I don't think I can bind it right now"

>>23487139
That's true... If her eye golem is with her at all times, then she should be able to see.
If our enemies are around and she has no control who's sight to use, they could sense somebody is using enchantment on them. Which could be pretty bad for us.

We do need to powerlevel some. That dreamwalking thing sounded pretty boss, Dad needs to teach us some time.

>>23487240
Agreed.

>>23487318
we shouldn't make him betray his society, that is a bad idea

>>23487318
You know how Carl can cat-punch people? Wonder what the dream weavers could do to us while we sleep?

>>23487485
Freddy time.

>>23487318
A wonderful way to get the Walkers on our ass, that.

>>23487582

we could always hunt the demon hunters...

>they retaliate, attack more low-levels, thin the herd for us

>>23487445
>>23487582
He did offer to teach it, though.

"I'm pretty drained. Can you handle it while I watch?" you ask.

"Sure thing, Max. Watch carefully, and I'll walk you through what I'm doing step by step."

Roll Mind to learn what he's teaching. I'll consider the first three linked 1d100 rolls.

Rolled 65

>>23487747

Rolled 37

>>23487747
Boom, headshot?

Rolled 18

>>23487747
Please?

>>23487747
Does the +focus not apply?

Rolled 68

>>23487747
No bonus from Focus?

>>23487793
No, because we're learning how to do it by watching, we're not actually doing it ourselves.

Rolled 10

>>23487793
Rolling if it does.

>>23487797
Doesn't matter, you failed that roll as well.

Max, y u so dum?

>>23487875
My guess is a combination of giant cawk and rockin' abs. Makes it so hard to concentrate on anything important when you're 'mirin yourself constantly.

>>23487910

You forgot the tits part.

Yeah, you've got nothing. You watch as he binds the elemental into the body of the bat, leaving the stuffed bat drifting around lazily in the air, but you don't learn anything from it. "You see how I did that, Max?" he asks you.

"Uh... Yeah, sure?" you say.

"Well... Maybe next time, then," he says with a bit of disappointment. "So, do you want to put together a rudimentary mind for it, or just leave it as basically mindless to make it even easier for her to use Enchantment on it?"

What's your response?

>>23487934
Yeah but Max's tits aren't a two-syllable 'damn' level of awesome yet.

When they are, then they'll distract.

>>23487910
>you're 'miring yourself

Is that another way of saying "performing autofellatio on yourself".

>>23488000
As long as you have your eyes open while you do it, yes.

>>23487991
"Let's just give it enough that it won't be completely useless if nobody's controlling it."

>>23487991
Let's put a rudimentary mind together, when Selene gets good enough she can modify it, but until then having it able to think to a certain degree would be useful.

>>23487998

But every syllable's worth of damns counts towards self-admiration.

Also, a very basic mind. As in it knows:
"Turn head"
"Fly"
And that's it.

>>23487991
Give er a brain.

>>23487991
Lets give it a mind, it can double as a guardian like Gavinscon for liz

>>23487998
So Max is getting big jiggly jugs when she learns living alchemy, right?

Rolled 38

>>23487991
Let's give it a mind. I want it to able to be like a pet for Selene.

>>23487991
simple mind so it doesn't just wander off

Rolled 18

>>23487991
Maybe let Liz enchant its mind, I think her last session left her close to a breakthrough.

>>23488074

Yes. Right after making Breakfast a catgirl.

>>23488104
Seconded

>>23488074
>>23487998
I think small tits suits Max much better.
But maybe they're not pointing outwards enough.

>>23487991
Give it a compulsion to follow Selene around and that's as smart as it needs to get.

>>23488074
>Weighing yourself down with giant tits.
-1 to martial arts

>>23488153
>-1 to martial arts

+2 to distraction vs. (most) males (and some females)

>>23488153
We can always make them weigh nothing.
Speaking of which, when we get super strong, we might want to consider enchanting ourselves super heavy, so we can't get juggled by other super strengthers.

>>23487991
Give it enough smarts to follow Selene around and follow her precise directions. I'd also like to vote that it won't follow anyone orders except Selene's. Not even ours.

>>23488153
Super-strength makes Max's weight pretty insignificant. People were already talking about self-enchanting to make ourself heavier.
They'd get in the way though.

>>23488200
We can just drop the pants and let it swing about, and that'll distract everyone.

When we finish with the elemental's mind ask dad if there's any written copies of Paradox of Self that we can show Sanchez to get the tattoos done.

We gotta get them done before we start boosting durability more.

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>>23488153
I knew someone would say that.

>>23488203
>>23488215
Being heavy would cause all kinds of problems if it was on all the time.

>>23488203
>Speaking of which, when we get super strong, we might want to consider enchanting ourselves super heavy, so we can't get juggled by other super strengthers.
We agreed that it's a bad idea as a permanent change. We'd better use sorcery to temporarily increase our inertia alone.

"Yeah, sure, let's give it some kind of a rudimentary mind," you say. "Just enough to follow Selene's commands and not drift off or anything. This should be sort of like her pet."

"Okay, Max, sounds like a plan. I can definitely help you with that too. Do you want to gather any temporary foci for this, or do you think you have it?"

What's your response?

>>23488310
Gather some stuff.

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This picture is mostly unrelated, except that it reminded me of this quest.

>>23488310
Gather stuff.

>>23488310
Dig out some of our own gray matter, that should work.

Maybe a sudoku puzzle again?

>>23488380
>Dig out some of our own gray matter

I'm pretty sure we need that to live.

>>23488310
"Temporary Foci are always useful to have. I'm good at Enchantment, but this just makes it a sure thing."

Get some foci. A logic puzzle, a collar or some rope, other stuff to do with intelligence or following orders.

>>23488426
>intelligence
>following orders
... Liz?

>>23488310
Um, how about the brain of the Bat we just killed, and a mathematical equation on a piece of paper (get Liz to help if necessary).

>>23488380
We're not really building it to be a puzzle solver.

We need some stuff to make it's mind kind of dog-like, specifically loyal and following.

>>23488310
Once it has a rudimentary mind, we need to give it an affection for Selene and a form of protection instinct towards her. Guiding her away from harm with enchantment.

>>23488310
We used a sudoku puzzle and a novel for Gav, let's do the same.
We could go catch another bat, this time without breaking her mind, to copy onto that construct.

>>23488445
We used what was left of the bat as the focus for the shape of the construct.

>>23488482
Bats are a bit too flighty for this. We can use the dead bat we have and just use its brain.

>>23488502
It's ash now.

>>23488502
See >>23488487
Let's just make and use a net.

We're fast and strong, we can do it.
It'll be fun.

>>23488418
Not all of it.

You put together a sudoku puzzle copied off of your phone and ask Lin for a shitty romance novel that she's already finished. Finally, you figure it's time to get a second bat, so that you can use its brain as a focus. You get a pillowcase - that should serve as something close enough to a net - and step outside to try to catch another bat.

Roll Body to free run well enough to catch a bat. You get a +1 for Strength and a +1 for Speed, so I'll consider the first six linked 1d100 rolls.

Rolled 37

>>23488647
Gotta catch 'em all!

Rolled 43

>>23488647
Batpocalypse

Rolled 19

>>23488647
Rolling.

Rolled 78

>>23488647
Yeeeah.

Rolled 61

>>23488647

>>23488647
ROLLAN

Rolled 5

roll.

Rolled 66

>>23488688
>>23488647

im retarded

>>23488680
We used to do better at body rolls.

>>23488680
After soaring around for a while across the roof tops, you eventually manage to snag a bat in the pillow case. You swing the case hard against a wall to make the bat stop squirming, then reach in and snap its neck, just in case it was merely stunned. You bring the bat corpse in and put it, along with the novel and the sudoku puzzle, together around the lazily drifting stuffed animal. You intend to make it about as smart as a dog - maybe even a little dumber - and completely and unwaveringly loyal to Selene.

Roll Enchantment to build its mind. You get a +3 from temporary foci and a +1 from your dad helping you. I'll consider the first seven linked 1d100 rolls.

Rolled 25

>>23488913
Something we're good at! Right?

Rolled 94

>>23488913
Done and done.

Rolled 43

>>23488913
Rolling.

Rolled 17

>>23488913

Rolled 81

>>23488913
Can we use a living creature as a focus ? It seems like it would be more effective for creating a mind.

Rolled 70

>>23488913
Let's roll dem bones!

Rolled 49

>>23488913
roll.

Rolled 44

>>23488969
>>23488960
>>23488952
Not bad! Could be a lot worse.

>>23488913
>then reach in and snap its neck
Two neck snaps in one day.

Snapple must be beside himself.

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>>23488952
>>23488960
>>23488969
You put together a mind. One with rudimentary intelligence, an unswerving loyalty to Selene, and a talent for being trained. A moment after the spell completes, it flaps its wings a few times, does a circuit around the room, then glides down the ladder well, presumably to go find Selene.

"Good job, Max," your dad says, clapping you on the back. "That should make a fine familiar for Selene, especially for the time being. What are you going to do now?"

What are you going to do?

>>23489572
I'm going to show the blooming selene to the girls.

>>23489572

let's go see Liz and Breakfast.

>>23489572
To check on Liz and show her Selene

>>23489572
Ask him where we can get a written copy of Paradox of Self and then go find Selene

>>23489572
Go talk to Liz, see how her talk with Breakfast went. Or ask Dad for a cool idea for her birthday or Christmas, Its never to early to start planning after all.
The idea of Max and Petrov giving Christmas gifts is just too funny. I'm sorry

>>23489572
Check L&L

>>23489642
Breakfast and Lin should be interested as well.

Oh, I just remembered, dad agreed to call mom a while ago, right ? Did that happen ?

>>23489656
this. lets get going on the tattoos

>>23489685
We should have called Breakfast Lunch. So that we'd have L&L&L.

>>23489637
Agreed. I want to see how that worked out.

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>>23489572
Let's ask him to write out some of the Paradox of Self and we can get started on finding a good way to place it on our body.

We don't want it to just be a giant block of text, having it circle, loop, spiral, and intersect will make it more visually appealing, obfuscate its meaning, and perhaps add some more depth of meaning to it as well with how we have it intersect.

Last thread someone posted this which is a good inspiration for how I'd like it to flow, though more complex and intersecting.

>>23489727
We can still need to go and get a Lunch. Then we could have brunch.

Rolled 24

>>23489683
I'm pretty sure Dad remembers when the Romans hijacked Yule as the new christian holiday.

>>23489746
Lunch happens when it happens; when a Dextra chick with more bravery than power tries to kill us.

>>23489737
>>23489714
>>23489656
I'm not sure this Paradox of the Self is the best piece of poetry to write on our skin.
We should hear some other ones he knows, and not write the first one before that.

>>23489775
You now see why it is funny. Well, that and the whole "God is a jackass" bit.

>>23489737
Lets wait until we actually understand it to decide whether to tattoo it.

We should work on improving our mind, also introduce Batman to Selene so she doesn't freak the fuck out.

Seriously how would react if your stuffed animals started moving and shit.

>>23489572
Let's learn some more Word.

You head down into the tower looking for Liz. You find her relaxing in the bedroom, reading a book, with Breakfast napping across her legs. "Hey, Mistress," she says as you enter. "We reached an understanding."

"That's good. Listen, Selene bloomed earlier," you say.

"I know. I saw her sleeping. Doesn't she just look adorable?"

"She sure does," you agree.

What do you do now?

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>>23489943
Eh, good point.
I'm not sure the compulsion to follow selene everywhere will turn out as well as we thought.

>>23489987
What's your understanding ?
Also, Dad and I made a pet for Selene. We forgot to name it, too.

>>23489809
We can either:

Get the tattoos done asap so that we can finish our self augmentation requirements and start training with Alexander Lee. We might not understand it now, but they will work. Dad can't suggest somethingg that would screw us over.
or

Finish our self augmentation requirements and start with Alexander Lee while we try to come up with better tattoo designs. When we do get settled on a design we're gonna have to go through some major bullshit just to get it applied, probably requiring magic to get it done.

or

Put it off while we try to come up with a better design, while we fall behind what we could have already gained. Pray that nobody does any conjuration shenanigans to us while we contemplate the perfect tattoos. Also hope that we don't get hit with anything durability could have stopped.


1 is the safest

2 leaves us vulnerable to conjuration

3 leaves us vulnerable to conjuration and more normal attacks

>>23489943
This. You freak out a lot less at the bizarrely animate stuffed bat once your Mom tells you she and Grandpa got you a new pet and best friend. Also, her reaction should be adorable.

Afterward, the rest of this:
>>23489943

We're falling way behind in terms of our actual studies. Like, Lin-behind. However, unlike Lin, if we die because we weren't properly prepared, we have no way of knowing if we come back or not.

Hell, we don't even know what happens to our weird half-spirit soul after we die.

>>23489987

"anything i need to know? or should i just stop worrying?"

>>23489987
ask her what understanding they came too, about the new construct we just made and that it needs a name and pick her up to demonstrate our new strength

>>23489987
Tell her about the familiar

>>23489987
"It seems like Breakfast took it pretty well, what sort of understanding did you reach?"

Give Liz a kiss as well and tell her about the familiar.

>>23490021
Selene can name it.

I really feel like more +Focus should be a priority. Anything that improves the rate at which we improve is too good a deal to pass up.

>>23490023
>implying it will take weeks to hear or read some more poetry
By the time we have strength 2 and speed 2, we'll have had a lot more than enough time to choose a text that suits us.

>>23490023
4, make temporary focuses until we're ready for the tattoo stuff.

>>23490218
It will take more than weeks for Max to learn a new language, especially one as complex as this.

>>23490224
And detract time from other projects to make half-assed soon to be discarded foci?

"What's the understanding?" you ask cautiously. You're not sure you want to know.

"Only I and the girls I break for you get to call you Mistress. She is, however, free to call people 'ma'am' or 'master' as she pleases."

"Oh," you say. "That's actually really fair."

"Of course," she says. "Did you think I would be mean to her?"

"No, uh. I wasn't sure what you were going to do, is all," you say. "I made a seeing eye construct for Selene. A pet bat toy thing. It's using an air elemental and a plushy body. I hope she likes it."

"You should be the one to give it to her," Liz says. "So that she knows it's from you and not a monster or something. Do you have it on you?"

"No, it drifted off. I think it was looking for her."

"Well, then you should probably grab it and hold on to it until she wakes up."

What do you do?

>>23489987
I feel like we missed something entertaining...well, we'll know if breakfast starts calling us mistress after all...

>>23490283
>It will take more than weeks for Max to learn a new language, especially one as complex as this.
Not sure. It's not a regular language.
But anyway, dad knows it and can explain to us what his song is about.

>>23490372
She's rather overstepping her bounds, don't you think?

>>23490372
Go find the toy so you can present it to Selene, Liz is right after all.

>>23490372
Is she going to set herself up as the gateway for all of our slaves? I don't like that.

>>23490372
Give Liz a kiss. "You're a truly wonderful little slut. I'll be sure to reward you later."

Find the bat construct and bring it to Selene.

>>23490451
It is what we agreed with her a long time back.

>>23490406
No, not when we specifically asked her to work it out. Furthermore, it's always ALWAYS the sub who determines how far the limits go. Its the responsibility of the dom to live up to them.

>>23490451
That's what we promised her. Like thirty five threads ago.

>>23490451
That's the agreement of our entire relationship.

>>23490451
She's our girlfriend. She has every right to do just that. Max isn't some moustache-twirling villain to go off and (like so many people have been suggesting) mindbreak more people needlessly just so she can have a full set of Hobbit meals in fuck-puppets. She starts doing that, and she starts being the sort of person Dextra Domini use as an example to justify the atrocities they commit.

>>23490372
Yeah, it's probably a good idea.
Go find the thing.
>>23490451
I like that.

>>23490372
raise an eyebrow "Are you going to break her?"

>>23490401
He already did. From the last thread:

>It's about, in simplest terms, how the self doesn't exist as long as you're supplementing knowledge externally, but as soon as you stop taking in knowledge there's no space for the self to exist in relative to the not-self, so it ceases to exist entirely.

If we want to understand it better, Max is going to have to learn the language. And probably meditate on and study the this poem.

Also
>That's what I would get myself tattooed with, anyway, if I was going to get covered in script.

He can't lie to us, or withhold info from us that could lead to harm. He believes this to be the optimum tattoo for our purposes.

Unless you think Dimitry is trying to betray us, I see no reason not to go through with this.