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May 4, 2026 9:50 am
Thanks for pointing in the right direction where the map is!

Next point, a revision primer on Willpower. Your starting Willpower is your permanent value. (It can be increased with xp later). Using Willpower deducts from that. There will be occasions to replenish your Willpower, such as when you live up to your Nature, and you always regain 1 Willpower each day after sleep. Some events cause you to gain, or lose, Willpower. (We had one of those already!)

Also a reminder on Quintessence, which can be used to reduce the difficulty of roles. Am reminding everyone of these two quantities because we're getting to the stage where you will need more successes to accomplish things; sometimes you can't succeed unless you use these two values judiciously. Many of the rolls thus far have only required 1 success because you've largely been using powers to affect oneself, such as using various hypersenses. To being to affect others, 2 or more successes might be required.

Just signaling ahead. :)
May 5, 2026 11:00 am
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Sorry, busy few days.
IC I’m not sure Joe has a clear way forward, apart from tying up with Wren.
OOC when he knows what Myra has learned he’d want to compare notes with her, but at present he’s no way of knowing about that.
May 26, 2026 1:52 pm
Looks like I can be wrapping up day two, once people are done with their after school activities. Not rushing anyone, because some of the things that are happening are pretty crucial for character development. Just letting you know I do have day 3 lined up. Day 3 and 4 are relatively quieter days, but I trust that some of you will make things happen!
May 27, 2026 1:30 pm
Took a while to in the end just go a tiny step in Wren's thread. Was planning to join at Myra's afterwards (and happy to join in in parallel to Wren's thread). I see though how this can resolve into a chronological Desaster and fine to roll over to the next day. We'll have time to meet up in the Lockwood residence again I assume...

KCCInactive for 1 months

May 27, 2026 4:17 pm
Yeah, I’m cool with one or two quiet days to run down some leads and do some magic in private! Happy to move on whenever! I think Minsoo and Jonathan are finished with the Coach, pretty much!
May 28, 2026 3:22 am
KCC says:
Yeah, I’m cool with one or two quiet days to run down some leads and do some magic in private! Happy to move on whenever! I think Minsoo and Jonathan are finished with the Coach, pretty much!
I think coach is waiting on a reply from Minsoo though, sounds like he wants to know if Minsoo will open up to him or not.
May 30, 2026 1:30 am
KCC says:
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Have I stopped us up with my last post (on the 22nd.) Is the Coach looking for more here?
Oh shoot, I had a bunch of posts I thought I had posted some days ago for the various threads, and was waiting for replies. Just realised they didn't go through for some reason, yikes, and here I was waiting on everyone else. Sorry, lemme reconstruct those posts!
Jun 13, 2026 8:52 am
Sorry for the delay. When i mentioned hopping on a plane last week to check in on my elderly in-laws, i didn't expect a full blown week long care management to the doctors for both of them. Flying back home tomorrow, will do a summary so that we havent forgotten too much!

KCCInactive for 1 months

Jun 13, 2026 11:55 am
Take it easy, BZ! Folks come first!
Jun 13, 2026 3:25 pm
KCC says:
Take it easy, BZ! Folks come first!
Agreed
Jun 13, 2026 6:52 pm
Family first. Modern life helps extend life but not always make it easier once we get to that point. I went through that with the in-laws and getting there with my own family as well. Seems to be that time and family is what is most important to most once they move past professional concerns.
Jun 15, 2026 4:22 pm
Looking very much forward to join the exchange on "What magic is" or "How it feels to use magic" at Myra's place... ;) Just feel like there is still something that needs to be resolved at Wren's place before she can really chime in.
Jun 18, 2026 8:35 am
Thanks for everyone's patience and understanding. Hope the break didn't lose us too much. I will add to the timeline and critical plot points thread in a moment so that we don't lose track of some necessary details, and just updated our threads so the story can proceed.

I like the fact that at this point, the PCs have chosen three distinct ways to discover who and why they are: one is by digging through the books, another by looking for a mentor, the third is to speak with family. All three will uncover certain truths linked to the character development part of the game which will explain the plot part of the game: how come a whole bunch of newly awakened teens are in the same school, what kind of school is it, why your parents are absent or ignorant about your abilities, and what dangerous circumstances this awakening brings to everyone.

We're still largely playing out individual goals and threads at this end of day two, so continue to pursue those in the various threads until you're satisfied with what you can conceivably cover. The 'plot' doesn't move until we start day three, so let me know when you're done.
Jul 7, 2026 8:55 pm
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Following character generation rules, it's important to pick your affinity sphere, let's use that to guide with Tradition you will belong to.
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Akashic Brotherhood – Masters of mind, body, and spirit through the Arts of personal discipline.
Affinity Spheres: Mind or Life
I was more and more looking towards Akashik Brotherhood as tradition. However I was also looking at Prime as Wren's affinity sphere...
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Celestial Chorus – Sacred singers who give a human Voice to the Divine Song.
Affinity Spheres: Prime, Forces, or Spirit
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Society of Ether/Sons of Ether – Graceful saviors of scientific potential.
Affinity Spheres: Matter, Forces, or Prime
Those two are not really a fit I would judge - the former might sound like Wren, but I don't like the divine aspect of it at all.
Jul 8, 2026 1:28 pm
FWIW, maybe Wren can keep Prime as a corner stone of her relation to Magick and still have Mind as affinity sphere, based on her tradition (if it is the Akashik in the end) just providing the best guidance and training for that sphere. What do you think?

KCCInactive for 1 months

Jul 8, 2026 1:31 pm
I swear I read a post in here the other day. Did you delete it BZ?

I wonder if we ought not try group up for the next day. Not just to update but to "adventure" together! Keeps the game tighter!
Jul 8, 2026 2:29 pm
As a 'sandboxy' sort of game, maybe just try to gather everyone together for a particular purpose Minsoo might want to accomplish. I feel like the 'break apart & come together' method we've had so far lets everyone pursue their own storylines but the framework keeps us all crossing paths when we need to.
Jonathan would absolutely be down for 'adventuring' with a given purpose, even a loose one.
Jul 8, 2026 3:14 pm
Since we see each other weekdays at school it shouldn't be hard to keep in touch. I'm all for character collaboration. However it seems like some of the skill and magic development is a solo thing.

Depending on group preferences we could all agree to a limit on solo or sub group timelines do that others are not left hanging and waiting to get the entire group thread back into effect

There was talk about checking out parts of campus. While that wild be interesting, the way things have been going it seems to me/Kyle that we would get caught almost instantly based on our current knowledge, skill, and magic levels. Not that that would stop most teens and Kyle is still curious...
Jul 8, 2026 4:04 pm
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However it seems like some of the skill and magic development is a solo thing.
I can definitely see how we also get some shared development angles. I don't know, Wren is all about "music", but that does include rhythm and the Tai-Chi Myra is practicing could very well be a practice/instrument to share for example.
Jul 8, 2026 4:05 pm
eldarin says:
FWIW, maybe Wren can keep Prime as a corner stone of her relation to Magick and still have Mind as affinity sphere, based on her tradition (if it is the Akashik in the end) just providing the best guidance and training for that sphere. What do you think?
Prime, as a cornerstone of magickal understanding, is a very common thing for many mages to have. The old tradition books with their example builds clearly showed that each Tradition supported builds whose level in the affinity sphere (back when there was only one per Tradition) did not necessarily have to be the highest they had. For Prime this is particularly true. I’d suggest that Tradition is more closely related to outlook and background than choice of spheres.
Joe was built with the Akashics always in mind; elements of his makeup would have supported a Dreamspeaker or Verbena, but I simply felt that his background and outlook fits less well with either of those, and I wouldn’t have been as comfortable playing him as those. He has two spheres at 2 and neither one is Mind. Plus it gave me an angle on some of his Merits which helped flesh them out.
Edit; to prove I didn’t enter upon this process with everything already decided, at one point Joe was going to be a Euthanatos; ironically his Entropy dot became Prime a long time ago.
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