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A once powerful wizard had a brilliant idea on how to control the most powerful magics in all the world.
He was quite young and had aspirations to know all things. He found a way to enchant a marble, and carry that marble in an also enchanted necklace. The marble would read off of his mind, and it would record everything he learned while wearing the pendant.
He would wipe his mind nearly clean, and then learn the magics of fire. Only the fresh of mind can learn as quickly as he wished. It wouldn’t take much time for him to learn, and the marble took on the color of the images he would see in his mind. The marble obviously became red.
He did the same thing with lightning, earth, trees, death, golems, ice, wind, water, air, void, dimensification, space, time, reality, illusion, atral, mental, and spiritual magics. When he would keep the marbles in a sack at his side, each marble would become a mind attached to his own, and he would have all of the knowledge they possessed. The sack was special, and only it could release the mind melding capabilities of the memories stored in the marbles.
Yet, when he was cornered and his sack was taken away by a fiercely quick warrior, he used all of his magic to create one last Marble, one that he knew he would create one day, and labeled it in his lost journal that explains the magic of the marbles, “The Key.”
This caused his death and he perished away, leaving the marbles then scattered about, as they were taken from his corpse by animals, and now they are lost to the world.
Magical Properties:
All of the marbles contain intense magical capabilities. To unlock them, it’s best to find the Journal and the Sack. Otherwise they are most likely useless.
The Key is a dangerous marble, as it is unclear what he did to create it. It’s supposedly both the most powerful and the most perilous. It’s unknown it’s effects…
July 16, 2003, 16:07
1. So these marbles contain the all possible knowledge about their specific kinds of magic? A little too powerful, don't you think?
2. I noticed that among the types of magic, there was one called "dimensification". What is dimensification?
July 16, 2003, 17:02
Trust me, the curse of "The Key" makes up for the rest of their power...It's just, I don't like to come out and "SAY" it...
July 16, 2003, 17:04
July 16, 2003, 19:20
If all that magic doens't stop you from getting mugged, it's not worth it.
July 16, 2003, 19:53
Dimensive means "Without limits". That might help.
July 16, 2003, 22:27
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July 17, 2003, 12:24
And by the way, if you use "The Key" the wizard's mind takes you over and your mind is wiped and his true memory replaces you. He is resurrected and you die.
July 17, 2003, 13:16
....Corvus.....Marbles, Orbs.....Difference?
July 17, 2003, 15:39
I should assume that Anonymous was Dimensification but he forgot to log in. Anyway, we ask the questions we ask so we can have the information we need to be able to use the ideas in our own games if we want to. That's the point of sharing ideas, the ability to spead the idea and share it.
So why was this angel of the apocalypse after this young wizard?
July 17, 2003, 16:33
Lance Darkmoon was the character of a friend of mine, Matthew. Where I'm from he's a big time legend, and everyone reveres him...He sort of just does stuff...He's got purpose and all, but I'll have to write it all down. He is where I learned the void magic idea from. Since his specialty is making things not exist...
July 17, 2003, 23:57
July 22, 2003, 12:55
What:
A set of variously-coloured marbles, each with a bond to a special type of magic. But how many marbles are there? Are there 10, 20, 50, 200 marbles?
Current status:
a) All are still together, except maybe the last marble. No wonder, because this is the best way to study them.
b) Separated into smaller groups. Some keep various wizards, hoping to get those powers, some are lost.
c) Were purposefully separated, each one somewhere else, so no one can get this amount of power. Still, someone may be willing to gather them all. Instant campaign here: go to (n) dangerous places, and get those damn marbles together!
4d) The little boy around the corner plays with a sack of nice marbles...
Immediate usefulness:
Useless. Look as ordinary marbles, coloured, but who cares. May radiate great magic. Will need much time to fully control its powers.
Theoretical usefulness:
'Gives complete knowledge about a field of magic'. What does it mean?
Does it give knowledge about all spells from that field of magic? Does it give you actually power to cast them? That would be way too much.
Making it work:
A wizard deposited his knowledge into these marbles. How to unleash the powers?
a) Is not possible anymore, the knowledge will fit only into the mind of that long-dead wizard. Makes a cruel joke for the poor players that hoped for unending power...
b) The process must be repeated. The wizard studies, wipes his mind clean, and binds the respective marbles to it. Will take a very long time.
c) The wizard must form a bond with each marble. While this will take long at first, it will require shorter and shorter amounts of time to bond with the others. This process will change the person in minor ways, make him/her more and more like the creator.
d) The wizard bonds with all marbles at once. Too powerful this option.
Curse:
The last marble shall be cursed. In what way?
If anyone activates and uses the marbles, does it travel through a series of accidents to him, and drives him crazy? Maybe it lets him see that incredible power he wields, and as he looses the control, he commits suicide, or turns to madness. Makes for one more adventure, to kill the wizard-gone-wild, or find out why the suicide after a spectacular increase in magical powers.
Destroying the item:
Unknown. It may be necessary to call upon the spirit of the wizard, and make him remember at least a little bit about every type of magic. This may in turn produce a spellcasting spirit, but hey! You have destroyed powerful cursed item!
July 22, 2003, 17:35
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July 2, 2004, 18:53
Sounds like Lance. He can be quite unpleasant. And arrogant. That prat. Oh well. I guess all leads are dead now. *sighs*
November 26, 2012, 19:23
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