Dick Dante's  Spells:


Read Magic
Pr=5 per turn (divination) Caster can read any arcane language. A perfectly ground lens must be used, and is consumed by the spell.  All this does is let the caster read a language that is mystical in nature, not cast unknown spells. Each time this spell is cast on an new piece of unknown text, there is a 1% chance that one may find a prieviously unknown letter in the Language of Creation.




Read Languages:
Pr=3 per turn.  (Divination)  Caster must dry out and make a powder out of three different  classess of animals' toungues.  This powder is sprinkled on the text that the caster wishes to read.  Normal, non magical writtings may be read if the caster makes a Id20 per turn.   Once the caster fails a roll, the spell is over.

Identify Magic
Pr=5+5 per hour. (divination) This spell is what a Mage uses to find out what a magical enchantment does. There is a 10% cumulative chance per hour to divine what the item does. The caster needs a silver mirror, and a small glass lens  Each hour the caster must save vs Id20.  Each save reveals one thing about the enchantment.  Once the caster fails a save, the spell is over.

Read Aura

Pr=5 per turn. (Divination) As the power of the same name.  The caster must save Id20 per turn.  Once the caster fails, the spell is over.   The magician needs a sphere of purest crystal to look through for this spell to work.


Aura Perception:  Pr=5  constantly active  as any sense.  Can see a being’s aura.  +4 to hit them x4 for detections. With an action, can look deeper into the aura.  Save 1d20.  The number of success  above the intelligence of the user gleans more information.         
                                                           1-3  no more information
                                                           4-6 can see things like true form, or if they are Meta   Human or magical.                                                                                                         

                                                           7-9       can see if under mental attacks/mind control.
                                                                     Or a character’s approximate experience level
10-12 What race the being is,  it won’t give you  their name but you will recognize the aura’s racial traits, ei  dwarven,  human,  alien, etc..




See Magic

Many people confuse this with Detect Magic.  They are two different, yet highly useful, spells.  See Magic lets a wizard actually see the formulae of a spell when this spell is cast while another spell is in effect or being cast.    The casting wizard must save Id20 to be able to see the actual formula used to create the magic the caster is observing.  This can be cast on an enchanted item, person, or area.  Each time this spell is cast for the first time on an new bit of magic, there is a 1% chance that a new letter of the Language of Creation may be observed.   
   This spell is very rare, and is a highly guarded secret!

See Magic:  Pr=10 ( Divination) Caster must prepare a powder made from dried and crushed butterfly wings, cat whiskers, toad skin, and tanis root.

Magic Circle: (Abjuration) S,M  A magic circle is a useful spell for defining the boundries of magic.   This is useful in two ways; either keeping magic OUT of the circle, or keeping magic CONTAINED in the circle.
  The magician draws the circle.   For each foot radius of the circle, it cost 1 power.  It will automatically work against ambient, unfocused magic.  If the circle is challanged, then the wizard must roll I+Ld20.  The challanger rolls the same.   Whomever has the higher success roll, is the winner.  If the caster of the circle wins, the circle contains the magic, if the challanger wins, the circle is broken.

Fairy Glamour:

Don't know all the specifics. Illusion:Visual and Psionic. Seems like a Combo of Illusions and Phantasm. May cause the caster to appear as someone else. Material Component is Fairy Dust. Basically something that Faries secret like sweat. Not exactly common

Iron Hide:

A Protection Spell that gives him Force Field Defense and 10 pts protection for each 3 Pr spent.  ! Action per rd plus Pr to maintain,Range is Self/Touch Material Component: An Ingot of Iron

Mysterions Infallable Curse Bolt:

A Mystic Bolt that unerringly fires and strikes it's target for 1d6 damage. No roll to hit needed.  Pr=3 Range= Sight?

The Ruby Slippers

Conjuration,. Somantic. Pr= 9+1. The caster spends the 9 Power and casts the Spell in a sepecific location. This location will now be where the Caster will appear when the final 10th point of power is used and the Spell completed. Upon Completion of the Spell and the last point of Power used the caster will be magically Transported to the Location the original Spell was cast. The Caster must be able to click their heels together. No material Components are needed

Spirit Wrack: (Necromancy, Alteration) Pr=100   V, M, S.

    The person this spell is cast on must be starved and then fed blood.   Only when the target has feed on blood can this spell be cast.    The target is transformed in to a canniblistic Doglike beast over the course of the next three nights.  Each night, the victum must be fed fresh humam meat and blood.  Then he gains the following ablities and weaknessess.
   Lowered Charisma 
   Lowered Will
   Heightened Endurance
   Heightened Strength
   Natural Weapony: + 2 hit, +4 damage
   Improved Healing:  will recover from any wound that does not kill them and will slowly recover any limb that is lost.  No critical wounds nor dieasse.
   Immune to Cool Rolls.

Imagine what damage a warlock with just a hand full of these beasts could do!

This book has vivid instructions on how by horrible and blashemous means, one can warp and twist a human into a demonic, canine beast.

This spell, called by the Comte, Spirit Wrack, is a horrid bit of necromancy and alteration.  Any wizard who uses this on an innocent person should suffer a Charisma loss as well as place his first step on the road to being a Warlock.


Dark Gate: (Conjuration)  Pr=35 V, S,    Must be cast during the night of the New Moon.   Gate stays open only untill sunrise.   Becarful, as gates work both ways!
This book also has a spell that can open a portal to the Underworld of the Dreamlands.   This realm is the home of many nightmares and other, worse beings.  Cast at own risk!


Contact Guardian:  (Conjuration)  Pr=50 VSM   This spell sends a message to the "guardian of the gate of slumber". For what purpose, this is not known.    Caster must make a save vs Cd100 plus what ever power he spends above the 50 casting.  This is the chance that the spell worked and that you have made contact with the guardian.     Then caster must make a cool roll-20 to not panic and break the spell!
Then a rection roll-20 is made for the Guardian to respond favorably to you.    This roll can be modified by knowing the guardian's name, or by having the Sliver Key.

And last, this book  talks about the "Guardian of the Gate"  a vast and poweful being that guards the walls of wakefulness and the veils of sleep.    It has a spell to contact him and to gain his attention.   Why anyone would want to disturb such a being is folly.

Protection from Weather



Protection from Fire




Protection from Normal Missles



Cure Wounds



Cure Illness



Levitate
This spell allows the caster or a chosen target to float slowly through the air. Levitate requires 1 power point per target's Basic Hits and 1d4 HPs. The caster must be able to see the target properly to levitate it. The effect lasts 1d4 minutes. The spell levitates the target 1" off the ground or floor. If falling from a height, the target falls in slow motion and halts 1" off the ground. Each extra power point expended after the spell is cast allows the user to move himself or the target at the caster's ground movement rate. If the target is a living being who is unwilling to be levitated, the caster must make a successful Telekinesis attack first to grab hold of the target. The target floats as the caster wills, helpless to stop moving except by grabbing a tree limb or similar brace (Strength check with the spell having a roll of 2d10).



Detect Magic
Pr=5 ( divination) V/S  Caster can instantly see magic auras. Detect Hidden x3. If the roll is under caster’s intelligence, the circle of magic can also be gleaned

Light
Pr=1+1 per hour (evocation) V/S(M) This spell creates a ball of light that will illuminate a 50’radius. It also causes invisible beings to cast shadows. A dead glow bug is needed to cast.

Restoration
Pr=40. (Necromancy) V/S/M This spell restores a target from paralysis, and or heals a lost limb. If used on a corpse, the corpse becomes freshly dead. If cast on an undead they take 1d100. Caster must touch target. Caster needs a frog leg to cast this spell.

Exorcise
Pr=75+level of the possessor. (abjuration) The Caster tries to send the spirit out of the body that it inhabits. Success is 50% + caster’s level minus the possessor's level + 1% per extra power spent on this spell.

Perplex

PR=2. Enchantment. V/S. Victim must save vs Int D100 or lose next action from being "perplexed" as to what to do next.

Fumble

PR=1 Attacks as Mind Control. Enchantment. V/S (M) Victim of this Spell must save vs Agility on a D100 or either Slip and Fall or Drop whatever is being held at the time. If a Bannana peel is used as the Material Component the Caster receives a +4 Bonus to the Spell

Purify Water

  PR= 1+1 Per gallon of water being purified. Alteration magic. V/S. The caster may cause normal water to be purified. This is not Holy Water. It becomes purified water to be used. 1 Gallon of Purified Water

The Black Abbey

Dick is now the Magus of The Abbey which is a Coven of 13 plus Dick

Located in the heart of London, one can find, if one knows what one is looking for, the Black Abbey.
Founded in 908 by the Sisters of St. Herne, the Black Abbey has been a haven to those seeking sanctuary from the forces of zealousness.
   The legend states that Merlin himself picked the first Mother Superior and the location itself of the Abbey. Over the centuries,  Paracelsius,  John Dee and Nicolaus Hawksmoore have been some of the patrons of this secret convent.  It is said that the library within is one of the top four occult libraries in the world.  I would love to give you its address, but, alas,  I can't seem to recall it.

The Golden Dawn Occult Society

Too many references inside other stories and posts to reference and Post

Mason Lodge

They want The Silver key

Scary Miss Dentata

The Five Keepers

Just who they are, where they come from, and what they are doing is not known.   They have been seen scheming about  in ancient Babylon, and in taverns of modern Moev.   All that is known is they always dress the same, and appear the same age.
    First there is the Stranger, the man in white.   The Dark Warrior, the only known person to  describe him, says he looks "kinda like those old photos of Charles Limburg."   
   Next is the Wanderer, the man in black.  He wears a short black opera cape and a black suit.   He has been seen carrying scrolls and even what looks like a magic wand. 
   Then there is the Traveller,  the man in gray.  He looks like the oldest of the five.  He dresses in a modest gray suit, slightly old fashioned.  He is disguished by a small gold crucifix on his lapel.  The Dark Warrior witnessed him putting an angel in a box, and putting that box into a wound where his heart is located.
   Also, there is the Messenger, or the boy in green.   He is the youngest of the five, and looks like how Peter Pan or Hermes is described.  He is always smiling and hovers an inch or so above the ground.
   And last is the Explorer, the man in the Chromatic Coat.  He is the only one with a positive I.D.  He is Doctor Aberrant.   He is a known time traveller as confirmed by Scion.   He also is in possesion of a warp drive spacecraft.   So this may solve a bit of the mystery of why these five have been spotted through out history and throughout the galaxy. 
     Now if only we knew what they wanted, and what they were up to.

And what exactly do they Keep?

Dicks Thoughts

Dick has had several Meetings with them. All in emergencies where He screwed up of course.

The Stranger

The Wanderer

The Traveller: Joseph Athanasius Kircher

The Messenger: Hermes

The Explorer: Dr Aberrant AKA The Anathamatician

Tanis Root
A seperate room was created in The Century House to Cultivate this Plant and Root.

Tanis does not appear naturally on Earth.

The Black Abbey has also been given Tanis Root and unfortunately Dick was also forced to give some away in order to protect Sister Tess Cooleridge

The Root is also growing at Dicks Los Angeles Apartment but may not be any longer.

The Eye of Creation

The Eye Of Creation is a potent magic symbol.  It is the first letter in the Language of Creation and its akin to a vowel.  Its the first symbol aprentice magicians learn.  Legend has it that an Akkadian wizard first drew this symbol in the sands out side Ninevah after a dream he had while napping.   After he drew it, the young mage was torn in half by two opposing forces.    He was the first human to realise the Eternal Struggle, and both sides claimed him as their own.
   The Eye of Creation is not just a symbol it is also a map of Creation.   Mages are instructed on its key points, as well as protocols, and how to behave if ever they happen to travel to those points.

Here is a simple map and explaination of this glyph.  Be warned, a little knowlege is a dangerous thing.





1.  This is Heaven.  Here can be found the Creator, Elohim.  He is the Balance.  The fulcrum.  The perfect point in the exact center of Order and Chaos.  The Fulcrum is a singluarity and is paradoxically the smallest point of all, yet it houses the Infinite Mansions of God.

2.This is the Iron City of Dis.  This infinite  city is located as far away from the Fulcrum as one can be, yet still be within the boarders of Neutrality.  It is a Realm of Law and Order.  Chaos and Disrule are chased out and extinguished with severe persecution.  It is the last place a material body can exist before leaving the jurisdiction of Elohim and entering the jurisdiction of Bahamat.  Beyond Dis there is pure Order.  Chemcial reactions can not happen, and the process of organic life can not happen.

3.  Pandemonium:  This is the City of Demons, of infinite Chaos.  This is as far as you can get from the Fulcrum and still be within god's creation.  Here Chaos is king, entropy is the way.  The landscape changes, as do the seasons.  It is a harsh place to call home as nothing is consistant.  The laws of physics are merely hints here.  It is the last place a material body can exist before all physical laws break down and matter can not form.  Beyond is the jurisdiction of Tiamat.  Organic life is impossible there.

4.  The "North" Fontanelle.  It is here that creation rotates on its Cosmic Axis.  North being a term we humans give to make it easier for us.  Here  the realm of stablity where all the Wormholes from the Imagination come.  If a wormhole does not enter creation from one of the two Fontanelles, it is unstable and may dissolve.   
Surrounding the Realm of Stablity can be found a being of immense power.  It is made of Ectoplasm and takes the form of what ever the place the observer percieves as desirious.  Here anything a traveller may need is found.  Be warned, there is a price,  part of your soul is drained while staying here. Its how the Creature feeds.  Its a symbiotic relationship.  It feeds, heals and shelters you, but you give it some of your soul.  Some weak willed travelers never leave, and eventually fade away, becoming part of this Last Place.
  Travellers have many names for this living Location.  Fiddler's Green,  the Last Place, or Elysium.


5. Here at the "South" Fontanelle is the other end of the Cosmic Axis.   It is pretty much the same as the North, but the being that resides here is a bit more benevolent and a bit more social.   It manifests itself as a place were travellers can meet.   Beings of all types can be seen here talking and trading information.  The Intellegence here has two rules that are kept by threat of his immense powers.  All must trade stories, for it loves gossip, and no one may fight.   
You will also be feed, sheltered and healed here, but you will give up some of your soul.    Some people have elected to stay here also, but they retain their indivuality and work as staff in the Inn Between Worlds.
   Just as up North,  there are many names for this place,   Valhalla, The Inn Between,  The Spirit Academy and many others.


6.  Here is the area out side of Law, Chaos and Balance.  This is the abyss or some have  called it, Hell.   It is filled with entities that defy description.   Few have ventured there, and even fewer have returned.

Order and Chaos are two planes of existance that are slowely converging.   When the plane of Order first clashed with the plane of Chaos Balance was created.   This event, when balance was created has many names; the birth of god, the Big Bang etc..
    As the two opposing planes creap closer and closer,  Balance grows.  Conflict has broken out, and the Eternal Struggle started.  The Agents of Order have fought against the Minions of Chaos ever since the begining.  Unfortunality, the only place they can fight is where Chaos and Order meet, which happens to be the only place where humans can exist, within Our Universe. 
   As the two planes converge, tension builds.   There are many theories as to what will happen when Order, Balance, and Chaos are all equal in the great Convergence.
  Will God, or Elohim, become supreme and absorb Bahamat of Order and Tiamat of Chaos?
  Will God begin to die as the planes then begin to pass each other and Balance dwindles into oblivion?
  Will Order become Chaos and Chaos become Order  as, again, Balance dies and diminishes?

More notes on Order, Balance and Chaos.

Tiamat is the Intellegence that forms the entirety of Chaos.   She is the Soul of that plane.  All Chaos radiates from her. She is as upredictable as she is powerful.

Bahamat is the intellegence and the soul of Order.  He is as resolute and as unchanging as he is powerful.  All order radiates from his mind.

Elohim, or God, is the soul of our plane, the plane of Balance.  He is the Fulcrum.  He was "born" when Chaos married Order.  Without either, He, and by extention, us, can not exist.  The Plane of Balance houses all matter and material planes.   It is said that there are an infinite amount of material planes, but the more common number is 144,000.  Each has its own suborinate intellegence that rules each universe.  And they all answer to Metatron, the viceroy to Elohim.
   Each Material Universe is seperated by a high energy realm refered to as Rifts.  Sometimes the rifts breakdown and universes collide.  This usually results in the destruction of both universes.
   
   Think of Balance as a diamond.  In the exact center of that diamond can be found God.   On the surface is the  boundry of Creation.  Once you leave the surface of this diamond you have left the Authority of God and are subject to either the rules of Bahamat, the whims of Tiamat, or worse, the unknown of the abyss*.
   On the inside of the Diamond, using the inside of the surface, can be found all the 144,000 material planes of existane, and between them, the Rifts that keep them seperated and safe.
  The space between the inside surface and the dot that is God, is the land of the Ethereal.  A gray place of emptyness.  Here can be found Demi planes, places where lesser intellegences have formed their own lesser, subordinalte universe.  These tend to be less stable and either dissolve, or fall to the "surface" and form a new material plane.    Some examples of these demiplanes are  the Dark Plane of Orcus,  or the Third Place**.
   Here angels can be seen leading souls to Heaven, or Necrophages eating a helpless spirit.  Poltergeists roam in small herds, wrecking havok in the nearest material world.

Since we live on the inside surface of this "diamond"  we think of  heaven as UP.  Hell is therefore DOWN as its on the other side  and beyond god.

  So to finish the diamond analogy, think of each material world as its own facet.  The edges of each facet would represent the Rifts. 

It has recently been discovered that the Eye of Creation casts a shadow.    Since all light radiates from  point one on that map,  the lines formed by the intersections cast a shadow that penetrates into the Abyss beyond.   This shadow is a universe unto itself, but a bleak, dreay universe filled with shadow life and horrors.

The Silver Key

The Silver Key is a magic item of tremendous power.  It is actually made of Mithril  and is covered in beautiful arabesques.   
 
If it is put under the pillow when one goes to sleep,  the sleeper has a the most refreshing sleep and has lucid dreams.

Further more it is also known to unlock doors at "soft places"  that can lead one bodily into the DreamWorld.

When in the dream world, either in dream state or bodily,   the dreamer can dreamwalk as per the power and can lucid dream ( control the dreamscape) with near perfect results.

It is rumored to be able to do other things, but there are so many stories, mostly untrue about this key so who knows if this is the limit of the power of this artifact.

What We Know

The Silver Key gives the Wielder the ability to Control Dreams and Command Dream Creatures

The Wielder may also bring Dream Items with them back from the Dream Lands and they will become real. This requires a Door as the Dream Walker must enter and leave in a physical manifestation

Sally Nile
Dick has taken an instant liking to Sally.

That does not mean however he trusts her. Magic and Magicians are secretive and it has been noted that Sally was the former protege of Mason Lodge. Dick basically took all of her Inheritance which includes The Century House, The House on Mt Atlas, The Silver Key

Sally Nile, the only known human to survive copulation and giving birth to a Dragon's offspring is showing signs of mutation.  She can currently lift 500lbs and can out run an Olympic runner.

Richard Morgan Dante (Dicks Real Name)

Dick was given his middle name after his Paternal Grandmother. Though the name Morgan is used both for Male and Female he was a little embarassed to use it since it was from the Female side of his Lineage. Hence he will never call himself by his full name or sign in that fashion.

Of course the name Dick Dante is what is normally used for him though he prefers Dr. Richard Dante.

Since only an idiot of a Wizard would use their True Name in public Dick simply hopes that everyone assumes he is not that stupid and Dick Dante must be a made up name......

Dick's probably wrong.

Past and Exisitng Patients of Dick (This affects his weakness)

Gary Busey (Yes That Gary Busey)

Maurice (Later to be found out to be Oberon, King of hte Fae)

Michael Walsh (A Deep One in Transition, probably full Deep One by now)

Mrs Gupta

Munish Gupta (Problem Child, Nyarlathotep or at least a Door to Him?)

Modi

Kid Nemesis

Courtney Love

Dr Peter Acupoulus

Colonel Marshall Strong

Not a patient but worth Dicks Interest was Strange Eon. A patient he met in Innsmouth and someone he took an interest in. Of course Dick as banned from returning there.

Elder Sign.
City of Irem, The Pillared City, Egypt-Petra.

Enter the Tomb with multiple Sarcaphogi? Take a piece of stone from the front wall. Beware the wathcer with the Eyes in The Dark.

Carve in The Sign.

Need more info

Below is a quote from one of John's Posts. Dick is in Big Trouble as usual but he wonders as he is dragged through a door in the Century House, What would such a being from beyond give to know True Love without killing? Would it even care to know such a thing. Dick is of course desperate.There are always deals to be made.

*Succubae or Incubi are spirits from the Abyss, the realms beyond Law And Chaos.  They are believed to originate in the Imagination, and are beings of pure dreams.   They are Dream Vampires and feed on the dreams of humans.   They can appear as male or female, or as non human.  They are highly dangerous.*

Dick needs to finally have his Walking Stick made.

Top to be Silver or Something Precious (something with a low iron count)

Bottom to be made of Iron that screws into place over a sharpened End.

The center should have a 1/4" hole drilled through the first third of the stick and a plastic tube should be inserted to hold certain liquids. The top of course seals this from the air with a rubber plug.

After returning from The Dreamlands, Dick spends a week Healing and researching Spell Creation in his Library.

The results are his first two Spells created on his own.

Iron Hide- A Protection Spell that gives him Force Field Defense and 10 pts protection for each 3 Pr spent. Range is Self/Touch Material Component: An Ingot of Iron

Mysterions Infallable Curse Bolt- A Mystic Bolt that unerringly fires and strikes it's target for 1d6 damage. No roll to hit needed. 

I will have to add the specifics in detail of the Spells.

For the first time in if you can believe four and a half years Dick has created and used his own Spells. He has never had an offensive Spell and the only time He caused damage with a Spell was when he threw up a protection circle using his own crazy blood and accidentally burnt a Succubus. She is still pissed at Him.

Dick did damage last night with a Spell and still does not know how to take that but he seems OK.

Four and a half years.......real time.

Concept Art for Dick

Last Night a Dragon was Killed. Dick was put in charge of the autopsy. Dick is comadeering a few body parts since it was smashed to pieces. Never know when these will come in handy, except for one case where he does know.

Dragons Blood
Dragon Scales
Dragon Bone
Dragon Teeth
Dragon Claw
Dragon Wing
Dragon Heart
Dragon Brain

I will probably think and add but he is also looking to see what other interesting Glands or unknown inner workings he may find

Dick is thinking of Crafting his wand out of Dragon Bone. Claws or teeth possibly but Bone just sounds cooler.

I slew a Dragon two nights back. Well actually I guess I didn't really. It seems my role currently is to be assigned to follow these meta humans around and see what hurts I can assist with as well as possibly trying to guide some of the younger ones.

Technology at this moment is almost non existant, at least compared to what it was just a few weeks ago. It appears one of the CHESS Scientists saw to that. I had always wondered what it would be like to go back to the older ways of doing things. Well, I guess not always, more like I had been wondering how we could use Magic more over the last several weeks.

  It seems a group of not so nice individuals had been robbing various State Gold reserves and the next target might be the Federal reserve in New York. I must say I felt that to be extremely rude. There are plenty of opportunities for Hard working indivduals to get by these days. Just pick something you are good at and stick to it. Create and Action Plan and formulate your ideas. Stooping to petty thievery just seemed so out dated to me. But Alas, these are the times we live in. It was so much simpler just having my office in San Diego and starting with those few patients who truly needed my assistance. I wonder how Gary is doing. I feel terrible for not communicating with him in such a long time.

Dream Walking and True Dreaming


All intellegent beings dream.  We are all fascinated with the twists and turns that our dreams take each night.  What if we could focus our dreams?  What if we could actually control our dreams?  What if we could explore them? 
   Since man could dream, man has been trying to wrest the secrets from our dreams.   A few men have claimed to have pierced the veil of sleep.   J. M. Barrie is said to have really visited Neverland, and wrote his Peter Pan story as a result of exporation of the Dreamworld.   HP Lovecraft, the most advanced dreamer of the 20th Century explored  many worlds interlinked by sleep.
   Some yogas and monks say they can teach a person to True Dream.









True Dreaming.  New Skill.   C-20D20.  One must have a strong control of one's emotions to take control of one's dream.    Once one has taken control of their dream,  the dream becomes as real as the real world.  With the exception  that the Dreamer  makes the rules.    A true Dreamer can spend an eternity in their own dream, and wake up and only one night as passed.   Experience gained in one's own dream are 1/100th what they would be, as there are no real challanges when one is the one making all the rules.  One can then spend an inventing point to make this a "fixed" dream. 

Once one has mastered True Dreaming,  one can then learn Dream Walking.  Wd100.   When you are in a lucid dream state, one looks to a mirror.  When facing one's own reflection in the dream, you reach out to open the mirror like a door.  If the roll is successful, a door is opened to the Dreamworlds.  From this door, one can explore the Subtle Realms.   Beware, once you cross the threshold,  you are no longer  the master.   You are just denizen of the Immateria.

The Dreamworld is created by the concentration of thought and dreams of everyone on an entire world. Dreamspace is the universe created by the vast untold clusters of Dreamworlds. Remember, some infinities are larger than others, and as each dream world (the dream plane version of a world) is as infinite as the imagination of each person, that infinite world is located in a much larger infinity of the dream plane version of the universe.
Experienced Dreamers can travel about Earth's Dreamworld. They can visit other's dreams, they can visit imaginary places, and some can use the pliable dreamtime to visit the Earth in the far future or the far past.
Some dreamers have even claimed to invade the minds of slumbering people, and to live other's lives...

In some books, notablebly the Pnakotic Manuscripts, there are mentions of some places that remained fixed in the Dreamlands. Fabled Olathoe beyond the river Skae is one such place. Lomar is another, and the legendary city of Kadeth, beyond the Cold Wastes has been the failed destination of a few dreamers.
The Great Race of Yith is one of a few races that have come to Earth's Dreamland from "beyond the Gulf of Glaaki". They use the Dreamtime to travel to and from various bodies in the early Solar System to the far future. It is this race that wrote the manuscripts, named after their only remaining city, Pnakotus, in Antarctica.
It is said that only four humans have ever returned from travelling beyond Earth's dreamlands, and three were reduced to gibbering madmen. Only Randolph Carter came back to tell his story. He was able to travel between material worlds also, with the aid of his Silver Key. Alas, he has left Earth altogether and is said to reign as a king in Ulthar.

Scholars and dreamers debate exactly what the Gulf Of Glaaki is. Some say it is the Space between Dreamworlds, other the space between Dream universes! If the later is true, then the Great Race is indeed, a far travelled visitor

The Phoenix House

Also Known As Castle Pentagram

Dick will attempt to Construct roughly a 100' Diameter Castle on the current Property He owns outside of Portland. This will be on the spot formerly occupied by The Century House.

The Castle will be placed on top of a Ley Line and Draw it's protective Magics from the Ley Line. This will require several inventing points as well as plenty of $$ and resources.

Design:

The Castle will be as stated roughly 100' in Diameter. The Halls on each floor and sub basement will be in the shape of a Pentagram and the walls will close what would be considered The Magic Circle. A Tower will be placed at each point of The Pentagram and other Arcane Symbols will be drawn or etched into the floors and the walls to strengthen The Magic. Expectations are for the Castle to have six levels total. Three above ground and three below. The top of each Tower will also include Solar Panels for less Mundane uses for Energy. Lights and Electric.

Construction:

The actual stone is yet to be determined and may be based off what is most available in Oregon. Research has shown there are several Basalt Quarries in the area. Basalt is used as a Building Stone and runs Dark. (Pretty cool). It is also an excellent insulator.

The top wall on the perimeter of the third floor will have a 1/2" square carved out to complete the circle magic. It would be nice to inlay that with something rare and expensive to strengthen the Circle Magic but Dick is not made of money. Perhaps Silver but the cost would still be outrageous.

Physical Resources:

1. Magic
2. Cantrip?
3. Dirty Eddie and any Dwarves available on Earth. Yes Dick knows they are also expensive.
4. Possibly bring resources from The Dreamlands. Need to be careful as doors left open too long can be dangerous.
5. The Sisters of St. Herne
6. Mundane resources. Contractors and such. Quite a bit going on right now since Party Like It's 1999 happened.

Monetary Resources:

Dick has a Wealth of 13 and is Training in Wealth. May be wise to "Import" some funds from The Dreamlands. Perhaps another Inventing Point in Finance or Capital. Sell the Land where the "Mason Lodge" Incident took place? May have to inspect that first.  Sell the Condo in L.A.. Dick is currently there and needs to see how much Damage Robin Goodfellow (AKA Puck)has caused his entire personal life. Probably quite a bit. May need to see what Funds can be taken from The Sisters of St. Herne.

Perhaps Dick can also get some Government Funding. The Phoenix House could become a Non for Profit Agency that takes in certain less privileged individuals. Like Dwarves and Magically less experienced individuals.

Physical Design

The top point of the Pentagram would be at the Back of the house and of course have a Tower. The exact opposite of that would be the main Doors. Those doors would open to a Huge main Room with walls on angles to the right and left and come to a point straight ahead. Based off the premise that there will be a total of six levels, each level will have eleven rooms unless dividing walls are placed. Quite simply just picture entering a Giant Pentagram and the lines of the Pentagram form the Hallways and walls of each of the Rooms.

Big Update

Construction will begin on The Phoenix House!! Cantrip will assist due to a trade. Dick will still be wary as with all magic you have to be careful. Dick first needs the physical work done from His designs.

Things Found and to be researched after raiding the unconsciuos body of the Acolyte from The Mysterium

Wand:

-4 to reduce casting time of Spells and Power Consumption. Example Spell with 8 pr would now use 4 pr and take 4 phases less to cast


Hollow Bone with Three Scrolls

Protection from Weather
Protection from Fire
Protection from Normal Missles

One Ring

Homing Ring which can be used to return the wearer to The Mysterium. Need to update that as a copied Spell also

Three Potions

All Healing. Potions will cure all Ilnesses and grant one Healing Rate to the imbiber

Two Daven Feathers

Material Components to a very nasty Spell Dick does not yet understand. The spell will remove the individual fromm existence as well as all knowledge and memory of them. What about creating a lesser version where people forget little things about you like maybe your name but remember everything else? Hmm.....

Boots of Levitation

Levitate at Normal Ground Movement Rates. I love these......

Now to find out more about Maeve.......

Nimbus: Causes a glowing nimbus to surround the intended target

Mend: fixes small tears in clothing or otherwise makes worn items seem like new

Protection from Insects: protects the receipient from minor biting insects like gnats, mosquitos, some flys. Nothing so powerful that it would protect against anything that could actually cause damage. More like a magical "Off" bug spray or a citronella candle

Tattoo Magic:

Thinking about this for a while with Dick. First step will be to use an Inventing point for tattooing. Thinking he can Tattoo arcane symbols on himself to take the place of some spell components and save some time and power. Spend the power points when doing the Tatooed Spell and save it up for when it is needed. He would use his own blood for the liquid as well as other things to mix in and basically have a potion or some type of stored Magic in the Tattooed symbol.

The quote below is from John's Rulebook Modifier.


"To use magic one must have the knowledge areas of Occult, Mysticism, Presdigitation and spell craft.    Each school of magic is also its own knowledge area. Then a wizard can learn as many spells as they have intelligence points.  If all this is met, and they have the needed reagents, they can then cast the spell.
      To cast a spell one must concentrate and move.   This takes time.   For example, the spell  “Fulmination” (evocation magic)  cost 4 power and it casts a lighting bolt.   The caster spends 4 power, and 4 movement points.  For the next four phases he is casting this spell.  If the mage’s action was on phase 20, then the spell will fire off on phase 16. If he is hit and takes damage, or hindered during the casting time, the spell is lost, the power and movement spent.  This is why most mages will have goons to protect them. Or carry amulets that instantly fire off prepared spells.  Magic can be very deadly but it can also be hard to do."

  Dicks Bonuses

  Assuming that Components are in place or not needed:

+4 For Additional known letters of The Language of Creation

+4 If using a Wand ( Dick currently has two)

+1 for older Spells prior to the White Event ( The Universe moved one step closer to Chaos)

Prior to casting a D20 must be rolled Vs Int to confirm the Spell can even be cast. Critical Hits and Fumbles count and reactions to these will be based off the type of Spell Magic used. The first D20 is just to see if the Magic can be cast. If the Spell itself requires a To Hit roll an additional D20 roll would be needed.

Castle Pentagram AKA The Phoenix House Front Door:

The door must have course have swinging iron gates outside just in case of any troublesome Fairies. Also a Iron handle.

Very important. The door must have a view hole made of crystal with Read Aura Spell cast on it just to see who may be coming for dinner.......

Cantrip says the Dwarven foreman says that he things the best approach for a magic circle is to have a perfect silver circle buried on the perimeter of the property and then a few inches inside that circle, on the ground, an iron fence.   

Also, outside the magic circle, a few copper glyphs, powered by Dick, to ward off those who have no business with the lord of the manor.   Some sort of "mind your own business" spell.

Sister Alicia

  Keeper of The Library

Baronet and Alchemist Ivan Cursk

This kind gentleman is currently residing in a copper jar in a basement in a home in Wales. At least his brain is. The Mi-Go were good enough to save that portion. Cursk found the secret of Phlogiston Flame and the Efreet. His body sadly was incinerated when he summoned The Efreet Prince Nez without the use of a Magic Circle. Phlogiston is  created when a Ley Line passes through a star. He now spends most of his time in Dreams. Dick likes him

New Spell Idea

Orb of Resistance ( or some other name)

The spell wraps the subject in an opaque sphere that stretches somewhat with them but hinders attacks and movement. Subject has to make all attacks against stretching defense as they are encased in that same type substance

What is in Dick Dantes Medical Bag?

Spectacles w/Lenses made of clear crystal

10 Iron Ingots

Tanis Roots

2 Mithral Scalpels (two left in his room in the Castle)

A Vial of Modis Blood mixed with Cthulu Goo

Contents from Triage's Medical Bag. (Need Details)

1 Wands from Mysterium Acolytes (Other Wand in his room in the Castle)

1 Homing Ring from Mysterium Acolyte

2 Potions of healing

1 Scroll. Protection from Fire

1 Scroll protection from Weather

1 Scroll protection from Normal Missiles

1 Daven Feather  (The Other one is in his room in the Castle)

A copy of Jim Buthchers Storm Front ( he did not finish reading it yet)

Healing Kit, you know the kind like real Dr's have?

Need to add spell  components and qty

  Dick returned to his shell of a home in Portland. The Dwarves had made quite a bit of progress and the outer walls of Castle Pentagram had been erected along with a makeshift roof.

  It was time to begin preparations for a new spell. Dick bartered with the foreman. He traded one of his now nearly useless Mithral scalpels for additional funds.

  While waiting for the funds to clear Dick took a walk to the rear of the property while enchanting his "spectacles". He was able to see the flow of the Ley Lines criss crossing his property until he stumbled into the Nexus point and came upon a great Tree that reached thousands of feet into the air.

Strange. He had never seen the tree before. Dick used his Dragon Hide levitation boots to rise up along the side of the tree. Upon reaching the top he came across a floating city of castles and Giants. Not always being a complete buffoon Dick was happy to simply look upon the city and not go wandering. He descended back down and would await another day to go exploring

As he reached back to earth Dick realized that this was one of the Great Trees. Call it a Junior World Ash for lack of a better name. The Tree straddled multiple realms. Earth, Arcadia, Aerth and Urth as well as the Cloud Cities. Lets not think what it may connect to if heading downwards, yes?

It was a gate but Dick was concerned as it must let Travelers pass both ways. It seems the Castle Pentagram was also going to have to be a watchtower. He had an idea to add telescopes to the Towers on the Castle and imbue them with the same magic as his spectacles.

  After a few days the funds from his transaction cleared and Dick prepared his spell of Calling. For seven nights Dick laid out various Gifts and Treats. Small Toys, Bits of red meat and saucers of milk. Dick would wait each night for Him to appear but always seemed to fall asleep. Each morning the little items would be gone. On the Seventh night however Dick finally met Him.

  A Gray and Black Tabby appeared and approached Dick. He of course demanded to have his back scratched. We Humans are after all simply just tools to these Creatures.

The Spell was complete and Dick had successfully called his Familiar.

Well Hello Gygax..........

Use Ley Line to Power Castle Pentagram it's Protections.

Thoughts. Use some type of conduit to channel a small amount of Power from the closest Ley Line. Something like a Cosmically Enhanced copper line or lead wire.

Check out the new robe. Make sure no surprise spells were cast on it. Just be safe.

Spells

Read Magic

Read Languages

Read Aura

See Magic

Fairy Glamour

Iron Hide

Mysterions Infallible Curse Bolt:

The Ruby Slippers

Spirit Wrack

Dark Gate

Contact Guardian

Protection from Weather

Protection from Fire

Protection from Normal Missles

Cure Wounds

Cure Illness

Levitate

Detect Magic

Light

Restoration

Exorcise

Perplex

Fumble

Purify Water

Shower of Sparks

Black Cat

Create Water

Create Plant Life

Detect Life

Circle Magic: Protection from Meta Beings

Circle Magic: Protection from Magic

Cure Meta Psychosis

Summon Efreet

Obfuscate

Find Familiar

Solarmancy

Gygax Concept Art by Wolf Girl

Scene: Dick Dante sits in his Library in Castle Pentagram sipping Chamomile Tea.

  Ah, Cantrip, I did not see you there in the doorway. Please come in and sit with me, we need to talk.

  Can I interest you in a cup? No? Very well. Would you be so kind as to pass the sugar then since you will not be joining me in a cup. No, I'm sorry not a cube, the bowl, seems I have developed a bit of a sweet tooth lately. (Laughs uncomfortably)

  Cantrip my friend. You have been so kind to me over the last several months and I want to show my appreciation for all your assistance. As you know after my "Transformation" I immediately began writing a formula for what I was going to call a "Clone" spell. My thoughts being to use a few hairs from before my transformation and create an exact duplicate of myself. I would then afterwards complete a spell to transfer my essence from this current form to the Clone.

  After much thought I have decided against this idea but that being said I have put so much work into the spell so far I want you to have my notes. Perhaps you can complete it yourself. Feel free to use the Library of course and  consider The Phoenix House to be your home away from home as it were.

  Who knows what uses it may be. Perhaps for healing someone who is beyond all hope of healing with any other means?

  What do you mean? "Why have I changed my mind with going forward with the reversion?"

  Cantrip my good friend. This is who I am. This is who I was always meant to be. I like this new body. It is mine.

Tattoo Magic

New Spell Idea

Magic Tattoo: This Spell allows the caster to prepare a spell in advance and place it in storage in a Tattoo on the body to be used at a later time. The spell cost would be the original spell cost plus one PR for every day the caster wants to store the spell. Material components would be the original spell plus the casters blood. The caster not need be an artist. The components from the spell to be stored are mixed with the casters blood and smeared on the body where the Tattoo is to be placed. The caster concentrates and the stored spell is placed on the body in whatever picture the caster can imagine.
This type of spell would most likely be best used with protection spells or body altering type spells but could also be used offensively.

Spell failure can be quite rough as a botched attempt can cause the spell to act upon the recipient in a negative way immediately so be careful where and when you cast this.

Bumping for myself. Have to do a lot of updates and just deleted a bunch of posts