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>>92607924

>no magi case

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>>92607499
>A way to help with that, if you make a contract with a monster they are bound to follow your orders no matter what. Theoretically that means you could force the monster to lose the merge by commanding them too, so thats a possibility to ensure control.
If it was that easy wouldn't the Auspices have done that? Don't you have to first form a familiar contract before merging into a heteromorph?

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>>92607957
Mistakes were made.

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>>92607963
>If it was that easy wouldn't the Auspices have done that? Don't you have to first form a familiar contract before merging into a heteromorph?
As far as we know, it does not require a familiar contract to merge (because we dont know how its done) and that the auspices were done on either unwitting or voluntary people. You have the potential to be the first to retain control

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>gives away one of your core magics as a freebie to everyone
What the FUCK was Italics thinking?

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>>92607987
It sure didn't hurt Evoco's popularity.

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>>92607987
Its based, anyone can have a familiar after a long and annoying process. Only evocos can snap their finger and do it with no hassle. Having a familiar is a very wizard thing, makes sense the summoners can do it easier

>>92607987
I thought the same, but upon deliberation the basics of familiars and alchemy are difficult enough without the proper clans that it’s fine. You can essentially only do them ritual style, so it’s all prep time stuff.

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>>92607982
>As far as we know, it does not require a familiar contract to merge (because we dont know how its done)
Evoco and Orochi merging is described as both the first familiar contract and the birth of the first Heteromorph so I thought it was implied.

>>92608012
Its equally possible that among the less than a dozen auspices nobodies ordered them to lose, the auctor didnt know what he was getting into

>>92608008
>Alchemy
Ostane has enough going on that any magi being able to make a potion hardly impacts them too. Only Nightingale might be able to make lifeforms, but nowhere near as well as Ostane can make homunculi. Anybody can make a potion, but only Ostane can summon working potions out of pure mana. Ford and Ulster might be able to enchant or make gear, but so can Ostane, and while Ford can also summon their gear out of thin air, when an Ostane does it, it's permanent. And most importantly of all, nobody else can directly transmute energy and matter into all its various forms just with the application of mana, though Drac can create the basic elements out of mana. A Drac can summon a pile of dirt or turn dirt into a dirt spear, but Ostanes can turn a pile of dirt into C4. They're a very generalist clan that does a few things better than others, and a good number of things just as well.

>>92608018
>indoctrinates her clan into believing being spiritually eaten by a monster is a good thing
>has done this to all her clans most promising summoners to turn them into pawns for her great ritual
>plans to do this to (you) as well since you're such a talented summoner
Remind me again why people are trying to waifu this literal evil monster?

>>92608063
Why is Evoco even a woman
>orochi is a male
>evoco was a male
>they merge
>end result is a snake loli somehow
Lusting after Evoco is two steps removed from faggotry

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>>92608063
I interpreted the Evoco exclusive line under Evoco to be (You) confronting her about wanting to conquer the Auspice rather than be conquered by it, judging by how she talks about humans struggling being entertaining, and her accepting to train you so you have the opportunity to actually win when the time comes.
>>92608068
Because Orochi is a centuries old hedonist and has gotten bored and wants to do something degenerate and new.

So losing part of the soul will cause destroy the corresponding body part? What's good is Healing magic when soul damage is nearly untreatable?

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>>92608078
Magi Case builds by Main Clan:
>Ager:
>>92476089
>>92504718
>>92564365
>Aozdou:
>>92484166
>>92576894
>>92588578
>Atman:
>>92598130
>Bathory:
>>92477538
>>92480573
>>92489335
>>92484827
>>92494709
>Devil:
>>92488488
>>92493067
>>92502955
>Drac:
>>92490648
>>92601166
>Edo:
>>92571024
>>92496538
>>92585317
>Evoco:
>>92557618
>>92564364
>>92598017
>Faber:
>>92491930
>>92498548
>Ford:
>>92479178
>>92480194
>>92550449
>>92482959
>Galileo:
>>92584855
>>92484430
>>92549585
>Howtizer:
>>92559524
>>92603200
>Karrylicht:
>>92483335
>Lionheart:
>Malivent:
>Meirin:
>>92503933
>>92551205
>>92584427
>Nightingale:
>>92493915
>Ostane:
>>92596595
>>92571580
>Ulster:
>>92597613
>Yaga:
>>92604950
>Yggdrasil:
>>92477794

>>92608087
Most people and things don't target the soul.

>>92608087
There's one (1) known source of soul damage and it's very Atman clan (a very peace loving clan that rarely causes problems) members

>>92608087
>soul damage is nearly untreatable
It's not? Chronomancy, Alchemy, Necromancy, and Soul can easily heal souls. Healing gets fucked again.

>>92608101
Moron, you think souls can survive suns, black holes, space tears, or mountain shattering punches?

>>92608113
>you think souls can survive suns, black holes, space tears, or mountain shattering punches
Yes? Why would mundane kinetic and thermal energy damage something as ethereal as a soul? Damage to the soul might affect the body but that doesn't mean the reverse is true.

>>92608113
I get Chronomancy but the other don't seem so.Even Soul Restoration doesn't say anything about healing soul.

>souls can survive suns, black holes, space tears, or mountain shattering punches
Yes? Souls are immune to physical phenomenon, no?

>>92608063
I can fix her
>>92608068
Shapeshifting it seems, and she'll never swap back because (you) only like women

>Wtf do you mean I can't just shoot a ghost!?

>>92608128
>>92608128
>>92608129
Souls are not immune to physical damage. Want to go to extremes? How about a big bang? Can you say that souls aren't affected by something of that level?

>>92608063
I can make her worse and also be an evil monster with her.

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>shitposters are here to collect (You)s again
Ah, /cyoag/. The most easily baited general.

>>92608136
idk man just get a better gun. sounds like a skill issue to me.

Why hasn't mcyoag taken a liking to Magi? Do they just have bad taste?

>>92608141
yes, none of it should work on souls.

>>92608151
>Do they just have bad taste?
Yes, its mcyoag

>>92608151
mcyoa can't read. They mostly look at pictures

>>92608151
Because an mp is already being ran here. Why else would all the builds be collected like this?

>>92608157
Because anons want (You)s and for someone to say 'nice cock bro', they don't want to play with you they just want attention.

>>92608151
Its multiplayer option has an explicit limit to the size of the party.

>>92608176
Everyone deserves a nice cock bro once in a while

>Tok build got a D ranking
Is that why there's been so much shitposting lately?

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>>92608151
You're the only ones in the world who actually like italicshit

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>>92608128
>>92608141
I swear i've seen a similar debate before but I can't place where...

>>92608071
>Exile
>Chosen One - Terraformer (5)
>Chosen One - Dislocation (5)
I'll go terraform planets. I'll jump to empty alternate realities and use my gravity master abilities to navigate through space until I reach a suitably large ball of rock, then make them livable.

>Monolatric Disciple of The Eternal Champion
>Demigod - Sustainer, Lifegiver (8)
>Minor Miracles (2)
Standard do-gooder. I'll protect people with Lifegiver golems, heal them with Sustainer, and cash in on this with Hero, while using Indomitable to keep their spirits up and encourage them to keep th faith even in the toughest times. Minor miracles are a way to build trust without having to tap into divine abilities.

>>92608238
must be from a shitty cyoa

>>92608071
Exile
> Manse
> Artifact (Sophist), Phylactery
> Cash Up Front

Multiverses greatest con man. Steal everything that isn't nailed down & hire everybody useful. Move worlds, rinse and repeat. If you can get through the ridiculous traps & wizards in my base, good luck finding my phylactery in the pile of magical items I've accumulated.

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>>92608078
>Primary Ygg
>Secondary Faber, Charting specialization
>Overlay and entwine "basic" spells tightly enough to create patterns recognizable as distinct higher-level techniques
>Peer into the Rationalities ever closer to the point of creation itself, achieving higher insights to counterweigh greater and greater Creative forces
>Eventually unwind entire Anomalies as simply as an archmage unwinding a spell, trying to diagnose the world as a doctor does a patient
Behold, peak wizardry.

>>92608238
Kino

>>92604950
>Male Yaga
Man you are fucking doomed.

>>92608391
Reason won.

>>92608430
Not if you create immeasurably fucked-up things every so often as a treat.

>>92608391
Behold, anon has invented homosexual magic.

Which clans have the most money? Do you guys have any plans on earning money beyond your salary as an investigator?

>>92608473
Ostane is probably rich as shit, what with the whole transmuting gold thing (that's probably regulated to fuck because of that.)

>>92608473
Ostane and Ford are probably the most rich. Ostane can just make gold at a certain skill level and Ford owns all technology-related Magi corpos

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Agerlicht still winning?

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>>92608561
We never stopped.

>rinfag

>>92608607
I promise you he hasn't even played the og fate

>>92608561
Agerlicht was never winning

>>92608561
its a universal constant

>>92608414
It'll be fine, the auctor and archmagus are my companions. They have modernised a lot as well.

>>92608681
Didn't pick lady womb-less too? She seems friendly to your plight too, just incredibly passive.

>>92608681
>modernized
>become LESS misandrist
They went backwards, not forwards.

>>92608561
Rip soundbro. Hope he gets his boilermakers and thicc cultivators somewhere.

>>92608684
Wait, yeah that was the one I was talking about, not the archmagus.

Italics? You might want to take another look at the companions for Magi Case, and maybe tighten up the requirements for some of them. Given the wildly different backgrounds and power levels between the characters, and the general clique-ish nature of the Clans, it would make sense that some of them cost more slots, or have other requirements. Belonging to the same Clan, taking certain cases, having certain skills (reflecting shared interests) . . .

It makes sense that everyone can take the companions who also work for the investigative bureau. They're (your) coworkers, and (you) would likely bump into them, sooner or later. In the halls, at the office Christmas party, etc.

It also makes sense that (you) could take (your) clan members. They could be relatives, teachers/students, a mentor . . .

Same with friendly Clans. There are dozens of reasons (you) could know them, and nothing stopping (you) from getting friendly with them.

The problems start to crop up with rival Clans, people with very high rank in their Clans, or people who just hate the investagors as a group (like the one Yaga witch).

It seems odd that (you) could have a good working relationship with six auctors, for example. Or have no relationships with anyone in (your) clan or the bureau itself. Or that (you) could be friendly with the archmage in charge of a rival clan . . .

My suggestion would be to increase the cost for the auctors (they're major players who are hard to get noticed by, but who have a lot of free time if you do catch their eye), limit the player to just one archmage (since they're busy and tied to various political structures), and ban certain adversarial pairings - like no Devil friends for Atman investigators.

Optionally, you could allow people to get around some of that as a reward for taking certain cases. After all, things can get heated in the field, and enemy-of-my-enemy is a great way to make new friends.

>>92608777
>You shouldn't be able to befriend Auctors because I'm a little faggot and can't resist taking all of them, all of you should be constrained by MY issues because I can't control myself!
This is obviously your core problem that lead this entire dogshit post.
>You should be forced into using your clan's shitty companions or have less companion options, like if you're an Ostane with its cardboard companions or you're in Ulster or somewhere else with only 3
Also you're ignoring how a lot of companions are clearly designed for specific backgrounds (like being a teacher) and thus if you're NOT a teacher in their clan you're fucked, or if you are a teacher and not in their clan you can't take this obvious plothook.
>If you pick an unpopular background option like Researcher, you should be fucked out of picking companions because none of them are exclusive to your background, meaning you have less options than everyone else for no gain
This is another example of you ignoring how many cross-clan companions are specifically designed for some backgrounds, and how some backgrounds wouldn't give a shit about clan at all (eg. Contractor.)
>Increase the cost of Auctors
Back to point one, you have no self control so you want to ruin things for everyone else.
>Limit the player to just one archmage
Makes no sense, several archmages are responsible for or promote cross-clan outreach, including a few who are specifically more tied to out-of-clan investigators, logically (eg. Edo and Yaga.) Beyond that companions aren't ALWAYS with you, it also represents friends, people you know, just visit or write to occasionally, making your argument moot.
>Muh rewards for cases
So, again, fuck over people who are in unpopular sections of the bureau (eg. Homicide), unfairly benefiting others.

>>92608777
Reason number 16384846272 of why you shouldn't listen to non-authors when it comes to making cyoas. What a stupid suggestion. Italics knows better than you.

>>92608777
>It makes sense that everyone can take the companions who also work for the investigative bureau.
They're all trash, I don't want them. Lower family peasants, incompetent losers, uppity brats, all filth.

>>92608777
Based trips, I agree with everything in this post. Ignore the other two, they're probably lolifags or lolifag-adjacent enough for their opinions to be worthless.

>>92608814
There is not a single loli in my build.

>>92608820
That's cool, but I don't recall asking.

>>92608777
>(like the one Yaga witch
Did you not read her profile about how her entire goal is to fuck you over? Of course she'd accept to be your companion if you were dumb enough to ask, it gives her a shot at ruining your life.

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>>92608089
Finally finished this Ostane/Meirin build:
https://pastebin.com/UtK6Cuym

I wanted to write more in the paste but it's really late (early) for me.

>>92608810
1. I'm impressed that you took the time to do all that.

2. Why wouldn't researchers be able to pick the more scholarly companions? Or the more adventurous ones who'd be more prone to stumble on to the mysteries (you) are researching?

>>92609071
There are no Researcher specific companions like there are for Contractor, Instructor, or Mundane. Beyond that most of the scholarly companions that do exist play their information extremely close to the chest such that they are clearly inter-clan targeted and not really for out of clan magi (like Henriette.) Regardless that was meant to be a general example of restricting companion choice further isn't ideal. The amount of companions seems like a lot until you start taking into account background variety and how that intersects with it.

>>92609030
If you had the choice, which character were you going to wife? I know you didn't like any of the ones you had the option too now. Also, describe to me what you wanted your magic you wanted to auctor does, because i'm unfamiliar with the anime you gave.

All in all I think you did a solid job on it, good work anon

Materialization is the magic that cleaves closest to the ideals of Reason. When Reason throws off the kiddie gloves and curbstomps the Magi for good, only we will be spared. Join Ford Clan and be saved, or stay with the other 20 and be damned.

>>92609321
>fordfags are pawns of reason
Maybe evocofag was onto something

>>92608089
OK, but which house's build characters would have the best internal dynamic, assuming they all knew each other? Something tells me the vampires would fight amongst themselves a lot.

>>92609331
Atman, Karrylicht, Nightingale, Ulster, Yaga, and Yggdrasil by virtue of not having to deal with another anon's autism.

>>92609331
i want to say fordDEITIES would have the best camaraderie but we all know >>92609346 is the true answer

>>92609346
I'd imagine most of the characters would be far less autistic than the anons writing them. You usually have to play at least a little politics in this setting if you don't immediately start out with Auctor-level power.

>>92609329
>all this talk about wanting to understand creation, get closer to creation, make portals to creation, and drag creation into the world from everyone in the CYOA
>not a single instance of anyone wanting to understand reason or bring it into the world
>somehow it's still winning
You should know better than to bet against the winning team anon.

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>>92608089
Best build for making Ulster seethe.

>>92609331
The Devil dynamic would be the two older magi relentlessly clowning on the young edgelord with delusions of grandeur, but secretly they admire his spirit and want to see what he will become with "proper Devil tutelage" (ie. getting trolled/put in dangerous situations).

>>92609384
So based italics said hed steal the card idea

>>92609390
Freirdegard is too much of a traditionalist and Greve lover to work with Mathew.

>>92609384
He would probably like the fact that even in the current era there are some new magical inventions. To maximize the seethe you need to beat him with something old, overused and boring.

>>92609467
Devils are ruthless enough not to get too attached, even to people they like.

Are you still pretending to care about Magi Case?

Have you really gotten so pathetic? You’re talking about builds now? I know it’s just a way to talk about your own. It’s really obvious.

After anons scolding I no longer care about Magi Case. Post CYOAs I should care about instead

>>92609522
Uh oh stinky!

>>92609580
>>92608078

>>92607909
great cyoa, unfortunately by its nature it lacks some kind of quest system or challenge, also not a fan on the inability to self inset, but why does epitaph looks so underwhelming compared with other choices?

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>>92608366
>italicsfag calling entropist shitty
ironic

Name: Gaius Bael Drac
Gender: Male
Age: Young Adult
Background: Magic Researcher
Investigation Unit: Magical anomalies and Monsters Unit
Position: Magi Investigator
Family: Upper Family
Clan: Drac
Personal Skills:
Exceptional Observation
Formal Alchemistical Studies
Formal Spellcraft Studies
Magic Writings
Formal Monster Studies
Formal Magical Anomaly Studies
First Aid Care

Personal Equipment:
Investigation Team Contract
Alchemists Kit
Camouflage Kit
Leyline Connection Enhancer
Medical Kit
Portable Containment Box
Spellcasting Method: Projection

Companions:
Drac Empedocles Zarathustra
Alister Epoch Ager
Vanetta Lexicon Drac
Vassos Anastas Drac
Ramon Llul Ostante
Henriette Armitage Galileo

Cases:
The Catacombs of the Deep
The Bonds of Severing
The Skunkworks

Apparel: Magi Researcher Apparel

Born a member of the Bael family of the Drac clan. His family was decimated in attempts to reclaim their honor during the Drac-Devil war and only recently did they regain the status of an upper family and even still on shakier ground than most. His talent for his clans magic was , in particular wind and fire was notable and as such throughout his life he faced constant comparison to his estranged ancestor Helios. This imbued within him a single desire, to exceed Helios and be remembered for his own deeds, to do this he set 2 simple goals, become an auctor and defeat Drac in an even duel, only through this did he believe that he could step out from the shadow of Helios.

>>92610034
To achieve his first goal he pursued a career as a Magi Researcher, where he met Henriette and Ramon, searching through any scrap of knowledge he could find, mundane or magical to find a path which had not yet been explored. Over the course of this exhaustive study the fact he was researching the creation of magic set off alarm bells in the heads of some of those who remembered the creation of the devil clan and he was rapidly pressured out of his position. It was only through his families influence over Vassos Anastas Drac that he managed to get a position as a magi investigator in the Magical anomalies and monsters unit where he hopes to use any samples he collects to further his own research.

>>92610046
Interaction Magic:
Interaction magic is a derivative of precepts of elementalism, breaking the world down into fundamental elements to later analyze and manipulate, however instead of looking at these elements as physical things it chooses to interpret them as the set of fundamental forces found in the standard model of physics.
The most basic application of magic lies in the manipulation of forces, allowing for telekinesis. At it’s base this would allow the user to levitate and throw objects of a similar size to a football at the speed of a good throw. At higher levels however users can throw around cars and accelerate multiple smaller objects at much higher velocities.
Alteration is the secondary aspect of this magic and the one most favored by its creator. Through altering how an object interacts with the world something can be made to behave as something else, at least while mana is being supplied. At lower levels this could be making a baseball bat as sharp as a knife. At the highest levels one can begin to alter themselves or make more permanent alterations allowing one to become intangible at the cost of huge amounts of mana.
Observation allows the user to observe and comprehend the interactions of objects around them. At lower levels this could be perfectly predicting the motion of a tennis a ball as it falls. At the higher levels the user could predict the interactions between people or other complex scenarios. This is also the power most fundamental to the magic as it is what allows for the comprehension of the fundamental forces by the human mind.

At the beginning of his career as a Magi investigator he is capable of only the most level of Observation and a reasonable level of Elementalism. He aims to act primarily as a support to his squad.

>>92610057
my magic is: alchemy, but with telekinesis
yawn

>>92610070
What do you gain from being rude to others?

>>92608071
BROTHERS
OF
MADNESS
SCHIZOPHRENIA
WOOOOO

>>92610034
The idea of being a Bael Drac is pretty cool. Interaction Magic feels janky though.

>>92610131
How so? I'd like to know so I can improve it.

>>92610070
Personally I think it's more like Spatial magic but with a little bit of alchemy/elemental infusion instead. I mean half of that shit is literally just Spatial manipulation except for fine control over an object instead of warping the space between it or around it. I mean even the part about going intangible at mastery is just the same as Spatial's mastery over Spatial Displacement, and I don't see why combinations with Gravity Application and other spatial abilities couldn't mimic telekinesis.

>>92610172
Telekinesis and Alteration fit together since they're both about physics and forces but Observation doesn't really fit the physics theme and is already a thing as Chronomancy's Temporal Foreknowledge. This anon >>92610194 explained it better though, overall its Spatial magic done via Elemancy.

>>92610214
It's hard to make a magic which does something which none other's can do. I was mostly trying to get a unique method of doing so.
Observation is a lot more reliable but a lot more restricted than TF.

>>92609331
ager because even though most of them want elspeth they can all have her due to timeline shenanigans

The real question is which clan would have the WORST internal dynamic assuming the builds knew each other. Easy answers could be bathory or devil

>>92610194
The intangible specifically is meant to be a play on the Devil auctor being Nothing that behaves as something, while it makes you something that behaves as nothing.

>>92610290
Its actually just two builds - Roger and two versions of Edward. They'd absolutely hate each other, Roger is on the Chronos side of the Ager civil war and hates women while Edward is an Elspeth simp.

>>92610356
does roger have a duo or anything? Edward is friends with evocochad apparently so that tips the war in favor of edward

>>92610396
I don't think so. The victory of the Elspeth side is pretty much set in stone with how much the odds are stacked against Roger.

Is Behlellmina even immortal?

>>92610507
He's 150 so he must be. Either he managed to combine the various basic magics for an immortality method or he's friends with someone who could grant him immortality.

All auctor builds are dishonest.

>Not just being friends with Tian, the incarnation of the tree of immortality

>>92610586
not all, just almost all of them

>>92608238
I miss it

>>92610637
I do too anon, I still like entropist and have my image build saved

>>92610586
>>92610632
Huh?

Someone make a lionheart build already

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>>92610637
we all do.
let's just hope entropistanon returns with another kino cyoa

>>92610964
He’s never coming back. It was a decisive shitposter victory, unfortunately.

>>92610964
For me it's Sangra. It took me hours to choose waifus but Sangra I knew from the moment I saw her she was coming with me.

Why do people complain about Ostane being gay for Drac, but not Tian being gay for Meirin?

>>92611276
They didn't read and it's not the most powerful Auctors so they don't care.

>>92610964
Total alta victory

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>>92610637
>>92610647
>>92610964
>>92610988
>>92611192
At least we know the spirit lives on in paladin & sovereign

>>92609292
>If you had the choice, which character were you going to wife?
I have a soft spot for tsunderes like Semnotes. I said no to her because she's very clearly set up for an Instructor character. Hagia's cute, but it's a bit too selfless for this character who, while not evil, is a bit shady. Shangdi is the kind of girl you want to take care of, but she's for Older Adults. I strongly like Mathieu's appearance, but her personality is unremarkable. I also, as a general note, like brats, but only brats that can be tamed, whereas the ones in this CYOA are presented as being untameable. On the balance, I don't think there are a lot of strong personalities who aren't either 1) Evil/selfish to the extreme, 2) Only interested in a mundane life. 3) An out and out hero. For someone who is a little more grey, like my character who doesn't like injustice but at the same time is here mainly for his own curiosity and can work with the shady characters, but also doesn't live just for the paycheck/mundane life and has big plans and ambitions, there's not a lot of girls who'd be there to accept and help him achieve that dream. The closest would be Ostane, who is too glued to Drac (and for older adults) for my taste. Beyond all that, if you point at a particular girl I can probably tell you why I didn't marry her.
>>92609292
>Also, describe to me what you wanted your magic because i'm unfamiliar with the anime you gave
I think I described the first one decently, but let me see if I have the world count to go into more detail (I'll make a second post if not.) The ToAru Espers are, essentially, one high-tier magician wanting to make anti-magic by creating a sort of collective unconscious reality field between Espers that'll overlay and turn reality into one of his design where magic isn't possible. It also has weird wavelengths where it touched on and calls down higher order, mysterious 'angel' organisms, who are similar to high level Enigmas like EyObs.

>>92609292
>>92611514
cont.

I'm not interested in the anti-magic aspect of it. Either way, this is accomplished by magi-science experiments on people's brains, which induce in them unique psychic (alt magic) powers. Espers have their own personal reality field that defies physics and works how they 'think it should', and projects that reality field outside of themselves. Everyone's power is unique but can be very similar to others, and through training and more experiments can increase and expand that power. However, the power is relatively 'narrow' in that you can't do a wide range of things, but have to stick with your power's theme, though it can be creatively interpreted through moon logic to do silly things. Example, say your power is Electromaster, you have control over electricity. That means you can shoot lightning. But what else is electric? Magnets are electomagnetism, so you can manipulate magnetism now, you can use that to control metal and fly. People's bodies and brains run on electricity, so you can short those out, or alter someone's thoughts and memories. Stuff like that. However, you can ONLY do things with electricity or that you moon logic to have to do with electricity, you'd never be able to, for example, create or manipulate fire. This is why I say it's like a reverse Universal, relatively narrow but has a much higher ceiling of power, instead of being versatile and weak. The highest level of an Esper is Level 6, where they become equivalent to the setting's 'magic gods', who can reality warp and overlay reality with a layer of reality that works according to their rules, and beyond that become similar to the 'angel' entities I described a bit earlier, taking on modified human forms as they progress from level 5 to the final level 6 point (a walking human star field, a flower oni, one guy is turning into an angel outright, that kind of thing.) Power would obviously need to be wound back to a little more reasonable for Magi Case of course.

>>92609292
>>92611514
>>92611536
>Here's a line break to call your attention to me switching to Umineko
As for Umineko it's going to be a much shorter explanation because it's both much more powerful and more freeform, aka simple. It works on 'witches' making declarations of varying levels of truth (truth from a certain point of view, truth as you know it, the absolute 100% undeniable truth etc) that are color coded, and so alter reality. They can use this to reality warp more or less freely in what are called 'catboxes', their personal hypothetical worlds, but it's ultimately a metaphor for being viewpoints and authors of a story, so convincing someone (the reader) that you're telling the truth is a very important goal of the characters, and if you're just a viewpoint them someone higher order (eg the author) can overwrite your truths with their truths.

Both magics have to do with the essential idea of 'truth', ToAru involves connecting to higher order truths (the 'angels') and cultivating your own personal 'truth', which you then attempt to project over reality. Umineko is about manipulating the varying levels of truth and how different people can interpret a story. Ultimately my issue is connecting either one back to my character's goal, in that he wants to know the truth behind magic and the orders of the world, and thus how he can expand or modify magic and the world itself to fight the decline of Magic and reach Truth.


And that's it. Feel free to call me incapable of summarizing (I am) and for anyone else to criticize my build >>92609030

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Magi Case spin-off Visual Novel like War of the Zodiac Brides when?

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>>92609030

>if you point at a particular girl I can probably tell you why I didn't marry her
Alda Folkvang
Erichto Pharsalia
Maria Karimi is a researcher just like you, all in on alchemy, dont seem like such a bad option.
Ilya Hermann is not terribly heroic anymore, more pragmatic just like you. But also still growing & can be manipulated by your actions.

Honestly those are people i would possibly have picked myself, but didnt. Still want to see why you neglected them however.

Nice work on that build btw, really worked on his personality. A tried & tested magus who has seen a little too much.
Good thing Shangdi is there to lift his spirits.

>>92611480
I'm a little suprised someone noticed it was me making stuff again, I like to think i've improved a little.
>>92611514
>>92611536
>>92611544
Anon gave me a fucking novel to read, i'll give this a read when I can be at my computer later. Appreciate the effort

>>92611544
Wouldn't you want Cosmic Magic for that? Since it's all about truth and higher knowledge. Anyway you could consider just making Divination Magic it's own thing, a type of magic focused on gathering and manipulating information.

>>92611276
>>92611405
I don't recall anyone complaining about any of them being gay because it's pretty clear you can fuck them straight. The REAL thing people aren't reading is Erichto's profile where it states outright that Yaga has a special commission to approve of yuri relationships in their clan. You'd think someone who wants to be the girl would pick up on that and make a Yaga build.

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Can I take some artistic liberties, even if they're non-canon? Also scrapped my idea of a cosmic rockstar, now he's just a generic sad musician with a hook to my other chara.
>>92608089
>Name: Öskar Malivent, "Orchestre Au Seuil"
Öskar was an orphan, he had no idea of his potential as a magus until a woman and someone who seemed to be her son picked him up from the streets where he used to beg for alms, hence his lack of family name.
>Gender: Male
>Age: Young Adult (21)
Although he was brought up with a good education and upbringing, he felt unsatisfied with his life. A chance meeting with an Aozdou magus during his trip to the Galileo clan, however, changed his entire life.
>Background: Life of The Mundane Magus
The magus, whom he has now never seen anymore after that harrowing night, had sternly advised him to never show his true capabilities to anyone from his clan, and he made good to do what he said, opting to become a musician instead. Incidentally, his latest commission was to make a theme song for a Ford Clan ad.
>Unit: The Rogue and Criminal Magi Investigation Unit
His current life, although fulfilling, lacks excitement, and thus he chose to apply as an investigator for the BISA. He would never admit that what the Ager Clan girl said to him was the main reason he joined the bureau.
>Rank: Magi Investigator
The girl said that the Aozdou magus had been missing for 10 years. Expecting clarification from the words he said that day, he took it upon himself to find the man. It's a shame his lack of qualification only allows him to be a Magus Investigator.
>Family: Upper Family
He was praised extensively by his "mother," the Malivent archmagus, even being told that he has the potential of an Auctor. Oskar always felt strange about that notion.
>Clan: Malivent, Galileo
He was always a Malilent. Right?

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I'll be playing Demon Lord again after this, I guess. Or can anyone post Entropist? Please? With a cherry on top?
>>92611748
cont.
>Skills: Charming Appearance, Criminal Connections, Dual Method, Undercover, Escape Artist, Fragmented Bloodlines, Magic Resistance
"He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled
therewith," the saying was true. Just within the year he was admitted to the RCMI Unit, he learned what crime really entails, and he can now never part with it, nor will he ever want to, knowing what fate has in store for him.
>Equipment: Conductor Baton (Catalyst Cane), Cellphone, Duplication and Forgery Kit, Recorder, Sealing Collar, Marriage Ring
>Spellcasting Method: Incantation, Catalyst (Conductor Baton) and Leylines (street where he performs)
>Magic: Music, Cosmic
Oskar's blend of magic is eerie. No sound seems to exist in his vicinity. His voice is soft, yet you can hear him clearly even from far away. He uses Memetic Imprint to plant Eldritch Knowledge in the minds of his listeners, and once they're debilitated enough, he takes over their consciousness in a snap. You may have put him in a corner, but once your companion suddenly starts frothing and saying unintelligible words, you know something is wrong.
>Characters: Bordicca, Asteris, Telos Clockwork Ford, Elspeth, Sara, and Grace
Pretty much everyone expects him to suffer. The marriage ring is there just in case.
Bordicca: Wants to use him as the next vessel.
Elspeth: Wants to see him fight against Bordicca
Sara: Helps Elspeth 24/7. Had a minor crush on her.
Grace: His mentor.
>Cases: The Curious Case of the Missing Files, The Tread of The Mistwalkers
>Apparel: Formal Suit

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>>92608089
>>92608078
Freya ‘The Bitch’ Noris Ager-Yaga
https://pastebin.com/dXeD7ZeM
Total Elspeth simp death.

>>92611705
Sorry anon, like I said, I'm really bad at summarizing stuff.
>>92611692
Alright let's give this a shot. I can remember these characters, but it might be best to give me clan names in the future so it's easier to refresh my memory.
>Alda Folkvang
I'm a lolicon so while I'm not only interested in lolis I feel like we're natural enemies. Alda is a decent girl and I actually considered taking her as a companion instead of Tycho and to do her personal extra case since it's monster/alchemy related. Ultimately it comes down to an ambition miss-match, her ambitions are political/career, while mine are scientific/magical. We'd get along fine for sure, but she doesn't 'call to me' if you know what I mean.
>Erichto Pharsalia
It's just another case of ambition miss-match, she wants to work in the shadows to slowly reform her clan and raise young magi, whereas I want to push magic and the pursuit of truth. We'd get along fine, but we're kind of moving in different directions. She's also a bit passive while my character is a very active 'go out and do it' type.
>Maria Karimi
She's a researcher but what you'd call an 'institutional researcher', her interest is in slightly pushing the bounds of an established science entirely within the normal paradigms, she's just not radical enough. She's also got a heavy focus on teaching students and administrative work, which drags her down as far as being someone who can go out and really push the bounds. From a more pragmatic perspective I was also wary about taking multiple characters from one clan, only reason Merin got two is because of the split specializations.
>Illya Hermann
She's another career girl whose identity is tied into pushing towards mundane economic safety/political power, so it's a sort of miss-match of priorities again. I also felt wrong to pick her if I wasn't also taking Dorotheus to work their plotline.
>Nice work...
Thanks, I wanted to write more about his family but ran out of juice.

In terms of suffering and how much they deserved it how would you rank the Auctors?

>>92611911
Ford hasnt suffered enough, Ulster should suffer more, agernigger is whatever and everyone else has suffered too much afaik

>>92611725
Yes, having Cosmic Magic might be more ideal. However the reason it ended up the way it did was because my build and conception of a character develops over time as I read the CYOA and think about who he is and how he engages with all this material, I had already invested a lot of headspace into how he acted in combat (which I didn't write down.) who his family was, and how that influenced his worldview by the time I decided what his overarching goal was, and I didn't want to throw it out and you can't have three magics (unless you invent one.) However, it can create a sort of interesting contrast and justification for it off the top of my head.

Point one, we're not always born with the perfect skillset for what we want to do/who we want to be. It's very realistic for someone to be interested in truth but not have the bloodline that's about pursuing truth, this just means his journey is harder. Point two, I gave him Sanitized Eyes to sort of 'make up' for that, and to help him in his career. I haven't thought of who his grandparents were, and I'm not sure if Sanitized Eyes are exclusively 'by birth' in the Galileo clan, but I can easily say he might be descended from a Galileo grandparent. Beyond that, simply having Sanitized Eyes and seeing the 'truth of the world' and Enigmas that nobody else can or would go insane to see is going to drive you to want to engage with them even if you don't have the perfect skillset to do so.

>>92611725
>>92611953
Ran out of space (and cut some more with it to give better formatting)

Point three, it adds some more depth to his character because now he has to lean on his friends and contacts within the Galileo clan (like Tycho) to help him fully explore and understand the Enigmas and Truth he's searching for. He can't lone wolf it entirely. Point four, a lot of Auctors invented their magic by studying out-of-clan disciplines, like how Ford studied Summoning + his natural Alchemy, or how Bathory touched on Summoning and the (not yet existent) Hybridization. Reason made this harder by not letting you swam magics recently, but you could still study a magic ACADEMICALLY without being able to cast it, and apply that to magic invention.

>>92611725
Ah I forgot to respond to your second point. As for Divination, I feel it's too narrow a concept to make a good independent magic, especially when Ager can already do it. It becomes a situation like, sure you can do it better than Ager, but they can do it just fine AND a dozen other things you can't.

>>92611948
Evoco, Edo, Ulster, probably Ostane, Bathory, Ford, Malivent must burn.

Reminder that italics is retarded and affecting time should also affect space, and gravity is a feature of both.

Fucking KILL yourself you uneducated nig nog. I’m sorry that was harsh I don’t actually mean this

>>92611984
Whats the hatred for evoco, edo, ostane and malivent

>>92611911
Ford, Mallivant, Bathory, and Ulster probably need to go, everyone else is fine or tolerable.

>>92611748
I like this one.

>>92611996
Malivent is a bodysnatcher, Edo and Ostane are both mad scientists and Evoco is just hilariously evil in general. Also, I should've added Devil onto that list.

>>92612005
Don't forget Helios

>>92612007
Why didn't you like mine.....

>>92612029
Helios is a non-issue, he doesn't do anything anymore. His Archmagus runs his clan completely and is a good guy.

>>92612036
I probably haven't read it yet, especially if it's in a pastebin.

>>92611993
Reminder that all four forces are unified so if you can manipulate electricity you should be able to manipulate magnetism (it's part of electricity), the strong and weak nuclear forces, and gravity too.

>>92608071
>Dualism
>Lazari, Akashic Sage - Communion
>Vedara, First of the Living - Terraformer, Sustainer
>Minor Miracles
>Mythical Companion
>Shaman, Wild Shape

>>92612046
YES! Everything meets in the end… it’s so beautiful… the music of the spheres…

>>92612022
I hadnt read malivent so I'll take your word for it, edo is just a lazy ass egotist now who needs to get put in their place.
What has ostane done thats worth hating?
Evoco is basically a retired saturday night cartoon villain at this point, I dont think she's done anything evil in god know how long aside from spreading propaganda and being a fucking moron

>>92612046
>so if you can manipulate electricity you should be able to manipulate magnetism (it's part of electricity),
This is why Magneto has electrical powers, and not just magnetic powers, in the x-men comics.
Shame the movies don’t see it this way.

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>>92612046
>all four forces are unified
Wait what, that theory got proven? Since when?

>>92612058
Ostane is basically a sociopath that only cares about 1. Her own curiosity and 2. Drac. That alone makes them worth ending, especially given how much power she has. And it doesn't matter whether or not they're doing evil right now, the fact that they DID evil and are willing to do it AGAIN in the future if the opportunity arises means they need to go.

>>92608078
Has anyone come up with ways other than the soul curse to kill auctors?

>>92612144
Insane speed seems like the best way. They only have human reaction speeds it seems and their actual passive defences are lacking, so just make yourself really really fast and kill them a shitload of times.

>>92611993
Time and Space were separated in the science world for centuries. Outside of physics, they are still treated as separate entities by majority

>>92612022
>Evoco is just hilariously evil in general.
It was just a prank, bro.

The only evil people are those who try to murder the Auctors when they have not committed any illegally wrong deeds and then pretend they are the goods guys.

Murder is wrong.

>>92612332
>Murder is wrong
Depends on the context

>>92612162
Intentional or functional ignorance is fine, and can even be argued as a fundamental requirement for magic in-general, but the truth still isn’t that. A true wizard (the wizard’s wizard’s wizard) would know this truth.

>>92612332
Legal does not mean good.

>>92612376
That's just anti-magi autism.

Good or evil, right or wrong - all nonsense. In the end, everyone is just doing what they want.

>>92612414
I want to fuck evoco

>>92612414
Indeed. And what I want, of course, is peace and goodwill towards men, so they have to go.

>>92611692
>Hagia on her trip to Aozdu territory

i like lore

Anons gun cowboy or punch cowboy?

>>92612617
DRAW

>>92612617
>punch cowboy
The fuck is this?

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>>92612617
little girl with a gun

>>92612081
Didn't you hear? It was making the rounds a couple of years ago, the lab responsible got fat stacks of grant money.

>>92612662
Can't find anything, link?

>>92612617
Cowboy Samurai... now HUSTLE

>>92612675
>spoonfeed me because I'm a brainlet can't use a search engine
N o

>>92612699
>>92612633
Dub's have decided. Thanks Anon.

>>92612643
Couldn't decide how my Lionheart build fought.

>>92605154
>Versus Ego Atman (Soul/Alchemy)
>Power Level: C ->A/S? for homunculi army
>Effectiveness as an Investigator: B
>Flavor: A -> B for lack of route to learning how to make Homunculi
Very fair assessment. I did try to substitute the homonculi requirements by basing them off of himself with his deep connection to his soul and what form it takes while also using the Revival Hearts as the main catalyst/cores for the homunculi but its probably still reaching. Been thinking about tweaking the build a bit more since I really like the idea of replicating your own soul, and have been considering dropping Fragmented Bloodlines to go pure Atman. Having alchemy was just a way to broaden his skillset and make clones, but it may fit his character better to forgo that line of magic as his main goal isn’t to make more of him, but rather become everything.

I don’t know all of the capabilities and use cases of Soul magic, but I’ve been toying around the idea of an ascension path by becoming a memetic entity. If there is a way to implement a piece of his soul onto someone without causing a clash of wills, to make a part of him bleed over someone else’s subconscious, he could start a plan to make a human collective of pure thought. Kind of like making a fucked up version of Reason putting everything in its place, except its to go against Reason by subtly guiding people to think beyond it. Or just straight up the Third Impact. Not sure if this has already been done by some Auctor cause I know some of them merged with relics and have become mostly immutable forces with their own minds eroded by their will. Versus however wouldn’t be interested in controlling, the loss of his own ego over those he implants his splinters of will into would probably be what occurs since he’s fine with sacrificing what normal people consider to be themselves in order to achieve his goal. If the legacy of Ego lives on through people’s actions, then he wouldn’t ever truly be gone.

>>92608078
What happens to your old magic if you make a new one? Do you just lose it?

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>>92611705
>someone noticed
Yeah you spoke before about you and your buddy working on your builds, while posting a meme image so it solidified my suspicions.
The memes are nice & lively, but bring with them a pint of sadness tho.

>>92611837
>clan names
Yeah my bad
>I'm a lolicon
Fuck, we opposites, I'm a hag enjoyer.
>Alda ambition miss-match
Feelsbad, could´ve been a super team, getting shit done in your respective fields.
>Erichto a bit passive
I find this perfect kinda, i mean you can rest your head on her lap after a long day. Always a place to call home with her.


But yeah, most of the less iconic characters lack that MC drive to bring change.

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>>92612903
>go pure Atman
please dont, it fits the pic & idea of the build splendidly.

>>92609331
The Meirins seem like they would all get along in that sort of "rowdy dojo" way although that applies to most of their house.

>>92613076
Meirin and Meirin sub-clan magi are all unified in the desire to protect granny and watch movies with her.

>>92613076
>>92613086
I kneel to the grandma helpers

>>92613086
>Ford
want to see the world burn.
>Merin
want to see Kung Fu Hustle.

>>92613021
>Fuck, we opposites, I'm a hag enjoyer.
I'm what I like to call a variety enjoyer. Sometimes I'm in the loli mood and sometimes I want to suckle on some fat naturally saggy tits with big nipples. Sometimes I want something inbetween, or a shortstack, or a pear-shaped girl, or an Amazon girl, etc. Not that my character would stoop to doing that I don't think, just talking about myself.
>Feelsbad, could´ve been a super team, getting shit done in your respective fields.
If I had seven companion slots she'd be up there, there's nothing actually all that wrong with her, and she presents a nice extra case for my build. I just don't see myself marrying her and had to make the call between a mission partner and someone who can help me with Enigma stuff.
>I find this perfect kinda, i mean you can rest your head on her lap after a long day. Always a place to call home with her.
I absolutely understand that urge, it just didn't feel right for this character in this time of his life. Another thing I'll say is that when I read her profile my first thought was "You know an Ostane or Nightingale Magus could probably help her with the pain and organ damage, maybe I should." but then the second thing I thought was, how would that interact with her curse? Magic interactions can be dangerous.
>But yeah, most of the less iconic characters lack that MC drive to bring change.
Very much a support group kind of vibe instead of a MC's trouble squad kind of vibe, yeah, at least with the non-criminal types.

>>92613158
Agendas for the other clans?

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>>92613158
>want to see the world burn.

Thought of a fun 3 character magi build team. Going to dl the cyoa and type it on the plane and post when i land

>>92613064
This image radiates mischief.

>>92613226
>playing with other people's characters
Based

>>92613263
Oh no I'm making 3 characters and putting them in a team

>>92613261
A mix between twisted ideals & a good public image.

a.k.a. his build.

>>92613276
Damn...

>no one picked my build for a team
It's over...

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>>92612903
>implement a piece of his soul onto someone without causing a clash of wills
My good sir, have you heard about the Malivent Clan? Rumors has it that their auctors did exactly what you've just described. Grab Formal Spellcraft Studies and Malivent FB, design a spell that would gradually erode someone's identity and at the same time attach a piece of your soul, turn yourself into John Lennon and be a world class musician, go to the Fords to make CDs and sell em for massive amount of dosh, activate your spell since now pretty much everyone has heard of your song, ???, profit.
>>92612740
>Couldn't decide how my Lionheart build fought
So I assume you're gonna become "Pssh, nothin personnel, kid" now? Since you're a cowboy samurai specializing in quickdraws?
>>92609331
>>92613172
The Aozdous mainliners are pretty chill. Two of us wants to teach our autistic Auctors about love, one via tender yuri and the other via fucking off to buy milk for 10 years (should've thought more about my backstory dammit). The last one will probably get his mind and self disintegrated if he actually performed that grand plan of his.
>TLDR: Aozdou
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you.
But switch all of the (You)s with Hirohashima.

>>92613285
>>92613293
Different anon here. As much as I would want to pick the co-op option I needed the other item slots. Could just say "fuck it" and do it anyway.

>>92608089
Besides the Edo/Galileo build are there any other SSSS ranked builds?

>>92613314
Mine was only A

>>92613064
Fair enough. I do really enjoy the faceclaim cause Versus can be both Hohenheim and Father in this situation. Now that makes me wonder if a Philosopher’s stone like in FMA could be made to provide a nearly limitless pool of mana to draw from. Surely someone from Ostane has made one right, feels like making an upgrade to Focusing Orbs has been looked into. Since Souls are a tangible force to control and put into objects, you could theoretically force multiple into a container… but I’m not sure if there’s a way to really generate mana since access to spellcasting methods may be impossible for the souls to draw in mana. I’d probably have to look into Catalysts more before I try to figure out a way to make it work. Wouldn’t actually use it for Versus but fun to think about.

>>92613314
Mine

Magi Case is too strong.

>>92607909
>every other link I try in the pastebin is either deleted or doesn't exist
Nice thread.

>>92613648
It's been like that for years

>>92613658
Clean it up then

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What the fuck is her problem?

>>92613665
Ford removed her ability to feel negative emotions towards him which meant that she could only become increasingly yandere.

>>92613567
What's your build?

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>>92608078
>walk into a building, examine it, instantly know every nook and cranny of the building including secret passageways and hidden alcoves
>touch a piece of tech, examine it, instantly know its structure, mechanics, how to replicate it, and how to use it
>its most basic level doesn't even require you to touch or be near the things in question, you just need to have it within eyesight to know how it can or could work
>can easily exploit this to act as almost clairvoyance
Hands down the strongest analysis ability in the CYOA.

>>92613674
Only her anger

>>92613692
*Burns himself out of mana*

>>92613725
Buy mana crystals, problem solved. You can afford them, right? You aren't poor, right?

Tok is a better author than Shitalics

>>92613734
>he can't make his own mana crystals
fucking loser

>>92613692
Not really, it only works on tech and the like so it's much worse than, say, future sight and mindreading

>>92613768
You're supposed to exploit Faber, not be one. You buy their entire stock, befriend them, lure them to a trap, kidnap them and nerve staple them into being obedient mana crystal producing machines. That is the Ford way.

>>92613782
It literally says it works on bridges and buildings.

>>92613810
> It literally says it works on bridges and buildings.
Yes, that's what I meant when I said tech and the like. My point is unchanged.

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>>92613810
fordniggers, not even once

>>92613674
She is angry at ford but she can't be angry at ford so she is angry at other things. Please be patient.

>>92610637
>>92610964
Why not make your own thread at this point then? Being it back

>>92604457
Honestly a little higher than I thought it'd get but I'm not gonna complain. KInda surprised that Defense and Sealing aren't more popular. I'm too creatively bankrupt to come up with spells myself, but they seems like the most fun to mess around with to e. Glad you enjoyed the fluff.
>>92609331
She's a good girl that deserves headpats.

>>92613829
If bridges and buildings count as tech and the like then that group might as well encompass almost anything made by human hands. Walk into the sewers, examine, instantly know of their layout and any hidden doors, zero in like a clairvoyant while avoiding any and all decoys. Come across a locked safe, examine, instantly know the combination and if it's boobytrapped. Come across a rogue mage's hideaway, examine, instantly know where the false floor leading to his torture chambers is. I don't know of any mind reading ability in the CYOA so I won't comment on that, and while Temporal Foreknowledge can give you greater clairvoyant ability, it is a far rarer, costlier ability that you aren't innately born with like Material Examination.

>>92613833
You're either a winner or a loser in this world, and FordGODS can never lose.

>>92614060
>If bridges and buildings count as tech and the like then that group might as well encompass almost anything made by human hands
unironically yes. even written language is technology (play civ)

>>92612961
you probably lose it and its replaced with your new magic
here's another question: do people that leave clans to join new ones gain their new clans magic?

>>92614060
>. I don't know of any mind reading ability in the CYOA
Howtizers bros we don't exist...?

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>>92614223
You can't leave a clan that way. Not anymore at least. So the only way to expand your new magic clan is too plap a ton of kids so they inherit your magic and go from there

>>92614060
Sure, material examination is USEFUL, but nothing you've listed here is really that impressive in the grand scheme of things. I mean, this is literal magic we're talking about here, there are far more powerful things to be doing than simply knowing the layout of an area.

> I don't know of any mind reading ability in the CYOA so I won't comment on that,
Illusion Magic lets you do that.

> while Temporal Foreknowledge can give you greater clairvoyant ability, it is a far rarer, costlier ability that you aren't innately born with like Material Examination.

That does still make it a better analysis ability than Material Examination, even if it is harder

>>92602734

>>92598017
Takehaya Ouroboros Evoco (Summoning/Soul)
Power Level: A/S
Effectiveness as an Investigator: B/A for monsters
Flavor:B
Mega coomer build is right. Interesting idea to create a new Magic Clan that would actually take advantage of him having so many wives. Bond Magic seems like a neat concept that has a buch of strong implications for the setting if successful. Before then, the combination of Summoning and Soul provides an interesting combo that provides some personal power to the well rounded summoner kit. Can handle any monster case easily with anomalies being reliant on their experience and resistance. Fully expecting him to be murdered by all his psycho wives, literally chose all of the most immoral and trollish ones. Pirating Telos from Ford is funny though. B

>>92491930
Kimotelam Solefas Faber (Mana)
Power Level: D->S unlikely but would be a straight shift from D
Effectiveness as an Investigator: C/D->A/C over time but realistically D for low effort
Flavor: C +/- neat Autistic Mana Magi but his spells don’t really seem possible under pure mana.
Build that I don’t think read what Mana Magic actually does. His first spell is a magic nuller which seems feasible but the second is probably straight up illegal. It is closer to Illusion/Materialization/and high Alchemy than to Mana. I guess if he succeeded into deluding himself enough to make a Magic system though it could work. Otherwise the magi is a standard mage in combat that is entirely wrapped up in theory. Could be useful on anomaly cases if they sparked his interest. Could do with some refinement, C.

If I make a build now, will Italics rate it?

>>92608089
>>92608078

>>92614348

>>92498548
Tristan Holway Faber (Mana/Universal)
Power Level: C->B/A over time and depending upon prep and research
Effectiveness as an Investigator: C->S over time
Flavor: B
Fighting nerd bifauxnen build. The most versatile build out the gate and over time due to Mana and Universal handling just about every scenario possible outside of Archmagus level fights. Skills and Equipment are perfectly suited to the Monster and Anomaly Unit and as she learns and makes spells she will easily start being a premier scout or first encounter type agent due to her sheer versatility and staying power with her mana crystal stock.
Universal’s limit on low level spells should be mitigated by supercharging them with Mana magic. Overall pretty nice and versatile build, B.

>>92479178
Gordan Jeremiah Ford (Materialization)
Power Level: B
Effectiveness as an Investigator: A
Flavor: C
Most basic looking build that throws out Automatons. Very focused skill set on being a Criminal Magi Investigator and he should be a very reliable investigator for handling cases. Being a Ford affords him some extra knowledge in the criminal rings for obvious reasons. Wish there were more descriptions since I like the idea, C.

>>92480194
michalaus musculus (Materialization)
Power Level: C
Effectiveness as an Investigator: B
Flavor: B->A for image build
Very…inspired choice of aesthetic. Really like how grim you make the setting out to be compared to other builds and the style of an evolving story with the descriptions and cases. The build is somewhat kneecapped by design with the subpar Materialization due to never being in the Ford Clan proper. Proper skillset and equipment for working as an investigator and handling problems. Has access to Material Sealment (Sealing) and Mana Charting (Mana) illegally but I’ll ignore that for being otherwise depowered in Materialization. Pretty interesting build ruined by cheating on Hirohashima and making her think you died /s. A

>>92614309
>>92614323
>Howtizer
Oh, Illusion is more useful than I thought.
>mechanized fordGODS never need to sleep, most resistant to dream walking by default
Yup we stay winning

>>92608089
>>92608078

>>92614375

>>92550449
Tiffany Clockword Ford (Materialization)
Power Level: A->B against enemies that don’t die to gun/explosives
Effectiveness as an Investigator: F for Ford/C/B for raids only
Flavor: B
Murderbot build that is pretty fitting for a daughter of Ford. Very combatant focused build that has enough firepower to handle most threats. The Rogue and Criminal Magi Unit is explicitly low on direct violence outside of raids so her specialties are slightly wasted there, with her Scanning equipment and skills being her main helpful skill. For raids though she is monster who can quickly take down threats are extract targets. Obviously a Ford plant though and whoever gave her the Ford cases should be fired. Nice build that is pretty focused, B.

>>92482959
Maki ___ Ford (Materialization/Alchemy)
Power Level: C->A
Effectiveness as an Investigator: C->S
Flavor: B
Reformer Ford Build with Materialization and Alchemy. Very strong pairing of Magic that makes him extremely flexible and powerful depending on the research and training put in. Lots of ideas on gaining power that all seem pretty plausible leads to develop upon. Suffers from not actually gaining any Alchemy training outside of his Ostane parent and what can be taught to Universals though. As an investigator, he will suffer early on from lacking in actual investigation skills but can compensate with Materialization and Alchemy as he develops and learns. Grand plan of reforming Ford seems strange when you take all the Ford companions only. Overall, a strong slowburn build that has a dubious chance at his reforms, B.

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>>92614348
>>92614375
>>92614390
FUCK YES HE´S BACK

>>92614375
>/s
.......

>>92614375
>cheating on Hirohashima and making her think you died
Holy based

>>92614419
Death to those who cheat on Hirohashima.
No /s.

>>92614348
>Power Level: A/S
Damn someone actually managed to start as an Auctor instead of merely having the potential to be one. Strongest build so far.

>>92612961
I think you keep it, but nobody knows how it works anymore since no clans hve been founded since people were locked out of switching clans and learning multiple magics.

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Magi Case did poorly on Reddit. But succeeded here. Why is that?

>>92614551
We're the hardcore CYOA connoisseurs, Reddit is casul and cannot consume CYOAs of great girth and length like we can

>>92614551
How many more times are you going to ask this?

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>>92614566
>We're the hardcore CYOA connoisseurs, Reddit is casul and cannot consume CYOAs of great girth and length like we can
Really? Where's your SHINE build, Anon?

>>92614602
in AWE at redditGODs rn...

We need to kick all leftists out of /cyoag/. Only then will our Golden Age return.

>>92614551
The hype obviously wasn't there?

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>>92608078
>>92608089
Eh why not, might as well update it a bit since last one was made in a bit of a hurry, still mostly the same just added backstory
>Name
Gordon Jeremiah Ford
>Gender
Male
>Age
Mature adult
>Background
Contractor
>Unit
Criminal magi investigation
>Rank
Senior investigator
>Position
Lower family
>Clan
Ford Clan (Materialization magic, loves making automatons)
>Skills
Criminal connections, exceptional observation, spellcraft studies, investigation network, martial weaponry(whacking people with a baton), smuggling
>Equipment
Alchemist's kit, attunement core, baton, bulletproof vest, catalyst cane, radio, craftsmen kit, ring, recorder, sealing collar, weight reducing bag
>Method
Catalyst/Leyline method
>Characters
Grace Ager
Vassos Drac
Videl Faber
Ilya Howtizer*
Louis Yggdrassil
Mathieu Nightingale
>Cases (honestly really lacking)
Case of missing files
Mad Alchemist
>Apparel
BISA
>Covenants
Equalists

Ain't nothing much there for ol' Gordon, spent youth with the wrong Ford crowd, smuggling weapons and what not, tinkered with automatons here and there in his spare time, a spy drone here, a walking mine there, big gorilla fella to carry stuff over there, nothing special, unlike most of his peers he liked to keep it simple. So it was for him 'till one day he, the idiot, got caught, nothing for it really, not much was there to stick, just a few crates of stuff in a Ford warehouse by the sea, nothing special. But the fool managed to fall in love, so it went on and he became an investigator, not much of a fighter, but it ain't his job he has other lads to do that in the team, his job is to have a sharp eye and piece together what's what, and if it ain't working out, he's not half bad with a baton either, not to mention his automatons, nothing surprises a bad guy quite like a walking mine or a gorilla-like automaton with a chaingun-arm

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>>92614375
Nice and thanks for the review. Even though Universal is limited to basic, I figured with Mana I could go for a Fern method. She only knows basic run of the mill spells but due to technique and mana to back it up she's powerful as fuck. I might have my image build done by tomorrow. I'm at 5 pages now, I might as well make a CYOA by this point.

>>92614842
Based, autists do truly rule this place.

>>92614842
Jobs to Solitar.

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>>92614870
Yea? Well...
...Yea.

>>92614842
I want to stuff her perturbed looking gob with my throbbing cock if you get what I'm implying.

>>92608089
>>92614390

>>92584855
Ophiuchus Messier Galileo (Cosmic/Space)
Power Level: D->A/S? over time
Effectiveness as an Investigator: C->A over time
Flavor: B->A for descriptions
Interesting build going for a literal cosmic theme with their constellation spells. Will have a rough time early on due to inexperience and being a build stated to be as close to themselves as possible to start. Cosmic and Space are both incredibly versatile and powerful Magics though so the payout is very worth it. Their prowess as an investigator is helped by Spatial Magic’s ability to look at possibilities initially and their observation skills. As they flesh out their skills by developing their Cosmic and Spatial abilities the option will begin to open up massively. Really like their idea with constellation spells. Could possibly become Auctor level with them how they can research Eldritch Truth by peering at possible worlds to study them. Very cool build with lots of potential, A.

>>92484430
Melior Galileo (Cosmic)
Power Level: B
Effectiveness as an Investigator: A
Flavor: C
Rock steady receding hairline build. Very focused on being good at the Investigator job, his skill set covers all the necessary roles and has equipment to back him up. Experience has given him a few tricks like using incantation magic and projection to trip up perceptive Rogue magi. No details about his Magic so I’ll assume he is a competent Cosmic magi. Really like the seasoned and distant veteran style but wish there were more descriptions. C

>>92549585
Shirley Kepler Galileo (Cosmic)
Power Level: E->C
Effectiveness as an Investigator: D->C
Flavor: A
RomCom protagonist build. Explicitly weak and even afraid of his own Magic but Sterilized eyes go a long way in making Cosmic Magic easier to use. Their life in the bureau would never be at the top end but I could see them being a reliable senior to help recruits acclimate and survive. The descriptions and story-like presentation is very nice to read. A

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>>92608078
>Name
Hel 'Bael' Yaga

>Gender
Female
>Age
Mature Adult
>Background
Researcher
>Unit
RCMIU
>Rank
First Class

>Clan
Devil/Yaga
>Family
Upper

>Skills
Combat Veteran
Formal Spellcraft Studies
Fragmented Bloodlines
Interrogation Studies
Intimidation Factor
Magic Resistance
Mana Siphon
Sanitized Eyes

>Items
Camouflage Kit
Dagger
Duplication and Forgery Kit
Investigation Team Contract
Mystical Monsters
Grimoire of Basic Magic

>Magic
Necromancy/Witchcraft

>Magi
Helios Bael Devil
Greve Beleth Devil
Violentia Bael Devil
Vasilisa Yaga the Baba
Erichto Pharsilia Yaga
Grimhild Noris Yaga

>Cases
The Curious Case of the Missing Files
The Tread of the Mistwalkers
The Escape From Maxwell Bay
The Skunkworks

>Apparel
BISA

>Faction
Old Blood (Fiercely Loyal to Yaga, otherwise doesn't care.)

Said it looked like spam so here's a paste: https://pastebin.com/vkz5iP55
TLDR edgy woman is edgy unless mommy is around

>>92614375
>>92614390
We should get all the A and S rank investigators working together on a single legendary case, probably with an auctor or even one of them as the culprit.

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>>92615073
Yes lets kill Ford.

im starting to think a lot of you are making multiple builds

>>92615085
Going through the builds I have definitely seen a few. The usual giveaway is formatting.

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>>92615073
>we've heard disturbing reports that one or more of the clan auctors may be homosexual. You are the best the bureau has to offer. I'm tasking each of you with finding the culprits and bringing them to face justice

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>>92615085
I only made one build but I was thinking about making a second one (Mir Teiwaz Ford.)

>>92615085
I steal the formats other anons use when I make builds in case some schizo somehow recognizes my building style.

>>92615073
Who are the A/S rank investigators?

>>92615123
Me

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>>92615085
my original build was the devil/bathory, but I was convinced to go evoco afterwards and made the new build. Now I'm in too deep, eventually when italics releases magi redux I may go back to necromancy if he just absolutely floors me with the companions/lore changes, otherwise i'm probably evoco for life now

>>92615085

Several have said they've made multiple.

>>92615123
I think there are still several who are A or S rank right now, instead of potentially in the future. It would be a good cast.

>>92615085
Yeah? Whatcha gonna do about it?

https://pastebin.com/KL0DWUjJ

>>92615197
You're going to keep it up to date while he does more?

>>92615085
I am planning to make 2 builds, but have yet made 0.

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>>92615085
I'm considering making a build for her brother but we'll see.

>>92615085
Cope.

>>92615123
>>92615173

>A-tier Investigators
Roger Telldance Ager (Lazy)
Hoshizora Izumi Aozdou (Anomaly only)
Akatsuki Hajimeru Aozdou (Escort & Defense only)
Simon Harker Bathory (Monsters only)
Voran Rubicon Drac (Criminal Operations only)
Kiralia Ouroboros Edo-Galileo (Monsters only, Enigma specialty)
Draco Titus Edo (Monsters only)
Bastard Isaac Evoco (Monsters only)
Takehaya Ouroboros Evoco (Monsters only)
Gordan Jeremiah Ford
Melior Galileo

>S-tier Investigators
Roger Telldance Ager (Serious)
Friedegard Stolas Devil
Barbarossa Alberich Edo

At least that's who we've got so far. I wasn't expecting there to be so many (14), and a lot of them are specialized. I'm sure they would make for an excellent detective movie.

>>92615123
So far there's:
>>92476089
Roger Telldance Ager (Time)
Effectiveness as an Investigator: A ->S if not lazy
>>92493067
Friedegard Stolas Devil (Necromancy/Music)
Effectiveness as an Investigator: S
>>92571024
Kiralia Ouroboros Edo-Galileo “Jabberwock/Shoggoth” (Hybridization/Cosmic)
Effectiveness as an Investigator: C/A->S for monsters and particularly Enigmas
>>92496538
Barbarossa Alberich Edo (Hybridization/Illusion)
Effectiveness as an Investigator: S
>>92498548
Tristan Holway Faber (Mana/Universal)
Effectiveness as an Investigator: C->S over time
>>92482959
Maki ___ Ford (Materialization/Alchemy)
Effectiveness as an Investigator: C->S

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>Somone already made a Soul/Alchemy and homunculi build
Aieeee, I want to make a Keyman build but it is too late.

>>92615387
>>92615417
Thanks anons.

>>92615387
It'd be more of an action movie, most investigators are either in the Magical Anomalies and Monsters unit or Rogue and Criminal Magi unit. Do we even have anyone in the General Homicide unit?

>>92615387
>>92615417
Actually really like the S tier builds.

Lazy time detective.
Badass granny banshee
Unseelie Fae masquerade charmer

>>92615387
>>92615494
>>92615507
Maybe the first movie can be a mystery thriller featuring only the S tiers, and then the sequel can be an action movie that ropes the A tiers in.

>>92615530
>The killer takes down all three detectives and is about to enact his terrible plans when SUDDENLY
>Roger pops into the timeline skipping his death
>Granny conquers death and resurrects as a lich
>Barbarossa reveals his death was merely an illusion and reveal his true form

>>92615073
I only just finished one build. I don't have the inspiration to do a second.

Soul/Sealing
Create a True and Proper Afterlife
If you had a Summoning friend you could populate it with demons or angels or yama

>>92615638
Afterlife is just life with extra steps.

cum guzzling scale
you > me

>>92615062
Nice build, liked what you wrote about the childrens books, her actual childhood was probably weird. Giving her an appreciation for those kinds of stories, only a mature mind with proper guidance in their youth could understand.

Althrough if i was Beleth, i would find a way to execute her before she became a problem.

She WILL have problems taking the Bael name however, many a Devil clan would take offense i bet.

Gives off the "I can fix her" vibes.

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>>92615638
That's a terrible idea. Modern magi are already lazy and worthless, they'd stagnate even further and let Reason destroy everything if you hand immortality over to them on a silver platter.

>>92615718
Yes and? That sounds like a reasonable outcome.

>>92615716
Thanks and yea, she's a bit of a chuuni tard and believes she has more of a right to the name than most of the Devils. I figure Vio thinks she's funny to keep around and bounce idea off of while Beleth's in pity mode until she does something aggro him. Until them, he's gonna distract her with suspiciously ant-death childrens books and deprogram whatever she learned from being a semi-feral death magnet.

>Gives off the "I can fix her" vibes.
Are you a bad enough dude to show an emotionally stunted 30 something that there's more to life than death?

If I were to use Defense/Mana, could I toss crystalized mana as makeshift shield grenades or frag grenades that launch tiny shields?

>>92615916
Yes, but that's hardly better than normal mana attacks. In fact, it's probably worse because of Defense. Not all mixtures are good.

>>92615933
Misunderstood, fuck, nevermind.

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>>92615904
Fuck you make me want to do a complimentary build JUST to do that.

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Custom cases when?

Can you all fuck off and make a magi case general please

Can you all fuck me and make me pregnant please

sigh
here we go

>>92616025
No. People bitched the CYOA would never come out and flop. But now that it is out and successful, people want to pretend bitch it needs its own general so this place can go back to a voidless realm of shitposting Tok, Cyrus, cats and hate over genuine builds and fun.

End yourself

>>92616066
Make. A separate. General. You fuck.

>>92615995
One build had a few

I see we’ve reached the “omg make a containment thread pls” stage, a sign a cyoa is good, if anything