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"Sometimes, we just need a reminder of just how far we've come." The figure opened the book and started looking over the information. "I wonder what people would think of this without the context of the journey behind it all."
Magical Alchemy list.
Table of Contents.
1. Fish Bones.
2. Fish Scales.
3. Raven Feather.
4. Sunlight.
5. Knife.
6. Knife Sheath.
7. Alicorn Feather (Celestia).
8. Phoenix Feather.
9. Cloaks.
10. Cupcakes (banned).
11. Frog Mucus (banned).
12. Griffon Feather.
13. Fish Oil.
14. Candle Wax.
15. Pepper.
16. Tricorne.
17. Wood.
18. Waffle Mallet.
19. The Knuckler (Shields).
20. Chain Link.
21. Pack.
22. Griffon Mask.
23. Ocarina.
24. Air (It's a thing).
25. Rubber Chicken (Yes).
26. Electrum Locket.
27. (U) Jacky's Arrow Dynamic Bow.
28. Salamander Scales.
29. Power Pony Comic.
30. Hydra Scales.
31. Caltrop.
32. Magician's top hat.
33. Magician's cane.
34. Skirt.
35. Cardboard Box (Why does this even work?).
36. A unicycle (Because why not at this point?).
37. Gunbai!
38. Mirror.
39. Frying Pan.
40. Metallic Pole (Staff).
41. Clay mask.
42. Hourglass.
43. Crook (Small handheld).
44. String (Abyssinian hair).
45. (U) Jade's Roundabout Rebound Yo-yo.
46. Full Cake. (Quintuple Banned.)
47. Alicorn Feather (Cadence).
48. Horseshoe (As expected).
49. Pogo Stick.
50. Ever Burning Fire???
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1. Fish Bones (simple).
Cast: Water breathing (Temporary passive water terrain survival buff). Breathing water as if you had gills, permanence can be achieved with repeated casts.
Sustain: Swimming efficiency and deep water survivability increases.
Self-Sustaining: Luminescence. Once used as a sustain effect, bones glow softly on their own.
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2. Fish Scales (simple).
Cast: Fish Scale Skin (Temporary defense buff). Possible permanence with multiple casts, more effective underwater. Can be used to water proof objects.
Sustain: Water Projection (Continuous offensive ability). Able to spit or project volatile volumes of water, drains fluids from body with excessive use. You can actively control the volumes of water you project and how focused that projection is.
Sustain 2: Blood Projection (Dangerous offensive ability). Capable of performing a powerful projection, but only from open wounds. As one would imagine blood projection is exceedingly painful, taxing on the body and ultimately dangerous to the user. The intimidation factor might be worth the agony in the right situations, but it will always be a detriment to one’s health.
Self-Sustaining: None.
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3. Raven Feather.
Cast: Survive a fall, fall on something safely or possibly target launches and falls on something by user’s choice or at random (One time air terrain survival buff, possible offensive spell). Target tends to end up freezing twenty feet above something living.
Sustain: Projecting thoughts. Not able to receive thoughts, but you can project them to others. Can project mental images.
Self-sustaining: none.
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4. Sunlight.
Cast: Solar Flare. Creates a blinding light. Can only be used during the day time while standing in sunlight.
Sustain: Smoke signaling. Causes smoke to appear as if something was burning.
Self-sustaining: Warms the planet.
Entry Addendum (Added Chapter 21 Cult Evasion, The Reaper): It was discovered by Jade that this cast can be performed if you had something that stores sunlight.
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5. Knife.
Cast: Magical backstab (One-use special attack). When used, the resulting energy knife does damage at a point opposite of where the knife's blade initially strikes. This effect can be blocked if one can grab the knife without the blade touching them.
Sustain: Rogue Enhancements (Continuous passive buff). Heightened dexterity, agility and environmental awareness. Strengthens all mobility based buffs.
Sustain side effect: Inability to sleep or relax.
Self-sustaining: Trains muscles and exercises body for similar maneuvers used while wielding the sustain effect.
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6. Knife Sheath
Cast: Traps one target temporarily (One use support spell). Time limit for stopping a target is the same every time for sheaths of similar design. Sheaths for different or larger weapons ‘probably’ improves time limit.
Sustain: Increased protection against knives, arrows and other small bladed weapons (Continuous passive buff). Warning: Does not protect against anything larger, or anything else for that matter.
Self-sustaining: None.
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7. Alicorn Feather (Celestia).
Cast: Wings of sunlight (Limited air terrain mobility buff). Target is given wings of pure sunlight. Darkness, shade or shadows can weaken the flying power the wings generate, at night they'd be far less effective. The power of the wings can be combined with a knife's or similar sustain effects for improved flying ability. The wings might be extinguished by water and could be useless while it’s raining. Does not protect the user from gravitational or high speed stress and lack of oxygen at high altitudes like a pegasus would be by their magic.
Sustain: Redirect sunlight (Defensive support buff). Is only useful during the day and allows for blinding opponents or aggressors with light.
Self-sustaining: Minor protection from darkness (Automatic defensive buff while feather is on person). Needs to be charged with sunlight and to have been used as a magical alchemy sustain at least once to work.
Entry Addendum (Added Chapter 21 Cult Evasion, The Reaper): The self sustaining properties can be used by the sustain to direct the stored sunlight from within the feather itself for various purposes. The fact that the feather synergizes with itself in multiple ways is amazing.
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8. Phoenix Feather.
Cast: Cleansing Flames (Support healing spell). Finds and stops negative foreign bodily ailment or ailments that are magical or mundane, does not heal damage. Can possibly stop positive ailments.
Sustain: Protection from the cold (Continuous defensive buff). Immunity to cold, increased defensive ability against ice and relative elemental based magic.
Self-Sustaining: None.
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9. Jade’s Cloak, Cloaks in general.
Cast: Creates a temporary shadow minion that will automatically do things and cannot be commanded. This cannot become permanent.
Sustain: Swimming Shadows (Darkness mobility buff). Able to dive into and swim through shadows as if they were water.
Cannot go through small cracks or into spaces smaller than the user. The user must hold their breath while actively using this ability. The physical motions of swimming have to be performed to move. Any light stronger than moonlight will disable the effect immediately. Moving in shadows can alert an attentive enough pony, but pegasus and thestral ponies are especially sensitive to this.
Self-Sustain: Makes sneaking easier (Moderate stealth buff).
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10. Cupcake (Banned by Kuril).
Cast: You don’t want to know.
Sustain: Likely none.
Self-Sustain: Delicious.
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11. Frog Mucus (Banned by Kuril).
Cast: Magical wide area sticky substance bomb (Hard to get out of clothing).
Sustain: None.
Self-sustain: Useful for witchery.
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12. Griffon Feather.
Cast: Feather Falling (Limited air terrain support buff). Lowers gravity’s effect on an individual for a minute.
Sustain: Double Jump (Continuous Mobility buff). Can jump off the air one extra time after leaving a solid surface and only one time.
Self-sustain: None.
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13. Fish Oil.
Cast: Ignition (Multipurpose offensive and support spell). Ignites itself and anything around it except the user.
Sustain: None.
Self-Sustain: None.
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14. Candle Wax.
Cast: Stiffness. Slow down a target, can have a wide area of effect for reduced effectiveness.
Sustain: Heat resistance (Limited continuous defensive buff). Does not stop heat damage entirely and candle takes heat damage in place of the user.
Self-Sustain: None.
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15. Pepper.
Cast: Sneezing cloud (Limited continuous Defensive spell). Wide range spell that doesn’t affect the user, causes continuous sneezing on contact and doesn’t necessarily need to be breathed in to take effect.
Sustain: None.
Self-Sustain: Useful for cooking.
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16. Tricorne.
Cast: Charisma boost (Limited status buff). Gives one the ability to walk around with confidence.
Side-effect: May instill need for showboating in user.
Sustain: Sense unclaimed treasure.
Self-Sustain: Gain the ability to whistle jaunty tunes, even if you can’t naturally whistle. Increases chances of heart songs occurring.
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17. Wood.
Cast: Bark skin (Temporary defensive buff). Make skin and fur tough like tree bark, like most casts can become permanent with multiple consecutive uses. Increases durability of objects when targeted. Causes mildly uncomfortable chafing on a living target.
Sustain: Hair growth in sunlight (Limited utility effect). Only works in direct sunlight.
Self-sustain: Magically enhanced building material.
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18. Waffle Mallet.
Cast: Heaven's Hammer. Hits a large target area with a massive amount of blunt, concussive, force. This cannot kill.
Sustain: Random confusion effect chance (Weapon specific offensive buff). While sustained, the hammer has a low chance to cause confusion and or dizziness upon any impact. Said chance goes up significantly when hitting the head of a target. The strength of the impact doesn't matter, effect can still happen with the barest of taps.
Self-sustain: none.
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19. The Knuckler (A Shield).
Cast: Ailment Barrier. Prevent sickness, magical effect or poison from affecting a target for thirty minutes, afterwards the cast will prevent one of the aforementioned effects one time. (Defensive Buff)
Sustain: Battle Barrier (Armor reliant ability). Creates a malleable and limited field of barrier energy that is very protective against low impact energy, ranged or weak area of effect based attacks.
Point blank the barrier energy can only operate within the radius of a foot from the direction the shield is pointing, at the maximum of ten feet away it can operate within a five foot radius. Field can be used for offensive purposes by generating weapons.
Can grab and move small objects with barrier energy depending on how much weight the arm using the sustain can support.
The weight of the shield itself is a problem. It cannot be used to move the wielder around with the grappling effect. Cannot be used to fly. Can be used for assisted jumping and gliding.
Any sufficient weight or force exerted on the barrier field is sent straight to the user, the chances for arm based injuries is increased by a factor of two while sustain is in effect. The shield itself stays undamaged from barrier attacks.
Self-Sustain: None.
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20. Chain Link.
Cast: Stronger together. Temporary buff to all allies within a given area in all aspects depending on emotional bonds.
Sustain: Red String. Allows one to know where significant others are. Apparently only works if one is legally married.
Self-Sustain: Linked strength (Passive instant buff). While physically touching someone else that is close to the wielder, both wielder and ‘friendly’ target gain a ten percent boost to all stats. Clothing interferes in effect.
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21. Pack.
Cast: Destination Manifestation. Teleports all objects within a given area to where one wants them to go. This is not limited by distance, but is limited by where the user has personally been.
Sustain: Storage capacity of pack magically increases (Continuous equipment specific utility buff). When sustain drops, a number of objects fly out of the pack without destroying it until carrying capacity normalizes. No weight canceling effect.
Self-Sustain: Stasis Storage (Permanent passive equipment upgrade). Anything that goes into the pack does not deteriorate and will always come out in the same state as it was when put in.
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22. Griffon Mask.
Cast: Griffon Morph (Transformation). This cast last’s for about an hour, it transforms the user into what they would look like if they were a naturally born as a griffon with all the griffon related abilities therein. Alters appearance, abilities and all stats. Does not, thankfully, alter personality.
Sustain: Prideful Parading (Continuous utility buff, musical instrument required). While the mask is sustained the user gains the ability to play any wind instrument, but only while they are marching.
When marching, there is an area of effect makes most beings follow along behind the music player. If other beings are using musical instruments when joining the march, the tune of the music may change drastically.
Note: Effects do not work on all creatures, if the user is successfully attacked the effects of this magical sustain are immediately canceled until started again.
Self-sustain: Hawk Eyes (Permanent Passive equipment upgrade). Able to see at greater distances while wearing the griffon mask.
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23. Ocarina.
Cast: Song of Space Time Rewind.
Warning: Can cause groundhog day loops. Refer to the 'back to the future' incident.
Sustain: Gentle Breeze (Continuous Utility Buff). Makes all other sounds gentler within the users given area. The user and the instrument themselves still make the same amount of noise.
Self-sustain: Accompaniment (Passive utility buff). Able to accompany any tune without actually knowing how to play it.
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24. Air (It’s a thing).
Cast: Magic Missile (Offensive Ability). An abnormal cast that uses up bodily energy instead of the object used, creates oval shaped energy blasts. Cast cannot be fired rapidly, cannot increase power or output of cast and each use drains the user’s energy. Pew pew!
Sustain: None.
Self-sustain: Breathable.
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25. Rubber Chicken (Yes).
Cast: Immediate Seriousness. Everyone takes everything far too seriously as if it were a grim situation.
Sustain: Rubber Hose Physics. Increased flexibility, stretchiness, squishiness and resilience to blunt forces.
Sustain Side effect: Less refined bodily control.
Self-Sustain: Can cause comedic pratfalls when thrown and can fit into places it obviously shouldn’t.
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26. Electrum Locket.
Cast: Echo of the Past. Randomly summons an echo of anyone from the past to assist the user for thirty minutes, the user will at least know the person somewhat vaguely even if they are only seen once for a few seconds.
Warning: This can also summon echoes of those who are still living, such as Twilight as a unicorn. It's odd that she was the very first result of this cast.
Sustain: Become capable of reliving memories clearly.
Self-sustain (special): Due to what the locket is made of, it is hard to damage with physical force. Magically draining it will stop the self-sustain effect. Magical attacks can and will still damage the locket.
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27. (Unique) Jacky's Arrow Dynamic Bow.
Cast: ???. (Don't want to find out.)
Sustain: None.
Self-sustain: Bow is capable of firing just about anything as if they are arrows with arrow related physics.
Note: Bow is almost functionally impossible to destroy, no idea why.
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28. Salamander Scales.
Cast: Fire Wall. Prevents most monsters from hacking into you.
Sustain: Heat Of Battle. Useful for making ink or paint dry faster, also useful for exhausting or dehydrating opponents. Heat does not effect the wielder.
Self-sustain: Heat vision. Can see through invisibility and most illusionary spells.
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29. Enchanted Power Ponies Comic. (Enchanted Comics or comics in general.)
Cast: Comic Character. Summon one random prominent character from the comic book in question, they will aid you however they see fit.
Warning: This will even summon villains, how they might aid you can lead to problems.
Sustain: Unique Alternate Universe self-insertion, temporary break from reality.
Warning: Once this sustain is started, it can’t be stopped for five minutes! Those involved in the magical alchemy sustain must meet a specific requirements for it to end afterwards.
Self-sustain: Always in mint condition.
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30. Hydra Scale.
Cast: Regeneration. Limited to healing all injuries that happen while this cast is active.
Warning: Increased hunger, tiredness and all the things of healing fast that would be problematic. This does not cause rapid aging thankfully.
Sustain: Forked Road. The hydra scale has the unique property of seemingly making one clone of the wielder. Clone is capable of only using ‘cast’ or self-sustaining based magical alchemy, given it is an effect of sustainment itself. Disappears in a burst of light when sustain drops. Cannot act negatively in any way, shape or form against the wielder.
Warning: Any damage done to the clone translates straight to the wielder and vice versa, if the wielder is injured so is the clone. If the clone dies so too does the wielder. Clone does not transfer memories upon dispersal as clone is already mentally linked to the wielder. Only the original wielder can end the sustain.
Self-sustain: None.
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31. Caltrop.
Cast: Straight Forward (Small area of effect temporary mobility debuff). Makes it impossible for anyone to turn or move in any other direction than the one they are facing when the cast hits. The effected can still stop or control how fast they are moving personally, if the effected is not aware of this they can be potentially led to a point where they will run straight into traps.
Sustain: Spiny Hide (Defensive buff, mobility debuff). While in use, the user gains half their weight added on to their current weight, their body also becomes covered in spikes and thorns that aren’t easily broken. The user’s skin is still normally vulnerable to damage and are left quite susceptible to fire and or other form of ranged attacks due to loss of speed.
Sustain Side Effects: Counts as excellent weight training while in use, exhausts the user if they have to move too far, user is incapable of jumping. Dangerous to hug.
Self-sustain: Animal wariness (Passive buff). For whatever reason, dangerous animals become less likely to approach if this object is being held by anyone after having been sustained once. That doesn’t mean the animal can’t attack or approach, it means that they would be far more unwilling to. Effect possibly increases with more caltrops.
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32. Magician’s top hat.
Cast: A real magician never reveals their secrets.
Sustain: A real magician never reveals their secrets.
Self-sustain: A real magician never reveals their secrets.
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33. Magician’s Cane.
Cast: A real magician never reveals their secrets.
Sustain: A real magician never reveals their secrets.
Self-sustain: You don’t get it yet, do you?
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34. Skirt.
Cast: Pirouette Power. Become capable of spinning at incredible speeds for offensive, defensive and mobility based purposes for about five minutes. Cast cannot be made permanent.
Sustain: Dancing mad (Mobility buff). Makes wielder evade attacks by dancing, also heavily boosts evasive ability.
Self-sustain: Two right feet! While sustained, gives the wearer the ability to teach other’s to dance.
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35. Cardboard Box (Why does this even work?).
Cast: Fortress-fixation. Makes targets fall into a playful mind set, one that makes them build fortresses out of any nearby materials for anywhere between an hour or two. Most common materials used are pillows, blankets, chairs, books and the like. Should the fort be completed, the effect either wears off or the target has some fun with the fort.
This cast cannot be made permanent as it immediately wears off if the target goes to sleep or is knocked out, it also has no effect whatsoever on ponies who have cutie marks in construction.
Sustain: Imagine a place. While inside the sustained cardboard box or boxes, user can lucidly daydream while awake.
Self-sustain: Snake in a box (Impossible stealth buff). Hiding in a cardboard box that has been sustained causes a rather unique effect of making the box the most uninteresting thing around unless it moves or someone needs its contents.
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36. A unicycle (Because why not at this point?).
Cast: Zero Gravity shift. Become able to weigh your full weight down to weighing nothing at all.
Sustain: Inertia is not a cruel mistress (Mobility buff). Can quickly accelerate the unicycle safely to obscene levels and stop it on a dime. Note: Only works while the user themselves is physically pedaling the unicycle. It is technically the magical sustain of a singular unicycle pedal.
Self-sustain: Like a gun… with training wheels on it (Passive permanent utility buff). This self-sustain makes it harder to make the unicycle fall over.
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37. Gunbai! (Fans in general)
Cast: Wind Commander. For a short time change the direction of any flowing air, the user can increase or decrease that flow.
Warning: If there is no wind already present, then this cast doesn't do anything.
Sustain: Axis Alteration (Utility ability). Can flip or rotate the X, Y or Z axis of any ‘one’ object within a three hundred and sixty degree range as long as you can see the object or point at it. Only works on one inanimate target and in general things that aren’t spherical in shape, it also cannot effect an object with active magic.
Self-sustain: Exhaustion Recovery (Permanent passive equipment upgrade). If used as a fan, it cools one down quickly no matter the heat and helps gain back stamina much faster than should normally be possible.
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38. Mirror.
Cast: Copycat (Special cast). Creates a temporary physical clone seemingly made of glass for a short amount of time that can do everything the target could at their peak. The target can be anyone the mirror can be pointed at, said copy is controlled by the users will.
Note: Copycat clone does not translate damage back to the user if damaged, clone however is easily destroyed and breaks exactly like glass before evaporating. It can match physical strength of the target, but it can not match physical or magical resilience therein and will easily take damage no matter what it is hit with.
Sustain: The Looking Glass (Utility Ability). Become able to see things beyond what normal sight can, even some things that were not meant to be seen by anyone.
Warning: Some things seen with naked eyes in combination with this sustain can cause painful backlash.
Self-sustain: Reflector (Permanent equipment upgrade). Can reflect most forms of energy, especially magic that isn't magical alchemy directed at it.
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39. Frying Pan. (Took a while to actually test this one for fear of violence potential -Kuril.)
Cast: Fatten Fending (Body morphing debuff/buff/body horror).
Of all the body modifications casting... ugh…
Okay, so to give it to everyone straight, the cast of the frying pan is horrible. (I lost one pan for this out of curiosity, I am now quite sure that I shouldn’t be too curious unless I have a decent guess as to what the cast will do -Kuril.)
To say it nicely this cast makes you bulkier, but not in a good way and it gets really ugly quite fast. (The acne was the worst part of it all, but at least everything clears up when this cast wears off -Kuril.)
You become rounder, slower and overall you gain a fried food smell. Also if you sweat while turned into a fat giant blob cat, or whatever you happen to be, then you’re sweat turns out to be made of cooking oil. Also this cast lasts approximately three hours, but exercise, activity and or lots of movement shortens the time considerably.
Until the time is up, you are almost entirely impervious to harm from just about everything including most forms of poison and nothing can definitively get a good grip on to you if you’ve been sweating. (Will not use again unless situation is so stupidly dire that survival requires this, such as being tested by Bahamut the seemingly friendly taco dragon –Kuril.)
Suffice it to say, I hate this cast and even then it could still prove useful in the right circumstances –Kuril.
Sustain: Metal heating. The user gains the ability to heat any metal within line of sight and only if you can focus on the metal in question in any given manner. (Helps with cooking meals, sometimes I forget to turn the stove on. There are some upsides to a frying pan's magical alchemy I can get behind –Kuril.)
Self-sustain: Heat immunity. (Only when equipped, you should not be touching anything hot while letting go of the frying pan –Kuril.) As long as you’re holding the frying pan after a sustain effect was used on it, you are immune to heat up to and including beyond that of lava.
It might even be possible to survive being on the sun with this, though I am not currently willing to test or bet my life on it -Kuril.
Note: Does not make you immune to the effects of fire, just the heat from the fire. Compared to heat resistance of Salamander scale, big difference is that the Salamander scale do not make you immune to other sources of heat.
Side effect: Pan can no longer be reforged or melted. Addendum: Magic spell used on pan to remove magical effects can remove instated melt immunity of said frying pan until sustained again.
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40. Metallic Pole (Staff).
Cast: Orb creation. Creates a orb with a random magical effect, the size of the orb is dependent on the size of the metal staff used.
Note: First example of object becoming another object, once the cast is fully utilized the object cannot be turned back into a metallic staff. The orb created does not longer reacts to magical alchemy, but the holder can do whatever simple effect the orb comes with.
Sustain: Magic Rod. Like a lightning rod, it attracts lightning attacks and magical ones as well, it will both dampen and dissipate the energy into the surroundings.
Note: It does not dissipate the energy in an entirely safe manner, may cause mild burning, electrocution, freezing or other various effects depending on magic used while in effect.
Self Sustain: The ambient magic absorbed by the pole could be used to stir some potions for boosted efficacy.
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41. Clay Mask.
Cast: Changeling Chicanery. Temporarily become anything known to the user, so long as it is feasible and within certain bounds, for about thirty minutes.
When turning into creatures with any kind of incredible magical power, the user usually gets a baseline ability that is only about a quarter as effective as the real thing with some exceptions. One would not be a match for a regular unicorn in magic, one could not match an earth pony in strength and flight as a Pegasus is dependent on the users knowledge and prior flight experience. So there are less limitations when it comes to learned skills while transformed, compared to having the magical strength that naturally comes with actually being said being.
When in terms of feasibility, one can not turn into a goddess or god using this cast. Alicorns, Draconequus and the like are impossible to transform into using this, this also includes changeling queens. It does not, however, stop one from becoming a changeling and changing to look like a changeling queen, draconequus or alicorn.
The limitations are still being tested, but it apparently always runs at half or even less time than a specific mask like a Griffon Mask would work for.
Sustain: Shaping Illusion. The sustain of a clay mask allows one to change appearance within the limits of the mass of what is being shaped, the knew form will look and feel quite real to anyone who interacts with it. This can be used to hide things on ones person and alter any object in contact with the user to look different.
Self-sustain: Illusion Persistence. More of a side effect on anything that is not alive. When an object is shifted by the Shaping Illusion sustain, it will hold a limited level of permanence for a certain amount of time.
It is fairly useful if you want someone to mistake an item for something else until the effects wear off. Imagine some grabbing for a sword and it's actually a broom that takes a while to tell said person that what they are wielding is in fact a broom.
Jade used the self-sustaining properties to make it look like she can hold or hurl green fireballs which are still the strength of a standard 'air' cast, she just does this because it just looks cooler and has no extra effects otherwise other than being visually stunning.
This certainly sets up an annoying precedent for Jade getting crafty with the self-sustain, while writing this I had my pens, pencils and other writing utensils such as painting brushes turn out to actually be a small ears of baby corn no less than five times.
If my kitten keeps this up, I'm going to absolutely throttle her... with love and kindness of course, since I just found out my last pen was actually a small carrot this time.
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42. Hourglass.
Cast: The Answer, to Space Time Continuing. If you were ever knocked outside of time and space, use this to return to the time stream.
Warning: Does not necessarily return one to the correct position in the time stream. This cast doesn't work if you are back in the timestream already. Jade attempted to skip forward in time with second hourglass during the Anugyptian War.
Sustain: Momentum Acceleration. Gain the ability to move with ever increasing speed up to a specific maximum limit with barely any downside. This sustain actually prevents exhaustion. Stopping or loss of momentum will reset the users speed back to base and will build up from there again, exceptionally useful for free running.
Warning: Overuse of this sustain eventually makes the hourglass explode, warning signs that this is about to happen is when the hourglass starts cracking. It is best used in small bursts.
Self-sustain: Imminent Death Clock. This self sustain is fairly odd, it determines how soon the wielder will die if you don't eat, drink or sleep and is usually a countdown from at most seven days.
The time on the clock shrinks greatly depending on injury or sickness if left untreated, it is also shorter with older aged beings. The timer increases when the person takes care of themselves. Time reads as infinite when wielded by an immortal, ascended or otherwise powerful figure.
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43. Crook (Small handheld). Ancient Anugyptian weapon usually used for defense instead of shepherding.
Cast: Exit stage right... or left. Teleports target outside of the visual range of everyone, within at least three miles of the target this is used on. Though it seemed random at first, the target tends to usually appear in the closest 'out of the way' location that no one is looking at.
Sustain: Thieving Crook. When hooked onto something or the edge of the crook makes contact, the object or being becomes magically stuck to the crook. This is useful for theft, defense or grappling weapons out of someone's grip.
Handheld combat crooks are used for defensive purposes already, so this makes it all that much easier to take a weapon from your opponent or pull them off balance. This effect can be toggled on or off easily to throw off an opponents balance.
Self-sustain: Maintained Balance (Defensive Support Buff). If you block something you are more likely to stay standing and even works if you get hit.
Jade Note: This is really useful, having a crook on you will make it harder for you to be knocked down even if you aren't holding it. Fair warning, it is not a force field and it will only try to keep you upright after an impact.
This also incidentally ties back into the sustain making it even more effective as it will be harder for someone to use the sustain against you.
The way this self-sustain works is not always perfect and it is entirely dependent on the weight of the user and whether or not they are standing on solid ground and are braced for an impact. Maximum effect is on any form of solid ground, has a minimum effect while on sand.
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44. String (Abyssinian Hair). Requires the string to be made of braided, knitted or crocheted thread based material and needs to count as a singular object to be used.
Cast: String Theory. Bizarre effect that makes any targeted weaved object unravel in an instant, could possibly solve a Gordian Knot. The unraveled material is not destroyed by this.
Kuril note: Oddly useful for untangling unruly hair without a hairbrush, like that of my girls. Helps with Jacky's thick head of feathers too!
Sustain: Braid (Ability). Can create or weave other materials quickly in an effective manner, useful if you need a rope or something to tie someone up with. Can also do some neat things with a pony's mane.
Note: Can not use the sustain on the object being sustained.
Self-sustain: Stretchy. String becomes somewhat elastic and slightly tougher after sustainment.
Note: This does not explain the odd effects of Jacky's bow in the slightest when anything is put to the string of it.
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45. (Unique) Jade's Roundabout Rebound Yo-yo.
Cast: N/A. (Does not count as singular object so likely uses string or wood magical alchemy.)
Sustain: N/A. (Does not count as a singular object so likely uses string or wood magical alchemy.)
Self-sustain: Yo-yo Oddities. Allows the wielder to perform some ridiculous feats that should be completely impossible with a normal yo-yo. Just because it allows these odd things, doesn't mean that said things don't require tons of practice or luck to do.
Fizzle's notes: There's a strange effect that the Yo-yo will always bounce off something at a near perfect forty-five degree angle unless it hits something dead on or there is not enough string for the bounce. The string for some odd reason becomes angular from a forty five degree bounce and it seems the string is not always a constant single normal length. The yo-yo can be veered mid toss to wrap around things if the string is moved to connect with something. The yo-yo will continuously spin if tossed straight down, until returned with a tug or it touches something solid. There's something screwy about the friction of the string in combination with the yo-yo.
Whatever Jade did to make a string and a carved bunch of wood have these strange effects, it is something based in really odd and confusing magical properties. Not that Jade hasn't done weird things before, but she probably shouldn't be allowed to make nunchucks after personally testing some of these strange effects numerous times.
Kuril note: Making things by hand while sustaining each part seems to give a completed object some strange odd magical traits. Jacky's Bow and Jade's Yo-yo are among the few magical alchemy created weapons, Jade's weapon is less effective because it's two objects working as one whereas Jacky's weapon is a singular object entirely... also the bow has been discovered to be functionally unbreakable.
I agree with Fizzle... no nunchucks Jade!
Jade note: Aww... come on, nunchucks are awesome!
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46. Full Cake. (Quintuple Banned, by everyone with at least any sense of decency whatsoever.)
Warning note: Twilight Sparkle made a law stating that it should only be used in the event of an apocalyptic level monstrosity. Otherwise the legal use varies depending on if it is required to save someone's life. Otherwise it is mostly illegal in all nations, including the Turtle Toga Pirate's Union, for a magical alchemist to use a 'Full Cake' as a weapon. Even using it on Discord is considered highly illegal, because yes, the effects are really that nasty. No one even partially insane wants to go through this twice.
Cast: Feels Like Dying. What a cupcake does, with automatic area of effect that isn't diluted like what happens when a cupcake is used widespread and the effects are about four times worse, maybe more than that.
Jade note: After a moderate length horror show, it still ends in barfing up rainbows for whatever reason. So much rainbow colored fluids... the rainbows coming from my throat... eyes... other orifices I would rather not discuss... they haunt my nightmares... to the point Princess Luna has nightmares about them from trying to help me...
Sustain: None. (It has been found out that food items will rarely, if ever, have sustains. Anything that is prepared with fire or heat basically.)
Self-sustain: Forever Tasty. Cake will not rot after sustainment, it is still digestible though. The part of the cake touched will go to the magical alchemy user who did the sustainment of course.
Kuril Note: At least one positive thing came of this, full cake gains the inability to rot with but a tap or scrape of icing. any added icing after sustainment will still rot.
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47. Alicorn Feather (Cadence),
Cast: Wings of Love. Ability of flight, increased sensitivity, increases existing love bonds by approximately 200% and 'LOVE' is more likely to happen.
Warning: Only use after eating and drinking, may end up losing massive amounts of fluids and energy due to raw passion.
Sustain: Stamina Boost (Continuous Passive Buff). Increases stamina by 50%, increase stamina regeneration by 100%. Increases hunger and thirst a third as much as the cast does.
Self-sustain: Loving you just because you're beautiful is not an option. Can always see beauty beyond outward appearances in those you love.
Warning: Causes hallucinations that may makes partner or partners seem more or less exceedingly attractive, self sustain only effects those already in love.
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48. Horseshoe (As Expected).
Cast: Unlucky. Whatever the magic hits has a bout of bad luck, approximately the same amount as Jacky Chickadee has, once.
If timed right, this could have epic implications.
Sustain: Iron Hooves. Wielders feet gains incredible kicking power, also the feet are invulnerable to injury including self inflicted, magical or otherwise. The rest of the body is not immune to damage, but the wielders legs noticeably have more resilience and are able to stand their ground better. Possibly a bit of added weight to the user overall without affecting movement.
Possible combo: Crook's self-sustain buff, combined with this, could make it impossible to knock someone over.
Self-sustain: Lucky. One chance to avoid painful injury or have something exceedingly good happens to the holder, however this inevitably destroys the horseshoe as a counterbalance.
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49. Pogo Stick.
Cast: Recoil Counter (One-time defensive buff). Anything the cast is used on will, when struck, return the force dealt by the blow by three hundred percent to the object or part of the body that strikes it.
Warning: It is best to tap something when Recoil Counter is up.
Sustain: Spring Control (Object Based Mobility Buff). Able to control the spring precisely to the point that it can be made to have more or less power than usual.
A pogo stick with this sustain running can easily jump at least a hundred feet straight up. Can be used to launch yourself downwards while in mid-air, but not upwards.
Self-sustain: Aerial Gyroscope (Permanent Object Base Mobility Buff). Can control sideways momentum and rotation of the pogo stick with incredible speed, however one can not change upwards or downwards momentum.
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50. Ever Burning Fire???
Cast: Create Star?
Sustain: Create protective flames?
Self-sustain: Guiding Light?
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Combinations List.
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Combination 1: Candle Wax + Oil (any) + Pepper = Chaos Candle. Candle hollowed out and filled with the other two ingredients mixed together equals devastating results.
Cast: Sneezing flash bomb (Offensive one use spell). Blinding, sinus wrecking and volatile magical cast.
Sustain Cast: Weak jet propulsion device (Limited air terrain support buff), Flamethrower (Limited offensive spell). Doing this will slowly destroy the candle and chemicals used in it. Exhaust fumes has a lesser effect of casting with pepper.
Sustain: None.
Self-Sustain: None.
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Combination 2: Feather + stick + arrowhead (material any) = Arrow. Arrow + poison = special status ailment added to casting effect based on poison used. Pukwudgie Poison (Paralysis for a few hours).
Cast: Arcing Arrow Beam (Offensive spell). Fires a beam that is effected by gravity as if it were an arrow, it can only damage one target and that’s the first thing it touches. If it grazes a wall and then hits you, it will do nothing to you.
Sustain Cast: Spray of multiple weaker beam shots.
Sustain: None.
Self-Sustain: None.
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Combination 3: Sustained Fish Scales + ambient ice magic = Ice projection.
Combination requires outside source of ice or freezing magic to wield. This combination has no cast or sustain capability. The wielder of the fish scales can alter projectile size and shape until the ice magic runs out or a sufficient amount of water from the fish scale wielders body is lost.
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Combination 4: Knife + Caltrop = Special throwing magical backstab (Can't block).
Cast: Using a caltrop cast on a cast knife results in an interesting mix magical alchemy effects, the resulting energy knife becomes impervious to damage from energy based attacks, it may even deflect or cut through them until it hits something solid. When thrown, it is completely impossible to block. If aimed at you, evasion is recommended.
Warning notes: The knife gains 'instant magical backstab' upon contact with anything after being released, including the user. After adding the caltrop cast to the cast knife, the casts can no longer be separated or reversed to get the objects used back.
Unlike a regular magical backstab, this combination makes it so the energy knife can't be grabbed by anyone else without immediately setting off the knife's 'magical backstab' effect. The caltrop effect of 'Straight Forward' is always active unless the energy knife is sustained. If dropped on the ground, the 'instant backstab' effect might travel to the opposite side of the planet.
Sustain-cast: Suppresses 'Straight Forward' from caltrop portion of combination, can only be used while user is still holding the knife from starting the combination.
Sustain: N/A.
Self-sustain: Instantaneous magical backstab upon contact with anything solid before or after the user 'fully' releases the knife, after the user releases the knife this can even have an effect on the user.
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"So many things to be remembered and forgotten in equal parts. I'll have a look at it again later..." The tired figure said before closing the book and putting it away. "There is always more we can learn by looking back."
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I haven't been able to find the relevant section for descriptions, but the 'knuckler' doesn't sound like a buckler, at least not for anyone smaller than one of those pig henchmen. Rather, it sounds more like something ranging from the strap on Scottish targe used by the celts, like in Brave Heart, to the full body shields used by the hoplites, like in The 300 even if that might be the only thing they got right. Believe it or not, the one you mentioned Goofy using in Kingdom Hearts is actually pretty close to the real thing as the smallest sizes were around 8 in wide(barely bigger than the length of half a subway sandwich). The inaccuracy was in how he used it like a 'regular' shield. The basic concept of a 'regular' shield was having a portable wall. The Buckler was basically the scarier big brother of the brass knuckles differing in that you could actually use the buckler for some defense. Its value shined when paired with daggers or rapiers when you used it to deflect (not block) melee blows, break enemy line of sight with your weapon, or even throw a nasty punch. In this sense, a buckler would actually be perfect for Jade as she could carry it without taking up too much space or pull it out quickly to deflect a blow or buy her some breathing room. As for the diminished magic affect, I think could still work if used in the nature of a buckler. Deflect or redirect energy attacks instead of blocking, add some hurt to a punch, or even be subtle with the constructs (like a distant lock pick or a hands free pickpocket).
Yeah, I'm pretty sure someone is going to use 'that reaction' to this, so I'll just save them the trouble and write it here for them-
NEEEEEERRRRRRD!!
So the 'High' robbery is on its way, eh? Guess I'll just have to have the popcorn ready for then.
Also, I know I'm late commenting on this one but-
Sounds like Jade may have been a disciple of Cave Johnson. Advice truly second only to his famous "If life gives you lemons, find a way to make them combust before you throw it back."
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A buckler is a shield that can be wielded in hand or on the forearm by definition. Forearm bucklers are more like bracers really.
A targe shield is not that much difference, except for the shape, they are mostly flat or gently curved and sometime banded with metal. Movie: 300 used Hoplons which were strictly wooden shields.
Abyssinian's are lithe beings and the pigs mentioned were short to tall heavy set guy, the buckler in particular was for a tall one. So a tiny buckler for a giant would be like a kite shield for a human. Jade obviously needs a buckler made more her size that she can wear on her scrawny arms.
Bucklers always were centralized with a large metal hump in the center and primarily metal.
Technically speaking, the shield in question in the story would be like a crossbreed of a buckler and a targe.
Dunno if it's intented or not but Airship Mauled seems to follow the naming schemes of Dwarf Fortress succesion games.
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Romance is not all sunshine and rainbows.
Not my greatest, but it will be important much later.
8955777
Counterintuitive being close to the keyword I was hoping for.
8955706
I liked the Roc. It had a very stony gaze.
8956228
Regular tricorne stolen from Captain Gash, all his other hats were sadly destroyed and he was left with a pink one.
8956267
Yep and Roc's love to eat them, elephants are like mice to a Roc.
8958531
Sides, Octavia is still too young to be in the Brotherhood and welp.. any 'assassin' not of the brotherhood wouldn't have a chance. They're going to have a -swipes hand making one eye flash blue- bad time~
8959469
Do you know about 'Them's Fightin' Herds'?
It's an indie game with a fun history.
Recolor characters still counts as an OC right?
8958556
Nope, but keep trying to find the plot. I'm sure it's in here somewhere... it's not next to my "Quantum Entanglement for Universe Destroying Idiots' manual.
8958696
Expect the expected in the unexpected expectations, expectedly. Sans the overly dark stuff.
8960392
Almost accurate.
The rules are definitely accurate though!
8960406
Don't know yet.
8962283
Nope, it's never that simple.
8966060
That will be brought up immediately.
8969946
That's just the thing though, Jade never does actually introduce them.
They might be aware of her, but they don't know her personally and thus the future is preserved for the evil enchantress!
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Oh that definitely fits.
8983641
Thank you, but what about it specifically is loved?
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I'm just doing my best, but okay.
I call bullshit.
8993864
It wasn't missed...
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8994844
Yep.
8994846
Either that or Borderlands, your mileage may vary depending on what you want it to liken too.
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So it just happens to be a ship know for it's massive wealth transporting... it's not like I constantly drop subtle things into the story.
If it had a picture of a red deer on it...
9003757
After an off story and quite canon Pinkie Pie Party that Cheese Sandwich took his inspiration to be a traveling party master from.
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FeS2
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Angel, evil? No of course not, his little red horns are perfectly natural to his character.
9006264
It takes a lot of hours to make one chapter as long as I consistently do a day, at most the shortest I can do a chapter in is three hours and at maximum six or seven.
Not a lot of spare time for everything else I do in a day.
9006333
Once a day for about the last three months. Three more days and it will be three months.
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I'm going to put in an authors note for when I stop and will start up again. I'll be likely be taking a week of hiatus starting July 13th to the 19th, If I change plans everyone will be notified by the authors note.
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No. Though if it is a part of that particular bit of mythology, then I certainly didn't hear about it. Wolpertingers are basically jackalopes with wings, fangs and possibly carnivorous leanings. At most I know hunters joke about going out to catch one while drunk. I can certainly see a wolpertinger on a beer can or a bottle, because there's a brand named after the mythological creature.
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Wet-soul-go-waddle.
9012532
What's wrong with using Malcho?
9012671 Huntik did a better job at getting the design right.
9016325
Sounds fair.
9016608
A 'light version' of a rail gun, it obviously only works if the bows string can be put to an object.
Who is the mysterious figure? we'll find out: at the end of the book!
Brush this story is awesome there's an update like once every day or two.
9027343
He didn't, he copied Secret of Evermore.
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Once a day for the last three months and I'm beginning to flag heavily, I need more sleep. I'm going on hiatus soon to replenish my sanity points.
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Something like that... basically.
9028506
Only a minor inspiration from that game. I didn't copy much from it, aside from candle thing specifically. I believe one of my lower key inspirations for magical alchemy is Psychonauts. Elder Scrolls is also part of the inspiration as many have noted. There's also the Atelier series of games and plenty of mythology alongside that.
I've amalgamated a lot into this.
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Ok take as much time as ya need.
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Not really. Hands, talons and claws are kind of interchangeable in this situation for Parrots and Griffons.
Parrots like Captain Celaeno's crew had fingers ending it claws which are called talons.
It's like an Abyssinian has paws, claws and hands. However, I can't say talons for Jade or Kuril as that is a bird thing.
Hands, by definition, have thumbs, palms and digits.
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An example of a grue would be like what you see at night in the game 'Don't Starve', something that only attacks you in the shadow and does so at an incredible speeds if you don't have light.
I want a spoiler for the shipping, since there are so many chapters already I need something that makes me want to read it.
At this point I pretty sure they just killed leviathan not a narwhale.
9041031
That and a lot more.
9041216
Yep, that would be most of them.
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Leviathans are a different kettle of fish. It's a good thing Airship Mauled is inland right?
50 bits says casting with the comic gives you the powers/ability quirks of the analogous hero/villian/anti-hero for a limited period of time.
Not that we'll ever find out, as that would just be ridiculously op.
9042784
I can't believe it... you're actually calling down a Tactical Murphy on your fictional village... you are an ass...
I'll get the popcorn!
9043463
OP or hilariously bad, if you consider Collateral's gimmick is causing all kinds of obscenely horrible collateral damage no matter what she does.
9043479
I can get to it eventually.
9045731
Yep.
9052941
Heroes in most video games are always kleptomaniacs and tend to get away with a lot.
9086864
Yeah that's powerful stuff.
9089186
Poorly rated? I'm most often just outright ignored, that and I'm not highly social. Advertisement does wonders for other stories.
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She'll definitely do more than just eating a drop bear in a short scene.
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It's not just jinxing themselves, they are sometimes literally self defeating to the point that if you never show up to thwart them they lose even if you never did anything to stop them. There's also missing small details that tend to blow up in their faces. Gambit villains are interesting, but they rely entirely on the heroes to do things for them and they eventually reveal the plan which leads to it's downfall.
Does Somnambula appear in this story?
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Eventually.
9103967
Thank you, I thought so too.
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Yes, they did that with the other musical stages as well.
All of them good, like Gloo Gloo was used in the movie Kill Bill know as 'Woo Hoo' by a band literally named '5678'.
Castle Rock is a rendition of 'Ram Jam's' 'Black Betty'.
Dragon slayer is just plain awesome, it's called 'antisocial' by 'Trust'.
Rayman Legends is a good game.
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In general breaking and entering, lockpicking, stealing and in being charismatically insane when the situation warrants it.
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Not necessarily. It only stays in Las Pegasus if people want it to, we're talking about a goddess here... who's there to deny her?
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Halfway referenced.
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Agreed... Cuddle!
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I wouldn't worry, she enjoys it by now and will start actively seek out a 'hit'.
9124105
That makes way to much sense. Plus the name could be a biblical reference to how devils are angels who fell from the grace of God.
Although which one is debatable in this fic.
9124105
that right there is utterly terrifying. keep up the good work.
9135741
so do I, but that doesn't mean I can't snark at it.
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The implications are freaking scary *shudders and groans* If I am right, this explains everything about that demonic little- *pauses and clears his throat* Anyways waiting for the next chapter is always a drag
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Well Fluttershy does dream of a giant Angel taking care of her... fortunately he doesn't have a horn... or does he?
Al-mi'raj can do illusions to that effect, the paranoia of them being invisible giants alone is horrifying. We don't need them being smart enough to hide their appearance as normal rabbits like Sugar could possibly do thanks to her familiar bonding making her more intelligent than average.
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Discord does have his place late in the story, it's about the time Pony Somnambula makes an actual appearance. (Not to be confused with the life stealing witch Somnambula.) They'll be like old friends.
"Prolonged prologue: Stuff you don't need to know" and its successors.
So does that mean I can skip them with no negative consequences? Or is that just your attempt at being funny? Is not reading that like not reading The Hobbit before Lord of the Rings, or just choosing not to read The Silmarillion before the rest?
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It's meant to be confusing.
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It's working very well then.
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Buuut that doesn't answer my question.
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Who in his right mind skips prologues and epilogues? They are integral part of the story.
BTW, The Silmarillion and The Hobbit are not prologues to Lord of the Rings.
The Hobbit is a prequel and you usually want to read prequels first. Some sequels do reintroduce all characters all over again, so you don't have to read prequel, but in general you better do.
The Silmarillion, on the other hand, is a... setting reference book(?). Something you may want, but don't have to know since books based on the setting usually explain enough and some use prologue for that.
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Who says it can't have a romantic subplot?
9180559
That's who. The people who notice the the title. Also, you're assuming I'm not insane. I've been nuts since I was 14. Had a fever temperature of 108 degrees for about two hours. Up until then I was a very shy person. After that I was quite a bit more outgoing. Still Am. I'm just not a harmful shade of crazy.
And why will no one ACTUALLY answer the question??