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I object because I'm cautious about Beings I don't understand or trust. Also, on a meta level, I'm not deeply interested in being an Order Mage. I want to go in the direction I want to go, even if its not as cool as other directions.
OOC) What direction do you want to go? Am I hindering you from going that direction? And don't tell me I'm doing fine if I'm really not. Tell me the truth. It's just, with most of my other players, when they were given a magical blacksmithing hammer, they generally did more magic than blacksmithing.
What kind of magic, if any, would you want to learn?
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"Tommy, the more Order you put into something, the stronger, and more durable it will be. Also, its liable to burn those who are strongly Chaotic if they touch it. I would not be surprised if you could learn to use this chain to flick a fly out of the air with as accuracy would be part of Order."
"Maan, that's bony!! Hunh, wonder if it'll throw the wall of wind like that staff you gave me did."
And, as a staff, he spins around and makes the throwing gesture. Indeed, it throws a wall of wind. You've got a blackstaff. If you don't want it, Tommy will of course trade you for it or purchase it from you.
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He's going this way, and I might as well help him. He does seem like a nice guy.
OOC) Is helping him something that you would want to be doing? What do you want to be doing? I'm supposed to be making sure you have a good time playing.
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I laugh at him when he's skeptical of me throwing things at him, but I can see his point. I agree, and we work on things.
He's really good with the sling. Able to hit a moving target. Then he skins and cooks the rabbit over a campfire.
"Gotta learn how to do that on The Road maan."
He staff fights you with his chain staff vs your blackstaff. He's really good, but he seems like he's holding back. He says he's afraid he might accidentally "Magic you out of existence maan."
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A laser beam would be Order controlling Chaos. And it could be that cutting thru 3 feet of steel thing if the mage is strong enough.
Or Chaos controlling Chaos. Removing the Chaos from the flashlight and focusing it. I don't imagine it would be nearly as powerful, but a flashlight into a cat-teasing laser sounds reasonable.
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I think an Order Mage could make a Chaos weapon, but it likely would be physically weaker. It might be a touch corrupts weapon rather than a sword meant for battle.
OOC) Fixable.
Next time Tommy shows you his Order hammer, it's physically changed. You can tell it's the same hammer because of a little nick in the handle. But it's changed. One side of the hammer is perfectly round, the way you got it. The other side is a 23 sided polygon. Still more or less round, but it's got 23 flat, smooth sides. 23 is a Prime number.
"Had another trippy-dippy dream about the chess pieces maan. They told me I'm gonna be a Gray Mage. But I'm pretty sure it's just a shroom flashback maan."
So it's transmuting into an Order/Chaos hammer. But for the moment, he's still waaaaay more Orderly than Chaos.
So yes, he can make both.
He also knows a lot about edible plants. Shrooms are something you can find "Like every hundred or so sleeps, maan."
"Gotta know that on The Road maan."
He pronounces the capital letters.
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Priests? Don't know. Greater ability to curse or bless. "You will, in the future, traitor, never betray anyone again, in any way!!" If the person this curse is cast on is too fundamentally a traitor, he either casts it off if strong enough, or dies. If not, he has a geas on him limiting his actions.
Good ideas!!
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Str and flex of a steel cable would be Order. Links of order throughout the whole substance hooked together.
Or removing Chaos. Or changing the Chaos. I think there's a lot of similar things they could do. Maybe one would do the thing much better than the other, but both similar.
Like the aforementioned Chaos laser. Removing Chaos producing a weaker laser. In this case, removing the brittleness Chaos for strength. But not a steel cable out of a brittle twig. Maybe like a piece of thread or something. The flexibility comes from Chaos. Order is things not moving. So you'd get more strength and rigidness from Order. But you could add strength Order and remove rigidness Order to make something flexible. But it would be more like a bow (and arrows) than a rope.
They could both turn loose sand into a solid wall. Removing Chaos produces sandstone, adding Order produces glass. See what I mean?
(Doing Therapy)