Filomancy Copyright really to mooshified but partially to Piotyr Making the world a better place, one friend at a time. Nickname: Buddies It's like this: You, yourself, have no value. You're a waste of air and skin, not fit to live in this world. Unless you can find some way to justify yourself. But you’re not quite up to the challenge of making the world a better place on a grander scale, you gotta start small. Take it one step at a time. You’ve decided you’re going to be there for your friends. Granted, some of your friends are just as worthless as you are. Not all of them though. Some of them are honest-to-goodness good people, people who deserve a better life. Your job is to give that to them. You give them cash when they need it, make them laugh when they need cheering up, let them cry on your shoulder when their sad. And then you can rest easy, because you've earned your stay on this planet. The central paradox of Filomancy is its selfishness. The adept's sacrifice is nothing of the kind: While his goal is to help people if he makes their lives too good they will no longer need him, thus he will no longer be able to get any charges. Filomancy Blast Style: Filomancers have no blast. It's against their nature. Stats Filomancers can have any number of friends, just like anyone else. However, they must designate between one and four of them "true friends" these are the people he devotes himself to. Henceforth, the term "friend" indicates one of these true friends. A player character cannot be designated a true friend. Generate a Minor Charge: Help your friend in a way that inconveniences you. The help can be asked for or not, but you must solve a problem your friend has, and suffer some negative consequence. Examples: if the adept's friend is out of town, the adept could gain one minor charge by walking her dog until she gets back. He could gain another charge by watering her plants, and so on. Every charge-earning task must present a separate difficulty to the adept. Walking the dog takes time; that's good enough. If the adept waters his friend's plants while checking her phone messages, he is not doubly inconvenienced and does not gain the charge for doing so. Generate a Significant Charge: Help your friend. In a Significant way Examples: Convince your friend's crush, your brother, to go out with her. Give them a gift they truly enjoys (And no the best gift is not one you made yourself). Defend them when someone starts bulling them, Etc. Generate a Major Charge: Save your friend's life. You can't gain a charge by placing her in danger, even accidentally Make it so your chosen friend no longer needs you, the ultimate sacrifice, the loss of your charger. (Note this is up to your gm, it may be give your friend a million dollars so they never want for anything again or help your friend become dependent of you such as helping her go to the college she always want to go to in another state) Taboo: A Filomancer must never abandon a friend in need, nor fail to come when called by his friend, even if they are not in need. Also, whenever the adept changes his list of true friends, for any reason, he loses all his charges. Random Magick Domain: Trust, dependence and help. Humans are easier to magick than animals, which are easier than objects. Starting Charges: Newly created Filomancers have 2 minor charges. Charging Tips: In choosing their friends, Filomancers must perform a balancing act. An overly needy friend might make the adept break taboo, but a self-sufficient one will be a poor source of charges. Furthermore, having only one friend is risky she might abandon you, or become too content but multiple friends might call on the adept simultaneously, and they might be far apart from each other. Most Filomancers have one very dependent friend, or a number of stronger ones. With all this variation, it's tough to pin down a charging frequency. On average, a Filomancer gains a minor charge once every few days and a significant charge once or twice every few weeks. It all depends on the types of friends you have. Filomancy Minor Formula Spells Friend of a friend Cost: 2 minor charge. For the next amount of minutes equal to the sum of the die everyone in the area you are in thinks your suppose to be there (Oh that’s… Bills friend! What was his name?) And will continue to do so unless they suspect you of something or directly come in contact with you (Such as starting a conversation, bumping into you and getting a good look Etc.) add 2 extra charges if the area you enter is a restricted area that even friends of people that are allowed there wouldn’t be allowed. You Deserve It Cost: 2 minor charges Effect: Give someone an object. As long as it doesn't present an intrinsic, immediate threat (a ticking time bomb, say), they will accept it. They won't realize what exactly they're holding until they get home, or sleep and awake. You're My Man Cost: 3 minor charges. Effect: For the next 8 hours, any domesticated animal that sees you will treat you as an owner. If their real owner shows up, the animal will be visibly heartbroken, but will return to them. You Inspire Me Cost: 3 minor charges Effect: After casting the spell, the adept must ask one of his true friends for a favor. After (and if) they do so, the caster steals five of their points from an appropriate stat, for the next 24 hours. If the friend lifted something heavy, Body would be good; Mind is appropriate if they helped with the adept's taxes. You're a Real Pal Cost: 4 minor charges Effect: For the next half hour, the target of You're a Real Pal gains the skill "Make Friends" at 20%. If she already has a similar skill, she gets +15% to it instead. Filomancy Significant Formula Spells You're A Better Man Than I Cost: 1 significant charge Effect: The caster selects a (non-magickal) skill he possesses, and a target. For the duration of the spell, the target has that skill at 1% higher than the caster. The spell lasts the casting roll in minutes. Only one skill can be affected at a time per person You Can Trust Me Cost: 2 significant charges Effect: A piece of text or a person gives up one of its secrets. A book might disclose its author, or the meaning of one of its symbols. A computer interface could tell you a password. A person whispers something to himself he does not wish another to know. The caster hears the secret as a whisper in his ear; background noise can make it difficult to discern. The length of the secret in words cannot exceed the tens die of the casting roll. The target of this spell can try to resist whispering the secret but must make a self check in the amount of the tens die of the casting roll You Need Me Cost: 3 significant charges Effect: This spell can be cast on anyone in the same room as the adept, or within 15 yards outdoors. If the target leaves the room (or the outdoor vicinity), she suffers a -30% shift to her Soul, and an anxiety attack. If the caster moves, the target must move with him. The target is aware of her situation. The spell and the Soul shift, end after one hour. You Mean a Lot to Me Cost: 3 significant charges (see below) Effect: With this spell, a Filomancer can keep his charges in his friends for safekeeping. The caster must look into the eyes of his true friend, take their hand, and say, "You mean a lot to me". At this point he spends two significant charges and invests as many more as he likes into the friend. Any kind of charge can be invested. The friend is completely unaware that anything unnatural has happened. While the charges are in storage, they cannot be lost through the caster's break of taboo (though if the friend is herself an adept, the charges will be lost if she breaks taboo). Furthermore, they will remain in the friend's body until 24 hours after her death. To retrieve the charges the caster must look into his target's eyes again, take their hand and say "Thanks. For everything." He then spends one significant charge and regains the stored charges. Filomancy Major Effects Create a piece of advice, which, whenever you speak it, just seems to make sense. Make any one person who can see you need you like oxygen, literally. Know all the real friendships in a given community. Forge a true friendship with your chosen target