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The not very wealthy or safe urban town of Ashton, in the inferior half of the state of Pacifica Sancti in the United States of Vesspucia, -what in our world was named Berkeley in California, in the United States of America- was once named for ash trees and is now named for factories and coal power plants spewing ash all over the unfortunate prole dwellings. The savants among them use Fatal magic to influence the patterns of the wind, making it likely that the smog will pass them by or that kindly spirits will protect thier lungs, while others must make do with Psychic spells of sunny disposition, or with expensive athsma inhalers.

Meanwhile, western dragons protect Tiamat Savings and Loan, the bank in the center of town: you can get a year of youth and life in your Peaches of Immortality smoothie for five skins at Ambrosia Juices, and a well placed prayer to Agape, the local Goddess of Love That Lasts, might snag you a date to the prom at Trismegustos High School or the formal at Ashton Community College if you promise to treat them right afterwards.

Ashton Junior College (the link is to the RP thread) is a roleplaying setting where Magic was never occult and spirits are everywhere. Any human can be a mage - it simply requires the understanding that as above, through symbolically potent ritual, so below. Technology is modern and works on anyone. Magic works better on someone with similar religious and symbolic beliefs and not at all on someone with vastly different beliefs. The players will have either be students, staff, or those that know the students or staff at Ashton Junior College, and the genre is Romantic Comedy.

NEW! As for what passes for a plot, In a world where everyone can be a wizard if they want to, Ashton Junior College is the place to go for the unlucky, broke or slacker mage or mundy. Even Agape, the local Goddess of Love that Lasts, attends classes in Applied Theology for her AA degree there. Lately, she's been experimenting with increasing her power by expending it, trying to make her version of Heaven on Earth: she's set herself up as a matchmaker with a college matchup website and dating service. Meet her at the Hannish Automat (Only a skin for two spring rolls! Five skins for chow mein, spring rolls and an entree and drink! Self serve, no waiting or nasty hexes!) and she'll set you up with a love. That lasts. Honest.

All you need to apply are the following:

Player: The name of your avatar and all mules of your avatar playing the same character.
Character: The name of your character.
Gender: The gender of your character.
Sexual Orientation: Does your character like boys, girls, both?
Appearance: A brief description of your appearance.
Motivation: What drives your character.
Ritual School: How your character works magic (if in fact they do so: you may put "none." wink
Strength: A strength of your character.
Ally: An ally of your character, which could be a pet or spirit/god they worship.
Wildcard: Another strength or ally.

A writing sample is very, very nice but not... hmm... you know, on further reflection, let's just say 'it doesn't have to be from an RPG.'

Rules Of Magic

1. Magic is governed by the precept "As above: so below." This means that what you want is done through the force of your will and a ritual to affect the world. The more meaningful the ritual (how well it conforms to your goal) and the more effort you put into your ritual, the stronger your effect is.

2. There are three broad levels of power that any spell may have to effect the world, further divided by the duration of the spells effect.
- The weakest level are Psychic or Mental spells. These alter the perception of you, someone else, or something else: illusionary effects that affect perception.
- The second level are Fatal spells. These are spells that alter probability or fate. These spells will cause an astounding amount of coincidence either for or against the favor of the participant. General spells do not last very long, but spells focused on one effect (such as a relationship or event) will last longer, with much more powerful effects.
- The third level is Physical. This includes altering material objects, conjuring or creating objects, and physical healing. It is nearly impossible for a average person to cast permanent Physical spells.

3. Every person, with very few exceptions, are protected by wards. Wards are a type of anti-magic that drain either specific or general type of magic. They may be cast with gaps to allow their personal spells through. These gaps are usually hidden, but can be exploited if discovered and are similar to Internet firewalls or a wall made of Legos.

Wards follow the rules of other spells for both duration and power. Most people put the effort that they would otherwise spend on a Physical spell into their wards.

4. Tools are everywhere and may be as basic as an pencil and paper or moving your hands in the right way. Tools help your ritual by adding meaning your spell to help make the outcome closer to your goals.

5. There are many ways to get the same effect. An established ritual will have a greater meaning then one made up on the spot. However, one you just made up may catch someone by surprise, and everyone modifies rituals to fit their style or purpose, leaving it up to the individual.

Everyone learns the basic tenets of magic while growing up and they are taught in school. Spells are everywhere: in every magazine, TV show, and book and on the internet. People usually modify the rituals, once memorized to fit, as mentioned above.

6. Sympathetic magic is the concept that a like item may be used as a tool in a ritual. For example, if you want your hair to be red, you could use red paint as part of the ritual, because it was the right shade of red, and you might even apply it to your hair, to make a symbolic transfer of color.

7. Line of sight will make any spell more powerful. Period. Spells that are not cast on a subject within your line of sight must be cast on an object that represents or comes from the subject of your spell.

8. For every other subject of a spell, the duration of the spell is divided. For example, if there are two subjects, the duration of the spell is halved, three the duration is thirded, etcetera, without any additional effort.

((Yo. I have a character that I'll transplant from another fantasy story, but he needs to be tacked onto a particular person and that person needs to constantly be in mortal peril.

Player: x_haphazard_x
Character: Edwin, Ed for short
Gender: Umm, male, I guess.
Sexual Orientation: Aren't angels generally chaste?
Appearance: Very little pigment, looks kind of washed out. He has short gray-white hair and nearly colorless but slightly blue eyes, and a delicate build. Wears a lot of white clothing with space for the wings, and no, wings are not convenient, especially not in revolving doors. There's the halo, too, and he wears sandals and carries around the magic wand that looks like it would be fit for a little girl's magical princess costume, complete with streamers, and the star is yellow and made of paper and the wand is pink and filled with pink-colored sugar.
Motivation: He's going to stop being such a baby and face the pain that he's got to put up with. After that, it's generally never wanting anyone to get hurt.
Ritual School: None, but he's a guardian angel, so he's got powers his own.
Strength: His sudden willingness to throw himself out in front of danger when it's there, cunning under pressure, and ability to take a lot of damage.
Ally: Umm... God?
Wildcard: Has wings, though they've been clipped, pops out of nowhere whenever this person is in trouble, and God gave him a pixie stick with a paper star pasted on top. Ed's still trying to figure out exactly what it's for.

Heh, okay. At least he has something, I was kind of worried when you were talking about theologies that maybe Christian theology wouldn't exist in this world at all.

Is anyone else coming?

Yay! I need characters in mortal peril!

bump. ninja