Would you believe what the modern world has become in 300 years?
Nothing like anyone would have expected. Magic is abundant in the world- once one man figured it out, word spread like wildfire, literally. Science had been pushed to the back-burners once magic was discovered again, something that hadn't been used since the medieval times. Simultaneously, animals began to use it as well, and nature suddenly was a force to be reckoned with. The Amazon rain forest, which had been in the process of deforestation, suddenly had a tool to fight back with. Technology began to whither. What the world looks like now, is mayhem.
Adam sped down the highway, listening to the breeze through the open driver-side window, and the soft hum of the hovercar. The sun shone through the translucent catchscreen, a nifty mechanism that replaced windshields. They still block the wind, but they're much safer. Even through the impact of a freeway accident, someone going headfirst into a catchscreen would only feel a little disoriented- at worst. Up ahead in the highway Adam noticed a wild animal- and his mind froze in fear. Panic washed over him and he set the hovercar on autopilot and reached into his backseat, looking for his Lightning spellbook.
"Oh shit, it has to be here somewhere, where the hell did I leave it?" he said quickly and hurriedly to himself. He finally pulled it out from beneath the passenger seat and sat facing forward again. He was close enough to see what animal it was now, and to see that it had noticed him as well.
A wild elephant raised its trunk high into the air and began to undulate it rhythmically, as if it wasn't feeling even the resistance of the air around it. The desert highway suddenly was a water world. Storm clouds formed within seconds and the catchscreen's automatic Rain-X feature wasn't strong enough to keep his vision clear. Adam began rolling the windows back up, in an attempt to prevent his car from filling with water, but soon enough the hovercar's engine began to whine. The high-pitched sound was soon drowned out by the roar of the car hovering only an inch above the water level, which Adam could see only by the fact that the elephant was more than knee high in the appearing sea.
Adam's survival instincts became prominent and he opened his sun-roof and stood on his seat. The rain began to soak the pages of the book, and through the storm is became hard to see even his hands in front of him, but against it came through his voice as he shouted into the blackening sky, "Let Heaven show its mercy to you, beast! Auβer dir soll mir auf Erden!"
The beast raised back onto its hindlegs, its trunk waving in the air. Lightning struck the tip of it and its body vividly shook, as it collapsed into the deepening water.
Adam panted wildly and shrunk back into his car, fastening the sun-roof back into place. He took the hovercar off of autopilot and pushed down on the pedal, hoping to get out of the area as fast as possible. Shaken and trying to calm himself down, Adam looked back at what had just happened to see the elephant charging toward his car.
"You gotta be fuckin' kidding me..." he said quietly to himself. Looking forward to watch his driving, he made no less than fifty yards before the realized it had caught up.
As the elephant's front right foot came down on the trunk of his car, it launched the vehicle into an upright position, the front bumper high in the air. When speeding at over 90 mph, this maneuver isn't very safe.
As his hovercar made an aerial flip, Adam thought of the impact and if he'd live through it or not.
Debatably fortunate, the elephant caught the car, wrapping its trunk around the front half and crushing the engine inside. Flames erupted from the wreckage and Adam managed into the backseat, where he opened a passenger door. The elephant dropped the vehicle when the fire licked across its face and submerged itself into the water.
As Adam jumped from the falling vehicle, he felt the icy cold freshwater envelope his body. He opened his eyes and saw the elephant walking away from him, toward the sinking vehicle. Adam swam toward the surface, and saw a whirlpool starting just at where the car's crushed engine was sinking. Swimming in the opposite direction, Adam was approached by another vehicle, driving several inches over the surface of the newly formed sea. The flashing lights atop the black and white decals where a relief and they took him in and drove him back to the nearest town.
After telling his story, the local mapping was changed to warn drivers about the newly submerged highway, an Adam had his first encounter with nature fighting back.
You can see the potential, I hope. Here's a list of the existing magics:
Fire [1] - The ability to control fire, create fire, or to dampen fire.
Water [1] - The ability to summon water, raise or lower the temperature within its field (cannot freeze the water) or to manipulate water in the area.
Ice [1] - The ability to freeze water, manipulate ice, or to summon ice.
Lightning [1] - The ability to control electricity, summon lightning, or to cause storms.
Earth [1] - The ability to control rocks, dirt, sand, clay, etc. and to manipulate it.
Zephyr [1] - The ability to summon or heighten the strength of wind.
Dark [2] - The ability to control shadows, darkness, or to summon demons.
Nature [2] - The ability to control nature, manipulate it, or expediate its growth.
Dragon [2] - The ability to manipulate simplistic magic in a non-simplistic manner (i.e. Fire is a simplistic magic. To envelope another in Dragon fire wouldn't burn, but may drown, freeze, or even teleport its subject).
Holy [2] - The ability to call upon the strength of the Heavens and to banish darkness.
Logos [2] - The ability to speak without the barrier of language, and to use speech in any advantageous manner.
Sound [3] - The ability to produce sound in any frequency, to change the direction of sound, or to manipulate existing sound.
Space [3] - The ability to manipulate the visual or textural composition of matter.
Time [3] - The ability to manipulate or fluctuate time in any manner.
Chaos [3] - The ability to effect one's chemical composition or to change a target's mental state.
Atomic [4] - The properties of science as a magic.
Black [5] - The most complicated magic, Black has the abilities that do not fall under any other category.
You will receive 3 points when you create your character. Therefore, you can initially choose anything up to Chaos magic, but if you choose Chaos magic, then you have a rating of '1' with it and have no other magic until you get more. If you choose a magic that only needs 1, then you could put all three points into it and have a rating of '3', etc. Mix and match how you'd like.
You get more points by battling with another player, buying them, or finding them in battle. You can not buy one at will, but I will tell you how much money you have when you create your character. This will tie into the story-
Link: The Prologue To the End
Nothing like anyone would have expected. Magic is abundant in the world- once one man figured it out, word spread like wildfire, literally. Science had been pushed to the back-burners once magic was discovered again, something that hadn't been used since the medieval times. Simultaneously, animals began to use it as well, and nature suddenly was a force to be reckoned with. The Amazon rain forest, which had been in the process of deforestation, suddenly had a tool to fight back with. Technology began to whither. What the world looks like now, is mayhem.
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Adam sped down the highway, listening to the breeze through the open driver-side window, and the soft hum of the hovercar. The sun shone through the translucent catchscreen, a nifty mechanism that replaced windshields. They still block the wind, but they're much safer. Even through the impact of a freeway accident, someone going headfirst into a catchscreen would only feel a little disoriented- at worst. Up ahead in the highway Adam noticed a wild animal- and his mind froze in fear. Panic washed over him and he set the hovercar on autopilot and reached into his backseat, looking for his Lightning spellbook.
"Oh shit, it has to be here somewhere, where the hell did I leave it?" he said quickly and hurriedly to himself. He finally pulled it out from beneath the passenger seat and sat facing forward again. He was close enough to see what animal it was now, and to see that it had noticed him as well.
A wild elephant raised its trunk high into the air and began to undulate it rhythmically, as if it wasn't feeling even the resistance of the air around it. The desert highway suddenly was a water world. Storm clouds formed within seconds and the catchscreen's automatic Rain-X feature wasn't strong enough to keep his vision clear. Adam began rolling the windows back up, in an attempt to prevent his car from filling with water, but soon enough the hovercar's engine began to whine. The high-pitched sound was soon drowned out by the roar of the car hovering only an inch above the water level, which Adam could see only by the fact that the elephant was more than knee high in the appearing sea.
Adam's survival instincts became prominent and he opened his sun-roof and stood on his seat. The rain began to soak the pages of the book, and through the storm is became hard to see even his hands in front of him, but against it came through his voice as he shouted into the blackening sky, "Let Heaven show its mercy to you, beast! Auβer dir soll mir auf Erden!"
The beast raised back onto its hindlegs, its trunk waving in the air. Lightning struck the tip of it and its body vividly shook, as it collapsed into the deepening water.
Adam panted wildly and shrunk back into his car, fastening the sun-roof back into place. He took the hovercar off of autopilot and pushed down on the pedal, hoping to get out of the area as fast as possible. Shaken and trying to calm himself down, Adam looked back at what had just happened to see the elephant charging toward his car.
"You gotta be fuckin' kidding me..." he said quietly to himself. Looking forward to watch his driving, he made no less than fifty yards before the realized it had caught up.
As the elephant's front right foot came down on the trunk of his car, it launched the vehicle into an upright position, the front bumper high in the air. When speeding at over 90 mph, this maneuver isn't very safe.
As his hovercar made an aerial flip, Adam thought of the impact and if he'd live through it or not.
Debatably fortunate, the elephant caught the car, wrapping its trunk around the front half and crushing the engine inside. Flames erupted from the wreckage and Adam managed into the backseat, where he opened a passenger door. The elephant dropped the vehicle when the fire licked across its face and submerged itself into the water.
As Adam jumped from the falling vehicle, he felt the icy cold freshwater envelope his body. He opened his eyes and saw the elephant walking away from him, toward the sinking vehicle. Adam swam toward the surface, and saw a whirlpool starting just at where the car's crushed engine was sinking. Swimming in the opposite direction, Adam was approached by another vehicle, driving several inches over the surface of the newly formed sea. The flashing lights atop the black and white decals where a relief and they took him in and drove him back to the nearest town.
After telling his story, the local mapping was changed to warn drivers about the newly submerged highway, an Adam had his first encounter with nature fighting back.
------- ------- ------ ----- ---- --- -- - -- --- ---- ----- ------ ------- --------
You can see the potential, I hope. Here's a list of the existing magics:
Fire [1] - The ability to control fire, create fire, or to dampen fire.
Water [1] - The ability to summon water, raise or lower the temperature within its field (cannot freeze the water) or to manipulate water in the area.
Ice [1] - The ability to freeze water, manipulate ice, or to summon ice.
Lightning [1] - The ability to control electricity, summon lightning, or to cause storms.
Earth [1] - The ability to control rocks, dirt, sand, clay, etc. and to manipulate it.
Zephyr [1] - The ability to summon or heighten the strength of wind.
Dark [2] - The ability to control shadows, darkness, or to summon demons.
Nature [2] - The ability to control nature, manipulate it, or expediate its growth.
Dragon [2] - The ability to manipulate simplistic magic in a non-simplistic manner (i.e. Fire is a simplistic magic. To envelope another in Dragon fire wouldn't burn, but may drown, freeze, or even teleport its subject).
Holy [2] - The ability to call upon the strength of the Heavens and to banish darkness.
Logos [2] - The ability to speak without the barrier of language, and to use speech in any advantageous manner.
Sound [3] - The ability to produce sound in any frequency, to change the direction of sound, or to manipulate existing sound.
Space [3] - The ability to manipulate the visual or textural composition of matter.
Time [3] - The ability to manipulate or fluctuate time in any manner.
Chaos [3] - The ability to effect one's chemical composition or to change a target's mental state.
Atomic [4] - The properties of science as a magic.
Black [5] - The most complicated magic, Black has the abilities that do not fall under any other category.
You will receive 3 points when you create your character. Therefore, you can initially choose anything up to Chaos magic, but if you choose Chaos magic, then you have a rating of '1' with it and have no other magic until you get more. If you choose a magic that only needs 1, then you could put all three points into it and have a rating of '3', etc. Mix and match how you'd like.
You get more points by battling with another player, buying them, or finding them in battle. You can not buy one at will, but I will tell you how much money you have when you create your character. This will tie into the story-
Link: The Prologue To the End
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