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Matthew 10:16 (GLoG class: Specialist)

Special thanks to Archon's Court . There's a certain way things go. The throughline of history. Fate. It's written in the whispering of advisors and traced by knives in dark places. There's a machine that runs the world. The mind of God, or something like it, with gears and flywheels made from people and nations. Shut your eyes, sit in silence, and you can hear it whirring. Pulsing. Breathing. It's all in the Hidden Writing. You know because you wrote it. The work of spies is the work of the insane. You are a liar, even to yourself. You may not even know it. What do you know?  Agent Skills: Cryptography  and Steganography . Starting Equipment: A set of unassuming clothes, a set of fine clothes (+1 reaction with the Right Sort,) a long-bladed folding knife ( light , easily concealed,) and a  Tool of the Trade . A Intelligencer , Wetwork , +2 SKLL B Nocturnal , +2 SNEK C Icewater Veins , +1 to hit D Someone Else , +2 SKLL As a specialist, you are proficient in kniv...
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Piscomancy (A Minor Adept School for Unknown Armies 3e)

Piscomancy  Or Ichthyurgy  AKA Ahabs, Aquamen, Casters, Ickies  Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat forever. You fish because you are master of a domain which is not your own; by deceit and pain, you admire the beauty of another world. Fish to eat, and you're no better than the fish. Just another mouth with a tail going for the lure, not knowing the difference between the real thing and the simulacrum even when the hook pierces its lip. Make a man a fish, and you'll catch him any day. There's no telling how old this school is, but it's never quite had the strength behind it to match its cousin, Agrimancy. Nobody ever ruined their life sport fishing. When it comes to altering the environment, commercial fishing wins every time, but there's nothing personal or magickal about hauling up a thousand cod in a net that could swallow a house. Regardless, some Casters see an opportunity to reach greater heights (or depths,) ...
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MATTHEW 18:9 (GLOG class: Monk)

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SURPRISE! This is a double-dip on prompts: a Paladin of an Unorthodox Law. Or, more accurately, a  Monk . Quoted from the linked post, so you don't have to jump between there and here while using this class: All Monks have a pool of chi which they use to fuel their kung-fu. This chi takes up slots in your inventory like exhaustion ; just like exhaustion , you take a point of damage if something would occupy the same slot. When you take an hour to calmly and silently meditate (it is nigh impossible to do this in a city), you may fill as much of your inventory with chi as you wish.     You may use chi to: leap 20 ' horizontally, reduce damage from an arrow or thrown weapon by 1d6 , treat a fall as if it were 10' shorter, upgrade an unarmed attack to deal 1d6 plus your highest modifier damage (it's your job to explain why intelligence makes you punch better but it shouldn't be hard. You're a smart kid), make a pair of unarmed attacks immediately after mak...
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⛮{CRY ME A RIVER}⛮ (Morning Stars Dungeon)

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This is a post of two purposes: 1. For  Glåugust  challenge 6, fulfilling the prompt "a dungeon with a river in it". 2. A trade of prompts--a dungeon duel, if you will--between the aforelinked Nothic's Eye and yours truly. He emerged from the peat to suggest "great and ancient mechanisms", to which I raise my foot-long Colt Dragoon revolver and respond with "trench raid". Your move, eelboy. Ilya Zankovsky  Secret History A long time ago, this valley in the east was inhabited only by those exiled by the Sun Kings  and their descendants. When the spring rains came, the river came roaring over its banks to scour people, animals, and buildings from the earth. Then, in the summer, the sun burned it all away, leaving only cracked mud and fish bones. It was terrible, but not so bad that everyone left; tyrants and raiders passed the village over in times of war, nothing worth taking. So is it any surprise that someone made a deal with the devil? Saint DEVIL , ...
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Enoch 10:16 (GLOG race-as-class: Paladin)

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  Remember  the Cloak-and-Sword bandwagon ? The one with the single-template classes and Esprit mechanic? I really don't. I was pretty deep into an addiction to nasal decongestant sprays at the time and may have sold a few blogposts to fund my habit. Sorry. Thankfully, I recently found an early draft and managed to get it into fighting trim. 
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DOJO WARS - A FISTFUL OF NAPKINS

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1995. In the Battlefield Mall, a war is brewing. Two karate dojos, alike in indignity, battle to see who is truly  worthy to call themselves the inheritors of Juan Matus Castaña , himself an inheritor to the mysterious and possibly fictional Chung Fu , Master of the Ten Thousand Year Egg Posture. Any similarity to actual malls, living or dead, is not coincidental.  Our heroes are the OPEN CHAKRA FIGHTING SOCIETY , consisting of: Me as  Hannibal Rex , who runs the dojo. A fifty-something ex-con with a buzz cut, a rhinestone jacket (OPEN CHAKRA) emblazened on the shoulders, and a big scar on his neck from where a guy tried to shank him.  He knows karate, voodoo too . Magnificentophat  as Nathan Churchland , a muscular young lad with a fondness for karate and low-rent Japanese women's professional wrestling promotions. Learned the art of Culteurgy from a wrestling videotape, going above and beyond nature in the pursuit of strength. Unfailingly kind. Mellonbread ...
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Job 17:2 (GLOG class: Legally Distinct Eye Ray Entity)

This isn't for the Beholder bandwagon. I don't know what that is, or what a Beholder is. I've never heard of Hasbro™ or Wizards of the Coast™ or Dungeons and Dragons™ or of the concept of Product™ Identity™. I made up this thing in my shed and typed this post on a computer at my local library. You're a whole other thing. Roll 1d6 or make up something that won't get you sued™: Myriops. Bahunetren Raja. Eyewitness. Seer. Optometrist.  Globus Oculiger. You're not from around here. You came from under the earth, past the stars, the dreams of a madman. The fear of looking and being looked back at. Magic cut down to its purest essence: the eye. ꙮ MYRIOPS ꙮ Starting skills: 1. Blackmail . 2. Conspiracy Theories . 3. Particle Physics . Starting items: You need nothing. All that you see is already yours. A Beauty , Eye Rays , +1 ꙮD B +2 Eye Rays , +2 SKLL C +2 Eye Rays , +1 ꙮD D Ajna , +2 Eye Rays Beauty You are a sphere of alien flesh with one large eye, one large m...
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