2.1- Magical Beings

[Storyteller]

Character Creation 2.1 - Magical Beings

Who can Be a Magical Being?

Anyone! Most people who are magical can trace their family lines- however distantly- to someone in a crystal family. There are those who don't appear to have any Crystal Family Ties, these are the rare individuals who were reincarnations from people who lived back in the Golden or Silver Millenniums (way back 4000+ years ago!) who's souls remember how to tap into planetary energy. 

What is.. Magic?
In Sailor Moon most of the “magic” is elemental or has a theme (such as “Dreams” or “Purity”). 

Each planet- by and large- holds their own unique abilities. For the women, this is reflected in their Senshi Abilities- such as Fire, Water, Wind, Lightning, etc. For the Men this is reflected partially by their planetary ties, and partially by their duties. * See Long Note 1 for reasons. Some people who are NOT planetary royalty able to channel the magic of their planets in large ways, can in small ways.

For Example: Mars was a very spiritual planet and the use of the Fire, not just to heat a home, cook a meal, or burn down enemy’s houses- was also a tool of divination. People who are a part of the Ruby Crystal Family, or those reincarnated ‘from’ Mars from the silver millennium (or even their descendants!) are likely to show a talent or comfort in the element of Fire. It may only be as strong as lighting a candle with a touch, or being able to see visions when meditating and staring into the fire. These people would have access to a tiny stream of the magic of their planet (or house). 

*Canon* Sailor Mars, however, would have a deeper pool of magic to draw from, and not only that, but she has a finer control. She can create small, but controlled infernos. Use her Fire magic to create a sailor Fuku of fire and magic. She can see not just glimpses, but detailed visions in the fire. 

Her counterpart Knight was the Shitennou of the South, Jadeite. Jadeite is not from Mars, but his ties to earth give him similar ties of fire. In Canon it was also suggested (to the delight of fan girls everywhere) that he was Sailor Mar's counter part/ lover. Certainly in our AU, he and Rei co-founded Crystal Delphi together and it's their families that created the Ruby Crystal Family after the Great Ice Age. 

How do I use Magic?

All Magic moves require a “Use Magic Roll.”  BIG magic requires someone to have the ability to transform into a super hero (of sorts) or be a guardian animal. 

Some Magic moves that create items might only need the Use Magic roll to create the items, and can use other rolls- such as Kick Some Ass or Protect Someone to use those items.

Basic Magic is a "Special Move" that's adjusted in this section to fit your character. 

BASIC MAGIC

Basic Magic is just that, simple, easy to use magic.

There are only a few rules for Basic Magic.

1. You can use basic magic when transformed, or not transformed.
2. Even non-royalty can use basic Magic. You don’t have to be playing a Sailor Senshi, a King, or other magical type creature to have basic Magic.
3. If you have Magic it means, either your soul was a part of a royal house in the past- or- your current incarnation has an ancestor or parent who used to (or is) a part of a Crystal Family.
4. Soul triumphs over Blood. If you’re the reincarnation of a Sailor Senshi, King, or other magical being, then your magic will come from that lineage overpowering whatever Crystal Family you’re a part of. (which can make for some awkward dinner conversation at home!)
   **In Simple terms… if Sailor Mercury (Ice/water) is born into the Ruby Crystal Family, her basic magic would still be Water/Ice, not the Ruby Family’s basic magic of Fire. Even if no one in her immediate family can say they know where the ice/water magic comes from!**
5. Basic Magic only can ever effect 1 point of Harm, Soak, Heal or Purifying Magic- at most.

BIG MAGIC
BIG magic is just that, BIG magic.
To Do BIG Magic requires a transformation sequence before it can be accessed. (Aka you have to put on your super hero gear.)

1. Big Magic can only ever have a max Harm, Soak, Heal, or Purification of 3. (*unless you have Strength, which brings it up to +4… but only for attacks with a physical action to them where strength would come into play… like Kicking someone in the shin…)
2. Big Magic must be done while transformed. No transformation, no Big Magic.
3. Big Magic has extra details that can be put into it to do a greater range of effects.

Both types of Magic use the same template:

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Template:
Title of Power – (What it Does, Range , Magic Subtype: , Other Detail Tags)
Describe the power, what it does, how it does it, with range, what kind of magic.... etc. About two to three sentences is probably good.

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Ultimately: 

Magic, big or basic will be defined by your words and descriptions. Tags give the magical moves a backbone, but it’s how they are put together and defined that does the power.

There are two ways to define your Magical Moves on your character sheet. 

For those who want it simple, feel free to take 2 sample powers off the list on the crystal families pages- and/or- from the “passive” magic from the thread below.
For those who want to create their own or get complicated, the next post in this thread has directions on how to create magical moves. This doesn't limit you from taking a sample power, or a passive power- it just offers more options to those who like to customize.

[Storyteller]

Magical Moves:

At Creation, you can chose a total of Two Magical Moves.
Either from this page, for from the sample powers from the Crystal Family pages.
Base harm for Magical Moves is 2 Harm. This can be increased, or decreased with Effects (up to 3 harm, or down to 0) 

Passive
The following options for magical moves are “passive” and require no roll to activate- just being transformed is enough. * Note, as characters “level” there are more options, these are just for creation/beginning characters.

Strength (Harm +1) When Transformed you gain the ability to have super strength. This gives you the ability to do great feats of strength, such as lift cars and chuck them like toys. Your physical attacks do +1 harm- this does not stack with magical attacks passed 4 harm)
Speed (Fast!) When Transformed you are about three times faster than most human adults. (You aren't the Flash, but your fast enough to cross town and run across water.)
Tough (Soak 1) When Transformed you automatically take off the first point of harm to all physical attacks. (Magical attacks hit the same unless there’s a physical aspect to it, like a fire punch would still have fire damage, but not the punch.) 
Jump (High Jump) When Transformed you can jump multiple story buildings and be able to land without breaking every bone in your body.

Active
The following options for magical moves are “passive” and require a “Use Magic” roll to activate. You also need to be transformed to access these powers.

* Note, as characters “level” there are more options, these are just for creation/beginning characters.

[Navigation?] For Moon and Earth – Pearl Crystal Family; for Uranus, Neptune and their two Shiyomiou- Citrine Crystal Family; for Saturn, Pluto and their two Shiyomiou - The Onyx Crystal Family; for Mercury and North Shintennou- the Sapphire Crystal Family; for Mars and East Shintennou- The Ruby Crystal Family; for Jupiter and the West Shintennou- the Emerald Crystal Family and for Venus and the East Shintennou- the Diamond Crystal Family.

Making your Own Magical Moves
(Create Your Own Powers)

Reminder our Template is this: 

Title of Power – (What it Does, Range , Magic Subtype: , Other Detail Tags)
Describe the power, what it does, how it does it, with range, what kind of magic.... etc. About two to three sentences is probably good.

The What it Does Tag: 
You choose one of the following tags. Every Magical Move starts off with 2 of whatever unit you choose. (We will call them all "harm" after this-- remember how your powers work is dependent upon the description of the power! 

Harm +1, +2, +3, etc
             “Harm” is our “standard unit”. Harm defines how much damage something does to something else.
Soak +1, +2, +3, etc
               Soak is Harm damage that’s taken by the magic (like in shields, forcefields, fog, etc) before it is broken/dispelled/vanishes/etc.
Heal +1, +2, +3, etc
               Heal is Harm damage that is healed by magical means.
Purify +1, +2, +3, etc.

Purification is the one thing that is not defined by Harm. Purification and Corruption (not listed at creation) are what happens when someone is corrupted by Chaos- and the resulting purification of that negative/chaotic/evil energy. Purification, in the beginning stages, can only be effective when the target is at 0 – or the purification attack ‘takes’ the target to zero.

Reason: in Sailor Moon, Purification was often the last step to the battles. The Senshi (and Tuxedo mask) would often wear down a target’s “health” to allow her purification to kind of force it’s way in. Keeping in that theme, purification

Range:
Range determines the maximum distance away from the target it can be used from.

Intimate:

This move is effective in very close, touching quarters, almost within the embrace of your foe.

Hand:

This move is effective at hand-to-hand combat range- within arm’s reach.

Close:

This move is effective at fairly close quarters- outside of arm’s reach but not too far, like two to three feet (or for you not-Americans... 1 meter-ish)

Far:

This move is effective at long range about a block away or less.

Detail Tags:
At Level 1, you can only have a Max of 3 Harm, and a Max of 2 additional Detail Tags. the Magic Subtype: 

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Free- Every attack has one.
Magic Subtype: __________ 

Created from an elemental magic, this force does magic-damage Harm to whatever it hits. These are a list of suggested tags. If you believe you have one not listed, you are welcome to put it in or talk to someone on staff about having it added.

Subtypes of Magic Forces: Fire, Light, Electricity, Ice, Water, Wind, Shadows, Purify (Only damages non-good targets/those tainted), Spirits, Plant, Terrafirma, Crystal, Metal, Starlight, Moonlight, Reconstruction (Nonliving), Healing, Silence, etc. 

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Additional Detail Tags- Both Added Effects and Defects
Added Effects -1 harm from your total harm. Defects +1 harm to your total harm. Remember: You can have a maximum of 3 Harm, and only go to 0. There are no attacks that do negative harm. 

Added Effects
Each of the following take -1 harm, but give special added effects to the magical move.
(If your attack becomes “no-damage” one tag must be “no-damage”)

**These are a list of suggested tags. If you believe you have one not listed,
you are welcome to put it in or talk to someone on staff about having it added.
Subject to staff approval**

Area Affect
Instead of one target, this attack effects a small 2 to 3 foot circle, cone or radius from the attack’s origin.

Conjure  
Allows small items to be conjured. Most items will fade after a few days of conjuring, if not vanish completely if used in an attack. (Example: Tuxedo Mask’s roses) Conjured Items can only contain 1 extra tag.

* Note: Some “Conjure” magic spells may conjure something that can be used as a magical weapon without any further magic rolls, then it’s okay to use “Kick some ass” or other appropriate rolls as makes sense with the game.

Example: Tuxedo Mask conjures magical, red roses that can stop an incoming attack when thrown. The Magical act was conjuring the rose, but throwing it would be a “Kick Some Ass” or even a “protect someone” roll (depending on the context).

Ultimately we want it to make sense and flow with the story. Tuxedo Mask could, potentially, conjure many roses before a battle and merely pull them from his subspace pocket to attack as needed. This allows him to make cool entrances and charm the ladies.

Damage Effect: ________  
Does Fire burn? Sure… but to have the damage keep damaging after the fact is what this is for. Any Damage Effect Subtype counts as -2 Harm, but it’s +1 harm ongoing after the attack. (Like… Poison, or purifying energy that keeps purifying after the fact..)

Flexible
This tag represents a long, flexible, or extendable attacks such as a whip, or ribbon, which can successfully trip, or disarm an opponent.

Hard
Sharp and almost made of diamond, this substance can cut through many things most normal items of its type cannot do.

Other Attributes
By taking one of these subtypes, it takes on that attribute of the subtype.

Stun
Tangle
Blind
Trip
Shield
Disarm
Silence

*Note that this is not a full list, things negative like poison and energy drain are not available at creation and only when someone is suitably chaos tainted.

Multiple Targets 1
This move does damage/healing/purification/shielding of multiple targets up to 4.

All Magical Moves are subject to approval.

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Added Defects
The following give +1 Harm (to a maximum of +3 – at creation), and give a disadvantage/takes away to the magical move. You can add a maximum of 2 Defects. If your harm is a 0, one of those tags must be No-Damage, or you take No-Damage and take no bonus harm for it.

No-Damage
This move does no Harm damage (Good for things that “Soak” damage or Heal, or Purify)

**Some creatures will take physical damage to purifying attacks… not all “Soak” defenses are defenseless – a force field that shocks, for example. This power merely states just that, it can’t damage you… That doesn’t mean it can’t knock you unconscious with sleeping, or that you can’t still take adverse effects- just that there is no physical or healable damage.**

Conditional

This move requires something conditional- such as full moonlight, only during the day, a particular state of mind, an emotion, etc. (this is not the same as Item required)

Item Required
           This move requires a specific item of power, or previous conjured object.

Static
           While your special move is happening, and perhaps for a time after, you can’t move from your immediate area.

Extra Energy

While we don’t mark off energy as its own “tick” this means if you cast this particular magical move too often, you run the dire risk of falling unconscious.

Stoppable

There is some condition, perhaps it’s attacking the hands, or breaking concentration of the person casting, there’s something that stops you from being able to use this move, or even that stops the move itself without any connection to you.

Unreliable

This attack is unreliable- and on rolls of 7 and 8 it’s considered a fail. (Partial success on 9 and 10, and full success on 11 and 12.)

Gestures

Your magical move requires you to make gestures (can be taken with “still” but your “gestures” can’t move you from a rough 1 foot circle/ help you dodge.)

Words

Your Magic must be spoken out loud in at least a whisper. (You can take this twice for shouting required.

All Magical Moves are subject to approval.