thread: 2012-06-26 : The Seclusium of Orphone
On 2012-07-09, Vincent wrote:
Why is the wizard neglecting his seclusium? When you create the seclusium, be sure to include the requisite features.
1. He has been trapped in one of his own experiments. (Requisite features: the experiment created as a trap, and his remnant if any remains.)
2. He has departed to another realm, world, or mode of existence, to pursue his ambitions, perhaps never to return. (Requisite feature: the portal through which he passed.)
3. He has been stripped or robbed of all of his potent wizardries, leaving him unsafe in his own workspaces. (Requisite features: the enemy wizard, trap, or mishap that stripped or robbed him, and his remnant.)
4. He has been seized, reft from his work, and bound into servitude by a power greater than he. (Requisite features: the enemy wizard or power who has bound him, the portal through which it acted, his castoff power, and his remnant if any remains.)
5. He has been driven mad, and now runs howling in the hills, unrecognized. (Requisite features: the enemy wizard, power, or trap that drove him mad, and his remnant.)
6. He has been murdered by the machinations of a rival wizard, who has not herself yet realized the fact. (Requisite features: the enemy wizard, and the trap or portal through which she acted.)
7. He has renounced wizardry and now pursues earthly, vulgar pleasures in faraway lands. (Requisite features: his castoff power, the impetus for his renunciation, and perhaps the portal through which he departed.)
8. He has renounced wizardry and now devotes himself to healing the unwell and expounding the path of virtue. (Requisite features: his castoff power, the impetus for his renunciation, and perhaps the portal through which he departed.)
9. He has been trapped and held by a rival wizard, against whom he was himself incurring. (Requisite features: the enemy wizard, and the portal through which he entered her domains.)
10. He has confronted a vast magical paradox and retired to an isolate zone to contemplate its resolution. (Requisite features: the outline of the paradox, and the portal to his isolate zone.)
11. By magical mishap his soul has been reft from his body, perhaps irredeemably, and now his body only grunts and pursues base satiation. (Requisite features: the mishap, and his remnant.)
12. He has rendered himself into a selection of new identities, the better to achieve his ambitions, but they have abandoned their duties to him and pursue instead their own ends. (Requisite features: three or more remnants.)
(Roll, choose, or invent an explanation and requisite features of your own.)
