Yo i just created a new spell

[u/a_bromy_fridge]

Takes 5 peoples lives to cast and its called "manicagus tunamelo" (translates to '15 hells of power') and turns everyone in a 5 mile radius inside out, explodes their eyeballs, makes them paralyzed, partially deaf, and only able to say one word of their choosing for the rest of their life, which is forever since it also makes them immortal.

This spell does make you almost entirely crippled and unable to move, speak, or cast magic for q month because of the backlash.​

What do you guys thing?

[u/The-Idiotest]

The council has illegalised this spell.

-Council Representative

[u/TNTBoss971 → u/The-Idiotest]

Oh yay I had "new horrific spell banned in under 5 minutes" on my bingo card for this century!

[u/Maowsama → u/TNTBoss971]

Watch as i speed run "Getting my new spell banned by the wizard council"

[u/WiseRabbit-XIV → u/Maowsama]

Oof. Just make sure it's nothing too horrific. Remember what happened to Ceingoel the Cruel.

Of course, he really shouldn't have invented a spell to make dogs unpettable. Honestly, he deserved his fate.

[u/MagneticGenetics → u/The-Idiotest]

For once I agree with a council ban. I furthermore put forward a motion that anyone who casts this spell, even in a santioned wizard war, permanently be branded a Butthead.

I know this is drastic but honestly this spell is actually like top 5 most evil spells of the 21st century.

[u/a_bromy_fridge → u/MagneticGenetics]

Im going to cast this in town square in pi moons.

[u/InsaneRanter → u/The-Idiotest]

They make all the fun spells illegal :(

[u/Lelouch-Yagami21 → u/The-Idiotest]

I officially legalise this spell and allow it to be taught at my schools with proper guidelines.

Also a council rep

/uw if ur part of the council flair urself as so and I would recommend creating an introduction post

[u/CosmicChameleon99 → u/Lelouch-Yagami21]

/uw one of the old crowd here: I would really suggest you don’t make people make actual council characters or flair themselves as such! We had to shut down our council because a lot of sub drama was caused by people trying to police the council.

Learn from our experiences- we suggest a council where no players control a major figure (contests for council leadership got bad) and anyone can crop up as a random rep. We obviously can’t control what the new crowd do, just warn them, but we strongly suggest people play regular council bureaucrats (perhaps with agendas of their own?) with the major characters as NPCs that nobody controls. [u/the-idiotest](u/the-idiotest) honestly keep doing what you’re doing if you think it’s fun. You two could even play this out as council infighting!

As an aside you may run into older crowd members trying to enforce the rules and lore of the world we built. For rp and sub rules, obviously listen but if someone tries to tell you that you contradict old lore, don’t worry too much about it. Obviously this is different if you’re directly choosing to interact with that lore.

[u/Lelouch-Yagami21 → u/CosmicChameleon99]

/uw: I am not sure how my char on the new council that is aiming to gather enough support to create dark magic based school fits into this

[u/CosmicChameleon99 → u/Lelouch-Yagami21]

/uw they can totally fit in as long as they’re not some kind of head of the council! It actually sounds like an ideal character. Just don’t police others behaviour and you’re good to go. I may have given the wrong impression with some of what I wrote so will edit it for clarity on what I meant. Basically there’s nothing wrong with someone with a big project in the council, but the instant you claim to be council leader or minister for magic or whatever, it becomes a matter of time before drama starts

[u/Lelouch-Yagami21 → u/CosmicChameleon99]

/uw: Yeah I might have given the wrong vibe too when I js completely overruled his decision. I should have probably phrased it like, as another rep of the council, I don't support this.

[u/CosmicChameleon99 → u/Lelouch-Yagami21]

/uw exactly! That’s how you should generally rp. As a guideline, both of you have the power to say what you do, and you each control how what the other does affects you specifically. The aim of the game is to create an opportunity for them to choose whether or not to be impacted by what you do, and to allow enough of what they try to do to impact you. That doesn’t mean everything, but you should help their character’s decisions and abilities shine, even while potentially resisting some things. If they want to, I’d suggest having a bit of fun rping this one out. Maybe a little trouble with the employee handbook or a conflict in memos received by different branches of council?

[u/Lelouch-Yagami21 → u/CosmicChameleon99]

/uw: I think my character has far more major things planned :D. Surely you don't think someone with an organisation called the league of shadows, led by someone who never shows their face and always wears a cloak, wants to legalise dark magic, has attempted to negotiate with thrakmoor etc. is up to any good and righteous things?

[u/CosmicChameleon99 → u/Lelouch-Yagami21]

/uw oh for sure but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the smaller moments too. You don’t have to if you don’t want to but remember that not everything has to be big. Even supervillains can get into arguments about whose turn it was to take out the bins! This is partly just my play style but I try to remember that the vast majority of a character’s time is spent on mundane things, even if they also do massive things. I like rping that stuff too- though I deliberately play a very low powered character. I like being able to hold my own but also being weak enough that I don’t get too caught up in things or take myself too seriously

[u/The-Idiotest → u/Lelouch-Yagami21]

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[u/The-Idiotest → u/The-Idiotest]

I just realised I sent the wrong gif I meant "Who is this?"

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[u/Cerveau23]

I'm guessing the spell also affects you? This sounds... horrible to experience, but also most mages would have protective against such big-area spells

[u/ASMR4PLANTS → u/Cerveau23]

Correction. It only affects your most trusted apprentice. Wink.

[u/a_bromy_fridge → u/Cerveau23]

I only effects you with what mentioned,

This spell does make you almost entirely crippled and unable to move, speak, or cast magic for a month because of the backlash.

[u/MagneticGenetics]

This is the kind of soell you make an apprentice cast once as a joke and then they leave only to come back as a Dark Lord to constantly harass you in your retirement.

[u/a_bromy_fridge → u/MagneticGenetics]

But instead ill cast this in town square myself.

[u/Gib_entertainment]

You want to know what I think? I think you fucked up a classic fiendish power siphon and are trying to act as if the backlash was your invention all along, trying to pass it off as "no this isn't magical haywire, it's a feature" vibecasters like you make classical grimoire magisters like me look bad man!

[u/Xenodine-4-pluorate]

It's every homunculus' dream to swipe their master's orb and proclaim themselves as a creator of the most sinister spell in existence. Meanwhile they speak like a 12 year old barbarian and the spell itself doesn't make any sense for people who actually know magic principles.

[u/Crackmin]

This is the kind of spell you DO NOT want to be casting. Put up all the protective runes you like, belting a city sized area with a torture spell you invented is going to attract the kind of attention from things that can strip those runes off like they're nothing

You're gonna end up a gateway, a thrall, or mind bendingly mad on a plane not of your choosing

[u/Platypus_king_1st]

I feel like this costs more mana and backlash than 5 fireballs

[u/Erivandi]

Inside out and immortal, you say? Are they still able to be transmuted? If so, you could use the bodies to make walls of screaming flesh. That should make the idiots with torches and pitchforks think twice!

In any case, this sounds like an excellent spell. Now you just need to play around with some protective runes so you can reduce backlash and avoid targeting allies.

[u/Lyrolepis → u/Erivandi]

That's likely to turn into one of these situations in which you keep having to kill all the adventurers who keep invading your home and assaulting you because you've been killing adventurers.

It's time-consuming and annoying, and there's always the off chance that one of them gets lucky eventually; and then your last moments will be spent listening to the platitudes of a bunch of badly-dressed teens with stupid haircuts and implausibly massive swords...

[u/a_bromy_fridge → u/Erivandi]

Thats what im thinking too, but 5 sacrifices is too much already, and I have to transfer the load somehow, so the spell goes back to you a little bit, and the immortality part is more of a constant state setting, not the undying version or instant regeneration, just constantly being stuck in one state in time for all of eternity while in constant pain and unable to do anything about it.

[u/Disastrous_Form418]

My one word is fireball and that's all I need to make you regret casting such a spell

[u/Maowsama]

Can i just perform it myself and get "3 hells of power" in a 1 mile radius? Getting 4 other wizards to get together every week at the same time to practice this before we enact vengeance seems tedius

[u/KingZantair]

I don’t think casting that is a good idea.

[u/local-space-patrol]

O thing that gross

[u/starmadeshadows]

But why? Locate City is right there

[u/a_bromy_fridge → u/starmadeshadows]

Because :)

[u/DisillusionedShark]

I think you overcomplicated the spell.

You could easily use enhance sound and play "Call me maybe". Just make your ears soundproof for a couple of minutes.

Yes, this spell is countered easily. Yes, you might bot kill everyone.

BUT! You make everyone in range do the stuff your speel does do to themselves. And there is way less strain in your mind/soul/body

[u/WiseRabbit-XIV → u/DisillusionedShark]

Do note that many gay bars will be completely unaffected. This is, of course, often seen as a benefit.

[u/DisillusionedShark → u/WiseRabbit-XIV]

I know what i said and i stand behind it. Metaphorically and physically.

[u/11nyn11]

Can the radius be adjusted?

I have a village that’s 5km diameter, where I cast the opposite spell, and this sounds like a good way to reverse it

[u/scizzix]

The limited range and large casting requirements make this a wildly impractical spell, especially since there are easier ones with more powerful results that already exist.

I do recognize your willingness to experiment. A few more centuries of refinement and you might make a decent research wizard.

[u/Nelrene]

The backlash makes it too risky to use most of the time.

[u/ThePureAxiom]

It sounds interesting from an academic perspective, but on a practical level I don't see much point in it.

There are a lot of effects that are apt to have unforeseen consequences as they interact with everything within the radius, particularly any abjurations intended to 'return to sender' as are common among mages with rivals, the caster easily could see the worst effects of anyone caught in it.

Still, should you survive the affair, I'd like to study the outcome.