IC Awakenings

You can make a character who you intend on Awakening on screen.

Requirements

You will need a significant, staff approved event, Awakening your character's Avatar. Please send in a +request voicing this desire.

Process

A scene (or set of scenes) gets ran for your Awakening, and at the end of that scene, you get the following things:

• An Arete rating of 1
• A rating of 1 in any of the 9 Spheres.

You do not Awaken into a specific Craft (for example, you do not Awaken into being Verbena). You need to get initiated into a craft later.

Then, we take you OOC. While highly unlikely, if a +job regarding your Awakening doesn't already exist at this time (for whatever reason), then a +job will be made at this time. On that +job, you'll be able to designate whatever XP spends that you want to spend with your currently saved up XP. This saved up XP can be spent on specific Backgrounds, Merits, and Flaws (below).

Once you have designated your purchases, you can go back IC. We want you to stay OOC until the purchases are set in order to make sure that there are no continuity errors ICly.

The cost of buying a Background is 3 x current rating, per level.

The cost of a Merit is 3 x Rating, flat-rate. This means that a 3 point Merit would cost 9 XP. A 5 point merit would cost 15 XP.

Flaws can also be acquired to give you XP. This XP can be kept outright, or used to offset the costs of Merits. You can only purchase up to 7 total points of flaws, including the flaws you brought in with you. For example, if you took 3 points of flaws originally during character generation, then you can acquire 4 more points of flaws upon embrace. If you already took 7 points of flaws, you cannot acquire more flaws.

Please note that the merits and flaws available for immediate purchase are specifically those which were not available to you during character generation due to applying as a plane-Jane human. Merits and Flaws that were available to you during character generation (like "Impatient" or "Enemy") are not available. A detailed selection of what is available to you is found below.

Backgrounds Available For Immediate Purchase

When Becoming something supernatural, a player may buy dots of certain Backgrounds immediately, to represent the circumstances of their Becoming. With that XP, you can buy dots of the following Backgrounds for the following costs:

Selection

• Avatar
• Destiny
• Dream
• Familiar
• Legend
• Past Lives

Costs

Background Rating XP Cost

• ● 3 XP
• ●● 6 XP
• ●●● 12 XP
• ●●●● 21 XP
• ●●●●● 33 XP

Merits And Flaws Available For Immediate Purchase

Physical

• Too Tough To Die (5 / Merit)
• Mayfly Curse (-5 / -10 / Flaw)
• Degeneration (-3 / -6 / -9 / Flaw)

Mental

• Berserker / Stress Atavism (4 Merit / -4 Flaw)
• Judge's Wisdom (4 Merit)
• Scientific Mystic / Techgnosi (3 Merit)
• Flashbacks (-3 Flaw)

Social

• Family Support (1 / 2 / 3 / Merit)
• Mourner's Chant (3 / Merit)
• Prestigious Mentor (1 / Merit)

Supernatural

• Astral Vigor (3 / Merit)
• Avatar Companion (7 / Merit)
• Bardic Gift (2 / Merit)
• Burning Aura (1 / Merit)
• Celestial Affinity (3 / Merit)
• Circumspect Avatar (2 / Merit)
• Clear Sighted (5 / Merit)
• Cyclic Magic (3 / Merit)
• Dual Affiliation (7 / Merit)
• Green Thumb (1 / Merit)
• Guardian Angel (6 / Merit)
• Hands of Daedalus (3 / Merit)
• Immortal (5 / 7 / Merit)
• Inner Knight (5 / Merit)
• Manifest Avatar (3 / Merit)
• Natural Channel (3 / Merit)
• Parlor Trick (3 / Merit)
• Shattered Avatar (5 / Merit)
• Spark of Life (5 / Merit)
• Spirit Magnet (3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / Merit)
• Twin Souls (4 / Merit)
• Umbral Affinity (4 / Merit)
• Unaging (2 / Merit)
• Beast Within (-5 / Flaw)
• Bedeviled (-6 / Flaw)
• Bizarre Hunger (-2 / -3 / -4 / -5 / Flaw)
• Blood Magick (-5 Flaw)
• Cast No Shadow / Reflection (-1 / -2 / Flaw)
• Crucial Component (-2 / -3 / -4 / -5 / Flaw)
• Devil's Mark (-1 / Flaw)
• Faithless (-5 / Flaw)
• Gremlin (-1 / -2 / -3 / -4 / -5 / Flaw)
• Jinx / Infernal Contraption (-2 / -4 / -6 / -8 / -10 / Flaw)
• Locked Vidare (-1 / Flaw)
• Primal Marks (-3 / Flaw)
• Prone To Quiet (-4 / -5 / Flaw)
• Spirit Magnet (-3 / -4 / -5 / -6 / -7 / Flaw)
• Strangeness (-1 / Flaw)
• Taint of Corruption (-7 / Flaw)
• Throwback (-1 / -2 / -3 / -4 / -5 / Flaw)

Aftermath

Once your Awakening +job has been processed (your Arete, first Sphere dot, Quintessence (if applicable), and your XP spends get set), you can return to normal IC play. All Backgrounds that are available to mages in general are then available to you, not just the ones in the list above. You may buy Spheres going forward like any other mage. You will then later want to ICly initiate into a Craft.