<blockquote><div><cite>Reizu wrote:</cite>Reizu smiled at her. "It would be nice if you could remove this. It was given to me from a mysterious seller. Said it make me stronger, but I feel like a captive dog. You see..." Reizu gripped the collar and pulled it. The spiked collar remained unfazed. "I can't unbuckle it either. But if you want to take a look at it, be my guest." The wolfeasel brought his neck to Ptricia's face, which was slightly difficult because he was smaller than her.<br/><br/>(BTW, what's a double take? <img alt=":oops:" src="./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif" title="Embarassed"/>  Nice song, too.)</div></blockquote><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">OOC: </span>A double take is where a character looks at someone, then notices something unusual and looks again. Often used in cartoons. Glad you liked the song.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">IC:</span><br/><br/>"Oh man... I didn't realise. Sorry I made fun of you. Fortunately, this is my area of expertise. I'm not one of those Swiss Army Knife type mages you see in bad fantasy novels, I'm mostly fairly specialised. But sphinxes like myself were Guardians of Order and Justice in the Old Republic... no, that's Jedi, damn you George Lucas! What I meant was, we were the guardians of temples, roads and gateways in what you'd call 'ancient' Egypt, though I'd call it home.<br/><br/>"As a result, I know a lot about curses and abjurative magic, both creating them and removing them. This sounds like one, but to do any detailed research I need some gear I don't have with me. Ritual magic is like that, requires precise conditions. Hmm... let me see..."<br/><br/>She reached into the pocket of her jeans, and pulled out an old looking drawstring purse. Reaching in far deeper than her arm should have been able to go, she started rooting around. "Nope... not it... so that's where it was, I could have used that last century... ah, got it."<br/><br/>She pulled out an amulet that was sort of like a monocle. The frame was fine gold, shaped to resemble a stylised falcon's eye, a wedjat<a class="postlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eyeofra.png">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eyeofra.png</a>, and where the iris would be was a smoothly shaped lens-like red gem. "Eye of Horus. Your basic magic detector. Never leave your den without it."<br/><br/>She fitted the device over one eye, and gazed at him, or rather his neck, muttering words in a language he'd never heard (unless he's a scholar of the Akkadian language)...<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">OOC: </span>This functions roughly as Detect Magic in D&D 3.5. First she'll see if there is magic there, then how many spell effects, and finally their basic type. Binding spell, Enchantment (Mind control) Protection spell. To get a read on the specific spell effect will require a ritual set-up (magic circles, incense, various and sundry props.)<br/><br/>Reizu. you'll have to decide exactly what she sees. It all depends on what you want to happen to your character. Is the collar a big plot point, or can it be removed without affecting your ideas for your character's development?<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Also OOC:</span>I always intended Ptricia to have magic, and a bunch of low level trinkets she's collected over the centuries. Her main area of skill is Curses [Enchantment], and Binding, Locking and Protection spells [Abjuration], in keeping with her security background as a temple guardian.<br/><br/>She has a specific spell to duplicate the body of someone she's just eaten and transfer their soul into the new body. She also has some skill at enchanting items to share her shapeshifting ability, another fairly specific effect. And she has a spell to track someone who has interfered with a location or item she once warded.<br/><br/>So there's nothing like the broad spellcasting base Kimiko Whitetails has, or the extrememly versatile transformation ability Kuroni uses (again see the 'Magical Bakery' thread to see them in action).