Blue Magic[Under Revision Please Do Not Check]

Vincent wrote:Magic

Primary Magic: Blue Magic
Secondary Magic: Banned
Caster or Holder: Caster
Description: The caster is an essential magic sponge that gains the ability to use any spell that hits them. While only so many spells can be obtained there is no spell he cannot obtain. The caster can also obtain spells of a higher rank then him, however there is a cost of using said spells. No. You are not using spells of a higher rank than you are. This gives you far too much of an edge over other mages. You are limited to spells of your rank. End of

The only other power of this magic is the ability to collect living things. If an opponent or beast has been defeated the caster can "collect," them giving them the ability to summon them at any time. However this does not include the ability to control them making it completely pointless to collect a human ever and pointless to collect a beast without obtaining some spell to control them. This makes it sound like you can take a players pet. That isn't going to fly. On top of that I don't think anyone on the entire site has 'beast controlling magic' so you would NEVER be able to control the beasts. Also this doesn't seem to really match with the first part. Like I can't see how being able to do that would allow this. So I think you'd be best off sticking with just the magic copying idea.
Strengths:
-Spell Sponge: If hit by any spell the caster gains the ability to cast that spell. No exceptions. Like I said you aren't casting spells of higher rank than you

-Carbon Copy: The spells the caster learns are perfect copies of the one he learned including circumstances. If the mage he learned a spell from was powered up or debuffed in any way when hit the duplicated spell will have the power of the buffed/debuffed spell. It should also be noted if the physical strength of the caster impacts the power of the spell, the physical strength is also duplicated. If (for example) the power of a spell is determined by the sunlight and it was learned on an incredibly sunny day the duplicated spell will have the power of the incredibly sunny day even if 100 feet underground during a tornado. I'm not really happy about this. I think you should copy the spell as it is in that person's template. So your spell is not somehow magically better/worse because you copied it whilst it was better/worse especially as that means you could be essentially ignoring a spell's weaknesses/strengths

-Animal Collector: Assuming he develops some kind of taming or beast controlling spell the caster can subjugate beasts he defeats. This can even be done for boss enemies.

Weaknesses:

-Finite Collection: This magic's power is diversity but its diversity is limited in that he can only learn so many spells. His spell limit is equal to that of a H-Rank with all spell slots purchased. While this is arguably a strength because of how high the limit is, at the end of the day it is still a limit. NO. We need to purchase spells slots. You are not getting away with freebies

-Earn or Die: The caster starts with no spells at all.

-Punching Bag: The caster must be hit with a spell and not die to learn a spell(really complicates getting spells of a higher rank).

-Donation Limit: The caster can only learn 1 spell from any one magic. Only one Lightning Dragon Slayer spell regardless of if he meets two different Lightning Dragon Slayers, inversely he could learn multiple spells from one person if they have a primary and a secondary magic of different elements. Magics of the same element from the same caster are considered too similar.

-Dedication: The caster of this magic may not have any: Secondary Magic, Tertiary Magic, Lineage, Weapons, Armors, Pets, Signature Spells and they cannot purchase anymore spell slots then they already have. This is to make "memory room," for more spells.

-Carbon Copy Redux: Just as the copied spells carries any buffs on the original at the time of capturing they also take on any debuffs. A spell dependent on rainfall obtained on a dry day will have the power of a dry day even when used during a hurricane.

-Take The Good With the Bad: The caster cannot pick and choose when he takes on a spell he takes on all of the spells weaknesses.

-Bad Combos: Upon taking a new into himself it is "volatile," for 24 hours which doesn't mean anything other then it might react with other "volatile," spells. Any volatile spells of opposing elements existing at once will destroy each other leaving the caster empty handed and takes away 10% of their health. 24 hours doesn't fly with me as we don't really have an IC time concept. As such this will have to be changed to a number of posts
Conflicting Elements:
Fire - Water
Earth - Air
Buff - Debuff
Heal - Poison
Holy - Dark
Arcane - Physical
Law - Chaos
Spells that do not obviously hit into one category will be sorted OOC by the player. Most everything should fit into or be related to one of the categories. If not they are thrown in Law(if the caster is a legal mage) or Chaos(if not). Metal spells will go in earth, magma in fire, ice in water, ect. Spells can count as multiple elements if they are something like a Fire Heal or an Air Debuff. If either element conflicts with any other volatile spell the spells will be destroyed. After 24 hours have passed since a spell has been obtained they become "stable," and no longer react with spells of opposite elements. So it is possible to get both fire and water spells, just not at the same time. If this is done the spells can be re-obtained at a later date but not within 24 hours of the volatile reaction.

-Too good for his own good: The caster will take on any and all spells that hit if they have a spell slot for it, like it or not. This can be used to force a volatile reaction on the caster or to waste their limited spell slots. However if a spell is volatile the caster can purge it from them(this involves magical puke) at any time but it takes them about two minutes without interruption, essentially making it impossible mid combat. If this is done the spell is lot forever and cannot be reclaimed ever. Does this mean you can't get a spell from that magic ever again if you puke it out. OR just that spell?

-Control Issues: Defeated enemies cannot be controlled when collected without some other method found to control them. Without access to a secondary, tertiary, other pets, magic items, armors and weapons, a spell will have to be obtained to make this not useless(but on the other hand an uncontrollable monster may be useful anyway if the caster can stand clear). Also a collected enemy that is defeated by another is freed from the caster. These two facts combined mean a human captured by the caster can simply declare "I lose," and free themselves. This could be done even if they are in magic storage.

Lineage: Banned
Unique Abilities:
Spell Sponge: The caster gains any spell they are hit by. Spells will be copy and pasted from the original's magic into a thread labeled "Vincent's Blue Magic Spellbook," in the "Bank," sub-forum as to prevent constant locking and unlocking off this app. Spells from npcs will have a spell template created by the player. The Spellbook thread will include links to the threads in which the spell was obtained along with the specific post number. A mod can check this any time they or another player are suspicious of if and how the caster obtained a spell. NPC created spells will have to be approved by a mod. NPC magic spells will need to go for an approval process. Otherwise we can't tell if they are balanced. This is not true for spells taken from someone else as they have already been approved

Beast Collector: The caster can collect any enemy they defeat by simply touching them and willing it to be so, however this does not mean they can control them. Collected enemies are stored in a weird magical dimension until summoned, and can be sent back at any time. Collected enemies can be summoned no more then 5 meters from the caster and must be within the same distance for him to call them back. If a collected enemy is defeated by another foe their connection to the caster is severed. There are no limits to how many enemies can be collected total but they are hard to obtain, hard to control, easy to lose and only one can be obtained every 24 hours. A boss class enemy must be defeated in 1 vs 1 combat without any assistance of any any kind from any other entity in order to be captured.  Collected enemies can be summoned and dispelled at any time, but as a final and umpteenth reminder the caster cannot control them. These will also be logged in the Spellbook thread. [

Unique Collector: Any unique ability used on the caster can also be obtained. However by the nature of passive abilities "used on the caster," may prove difficult criteria to meet.  It should also be noted the caster does not have any additional passive slots then a normal of his rank. That being the case passive abilities can also be purged in their "volatile," time window, but by that same token they also take on the element on the magic they come from and can react with other "volatile," spells and passives of conflicting elements. As a B-Rank the caster has 5 ability slots and 3 are already used up.... These too shall be logged in the Spellbook thread.