Question The Three Little Witches

She appears to have a facility for injecting Essence into objects:

Abra found that she could use them as functioning enchantment tiles quite nicely by just pumping essence into them. That was, after all, the entire jist of her mutant trait

Dreamer wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Doesn't she also have a large dog familiar? Or was that the third witch, whose name escapes me?

Nope, that is Clover. Large dog familiar and probability warper. Abracadabra can inject essence into object, one mention was of her using something as enchantment tiles by doing so. And Palantir can manifest the ball used for scrying, getting information, other things, even translating tomes of arcane lore written in unknown [to her] languages, as well as grow big for her to ride around on. The limits of its scrying are unknown and not stated in any of the stories, nor in her wiki entry.

Cryptic wrote: Buttons is giving me grief trying to figure out what powers to give him.
I can't figure out if he should be listed as a limited shape shifter (Little Dog/Medium Dog/Big Dog forms) or a size warper, and if he has magic in his own right or maybe other powers.

Anyone have any idea what a "Gabriel Hound's" power set should be?

It is rumored that gabriel hounds possess the ability to freeze a person in terror, and conceal themselves with unnatural stealth.

Kristin Darken wrote: The three don't have lit wells yet. They play at being witches.. they aren't casting real spells outside of class where they are given the essence to power the assigned practice spells. As part of the completion of spring intro to magick, they will get to light their wells... but will then have to workon building any reasble amount of essence

“I’ll bet that that rock is some sort of power nexus, like in Good & Evil Online!” Pally hopped up and down with excitement.

Kristin Darken wrote: The three don't have lit wells yet. They play at being witches.. they aren't casting real spells outside of class where they are given the essence to power the assigned practice spells. As part of the completion of spring intro to magick, they will get to light their wells... but will then have to workon building any reasble amount of essence

Rebecca took in the unconscious form of Simone near by who hung on a pair of stone pillars like a sacrifice, then back to the Three Little Witches. “From where I stand you are the ones holding our friends prisoner,” she said softly.

Malady wrote: Is Clover even a Wiz?

Pally has her Orb, Abra has Essence Injection, but what does Clover have? Unless Buttons is the effect of her Wiz trait??

Malady wrote: Unless Wiz strength is also governed by age, like most other traits? So even if she's a Wiz 5, she's getting less ess than she would if she were older???

“Clover?” Al-Feyez cut in. “The little girl with the blonde curls? Why would you be so cautious about setting her off?”

“Clover’s a Probability Warper, combined with a magical talent,” Grimes explained.

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“Yes, I know, I know- the rule is, the younger a mutant manifests her trait, the more powerful that trait is. Fortunately, we have a few years to give Clover a little discipline before her power really kicks in. Anyway, as I was saying, Clover’s too young to be going to the Halloween party, and Mrs. Nelson will be sitting for her-”

Malady wrote: ^ :wall: ... Right! ... *sigh* ... Not all Wizes can light their well by themselves and stuff. Even if she's a Wiz, she still might not have enough essence to do any Cool Stuff...

But, if so, that means she's a low level Wiz,'cause at around 3 or so, she should be getting enough to do Cool Stuff?

Unless Wiz strength is also governed by age, like most other traits? So even if she's a Wiz 5, she's getting less ess than she would if she were older???

Not all Wizes get enhanced Ess draw, IIRC. As long as you've got some magic in your mutancy, it's a good idea to take Magic 101, and like Diamondback, you could do magic like a baseline at Whateley if you wanted?

...

Do they have an ... All of the Junior Highs have Grimes as their Academic Advisor??

Valentine wrote: I think Grimes may be the equivalent of the Jr. High "Dean," but the kids have advisors in their specialties or at least area of Powers. <3 would have a Advanced Tech advisor. Cee Cee probably has a generic advisor or one of the Brick instructors.

Kaitha39 wrote:

Valentine wrote: I think Grimes may be the equivalent of the Jr. High "Dean," but the kids have advisors in their specialties or at least area of Powers. <3 would have a Advanced Tech advisor. Cee Cee probably has a generic advisor or one of the Brick instructors.

I interpreted the parts of Canon talking about Tansy's punishment (looking after the JH students after she beat the life out of Greasy) as outright stating that Grimes is in charge of all of the JH students.

The first few paragraphs of "A pocket full of Tansy" implies so, for one.

Kristin Darken wrote: On the bright side, the recent discussions about Essence and Wells and Wiz mutants seems to have finally clarified everything people need to know about traditional Western post-Sundering evolved magick in teh WU. Then we can 'break' you all again by getting into pre-Sundering magick with Caitlyn... and modern non-traditional magick.

“Phase? This is Palantir. Palantir? This is Phase. She is one of Fey’s teammates.”

I looked the girl over. She looked about my age, maybe a little younger.

I was fourteen and six months. I tended to stress the extra months, since I was painfully small for my age. At my age, being 4’9” and a mere 80 pounds was just too small."

Malady wrote: ... Do we have a height chart for the Kimbas?

Esar wrote:

Malady wrote: ... Do we have a height chart for the Kimbas?

If I recal correctly after the jobe/belphegor incident phase mentioned that he went from being the second shortest member of team kimba to being the second tallest member or something like that.

The wiki indicates :
- Lancer 5,6
- Phase 5,5 (after the experiments).
- Fey 5,4
- Tennyo 5,3
- Generator 4,9
- Chaka No info 5'5"
- Blade dancer No info

Malady wrote: ... Do we have a height chart for the Kimbas?

1. 1. Call The Thunder 5: She gets Bladedancer, to free Eldritch from Nephandus's Circle...


2. 2. Bladedancer helps Eldritch figure out how to make her Tattoos, with that Ash.


3. 3. Eldritch then makes the TLW, adamant wands.

Malady wrote: 'Cause Clover doesn't have her own thread...

How long-term does her Luck Manipulation work??

Malady wrote: 'Cause Clover doesn't have her own thread... How long-term does her Luck Manipulation work??

Schol-R-LEA wrote:

Malady wrote: 'Cause Clover doesn't have her own thread... How long-term does her Luck Manipulation work??

That's a scary thought. If Clover is a Teela Brown level probability warper (or more likely, a warper on the scale of those who didn't end up on the Ringworld only to die trying to not save it - don't ask, it's two moderately long novels worth of story) then she could easily be among the most powerful people on Earth. That doesn't seem to be the case, so far, as she does get backlashes when she pushes her luck too far, but who knows what will happen when she's older...

Katssun wrote: Isn't Clover just a Wild Mage?

Clover was in four places at once in the tapestry as Chou tracked the horrific mangling of fate and probability that flowed in her wake, and yet it seemed that it was a natural thing, for the Tao demanded order and chaos in equal measure, and the child absolutely exemplified chaos in an ordered place.

“Why?” grimes finally let out. “Why would you do something as irresponsible as giving those three Adamant essence tools?”

[...]

“Much. You do realize you are going to take those back, right?”

“Like hell. Clover got me out of a Fool’s Circle set by someone who shall remain nameless before I knew what to look for and before I got my tattoos, right toilet-boy?” She raised her voice and leaned her head over her shoulder at the offender.