Just as the body contains vessels that elemental energy flows through, so also does the land itself. These pathways are what we term leylines. Adjusting the flow of energies through these channels allows a skilled user to remake the land itself – in sometimes-subtle and sometimes-dramatic ways – as they alter the elemental makeup of the environment around them.
To do this, a point must be found where these channels intersect, known as a Convergence. Here, the different channels for various come together in a tangled mass; by reaching into this tangle and shifting the specific arrangements, these changes propagate into the wider network of ley lines around the Convergence, and so change the world around them.
A convergence exists in a delicate state of balance. Each alteration to it makes this balance more unstable, the whole convergence teetering like a jenga-tower the more that magicians meddle with its composition. If things are pushed too far, or a magician’s approach is too clumsy, the whole thing can come crashing catastrophically down, creating a sudden wave of natural disasters as the leylines thrash about uncontrollably.
As such, leyline magic is best approached by those with a direct plan, and the steady hands and cool hearts to make the necessary adjustments without causing disasters.
Energy Magic in Play
Present at the summit will be The Convergence, a point where the leylines of the city connect, from which they can be manipulated to adjust the flow of energy around the city.
This is represented by a single Jenga tower, with blocks divided between four colours, corresponding to the four elements: reddish for fire, pale for air, greyish for water, and dark for earth. Some blocks may also be marked with a symbol; these cause feedback when pulled. Each adjustment to the leylines is made by pulling a jenga block from the tower and placing it at the top, like in standard jenga. Alongside the Convergence will be a list of possible effects compiled by the Administrators. Each effect requires a specific sequence of pulls of the correct colour (or potentially symbol), and will have a given broad effect when that sequence of pulls is completed.
Pulling a piece marked with a symbol causes feedback when pulled, inflicting a roleplaying effect on the subject immediately.
If the tower falls, the ley-lines are damaged, immediately creating a new crisis as the leylines thrash uncontrollably, and preventing any further pulls.
Ley-line Adjustments:
Harvest Oblatory Flesh:
- Sequence: Fire – Air
- Effect: Produces a Flesh Oblation immediately.
Withdraw Oblatory Symbols:
- Sequence: Earth – Water
- Effect: Produces a Symbol Oblation immediately.
Align The Net to Air:
- Sequence: Air – Air – Air
- Effect: Every solution gains your choice of the Research, Espionage or Communications quality. Over-writes any previous “Align the net to-” or “Stain the net with-” adjustment.
Align The Net to Fire:
- Sequence: Fire – Fire – Fire
- Effect: Every solution gains your choice of the Violence, Underworld or Faith quality. Overwrites any previous “Align the net to-” or “Stain the net with-” adjustment.
Align The Net to Earth
- Sequence: Earth – Earth – Earth
- Effect: Every solution gains your choice of the Technology, Sorcery or Nature quality. Overwrites any previous “Align the net to-” or “Stain the net with-” adjustment.
Align The Net to Water:
- Sequence: Water – Water – Water
- Effect: Every solution gains your choice of the Medicine, Culture or Trde quality. Over-writes any previous “Align the net to-” or “Stain the net with-” adjustment.
Stain The Net with Air:
- Sequence: Air – Air – Air – Air
- Effect: Every solution gains the Research, Espionage and Communications quality. Overwrites any previous “Align the net to-” or “Stain the net with-” adjustment.
Stain The Net with Fire:
- Sequence: Fire – Fire – Fire – Fire
- Effect: Every solution gains the Violence, Underworld and Faith quality. Over-writes any previous “Align the net to-” or “Stain the net with- ” adjustment.
Stain The Net with Earth
- Sequence: Earth – Earth – Earth – Earth
- Effect: Every solution gains the Technology, Sorcery and Nature quality. Over-writes any previous “Align the net to-” or “Stain the net with- ” adjustment.
Stain The Net with Water
- Sequence: Water – Water – Water – Water
- Effect: Every solution gains the Medicine, Culture and Trade quality. Over-writes any previous “Align the net to-” or “Stain the net with-” adjustment.
Overload The Net with Air:
- Sequence: Air – Air – Air – Air – Air
- Effect: Every solution loses all common qualities except Research, Espionage and Communications. Over-writes any previous “Align the net to-” or “Stain the net with-” adjustment.
Overload The Net with Fire:
- Sequence: Fire – Fire – Fire – Fire – Fire
- Effect: Every solution loses all common qualities except Violence, Underworld and Faith. Overwrites any previous “Align the net to-” or “Stain the net with-” adjustment.
Overload The Net with Earth
- Sequence: Earth – Earth – Earth – Earth – Earth
- Effect: Every solution loses all common qualities except Technology, Sorcery and Nature. Overwrites any previous “Align the net to-” or “Stain the net with-” adjustment.
Overload The Net with Water
- Sequence: Water – Water – Water – Water – Water
- Effect: Every solution loses all common qualities except Medicine, Culture and Trade. Over-writes any previous “Align the net to-” or “Stain the net with-” adjustment.
Catalyse Transformation:
- Sequence: Water – Air – Fire – Earth
- Effect: Every Project’s cost is reduced by 1.
Release The Burning Mantle:
- Sequence: Air – Fire – Fire
- Effect: Reduces the magnitude of a single chosen Project by 3.
Move The Earth’s Might:
- Sequence: Earth – Fire – Earth
- Effect: Creates 4 Administrative resources with the Everything aspect.
Bleed The Planet’s Veins:
- Sequence: Water – Water – Earth
- Effect: Each Faction gains 1 resource to assign with an appropriate Aspect; Research for the Erudites, Faith for the Pilgrims, Medicine for the Evolvers, Violence for the Survivalists, and Technology for the Traditionalists.
Dredge The Deep Pits:
- Sequence: Earth – Air – Air
- Effect: Creates a Manuscript for an existing Ritual of your choice that you can name.
Draw Out Omens:
- Sequence: Water – Water – Air
- Effect: Produces 5 Omens.
Invite The Moon’s Gaze:
- Sequence: Fire – Water – Fire
- Effect: Each Faction gains 1 resource to assign with a Primordial Aspect; Terror for the Survivalists, Philosophy for the Evolvers and Erudites, and Emptiness for the Pilgrims and Traditionalists.
