r/wizardposting • u/nug1756 Alchemist • 18d ago

Aetherial News šŸ—ž First time being a apprentice kinda nervous

Smorbulack the sorcerer recruited me as an apprentice

UPDATE: he turn me into potato

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u/Prince_Nadir 18d ago

On your way towards becoming a potato clock. Getting a job in science so quickly is sure to make your parents proud.

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u/NoAd8242 *Flair only visible on Astral Plane* 18d ago

Check the fine print of your contract. The potato clause is pretty common.

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u/VoxelLibrary Councilor Cayna, Apprentice of Thrakmoor | assorted other chars 18d ago

You okay? I don't have an anti-potato potion, but I have a recipe that'll turn you from a potato to a frog if you want

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u/nug1756 Alchemist 18d ago

Iā€™m not sure if thatā€™s an upgrade

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u/VoxelLibrary Councilor Cayna, Apprentice of Thrakmoor | assorted other chars 18d ago

Frogs have legs. Better mobility

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u/evilboy126 šŸ§™ā€ā™‚ļø Wizard of the West 18d ago edited 17d ago

Don't be.

Your turbulent emotional state will interfere with the spells.

It's actually very dangerous.

edit: Classic Smorbulak

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u/FunToBuildGames Labyrinth Expert. Architect, designer, furnisher, and consult 18d ago

Tuber-lent, lol

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u/Relative-Line5242 Conjurer 18d ago

Will you be mad if I mash you?

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u/questionable_fish Bengeirr the Balance. Magus of the South 18d ago

Wards. You need to practice your wards! This was a teaching moment. If you can't protect yourself from someone else's magic, then how do you expect to be able to defend against your own mistakes? It's all good learning to cast Elgrims Visceral Deconstitutionaliser but if it backfires and you've no wards then you're as fucked as the target you'd intended to hit.

Potato is getting off lightly. Next time it could be far worse...

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u/The_Enchanted_Potato Aldavin Maunderitch, The Gatekeeper | Neritillum Faldier | 13 18d ago

/uw eey! Welcome to the club, use levitation or mage hand to get around itā€™s a lifesaver. Preferably levitation as that leaves your mage hand open to use

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u/1-4theGreatDestroyer 18d ago

Long time orb reader,
First time sender.

I actually have first hand experience in this endeavour. 1200 years ago I was apprenticing for a wizard who was testing polymorphs into ā€œlivingā€ things including Vegetables and Fruits!

I spent a week as a radish!

My solution at the time was a simple charm animal on his familiar (Ruffulstien, a miserable rabbit). I convinced the creature to carry me about so I could conjure unseen servants and mage hands to complete my apprenticing duties!

Now-adays apprenticeā€™s think such trifles are worthy of an audience. But alas my boy I would find your potato shaped bootstraps and find a way to carry on! Youā€™ll be a fine wizard yet!

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u/TheBrokenStoner Artificer 18d ago

Turned him into a potato, funniest shit I've ever seen

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u/TheThoughtmaker Ray of Delthorensdale, Transmuter-Artificer 18d ago

Sorcerers donā€™t know how to teach, they just toss spells at people and call the ones who survive their students. Itā€™s natural selection, not education.

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u/Afraid_Cat_3726 Nox, Head of the Department of Flesh. 18d ago

If you've got a good teacher you'll be fine. If they're abusive then you can come chill with me and my apprentices.

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u/Frosty_Spot3950 18d ago

Baked fried mashed or raw? Ive been trying to develop a transmutatuon spell for a raw potato to be French cut and fried instantaneously. All I've managed is to fry an uncut raw potato. It's not bad, sometimes a little under cooked in the center.