"And affinities and what they look like."

"Right. Wulong... That's chinese dragons, right? Huh."

"Right. Not odd to meet one from Korea or Thailand, but you, ginger miss, must have one very far back."

"Who knows. Dad's a deadbeat... I can't really see myself as a dragon, though. I want to do a lot of magic, right, so the charge method seems most important? And the rez method. Can you just... Go down the list?"

"Method and storage. Getting mana out of your you into some other form is a hassle, so if you do not want to be generating it to always use right away, good to have plenty of space. Mimi have low storage, high speed - exact value varies witch by witch so these are low granularity, low medium high, but mimis are highest of the high - can pat their own heads for mana but it makes them sad. Oreads are double high, we get mana from being near our favorite people or critters. Luxals and neutrals are double medium - neutrals by sleep, luxals by being around 'spensive things, rocks and gold and such especially if they're worked fancy. Pharons, low speed high storage, charge off being famous - don't have to be popular, supervillain or cancelled on the interwebs works fine. Hannya have high storage medium speed, charge off getting drunk. Wulongs also high storage medium speed, being around art charges them, does not have to be pricey, do it by pirated ebooks and kids with crayons perhaps. Orcs high storage low speed, charge off having kids - fastest when pregnant, boy orcs get the raw deal. Gnomes medium storage high speed, they get mana by building contraptions. Dravir are also dragony; low storage medium speed, mana by wrecking shit, charge a lot faster if it's killing people. Daeva medium storage high speed, charge off other people's feelings - about them, one on one, or about something else, big groups at the football match. Nymphs like my girlfriend low storage high speed, get a charge of being desired like because they are so pretty so she can always tell when I have been thinking about her all day at work, or making people desire other things sales pitch style. This rule anything out or shall I do all the immortalities now?"

"...Rule out Hannya. Also probably Orc, and maybe Dravir. I'm not sure Nymph or Pharon is part of my best life but I'm not ruling it totally out? And more complicated feelings about the rich bitch charging method."

"Neutrals age, slower than human aging by twice but all the way to old. Must source other means to be not dead like being a lich or having friends with the arch-curatives on the shelf. Daeva do not age but do not have an in house rez supply for being chomped by monsters or dueled to death by baddies. Oreads, age like neutrals but take a cozy dirt nap to go backwards and land at twenty; if dead bury what's left in the ground, wait not longer than a month, but there must be stuff left. Nymph pops right up with true love's kiss or whatnot but if there is nothing to kiss nothing doing. Luxals don't age if they eat right, "right" means "metal" but it can be a thrift store fork; have gem hearts and metal bones, retrieve heart and dunk it in molten matchy metal and they grow back but it takes all day. Wulongs slow down to almost no aging at apparent eighteen, stop altogether by the look of forty, and if they bleed on an art they can pop out of it again after dying, and if they run out of bled on paintings somebody can make a real good portrait of them and bam. Dravir also slow at eighteen and if they die you can get an egg out of their body that will hatch them back out in a year but if that is wrecked too then kaput. Pharons eat this ambrosia stuff they make, it de-ages them, and it'll perk up a corpse or even an ash heap. Already mentioned the crying on a shrine for a mimi, and they do not age past eighteen if they are little or mid thirties tops if they are the big kind. Gnomes nothing special here. Also they are four inches tall, that is a thing, convenient in the right neighborhood but not everyplace."

"...Wow, Luxals are pretty freakin' metal, pardon the pun. I kind of like it? Hmm. Oread seems fairly reliable if you don't do risky stuff like wander around chemical factories playing with your fire elementalism..."

"I like being an oread! But I did not get all your choices and am not you, so I do not know what you will most want to be."

"Let's put Luxal and Oread as a shortlist for now and move on?"

"Sure! Luxals have metal and life affinity, oreads earth and beast. So a luxal gets cheaper alchemy, runes, portals, divination, and metallurgy; oread gets cheaper hexes, consortation, familiarity, turning into a frickin kaiju, and earthmoving. More overlap with the luxal discounts and academic ones, more overlap with the oread discounts and sorceress ones - whether you want matchy there or no depends on whether you go breadth or depth, because cutting a thing in half a second time saves fewer points than cutting a different thing in half the first time, but only if you want both things anyway."

"I think I need to know more about what these do? 'Arch curatives' make you young again, and basic alchemy is magic coffee? -I don't think kaijuness appeals but maybe I'm picturing it wrong?"

She starts feeling around for the kaiju node.

"Arch-curatives are rank five healing potions and can fix anything short of 'annihilated' if there is anything to sprinkle it on. My magic coffee is rank one, I make it out of melted ice cream and coffee beans. Potions are very versatile! Dyes, sleeping potions, fancy soap, painkillers, splash grenades - get you your fox ears even if you are a luxal if you go as high as rank four though by that level the ingredients get to be spendier and stranger. Metamorphosis is beast affinity only. Oread mimi or pharon you'd wind up a 'zooarch'. Great big twelve story fancified version of your animal. Rank five or bust, there is no smaller version. Wulong or dravir turn into corresponding dragons."

"Oh man, turning into some kind of final boss form as a fuckoff enormous fox sounds so badass. Potions also sound really cool."

"Both very cool yes! Most magic very cool to the right persons."

"...Is there much fighting to be done? Monsters? I'm kind of iffy about going for combat force when, like, that is the kind of thing that you die doing? Also, murder's bad."

"Nothing stops you from living in Poughkeepsie and encountering only as many monsters as now you may. Other places get more monstery. I live in a pretty monstery place my own self. You are lined up to be very powerful and might get powerful friends and sometimes enough powerfulness in one place makes a tiff terrific."

"Ugh... Alchemy sounds good, yes, I want to brew stuff and I want to be the tops at it, kaijuness is kind of a do or die thing, I'm not sure what to expect from the rest besides the Avatar stuff?"

"Shortest of versions: Hexes is transmutation. Runes, magic item making. Curses, what it sounds like. Witchery, hat robe wand broomstick pocketspace. Necromancy, ghostses and boneses. Consortation, summoning demons. Portals, doors 'n windows to places. Divination, know what's up. Aethernautics, magic astronomy and dimensional shenanigans. Familiarity, soup up your cat. In addition to air fire water earth, also metal, minds, plants'n'animals."

"Hexes and runes sound really neat. Demons and curses both sound like fucking around and then finding out. I... Do want a flying broom? Diviniation, eh. Portals, neat! Aethernautics I'm not sure I get?"

"Aethernautics is strange, and not very good at low ranks, but the big guns do things like lock down dimensional travel, and not age if they were going to, and burgle other people's demiplanes, and make li'l time loops, and gravityfuckery, and do a space warping thing that there are always petitions about to ban."

"Messing with gravity is fun. And being able to nope tele-fragging would be reassuring...? Hmm. I'm worried about - Spreading too thin. I don't even know how much juice I have to work with- You said I'm lucky and have a lot?"

"Yes! Most witches can get up to rank three. Some lower. I have max rank four. You can do five. And you can take complications to have more points for today and more points for your future maxed out self."

"Great power, great responsibility. Funnnn. How about this girlfriend you mentioned? What's the... Distribution, I guess?"

"Girlfriend is rank three. Boyfriend is rank five though."