Searching for her listed deities gets her very different information than it would on the mundane internet! Hecate has a lot of followers; most common complaint is that she is not very understanding about having "qualms" or "moral objections" to quests if they would advance the pursuit of MAGIC. Hestia has fewer; they all think she's a good boss with really considerate timing compared to some, sending them to do things like surreptitiously pay people's heating bills or smooth the way for an adoption to take place to get a kid into a good home. She is also really into the Centennial Lightbulb and sometimes has people hanging out making sure nothing bad happens to it when there's earthquakes or whatever. Horus is apparently stingy with the quests but has been organizing some efforts to repatriate Egyptian artifacts lately. Hlín has almost nothing online, though at least the search engine doesn't think it's a misspelling. The Cailleach was nearly dormant for a long time but is now attempting to get witches on anti-global-warming efforts. Guanyin is a popular patron, especially but not exclusively among Chinese warlocks, and since she's a bodhisattva she is mostly aiming at very nice goals of helping and saving people, in a Buddhist sort of way; however, reports suggest that her implementation plans are not always very well thought out. Ixtlilton's warlocks are few but report being sent to quietly break into people's houses to soothe their night-terroring children into restful sleep or ease the passing of people in hospice or administer medicine in third world countries.

These people who report Guanyin sending them off on well-intentioned harebrained schemes, do they also report decent results gently correcting her aim? (Should she quietly delete the word 'harebrained' from her vocabulary in consideration for her new favourite person's fetching bunny ears? That is a question to be answered later with more cultural context.)

There isn't really a keyword you can search to find whether or not Guanyin takes feedback well and will still pay you for a quest you did not perform to the original specification, especially if you don't read Chinese.

Alas, her Chinese really isn't up to scratch. She should probably not sign on to do quests for someone who will give her dumb quests and might not appreciate her saying so. Hestia, though...

"Do you know anyone who's gone to work for Hestia? I'm thinking about her."

"Not well but I have heard only good things."

"All right, I'm sold on Hestia then. In which case I don't have to worry about being redundant with sorcerousness in my choice of creatures. Can you show me the pretty stars again?"

Pretty stars again!

Right, where was she, empusa sylph elf fairy? Empusa sylph elf fairy. Gotta drop one of those. She thinks the elf has probably the best immortality, and the empusa's perk is just very nifty and also apparently unlocks more options, and the sylph has the worst charge method, and the fairy has cool party powers, so, "I think I maybe want to be an elf with fairy and empusa on the side. And the empusa perk. I probably don't want to drop a fortune on having my own fairy ring even though having my own fairy ring would be so terribly delightful. Can I scrounge more points from anywhere? But I'm getting ahead of myself, I should find out what-all there is to spend them on first."

"You can scrounge more points from anywhere! Over here. You could do that next, find out how budget-conscious to be."

"Tempt me, why don't you. All right, let's hear it."

"Over here, practically free points: witch mark. Extra nipple someplace. Starts random, not hard to move, I can do this for you no charge. Uh - oh, this one, you get twelve, buuuuut it means you cannot take any magic that is big individually, only many many small ones. Might not even be able to spend all of it. Not popular. Hm, this one isn't so bad. Four points and you can only use magic with a tool - usually the staff you get with the rest of your witch outfit, easiest all round, some people who naturally awaken wind up with much worse choices there..."

"...where does one put an extra nipple. I'm not necessarily opposed, I just can't think of a remotely sensible location. Being limited to using magic with a tool sounds like not the worst thing, depending how hard the tool is to keep track of... I'm all right at not losing my phone, but my entire ability to do magic isn't something I want to end up misplacing, especially if it's hard to get a new one."

"Mostly people choose someplace on their back or leg. Just looks like a big mole mostly. There is a rank 0 witchery magic - means you do not have to buy anything to do it - which lets you get a hat, robe, and rod, meditating for ten minutes, even if you just lost them all in a tragic wardobe malfunction, and you level that up to improve the situation from there. Means you could be stuck not being able to do magic till you can get ten minutes to think on it but not for forever."

"Ooh, then those sound like four very worthwhile points. Anything else?"

"Plenty! Let's see... Restriction, two points for buying no nada never magic of one school, if you just really never see a point in having a familiar or doing astronomical whatnots. You can have three of it, even. This one... sends monsters after you, some people think this is fun, four points. This one makes it harder to get more power - slower, you still get the same in the very long run, but it will make you fumble quests since you are going warlock. Eight points. This one gets you ten, makes you very ugly?"

"I'd be all right with having to do a bunch of quests for free to pay off a debt but my dignity is offended at the prospect of fumbling them. I'm also not keen on being very ugly. I can think about ditching entire magic schools when I know what they are. What's fun about having monsters after me? How capable will I be of fending off monsters?"

"Depends what magic you take. Three-plus ranks in any elementalism and you can nope them pretty good. Some people think monster fighting is exciting and do not want to have to go look for their monsters."

"Will I have a taste for monster fighting? It's just so hard to know for sure! I'll think about it. Anything else?"

"Pick up an addiction for two points - people usually go with coffee, gum, I saw one person who wanted more sex drive use this one, munchkins sometimes choose picking their nose... you can drop a limb for two points, magical prostheses are good, you can take it four times but then you would have a job getting wherever you wish to buy your prostheses... sensory shock, be super-sensitive enough to be a problem in some sense. They make good earplugs for this. This one is two points also, basically gives you social anxiety but a specific sort. This one means you need to do exercise to do magic properly, two points. This one is four, it aligns you with some clannish bunch of witches you're related to but the only ones who get this are the ones that do it to perpetuate their ancestral beeves so you'd wind up ancestrally beeving with random other people from other clans. Annnnd this last one is sort of like addiction but it is instead compulsion. Points based on how often it will likely come up, up to eight."

"What's the difference between addiction and compulsion that makes them worth such different amounts? Is it just that the compulsions can get more likely than the addiction starts out as? Can I addict myself to reading?"

"Cannot be addicted to a healthy thing - or, well, cannot be a healthy-seeming thing, I have met a very old witch who is addicted to baths and she is very smug. If you are addicted to coffee you can just have it in the morning and be cranky without it exactly like a normal person addicted to coffee, and maybe be tempted going past the Starbucks. If you are compulsioned to coffee you will go into the Starbucks even if you have been in six of them today and you will do this unless the Starbucks has become on fire and you might steal coffees from other people's hands and you will always buy coffee at the grocery store even if you have lots at home."

"Can I addict myself to reading weird fanfiction? No, probably I shouldn't lock myself into my current niche interests when I'm so comparatively young, and what would I do if all the weird fanfiction dried up? I suppose I wouldn't really be that much worse off if I addicted myself to my sex drive, depending on implementation details."

"You can do weird fanfiction and you can do orgasms or some more niche option."

"I want to figure out what kinds of niche options are available but I don't want to get too indelicate for you. Can you tell me more about what things can and can't count as valid addictions?"

"If you say 'ah, I just don't feel myself without my daily Thingamabob', do people look at you like you said 'ah, I just don't feel myself without my morning jog' like they hate how sickening healthy you are, or like you said 'without my cigs', where you have admitted vice. Has to be a vice."