D20x5 Arcane Apprentices

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D20	This apprentice has learned a cantrip
1	to shoot off their fingernails, dealing damage as throwing daggers. The nails take as long to regrow as they normally would.
2	to make fireflies burst in a flash of heat and light.
3	to store items beneath their belly-button, so long as they don't store so much that this crowds out their organs.
4	to see the sicknesses within people through their circled fingers.
5	to double the length of their legs.
6	to make a tree grow with fruit that have their seeds as a shell on the outside of them - thereby protecting them from many pests.
7	to move fat tissue around their body.
8	which makes veins in marble bleed.
9	to make precious metals mildly magnetic.
10	to make a sheep attempt to shear itself.
11	to make nearby locks jangle.
12	to make clocks run backwards.
13	to make paint dry instantly.
14	to tap someone on the shoulder from a distance.
15	to make rugs and carpets inch about like caterpillars.
16	to create an illusion of bird poop.
17	to animate dust bunnies as worthless servitors.
18	to prevent beer from going flat.
19	to manifest a spoon made of phantasmal force.
20	which cracks the lenses of spectacles.

D20	This apprentice’s personality
1	is that of a flexible striver, willing to adopt any view if it advances their position.
2	is that of an anxious people-pleaser.
3	is sort of a reptilian mirror of whatever attitudes others take towards them.
4	is impulsive and ambitious, leaping from one scheme to get big to the next.
5	is laid-back yet spiteful, a feather pillow with a poisoned needle hidden in it.
6	is studious and anti-social, seeing others as objects to be used or obstacles to be removed.
7	is that of a slimy schmoozer - though they do have an honest interest & talent in singing.
8	is stiffly formal and imposingly-hierarchical.
9	is quiet, intense, focused around their dream of becoming an arch-wizard.
10	is that of a hit dog, loyal to a select few and ready to snap in an instant.
11	is that of a sneering, tasteless elitist who is boundlessly generous to those they see as peers.
12	is that of an old soul, jaded well beyond their years.
13	is that of a clumsy, blabbering nerd.
14	is that of a joker and clown, prone to melancholy when not laughing or being laughed at.
15	is rotely virtuous, going through the motions while blank inside.
16	is acquisitive and inquisitive, greedy for all things material and immaterial.
17	is exceedingly normal, averaged-out and agreeable in about all ways.
18	is aloof and observant, sometimes compassionate.
19	has been deliberately based by them on a character from their favourite novel.
20	is that of a hysterical, compulsive liar with a persecution complex.

D20	This apprentice's master
1	is learned and powerful, widely respected in occult circles, yet increasingly senile - so far only the apprentice is really aware of this.
2	is a deadly fop whose single-minded pursuit of fashion and luxury shouldn't be confused for softness or incompetence.
3	is a despised plagiarist and fabulist.
4	is a hardened veteran war-wizard still bitter about being pushed out of the political sphere after retiring from the battlefield.
5	is a former adventurer, sagacious with forgotten lore and traumatized by their own maiming and the loss of their companions in the darkness below the world.
6	puts on the front of a kindly elder, but is in actuality a serial killer fascinated by the transformation of human flesh by lethal magic.
7	once aspired to be an evil overlord, leading an army of the undead to conquer the world, but gave up that dark dream after finding religion - following the merciful wolf-saint Amartza.
8	is the black sheep of an old and storied aristocratic family of wizards with a library that's accumulated centuries of spells and secrets.
9	is like a rotting peach - their ego bloated and easily injured, their retribution quick and nasty.
10	is a drunkard, living in reminiscence of past glories.
11	has been hollowed out into a meat-puppet by a tsochari - an extra-terrestrial invader conspiring to spread the worship of the Nine-Tongued Worm & open the way to more of their kind.
12	was once considered a prodigy, yet failed to live up to the expectations placed upon them, which they are in total denial of.
13	is a muscular and straightforward sort, bullrushing over any contestations.
14	is buoyantly youthful, never brought down for long by any set-back or tragedy.
15	is a suffocatingly-familiar, weepy softy.
16	suffered a sudden inversion of their personality - in fact they were murdered and replaced by their mirror-twin during an excursion through other planes.
17	is distractably obsessive, juggling several ground-breaking and extremely dangerous projects at once.
18	is whimsical & twee even in the face of atrocity - even when committing atrocities.
19	is a thug with the intelligence to sharply wield their brutality, with a big chip on their shoulder from climbing out of the gutter on a pile of betrayals and corpses.
20	is furiously bed-ridden - ailing due to inhaling the wrong spores.

D20	This apprentice's master has them
1	blundering into a dangerous dungeon as a form of hazing.
2	tracking down another of their apprentices, who absconded with a grimoire and some valuables.
3	overseeing a crew commissioned to excavate an ancient ruin.
4	acting in a deniable capacity to trade with some diabolical sorts.
5	spying on a wizardly rival.
6	ghost-writing and delivering romantic poetry to a distant paramour.
7	recruiting an adventuring party for a delve to find the truth behind some bit of apocrypha.
8	kidnapping a peasant whose peculiar circumstances of birth make them a potent living spell component.
9	researching local cultic lore in the belief that it encodes a magical ritual.
10	counterfeiting a rival's books while inserting subtle and hazardous errors.
11	quizzing local artisans to suss out which has the skill to craft a suitable item for enchantment.
12	in the field fact-checking a bestiary that's made its way into their master's possession.
13	renewing treaties with regional elementals.
14	taking measurements of the region from various positions to prove its space is warped.
15	seeking out an exorcist to cleanse a haunted trinket that's made its way into their collection.
16	on a snipe hunt as punishment for some disappointment.
17	tracking down and retrieving a monster their master created before it can be traced back to them.
18	terrorizing rustics to keep them away from their master's abode.
19	testing an experimental new spell.
20	out foraging for delicacies for a feast.

D20	This apprentice is considering quitting their apprenticeship
1	because their master has been regularly draining them of blood to use as a youth-regaining elixir.
2	because their older sibling has recently died, leaving them heir to their family's holdings.
3	because they've become infatuated with a local, and the terms of their service have them sworn to celibacy.
4	because they believe that their master plans to displace their soul and steal their body.
5	because they've found they prefer studying the history and theory of magic over learning how to actually work it.
6	because their master clearly favours another apprentice over them.
7	because a close encounter with a witch-hunting mob has put a great fear in them.
8	because they've heard rumours that a rival circle of wizards aims to take out their master to steal their books and artifacts.
9	because another wizard has given them a better offer.
10	because they stumbled across a golem in a storage closet with their exact likeness.
11	because they are now sure that their work has damned them to hell.
12	because they're burnt out and need a vacation.
13	because something they can never quite make out keeps whispering to them from the shadows.
14	because war has broken out and they wish to serve their country.
15	because the work and studying have proven too difficult for them.
16	because they've become possessed by wanderlust.
17	because their books were ruined by a sudden rainstorm and it would be very expensive to purchase replacements.
18	because a fortune teller suggested that if they don't it will lead to their doom.
19	because they've grown to hate their master due to personal differences.
20	because they've contracted a terminal illness and would prefer to spend the remainder of their days peacefully and among friends.