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Description
Caster Disks
First Appearance: Deviantart (4/2/2020)

Origin
(---"The art of storing magic spells into different storage mediums is not a common feature in The Ever-Changing City of Sargasso . The first form of this art was the skill of storing spells on audio cassettes that can be cast by playing the cassette on something like a tape recorder. Though this does have the drawback of the spell actually being cancelled out by a loud enough noise due to the recited formula on the tape being covered up by the noise. And the fact that playing a Spell on Tape long enough will cause that tape to burn out.

Though a new form of "Contained Spells" that started to appear in The City is Spells-On-Disks or as they are known commonly, "Caster Disks." Which are vintage floppy disks & other obsolete storage disks that are able to contain one type of spell, as most spells can take up the space to fill just one 3 1/2 inch disk. While most spells can just fill one standard size disk, more powerful spells have to be stored on a larger Zip Drive since they have more room. As trying to contain these spells in pieces on multiple 3 1/2 inch disks is problematic and each piece can be easily misplaced.

Standard Caster Disks can be activated by inserting the disk on a device that has a floppy disk drive, and depending on the machine, can be activated with either a simple button press or with more advanced spells like ones found on a larger Zip Drive, typing the proper activation code on the keyboard.

The types of spells one can find on Caster Disks are usually categorized as such: Offensive, Defensive & Passive. Though some spells that are in these categories aren't your standard magic missiles, fireballs and thunderbolts. Some spells can be attacks from more monstrous enemies like shooting spiderwebs, the breath attack of a certain breed of dragon or even summoning a massive paw of a great beast that swipes at a target.

One of the other types of Caster Disks that can be found or made are Summoning Disks. These Caster Disks contain a creature that has been bound to the disk and can be called forth by the summoner to aid them in some way. However these specific disks can be used as mini-jail cells to store targets that the caster want to imprisoned as a blank Summoning Disk can be filled using a specifically made device that can store living creatures on the disk. Though these device are hard to find, much less create and unfortunately The Ever-Changing City's Penal Colony doesn't have access to such a device.

There are other ways of using Caster Disks besides standard spell casting. With the proper set-up, one can actually use the spells on these disks to empower certain devices with their power. There are certain designs of Cast-Off Modular Armor that are equipped with a floppy disk drive which allows the wearer to empower the armor with certain effects like a barrier around the body or allowing the suit bearer the power of flight. Some weapons can be equipped with a floppy drive so that they too can gain certain effects like if a Caster Disk that contains a fire-related spell is installed, the weapon becomes imbued with a fiery aura and can burn their targets upon impact. In fact there are certain Caster Disks specifically designed to be used with such devices.

While these disks can be useful, it's always a good policy to actually check if a disk is safe before actually using it, as some spells can be either a dud at best or worse, be essentially magical malware and can infect whatever they are installed in with a virus that will crash the device or even corrupt the spell on the disk so that it's about as safe as handling hazardous material with your bare hands."---)

I was inspired to make this after watching some Doom Eternal gameplay. Specifically after seeing the collectable floppy disks you can find that function as actual cheat codes. So I decided to take my old concept of Spells-On-Tape and expand that to make my own set of magic floppy disks by taking inspiration from Doom Eternal's Cheat Codes, Outlaw Star's Caster Gun and Shells, and some of Final Fantasy 8's Junction System.

Plus I have a fondness for vintage technology like Floppys, Cassettes, CRT Monitors. and the like since I did actually use such things when I was a kid in the 90s. That and my love for antiques in general since I like learning about the story behind them. You can find more information about some vintage technology by going on channels like The 8-Bit Guy & LGR .

I've left the disk you see above blank so as to give you guys a good template to design your own floppy.

Like some of the other artifacts I've made, I'll leave links to four lists of them that you can look at. And all of them I put in the public domain for you guys to use under Creative Commons 0. In fact you could probably turn the spell scrolls you can find on these lists into a Caster Disk if you want.

Part 1
fav.me/dbkmmoo

Part 2
fav.me/dcrnbcy

Part 3
fav.me/ddc4n76

Part 4
fav.me/ddqhcx7

Part 5
fav.me/ddxf2z2

Edit (5/11/2020): Here's a list of the Caster Disks that I thought of to give you guys some ideas. Some if these spells can be found in the links above where the artifacts are at. If you have questions about what some of these do, feel free to ask down in the comments.

(---Offensive---)
-Gear/Cog Shot
-Flamethrower
-Flashbulb
-Spider Web
-Molotov
-Shockwave
-Debris
-Zepharrow
-Tornado Bolt
-Mole Strike
-Dust Devil
-Grinding Gears
-Great Beast's Paw
-Freeze Ray
-Fire Fingers
-Cube of Lava
-Cloud of Arrows
-Storm of Strikes
-Buzzsaw
-Phlogiston Tide
-Dynamite Blast
-Ball of Rock
-Ravage Undeath
-Arrows of Rock
-Pressor Beam
-Tractor Beam
-Space Junk
-Portal Shot
-Portal Storm
-Raining Boilers
-Acid Splash
-Emerald Nova
-Duct Tape
-Fixing Duct Tape
-Skyscraper
-Thunder Tower / Pylon
-Daily Blast
-Rubble Blast
-Contaminate
-Graffiti
-Barbed Wire
-Tangled Barbed Wire
-Oil Well
-Shredder
-Electric Sheep
-Ball Lightning
-Swift Strike
-Ransack
-Brute Force
-Bone Charge
-Fatal Fang
-Vamp Fang
-Black Ice
-Sticky Goo
-Rotten Blood
-Spasm
-Beat Dance
-Power Cord
-Banshee Howl
-Wicked Roar
-Red Hot Kiss

(---Defensive---)
-Gale Shell
-Barrier
-Sanctuary
-Create Barricade
-Brave Guard
-Insulator

(---Passive---)
-Arms of the Multitasker
-Eager Portal
-Enliven Designs
-Liquid Arrow
-Lies to Lizards
-Amorphous Punch
-Bend Ice
-Manipulate Undeath
-Agra Ray
-Inviso Beam
-Cavorite
-Nitro
-Sleep

The Caster Disks are open source artifacts created specifically for use by anyone. Feel free to use it any way you wish. You must also give creator credit.

Description
Caster Disks
First Appearance: Deviantart (4/2/2020)

Origin
(---"The art of storing magic spells into different storage mediums is not a common feature in The Ever-Changing City of Sargasso . The first form of this art was the skill of storing spells on audio cassettes that can be cast by playing the cassette on something like a tape recorder. Though this does have the drawback of the spell actually being cancelled out by a loud enough noise due to the recited formula on the tape being covered up by the noise. And the fact that playing a Spell on Tape long enough will cause that tape to burn out.

Though a new form of "Contained Spells" that started to appear in The City is Spells-On-Disks or as they are known commonly, "Caster Disks." Which are vintage floppy disks & other obsolete storage disks that are able to contain one type of spell, as most spells can take up the space to fill just one 3 1/2 inch disk. While most spells can just fill one standard size disk, more powerful spells have to be stored on a larger Zip Drive since they have more room. As trying to contain these spells in pieces on multiple 3 1/2 inch disks is problematic and each piece can be easily misplaced.

Standard Caster Disks can be activated by inserting the disk on a device that has a floppy disk drive, and depending on the machine, can be activated with either a simple button press or with more advanced spells like ones found on a larger Zip Drive, typing the proper activation code on the keyboard.

The types of spells one can find on Caster Disks are usually categorized as such: Offensive, Defensive & Passive. Though some spells that are in these categories aren't your standard magic missiles, fireballs and thunderbolts. Some spells can be attacks from more monstrous enemies like shooting spiderwebs, the breath attack of a certain breed of dragon or even summoning a massive paw of a great beast that swipes at a target.

One of the other types of Caster Disks that can be found or made are Summoning Disks. These Caster Disks contain a creature that has been bound to the disk and can be called forth by the summoner to aid them in some way. However these specific disks can be used as mini-jail cells to store targets that the caster want to imprisoned as a blank Summoning Disk can be filled using a specifically made device that can store living creatures on the disk. Though these device are hard to find, much less create and unfortunately The Ever-Changing City's Penal Colony doesn't have access to such a device.

There are other ways of using Caster Disks besides standard spell casting. With the proper set-up, one can actually use the spells on these disks to empower certain devices with their power. There are certain designs of Cast-Off Modular Armor that are equipped with a floppy disk drive which allows the wearer to empower the armor with certain effects like a barrier around the body or allowing the suit bearer the power of flight. Some weapons can be equipped with a floppy drive so that they too can gain certain effects like if a Caster Disk that contains a fire-related spell is installed, the weapon becomes imbued with a fiery aura and can burn their targets upon impact. In fact there are certain Caster Disks specifically designed to be used with such devices.

While these disks can be useful, it's always a good policy to actually check if a disk is safe before actually using it, as some spells can be either a dud at best or worse, be essentially magical malware and can infect whatever they are installed in with a virus that will crash the device or even corrupt the spell on the disk so that it's about as safe as handling hazardous material with your bare hands."---)

I was inspired to make this after watching some Doom Eternal gameplay. Specifically after seeing the collectable floppy disks you can find that function as actual cheat codes. So I decided to take my old concept of Spells-On-Tape and expand that to make my own set of magic floppy disks by taking inspiration from Doom Eternal's Cheat Codes, Outlaw Star's Caster Gun and Shells, and some of Final Fantasy 8's Junction System.

Plus I have a fondness for vintage technology like Floppys, Cassettes, CRT Monitors. and the like since I did actually use such things when I was a kid in the 90s. That and my love for antiques in general since I like learning about the story behind them. You can find more information about some vintage technology by going on channels like The 8-Bit Guy & LGR .

I've left the disk you see above blank so as to give you guys a good template to design your own floppy.

Like some of the other artifacts I've made, I'll leave links to four lists of them that you can look at. And all of them I put in the public domain for you guys to use under Creative Commons 0. In fact you could probably turn the spell scrolls you can find on these lists into a Caster Disk if you want.

Part 1
fav.me/dbkmmoo

Part 2
fav.me/dcrnbcy

Part 3
fav.me/ddc4n76

Part 4
fav.me/ddqhcx7

Part 5
fav.me/ddxf2z2

Edit (5/11/2020): Here's a list of the Caster Disks that I thought of to give you guys some ideas. Some if these spells can be found in the links above where the artifacts are at. If you have questions about what some of these do, feel free to ask down in the comments.

(---Offensive---)
-Gear/Cog Shot
-Flamethrower
-Flashbulb
-Spider Web
-Molotov
-Shockwave
-Debris
-Zepharrow
-Tornado Bolt
-Mole Strike
-Dust Devil
-Grinding Gears
-Great Beast's Paw
-Freeze Ray
-Fire Fingers
-Cube of Lava
-Cloud of Arrows
-Storm of Strikes
-Buzzsaw
-Phlogiston Tide
-Dynamite Blast
-Ball of Rock
-Ravage Undeath
-Arrows of Rock
-Pressor Beam
-Tractor Beam
-Space Junk
-Portal Shot
-Portal Storm
-Raining Boilers
-Acid Splash
-Emerald Nova
-Duct Tape
-Fixing Duct Tape
-Skyscraper
-Thunder Tower / Pylon
-Daily Blast
-Rubble Blast
-Contaminate
-Graffiti
-Barbed Wire
-Tangled Barbed Wire
-Oil Well
-Shredder
-Electric Sheep
-Ball Lightning
-Swift Strike
-Ransack
-Brute Force
-Bone Charge
-Fatal Fang
-Vamp Fang
-Black Ice
-Sticky Goo
-Rotten Blood
-Spasm
-Beat Dance
-Power Cord
-Banshee Howl
-Wicked Roar
-Red Hot Kiss

(---Defensive---)
-Gale Shell
-Barrier
-Sanctuary
-Create Barricade
-Brave Guard
-Insulator

(---Passive---)
-Arms of the Multitasker
-Eager Portal
-Enliven Designs
-Liquid Arrow
-Lies to Lizards
-Amorphous Punch
-Bend Ice
-Manipulate Undeath
-Agra Ray
-Inviso Beam
-Cavorite
-Nitro
-Sleep

The Caster Disks are open source artifacts created specifically for use by anyone. Feel free to use it any way you wish. You must also give creator credit.