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I'll keep this simple.

I'm writing a story in which a young boy residing in a medieval village discovers that he has extraordinary powers. Cliché, I know. But how exactly would I go about doing the whole "discovering" part (finding a rune, performing a ritual, powers come out in a battle sequence, etc.)? Any ideas?

Finding a rune or performing a ritual would be more about power coming from an outside source. If he's just born with it, I'd stick to a scenario of having it come out in a moment of physical danger, emotional distress, or even just at the onset of puberty or something.

If you're not going to have a trainer or teacher figure, I'd say the best place is a life or death situation. Those usually have adrenaline pumping so much that incredible things can be done by people in real life, so magic powers, especially if they're in anyway tied to emotion, would most likely come out at a time like that, although probably in a very dangerous and unfocused form.

The tone of the story, along with what the power is in itself, can impact how you might want the discovery process to work. For example: let's say someone suddenly has super strength. If you're going for a light-hearted tone, then they could accidentally rip off the door to their house one day while trying to open it. Day-to-day life would suddenly become awkward, as they try to adjust to it. Maybe they want to hide it, or maybe half the village sees it happen. The village, if/when they find out, can react in a lot of different ways too.

If you're going for a more serious or intense approach, then as Mizal and Steve mentioned, emotional life and death situations are a good way bring out. It could be helping someone else, defending yourself, or even getting enraged at something happening. Also think about what the power is and try to be creative in how it newly manifests itself. Make sure it feels accidental, and not too conveniently doing the optimal thing the power could be used for right from the get-go.

Basically just think of him as an X-man style mutant with his manifesting 'power' being brought on by magic instead of genetics and you're good to go. Like IP said, how you handle that within the story itself would depend a lot on the tone.

It's been twelve days and your first page is still this:

"This is the first page in your adventure game. To change this text or edit further, switch the page view by clicking on the edit button above."

If you aren't going to have the dedication to finish your story or even begin work on it, what was the point of posting in the writer's workshop? Your story shows promise; now finish it.

If you didn't know, this Mustachio guy isn't the most active member.

Then why did he ask for help with a story? You shouldn't ask for help with writing if you're not going to write anything.

He never said he was writing a story here.

Maybe he'll write it somewhere else. Who knows?

Forget what I said. But hey, not everyone has a bounty of time to be online.

But the story synopsis he described matches his story titled, 'Apex Predator'.

*Points to strikethrough sentences*

I saw them, I just felt like responding anyways. 

Are all the members that came from Roblox this aggressive or something? xP

Well, it all depends. The Role-Playing section was very much 'survival of the fittest' and not much else. All the writers that come from roblox are probably going to be very aggressive if they came from Role-Playing. I didn't think I was being that aggressive though. Maybe the tone of my post implied it or something, I don't know. I thought I was being very calm and asking a question. My first post was aggressive but that's because I think his story shows promise and it would be a waste if he didn't complete it. 

I'm still in the brainstorming session here, friend. And like Zag said, I'm not the most active member. And while this thread is mainly for that storygame, I may use the suggestions brought up here for other projects.