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BLESSINGS (POWERS/ABILITIES) SUBMISSION

Good day!! I'll explain the process of how choosing powers will go, it's really easy, I promise.

• Make sure to read the blessings page. It explains the general principles on how this worlds' "magic" applies.

• In this post, make a top level for your character! You can submit your abilities underneath that toplevel. You do not need to make it overcomplicated if you don't want to! If you want fireballs, just putting down "fireballs" is fine. In fact, PLEASE don't make it overly complicated. Adding limitations and details can be great, especially to give extra flavor, ut if I must sit through eight paragraphs for one ability detailing the formulaic speed of light, I might perish (and more than likely simplify it for you)!

• You can choose up to three abilities!

• You do not have to choose them all right now nor do you need to have them immediately by game start. If you want to drop just one ability now and come back later with the others, that's fine. Characters can develop powers over time!

• Once you comment, I will reply back to your comment, making any specific changes necessary, usually to have them thematically connected whether its to your character's family or to help tie them together so they feel connected to the character.

• I'll also do any balancing if necessary. If it's way too strong, I'll help you scale it down or if it's too simple, I'll add a little more to give you more flavor. Powers should be level 30 on a level 100 scale but you can have stronger powers if you add limitations to it. "Can teleport anywhere but only once a day" or "has supergenius level knowledge but only in regards to cacti".

Announcement as of Sept. 24th: We do ask from this point on, any blessings submitted should be around 200-250 words per blessing, If it gets much larger than that, we reserve the right to reject them and ask to shorten it, SIMPLY PUT, IF IT GETS TOO BIG, WE GET SLOW CUZ WE OVERTHINK TOO MUCH, THIS IS TO HELP US STREAMLINE THE PROCESS A BIT. like obv there are some exceptions (like if you're indecisive between two types of limits or something and describing both) but an ability itself should remain about 2-3 paragraphs or so.

I am going to be honest, I do not have a degree in power and magic balancing. I will like make mistakes! If you find an ability way too limiting, you can come and make that case to me, and I can see if I can adjust it! Does one of your abilities never come up in play or you find it's one you don't find fun to play with? Feel free to come back to your toplevel and ask for an addendum, we can make it work.

The important part is I want people to have powers extend from their character as part of their personality/identity. It's not suppose to be about winning/losing/who is the strongest, etc, and hopefully by letting characters pick their own isntead of from a pre-selected list, it will help to do that!

And so with that siad, I am trusting people to be reasonable if these powers come into play at any time. By that, I mean, if you find yourself in a fight with a character, using powers, don't steamroll the other player without striking a conversation. Be considerate of the other person. Remember, it's important to go with the flow of the fight and see what feels right!

Your character does not need to win all of the time! Your character is not automatically better than anyone else 100% of the time. If you get into an ooc confrontation over who should win when it comes to powers, you must diceroll. I do not care if you have a five paragraph essay as to why your character should win, if the other rper is contesting that for whatever reason, make it fair and do a diceroll! Easy peasy! That said, diceroll is NOT a requirement all the time, it's fair to just see what happens! This is only a requirement if there is an ooc disagreement, if you ask me to settle it for you, I'm going to say "do a diceroll" first and go from there.

I GENUINELY DON'T THINK THIS WILL BE A HUGE ISSUE, my friends are chill and cool, but I am notating this just in case because we know sometimes things get crazy, emotions and excitement can get high, so this is the great neutralizer in those instances, ok? Ok.

Will this power I want be allowed?
COMMENT AND FIND OUT. Even if you feel its too insane, go ahead and comment, idc.

This power feels like it wouldn't go with this family.
THATS FINE, COMMENT AND FIND OUT. Even if I lack the brainpower to make it work, it's fine. Just like fashion and personalities, not everything has to be 1 to 1 with the family theme.

Can powers evolve over time?
SURE. It is not unreasonable to have a character's power being "vine whip" evolving into "thorny vine whip".

I just don't think I should bother putting the power in...
I HAVE BANNED ANXIETY, GO AHEAD AND COMMENT AND JUST SEE WHAT HAPPENS, IT DOESN'T HURT TO AT LEAST TRY.

Okay, I'm done for now! Feel free to comment to this post ANYTIME YOU'RE READY and I'll reply (but please give me a few days ok).

Please see the first toplevel for a proper ~~dumb~~ example.

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YEA my plan was that when he stops using it it just disappears so no worries about using leftover materials

OKEI!!!!! If it needs any other adjustments in the future, we can def do that but otherwise its chillax!!!

Also I forgot to note, for anything involving people's mental states, as a blanket, ppl with strong enough willpower can overcome as needed esp for any ooc reasons.

Let me double check on blessings, ping me if I don't come back to this in a week.

Edited 2024-11-05 03:50 (UTC)

This all sounds great! I'll go with the energy drain limit so it can only be for a pretty short time o/

the world's on fire and I just want an excuse to give him wolf ears and a tail off and on. pet the dog.

Which is to say, it's a blessing that just manifested on the ship, he cannot control it and it probably happens when he loses control (using that loosely) and goes away when he's calmed down for a period of time. The more he freaks out, the more wolf he becomes but it generally stays to just like, ears and tail. maybe claws. control your emotions better, fool.

Edited 2024-11-10 22:07 (UTC)

Taking after his comics counterpart, Phoenix is able to use spellwords to help or hinder someone's healing. These spellwords can be actual words of power or wishful words ("I want to heal this person") as a mantra. They can also be used in biological means if he wants like, "I want this person to have allergies" or "I hope they get over their cold soon". He also couldn't wish them serious injury but things like maybe stub a toe, come down with a cold, aforementioned sudden allergies (basically like super minor and/or annoying negative effects).

He needs to be able to focus and emotional steadiness is important. As he is also a person of empathy, this works best on people he feels emotionally/empathetically close to versus those he doesn't know well or sees as an enemy. He has to, at minimum, truly feel for their situation to heal them. The reverse is necessary to hinder, so he can't hurt someone he cares for but if they've annoyed him he might be able to make them sneeze.

Because of these counters! He obviously can't (always) heal people super well. I'm also fine taking out the reverse angle (hindering their health) but it's nice as an opposition since he as a character is just [chaotic magick]. ICly, he'd have to hate someone to hinder their healing (and would only be done with OOC confirmation/interest). But he might have someone have a sneezing fit if he's annoyed (with OOC permission).

Edited 2024-11-16 05:04 (UTC)

His shadow can turn into an inescapable pit. He can drop things into it and they'll be consumed. This includes living things, but he can't put a volume in there bigger than a standard fridge. He can control the effect so something sinks slowly (and has a chance of being pulled free), or drops in instantly.

This has three limitations!
- very small AOE--whatever he wants to eat with it has to be within like, 6-8 feet of him, and has to actually be placed on his shadow to get consumed. This Blessing works best in the dark (in which case the whole area around him is a shadow) and is affected by area lighting otherwise.
- if he fills up its size capacity quickly, his shadow will revert to normal and the Blessing will go on a 24-hour cooldown. It can't just eat stuff without limit.
- once he puts something all the way in there it is permanently gone. Imagine if he accidentally dropped his wallet and keys. I guess if he uses this on a living person on the boat some fuckery would happen to let them revive/reform though.

Edited 2024-11-16 06:08 (UTC)

He can ferment any liquid of his choice into alcohol, if it's within a range of 6-8 feet. I imagine knowing chemistry and various plant/food properties make this fun to mess around with and let him brew his own drinks. The bigger the amount the slower the effect: he could turn a glass of water into booze on the spot, but if he wanted to do a whole barrel he'd have to like. Sleep on top of it with his Blessing active all night.

He can use this to speed up or induce intoxication and alcohol poisoning in people by fermenting their blood, also.

Edited 2024-11-16 05:44 (UTC)

Hypnotic voice. He can induce emotional effects in people by talking to them (making them feel calmer, happier, more fearful, more paranoid, more willing to do what he tells them to, etc. etc. etc.) Can be used subtly to influence interactions in his favor, or forcefully to drag someone into a particular emotional zone or push them to do something in the moment.

He can only induce one effect at a time, and targets can break loose from it with enough willpower, though it takes more effort to if he's using it forcefully.

Edited 2024-11-16 05:56 (UTC)

[NAME TBD]

Can use his voice to incite certain reactions in people, there's four variations (I'll think up fancy names for all of this later):

- Charm
- Persuade
- Intimidate
- Draw Aggro

1d10 must be rolled to determine the effectiveness of the action. Can be resisted with enough willpower/mind cleanse effects/etc. If the character successfully resists they may also RNG any of the three other options to have the action backfire on Yue (say he wanted to charm someone, but that person successfully resisted him so now the suggestion has become DRAW AGGRO instead).

Also this can only work in person and it's valid not to roll if the player wants their character affected as-is. There should probably be a time/usage limit on this but I have no idea what would be balanced so I'm open to suggestions.

[NAME TBD]

IT'S LITERALLY ROLL WITH ADVANTAGE. For any OOC dice rolls that need to happen he gets to roll twice and keep the higher roll as the one that counts. ICly this would work as him doing a small ritual with his Siren's lucky item (tbd) for good luck, so it's not that he's passively super lucky. He needs to actively trigger it when he wants good luck and he needs to have the item on hand!

This is kinda OP probably so I am okay with it being limited to X number of uses per IC day or something like that.

[NAME TBD]

Hi I'm stealing Taisho's contract and law powers and merging them into something Yue will never use regularly because of how much effort it requires.

"Implements the terms of any written contract upon activation" with the following caveats:

- Must be a physical contract. Doesn't necessarily need to be handwritten, but the alternative is typing it up and printing it out which is effort.
- Must be signed in blood for it to take.
- Cannot affect any third parties unless they also have signed it (however, it is possible "forge" someone's signature by taking their blood to sign it).
- Valid only for 24 hours tops. If he wants the effects to stay in place he needs to "renew it" by writing a new contract every day.
- Anything not clearly stipulated in the terms can be a legal loophole and circumvented!!

Edited 2024-11-17 09:40 (UTC)

Parisa can open a portal that will transport herself and those she trusts and feels safe with to a previously-known, safe location- so like, after a trauma game, she could bring the holy order (trusted family) back to their cabin (safe, known location). She can't use it to go anywhere new and if she's not in danger it's a bit more cumbersome to use so she can't and doesn't just abuse the portal willy-nilly. The more unsafe she feels, the easier it is to open it though.

Edited 2024-11-18 00:54 (UTC)

This feels like a lot of separate things for one power in my brain so just to re-word it so it feels more cohesive, we would suggest just having the ability to move center of gravity up to two directions. They can go up or down or northwest, and if they use up and down, it ends up making the person stuck in the air between the two.

Can do 1 person at a time, 2 only if they put in a LOT of energy into it and for a very short duration. Line of sight so can't just randomly do it to a person in a different room.

DOES THAT SOUND OK.

This also counts as multiple different unique effects. Weighed down by gold chains is restraint, targets start burning is physical damage. If you want this to be one ability, it needs to be a lot more cohesive and definitely more restraints. It is just too powerful as is especially since I think 90% of the ship is NOT well-adjusted even as AU (lols).

A suggestion I got is maybe basing it on a theme like seven sins with a specific pre-made debuff with either mental restraint or physical restraint.

The other option is "stocking" a couple at a time and maybe switching them out like I've done for other similar multi-effect type powers.

Even then it'll probably need to get a few more conditions on it, BUT I DON'T WANNA GO TOO DEEP UNTIL I SEE IF YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE OR ANOTHER IDEA. Do either of those sound an ok basis?

JUST TO VERIFY, it's noted that there's the standard scythe swing (melee) but also that it does no visible physical damage. So the swing (melee) literally does no damage, y/n?

I'm just making sure I am reading this right, ty!!!!

Just notating that the buff should be like 2-3x for now BUT OK OTHERWISE. Feel free to change it later if you do change your mind!

Maybe he has to "roll" for a success to re-roll the gun dice. A 10% chance of success at the start and then it goes up to 20% on the next time he tries if the first one fails. Also if it fails, the gun jams until he can reroll again so he can only switch it when he's not in the middle of battle or it'd be a big risk (would be cute then to use his future prediction power combo-wombo).

Timelimit in hand regardless, 30 mins-an hr is prob ok and then an hr-two hr cooldown period!! Once it fades, maybe he can restart the dice.

SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I'm bad with visualizing ic time in rp sometimes so the timelimits aren't hard, just cooldown periods + rng to switch might be good to me to keep all of them as is.

Obviously things that are super super deep that would not ever let it slip out can't be read, you can assume those are buried behind a wall somewhere (just for ooc ease), but otherwise ok!

Can you specify by close to, do you mean physically or relationship-y? Ty!!!

THIS IS OK!!!! Just noting no extra clothes to take home and maybe he has to touch the person for the effect to happen (just so ppl who dont wanna ooc play it have an excuse) BUT if they're ok with just it happening, thats fine too.

Yeah, the intent is it'd only be surface thoughts (no deep diving) so in the moment things!

When I say by close to this would be relationship wise- so he'd have to feel close to them (and I'd double check ooc before assuming)!

For this one, I'm pretty sure my general rule is you have to have healing and exacerbating injuries split. I'll double check all of that in the future but I'd say take the healing part now and I'll try to remember to get back to this.

Yyy thank you! Temporary only no free clothes & a okay on touch may or may not be necessary (depending on ooc fun!)

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BLESSINGS (POWERS/ABILITIES) SUBMISSION

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i don't have a special name for this one

SPELLWORDS

Albert | Frost | Cirrus

Abyssus Abyssum Invocat (utility)

In Vino Veritas (utility)

Cor Ad Cor Loquitur (utility)

Jinshi / Yue/Moonshine / Siren's Melodies

Vocal Charisma

Roll With Advantage

Contract

mafuyu asahina | parisa | the holy order

escape for our survival

ADDENDUM

ADDENDUM

CLARIFICATION

TENTATIVELY OK!!

ADDENDUM

ACCEPTED + CLARIFICATION

ACCEPTED + ADDENDUM

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ADDENDUM

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