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modmaster ([personal profile] modmaster) wrote2024-08-05 08:33 pm

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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Re: ADDENDUM

[personal profile] ifyoulive 2025-04-28 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
all good, i'll pick edged then, thanks!
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Han Yoojin | Eugene River | Cirrus Network

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-04-30 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
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Shady Business

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-04-30 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Can travel between shadows; if he's standing still he can hide/be invisible in shadows. (*Note: If he is using shadows to hide with intent to eavesdrop it would be with ooc permission only.)
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REVISION

[personal profile] socialcapital 2025-05-05 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I would like to make the following patch notes:

existing blessing: Raises things up to the best condition they could possibly be in, but after the boost expires, the target will deteriorate. Can be used on a person (with permission) to boost their physical capabilities to their maximum level, but causes strain injuries that last for twice as long as the boost did. Max time limit for keeping something in its best condition: one day.

updated:
- Self-targeted, no longer works on other people or objects,
- maximum duration is shortened from one day to five minutes.
- Backlash of deterioration/strain injuries is replaced with 'turns into a random animal small enough to hold in one hand that is basically harmless for up to ten minutes' (so like, a mouse, a hamster, a garter snake, a gecko, a cockatiel, a blue jay, or a ferret would all be valid, but something like a blue-ringed octopus or a poison dart frog would not. jackson does not get to pick the animal)
makedown: (☀ 07)

Maomao | Catherine

[personal profile] makedown 2025-05-12 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Edited 2025-05-12 02:06 (UTC)

Denial

[personal profile] makedown 2025-05-12 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
A small pocket of anti-reality and anti-blessings that applies around her in a very small radius! Think old-school cartoon anti-gravity unawareness until the moment it can no longer be denied. It's that sort of thing!

I had initially added detail to this but I realize now that it was too confusing so let's leave it here because this is the gist of it!
Edited 2025-06-11 01:13 (UTC)

Poisonous dust

[personal profile] makedown 2025-05-13 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd think poison is only physical BUT NO!!! This is the ability to turn things she considers poisonous into actual, physical poisonous dust. She's been using this all her life to get rid of feelings she doesn't like lol. This would be the blessing she can use to fight, because she can save this poison and carry it with her, like a rogue character.

Note: This dust is in the air and will affect anyone who is around unless the player isn't interested in playing with it when I check in with the, in which case their character has natural defenses against that nbd!
Note #2: She will have to like. Gather this dust to use it. Not the most practical thing to do. Will require prep time. Can't be done just anywhere. This is a power cap in practice
Note #3: Dice roll to test the intensity of the effect!
Note #4: This has a natural limit because she can only do this for things that fit the very specific criteria of her concept of poison

Practical examples to clarify things:
1) A poisonous monster: is poisonous ONLY if it's attacking others! Can be turned into poisonous dust itself. (Meaning: this actually turns the monster into an AOE attack of its own poison, if anyone breathes that they will all die, dice roll checks mandatory for everyone in the room, all characters will hate this if it happens at any point, thumbs up)
2) Poison: is not poisonous, it's desirable because this is Maomao. She can't get rid of it at all. whoops
3) Infection: is poisonous. Can get rid of it, turns it into infection dust, hope everyone around is wearing their N95
4) Bad feels: poisonous ONLY when they become crippling or overwhelming, and anyone who breathes this will be affected by these feels
5) Death: not poisonous

So basically this power could be very useful, except... this is Maomao. So it's going to only be for everyday stuff or for some instances of fighting if she ever figures out what this is, because so far she has no idea lol.

HOPE THIS MAKES IT CLEAR
Edited 2025-06-25 07:21 (UTC)
arrowace: (rect272)

Nully Thatcher | FrogsEstoria

[personal profile] arrowace 2025-05-18 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
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Floriography

[personal profile] arrowace 2025-05-18 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Can make people display flowers that reflect their current feelings. When Nully just puts in casual effort, the person's flowers reflect the emotion they want to convey. It takes more effort the more the other person is trying to hide that emotion (whether from themself or others), to the point where dragging a secret out of someone might have some kind of blowback on Nully. (And also to give it a way for it to not work when OOCly we want it to not work etc.)

If approved I'll set up a quick-n-dirty guide in my journal that people can follow if so desired.
Edited 2025-05-18 06:47 (UTC)
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Party Animal

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-18 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Summons one (1) animal companion:

1. Peace (cat sized winged flame horned lion. can fly and breathe fire wowee! for attack, but mostly for cuddles)
2. Chirpie (lil round white bird. is round.)
3. Blue (griffon. can fly and carry like 2-3 people on her back.)
4. Eugene turns into a cat instead of anything getting summoned
5. Summons a random member of Cirrus instead (with player approval)
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Shima Renzou | Loren Haze - Cirrus Network

[personal profile] worldlyafflictions 2025-05-18 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
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Rook Hunt | Serge - Sun Sign

[personal profile] wayofthehunt 2025-05-18 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
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Finding - Utility

[personal profile] wayofthehunt 2025-05-19 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Tracking spell!

Blessing:
He is able to tag something/someone in sight and see the route it took and follow it if it's moved. No range limit in canon but the signal can be blocked by anti-magic barriers, not sure if there is an equivalent here.

IN LIMELIGHT additionally,
IF he has not laid eyes on the target, he can mark something/someone if he is given a description of the target's emotional significance to the person seeking (himself or someone else). The stronger/more accurate the emotion that is conveyed, the better he can pinpoint direction and visualize the space his target is in. Generally people have to use their words, unless they have some kind of empathic blessing to beam their feelings into him.

(would be funny if youtubers can accidentally doxx themselves with this in unboxing vids if they talk about how excited/attached/etc they are about the thing they got)
Edited 2025-05-19 03:06 (UTC)
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Utility

[personal profile] worldlyafflictions 2025-05-20 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Sensory Field Generation type power!

Basically I would like him to be able to set an area where he can get sensory information later remotely--sort of like being able to bug a room and check in later but with a blessing. Doesn't require material components but does require him to physically be at where he wants to set up a field in order to remote in later with his senses. Level of detail for information he can sense is inversely proportional to size of the field he sets, so if it covers a whole room he can maybe only tell if someone enters and exits, but if it's just a small space like a cube around a chair, he can get sounds, smells, texture of whatever moves through that space.

(For funny, if the space is really small, like finger sized, he can connect back through like a ring-cam and communicate with a person who triggered the field?)
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Sirem Dog

[personal profile] arrowace 2025-05-21 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
A churchgrim-like summon that fucking sucks. She never obeys and it janks up their body every time they use her. Sometime's they've needed to be hospitalized after. Not infrequently, other people have too.

This was their first blessing to show up, and in fact what got them recruited to Acidia (where better to get your body fucked up than right at the doc's). In the end, though, no amount of training could make this dog suck any less. Now Nully just don't use her anymore, because fuck that baka dog.

Also she used to stink like rotten fish, but Nully being part of Acidia has reduced that significantly until now she smells more like grave dirt with a slight whiff of fish underneath. She also grew spider lilies where her eyes should be, so there’s that I guess.
Edited 2025-05-22 18:49 (UTC)
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Mute Button

[personal profile] arrowace 2025-05-22 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I WANT A DAMPENING FIELD

In a sphere (or flower-shaped aoe???) centered around Nully, they are able to put things in a lower-energy state. Things they can dampen could include sound, noise, light, heat, electricity, momentum, and perhaps even blessings. They have control over what is being dampened, but effects are consistent within the area of effect (ie, can’t dampen light around just one guy to blind him, but CAN decide they want to block light but not sound, electronics but not blessings, so on). They also have control over the extent to which dampening occurs (dim the lights or full darkness, muffle sound or no sound at all, etc).
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Kanshi

[personal profile] gagcharacter 2025-05-23 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
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Re: Kanshi

[personal profile] gagcharacter 2025-05-23 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Power 1
Can grow black wings and fly. Because he's a tengu but canon doesn't give him wings or let him fly it makes me sad. The size of the wings can change because what if sometimes I just want him to have cute tiny wings for the aesthetic?

Power 2
Can heal quickly from major damage but only when it's funny. AKA he will likely not quick recover from a performance unless its true clown shit but he can be knocked into a firepit during a party and come out fine but slightly charred like a cartoon character.

Power 3
Turn into a lil' crow because it is just cute. He can also talk to birds. This is called the Bird Package Deal.
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Tori | Aya | Holy Order

[personal profile] chronicpessimist 2025-05-26 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
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OLDER SISTER MAGIC

[personal profile] chronicpessimist 2025-05-26 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Canonically she's just quiet enough to appear and scare the shit out of her brother and calls it "older sister magic".


So why not make it as long as SHE doesn't make noise she can make herself invisible to other people? As in as long as she's moving in a way without speaking or doing something like opening bags of chips/dropping something/etc she can go invisible) some leeway given to opening/closing doors but only for funny. If she's slamming doors ofc that breaks it.

It's not meant for Real stealth so much as OOC funny so probably a timelimit of 10min-1 hr? Given I'd play her not realizing it's an actual blessing until the ship it's not something that's been a long time thing.
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gale/indium | forge

[personal profile] hailstormed 2025-05-27 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
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Dragon's Body

[personal profile] hailstormed 2025-05-27 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
A full-body transformation blessing. Allows Gale to turn into his birdlike dragon form, about the size of a horse, with all the physical upgrades that involves: strength, better than average senses, flight. downsides are he's big and unwieldy and has no thumbs so he's restricted to whatever he can use his beak to do.
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Re: APPROVED

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
This blessing is GONE as of uhhh the first day of getting off the boat. His blood changed to being more constellation blood as a result of taking 15 memories, and this blessing no longer happens.
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4th Wall

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Resulting from the trauma of the most recent game (✿◡‿◡)

The 4th Wall, when triggered, allows him to fully disassociate. Both physically and emotionally. He just looks at himself and others like characters in a story. It both makes him very hard to harm (as in, he can ignore high levels of pain or trauma) or upset but is DEFINITELY an unhealthy coping mechanism.

It's a passive ability he can't immediately control when it is on or off.

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