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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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He can manipulate his own blood! Not anyone else's. The most frequent and useful offensive application of this is blood bullets: he can cut his finger open and shoot bullets made of hardened blood. It doesn't have to be a bullet, though. In theory, he can create other objects with his blood (such as a knife, a hairbrush, a screwdriver, or a set of house keys). However, he's using his blood to do it, so naturally he'll also become very lightheaded the more blood he uses. He can also harden his blood into something like armor! The downside of that is that in order for it to be effective armor he'd have to be heavily bleeding. The skill also only works when he's conscious, so if he hardens or creates anything with his blood and then falls unconscious, it just turns into regular blood again.

It's very versatile as a skill but hopefully "he will pass out and ruin any and all of what he's made if he goes overboard with it" is enough to balance that out. The creation aspect seemed on theme with The Forge's style, and something something he's got blood on his hands symbolism that would make him inherently warier of using his abilities once he starts regaining memories.

Can turn into a cat.

He has to be pet before he can change.

He can create 6 potions per day by adding a significant amount of his blood to available consumable liquids. The final product doesn't look or taste like blood. Each of those potions when consumed or splashed onto a target will have a random effect from a table:

1. heals the target a substantial amount
2. causes internal bleeding
3. makes the target weaker for twelve hours; i.e. slightly feverish, disoriented, weak-kneed, or with less effective skills
4. makes the target stronger for twelve hours; i.e. energetic, more stamina, a small boost to their skills
5. gives the target dog ears and a tail
6. makes target drunk
7. makes target horny

Randomizing which potion the target gets felt like a good balancer, but if you're fine with it not being random I'll give the potions their own sparkly colors. Even though he can only create 6 a day, he would create a stockpile over time, so he might have more than 6 in storage simply to increase his odds of getting the one he wants when he uses them. However, using his blood to create the potions daily also means he is less likely to use his other blood skill, or vice versa! He's got to manage his blood or he will pass out from blood loss.

Also if he's yeeting a potion at another person, if that player doesn't want to play with one of the effects (ie doesn't want to have their character be drunk, or bleed internally,) then we just pick a different one.

Edited 2024-08-08 02:21 (UTC)

He can turn into a wolf! Or a dog. Wolf is funnier for name reasons. Turning into a wolf does not carry over any injuries, with the exception of limb loss. For example, if he is injured as a human and turns into a wolf, the wolf form would not have the injuries, but WOULD have them just as bad when he turns back into a human. If he is a wolf and gets injured, that does transfer over to his human form. Other than that. He's just a fluffy wolf.

This is mostly just for cuddling purposes if I am being honest. But there is a potential for him to try and tank hits as well, such as if he is injured as a human, shifts into a wolf to take hits, and then shifts back into a human. Of course, then as a human he would have all of that damage taken! He might die if he's not careful.

Skinship-based healing. By pressing his hand, arm, knee, cheek, whatever of his own skin against someone's wound, he's able to accelerate the healing process. Has to hold this direct contact for an uncomfortably long amount of time for an injury to fully heal (like five minutes, an hour, idk. We ain't wolverine healing we deadpool healing).

The limitation joke here is that he'll be regaining his metal body over the course of the game so the applicable sections of skin are going to be steadily reducing.

Control the polarity of two objects at a time. Can make them attracted to each other, push away each other, etc.

Line of sight based and has a cool trigger of activating the red crosshairs in his eye this is just purely an aesthetic request.

Able to mold any metal like clay. It'll be as clean or as ugly as his ability to mold actual clay, making perfect computer chips or something of the like would require actual days of teeny tiny careful work.

Limitation option is requiring a piece of a personal metalwork item to be attached to the chunk of metal while working on it (in this case, the bullet pendant he wears around his neck).

He is always capable of pulling out a cat toy. Always. Where is he keeping them? Who knows. Who cares. He always has a cat toy.

Edited 2024-08-07 19:02 (UTC)

I just want him to be able to have devil wings on command for flight sometimes idk maybe it's like time limited or something.

Becoming the little guy and shadow traveling while the little guy. Is cute and small and can become a loaf. Lets him sneak and hide and also makes him adorable. Allows him to shadow travel, one shadow to another!

do i use a power slot for the power of hyena bites and furry senses raaarrrr

Status effect powder that has no serious effects. It like kemonomimi's you, changes haircolor, causes sneezing, makes you floaty, shit like that.

boop

When Dokja calls someone a liar to their face, he can tell if whatever statement came before was a truth or a lie. If he correctly guesses that someone was lying to him, he can control them once, in a degree relatively proportional to the lie that was told. So like. If someone tells a little white lie he cannot do a lot. But if say someone claimed they loved him when they did not the compulsion can be quite powerful.

Obvs this is all limited by 'what is fun for the other person' it is not beyond being resisted.

If Dokja FAILS and the person was telling the TRUTH, the power rebounds on him and they can proportionally control him. But it's not like he explains this to them so fairly frequently people never realize it happened. They have to stumble onto that part of it.

Dokja does NOT announce he has this power, he tries quite hard to keep it a secret.

[DEFENSIVE]

Become Eggified.

Envelops a target in a translucent, scaled shell, like this without the petals. Can be rolled around from within like a hamsterball. Generally defensive, but he can babyjail people with it if needed.

Unsure on how much damage it should be able to take/other balance stuff so leaving that to Celi xoxo

Dokja bleeds ink ;D

If you write with it, you believe anything you have written for one day.

If you DRINK it, you believe anything anyone tells you for one day.

As a child his hollywood siren parents/family used his blood as an under the counter drug to support their careers.

(Maybe getting into a fight with kuroro and getting a black nose bleed is how he got the name Squid)

TIME TRAVEL aka can move "back" two tags worth of time (one of mine, one of thread partner's) once every few IC days

Can undo the effects of time and wear, returning an item to the state it was in at an earlier point in its life's journey.

Good for:
- Saving money on laundry.
- Never having to polish metal.
- Fixing scratching posts that have been shredded by tiny sharp claws.
- Helping beloved shoes go back to their 'fresh from the factory' state.

Bad for:
- Living things (too complicated).
- Things that are too big (gotta be reasonable 'you could carry it' size).

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BLESSINGS (POWERS/ABILITIES) SUBMISSION

Nicholas D. Wolfwood / Lea D. Gunmetal (Lead) | The Forge

Bloodshed

Shapeshift

Bloodthirst

Bloodhound

Utility - Accelerated Healing (The Fade)

Utility - Polarity Control (The Weave)

Utility - Metalbending (The Braid)

Utility - Summon Cat Toy

Vash / Trigun Maximum / Acidia

Little Devil

Ruggie | Acidia

just a lil guy

me want bite

fucking clown dust

Kim Dokja / Squid (etc) / Cirrus

Liar Liar

Dan Heng / Velveteen / Sun Sign

Pearlescent Shell

BeLIEve Ink

Topaz |Siren's Melodies

Miguel O'Hara / Venom Vespa "Rafael" / Eonia

TEMPORAL DISTORTION

Object Restoration

Tartaglia | Cirrus Network