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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: 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.

Re: POWER 2 - CLARIFICATION

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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.

Re: ACCEPTED

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inuyasha sit

[personal profile] chronicpessimist 2025-06-27 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
i gave this to riza and i never used it but given aya's deadpan i think it's funny for her -


c/ping from riza (and obviously okay with any changes needed!!):


The ability to give orders to an individual that cannot target their will/mental state - usually simple orders.

Possibly limited to a body part at a time - ie if someone tries to stab with left hand just say freeze left hand. And only for a set amount of time (10 minutes max, but more likely much shorter)



Obviously, cannot order them to harm themselves or others or do chores for her. And only with player permission/plotting Think more along the lines of an, "Inuyasha, Sit!"


i'm fine if this is just pure inuyasha sit because it's funny

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gale/indium | forge

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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.

Re: ACCEPTED + CLARIFICATION

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Flight Reflex

[personal profile] hailstormed 2025-06-25 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
An aura-based AOE that inflicts a "fear"-like debuff on anyone within a few meters of him. It can be resisted with strength of will but those affected will find themselves suddenly full of adrenaline and running AWAY from him. If used in response to someone else's emotional/personality-changing Blessing it can either be overtaken or can overtake the blessing in question, depending on player desires. It feels Cold.
hailstormed: (I know a trick)

Natural Shaping

[personal profile] hailstormed 2025-06-25 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Biological materials (leather, fur, scales, grasses and other plants, etc) use for projects/crafts/clothings/etc can be bent to his will and shaped as needed with minimal need for cutting and patching. It does not work with anything synthetic or inert like plastic, metal, or stones, and does not work with living creatures (but CAN work with their fur/feathers/hair to an extent). It's like the material "wants" to be shaped rather than him forcing it one way or another.
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Egwene al'Vere / Wheel of Time / Sun Sign

[personal profile] telaranrhiod 2025-06-03 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
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Featherweight

[personal profile] telaranrhiod 2025-06-03 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Anything she wants to carry (within reason, of course no throwing cars around or anything) becomes light enough for her to carry. I'm fine with this having a time limit if needed!

Re: ACCEPTED + SUGGESTION

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Madder | Holy Order

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anchor

[personal profile] suckingly 2025-06-23 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Being able to make people feel comfortable. So it's a form of emotional manipulation but specifically comfort. And not even brainwashing. Just the feeling.

ACCEPTED

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Tea & Rum

[personal profile] suckingly 2025-06-23 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Embellish something. In the sense of 'can make it so this tea has some high quality rum in it' or 'can manifest lace on this dress'. But it's very small and has to be on something else and that manifested embellishment has to be of the same quality. So low quality tea could only have shitty rum manifested in it, etc.
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bones in the ocean

[personal profile] suckingly 2025-06-23 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
they probably would almost never use this and hate it but

Can sort of see/touch a soul realm and siphon energy from people/channel it to others. It's unpleasant though and fucks them up beyond belief.
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Verso | Tisane Lyra | Eonia

[personal profile] versomilitude 2025-06-23 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
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Utility - Lullaby

[personal profile] versomilitude 2025-06-23 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Him producing music (singing, humming, playing an instrument) can help lull someone to sleep. Scales with how willing they are, like if they're WANTING to fall asleep it'll be easy, if they're not it'll take a longer time / uninterrupted playing or vocalizing like a concentration spell in DND.
Edited 2025-06-23 22:27 (UTC)

ACCEPTED

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Defensive - Self Healing/Regen

[personal profile] versomilitude 2025-06-23 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I am definitely stealing from Ash a lil but I also want him to have very strong self-regen (with the disclaimer if bigger stuff takes longer to heal etc). With the limiting factor being he'll get phantom pain for the injury after it's healed, scaling with how serious it is. So while he can push past the pain in high-adrenaline situations it'll be debilitating PRETTY QUICK depending how bad the injury is.

ACCEPTED

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Re: ACCEPTED

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Maelle | Roo | Eonia

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Smudge

[personal profile] maelleable 2025-06-25 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Can induce a feeling of doubt in reality to someone. It's pretty minor but mostly disorienting and Feels Bad and probably for people who are mentally weak prone to doubt it's stronger.
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Virtuose

[personal profile] maelleable 2025-06-25 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Physical boost (strength, agility, etc all around physical stats). The flipside of it is after she uses it she falls into a period where she's much weaker/slower.
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Cage

[personal profile] maelleable 2025-06-25 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Basically creates a temporary zone where no one can use powers and it only dissolves when there's a 'victor'. It's a thunderdome for fighting. Obvs limitations and whatever. Mostly used if people want to be in the thunderdome with me oocly ok. Also someone could probably just be like 'I concede' and it would disappear LMFAO but. It's the aesthetics that matter ok.
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gossamer / sun sign

[personal profile] wiche 2025-07-20 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
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control freak

[personal profile] wiche 2025-07-20 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
aka the ability to control someone's ability to feel pain or pleasure.

can dial UP either sensation or dial DOWN. has no bearing on their actual injury or anything. she needs to touch them to make it happen, undecided on if she needs to keep touching to maintain this?? lmk. lasts up to a half an hour tops, maybe.

burn baby burn

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poison kiss

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Ishmael / Canvas | Sun Sign

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UTILITY 1 - FATHOMLESS

[personal profile] pallidification 2025-07-21 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
Can turn any bag into a magic storage space. Basically it can hold effectively any amount of items, but:

- They must be able to fit inside a bag
- She must be able to physically pick it up and put it in the bag

So she can't have like, a car in there.
Edited 2025-07-21 10:57 (UTC)

UTILITY 2 - ENDLESS

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UTILITY 3 - DAUNTLESS

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Megumi Fushiguro | Swift | Unholy Disorder

[personal profile] shadowgraphics 2025-07-29 01:49 am (UTC)(link)

from the depths

[personal profile] shadowgraphics 2025-07-29 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
can summon up little tendrils from shadows capable of grabbing things. Or smacking things.

- they're no thicker than his arm (length depends on comedy potential)
- he can only use 2-3 of them at a time
- they can't pick up anything he can't physically pick up
- he has to be able to see the shadow he's using for them
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