modmaster | 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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Edited 2025-05-12 02:06 (UTC)

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)

Anti-reality denial and anti-blessings denial should probably be split into two! Small radius is fine, 2-4 ft is what I imagine (so thats like a 8 ft diameter which is pretty decent size). For blessings, I'd say the larger the radius, there should be a cooldown or limit of uses per day or so.

If you go anti-blessings route, the rule of thumb for that is a) should be player ok'd ofc, b) if not ok, there can be times where icly a character willpower can overcome with their own blessing etc.

For just denial of reality, I think it's the same 2-4 ft area with a cooldown or limit of uses.

Edited 2025-06-25 00:26 (UTC)

Yes this is perfect (I only submitted 2 blessings thinking that might be the case)!

I've been using the anti blessing thing with dice rolls on top of checking with people btw, and dice rolls also for reality denial that go like yes / just a little / no unless it's something very silly and personal, like the boat invitations that were denied and disappeared forever like her soul demanded.

Edited 2025-06-25 00:37 (UTC)

VERY QT!! I'd say anti-reality makes sense to be called denial and you can submit for the anti-blessing space for the third >:9b

JUST DON'T BE WEIRD ABOUT IT AND ITS FINE (and i trust you not to be weird so we are COOL).

Edited 2025-06-25 01:42 (UTC)

I HEREBY PROMISE NOT TO BE WEIRD ABOUT IT

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)

Just to make sure I get it, the type of poison/effect depends on the subject she finds poisonous? So like emotion poison = emotion status and monster poison = physical status?

That's what I had in mind! Mostly so I could have smth to play with in normal threads (emotion stuff) that could double as an offensive power if she ever needs it. Provided that she realizes she has this blessing at some point. Ha ha h

As discussed above! Catherine can deny other people's blessings in a small radius as long as this is on, but honestly it will probably only ever be used one-on-one in threads with her because the alternative sounds like a complete mess. Unless it's a fight against NPCs with blessings I guess??? In which case the bigger the radius, the more exhausted she will be afterwards, or she might have a longer cooldown period, depending on context and what's more fun to play with.

Checking with players, rolling for full effect / partial effect / failure for each use unless it's OK with everyone and funnier not to have it flop.

And usage limit can work like that too, like if she denies something big and tries to use it soon after that, she will be Exhausted, or roll for full effect / partial effect / failure / FALLS ASLEEP.

HECK YEAH

BLESSINGS (POWERS/ABILITIES) SUBMISSION

Maomao | Catherine

Denial

Addendum

Re: Addendum

ACCEPTED

Re: ACCEPTED

Poisonous dust

CLARIFICATION

Re: CLARIFICATION

Unblessing

ACCEPTED