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GOD BOONS

INFORMATION

With the gods at war with each other, they offer tantalizing additional bonuses to their loyal followers -- but these also come with a few strings attached. Will you join a side, or remain neutral in the conflict?

Characters can be recruited in two ways: by the god, or by a god follower. The gods can open their realms to anyone at any time if a character wishes to enter. Followers always have access to their god's respective realms, and can bring in a recruit to swear allegiance.

The gods will not punish a character if they leave their side; that would only solidify their resolve to leave. However, they will remove any boons and bonuses they might have granted them. If the character rejoins, their status with be reset to entry level, and they will need to work their way up in the ranks once more.

HOW TO ALLY WITH A GOD AND RECEIVE BOONS

When a character completes a tier requirement, you can submit the form below to have them receive acknowledgment and rewards. Threads don't have to be finished at the time of submission, but they should be a good way through, and please don't handwave them entirely. You may request as many of the listed tier rewards as you like once you've reached the appropriate tier.

You may notice sections for "Offering Description" and "Reward Description". The table below is just a sample of the boons available and the requirements to get them. You don't have to do or ask for these exact things. You may choose to replace any of the listed deeds or rewards with an appropriate substitute of your own design, and they will be judged on an individual basis.

The gods favor certain traits and actions of their followers. The Fog God, for instance, values strength, freedom, and invoking fear in others. She highly encourages her children to live freely, without the inhibitions of human society. Some examples can include demonstrating the power of monsters to frighten the human populace, killing a rival in revenge, disrupting a serious occasion just for the hell of it, or generally doing things without caring for the consequences.

On the other hand, the Fourth God values cunning, subterfuge, and control. His priorities lie in furthering the technology of the peninsula, introducing progress to the world, and standing up against the Fog God. Some examples of deeds include spreading the secrets of others (especially Fog followers), manipulating monsters and/or humans to work against the Fog, or inventing some new technology.

If a character's request doesn't align enough with these ideals, their god may bestow upon them something more to their liking without warning. This is effectively an IC explanation for a request a character wouldn't make on their own. If you would like to do this, outline your request in the backfire section.

If your character wants to leave a god, you are free to do so without notice or handwave a prayer on the respective god's page. Keep in mind that leaving a god will remove all previously gained boons!

THE FOG GOD The Fog God, so they say, is a usurper of the Day and Night gods popularly worshipped on the peninsula. It is she who brings in unsuspecting souls from other worlds and warps their bodies into monstrous forms. She is capricious and becomes jealous easily. She enjoys the chaos that currently plagues Ryslig -- both watching and causing it. It would mean the universe to her if her monsters would go out and cause some discord of their own. Worship and Pray to the Fog

THE FOURTH GOD The Fourth God is an artificial god created by Dr. Liewen, in an effort to make a being strong enough to combat the Fog. He was imprisoned and isolated by the Fog God, until the actions of her monsters allowed him to be freed. He now possesses a burning hatred for her and her followers, and will stop at nothing to destroy her. He is calculating and distant, and desires control of the peninsula. Worship and Pray to the Fourth

THE KEY TO DYSTER Those who side with the Fog God will be provided with a silver key, old and dull fog-silver. It fits in any lock, no matter the style, and opening a door with it will bring them to Dyster. They will be greeted by the people of the town, who are more than happy to see them. Here, they can stay for as long as they want, and partake in the feasting. This is not the Dyster some arrivals may remember, and people who try to visit it on the peninsula proper will find an empty ghost town. The people in Dyster don't seem quite dead or alive, but they treat any follower of the Fog God like royalty, and they will eagerly accept new followers in their fold. They will provide them with a more than willing human sacrifice if the monster is hungry. It will calm their hunger but not indefinitely. Those who stay for periods of time in the city may feel an unnatural loyalty to the Fog God and her cause, to the point of worship. Characters can leave by using the key against any door in town, and return to where they had first entered.

THE ARCADE'S KEYCARD Those who side with the Fourth God will be provided an unusually modern-looking plastic card. There's no writing on the front or the back, but there is a hologram of rainbow hues on a black background that flashes wildly when the card is moved around. Insert the card on the side of a door like a slot, and they will be transported to the Arcade when they open it. They will arrive in the grand atrium of an enormous mall and entertainment complex, all in glowing neon and glassy linoleum. Technology from various different time periods is available here, up through the early 1990s – matching the day-glo transparent-plastic aesthetic. The TVs and video games, film reels in the giant-screen theater and ballroom-sized-ball-pit balls, cannot be removed from the complex, which rivals Dyster in size, and the only shopfronts with merchandise seem to be the food court, which is free, and run by robots. It's a significant upgrade from the seedy arcade it was, before October 2022 gave the Fourth God a boost. However, the same set of large red curtains can be found, behind which lies a sterile looking room full of seated humans with strange visors who will not respond to any sort of stimuli. There is a large basin towards the back filled with water, and any time a human is killed or fed on a robot will enter and clean the area. Those who stay for periods of time in the Arcade may feel an unnatural loyalty to the Fourth God and his cause, to the point of camaraderie. Characters can leave by pressing the card against a door and return to where they had first entered.

RESURRECTION

Loyal followers may resurrect in their god’s domain, rather than where their life ended. When they choose to leave, their god will return them to a safe place on the peninsula (at the player's discretion).

To a follower's guests, the environs may seem strange, but no harm shall come to those who awaken here. They're welcome to stay a while to recuperate, but a permanent residency would be frowned upon; eventually, they may find themselves guided out of this realm, returning back to Ryslig somewhere safe - and sometimes just within reach of the person who protected them in the first place.

TIER ONE

Tier one boons are small, and are mainly a way for the gods to give their converts a taste of what they can offer. These rewards are immediately available to anyone who pledges themselves to a god. When initially pledging to a god, it is not necessary to submit a prayer--though, if you would like to handwave a prayer, you are free to do so. Therefore, it is not necessary to include an offering for this tier.

FOG A minor power appropriate to the Fog God (think fear, strength, destruction) Smallest rooms in Dyster (a single bed, no window) Resurrecting inside Dyster after 2-3 days (regardless of fog days) A small aesthetic body modification tailored towards fear and intimidation (e.g. extra/bigger teeth, red/scarier eyes, claws if your monster doesn’t already have them) An instinctive knowledge of how many days they have left before the hunger overtakes them

LIEWEN A minor spell appropriate to the Fourth God (think stealth, control, invasion) Smallest rooms in the arcade (barely a bed and a radio, you can hear the arcade outside) Resurrecting inside the arcade after 2-3 days (regardless of fog days) A small aesthetic cybernetic body modification (e.g. wires, circuit boards, Tron lines) A death counter plugin on their PC that has a little image of their head with an x00 number of lives lost next to it. If a character were to die more than 99 times, it would simply start over.

TIER TWO

Tier two boons are larger, and are the first true rewards for doing a god's bidding. It represents a character being ready to dedicate themselves to a god's cause. A character might reach tier two by sacrificing a human to their god, successfully converting a neutral character, or performing public deeds in the name of their god. They also must be a follower for at least a month.

FOG A second power appropriate to the Fog God A bigger room in Dyster (queen-size bed, windows, storage) Instant resurrection in Dyster after being killed. A major body modification (e.g. flightless wings, large horns, extra limbs) Taking on a new way to feed (flesh, energy, souls). This doesn’t replace your old one, but gives you a second option.

LIEWEN A second spell appropriate to the Fourth God A bigger room in the arcade (soundproof, larger, queen-sized bed) Instant resurrection in the arcade after being killed A modified fog form. While an alternate form assumed during fog days is available to everyone, a Fourth follower’s fog form may include cybernetic limbs or other changes appropriate to Fourth. This is a result of the Fourth God attempting to remove the Fog’s influence. Extending the protection of the arcade to a neutral character of the follower’s choosing. That character, upon death, will resurrect in the Arcade after 2-3 days (regardless of fog days). He will never protect a Fog follower.

TIER THREE

You're getting serious. You've got your sleeves firmly rolled up and however much blood you get on your hands in the process, so be it. You've done your action and maybe you balked a little at first, but now that you know what it really takes, you're still all-in.

Tier three rewards are for truly devout followers, and it takes a great act to appease the gods enough to get here. Such acts might include a mass sacrifice of people, the successful conversion of an opposing follower, or killing an opposing follower. (Keep in mind that killing or sacrificing in self-defense, or for their own reasons, does not count - it must be expressly done for their god!)

FOG A third major power, appropriate to the Fog God A house in Dyster (the works) Immortality. Only destroying the brain or the heart can kill a tier three Fog follower. A new, alternate monster form, subject to mod approval. Some examples would include having a beefed-up fog form (go wild on the horror!), or switching at will to a closely related monster type (e.g. gargoyles into dragons). Exchanging the cybernetic modification imparted by the Fourth God for an aesthetic monstrous modification of your choice. Please see common monster traits for details about the cybernetic modification. Increased ferocity and strength and lowered inhibitions while in fog form. Extending the protection of Dyster to a neutral character of the follower’s choosing. That character, upon death, will resurrect in Dyster after 2-3 days (regardless of fog days). She will never protect a Fourth follower.

LIEWEN A third major spell, appropriate to the Fourth God A large room in the arcade (the works) Instantly resurrect via static in any TV or radio of your choice. The ability to teleport from one location to another using radios. Monsters only have to touch the radio, and imagine the location where they wish to go. Note that the target location also needs a radio that is turned on. You can regenerate missing limbs or other body parts while in the arcade, but this will take some time, is painful, and the resulting parts may have a cybernetic look to them. Removing the biological need for conventional food (not humans), sleep, or even breathing. Immunity to the memory loss incurred from multiple deaths. This is not a perfect reward, as Fourth is not a true god and has a higher rate of error for difficult abilities. (This is a loophole in case you still want to play out memory loss.)

PRIESTS

You will do anything in service of your god. You are theirs to use as they see fit. You know you're on the right side of history, and you'll do whatever is in your power to make sure your god prospers.

The priests of each god gain unique and powerful abilities. The abilities favored by each god are explained below, but you may request a different power instead if one suits you better. In order to obtain priesthood, a follower must be in tier three, and have been in Ryslig for at least four months. When asking for priesthood, please explain in great detail the lengths to which your character has gone for their god, and the deeds they have done in their name. These will be judged on a case-by-case basis.

Please do not ask in the god prayer boxes for ideas for a Priest offering. Priest offerings must be something you have OOCly devised yourself. You may submit a Priest form with an offering you have already come up with, request the relevant god somehow prompts your character to perform it, and then (if approved) ICly ask in the god prayer box to receive this prompt. However, things your character does entirely on their own initiative will be more highly looked upon by the gods as proof of their devotion and motivation, and are far more likely to qualify as a Priest offering.

FOG Fog priests are instantly identifiable by their gray capes, made to resemble the Fog God’s long hair. The collar and hem of the cape are frayed, and when the wind blows through them it almost seems like parts of them trail off with it, like the fog itself...but that’s just a trick of the light, right? When priests speak, their voices have a whisper behind them. Fog priests may command the fog as they wish, bringing it forth where there is none and manipulating it around them. Gargoyles and trolls shrouded in fog need not fear the sun, and day-blind monsters have perfect vision. A character with a fog form may freely transform in this as well.

LIEWEN Fourth priests do not have any set outfits, but they are given a unique marking on their hand when accepted by the Fourth. It may be a power symbol, a pattern of wires, or even a symbol from the character’s home world. Whatever it is, it will glow when other Fourth followers are near. Fourth priests may temporarily stop time in their vicinity, affecting anyone who does not follow the Fourth God​. They can also access the rsdos network at will without use of a laptop.

SUBMIT FORM

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Alignment:</b> (Either the one you already are or the one you're shooting for) <b>Offering Description:</b> <b>Link:</b> <a href="LINK">Here.</a> <b>Reward Tier:</b> <b>Reward Description:</b> <b>Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly):</b>

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[amphetamemes]

Character Name: John Gaius
Alignment: Fog Tier 1
Offering Description: Pledging
Link: Here.
Reward Tier: Tier 1
Reward Description:
A minor power appropriate to the Fog God: 60 second speed boost, once a day. Both for catching up with hunts and getting out of dodge if he has to.

Smallest rooms in Dyster (a single bed, no window)

Resurrecting inside Dyster after 2-3 days (regardless of fog days)

A small aesthetic body modification tailored towards fear and intimidation: Bone spikes woven in amongst his hologram laurels. Not sharp, but take the place of where the leaves' stems would be.

An instinctive knowledge of how many days they have left before the hunger overtakes them
Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): n/a

[detectivision]

Character Name: Sherlock Holmes
Alignment: Fourth
Offering Description: Giving Bruno ideas for how to help the Fourth and convincing him to start talking a couple of humans into refusing service to open Fog followers, while pretending not to be a Fourthie himself. Sneaky.
Link: Here.
Reward Tier: 2
Reward Description:
--A second spell appropriate to the Fourth God: Secondary travel form of an ABC a big black jungle cat! Please let me know if any time limits are appropriate.

--A bigger room in the arcade (soundproof, larger, queen-sized bed)

--Instant resurrection in the arcade after being killed

--A modified fog form

--Extending the protection of the arcade to a neutral character no one yet!
Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): n/a! He's not asking for this one, Elias is just like "I got you something I think you'll like"

[missleadingquestions]

Character Name: Maya Fey
Alignment: Fog
Offering Description: Things turned out a bit differently after everything compared to the initial proposal so I'm just checking to see if this works and if it don't it don't.

-Maya gathers 15 total human sacrifices, both willing and unwilling, to sacrifice at a feast in the Fog's name. The unwilling come from a number of Vandaran fishermen who, after leaving Vandare in search of food, attacked Merainite fishing boats; the willing are a pair of older women from Merain itself.

-Maya then leads the charge to capture the Vandaran attackers under the cover of fog. After the Merainites lead her to the boats of their attackers, she stupefies the Vandarans with her siren song. Using her minotaur's strength, Maya tows the small vessels to shore one by one, where the Merainites await to restrain them for later sacrifice.

-Maya makes an intoxicating speech to the assembled crowd, glorifying the Fog in front of both monsters and humans. She makes a public display of the first sacrifice, and commits it in the name of the Fog. All of the sacrifices are then killed by her hand. In accordance with how sacrifices are consumed after ceremony in her culture, Maya then feeds the remains to the monsters gathered at the feast.

-Maya has become more vicious thanks to her affiliation with the fog. Maya was able to take on and cause significant harm to a personal rival (Aunamee, using Taste-of-your-Own Medicine), amplified the fear of Atem's killing-game by recording and broadcasting it, and publicly slaughtered humans in the Fog's name to instill fear in human and monster alike.

-Maya regularly advocates on behalf of the Fog to many newcomers, giving newcomers a deeper understanding of the Fog and upping the chances of their conversion. Her approach has real results; she is directly responsible for Adrian's conversion, Komaeda credits her in his conversion, and John converted to the fog as the result of the feast.

Link: Meet n' Eat
Reward Tier: 3
Reward Description: For now Maya is just grabbing the immortality Boon and claiming other abilities later.

[bugbeverage]

Character Name: Beetlejuice
Alignment: Fog
Offering Description: A gruesome surprise for the citizens of Bavan to discover.
Link: Here. In the second prompt under the cut. TW for decapitation, mistreating a corpse
Reward Tier: Tier 2
Reward Description:

FOG POWER: The ability to cast illusions--stand alone images/props, altering his own appearance, or the appearance of others.

FOG BODY MOD: A pair of retractable arms.

Above rewards have been discussed here.

Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): n/a

[overlies]

Character Name: makima
Alignment: fourth
Offering Description: a "contract" (pledging)
Link: Here.
Reward Tier: tier 1
Reward Description:

— minor spell: being able to walk on walls!
— smallest rooms in the arcade
— resurrecting inside the arcade after 2-3 days (regardless of fog days):

Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): the death counter plug-in and the body mod as a goodie bag! her body mod would be a holograph-like halo with a spinning animation that should appear whenever she uses her abilities.

[cratecrasher]

Character Name: Crash Bandicoot
Alignment: Fourth
Offering Description: Aided by Sonic, a private concert for Elias of an evil scientist's rock music. Though Crash also puts forward a look into his single brain cell for a more accurate audio sample.

Link: Here

Reward Tier: Tier 2

Reward Description:

Instant Arcade Rez
Full Room (soundproof, queen bed)


Boosted Spell: A level 2 upgrade to his Minotaur magic. Knowing that Crash could project a single emotion through his magic music before...

Now he can project a more nuanced spectrum of emotion, depending on the song in question, and expand its range of effect with an intensity dependent on whether the magic’s being spread thin across a crowd (Max. 8) or focused on a single target.

Basically... eight humans could fight against twisting their frowns upside-down (and flee), a group of four might come around to work it out, while one or two humans can’t stop the feeling~!


New Tier 1 Spell: A power with no other apt name than Wile E. "Coyote Time". This is the ability to say no to gravity within extremely brief intervals. Such a seemingly innocuous power allows Crash to achieve his cartoon feats of "double jumping", "air dashing", and slide spinning across gaps equal to his body length or less.

While he can chain these techniques together for a ridiculous amount of added mobility/evasion options, Crash cannot perform the double jump, which kills the forward momentum of his initial jump, more than once before needing to hit the ground (or a person) again. And while in mid-air can’t perform his air dash more than once under the same caveat.

(For reference: the platforming physics in Crash Team Rumble)


Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly):
What's that Crash? You’re not into this whole body mod business? That's alright, the makeover is on your fog form instead!

Crash's fog form gains minor Mecha-Bandicoot (cybernetic) influences. Which I haven't designed yet and so this very optional form will become dormant until I have one.

[endlesspastability]

Character Name: Sonic
Alignment: Fourth
Offering Description: Helping Crash with the mind control music! It can’t be a real concert without instruments, right? Instruments and synth sounds and PIZZAZZ!
Link: Here.
Reward Tier: 2
Reward Description:
- Instant arcade rez
- Full room!
- New power: ROLLIN AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND**! Similar to Sonic’s spin dash from the games, but more at Samus’ morphball from Metroid. Allows Sonic to curl into a smooth metal orb about the size of a basketball and roll around at will. He can get going pretty fast, jump, and change direction at will. His defenses are increased in ball form, but offensively pretty much all he can do is bounce off your noggin. But that can hurt! Just ask Robotnik. All the other simulacrum weaknesses (magnets, water) apply! (**not actually the speed of sound)
Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): even glitchier and distorted look to his fog form! His movements rarely look smooth and he occasionally seems to move at about 3 fps.

[givesandtakes]

Character Name: Moira O'Deorain
Alignment: Fog
Offering Description: Pledging
Link: Here.
Reward Tier: Tier 1

Reward Description:
A minor power: The ability to finally make sense of the DNA she sequences out from Monsters. No more obfuscated pieces. No more headaches, dangit. Still unable to manipulate it, but being able to see will allow her to begin sequencing.

A small aesthetic body modification tailored towards fear and intimidation (e.g. extra/bigger teeth, red/scarier eyes, claws if your monster doesn’t already have them): Can I come back to this later I am drawing a blank on anything I might want at the moment.

Smallest rooms in Dyster, resurrecting inside Dyster after 2-3 days, and the instinctive knowledge of how many days they have left before the hunger overtakes her.

Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): N/A

[201graves]

Character Name: Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Alignment: Fog
Offering Description: A wreath of tarsals and metatarsals from the feet of her human victims strung on dried human sinew and laid by the seaside.
Link: n/a
Note: Converted by Ianthe Tridentarius after the feast at Merain on September 8th
Reward Tier: 1
Reward Description:

1. Dyster room & 3-day resurrection

2. Hunger instinct

3. Minor power: The ability to disorient anyone in her presence for up to 5 minutes once per day. Disorientation effects may include effects on specific senses (ie dizziness, blurred/reduced vision, neuropathy) or hyper-realistic recall of a previous disorienting state of being, whether in Ryslig or (for PCs) in canon. Harrow does not have control over the effects, which can be OOCly tailored to the character as desired.

4. Minor body mod: Three retractable bone blades in the back of each hand (shaped like so, I can't remember what the word for that shape is).

Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): n/a

[gildedsaint]

Character Name: Ianthe Tridentarius
Alignment: Fog
Offering Description: Converting Harrowhark to the Fog.
Link: Here.
Reward Tier: Tier 2
Reward Description:

♦ Bigger room in Dyster
♦ Instant resurrection in Dyster
♦ Secondary feeding type of souls

♦ Major body mod: Her gold parts - the gilded arm and her gold claws and teeth - now are actually as strong/durable as metal. If possible I'd love if her halo could be included with this; I keep thinking about her using it like a noose.

♦ Second power: Blood teleportation - Ianthe can create pools of blood to step into and disappear, reappearing from another pool elsewhere. This isn't restricted by gravity, she can make them sideways or upside down, they're basically portals. Short-range/in-combat use is limited to 30 feet, and rapid use will quickly exhaust her with effects that mimic necromantic blight (bleeding from the eyes/nose/ears/mouth, dizziness/exhaustion, and death if continued). Long-range is limited to three locations where she must have painted a blood ward in advance. If the ward is removed, she cannot teleport to that location until the ward is re-painted. It has to be her own blood, and as a result she can only safely paint one ward per day unless she feeds between.

Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): Once again, she asks for however much of her blood magic she's able to have back and would describe the teleportation powers and concept of blood wards. Canonically blood wards are for something different but maybe the Fog tuned out by this point and thinks that overall this sounds close enough to blood-flavored faerie rings. Ianthe would also like to be able to take someone with her so long as she is holding on to them for the duration, but I figure that's probably beyond T2 scope because it affects targets other than herself.

[detectivision]

Character Name: Sherlock Holmes
Alignment: Fourth
Offering Description: Working with Donatello to develop small, easily hidden radio technology, then working with human manufacturers to market and mass produce radios disguised as common household objects. His aim is to make radios safe to own and common among humans again, as Fog priests will kill you for owning them too obviously. This increases Elias's tech influence, undermines a Fog operation to destroy radios, and extends the teleporting network for Fourthies. Noteworthy is that Holmes is doing the proposal in a human disguise, rather than as himself.
Additionally, Sherlock reached out to humans in dreams to collect information on what sort of hidden radios they would like to see. He has planted the idea that they miss radios in their dreaming minds as well as told them where they will be able to get them. He urges them to be discreet.
Link: Here is the dream message, and here is the initial plan with Donatello.
Reward Tier: 3
Reward Description: A third major spell, appropriate to the Fourth God: I'd like for him to be able to negate all monster abilities at will in a contained area. I'm looking at Fiddleford's reality warping as a guide: a fifty foot radius around him in all directions, for whatever time limit y'all feel is appropriate. It's a version of the enchantment in the Fourth's Corrupted Central Park: it will take away monster strength, monster powers, and monster durability. Claws and teeth remain but are only as strong as human nails and teeth while in the area of effect, and undead monsters, while they remain undead, are as vulnerable to harm as humans. Shades stay gray but become solid. Sims have no greater endurance than a human would. It will not apply to god boons and will only work with player permission. It also applies to Sherlock himself when active.

A large room in the arcade (the works)

Instantly resurrect via static in any TV or radio of your choice.

The ability to teleport from one location to another using radios. Monsters only have to touch the radio, and imagine the location where they wish to go. Note that the target location also needs a radio that is turned on.

You can regenerate missing limbs or other body parts while in the arcade, but this will take some time, is painful, and the resulting parts may have a cybernetic look to them.

Removing the biological need for conventional food (not humans), sleep, or even breathing.

Immunity to the memory loss incurred from multiple deaths.
Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): N/A for abilities, but it's possible the most popular variety of concealed radio will end up being an idea Sherlock wanted to scrap, of a stuffed shark toy with a radio inside. It's mentioned in both threads and is a goofy meta joke, but Nattensfest is coming, and maybe there's a place in the tech market for Radio Shark.

[overlies]

Character Name: makima
Alignment: fourth
Offering Description: successfully converting a neutral character
Link: here (still in progress, confirmed with the player)
Reward Tier: tier 2
Reward Description:

a second spell appropriate to the fourth god: deceiving illusions/hallucinations; makima will be able to manipulate the senses (sight, taste, smell, touch, hearing) of her target(s) into seeing and experiencing things that aren't actually there. the hallucinations only exist within the mind of the manipulated, and thus cannot have an impact on surroundings. if someone realizes it's not real, the spell will lift immediately.
a bigger room in the arcade (soundproof, larger, queen-sized bed)
instant resurrection in the arcade after being killed
a modified fog form
extending the protection of the arcade to a neutral character of the follower’s choosing: kanade

Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): n/a

[overlies]

Character Name: makima 
Alignment: fourth 
Offering Description:

bingo paid off, fellas. makima is opening her little cinema cafe (date anywhere between the 14th or the 24th icly, oocly undecided) and plans to offer it as a gift to Elias to be used as a sneaky Fourth Follower hub. not sure if the following would count in favor, but considering the craftiness of it i'll include it anyway for good measure (although it's not a deal breaker to not include and could be discarded if elias would just be eh about it): after questioning kaito about any fog followers he may be friendly with and steals his soul as her very first meal, makima will be using his meat, blood, and bones to host her dog-themed movie menu for opening day. no one knows about this but makima and her human employers who work the kitchens, and she intends to keep it that way. so . . . she'll be serving monsters (or humans), monsters, without them knowing, and they will probably never figure it out unless they investigate the werewolf's disappearance. or if anyone is invited into her office: she has a luxury chair padded with fur now, that vibrantly glitters with the pattern of the stars. she made it herself.

speaking of her office, makima has also planted one of the stealth radios in a security backroom there to allow all fourth followers quick and easy passage and/or sanctuary. the only time she'll be turning it off is if she has company of any sort since she will consider playing a friendly/neutral part when faced with fog followers to lure them into a false sense of security (she has her sights on javert, specifically, who she has manipulated and coerced for bingo and with continue to do so for her benefit with the Fourth). keep your friends close and your enemies closer, you know?

lastly, and probably the main point of all of this: she'll be asking for elias' short-term aid in setting off mind-influencing soundwaves before and after film screenings (which would be the previews, credits, and during music between downtime hosted by kanade, who will not know about this) to have humans (and monsters, with player permission) be greatly pro-fourth if they already feel that way, more partial to the fourth if they are neutral, and affect fog-followers less the higher a tier they are with the fog (but players could use that as a means for their character to feel wavered, if they wish). once she gets her own ablities back in the future, she'll start doing this on her own accord.

during actual film screenings, makima will also be using her tier two hallucination spell to implement discrete pro-fourth/anti-fog propaganda throughout movie showings. she'll be choosing a handful of eyes to be able to catch and file these subliminal messages away into their subconscious, but it will purposely be scattered and at random to avoid any enemies picking up a pattern; some will see it, some will not, the date and time is never the same. the right people will be chosen to be influenced, because . . . there will be

cameras
hidden throughout the establishment. during the next CR meme or in an ooc post explaining these extra fourth details, i'll be asking if/what the cameras would pick up, but it will be ooc knowledge that we can always use throughout the cinema's run. no room is safe.

i will have a log up for opening day + pointing all these things out icly if this is green-lighted, but i am also totally open to tweaking + elaborating whatever is needed!

Link: tbd
Reward Tier: tier three
Reward Description:

— A third major spell, appropriate to the Fourth God: I'd like to request force manipulation similar to makima's canon force manipulation ability. she will be able to manipulate force using her hands and fingers, allowing her to blast targets with holes of varying sizes, bend their limbs/organs or send them flying (obviously not that high). i would like for her to sacrifice her blood for this much like her tier two spell with additional hunger needed to fuel the spells, which will usually cause her to bleed spontaneously and weaken her the more she uses it (so she'll need more souls). she may also be able to twist and compact living bodies remotely, but for this I'd like for her to have an even larger scale sacrifice trade-off. if she's going to locate and manipulate a body, she'll need to sacrifice someone to get it done, as well as know their name and face. it can't be a human npc— it will have to be a monster to deter her from using it often (always with player permission). i had also thought that making a "contract" with said monster, where she has to favor the sacrificed in some way before using them, could also be used for this, but if that's too much i'll write it off.
— A large room in the arcade (the works)
— instantly resurrect via static in any TV or radio of your choice.
— the ability to teleport from one location to another using radios.
— regenerate missing limbs or other body parts while in the arcade, but this will take some time, is painful, and the resulting parts may have a cybernetic look to them.
— removing the biological need for conventional food (not humans), sleep, or even breathing.
— immunity to the memory loss incurred from multiple deaths.

Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): n/a

[overlies]

hey mods! just wanted to put in a swap for makima's tier 1 boon since i haven't used it and could be using something more useful in its place: would like to swap walking on walls for borrowing pest animal's sight or hearing.

canonly she cannot use both at the same time, or it's one or the other at a given time. if the three-point rule can apply here, i'll take that— otherwise, she'll only be able to use one animal at a time, and they could only be animals considered pests (so rats, flies, crows, roaches, etc).

[missleadingquestions]

Character Name: Maya Fey
Alignment: Fog
Offering Description:

Murdering an enemy of the Fog in her name (the Billionaire) and furthering Fog Propaganda afterward. The kill is completed not only in the Fog's name, but also at her own assertion, as if Maya has been chosen for another opportunity to prove herself. By obeying the Fog's call directly, Maya is also proving to the Fog that she is willing to do more than just kill those that she personally finds harmful, and instead is willing to serve as the Fog's own hand. She also proves herself as being a capable ally to two of the Fog's existing priests, having protected Aunamee during the altercation and assisted Harry in completing some harming blows to the Billionaire monster. She did her best to act without fear and held her own against the monster at the side of Aunamee and Harry, not needing to be babysat in order to contribute, and demonstrating that she is able to utilize her existing abilities to further the Fog's agenda.

She also doses the network with Fog propaganda afterward, exposing the billionaire's greed as a way to do so and coloring his greed as the nature of humankind. This propaganda links into and is indeed a follow through on Maya's assertions that the Fog is integral not only to the monsters themselves but to the entire world, and that leaving her loyalty will only bring ruin. She has shown that she is unafraid to instill fear in others, humans or monsters, and will complete missions at the Fog's behest.

Link: Killionaire Thread and Associated Broadcast
Reward Tier: 3
Reward Description:
-A major body modification (e.g. flightless wings, large horns, extra limbs) (UNCLAIMED FROM TIER 2) A pair of antlers at her temples, made of coral and resembling the form of the horns of highly revered youkai.
-Immortality
Others will be claimed later, i'm still deciding the specifics for a new power

[rapts]

Character Name: mizu
Alignment: fog
Offering Description: joining!
Link: here
Reward Tier: tier one
Reward Description:

- A minor power appropriate to the Fog God (think fear, strength, destruction): frostbite; the ability to freeze anything she bites down on, triggered by high emotion.

- Smallest rooms in Dyster (a single bed, no window)

- Resurrecting inside Dyster after 2-3 days (regardless of fog days)

- A small aesthetic body modification tailored towards fear and intimidation: her four kitsune tails may show up outside of her full moon form if she’s angry.

- An instinctive knowledge of how many days they have left before the hunger overtakes them

Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): no

[cratecrasher]

Character Name: Crash Bandicoot
Alignment: Fourth
Offering Description: For the event "What I’m Made Of", Crash's minotaur magic provided the foundation for Surround Sound's musical might. It was exhausting.
Link: Here
Reward Tier: Tier 3

Reward Description:
One Instant Respawn Point
Backup Memory
Ultimate Gamer Room
Arcade Limb Replacement Service
Infinite Stamina (remove need for sleep)

Fast Travel, but with television sets instead of radios. And absolutely only TV screens. They still need to be powered on for him to use as a warp point, but it's the way of the future, Elias!

New Spell: Hammerspace; aka that cartoon ability to pull out gigantic hammer or bazooka from nowhere. In this case, Crash can stuff a finite assortment of items into an invisible pocket dimension and pull them back out through sleight of hand no matter how improbable.

Limitations to this pocket dimension is the size- a storage box that’s roughly as big in volume (with some leeway to this caveat) as Crash’s regular form. He can pack a bunch of smaller items OR one supersized item. So while he can’t shove an entire car into his pocket, a motorcycle is just barely doable if there’s absolutely nothing else taking up inventory space.

If he tries to cram something else inside the space while already at the “overflow” limit, stuff within storage pops out to make room.

Also the pocket dimension is not a fridge. Best for him to not forget about perishable foods stored in there…

Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): N/A

[endlesspastability]

Character Name: Sonic!
Alignment: Fourth
Offering Description: Sonic, along with Crash and Yuzu, held a concert that was meant to inspire anti-fog sentiment through the monster and human populations! It worked! kind of. in a "ryslig" way.
Link: Here.
Reward Tier: Tier 3!
Reward Description:
ULTIMATE GAMER PAD in the Arcade
Instant static resurrection
Radio Teleporation
Limb Replacement in the arcade
No sleep required!!! But he still likes to do it sometimes
Memory loss immunity
And as for the major power...
Bullet Time: as discussed here, a lesser form of time manipulation than Priests have, allows Sonic to slow time in a 50 foot radius for a maximum of 30 (time-dilated) minutes, up to half a minute "real" time. To outside observers, it appears like he's going SUPER FAST.

Last minute alignment!

[swordarc]

Character Name: III
Alignment: Fourth God
Offering Description: III is freaking out badly at the abnormal fog and his early transformation into a vampire (Wasn't he supposed to have a month before this? He was told he'd have a month! Why did this happen early?!), and so out of desperation he resorts to trying to align himself with Elias.

Honestly, III's not even sure this will work since there's no power for the radio he's freaking out at, but you know. He's panicking.
Link: ETA: Here's the freak out!
Reward Tier: Tier One! Baby Fourthie!
Reward Description:
All tier one stuff.

Minor power: Can bypass the need to obtain permission to enter another person's home, but only for 30 minutes per day. If he overshoots the limit then he's in severe pain until he leaves the home.
Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): An orange mark/outline around III's left eye.

[buckybbarnes]

Character Name: Bucky Barnes
Alignment: Fog
Link: Here.
Reward Tier: First tier
Reward Description: When the Winter Soldier is in control of their body, he can use the ability to breathe fire. Bucky has not had access to it. He wants it as well.
Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): Of course he's getting that, but fog mommy wants him to be more aggressive, obviously. Once a day, he can breathe out fire hot enough to burn into the spectrum of white-hot, to a point of being able to melt down softer metals.

[donutsfordinner]

Character Name: Kiriko Kamori
Alignment: Fog Tier 1
Offering Description: Pledging
Link: Here. Talk with fog mom
Reward Tier: Tier 1
Reward Description:

-A minor power appropriate to the Fog God: Kiriko can make a very limited number Ofuda (paper talismans with a spell written on it in ink) that once applied to someone will burn upon contact and drain their vitality to marginally weaken them. She will gain this vitality to be faster and stronger for the duration the ofuda works. Will fade away as soon as the paper is torn or falls apart.
-Smallest rooms in Dyster (a single bed, no window)
-Resurrecting inside Dyster after 2-3 days (regardless of fog days)
-A small aesthetic body modification: Kiriko's eyes glow a green color when she's using her ability or feeling hungry.

-An instinctive knowledge of how many days they have left before the hunger overtakes them

Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): Handling the ofuda's too often burns her fingers and hands. The glowing of her eyes betray when she's hungry, and she cannot control that.

the Final Tier-Up (attempt)

[improvking]

Character Name: the Ring-Spirit "Richard"
Alignment: Fog
Offering Description:
While there isn't time left for a proper event from him, his last two Top-Levels have covered a sort of mini-event? And he's been doing lots of lesser things over his time in Ryslig.

The Ring-Spirit joined the Fog in only his second month in Ryslig, and without others' encouragement - he sought her out on his own terms. While he initially joined solely to gain additional benefits from something he intended to do anyway for his own motives, over the years (four, as of July) that he's been a Fog-follower he's grown to genuinely respect her (indeed, out of all the deities he's known of, she's the only one he’s ever respected - and he's including himself on that list). He sympathizes with her stated motives, and truly believes that, while she's not a benevolent deity, she's still way more lenient towards humans than she COULD be, and that everyone involved should really be more grateful that she's not as bad as, say, he would have been in her shoes.

- His initial sign-up included the promise to grant her control over the Sea of Stars. (His original intent was to make use of this to get back to his homeworld, however he later changed his mind about leaving - while never giving up on his promise.) He hasn't made a lot of actual progress sadly, but not for lack of ongoing research efforts on his part. Some examples of the time he's invested researching the Sea of Stars (which he considers to cover space, the afterlife, and general magical/dimensional theory) include: (network theorizing), (a witch’s library), and (post-mooncrash discussion).

- Over the years he's convinced multiple monsters that the Fog did not kidnap them from their homeworlds, but merely rescued them from the Sea of Stars (claiming it to currently be under the control of some other force who is their kidnapper). He's also done plenty of the generic "she's the more trustworthy god, at least she's honest" talking points.

- When the Tagevalgten were active, he publicly decried their leader as a false prophet and urged them to leave her and more fully free themselves of the trappings of humanity; he ended up taking some of them under his wing to assist them in this, and has been attending to this project ever since. (One thing he's stressed in particular with them is: if they're going to eat humans, do it because humans are food, not out of some ritualistic attempt to ~commune with the divine~ - it's just food, period, don't get weird about it; it's a human instinct to make rituals out of everything.)

- [cw: fingore & toe-same] In the wake of the Pearl's loss, his offering towards resealing the rift was his fog-touched talons (as well as the tips of his fingers and toes), which he'd chopped off himself with a machete. He also delivered a friend's rift-offering for her when she got called away.

- Out of everyone involved with Atem's Killing Game broadcast, the Ring-Spirit was the one who gave the most directly fog-propaganda speech; he also demonstrated how any monster could easily disarm the anti-monster security systems, aiming to undermine human populace's sense of safety (and also their actual safety).

- During the shade-ifying event, after losing himself in the shade-sauce, the Ring-Spirit sought out and killed a Fourthie in order to thank the Fog god (he also died in the process). While his mental state was somewhat altered at the time, it'd been altered into a way he used to be more often and he felt good like that. His gratitude towards the Fog for allowing him to feel that way again was genuine and despite afterwards regretting some of his actions under the event's influence (specifically terrorizing a couple neutrals he considers friends), he never fully stopped feeling that gratitude.

- When the phantom trees from Flatwoods appeared to the monsters of Bavan, asking them to drive the humans from their new suburb covering what had once been a forest, the Ring-Spirit interpreted this as the trees remembering the old arrangement for the Fog god and her monsters: how they were originally meant to be the peacekeepers of Skamd, the arbiters of disputes between others; and it wasn't as if the Fog god's grudge was against the trees, after all, so if they wanted to recognize monstrous authority in this matter, he determined it was his duty as a Fog-follower to wield said authority. He, with his pet cultists, tried to warn the humans of Flatwoods to leave the area like the trees wanted. When they only managed to convince one person to leave, well, they only saved her. He felt obligated to honor the old order for the trees - he knew the Fog god didn't care for the human side of this disagreement and so just left anyone who wouldn't heed him. (That sole rescue joined his Fog cult.)

- The Ring-Spirit was part of the ill-fated Space Initiative - his decision to join in was driven by his desire to know more about the Sea of Stars because of his pledging promise to give that place to the Fog. Granted everything went horribly wrong, but that was not the intent! And he did die himself in the process, losing his first memory even, so.

- Most recently, the Ring-Spirit's change back into shade-dom jumpstarted him out of a creative rut and he decided he was dissatisfied with how little he's done for the Fog recently. The blackout in Bavan provided him the perfect opportunity to spread some paranoia and terror among the hiding human populace, and he contrived to spread a rumor among them that even humans weren't immune to fog-related frenzying; and in the process he killed a fair number of people. Then while hampered by the sun during not-fog-days, he instead resorted to booby-trapping places of business overnight simply to be disruptive. The "Fog Madness" rumor he explicitly tied to the Fog by name, but in both tacks he had her values of "chaos for chaos' sake" in mind. He's hoping to do something she’ll find entertaining, just because she’s worth entertaining.

Link: Fog Madness Part 1 & Fog Madness Part 2

Reward Tier: Priest
Reward Description:
- the Spooky Fog Voice; he can switch it off if he concentrates though
- the Misty Gray Cloak; his is long with a tall collar and two slits in the back to accommodate where he usually has large wings
- rather than control over the fog, Contact Telepathy: RS and his mental-conversation partner must be touching each other (either physically or via possession), and messages must be "sent" to the other with some degree of intent, no eavesdropping on people's private thoughts (though by player discretion they might accidentally send more than they fully meant to, much like the network's strike-through "not-really-deleted" capacity)
Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): N/A