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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.

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For your Tier 3 form, you are more than welcome to take some thematic elements of creatures / imagery from your character's canon and incorporate them into your design. For this specific monster, however, we're not really seeing "insectoid" in its design -- it looks pretty solidly draconic to us! (For one example, insects broadly do not possess tails, and neither do Faeries.)

We wouldn't allow a Faerie's fog form, even at Tier 3 fog alignment, to look as though it belongs in a different monster category altogether. As such, a direct transformation into this creature would not be permissible. Still, you can theme your design to incorporate elements from this creature -- coloration, proportions, and other superficial traits.

An energy attack, regardless of its presence in the base form, would constitute an ability requiring acquisition. This could be done either through Mana Rewards or as a power bestowed by the Fog God at its appropriate tier. (As a disclaimer, since we do not have any information about this energy attack, this comment should not be taken as guarantee of its acceptance should it be requested; it would need to go through the requisite review first.)

Fair enough, I'll probably be looking into adding thematic stuff from it into his design for tier 3 then! (Since I was going more for the "switch into a closely-related type" thing than powered-up fog form.)

In that case, follow-up question: what kinds of alternate monsters would be permissible for a faerie's tier 3? As I mentioned initially, a lot of faeries and faerie-like creatures in lore would fall a little close to other monster categories (e.g. dryads to nymphs, dwarfs and gnomes to goblins, undine/selkie to mer, cat sith and cu sith to weres, water horse to kelpie, etc.) for me to be entirely clear on what would be allowed there.

Before we can approve the request, we’d like to ask for a few clarifications! We’d like to know:

- the boundaries and limitations of wall-size for her "eavesdropping" ability. How long/thick of a wall are you intending to include, and how much of what's on the other side would she be able to hear? We don't need exact dimensions or decibel levels, but a clearer idea of how you intend to use this in-game.
- the volume of her "sound-throwing/-mimicry" abilities. For example, if she mimics or throws a thunderclap, how loud would it be?

We would also like to add the following restriction:

- since 5-10 minutes is a long time to hold on to a sound, please limit the number of sounds she can steal to one at a time. (A measure of music, a sentence of spoken dialogue, a single animal call, etc.)

To be clear, none of these questions are qualifiers or things we would reject the request on; we'd just like to know exactly how these powers work before we finalize our decision!

NO PROBLEM

Eavesdropping: I was mostly thinking, like, ordinary man-made walls, since a lot of the Ryslig action is in traditionally urban (or rural) environments, where walls are like... normal real-world walls. Unless there are giant fuckhuge thick walls somewhere (are there?), that should probably cover all reasonable cases??

It would basically work as if her sense of hearing were placed on the opposite side of the partition relative to her position. (Since she has to be touching the wall, it'd be as though she were standing within arm's reach of the wall inside that room.)

Wall in this case I guess I should say is the barrier bisecting two planes, lengthwise -- she couldn't, like, get on top of a building and use the exterior wall to hear what's going on in the basement or anything like that.

Volume: It'd be replicated at the volume she originally heard it. She can't make quiet things louder, but she can't make loud things quieter, either. The only "alterations" in volume would come from, in throwing, where the sound is "activated" -- obviously if you are closer to the activation point, something will be louder than if you were several yards away from it.

As such, it's rare that anything she produces would be able to cause hearing damage to someone with average-sound-sensitivity -- she could only replicate something ear-piercing if she'd endured it herself. I mean, I guess she might be desperate enough to get someone to shoot a gun next to her ear to make her momentarily deaf so she could momentarily deafen other people, but that's a little more calculatingly malicious than Yuzu's usual M.O.

Buuuuuut for a counter... offer... if that's allowed? If 5-10 minutes is too long, can I cut that in half (2-5 minutes) for the sake of being able to steal/activate plural sounds at once? Since the stealing and setting off of sounds has its basis in the Fourth's preferred traits (subterfuge and control), one of its main purposes would be for the sake of causing distractions or otherwise disorienting an enemy. For example, it's much easier to confuse someone chasing you if you can set off the crashing of windows in two separate places (while you're breaking a third) rather than just one.

Or possibly increase the number of sentences able to be stolen? Since I know while I write obnoxiously long sentences OOC, most characters are more succinct. Not a lot of information is usually conveyed in one sentence alone in-game.

WE NEVER RESPONDED TO THIS, EVIDENTLY.

That's absolutely alright! We try to make a point of not turning down players making their characters' lives harder. 8)

Your boon request has been granted! An in-character writeup will come shortly.

Note: as written, the familiar ability looks great, but I would like to personally specify that it doesn't carry over any hidden D&D familiar abilities. (That is, Shun can't cast his magic spells through his familiar, and so on!)

Further, while you are under no means obligated to take this option, if you want Shun to have a "magical bond" to his familiar - feeling each other's pain, or feeling a great pain when the familiar is lost - this can be done at no additional cost! (This is brought to you by Kari loving to torture her characters. Whoops.)

Eavesdropping and volume look perfect as written! We'll clarify, just in case, that volume is in fact at the volume Yuzu heard it at. For instance, if she was magically deafened for a moment, then tried to steal a gunshot, it would come across as silent.

Your counteroffer makes a lot of sense, and is totally allowed! This part of the process is intended to make sure both sides are happy with what they get, after all. Given the reasons you've brought up, would the power to steal up to four sounds, with a maximum of three from the same source work for you? (Note: by "source" here, I mean a unique entity/event producing sound, like a person talking and clapping or a gun firing.) This would allow for more interesting interactions like you brought up, while mostly stopping the abuse case of "steal everything this character says so they can't make sound."

Once you've gotten back to us, we should be able to give a verdict!

Edited 2016-08-27 01:16 (UTC)

Correct! It'd be like if you try to take a photograph with the cap on the lens -- it's not going to come out, because it never registered the initial image. She has to hear it to replicate it.

YEAH THAT'S FINE. Since if Yuzu wants to shut somebody up she'd just fight them t b h. I'm totally okay with that!

Your boon request has been granted! An in-character writeup will come shortly.

On a night of your choosing (one which works for both you and Yuzu's player) the nearest radio will crackle to life, and your character's laptop will chime, repeating the single note until the device is acknowledged. All the usual text and menus are gone, replaced with only a single message.

we need to talk.

It won't be until they read the message that another manifests, typed quickly beneath it:

come to the arcade, both of you.

The display begins to distort: static bars appear across the screen, words flickering in size, before it all goes dark. Any attempts to boot the laptop back to life result in it powering back down. The radio continues playing, and no amount of fiddling with knobs will turn it back off.

If one reaches the arcade before the other, they will remain unacknowledged until both have arrived. At this point, all the robots in the arcade will try to gently shepherd them to the front counter. There, a hidden door will open behind the counter, and a decrepit robot will beckon for the two of them to enter. As they walk in, the wall will seal behind them, and the Fourth God's voice will crackle from the old robot: "Do you trust me?" As long as one of them takes care of answering affirmatively, the voice will continue: "I trust you too."

At this point, the room will lurch violently, like an elevator which has been out of service for decades, and start a visceral feeling of descent. This will continue for some time - a few minutes, at the very least - with the air around them continually growing more musty and moldy. Finally, when it is almost difficult to breathe without choking, the room will grind to a halt and the door will open again.

When they step out, and their eyes acclimatize to the darkness, they will find themselves in an almost-exact copy of the arcade. None of the lights are working - many of them seem broken, and the glass of the arcade machines has been shattered in many. The scent of mold is overpowered by the scent of earth, fresh and fertile, and if they get close enough to the walls to look they may find small sprouts and signs of life coming through. After they have had a few moments to grow used to the place, a set of dull lights along the floor will spark to life, leading to a room not in the original building. This room is where the scent of earth is strongest, and as they enter they will see mounds of dirt and plant life all around - flowers, vines, and grass, all somehow surviving in the dark. In the center of the room, there is a small, fresh grave.

"I buried her here," the voice of the Fourth God will speak again through the robot. "You helped a whole bunch, and I wanted to make sure you knew."

As they stand before the grave, a sense of electricity will begin running through the both of them - unpleasant, but not painful. This feeling will build up and build up, until finally a single static spark will arc from both of them to the old robot. Once this happens, they will both immediately have access to their new boons. The robot will explain how their powers work, if they choose to ask what they have been given, and further give them a few new things:

a jet-black card with their name and a symbol (a sixteenth note for Yuzu, two wings overlaid for Shun) embossed on it; and
a golden pendant in the shape of a flower (monkshood for Yuzu, larkspur for Shun).

From this point on, whenever they pass a robot in the arcade, it will take a moment to bow (or make the closest approximation possible given its chassis). Finally, Shun and Yuzu's room will have an interesting and unique quality built in: an old wooden door, with no visible lock or key. If they use their card to swipe through the doorframe, it will open up to the "normal" arcade's variant of the burial room. Only Shun and Yuzu are permitted in here, and no matter which door they enter from they will not see any other exits. This room does not have a grave, but instead a stylized coffin with light blue lines and tubes running through it. When either Yuzu or Shun enter this room, they will feel strangely at peace, and if they try to talk directly to the Fourth God they are more likely to receive an answer (even if it is a short, not particularly useful one).

On a night of your choosing (one which works for both you and Shun's player) the nearest radio will crackle to life, and your character's laptop will chime, repeating the single note until the device is acknowledged. All the usual text and menus are gone, replaced with only a single message.

we need to talk.

It won't be until they read the message that another manifests, typed quickly beneath it:

come to the arcade, both of you.

The display begins to distort: static bars appear across the screen, words flickering in size, before it all goes dark. Any attempts to boot the laptop back to life result in it powering back down. The radio continues playing, and no amount of fiddling with knobs will turn it back off.

If one reaches the arcade before the other, they will remain unacknowledged until both have arrived. At this point, all the robots in the arcade will try to gently shepherd them to the front counter. There, a hidden door will open behind the counter, and a decrepit robot will beckon for the two of them to enter. As they walk in, the wall will seal behind them, and the Fourth God's voice will crackle from the old robot: "Do you trust me?" As long as one of them takes care of answering affirmatively, the voice will continue: "I trust you too."

At this point, the room will lurch violently, like an elevator which has been out of service for decades, and start a visceral feeling of descent. This will continue for some time - a few minutes, at the very least - with the air around them continually growing more musty and moldy. Finally, when it is almost difficult to breathe without choking, the room will grind to a halt and the door will open again.

When they step out, and their eyes acclimatize to the darkness, they will find themselves in an almost-exact copy of the arcade. None of the lights are working - many of them seem broken, and the glass of the arcade machines has been shattered in many. The scent of mold is overpowered by the scent of earth, fresh and fertile, and if they get close enough to the walls to look they may find small sprouts and signs of life coming through. After they have had a few moments to grow used to the place, a set of dull lights along the floor will spark to life, leading to a room not in the original building. This room is where the scent of earth is strongest, and as they enter they will see mounds of dirt and plant life all around - flowers, vines, and grass, all somehow surviving in the dark. In the center of the room, there is a small, fresh grave.

"I buried her here," the voice of the Fourth God will speak again through the robot. "You helped a whole bunch, and I wanted to make sure you knew."

As they stand before the grave, a sense of electricity will begin running through the both of them - unpleasant, but not painful. This feeling will build up and build up, until finally a single static spark will arc from both of them to the old robot. Once this happens, they will both immediately have access to their new boons. The robot will explain how their powers work, if they choose to ask what they have been given, and further give them a few new things:

a jet-black card with their name and a symbol (a sixteenth note for Yuzu, two wings overlaid for Shun) embossed on it; and
a golden pendant in the shape of a flower (monkshood for Yuzu, larkspur for Shun).

Substitutions of line items within a given Tier's rewards are allowed, so long as the proposed replacement is on par with the specific item it is replacing. For instance, "a plugin for the laptop" and "a partially-furnished bedroom" are two very different rewards, in both size and utility. The room could be replaced with a reward like, "a clunker of a car with wonky brakes and bad steering," but a car like this would not be suitable as a replacement for the laptop plugin. As such, while abilities could theoretically be used to replace other line items within a tier, these substitutions would have to match what they're replacing. These would not be on par with the base Tier 1 spell, as that is the biggest available reward within that tier, and has no equal within the other rewards.

For comparison, we'll say that each Tier is like a restaurant meal with sides, and drink, and so forth. At Fourth Tier 1, the room and the resurrection might each be the side courses, the unique spell the main course, and the laptop plugin the drink. While you are certainly welcome to trade your meal's french fries for a cup of fruit, you wouldn't be able to order a steak with fries and salad and have fries and salad both replaced with additional steaks.

Thank you for bringing this up! We'll be sure to clarify this rule in our next god boons update.

I had a strong feeling this was going to be the case, but seeing as the wording was vague I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask anyway. Thank you for clarifying for the future!

Character Name: Lucius Malfoy
Alignment: Fourth God
Offering Description: Joining the ranks.
Link: Here.
Reward Tier: Tier 1
Reward Description: Since I can't think of good substitutions for them, I'm going to take both the resurrection ability and the death-counter anyway. Lucius won't want them but too bad for him! Details on the others:

SPELL: the ability to gutter any electric light source within his vicinity for a reasonable distance (no bigger than a modest room, or maybe about a third of a city block) creating a bubble of artificial darkness that moves with him if he walks. Sources of light would be shut down completely, something like a computer would keep working but it would stop emitting light. If this can work on non-electric light sources too it'd be rad, but since Fourth God is computer dad I have feeling that'd be outside his aesthetic. He's going to try using his wand to cast this spell at first since that's what's most natural to him, but your call if it's actually required or not.

BODY MOD: his Dark Mark is now outlined in cyan neon light instead of merely being etched into his skin as a brand/scar. There's some cybernetic circuit-board style hatching spreading out from the ends of the Mark onto the surrounding skin on his forearm. At some points it might look a bit like the hatching is obscuring the shape of the Mark...almost as if someone is trying to overwrite a prior claim...

ROOM SUBSTITUTION: instead of a room at the Arcade, he gets a box. A very ordinary looking thing made of dark wood, no bigger than a shoebox. Its surface is scuffed and the hinges are dirty, overall it looks like the kind of thing a kid might pick up at a yard sale to store their baseball cards in. The inside is just plain wood too, no lining or markings of any kind. However once closed the box can't be broken apart or into, it has a hidden lock that's nearly impossible to find and can be opened by no one but Lucius. It can only hold as many items as would be reasonable for its dimensions though.

Backfire: N/A

Character Name: Ron Hasegawa
Alignment: Fog God.
Offering Description: Joining.
Link: Here. It's ongoing though, but he's in the middle of it.
Reward Tier: Tier 1.
Reward Description: All the tier 1 stuff. For body, eyes that glow in the dark all creepily (extra creepy cuz he has such big eyes).
For spell thing, controlling a small amount of water, about a decilitre or so, for up to a minute. Especially useful if he wants to drown someone by blocking their air pipe I guess? He's drowned people in canon and he's a kelpie so it fits with both his character and the god.
Backfire: he gets really tired after the water thing? since it'll take a lot of concentration.

Edited (i forgoooooot the backfire oops) 2016-08-30 18:01 (UTC)

On a day of your choosing, when Lucius moves to switch off the lights, he’ll find a strange surge moving throughout his body. Immediately, the room will fall dark except for any windows, as if all the light inside had been consumed. Within seconds, the sensation disappears, and any other lighting not connected to the switch will flicker back to life.

When he next checks his laptop – it will beep insistently if it’s closed – he’ll find a message written in write letters against a black background.

they wont see you in the dark

i hope this helps

Lucius will now be granted the abilities and items requested.

Before we reach a decision, we'd like to add a clarification to the ability. While controlling a small amount of water is fine, the water itself couldn't then be used to control other living organisms. For example, while Ron can control some of the water inside of a pond, he couldn't use the water inside of someone's body in order to make them move.

If you're fine with this restriction, let us know, and we'll move forward in processing the request!

Oh, I meant like, when it comes to drowning someone it's more like... get the water from say a cup or pond to move inside a person's nose/mouth to make them unable to breathe. Does that make sense? But yeah, I was thinking similarly, water in a pond and such, not in a body, but I was just out the shower so I guess my head was fluffy. XD

Character Name: Eponine Thenardier
Alignment: Fog God
Offering Description:An old piece of paper. On the one side is a shopping list. On the other is a sprawled letter, begging the Fog God to have her. It's not much, but she has little and it's taken her a good long while to write out and spell correctly.
Link: Here. Her letter.
Reward Tier: Level 1
Reward Description: A tiny room in Dyster, that looks much like the garrett in Paris: an odd shape and small, a rough wooden floor encrusted with dirt and a picture of Napoleon Bonaparte on the wall. As for the bed, a hard, narrow single mattress on the floor with a few shabby blankets.
Could she also resurrect there after 2-3 days?
Could her eyes also begin to turn red, and glow brightly, even in the dark?
Backfire: She definitely wouldn't want the glowy eyes.

While the thread is underway, and death has yet to occur, this is being sent in to make sure all spells and such are acceptable ahead of time, as chronologically speaking the event has already occurred. (Marco would have died August 14th Which I guess makes him a martyr given what followed for him)

I will comment here when the death actually occurs.

Character Name: Yuuri Wakasa
Alignment: Fog
Offering Description: Rather than rolling over and Taking It, Yuuri not only sets in motion the things that get poor Marco fired, but proceeds to plan and act out his murder with the aid of Yuri & Kurumi, brutally sacrificing him in the name of the Fog God to show just what it really means to be hunted by the Fog. (...but not before letting Kurumi have a few words with him first.)
Link: Revenge is even Sweeter when you plan to perfection.
Reward Tier: Tier 3
Reward Description:
A BETTER House in Dyster

A rather nice and spacious cottage. The basement is large and vast (possibly more so than the house!), perfect for storing her prey. There is a small 'guest room' for Ruu as well...which is basically a doll house.

Major Fog Power

'10,000 Spiders' - The ability to dissolve herself and move as multitudes of spiders, making it easy to surround and engulf prey while inflicting incredible fear. She can partially form her upper body from this state, though there may be 'glitches' (such as a spider running from one chunk of her cheek to another). To keep this ability under control, each spider must be within one centimeter of ten others at any time, so the swarm cannot merely scatter entirely. Additionally, those representing the head cannot scatter into the crowd, and must always cluster together in some way. This state of being cannot be held for very long either; a maximum of ten minutes as mere swarms, and just as much time in any half-formed state. (This time stacks; so five minutes in one and five in the other would max out the ten minute limit)

Side note, inflicting fear is not an added ability. It's just the natural side effect of being surrounded by spiders.

Immortality

Her heart or head must be destroyed in order to kill her. While in 'spiders' state, the heart is represented by a larger, brilliant red spider, while head spiders are also more uniquely coloured, to make the combined force of these abilities fair.

As a backfire, if any OTHER spiders get crushed, she loses those parts of her...and until she rests and feeds in Dyster, those parts will not heal up.

Backfire:
Alternate Monster Form + Neutral Protection Boon

Rather than gaining an improved fog form or similar, Yuuri will attempt to ask the Fog God to extend 'permanent' protection to her younger sister. ...Who is a golem state teddy bear. At the moment, it follows her around and obeys simple command, so it isn't exactly a thing that needs Neutral Protection.

If possible, I would like for it to, if it is acceptable, have a sort of 'creepy doll' form of speech, with pre-written phrases that those who aren't Yuuri might hear as nothing but blowing wind occasionally. Things like 'I love you', 'Help', 'I don't like them' and other things that the Fog God could potentially have left in order for Yuuri to continue the good work. Others are free to hear these things as well, to drive that eerie, End The Fourth effect home! Naturally, the statements have nothing to do with actual sentience, and everything to do with open windows for supporting the Fog.

If it isn't too much, the bear being able to present the illusion of being Ruu proper-or even just projecting some weird shadow to match (Ruu, as far as Yuuri deludes herself, is a shade after all)-would be astounding, but considering all that's being asked for I'd be quite fine without all that. Yuuri will always see her sister after all (It'd just be to creep other people out really), and eerie Fog Support Messages are more than enough for me.

Same as with Yuuri, Loki has yet to finish his thread...chronologically however, as the event already occurred (with Kurumi dying August 16th), I wanted to have the request looked over in case any changes need to be made before an official approval. SHE DEAD

Character Name: Loki
Alignment: Fourth God
Offering Description: What started as an arrest became a fervent decision to kill for the sake of 'protecting' both his fellow followers and even the 4th himself, when Loki realizes just what went down in this maze. ...He also left that cool mask around, I guess.
Link: JUST DUDES HAVING FUN, THAT IS ALL IT IS
Reward Tier: Tier 3
Reward Description:
Radio Teleportation

Notably, whenever he does this the radio emits a sort of blue smoke.

Bedroom Upgrade

Now a much nicer and larger room, the duel table is still there, of course.

Major Power

'Rewind' - Derived from his canon power known as 'the Remembrances of Time', Loki is able to draw back time on inanimate objects and regions, restoring them to their former glory, or simply causing say...a severe thunderstorm to replay itself. Only in the case of the later would time continue 'unchanged'; for buildings and similar to enter disrepair again, they need to experience the exact events that brought them there in the first place.

This power, as noted, does not affect living things, and he cannot necessarily determine what point/state in time he is reversing something to unless he's properly familiar with the target. Additionally, it would probably not work on certain plot induced scenarios, such as Vandare's General Hospital (oops).

The greater the scale of what he reverses, the more energy he needs to replenish in the form of food (humans being the most effective, of course). For the sake of reference, I figure an hour long rewind can be done without trouble, but going back more than a year makes him hungrier and Hungrier, with ten years of reconstruction on a house sized structure OR a single year on ten leaving him unable to go further due to the fact that he would be mere moments away from going berserk. (So maybe don't go trying this in Rota, big guy...)

If that's flat out too much though I can think of something else.

Backfire:
Cybernetic Limb Regeneration/Memory Loss Immunity

Rather than gaining an entirely new ability, these boons come as a backfire/upgrade to his existing sleep healing. The larger an injury is, the greater the chance of cybernetic influence in the healed wound (so if he's lost a limb and it's not there to reattach... ...yep). Additionally, he still keeps the extreme hunger inducing side effect. Likewise, rather than a memory immunity, he has to dream his memories back! Which...being tied to his bear ability, means Hunger. Sucks buddy. (In a sense this is ICly the 4th refreshing his memory I figure.)

Loss of Biological Needs

....Does not happen! A loss of biological needs and such rings too close to Loki's time as a Zombie see, and the 4th would know how much the kid hated that mess. If he wants to give him something representing that go for it, but Loki's in no need of fancy body mods and spells by this point. ~~Mbby Angel Attack appears in the arcade or something, hah~~

Edited (THE TAUR IS DEAD...) 2016-09-04 00:49 (UTC)

did u miss me

Character Name: Rohan Kishibe
Alignment: Fog
Offering Description: Converting a Neutral party.
Link: here.
Reward Tier: Tier 2
Reward Description:
- Bigger room in Dyster
- Instant Respawn
- Secondary Feeding Method - Energy: A tie-in with his Fog Power Thing, Rohan can draw exerted energy from his victims while they are frozen from his gaze. It's less about feeding and more about invigoration. It will satiate hunger in a pinch but not for too long.

- Body Modification since i skipped this last time - ~Mood Ring Scales~: Rohan's traditional coloring is black and white, but upon reaching this tier, his black bands/spots will shift to REAL COLORS now and then with their coloration and vibrancy depending on the factors of strong emotions, feeding, and fog days.

- Power Buff - Memory Recall Part 2: Electric Boogaloo: As with his Tier 1 power, eye-contact with him will still trigger a single traumatic memory in his target. The conditions of it have changed slightly at this point, allowing Rohan to see the event himself instead of it just being one-sided. The radius allowance is now 10ft instead of 5ft. The time spent with the target frozen in place will allow him to sap their energy via the secondary feeding method. If the line of sight is broken, the effect will wear off but will leave the target with prolonged anxiety. Effects and severity are still up to the other player's discretion.

Backfire: no thanks, fam

Character Name: Blue
Alignment: Fourth
Offering Description: Didn’t make the killing blow, but had an important role in the killing of a Fog follower.
Link: Here. At least his map spell was put to good use beforehand.
Reward Tier: Tier 2
Reward Description:

Basic - Bigger soundproofed room w/queen-sized bed in the arcade, instant revival, protection for a chosen neutral (undetermined, but will be done through the 4th’s prayer box)

Modified Fog - The bone armor and mask left over from the parasite is converted into cybernetic tech, so that he’s like a futuristic knight.

Spell - Weapon Charging. No not a sword beam, but through any weapon he holds (preferably a sword), Blue can generate energy into it so that it shines as a light within darkness and fog. But if he goes overboard with this spell, the weapon will vibrate and whine loud enough to be a useful trick against monsters, at the cost of his own hearing.

Backfire - The sound and vibration generated when overcharging is especially effective against minotaurs, including himself. Blue is a moron, what else is new?

I don't even know what kind of hidden abilities D&D familiars have, so no worries on that front! |D;

Magical bond sounds great though and I'm absolutely taking this option, thank you! #Icey loves torturing her characters too :3

In our preliminary review of this request, there were a couple points of concern we would like to address, so as to give you time to make adjustments if needed.

As the proof-providing log is still in progress, we cannot completely verify its tenability just yet. However, at the time of our review, the extant text emphasized greatly that this was a matter of personal revenge (Kurumi targeting and intending to kill Marco for his prior murder of Yuuri, while Yuuri helps), rather than that of God Devotion. While at a lower tier this would be perfectly acceptable as proof, Tier 3 rewards are for "truly devout followers" and acts; we would need to see more emphasis in the log itself on how your character is committing this act for the Fog God. Because the theme of personal revenge is so strong, its connection to her god -- and thus its viability as a Tier 3 promotion -- feels incidental, rather than deliberate, and is not what we're looking for at this tier.

Additionally, while the rest of your listed boons look superb, the backfire as specified would not be possible. In God Boon backfires, these are alterations that the god willingly performs contrary to a character's request, as said god sees fit. However, the nature of this deception isn't her style, and doesn't align with her general goals. We also feel that this sort of modification would make the Fog God implicitly supportive of your character's self-delusion, which could result in conflict later on.

Once your log has reached completion, if you would like to change your offering, or if there are any other edits you would like to make to your request in light of this information, please let us know.

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