Dice rolls are 1d10 + Stat + Proficiency + any applicable bonuses, such as Boons.
You may spend 3 Tension to Overdrive for a retroactive +5 to your roll (a Determination Overdrive), or +3 to an ally's roll (a Teamwork Overdrive). I will also automatically overdrive to avoid exhaustion or unconsciousness.
It is possible to critically succeed (on +5 on skill checks and +10 on combat rolls) or critically fail (by the same margins), but rolling a 1 or a 10 does not automatically crit in either case. It is possible to crit retroactively by Overdriving.
Your stat bonuses have names:
Vigor grants a Strength bonus.
Agility grants a Dexterity bonus.
Spirit grants an Aura bonus.
Mind grants an Intuition bonus.
Resolve grants a Guts bonus.
Dice are rolled on a first come, first serve bonus. You only roll for Deedee.
Ah, those. At least part of it is that, For Reasons, these very fannish characters can't use references to works owned by large, potentially litigious corporations; so I had to use clear, striking expies thereof.
I did ask you for (and received) permission to use Questing Country for this world's magical girl fandom. But it's one thing to say so and another to hear Deeds talk about the Valence Quest Arc.
(This is also the reason why it's the Kikaiser series of karate bugmen instead of Kamen Rider. That, and Kikaiser somehow manages to be a quadruple pun name. Bonus points* to those in the thread who can figure out why.)
[X] Plan Potentially Less Violent
- [X] Skill Points (9):
- [X] Empathy (Feel what others feel.)
- [X] Perception (Quickly read the scene.)
- [X] Lore-Wise (Know Mundus as Mundanes do.)
- [X] Traveller's Cloak (3, you may use Spirit to cloak your presence, making Stealth spirit-based, a Boon of Sylphan) - [X] Techniques (Up To 4)
- [X] Healing Zephyr (up to 1)
-- [X] Increased Range (1. Improve the range of Healing Zephyr.)
- [X] Gryphon Kick (up to 1)
-- [X] Claw Claw Bite (1. This attack counts as a Throw, and can chain onto another enemy.)
- [X] Zephyr's Grace (up to 2)
-- [X] Mass Zephyr's Grace (1. The buff is applied in an AoE.)
-- [X] Improved Initiative (1. The buff also improves the target's initiative by 2.)
This is a good plan. So is plan Pinball Cleric, but plan Potentially Less Violent is solid.
It's worth noting you'll be able to rank up Proficiencies starting at 4th level, and every 4 levels after. (there are a few other Perks for which this is also true, and some can rank up every 6.)
I am also working on a game as well. It is a point and click adventure mystery game rather than a rpg, and I am using adventure games studio rather than rpg maker.
[X] Plan Potentially Less Violent
...with the hopes of getting Mutan's blessing next time 'round. A good night's rest also something that's proven important so far!
[X] Plan Potentially Less Violent
...with the hopes of getting Mutan's blessing next time 'round. A good night's rest also something that's proven important so far!
First level up was after surviving the first day, and happened when DeeDee fell asleep. Second one just occurred, at the end of their journey out of what sounds like what was planned to be Tutorial Island both IC and OOC. At first I was thinking it'd be when she falls asleep, but with the second one, that instead makes me think it's at important milestones for their journey? But it's *also* been at moments where DeeDee has gone through some degree of processing regarding her own gender issues (The first when she had time to sit down and process what had happened to her, the second when the egg started to crack a bit and she became officially Questioning), so honestly, could be either.
Also, sorry for lurking and not posting before this, this quest has been quite well done, and I've mostly just been juggling between it and the bazillion other things I'm reading. I'll definitely try to participate more in the future.
First level up was after surviving the first day, and happened when DeeDee fell asleep. Second one just occurred, at the end of their journey out of what sounds like what was planned to be Tutorial Island both IC and OOC. At first I was thinking it'd be when she falls asleep, but with the second one, that instead makes me think it's at important milestones for their journey? But it's *also* been at moments where DeeDee has gone through some degree of processing regarding her own gender issues (The first when she had time to sit down and process what had happened to her, the second when the egg started to crack a bit and she became officially Questioning), so honestly, could be either.[
While it's true that levelling followed moments when Deedee's shell cracked and after she learned important things, the intent was that she levels when she sleeps and therefore absorbs the lessons she's learned. This was a little ambiguous because she passed out at the end of the penultimate update, but rest is a prerequisite to levelling.
Also, sorry for lurking and not posting before this, this quest has been quite well done, and I've mostly just been juggling between it and the bazillion other things I'm reading. I'll definitely try to participate more in the future.
Yes, god forbid you should prioritize things in your No Doubt Copious Free Time™️ instead of dropping everything to vote on one quest of many. It's cool, thank you for voting and commenting where you can.
IO The Hundred-Handed Worldsculptor
First of the Primordial Titans
Mentor to Aurora, Mutan, Inpew andUbastjet
Titan and God of Space, The Unknown, Creation, Synchronicity and Questing
"Mothdad" and "Vaporwave Grandpa" redirects here. For more uses, see Io (Disambiguation).
Concept art by Rukafais.
Io is the alpha and omega, the creator of Mundus, who it is said carved the continents from a dying star and aided the Gods in making it fit for living things. It created the Ways used by Adventurers to teleport between continents, and bids its followers to seek perfection and enlightenment, shedding all that is false or untrue to themselves like stone chips that were not part of a statue after all.
- Character creation blurb
SUMMARY:
Io is a god that manipulates space and emphasizes precise and graceful movement, granting their followers powerful abilities that allow their allies and deny their enemies mobility and traversal tools. Several glitches and exploits from Ionian boons were discovered by the devteam - then tweaked, not removed, for stability, to the delight of speedrunners and explorers. There are few classes that can't use the mobility (some ranged DPS classes come to mind), and SacredIonians make party traversal much easier.
GAMEPLAY Least Boon:
The Shape Of Things. Improves the minimap to include topological figures, party members you can't see, and the last known position of enemies you can sense or spot. Provides a +3 bonus to finding hidden geographical features with Perception. This makes navigation far easier for beginners, though experts don't need it. Still, if you are a Sacred Class Ionian or have spare Least Boon slots, The Shape Of Things is never a bad pick.
Valuable Boons: - Unity Of All tree. This is where most of the mobility tricks live. While it can't improve your Initiative - it doesn't improve reflexes, only dexterity - it does grant Rise To Meet Your Feet (a straight buff to movement speed), Seeker's Stride (a dash on the Support cooldown), Correspondence Points and Pneumatic Bell (forms of Attack Nodes and Refraction Points, otherwise inaccessible to most non-Occult classes), Tesseract Sculpting (two-way short range Portals), and at the apex, the speedrunners' best friend In Io's Palm, which gives you the ability to teleport as far as you can walk for 6 seconds on a Support cooldown...
- ...Closed Fists And Open Eyes tree. This is about weaponizing Ionian mastery of correspondences. It starts simply enough with access to the Size Up tree, including Exploit Weakness, and increasing your own damage with Points Of Stress. It eventually leads to stupid teleportation tricks like The World Rejects You, which tries to teleport a foe into the ground and deals damage from the stress of it failing...
...Technique Considerations:
You will have access to a number of very powerful Boost and Weaken options, which get even better on a Domain of Io Tension Break. But don't neglect your Attacks, either - cheap access to Reposition (and, on a Vigor build, Throw) makes it very easy to do a Pinball Wizard or other knockback-abuse builds. If you're doing this, try to get access to Feint or a method of improving your Damage Increment; Io will already give you Launcher attacks, which benefit from both...
...DIVINE BEAST:Glatisant
First off: don't panic. The cry of the Glatisant is a masterpiece of sound design. Just because Howl of the Questing Beast applies panic effects doesn't mean you should lose your head, too. It will sound like it's coming from multiple places at once because it is; the Glatisant loves to abuse Tesseract Anchors...
...what can you do against an attack from every direction? Well, the Tesseract Anchors are destructible, and once you realize that, you can cut off the supply of adds and limit its angles of attack. Once the Anchors are gone, the Glatisant is nothing more than a glorified dragon...
...LORE NOTES "People who are familiar with Greek Mythology are frequently surprised by our choice in naming Io, given the faith's lack of focus on cattle. This is because we didn't intend to reference the Grecian Io at all. We were thinking more of Blind Io from Terry Pratchett's Discworld, who wasn't actually blind per se, but was called that because none of his manifold eyes eyes were actually located inside his body--which was also an inspiration for our Io's visual design, although we went a bit more abstract and eldritch than Paul Kidby. And, of course, there's the computing pun there too: I/O, Input/Output..."
- Dr. Charlene Durante, OtherworldCon 2043 Q&A
Io created Mundus, and along with Gnomon, had a hand in creating the other gods. While they were not the only primordials, they were the only ones who were not hostile to the gods or the people living on Mundus, with the forces of Nihil, Echidna and Diafthor seeking to destroy or it's people by force, which included the creation or corruption of monstrous wildlife. Gnomon proposed teaching the people how to raise up Adventurers from their ranks, and Io found a means of doing so and taught it to the Gods...
...Io is a kind and giving god, but also a fundamentally alien one by virtue of their perspective. They are said to keep the orrery of the stars spinning with their hundred hands, trying to find imperfections in the fabric of Creation and portals to the various netherworlds, and correct for them...
...Io is associated with sculpture and stoneworking, starting with Mundus and its own physical form; Ionian monestaries will teach those Crafting Proficiencies...
...APOCRYPHA AND FANWORKS:
Given that Io is frequently the first thing you see when you finish character creation, the stark contrast between Io's alien appearance and it's kindly, indulgent demeanor has lead to a constant stream of jokes since the beginning of the game, from calling it "Mothdad" for it's affinity with Glatisant or "Vaporwave Grandpa" for its appearance and general aesthetics, to the meme template where it enters a raid arena only to ask "ART THOU WINNING, MY CHILDREN?" to a disbelieving Free Company.
Io shares a name with the galactographer TCAI employed by the Other Worlds Tourism Bureau to create the galaxy and the hypernet in Orbital Knights. In fact, a temple to Io was added to a moon orbiting the gas giant Geb in the Jovian Debris Ring capture the flag map, as a teaser for the announcement of Another World Online, then called Project LeGuin. Speculation that the Io of Mundus is that TCAI was confirmed at a Q&A held at Otherworld Con 2043...
bids its followers to seek perfection and enlightenment, shedding all that is false or untrue to themselves like stone chips that were not part of a statue after all.
"You know how Io can partition themself in an emergency," Kate said, frowning. "It looks like they partitioned away the part that handles the Chimaera server and now that part of them is just— gone."
You hear a horrible ululating wailing howl and look up and
run faster as the thing swims through the air, wings buzzing, it's moan echoing and turning to static and snow the sound of a dead TV channel, the radar dish on it's head spinning faster and faster and you know it's not hearing anything because that beam is gone, one down thirteen to go -
I mean this in the most positive and endeared way possible, but what the hell is going on in this quest? I read through all the normal threadmarks but it feels like that's only a third of the content
