Liberty is missing the Magical Youth. If their wish is spent well, perhaps killing the Night Lord, then Liberty can win. It would be a matter of training up in the Dawnlord's realm and guerilla warfare to start, though.
Messianic is presumably meant to mean 'can heal anything physical and at least some mental/spiritual ills, including death, with personal attention'. Taken literally, though, it includes planetary-scale resurrection.
I just noticed that this is in the Magic section, while Magical Girl isn't. That implies some deeply weird interactions with Void Elemental.
I thought this was actually remarkably good for its' baseline strength multiplier, but then I noticed that the way it's phrased Adamant form would overwrite your strength. This may be a complication for muscle magi.
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| [ ] The Tyrant - Seated upon your throne of stone, to rule over Earth with an iron fist: you are the Tyrant, the first and final king of this world and every other to come afterward. Else, you may ensure there is never a world again. You are the Tyrant, and yours is the right to rule. *Amazing physical, mental, and social acumen. +60 Strength, Constitution, and Agility. +40 Intelligence and Wisdom, +40 Wits. +65 Charisma, +40 Manipulation. *Indomitable. You're immune to mind control, possession, advanced rhetoric, and similar effects. +100 Willpower, +.5 ISH Willpower. *Access Accretion, a form of symbiosis between wielder and object. Initially, your Astral Rank begins at a 4 Rank and may be increased not through deeds of legends, but acts of tyranny and dominion, such as world conquest. Around 25% of the world conquered, you should expect to be Rank 6; around 50%, you'll be Rank 7; around 90%, you'll be Rank 8. It's almost impossible for you to ascend past Rank 8 without Tyranny succeeding in the scenario entirely. You're constrained to possessing a maximum of three Artifacts in your Panoply, and you begin with the Monolith Throne. *The Monolith Throne is a royal seat composed of chipped basalt and carved marble, hovering on a platform of similar material in the orbit of the Earth. It's surrounded by a forcefield that includes a livable atmosphere, as difficult to breach physically as destroying fifty layers of tank armor; the atmosphere within doesn't leak even upon a breach, and the forcefield regenerates slowly. The platform can be made to float slowly to particular coordinates (~3,000kph) but maintains a steady altitude. Focusing, the Tyrant can make the Monolith Throne discharge a tractor beam that affects the equivalent spot on the Earth, allowing for the near-instantaneous transference between the platform and the targeted location on the Earth. Advancements of the Monolith Throne expand your platform, its amenities, its utility, its teleporter, and its defenses. *If you invite a particular subordinate on your Monolith platform and ominously explain, in crucial detail, a specific task you have for them, you may optionally give them a blessing to a single of their aspects, improving its effects by around 25%. It can't be a task of breadth greater than 'conquer a specific region the size of Crimea' or 'assassinate this specific individual' and an expected duration longer than six months. However, this process can only be performed [your Rank] times a season, and only a single one may be applied to an individual. If your subordinate fails on a mission enhanced in this manner, they'll have to return to the Monolith platform as quickly as they can, and be stuck on it for the same duration as the expected duration of the task you issued. *You're affected by the Doom of Tyranny. It cannot be mitigated. Furthermore, you're subject to a tripartite Geas, its contents thus: - Never harm a subordinate; or, reasonable circumstances and relative proximity permitting, allow them to come to harm unavenged unless they betrayed you or failed you in a highly significant manner (failing a mission with a predicted 95% success chance, allowing a jailed opponent to escape, etc.) If betrayal or failure is repaid, the effect returns. - Never act offensively against the forces of Liberty in person, or proactively enter situations in which you are likely to encounter the forces of Liberty. The only exception is acting within the context of a specific war-front, developed situation, or operation in which a minimum of three of your subordinates have already failed. - On every Saturday and Sunday, you must rest and perform no substantial work or activities that demand active mental or physical exertion. Communicating and directing your subordinates counts as substantial work, regardless of how casual your reply. None of the aspects of your Geas can be removed or mitigated. | [ ] The Mentor - A wizened and rigid Mentor, your role is not to rule, but to guide and lead those eager guardians who strive under your watchful eye. Yours is the sagacity to make difficult choices and to raise the next generation of fighters against Tyranny. *Considerable increase to your Attributes, with particular focus on the mental side. +25 Strength, Constitution, and Agility. +40 Intelligence and Wisdom, +20 Wits. *The powers of Tyranny slip by and find almost no purchase on you. You can't be mind controlled, possessed, or diminished by any of Tyranny's Archetypes. Any harm inflicted by a member of Tyranny is reduced by a single conceptual step (a lethal blow -> a disabling injury -> a moderate wound), including social, spiritual, and abstract forms of harm. Furthermore and finally, any of their magical effects are effectively reduced by 50% when affecting you, including the Tyrant's Rank. *Access the Ordinal Spiral, immediately advancing up to the 7th Ordinal and selecting your first Attainment. You're capable of initiating others into the Spiral, although this costs you a variable amount of progression; initiation of a fellow servant of Liberty would drop you from the 7th Ordinal to the 3rd; initiation of a non-Archetype mortal would drop you from the 10th to the 1st. *Alongside the Ordinal Spiral, you gain access to Vitalism. Begin with a single Vitalist Artifact of your design implanted, replacing either your lungs, your kidneys, your hands, or your eyes. You gain a moderate level of expertise in the implantation of such organs. Others may be initiated into Vitalism at grave cost; a Liberty member's initiation costs you the sacrifice of a single organ and significant expenditure of Essence, diminishing you semi-permanently and accelerating the spread of your condition. *You are slowly withering away. A sickness is creeping in on you, a cold that penetrates even your magical enhancements and refinements; a bone-deep sickness that rots you away into a husk. If nothing is done, it'll kill you in five years. Its effects can be mitigated to a good degree, its gradual spread slowed down to a trickle, and its symptoms treated so as to be less onerous. However, you can never be fully rid of it, unless you succeed in the scenario and Liberty wins - not even full transcendence into Vitalist metahumanity can save you otherwise. Once you're incapable of fighting, your allies will have to contemplate attempting to win without you to ensure your survival in this grim situation or putting you out of your misery so that another individual may take your place. Nobody else shall remember you possess this drawback. Are you going to tell them, potentially affecting morale? Or are you going to keep this to yourself, allowing them to live in peace, thinking nothing could've been done? *It might indeed be the wiser choice, instead, to prepare yourself to make a glorious last stand, advancing your team's agenda while dying in good spirit and health, remembered as a hero dying for the world and not an emptied vessel. In any such circumstances, you may invoke your Last Stand - for the duration of an hour, you have the following advantages: - Double your effective Attributes, and grant yourself +60 Charisma. - Immediately advance a single Ordinal and obtain a desirable First Attainment even if you don't meet the requirements. - Moderately improve the effects of your Vitalist Artifacts, and expand the scope of any supernatural abilities they grant you. - Gain 3 Defensive Rank. At the end of your Last Stand, you perish in either a peaceful or glorious manner, depending on whether you've managed to destroy the forces you're fighting, or whether there's someone left to finish you off. Know, then, that your Last Stand shall be remembered for the ages to come. *If you ever perish, any willing member of Liberty can assume your Archetype, giving up theirs in exchange. A difficult concept to stomach for some. |
| [ ] The Sorceress - Grace, unasked for, and perhaps undeserved, bestowed upon you through workings of a higher being. Even though you might not wish to believe it at first, the magic is real; findross pouring into you like starlight and perfection made solid. *The remit of the Sorceress is unbridled genius, insights most scathing, and the unbearable smugness to deploy her greatly developed knowledge to the frustration of foes and allies alike. +60 Intelligence +35 Charisma, +35 Appearance, +15 Wits, +15 Willpower, and +15 Manipulation. *Become a Sorceress of the First Coalescence, with the Attributes to match that status in your alternate form. Your starting Grace is guaranteed to be one of prodigious and incredible might and function, partially matching your personal desires and nature, such that you'd never feel awkward or dissatisfied with its achievable effects. You're granted intimate expertise and training with your Grace, as though you'd employed it as a tool in combat in twenty-five battles, learning its quirks, inner mechanisms, or secret applications. None of its aspects are strange or unknown to you, and your Sorceress Form hides no mysteries either. Any pre-existing Grace may be selected if you so desire, except for Hyper-Reactor and Grace of the Glaze. Further Coalescences are possible and highly likely to occur; expect a Second Coalescence within your first month as a Sorceress; a Third Coalescence in your first year, and a Fourth Coalescence on the closer side of the next decade - after that, your Coalescence rate slows down sharply. Selecting the Archsmith's Hammer as your Grace is going to activate Madman's Doom. *If Tyranny ever manages to successfully conquer more than 10% of the Earth and hold that amount of territory, without major contest or territorial conflict, for over six months, you'll be graced with an enchanted Ring, its magical effects potent and broad, synergistic with your Graces, and giving you influence over a single Domain, and several sub-Domains. It may be proffered to the Tyrant, or worn yourself. Alternatively, it may be shattered to immediately cast Lesser Wish. No matter the circumstances, the Ring cannot be stolen or forcibly taken from you by anyone except the Tyrant. Should anyone else do so, the Ring immediately reforms on your finger. | [ ] The Magical Youth - The distant calling of Justice resounds through the cosmos, distant principles singing in harmony; and to this, you answer in resplendent agreement and complete faith. For the world to be good, it must first learn to have compassion, and you volunteer to be its teacher. *The Magical Youth is unbound by the concerns of adulthood and maturity - they fight in the present, in the name of justice and the glorification of everything that's good about this world. This youthly vigor suffuses you and steers your every action. +25 Charisma, +25 Appearance, +25 Willpower. *Biological age and overall appearance reverted to late adolescence. By pronouncing the word, "Transform!" you may undergo a bright and visually impressive transformation sequence, in which you enter an alternate form. In this form, you gain +25 Strength, +25 Constitution, +30 Agility, +30 Willpower, and +20 Wits, you're dressed in a fantastic outfit of some stripe, and you externally appear to be much younger than you actually are. *Access a system of Spellcasting, its exact nature determined upon your first transformation: you may be a Warrior, a Support, or a Spellcaster. A Warrior is capable of various forms of self-enhancement and applying debuffs on struck enemies, a Support is capable of healing and buffing allies, and a Spellcaster is capable of accessing a great number of generic wizarding magics, largely in the disciplines of evocation and conjuration, but having the greatest versatility. *If you search carefully, you'll be able to find mortals who'd make excellent allies and partners. You're capable of inducting them as Magical Youths. They're able to pick their own preferred specialization in Spellcasting, and they receive 75% of your total Attributes, but sadly enjoy no other benefits. Their continuous presence in your vicinity grants you +15% to your own Attributes for each individual. A maximum of seven Magical Youths may be inducted at any one time. You're also good friends with the Hero, but can't make them a Magical Youth. *Upon your first transformation, you're able to make a single Least Wish. Nobody can influence the nature of your wish, whether through intimidation, coercion, or even mental alteration. After that, you gain a Minor Wish - on the level of restoring a lost limb or empowering yourself mildly - on every birthday. |
| [ ] The Angel - The Angel beckons to you from the beyond in its last breathing moments, its clarion wail of death resounding through your brain like a billion-billion sensations of tinnitus. The supervoid collapses, and fragments embed within you, in a moment of divine transcendence. Now, the power of the Spiral belongs to Tyranny. *Gain access to a magical system known as the Ordinal Spiral, immediately learning either the Seeker or Shield Form, and gaining a 50% Progression boost to any further learning. You're an Ordinal Purist, and may not learn, study, or initiate into any kind of magic system that isn't the Ordinal Spiral. No exploit or loophole exists for this. However, you may wholly benefit from the magical wonders and effects applied upon you by allies. *In determining the beneficiary of the Valor Form, you're considered as having a Specialist Form equivalent to your highest currently attained Ordinal. *Instead of selecting an Ordinal Attainment, you may instead choose to sacrifice all of your Ordinal Progress, setting yourself back seven levels. In return a single scintillating wing of magical orange flame bursts from your back, representing all of the progress you've made up to this point. A maximum of seven wings can be gained in this manner by repeating the process. Every time you grow a wing, select one of the benefits described below: - Achieve duality in a single Ordinal of your choice, such as being able to cast Seeker and Shield, in spite of their mutual exclusivity. May be picked multiple times, once for any Ordinal. - Induct one individual into the Ordinal Spiral per year. May be picked multiple times. - Gain the advantageous effects of having a 7th Ordinal Slot committed as a Specialist Form of any other Form of your choice. May be picked multiple times and stacked. - Gain a First Ordinal Attainment of your choice. May be picked multiple times. - Gain 30 +s to be distributed among your Attributes as you please; for every +Wits, you gain an additional free +Wits as well. May be picked multiple times. *Additionally, every wing you manifest grants you the following beneficial effects: Highly maneuverable flight (200mph per wing), resistance to adverse environmental conditions, +5 Wits. If you ever perish, a wing can be sacrificed instead, and you'll be reborn in the vicinity of the nearest Servant of Tyranny that's not also in immediate danger (or one in the least amount of danger, if such conditions do not exist.) A new wing created following that can have another effect. | [ ] The Factotum - The butler with silken gloves and a tray with a meal, the competent assassin and driver, the best chef in the world, the expert handyman: yours is a shining ethereal crown, a destiny of broad competence and greatness, to prevail against the oncoming chaos. Be the steward that Liberty needs you to be, and support its members in any capacity in which you're capable. *Gain +.9 ISH Competence, an insane level of hypercapability and proficiency. Any action you tentatively attempt is completed swifter than by the hands of most grandmasters, as though you were an expert in the discipline. Gain an affinity for tactics, acting, strategy, martial arts, painting, marksmanship, editing videos, being a movie director, freestyle rap, cooking, driving, piloting, teaching, learning, logistics, being a lawyer, and more! Make the forces of evil quiver and cower before your smirk, and look extremely cool and professional while adjusting your tie. However, you are ultimately mortal in comparison to your comrades, and so have your limits. No matter how competent, you are not so supernaturally and meta-conceptually competent that you can survive a point-blank explosion of magical force delivered to your torso. *Gain unflappable manners, a casually elegant bearing and solid appearance, and a mild level of cool disinterest in uncouth individuals. +25 Willpower, +20 Charisma, +20 Appearance. Your natural physical Attributes are nearly peak-human, and cannot be raised. *As the price for your insane competence, you do not interact positively with most forms of supernatural power. Any magical elevations of your natural Attributes are 50% less effective, and your competence is halved in the operation of any magical or supernatural artifacts or items. Any supernatural powers you wield are likewise constrained. Finally, you cannot enter, or be made to forcibly enter the Otherworld or any other existential plane. *Gain +20 Luck. *If you wish, you may choose to become a butler, servant, maid, or any other appropriate household role of a similar type, in service to any other member of Liberty of your choice. Nothing compels or forces you to stay with them, but for as long as you do so, you acquire a further +30 Luck, and your master enjoys having you as their majordomo. *Never get any dirt or bloodstains on your suit, no matter the circumstances. Arguably the greatest power of any on offer. |
| [ ] The Shogun - The cruel-handed and pitiless general who leads and presides over the Tyrant's vast armies, leading the conquest of the world in the name of Tyranny. In some ways, you are the Tyrant's right-hand man, the brute force to match the Sorceress' insights. *All of the physical might and personal magnetism befitting your honored station and glorious military distinction. +40 Strength, +40 Constitution, +40 Agility, +35 Wits, +30 Intelligence, +25 Charisma, +25 Willpower. *Acquire a suit of lamellar armor and a nodachi, exceptional in quality and possessing modestly supernatural capabilities. They're bonded to you, summonable across vast distances, and nearly indestructible. If any of them become damaged by some miraculous process or shattering strike anyhow, resting them upon the Tyrant's Monolith Throne may slowly repair them. *What else prevails in the end, but simple might? Once a year, select one of your physical Attributes and gain a single point in that Attribute. Normally, an Archetype's training can allow them to gain around double their natural starting Attributes, but with this aspect, you can gain triple instead. Alternatively, you may forgo this advantage permanently in order to access the magic of Battle Mastery, with a specialized focus on learning techniques that enhance your combat technique in melee range and render you a better fighter. *Gain a complete mastery in any field even remotely and conceivably related to warfare. Strategy, tactics, leadership, information, morale maintenance, logistics and supply routes, engineering, unit formations, stratagems and counters, operation of vehicles, etc. This also includes the necessary indoctrination and motivation techniques to recruit an army out of a population that previously wanted nothing to do with your regime, and over time, give them remarkable discipline and make them genuinely believe in the Tyrant's cause of domination and rulership. *May enter the God of War Form, increasing your Physical Attributes by 50%. It lasts up to 30 seconds of continuous use, and for every second spent in God of War Form, you must spend a month locked away in dreamless stasis within the Tyrant's Monolith Throne to recuperate. The technique is also extremely draining on the spirit, psyche, and body, and repeated uses in a period shorter than forty years might cause you to bleed away a significant portion of your power, skill, memory, and overall Essence. In this Form, you are surrounded by a fierce crimson aura. | [ ] The Disgraced - The former Tyrant, you were deposed and struck down by your apprentice, the current Tyrant. Although he and the rest of Tyranny wholeheartedly believe that you're dead and buried, you've managed to survive, clinging onto tattered remnants of cosmic power through your fingers, and in your moment of greatest weakness, you swore to enact your vengeance on them, whatever the cost. *Now, you fight on the side of Liberty, begrudgingly and unhappily. Don't get the wrong idea, s-stupid! It's not like you care about your Allies or anything, you're doing this to spite your apprentice, and because the Earth is yours and nobody else's! And you've got to make sure to always remind people of that, got it? *Instead of beginning on Earth, you start in the Otherworld and have little contact with Liberty or its members to begin with. However, the Otherworld is a land of many possibilities, and far away from the majority of Tyranny, so you should be safe here, allowed to grow and regather your strength. *Access the Emperor's Red, a Color Magic of superb potential. Its remit is nothing less than Essence itself and may amplify or diminish the fundamental nature of all things according to its wielder's desire and skill. By compounding his own Essence the wielder may steadily enhance the power of his spirit and magics. However, as the result of your extensive spiritual damage, your Magic is capable only of compounding your own Essence and improving you with it, and you may neither drain from nor imbue Essence into other beings - not to mention that your rate of progression is slowed down considerably. However, after a sufficient amount of Essence has been expended, you may repair your command of Color Magic to return the Emperor's Red to its complete functionality. Its greatest strength is its Ambition, and its greatest weakness, the same. *No one in Tyranny knows that you are even still alive, and it'll remain that way unless you do something drastic to reveal yourself to them. Your reveal is going to shock the Tyrant, and depending on your achieved power level, may even terrify him into stupefied inaction. You're the hidden ace in service to Liberty. *The Tyrant's Geas doesn't apply to you in any way. He can attack you and seek you out as he pleases, as long as he doesn't attack other members of Liberty. If other members of Liberty attack the Tyrant to protect you, the Tyrant is given a casus belli to fight back against them. He can't, however, hunt you down on the weekends. He's incentivized to seek you and finish you off, should you still be weak enough that he can slay you effortlessly. Be extremely careful about what you do. *The other members of Liberty might not trust you, and they may be within their rights to do so. After all, if you successfully manage to slay the Tyrant, you can optionally get your throne back, and seize the powers and Artifacts the Tyrant stole from you. If you plan on doing so, it'd be wise to convince the other members of Tyranny that you'd make a better ruler ahead of time. |
| [ ] The Black Knight - A forlorn and lost Hero who abandoned hope a long time ago, and decided to join the cause he struggled against; you are the secret and ultimate weapon of Tyranny. Arguably, you are also its greatest servant. *Inhuman and monstrous strength and physical greatness. +80 Strength, +80 Constitution, +60 Agility, +30 Wits, +50 Willpower. However, you cannot increase them above this level naturally, and magics or sorceries that increase them operate at decreased efficacy for you. You'll have to work with everything you currently possess, and expect to see little natural growth outside of that. *Secretive and loyal. No one except the Tyrant, the Magus, and the Steward know that you exist to start with; the Magus, however, knows almost nothing about you other than that you serve Tyranny, and the Steward doesn't know anything of note about you, or that you are even a member of Tyranny. You and the Tyrant possess great bonds of mutual friendship. You possess a suit of dark, magical armor that obscures divination and acquirement of knowledge regarding your true Attributes and powers; not even the Magus knows them, only aware that you exist. *Access the mighty and terrifying Soul Evocation of the Black Knight, formerly the Soul Evocation of the Aspiring Hero, granting you the following benefits: - Apply 25% Lifesteal to each of your physical attacks, a quarter of the damage dealt to opponents becoming healing energy that saturates you. If you aren't wounded, you may instead store the energy, and then expend it to heal yourself, or realize a plethora of minor effects, such as suppressing wound penalties, empowering attacks, intimidating aura, or applying cursed wounds. - At an extremely grievous cost to yourself, you may execute the Shattering Blow on an enemy. Recovering from this exertion is very difficult. - As long as you remain unquestioningly loyal to the Tyrant, benefit from 66% of the Tyrant's Astral Rank. (If Tyrant is Rank 5, you are Rank 3.3. If Tyrant is Rank 10, you are Rank 6.6.) *Instead of beginning on Earth, you awaken in a charred grove of Elfwood in the Otherworld. Here, there's an Artifact, presently useless and not particularly great in your circumstances. However, should the Tyrant bond this Artifact into his Panoply, it'd result in an item of amazing magical power and unfettered versatility. Your goal is to escape the Otherworld through a portal in the Magus' Tower, deliver the Artifact to the Tyrant, and then aid Tyranny in crushing whoever's left. The process of reaching the Magus' Tower should take you no more than three years, assuming that no unexpected complications arise in the meantime. Breaching the Tower is a process of its own. *The Magical Youth is your biological child. Somewhere deep in your heart, there exists a mote of hesitation when fighting against them. Can you truly kill someone you love, even to aid Tyranny? | [ ] The Magus - A Magus from the Otherworld, a master of the mystic arts, your goal is to prevent the Black Knight from accessing the Earth. He, indeed, shall not pass. *The intellectual prowess and mental talents of an experienced Magus, and modestly extrahuman physical parameters. Although temporal concerns do not amuse you, still you must rise to preserve the world against Tyranny's wickedness. +60 Intelligence, +20 Wits, +20 Willpower. +10 Strength, Constitution, and Agility. *All our glories, we pass on to you. Access the schools of the Diagram. You possess advanced knowledge of the basic Signs of the Diagram, beginning with a Sigil of your choice in each, three Battle Diagrams, and a single Grand Diagram. You possess sufficient inventiveness and inborn talent to develop your own spells with impressive speed, around 25% faster than most, and to expand the capabilities of the spells you already possess, as though Going Beyond for each; Going Further Beyond with huge amounts of effort. Choose a single Ascendant Sign to begin with. The other Ascendant Signs are mostly beyond you, at least for now, but the future may hold great prizes in store. *You possess a magical Ring of incredible power. It broadens one's reserves of spiritual energy, and greatly enhances the might of one's soul, allowing you to execute Diagram spells much faster and without significant exhaustion. Multiple Battle Diagrams can be deployed in a surprisingly and terrifyingly quick succession (175% casting speed) without much strain (halved exertion.) Alternatively, you may borrow the Ring to someone else to greatly accelerate their learning of any magic, including the Diagram, but providing them none of the other beneficial effects of the Ring. *You begin in a magical Tower in the Otherworld. It possesses strong magical defenses and has a broken golden archway that can be operated through an advanced panel to open portals to the Earth. Returning back is as simple as reciting an incantation. However, you must first repair the archway, a process that'll require a considerable amount of resources and time, but should be possible to accomplish within two months, given some luck. Aside from that, your Tower has a number of amenities, workshops, and libraries, allowing you to craft magical items, potions, and similar things; the Otherworld is plentiful with unnatural resources that may be converted into such crafts and wonders. You're also capable of learning a great number of lesser magical arts from the books in your library, none of them quite comparing to the power of the Diagram, but potentially granting you better versatility. Alternatively, you can give the books to your allies and tutor them in the magics that you possess. None of them are going to have even a decent amount of potential in the Diagram itself, however, as their spirits are unaccustomed to its specific kind of power and enlightenment. They'll be able to study and master the lesser magics more or less normally. |
| [ ] The Operative - The unknown; the missing element, the blank shadow warrior and murderer in service of Tyranny. If the Shogun is the Tyrant's blade, and the Sorceress is the Tyrant's scepter, then you're the Tyrant's dagger, concealed behind his back until the right time. *Acquire incredible bodily might and vigor, and even greater swiftness of limb and mind. +20 Strength, +40 Constitution, +40 Agility, +30 Wits. Acquire a swift and comprehensive healing factor, allowing you to regenerate from injury much faster (regain a lost limb in six hours, opened cuts are closed in several minutes.) *Possess a dominion and control over Shadows, capable of manifesting a cloak of darkness that renders you unnoticeable, or using monofilaments of concentrated umbrage to either fight or manipulate items at a considerable distance, among a manifold of other uses. Under sunlight, you suffer a 10% loss of your Attributes; under the moonlight, you enjoy +10% instead. *Experience with a magic system known as the Assassination Arts. Aside from being an experienced spy and secretive killer, you may perform any of the activities expected of a supernatural ninja, such as wall-crawling, leaping, cosmetic shapeshifting, or throwing concealed shuriken. *Once a month, you can enter True Shadow Mode for a period of up to twenty-four hours. In True Shadow Mode, receive the following benefits: - Everyone currently in existence forgets about your existence and a portion of its second-order effects unless confronted by you directly. All electronic records and evidence of your existence are scrambled for the duration, but return as soon as you leave True Shadow Mode. Only the Tyrant remembers you, can't forget, and may inform whoever he pleases (although they'll forget it again in moments.) - Embrace the darkness in your spirit, adding it to your swiftness. +20 Agility. - Gain the ability to become intangible and invisible for short periods (2-3 seconds) of time, bypassing objects or attacks. This period isn't long enough to forget you as though a target isn't confronting you directly. | [ ] The Witch-Slayer - A killer of mages raised on the Otherworld, and brought to Earth at a young age. Since then, you've decided to fight in the cause of Liberty due to an unspeakable atrocity the Warlock committed on your people. *Physical characteristics sufficient to compete with the strongest metahumans and the presence to scare your quarry into flight. +40 Strength, +40 Constitution, +45 Agility, +40 Wits, +50 Willpower, +25 Charisma (Intimidation). Also, you're an expert tracker and investigator, capable of easily following a fast-moving quarry. *Can't be directly or indirectly affected by any source of enemy magic. Interpretation of 'enemy magic' is somewhat generous and interpreted in your favor. This includes the Tyrant's Rank, the Stranger's forgetability and unnoticeability, the Black Knight's Soul Evocation, any of the Sorceress' Graces, and so on. Any magical artifacts the enemy wields against you are likewise rendered near-ineffectual, as effective as mundane implements. It's safe and completely valid to assume the only method through which you can be defeated is superior Attributes. *With great exertion - causing you incredible pain and draining your spirit and stamina - you may unleash the Silencing Shout, a great declaration that disables the magical abilities of anyone who's heard it and cancels ongoing magical effects; scrambling and dissolving wards, disrupting Astral Rank, and banishing magical summons. This ability is at first indiscriminate, affecting your allies as well as enemies, but sufficient training with the ability can allow you to somewhat direct its scope, reducing the degree to which your friends are affected. Until then, it may do to give them some warning, should it be possible. *Surprisingly, you aren't forbidden from utilizing any magic of your own, nor does the Silencing Shout affect yourself should you ever employ it. However, acquiring and mastering any such systems is left to you, and may prove more difficult than expected. *You feel intense, borderline-irrational hatred towards the Warlock, and cannot be relied on to stay civil and coherent when faced with an open possibility of slaying him. |
| [ ] The Pyromancer - The Pyromancer, an eager and grinning servant of Tyranny, you arose from the murk of humanity's mages as one of the greatest and boldest in potential, and now you serve the Tyrant as one of his many agents on Earth. *Access to Pyromancy, a magical school that revolves around the creation, maintenance, operation, preservation, and modification of various forms of magical flame. The simplest cantrip any apprentice learns is Combustion, a spell that immediately causes a targeted substance to combust into flames, undergoing an ordinary chemical reaction. In order to create magical flames, however, you must ignite specialized fuels and substances, most of them made through ritualized and methodical usage of Combustion on lesser substances. You're completely immune to any of the adverse effects of heat. Magical flames are capable of achieving virtually any effect, especially ones of transformative properties. Self-enhancement is possible and recommended. *You're equipped with a single, golden burner, usually hanging from your belt, that can sustain a magical flame for many hours. You also possess a handbook that can be used to learn the effects of many types of substances when combusted, although you're already familiar with most of its contents. If either of these objects are lost, you're capable of summoning them back to yourself. *If you should perish in an untimely and violent manner, you'll be resurrected in around a month within the nearest active volcano, forced to crawl your way to freedom, but also completely rejuvenated. +10 Strength and Constitution. *You've got a slight crush on (or feel positive awe towards) a member of your Faction. The choice of a specific person is yours, although it can't be the Tyrant. This effect is modest; they essentially wield an additional +25 Charisma in any interactions against you. It shouldn't be combat-relevant. | [ ] The High Elementalist - A glorious and brave-hearted warrior from outer space, now arriving on Earth to bring peace and order to its people, you are a practitioner of a magical discipline known as Surgecraft. Soon enough, Tyranny and its craven members will be facing the wrath of your Element in a full surge! *Design a 7-Arete Imaginary Element suited to your personality and desires. You're capable of wielding this Imaginary Element to great effect, having the talent of a prodigy and the experience of a veteran. +25 Wisdom in applying your Element. *Many sessions of submersion in the Imaginary Elements of allies from your civilization have left you a moderate superhuman. +15 Strength and Agility, +25 Constitution. *You're in the possession of a modified, Guardian-Class LXR-50 Stormcruiser, a type of advanced, prototypical Astral-driven spaceship. It has full VTOL capabilities and can achieve in-atmopshere speeds of Mach 120 with no sonic booms. It possesses advanced energy shields that can sustain multiple direct impacts from anti-air weaponry and a set of rotary forward-facing blasters that can be used to decimate infantry and lightly armored vehicles. The interior is large enough to hold a crew of twenty people or a similar volume of stored goods. Outside the Earth's atmosphere (or any other planet's atmosphere), it can achieve relativistic speeds without experiencing any time dilation. Outside of the Oort Cloud (or similar range from other star systems) it can achieve greatly FTL speeds. *If you're ever in a pinch, you may use the distress signal in your Stormcruiser. A squad of eight fellow Elementalists from the interstellar neighborhood is going to arrive to aid you in a single battle, then depart to whatever task awaits them. This can't be used more than once a decade, and you must file reports for every use. |
| [ ] The Warlock - An evil and wicked sorcerer, a wielder of magics and sinful insights... or perhaps simply a free-willed pursuer of knowledge and power that most others would consider forbidden. Whatever you are, however, you aren't exceptionally bothered by the trappings of morality. *All of the wicked intellect and the power expected of your role. And yet, your heart is filled with black cruelty, such that you have no patience for your lessers, and little empathy for your equals. +5 Strength, +5 Constitution, +3 Agility, +20 Intelligence, +25 Wits. +5 Heartlessness. *Acquire the possession of a magical system from any previous content in this thread. In order to properly determine your magic system, assemble a short list of six magic systems that you'd like to acquire the most, no more powerful and versatile than the Diagram, then roll 1d6 to determine which one you receive. You are moderately adept in learning the system in question, but you begin only with unimpressive and basic knowledge. *However, that isn't all that you can do. You're also moderately experienced and accomplished in the Dark Arts, a lesser magic system that allows you to cast various curses, create necromantic servants, or summon and make deals with demonic entities from the Umbral Interstice, the space between the Earth and the Otherworld, which holds them apart. *Begin your adventure in a small, remote wizard's tower on the eastern coast of the United Kingdom. Although it looks as though it should collapse any moment upon contact with a stiff wind, in actuality, it has incredibly powerful defensive wards and trap systems that make direct invasion an ill-thought proposition. Inside, there's a silver archway and control panel that can open an unstable gate into the Otherworld, allowing you to raid its kingdoms for materials, or simply picking up any resources you deem worthwhile. Although you can return from your trip immediately, you cannot open portals for others in the Otherworld. *The Magus is your distant cousin, and you used to attend the same school. Of course, your cousin was always better than you, and you're planning to claim vengeance for the humiliation that you were forced to suffer. | [ ] The Steward - A native of the Otherworld and a scion of the elves, you were chased away by an evil calamity that burned down your forests. In a bid to survive, you leaped into a collapsing portal and the dimensional rift deposited you into a wild glade on Earth. Although you don't know this, the cause behind your people's demise was the Black Knight. If you ever discover this, you might wish to pursue vengeance. *Accomplished expert of Binary Magic, a system of Twin Magics that allows you to practice Naturalism or Artifice. Unlike most of your elven kin, you're greatly capable and proficient with both of the aspects of Binary Magic. Any Essence you expend on your actions is regenerated over a long amount of time, sufficiently quick that you can manage to produce a single Artifact per year without any long-term diminishment whatsoever. *The location you begin in, a large pine forest glade surrounded on every side by modest creeks, has a sizeable amount of starting amenities, as well as a single Magnum Opus that you managed to snatch prior to your escape. Design it and determine its effects. If you wish, this place would make an excellent domain. *The grace and lightness of the elves is yours. +5 Strength, +5 Constitution, +10 Agility, +30 Charisma, +25 Appearance, +25 Luck. You're immortal and ageless, immune to disease, and you're swifter to recover from wounds and similar complications, with a lesser risk of death or being afflicted a permanent condition such as paralysis. *Since your appearance is so exotic and foreign by the standards of ordinary humans, you'll be given a magical necklace that can be used to conceal some of the revealing signs. This necklace also coincidentally inoculates you against most divination effects, especially trackers and spells that could break the illusion of your appearance. *Most animals and wild beasts you encounter are friendly and harmless towards you. Even starving carnivores are unlikely to harm you in any way unless provoked, and this includes a large amount of the magical beings that might be sent against you. You can befriend any such beings and tame them with relative ease, to keep as pets or companions. By focusing, you may summon and enhance the physical might of the creatures you've encountered before, compelling them to act as your guardians. |
| [ ] The Heir - The Heir to the Tyrant's throne, a youth of vileness most perfidious; here, you may show the Allies of Liberty a true grim slog of years. *The Tyrant is your primary instructor in this world and its affairs, and possibly also your biological parent. If the Tyrant perishes and his position hasn't been claimed by the Disgraced, you'll become the new Tyrant, inheriting your father's powers, Artifacts, and curses. *May learn, in due time, some aspect of the skills and powers in the possession of every other member of Tyranny, should they be willing to tutor you. However, you cannot learn their entire powerset, only an aspect of it. +Progression. *The Hero and you are childhood friends-turned-rivals. You're fated to compete against one another in every possible area. Destiny has great plans for both of you, and you might end up being the defining component of success for your respective Factions. | [ ] The Hero - The Hero, a youth of glories most scathing; here comes your 'dalliance of a season.' *May learn, in due time, some aspect of the skills and powers in the possession of every other member of Liberty, should they be willing to tutor you. However, you cannot learn their entire powerset, only an aspect of it. +Progression. *It's entirely possible the Shogun is either your aunt/uncle, your parent or another elder relative of yours. There's no way to confirm this, but he appears almost like an older version of you, and the resemblance is uncanny. You've never met your parents, and you were raised by the Mentor. If the Mentor dies in a Last Stand and you've completed learning from every other member of Liberty, you're able to claim his place without the withering disease applying to you. *The Heir and you are childhood friends-turned-rivals. You're fated to compete against one another in every possible area. Destiny has great plans for both of you, and you might end up being the defining component of success for your respective Factions. |
| [ ] The Pilot - A long time ago, your civilization fought against the civilization of the High Elementalist in a heavenly war, and lost. Although you managed to survive and escape annihilation during the last battle of the intergalactic conflict, it wasn't without a number of scars. Your Armament has likewise suffered. *+7 Constitution, +7 Wits, +15 Intelligence, +30 Willpower. *Become the bonded pilot of a half-broken Armament. Its Curse, exact properties, appearance, and name are yours to choose. Its effective Astral Rank is 5.0 and highly unlikely to rise under any circumstances unless one of your magically and mechanically-inclined colleagues were to be persuaded to focus some of their time on repairs. Even then, it's unlikely to achieve Astral Rank higher than the Tyrant's own maximum. Its Attributes are sufficient to compete with beings such as the baseline Shogun but are not significantly greater beyond that. The Armament refuses to operate with anyone else as a pilot. *The Armament you pilot may Close the Fist with any other Servant of Tyranny, creating a composite being that holds the powers of the Armament and individual combined. Although initially the gestalt being is imperfect and somewhat inefficient, sufficient practice and repeated fusions can eventually make one that's greater than the sum of its components. Alternatively, you can fuse with more than a single target, but for even further decreased efficiency. *However, outside of the Armament, you're only marginally better than a simple peak-human. There won't be much you can contribute to Tyranny. | [ ] The Nexus - Everything can be improved, every facet turned in the direction of glorious unity. You are the Nexus of Liberty, the sacred manifestation of freedom, the spoke about which the wheel of its justice may finally turn and tread over Tyranny. *Become a Cultivator of the Dao Cleaving Stage, including the benefits such an exalted being is expected to receive. However, you may not cultivate any further past the Stage you're currently at (although, should you lose Cultivation progress, you can make up anything that was lost.) You gain the Dao of the Nexus. All of its powers and corollaries are yours. Instead of its standard limitations and offered stages, you're set to empower a team of ten Emissaries, all of whom receive the benefits of the Organ Refinement Stage. Your Emissaries cannot be other members of Liberty. Your Sanctum is Size 6, Redoubt 6, Essence 4, Influence 4. No matter what, you cannot leave your Sanctum. *Begin in any city in the world. Alternatively, you may begin within several feet of the Mentor. You must establish your Sanctum as soon as possible. *Once a week, you may cast Minor Wish, but only for the specific purpose of empowering a chosen Emissary, or creating/enhancing a magical item or potion for one of your many allies. Once a year, you can cast Least Wish instead, but only for the purpose of empowering a member of Liberty, essentially granting them a year's progression: this can be applied to yourself. Seven Least Wishes are going to allow you to cultivate further. |
| [ ] The Remitted - Among the disparate cosmic junctions of the Outer Beyond, a single path can be found: clandestine among the nebulae, it has revealed to you a shadow of a power long-passed, a visitor to this universe that departed. And yet, the remains of his messy picnic are your treasure. *Distribute 30 +s to any Attributes you wish. However, non-Physical Attributes cost you double. *Select one Remittance of the following to possess: Amplitude, Final Form, the Basis, or Chromatic Aberration. It counts as a magic system for most purposes, but the Witch-Slayer's Shout is only half-effective against it, giving you some leeway in dealing with him. *May optionally select a major Curse in order to gain an additional Remittance or to apply [To Shatter Heaven] to your chosen Remittance. This is your choice to make - Mitigation is going to be difficult, and you do not receive any other boons that you perhaps should've for such a burden. The Tyrant also might not be a huge fan of you weighing yourself down with unnecessary bullshit. *The Gamer lives in the same neighborhood as you, and you know one another as casual acquaintances. Neither of you are aware of the other's nature. | [ ] The Gamer - It's a story as old and crooked as modern culture, and known to everyone, to the point of bland regurgitation. A young man awakens in his bed, a menu floating overhead, displaying statistics and numbers. He experiments, finds ways to increase and optimize and eventually becomes something greater. Now, you find yourself in the same amusing situation, waking up only to find promises of greatness in a box in front of you. *The System shines in your eyes, providing methods of advancement. Gain a character sheet, a subspatial inventory that can be used to store up to thirty metaphysically distinct items, and a sub-system of quests that may be accomplished in order to accumulate XP, and eventually, Level Up. Leveling Up provides you with increases to your Attributes, skills, abilities, and similar core aspects. It's also possible to gain Achievements through extraordinary feats, enhancing your strength in other ways. However, you begin as a mortal, set on a path to improvement. *Although you're a mortal to start with, you do begin with a good and prodigious talent for mathematics and numerical optimization. You're unlikely to make yourself stumble into an inefficient or outright bad character construction. *The Remitted lives in the same neighborhood as you, and you know one another as casual acquaintances. Neither of you are aware of the other's nature. |
| [ ] The Prodigy - A student of a magician from another multiverse entirely, you became dreadfully bored of your master's teachings and decided to visit here, and then, upon seeing the local events, threw in your lot with Tyranny simply because you could, and because it seemed more fun than Liberty. *The mind of a casual and reckless prodigy. +50 Intelligence, +30 Wits, +30 Willpower, +20 Charisma. *Access the Verses of the Higher Tongue, a system of magic reliant on the recitation of specific and meaningful phrases, either through physical incantation, the usage of limb movements, or even scribed symbols. Learn the Perfect Storm Verse, and design (or simply gain) five other Verses no more powerful than Stitch In Time. Your proficiency is equivalent to an experienced adept, and you may execute the Verses with peculiar speed and power. *You're capable of learning other systems of magic and intuiting knowledge about them from simple, clinical observation, or intuiting new Verses in an almost casual manner. Your advancement is impressively swift and resolute, although your starting power isn't that much to write home about in comparison to some of your fellows. *You're motivated primarily by entertainment. Your Mental Attributes might oscillate or drop should you be assigned, or embark upon, a particularly boring or trivial mission. This can be amended over time by learning the patience your old master sought to instill into you. *You're aware, perhaps better than anyone else out of everyone, of the horror that lurks beyond the reaches of this cosmos. Its drumbeat approaches steadily, its crosshairs set on this place. There's nothing that can stop it, not even victory, although its arrival is many millennia off. Still, it'd be wise to flee before then. | [ ] The Surgeon - The descendant of a long and storied line of Heroes, you especially, are a savior of lives. Ever since you were young, you'd dreamt of providing medical aid to other sentient beings, and this destructive conflict proves to be a fascinating opportunity to test your skills! It's too bad about the loss of life, though. Also, you're an orc. *Amazing physical Attributes, and impressive mental acumen. +35 Strength, +40 Constitution, +30 Agility. +40 Intelligence, +20 Wits, +25 Willpower. *An expert healing mage, you're capable of healing any injury, no matter how grave or accursed, and you're capable of self-healing. You can swiftly and unproblematically remove both physical and mental illness of all sorts, and you can accomplish a moderate level of flesh-sculpting with some effort and time. All of this can be done from the distance of a small room without diminished effectiveness, or the distance of a football field with only a small decrease in speed. You may annul the process of aging through touch, and you are doing so for yourself constantly. However, none of your powers allow you to reliably resurrect the dead, aside from those who perished recently and haven't begun rotting yet. *When, and if, you die, you'll be immediately reborn in the body of a young (16-20yo) human. They are your vessel through retroactive timeline alteration and were a philosophical zombie until the moment you came to inhabit them, driven only by your own powers of life. The only way to kill you is to fully eliminate the human race or somehow prevent all of humanity from breeding for a short window of time and killing you. *At heart, you're a scientist and explorer. By observing and studying various specimens that you haven't encountered before, such as monsters from the Otherworld, demons summoned from the Umbral Interstice, or any number of other strange biological phenomena, you're capable of expanding your skills in flesh-sculpting and, eventually, achieve the ability to create great, titanic organisms and superpowered behemoths, or even genetically inducing superpowers in people. |
[ ] The Evoker - An entity originating in the Umbral Interstice, you're not exactly human, but you're capable of pretending. After the Warlock summoned you into this world, you've decided there's much profit to be made here. *Ethereal nature. +20 Agility. You're capable of becoming intangible and invisible, and you can teleport across vast distances, traversing the world by stepping across certain tethering points, places in which magic is particularly strong. It's possible for you to cross the entire Earth in as little as ten minutes, should you choose the correct route. You're also immune to physical damage, requiring magic to deal you any injury. If you're slain through magic, you instead regenerate in the Umbral Interstice, from which the Warlock or anyone else with the requisite knowledge can summon you back with relative ease. *You're capable of making binding agreements and contracts with other people. You're skilled in making these deals and convincing mortals they're favorable, even - and especially - when they actually aren't. Over time, you may use this to accumulate vast amounts of economic power. *Furthermore, you're capable of igniting the light within people's souls, granting them Soul Evocation. This costs you a significant amount of Essence, temporarily disabling your contract powers and weakening you. If you'd like, you may awaken your own Soul Evocation, although it's unlikely to be remarkable. | [ ] The Controller - An elegant and focused individual, you're - above everything - efficient and rational. You've considered the potential outcomes and decided that Tyranny's leadership and methods are too flawed because the Tyrant can't be trusted with the act of ruling. Only yourself, or a committee of people you personally trust, can do that. *Become an advanced user of Visualization, also known as Imagecraft, a system of magic that requires its user to hold and go through specific and often rapid patterns of mind-states and thought images, achieving a plethora of effects. Any imaginable effect is viable and can be achieved with sufficient study and effort, although this art cannot breach the harsh standards established by the laws of physics. You possess a mild intuition for learning new spells, an act that's otherwise extremely difficult to accomplish. *Become a novice user of Chrysopoeia, also known as Internal Alchemy, a somatic and conceptual art. Aside from slowly enhancing your Physical Attributes and Wits, it can allow you to transcend the boundary of what's possible, drawing you steadily closer to the Realm of Forms. A particular Imagecraft spell can be used to advance in this art, even in the absence of the Azoth that's usually required. *You're in the possession of an enchanted black gauntlet. Anyone you give the gauntlet to becomes your apprentice, capable of learning Imagecraft and Internal Alchemy from you. Alternatively, you may choose to wear the gauntlet instead, accelerating your progress in both arts. |
| [ ] The Monster - A terrifying and dreadful creature; some mad experiment unleashed in defiance of God's creation, that you would choose to become something like this can only be called concerning. *+60 Strength, +60 Constitution, +40 Agility, +30 Wits, +50 Willpower. You do not appear human anymore, but rather, you possess the form of a nightmarish chimera made out of solid darkness, eyes crimson with inhuman and supernatural wrath. Your presence has a palpable aura, one that inspires fear and terror; as a matter of fact, it's so terrifying and intimidating that there exists a good chance of you immediately shocking lesser beings into flight or unconsciousness by simply making eye contact. Only partial effectiveness against Archetypes, and fully turned off towards other Servants of Tyranny. *You're particularly charismatic and charming in interactions with your teammates, capable of captivating even the hearts of the cruelest Tyrant, and even interacting positively with the Warlock. You can instinctively feel what your teammates desire, and how to help them achieve these needs. *Acquire a moderate yet comprehensive resistance to hostile magics, as well as esoteric and exotic effects, somewhat comparable to the Witch-Slayer's. This aspect is never irrelevant, no matter the elevation of the effect, but doesn't assuredly bring complete or reliable resistance. *Your senses become unnaturally sharp, keen, and trained to operate with extreme precision and sensitivity, like those of a bloodhound, yet upturned even further; tracking through scent across nations, hearing a pin drop across valleys, and seeing better than an eagle. | [ ] The Dragon - The Dragon, a noble beast that does not concern itself with the world of mortals. Still, better to be free, than to live under the Tyrant's whip. *Possess the Attributes, form, and general mythological abilities of a dragon, capable of contesting the hardiest opponents. Hard of scale, capable of flight and breathing out a number of classical elements for offense or utility; you may cast various forms of magic and you're generally powerful, only growing more so with age. You possess virtually inexhaustible spiritual, mental, and physical energy, and would be terrifying to face when equipped with any greater magical system that you can learn, such as the Diagram or even the Ordinal Spiral. You're capable of broad and comprehensive shapeshifting, whether into animals or human beings, and you're less bound by effects seeking to dominate you in some arena of metaphysics, such as gravity, stress, and fate. Likewise, the Pressure exerted by Astral Rank affects you significantly less than it should. Overall standard combat capabilities are slightly beyond the baseline Shogun. *You possess a hoard concealed deep in a cave, somewhere in the Alps. It contains somewhere around $2,500,000,000 worth of goods. Consider selling them to fuel your cause, or perhaps utilize them for magical rituals. *Your most precious exhalation is True Dragonbreath, a form of white flame. Creating any quantity of this miraculous flame is exhausting and draining, requiring that you pass into slumber in order to recover. The True Dragonbreath is mutable, a force of annihilation, change, or restoration. It can be used to achieve virtually any effect expected of a Minor Wish, or to damage and perhaps destroy an enemy regardless of their defensive parameters and preparation. |
| [ ] The Magician - You're the student of a prestigious magical academy in another world, similar to the Prodigy, and you were accidentally stranded here due to unexpectedly bad weather. Although you'd normally prefer not to be swept up in conflicts of this sort, you were compelled to pick a side by a voice in your head, and you chose Tyranny simply because it employs less non-humans. *Select any of the following magics to practice, with a maximum of four. However, the more you choose, the lesser your fealty benefits, and the more diluted your mastery: Manacraft, Pranacraft, Internalism, Enigmatism, Correspondence, Mentalism, Dragonscale. *If you'd like, you may attempt to ignore this conflict and tunnel back to your home universe. This can be done by constructing the biggest tower in the world. If you manage to do this, you'll be exempt from the loss conditions of this scenario. However, the Tyrant is aware of all this and unlikely to appreciate the escape attempt. Watch your step. *Your destiny and fate lean towards outcomes and futures with romantic pursuits and similar lovelike endeavors. Indeed, circumstances appear to conspire to place you in situations where romantic and strong interpersonal relationships become a prominent feature of your life. *If you presume to pick Axe Magic, it's not entirely impossible the Tyrant is going to kill you for the sheer temerity. | [ ] The Mad Scientist - They called you mad, but what does that actually mean, when you think about it? If a genius is someone whose cup is full, then your overflows gloriously with boundless intellect and nimble-wittedness. You oppose the Tyrant, not out of some misplaced sense of duty to society, or inherent righteousness, but rather, because you're confident he must be an idiot, especially in comparison to someone such as yourself. As a member of Liberty, you intend to bring order to planet Earth. *The intellect expected of a mad scientist. +90 Intelligence, +30 Wisdom, +30 Wits. *The mechanical, scientific, economic, and engineering knowledge of a studious polymath and prominent intellectual. You're capable of crafting powerful death rays, suits of power armor, factories that churn out loyal soldier-robots, and more with your experience, out of materials that you can locate in a junkyard. Further refinement of your methods, experience in particular disciplines of science and creation, and access to better materials can result in exponentially better crafts. *You've got a Ph.D. in Ethics. That's how you know you're absolutely correct about your course of action. *You have an eager minion, a sort of attendant, that keeps you company and keeps the worst excesses of your personality in check while also supporting you unconditionally. This assistant is a distant relative of someone on the Tyranny Faction. *Madman's Doom - Every now and then, you remember a peculiar woman, her attitude unbearably self-approving, wielding an array of crafted artifacts against you. Anything that dares remind you of this person must be destroyed immediately, prioritized over most other concerns. It'll be difficult to draw you out of this state, but not impossible given sufficient rhetoric or bribery. |
Next up is A Wish Upon A Star CYOA, because it's the next one I had in my tabs.
Next up is A Winter Dynasty, and I actually have two builds for this one, each of them very straightforward:
Next is Elemental Interest!
Moving on to An Unkindness Untolerated! Starting with 12 Bronze, 6 Silver, and 1 Gold, here's my build:
Status Screen CYOA and it's DLCs! I'll be honest, I went full meme here that'll probably get myself wrecked in relatively short order. That said, it's a short path to Godhood:
On to the Once & Always CYOA! Got a couple builds for this one:
Next up is Hatred Internalized! With an initial budget of 4 Petty Grudges, 2 Serious Grievances, and 1 Absolute Hatred, my build is below:
Time to take a Vacation with Galaxia!
Can't forget about The Lost Realm CYOA! Rolling the dice has given me 73 Insightful Inklings, 1 Informative Opinion, and 5 Inherent Memories.
Five Wishes CYOA is up next! First up is my joke/meme build:
Time to get isekaied with Demon of Dreams!
Genesis CYOA, in which I'm not sure if this is an original setting or not, so I guess I'll treat it like it is! Three coins, with potentially up to five more via drawbacks!
I'm the Prophesized Hero for the Otherworld But the Adversary Managed to Hit Snooze on my Alarm Clock and Win While I Was Asleep, Now the World is Covered in Darkness, How Unexpected.
Time to learn magic!
Oh boy, time to die! Starting out with 12 Picks, 4 FB, and 2 EFB.
Let's eat! 28 Arete, 4 picks, let's see what's cooking:
The Coward's Doom, maybe?
Lol, I saw that X! Also, did you catch the nerf? Birdsie's confirmed now that baseline Emissaries are pretty handle-able by combat-focused Servants.
What if I told you that any unpicked slots are going to be filled out by hypercompetent NPCs?
It becomes much more complicated in that case. Much more complicated..
Yeah I caught the Nerf. Still seems like a halfway reasonable option for the Liberty build.
The Nexus can simply hunker down and pick up some Emissaries, then empower them with Wishes. And bonus points if you can coordinate with the Magical Youth to make your Emissaries Magical Youths.
I should be able to help with that!
