In NWoD at least, there are were-crows and they have a reaction to gold instead of silver. There are also rules to create were creatures of any stripe, with the absolute insanity of the were-elephant.
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And with this, Bitch has found her God. Meanwhile Lisa is spending the next two weeks hiding, lest Peter makes good on her promise of giving her all of the floofy tails.
There are also many other changing breeds, like were-sharks, were-spiders, were-foxes, and many more.
And some breeds have clans, each with their own customs and traditions. The werewolves, for example, have the Glass Walkers who are wolves who have embraced civilization. Some of their members even became cyborg-wolves.
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Lisa - 'More powers, and no longer being just a squishy Thinker... But I will be teased endlessly over fluffy tails and will owe him one...'
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Poliamida
(Verified Heavy Molecule)
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Yup, that's accurate.
Political systems are too inefficient
They split like the atom and burned in the fission
Now every department and every decision
Defer to the herds of our corporate divisions
Loved it! And I wonder what Tattletale's assestment would look like. Maybe a big "NO".
Oh, I know. I did see pictures. I still imagine that as something that they'd leave as last option.
Giant Robot Annette?
Adding to what Fouredged Sword already said, Kitsunes are just the japanese name for were-foxes.
And there are many things that you could identify as dragons. There are the Chimeras that are fae spirits given a specific form, there are the bygone creatures that went extinct after the 'consensus' rejected the idea of magic, but I think that the closes things would be the Mokole. The Mokole are were-lizards, and their traditions talk about the anctient Dragon Kings who ruled the Earth during the times of the Dinosaurs. Paricularly powerful and ancient Mokole can turn into dragons of myth.
And there are many things that you could identify as dragons. There are the Chimeras that are fae spirits given a specific form, there are the bygone creatures that went extinct after the 'consensus' rejected the idea of magic, but I think that the closes things would be the Mokole. The Mokole are were-lizards, and their traditions talk about the anctient Dragon Kings who ruled the Earth during the times of the Dinosaurs. Paricularly powerful and ancient Mokole can turn into dragons of myth.
Oh, a Garu empowered by Bitch would be nasty.
And that is before accounting the likelyhood that her new fox ears gives her a massive weakness to headpats. Victoria, even after the additional cyberware and the Heavy Gear/Samuari jacket would tell Peter that giving Tattletale a mute button was the greatest thing he has ever done for her.
Never mind other Garu, just think how nasty Bitch would be in Crinos form using her power on herself.
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Ridli Scott
(Verified acid sweater mutant)
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After reading the PRT's report I'm very glad that they stopped calling The Fight Kitsune. Because now Heavy Gear has a real kitsune in the form of Nia.
And likely another one in the form of Lisa, despite her protests. Somehow I think the video of Tech Priest being chased by Fluffy-Tale and Nia will be even more viral than the one of him being chased by a still human Tattletale.
So mute other people since most gaming communities are toxic and focus on winning the game?
You didn't include her revival power or her PRT power specification threat rating.
Raiseth
I Find Your Lack of Memes Disturbing
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ah, I see you are a man of culture, too.
MangoFlan
Cold... I feel cold...
I could clearly remember you implying that Peter's shard would at some point understand magic and thus provide actual magic rather than imitations. I don't think you've implied that it will retroactively magicify old magical artifacts.
I'm pretty sure that the cards are already mildly genuinely magical and seems to be becoming more magical, but that could just be my impression.
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Cauldron would like to know your location.
Raiseth
I Find Your Lack of Memes Disturbing
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Well, none of the Cards demonstrated anything that a parahuman couldn't do, so.
Then again, I am a firm believer in that Shards are bullshit magic and just don't realize it, so don't quote me on that.
Most of the magic powers in these settings depend on connecting with a discarded trash and moribund forces left by ancient spiritual beings that fucked up somewhere down the line and now you're holding a small broom trying to clean up a oil spill every year.
That's the job of the werewolves, which they are very very very bad at. They prefer good old genocide, but as things are they couldn't even genocide humanity (again), much less the night people, evil supernatural corporations and the rest, not to mention oblivion and the traitor tribes they have worshiping it.
The world of darkness is constantly 3 weeks away from apocalypse. Resuming, it's real life with magic making everything slightly worse by giving more power to everyone. And oh yes, some people are eternally tortured in various ways because this is a horror game (supposedly, it's more like 'not all (vampire/wraith/werewolf/mage) superheroes wear capes' in practice).
That's the job of the werewolves, which they are very very very bad at. They prefer good old genocide, but as things are they couldn't even genocide humanity (again), much less the night people, evil supernatural corporations and the rest, not to mention oblivion and the traitor tribes they have worshiping it.
The world of darkness is constantly 3 weeks away from apocalypse. Resuming, it's real life with magic making everything slightly worse by giving more power to everyone. And oh yes, some people are eternally tortured in various ways because this is a horror game (supposedly, it's more like 'not all (vampire/wraith/werewolf/mage) superheroes wear capes' in practice).
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jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
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This should be good.
Ah CYA reporting and records. Technically true but fudging the details to make what they did look above the board while making HG and Danny look as if they are in the wrong.
IE we totally think she done these things but can't find proof yet.
We can't directly attack them to try and bring them in because of the collateral damage. And we can't go the legal route becuase they're currently superstars for killing an Endbringer. So start performing very dubious carrot and stick-style pressure tactics to make them buckle.
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Finding a way of making Tattletale shut up at will is an achievement worthy of medals and awards!
Personally I quite like a well written Tattletale, but even when she's your friend or ally she's the sort that you need to slap a hand over the mouth of from time to time
The main problem with OWoD is that it's in inherently a dark, pessimistic, nihilistic setting. The reason the world is always three weeks from the end of the universe is that the collective unconscious of humanity that powers everything fundamentally wants to die. Things like aging and bacteria are lies that we tell the universe to implement because the ultimate desire of all life is to be dead. The collective unconscious controls everything. If pain and suffering exists it can only do so because the collective unconscious wants to suffer.
Every faction, good and evil, within the setting is ultimately struggling with this. They are all destined to eventually lose. The whole point is the futile struggle of the individual VS a universe that just doesn't care.
It's why I prefer NWoD. There at least they dropped some of the hopelessness and left within their setting a possibility of victory.
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Ah, i really want Darling in the Franxx tech tree. Wanna see how Peter would explain THAT
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That's giving Mage too much weight overall. The collective unconscious paradigm only matters in the Material. Once you're in any of the spirit realms the idea of vulgarity is reduced to the severity of the action, not how much people are willing to accept it. The spirit realm no matter how thick the Gauntlet still affects the Material.
So you still have the problem of the Wyld/Weaver/Wyrm and the Wyrm's madness infesting everything, and that has nothing to do with humanity in and of itself.
As a side note: strictly speaking there were ways to get out of the various apocalypses alive, but WW drank its own cool-aid on the "gothic-punk" thing for too long to that to really be untangled.
As a further side note: I strongly reject Demon: the Fallen as canon to oWoD, because of its entire "Hahahaha jklol the right answer was Catholicism all along, everything else is demons playing tricks on you. Gaia? Demon. The Wyrm? Demon. Avatars? Demons. We sure fooled you idiots! Hah!" bullshit that trampled all over decades of material.
Most of that Dragon King stuff should be taken with a grain of salt, as it was written at a time when WW was still planning on having Exalted be part of the oWoD canon. Don't know if that's a direction you want to go with it, but ... yeah.
So in more Samuel Haight -like shenanigans, I will also take the time to mention that on top of the Khaydarin-enriched blood as Vitae for gene-therapied Revenants (unlocking Kindred disciplines that way), you could also (and this is literally also, it's compatible) go with Qiao. And of course there's the builtin feature of Psychic numina. Working out how to get that from the existing psychic shenanigans already in the techtree should be... well. You could wrap that all up with a little bit of Star Council Sorcery for that tinkerish feeling, and also to expedite accessing the other three items. I guess wrapping this all up would be engineering a spirit-like entity to possess/infest Peter as something between Gorgon/Drone/Fomor -ification and thus unlock Gnosis/Rage ... as long as it was actively engineered from scratch for the purpose (say by the above combination of abilities) you could go for the full monty that way. Only thing missing is Kinain Glamour (not really useful without being full Kithain anyhow) and Mummy status (which has a hell of a drawback).
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Garreon
Paldean Top Champion
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Aisha: Power of Teamwork? Dude your giant robots run on DOGGY STYLE!Ah, i really want Darling in the Franxx tech tree. Wanna see how Peter would explain THAT
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Silverias
Seeing is Believing
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I do love me a good Stupendium reference.
I am expecting a convergence soon. Killing an Endbringer brings attention from s-class threats...and The Fallen.
I am kinda imagining Newt just...twisting Valefor's head off.
Josnacio
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Ridli Scott
(Verified acid sweater mutant)
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Yeah, Worm run a lot in the trope "meh! I could take him."
"Jack, he killed Scion by only glaring at him."
"Meh! I could take him."
He's about to get access to the Mage tech tree. He just might glare Scion to death.
ImperatorV
The Laughing One
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Hm, I don't think projection-type powers would be the result. Projection powers are Master powers, and Masters trigger from Isolation, Betrayal, Alienation, and/or Abandonment. Perhaps if the people in question felt betrayed and abandoned by Tech-Priest? Or if they felt alienated from society/their loved ones/humanity in general by the cyborging?
More likely triggers for the body horror people are, IMO: Changer (Triggers from body issues or self-image issues), Trump (Triggers directly involving parahumans), Breaker (Abstract problems or a combination of physical and mental stress), Mover (drive to escape or flee something), or, if Tech-Priest, Dragon, and co fail to fix them for a long time, Tinker (long-term unsolvable problem builds up to a crisis point).
Of course, the trigger rules are not hard and fast, Shards can do unexpected things sometimes.