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Nascent Goddess Quest
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Name: Eshani, She Who Soars Above
Class:Goddess Support Mage
Health: Minor Damage
Status: Normal
Mana: 1500/1500
Ambition Points: 11
Lives: [1] [2] [3]
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Class:
Health: Minor Damage
Status: Normal
Mana: 1500/1500
Ambition Points: 11
Lives: [1] [2] [3]
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Fire Stream: Breathe out a stream of fire by mundane means. Deals high damage and has a high chance to burn the enemy. Requires a special flammable liquid and a flame.
Limited First Aid Knowledge: You have a 50% to move someone in Last Chance to Critical Condition and Critical Condition to Heavy Damage
Limited First Aid Knowledge: You have a 50% to move someone in Last Chance to Critical Condition and Critical Condition to Heavy Damage
Ambition Manipulation: Manipulate someone's desires while you speak to them to make them more likely to agree with you (requires several minutes of meditation near the target). Gives a +15 in social rolls if it succeeds, DC:30, failure makes the target hostile, costs 150 mana and 2 Ambition Points. Costs 0 Ambition points to establish a link (so 150 mana for a link and 2 AP for manipulation)
Drain Ambition: Absorb some ambition from a target, requires you to have established a link via Ambition Manipulation on them recently, gains Ambition Points
Ambitious Goals: Spend 100 mana to set a goal, anything you do that works towards this goal gets a bonus, the more specific the goal the bigger the bonus. If you consider the goal to be too difficult or too easy you don't get a bonus from it. Succeeding at these goals can add Ambition Points. Switching goals before completion, however, can cost Ambition Points.
Single Minded Focus: Expend 2 Ambition Points to make someone (you, an ally or an enemy) so focused on one goal to the detriment of others. Target gets +10 to either defence or accuracy or bonus damage, at the cost of a -5 to the other aspects and/or lowered damage. Lasts 2 combat rounds, can be stacked up to twice.
Drain Ambition: Absorb some ambition from a target, requires you to have established a link via Ambition Manipulation on them recently, gains Ambition Points
Ambitious Goals: Spend 100 mana to set a goal, anything you do that works towards this goal gets a bonus, the more specific the goal the bigger the bonus. If you consider the goal to be too difficult or too easy you don't get a bonus from it. Succeeding at these goals can add Ambition Points. Switching goals before completion, however, can cost Ambition Points.
Single Minded Focus: Expend 2 Ambition Points to make someone (you, an ally or an enemy) so focused on one goal to the detriment of others. Target gets +10 to either defence or accuracy or bonus damage, at the cost of a -5 to the other aspects and/or lowered damage. Lasts 2 combat rounds, can be stacked up to twice.
Scan: Spend 500 mana to learn all the enemy's attacks and the number of health categories it has.
Crippling Focus: Spend 500 mana to focus their concentration on you at the end of a round. This distracts them for the next round and is disrupted as soon as they take damage, even if mid round. When the effect ends by any means, the target is given a boost to their attack and defense (varies by target).
Distraction: Spend 2000 mana to distract an enemy by making them confused about a random subject for a turn. This distraction reduces either their attack or defense roll for that round by 50. 2 Uses.
Commune: Speak to that mysterious voice that gave you these powers, it might even give you some answers to questions, though answers to questions may have it ask for a...payment of sorts. Speaking to it too much might annoy it too.
Random Access Knowledge: Spend 500 mana to gain a random piece of knowledge related to the task at hand, gives a +20 to any roll, in combat and out. If used for an attack or defense roll it makes you competent in that weapon for the round it is used too.
Crippling Focus: Spend 500 mana to focus their concentration on you at the end of a round. This distracts them for the next round and is disrupted as soon as they take damage, even if mid round. When the effect ends by any means, the target is given a boost to their attack and defense (varies by target).
Distraction: Spend 2000 mana to distract an enemy by making them confused about a random subject for a turn. This distraction reduces either their attack or defense roll for that round by 50. 2 Uses.
Commune: Speak to that mysterious voice that gave you these powers, it might even give you some answers to questions, though answers to questions may have it ask for a...payment of sorts. Speaking to it too much might annoy it too.
Random Access Knowledge: Spend 500 mana to gain a random piece of knowledge related to the task at hand, gives a +20 to any roll, in combat and out. If used for an attack or defense roll it makes you competent in that weapon for the round it is used too.
Mana Blast: Spend 100 mana to shoot a beam of light at the opponent, damaging them.
Minor Heal: Spend 400 mana to heal a health category
Mana Barrier: Spend 250 mana to generate a shield that blocks one health category of damage (knockback still applies), the barrier lasts 2 rounds
Projectile Shield: Spend 400 mana to cover the target with a protective shell. Projectiles that try to hit the target will bounce off an invisible shield for the next 2 rounds, regardless of the damage they would do. A flying tree trunk does not count as a projectile though.
Minor Heal: Spend 400 mana to heal a health category
Mana Barrier: Spend 250 mana to generate a shield that blocks one health category of damage (knockback still applies), the barrier lasts 2 rounds
Projectile Shield: Spend 400 mana to cover the target with a protective shell. Projectiles that try to hit the target will bounce off an invisible shield for the next 2 rounds, regardless of the damage they would do. A flying tree trunk does not count as a projectile though.
Basic Rapier Training - You can use a rapier without a penalty
Half-finished Pistol Training - reduces the untrained penalty when shooting pistols to -10
Half-finished Pistol Training - reduces the untrained penalty when shooting pistols to -10
Fancy Rapier - An engraved rapier, the engravings give you no tactical advantage whatsoever, unless you were planning to auction it off as a collectors item. Deals piercing damage.
Mana Crystal Robes - Blue robes with small crystals embedded throughout. Increases maximum mana by 500.
Kite Shield - A relatively large heavy shield, should be good for protecting you. +15 armour, -5 speed, net +10 to defence rolls
Piratey outfit - You look like a pirate! This does mean friends might think you're one though. It's also not very protecting...
Fire resistant mask - An odd looking mask to say the least, but it's surprisingly good at blocking heat and fire based attacks despite looking like wood.
Flammable Liquid Flask - an odd flask filled with a liquid you can't identify. But it doesn't seem to hurt you and it can be used on any fire to shoot a stream of intense heat. Expend one charge to use the {Fire Stream} skill. 4 charges remain.
Matchlock Pistol - an old gun that must be manually lit to fire. Reloading takes one round in which attacks cannot be made (anything other than attacking can still be done). Does a lot of damage. -30 to hit. 14 shots remain. {Partly Trained}
Mana Crystal Robes - Blue robes with small crystals embedded throughout. Increases maximum mana by 500.
Kite Shield - A relatively large heavy shield, should be good for protecting you. +15 armour, -5 speed, net +10 to defence rolls
Piratey outfit - You look like a pirate! This does mean friends might think you're one though. It's also not very protecting...
Fire resistant mask - An odd looking mask to say the least, but it's surprisingly good at blocking heat and fire based attacks despite looking like wood.
Flammable Liquid Flask - an odd flask filled with a liquid you can't identify. But it doesn't seem to hurt you and it can be used on any fire to shoot a stream of intense heat. Expend one charge to use the {Fire Stream} skill. 4 charges remain.
Matchlock Pistol - an old gun that must be manually lit to fire. Reloading takes one round in which attacks cannot be made (anything other than attacking can still be done). Does a lot of damage. -30 to hit. 14 shots remain. {Partly Trained}
Name: Tobias
Class: Healer
Health: Minor Damage
Status: Normal/Willing to listen to your commands
Mana: 100/500
Class: Healer
Health: Minor Damage
Status: Normal/Willing to listen to your commands
Mana: 100/500
Mana Blast: Spend 100 mana to shoot a beam of light at the opponent, damaging them.
Minor Heal: Spend 300 mana to heal a health category (due to the nature of your magic this cannot be used to heal someone kept alive by Ambition Beyond Death)(cannot be used when at Last Chance)
Purify: Spend 50 mana to restore rotting food to a pristine condition
Bless/Bane: Spend 200 mana to increase an ally's rolls by/decrease an enemy's rolls by 10
Triage: Spend 100 mana over the course of an hour to fully heal the targets. Said targets cannot die of their wounds while Triage is in effect.
Minor Heal: Spend 300 mana to heal a health category (due to the nature of your magic this cannot be used to heal someone kept alive by Ambition Beyond Death)(cannot be used when at Last Chance)
Purify: Spend 50 mana to restore rotting food to a pristine condition
Bless/Bane: Spend 200 mana to increase an ally's rolls by/decrease an enemy's rolls by 10
Triage: Spend 100 mana over the course of an hour to fully heal the targets. Said targets cannot die of their wounds while Triage is in effect.
Heavy Robes: Despite looking just like regular robes these are durable enough to help defend against weak attacks.
Practical Rapier - A boring rapier.
Practical Rapier - A boring rapier.
Name: Liam
Class: Knight
Health: Minor Damage
Status: Normal/Warming up to you
Class: Knight
Health: Minor Damage
Status: Normal/Warming up to you
Chivalry: +10 to rolls as long as you remain just and moral. If you stray you incur a -10 penalty instead for 1 week.
Shout: A commanding bark that demoralizes the enemy, inflicts -10 to each enemy, 1 use per battle
Defend Ally: Jump to take a blow that would hit a nearby ally, 1 use per battle
Two Handed Weapon[Style]: Forgo a shield to get +10 to hit, -10 to defense
Sword and Board[Stye]:Balanced style with no bonus/penalty
Shout: A commanding bark that demoralizes the enemy, inflicts -10 to each enemy, 1 use per battle
Defend Ally: Jump to take a blow that would hit a nearby ally, 1 use per battle
Two Handed Weapon[Style]: Forgo a shield to get +10 to hit, -10 to defense
Sword and Board[Stye]:Balanced style with no bonus/penalty
Knightly Armour: Heavy armour that reduces speed and increases defense (-10 speed, +20 armour. Overall +10 to defense rolls)
Longsword - What seems like a normal longsword, but has been weighted to be easier to wield. +10 to hit.
Flame Potion x1: Inflicts Burn on target
Lightning Gauntlet: Charges wielder with lightning to move faster for a round. It does hurt though. +20 to all rolls in the current round, lose 1 health category. 1 use per battle.
Longsword - What seems like a normal longsword, but has been weighted to be easier to wield. +10 to hit.
Flame Potion x1: Inflicts Burn on target
Lightning Gauntlet: Charges wielder with lightning to move faster for a round. It does hurt though. +20 to all rolls in the current round, lose 1 health category. 1 use per battle.
Name: Mira
Class: Mage
Health: Perfectly Fine
Status: Normal/Warming up to you
Mana: 2000/2000
Class: Mage
Health: Perfectly Fine
Status: Normal/Warming up to you
Mana: 2000/2000
Magic Missile: Autohit attack that deals light damage. 200 mana, twice per battle.
Fireball: Ball of fire that deals medium damage, may cause Burn. 300 mana.
Icicle: Swarm of icicles pierce the target, minor damage each, add up to medium, can inflict Freeze. 400 mana.
Embolden Weapon: Magically enhance a weapon, giving any who wield it a +20 to hit for 2 attacks. 500 mana.
Grease: Lay down a pool of slippery liquid under an enemy, giving them a -10 to hit and defence until they can move away. Will also affect an allies engaging that enemy in melee without a reach weapon though. 300 mana
Party Tricks: Minor and harmless flashes of light that can spell out words with some concentration. Not bright enough to be too distracting in combat. Free
Poison Mist: Attempt to inflict Minor Poison on an enemy.
Lightning: A strong bolt of electricity that has a small chance to paralyse the target, can chain through targets connected by conducting materials. 400 mana
Fireball: Ball of fire that deals medium damage, may cause Burn. 300 mana.
Icicle: Swarm of icicles pierce the target, minor damage each, add up to medium, can inflict Freeze. 400 mana.
Embolden Weapon: Magically enhance a weapon, giving any who wield it a +20 to hit for 2 attacks. 500 mana.
Grease: Lay down a pool of slippery liquid under an enemy, giving them a -10 to hit and defence until they can move away. Will also affect an allies engaging that enemy in melee without a reach weapon though. 300 mana
Party Tricks: Minor and harmless flashes of light that can spell out words with some concentration. Not bright enough to be too distracting in combat. Free
Poison Mist: Attempt to inflict Minor Poison on an enemy.
Lightning: A strong bolt of electricity that has a small chance to paralyse the target, can chain through targets connected by conducting materials. 400 mana
Wizardly Robes: Robes that hide most of your body, sadly they don't protect it from much other than prying eyes.
Rusty Dagger: If you need to use this you're in trouble. -10 to hit.
Minor Essence of Flame x2: Increases all rolls related to fire by 10
Rusty Dagger: If you need to use this you're in trouble. -10 to hit.
Minor Essence of Flame x2: Increases all rolls related to fire by 10
Name: Jocelyn
Class: Ex-Guard
Health: Perfectly Fine
Status: Normal/Warming up to you
Class: Ex-Guard
Health: Perfectly Fine
Status: Normal/Warming up to you
Authoritative Speech - +20 to social rolls when speaking with authority
Dagger - A very simple dagger, can be wielded with other light weapons easily. Sadly it's short so you need to get in close, +5 to hit, -3 to defence
Dagger - A very simple dagger, can be wielded with other light weapons easily. Sadly it's short so you need to get in close, +5 to hit, -3 to defence
Dusky Leather Armour - easy to move around in compared to most metal armour, but not very good at defence. Blackened colouring helps with stealth. +5 to defence rolls, +5 to stealth rolls.
Dagger - A very simple dagger, can be wielded with other light weapons easily. Sadly it's short so you need to get in close, +5 to hit, -3 to defence
Dusky Leather Armour - easy to move around in compared to most metal armour, but not very good at defence. Blackened colouring helps with stealth. +5 to defence rolls, +5 to stealth rolls.
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Mechanics Stuff
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Mechanics-y Stuff:
Your health is split into categories. You have a set amount of Mana that is used to cast your spells and Ambition Points that are used to manipulate ambitions. Mana refreshes after sleeping. Some Ambition Points are lost upon sleeping. Status is for listing various buffs and debuffs.
Health Categories:
Perfectly Fine
Minor Damage
Light Damage
Moderate Damage
Heavy Damage
Critical Condition
Last Chance
Fighting at Critical Condition imposes a -10 to rolls
When at Last Chance you have one last round of acting before you die, healing items can be used but not healing spells.
Being untrained in a weapon imposes a -20 penalty to rolls, this reduces as you use it and will be eliminated if you are trained.
For combat you select one of five styles:
Full Offence - attack the enemy without trying to defend yourself
Offence - Focus on attacking at a penalty to defence
Balance - both attack and defend, with no bonus
Defence - Focus on defending at a penalty to attacking
Full Defence - avoid enemy attack, either via dodging or blocking at the cost of not attacking
During each round of combat you roll 1d100 for attacking and defending (as does your opponent), if an attack roll if higher than an opposed defend roll, it hits. Should the defend and attack rolls be the same the attack roll wins. Rolling an attack that is 50 over an opponent's defence roll results in a critical hit, dealing bonus damage.
Full Offence: +30 to hit, increased damage, no defence roll
Offence: +26 to hit, -26 to defence roll
Balance: no bonus/penalty
Defence: +26 to defence roll, -26 to hit
Full Defence: +40 to defence roll, no attack
All spells can be used in any of the five strategies. A spell may only be used once per combat round.
Items can only be used in the Defence and Full Defence styles.
Parrying: In any combat round you can opt to parry and riposte an attack. Parrying requires that you succeed on both the attack and defend rolls. Parrying negates penalty from the Full Offence, and Full Defence modes down to a penalty equal to their bonus (-30 and -40 respectively). If a parry succeeds you both damage the opponent and avoid being hit, alongside this you also knock the opponent off balance, giving them a -15 penalty to their rolls next round. If you fail either roll you either get hit, fail to hit or both (depending on which roll fails) and also get knocked off balance, suffering a -10 penalty to rolls next round. During a parry the Offence styles do not offer bonus damage. Some attacks cannot be parried (like a giant fist about to crush you or a fireball). A parry cannot be used in the round after a parry has been made. Parrying requires an appropriate weapon (can't parry a greatsword with your hands).
Armour and weapons can deteriorate if damaged enough. Armour will only take a blow if you fail to dodge. You can still fail to dodge but succeed on the defence roll; if your defence roll without the armour bonus beats the opponent's attack roll, you dodge; if your defence roll needs the armour bonus to beat the opponent's attack roll, your armour takes the blow and you do not; if you fail the defence roll you and your armour taken damage. The Defence and Full Defence styles apply half their bonus to dodging and half to armour.
Ambition Points can be gained by draining ambition from others or by achieving important goals you set. The more difficult the goal is, the more points you get upon its completion. When you have lots of Ambition points they slowly drain away at the end of each day, the amount lost goes up depending on the amount you have.
Corruption: As you make choices you will build up Corruption within yourself, making you more paranoid and willing to do villainous things to achieve your goals. Getting Corruption too high results in a bad end. Corruption is raised by villainous decisions (even "for the greater good" ones). Virtuous actions can reduce Corruption, but it is easier to gain Corruption than lose it. Things like allying with a kingdom that is right and wrong in several aspects against a similarly imperfect nation will not influence Corruption (unless your plan for ending the conflict involves killing a bunch of innocent people from a third nation or something).
Status effects:
Burn: Roll (DC depends on intensity of fire, subsequent infliction of Burn lower DC) to see if the target takes 1 health category of damage. To be clear: chance of Burn being inflicted stays constant, chance of it dealing damage changes. Goes out 2 rounds after the most recent Burn effect, or when you spend time to pat it out.
Freeze: One of the target's limbs is frozen. Frozen hands prevent weapon usage (but can be used as gauntlets), frozen legs reduces defence. Melts after 2 rounds, or if you spend time to smash the ice. Neither effect nor duration stack with additional uses.
Minor Poison: -10 to rolls with a chance of taking 1 health category of damage each round for 2 rounds. Chance of damage does not stack like Burn, duration is renewed with each application.
Paralysed: Cannot act for the next round. Strong targets can shrug it off and take a -20 penalty to rolls. Very strong targets can shrug it off entirely.
For non-combat rolls a 95-100 is a crit success and a 1-5 is a crit fail.
Your health is split into categories. You have a set amount of Mana that is used to cast your spells and Ambition Points that are used to manipulate ambitions. Mana refreshes after sleeping. Some Ambition Points are lost upon sleeping. Status is for listing various buffs and debuffs.
Health Categories:
Perfectly Fine
Minor Damage
Light Damage
Moderate Damage
Heavy Damage
Critical Condition
Last Chance
Fighting at Critical Condition imposes a -10 to rolls
When at Last Chance you have one last round of acting before you die, healing items can be used but not healing spells.
Being untrained in a weapon imposes a -20 penalty to rolls, this reduces as you use it and will be eliminated if you are trained.
For combat you select one of five styles:
Full Offence - attack the enemy without trying to defend yourself
Offence - Focus on attacking at a penalty to defence
Balance - both attack and defend, with no bonus
Defence - Focus on defending at a penalty to attacking
Full Defence - avoid enemy attack, either via dodging or blocking at the cost of not attacking
During each round of combat you roll 1d100 for attacking and defending (as does your opponent), if an attack roll if higher than an opposed defend roll, it hits. Should the defend and attack rolls be the same the attack roll wins. Rolling an attack that is 50 over an opponent's defence roll results in a critical hit, dealing bonus damage.
Full Offence: +30 to hit, increased damage, no defence roll
Offence: +26 to hit, -26 to defence roll
Balance: no bonus/penalty
Defence: +26 to defence roll, -26 to hit
Full Defence: +40 to defence roll, no attack
All spells can be used in any of the five strategies. A spell may only be used once per combat round.
Items can only be used in the Defence and Full Defence styles.
Parrying: In any combat round you can opt to parry and riposte an attack. Parrying requires that you succeed on both the attack and defend rolls. Parrying negates penalty from the Full Offence, and Full Defence modes down to a penalty equal to their bonus (-30 and -40 respectively). If a parry succeeds you both damage the opponent and avoid being hit, alongside this you also knock the opponent off balance, giving them a -15 penalty to their rolls next round. If you fail either roll you either get hit, fail to hit or both (depending on which roll fails) and also get knocked off balance, suffering a -10 penalty to rolls next round. During a parry the Offence styles do not offer bonus damage. Some attacks cannot be parried (like a giant fist about to crush you or a fireball). A parry cannot be used in the round after a parry has been made. Parrying requires an appropriate weapon (can't parry a greatsword with your hands).
Armour and weapons can deteriorate if damaged enough. Armour will only take a blow if you fail to dodge. You can still fail to dodge but succeed on the defence roll; if your defence roll without the armour bonus beats the opponent's attack roll, you dodge; if your defence roll needs the armour bonus to beat the opponent's attack roll, your armour takes the blow and you do not; if you fail the defence roll you and your armour taken damage. The Defence and Full Defence styles apply half their bonus to dodging and half to armour.
Ambition Points can be gained by draining ambition from others or by achieving important goals you set. The more difficult the goal is, the more points you get upon its completion. When you have lots of Ambition points they slowly drain away at the end of each day, the amount lost goes up depending on the amount you have.
Corruption: As you make choices you will build up Corruption within yourself, making you more paranoid and willing to do villainous things to achieve your goals. Getting Corruption too high results in a bad end. Corruption is raised by villainous decisions (even "for the greater good" ones). Virtuous actions can reduce Corruption, but it is easier to gain Corruption than lose it. Things like allying with a kingdom that is right and wrong in several aspects against a similarly imperfect nation will not influence Corruption (unless your plan for ending the conflict involves killing a bunch of innocent people from a third nation or something).
Status effects:
Burn: Roll (DC depends on intensity of fire, subsequent infliction of Burn lower DC) to see if the target takes 1 health category of damage. To be clear: chance of Burn being inflicted stays constant, chance of it dealing damage changes. Goes out 2 rounds after the most recent Burn effect, or when you spend time to pat it out.
Freeze: One of the target's limbs is frozen. Frozen hands prevent weapon usage (but can be used as gauntlets), frozen legs reduces defence. Melts after 2 rounds, or if you spend time to smash the ice. Neither effect nor duration stack with additional uses.
Minor Poison: -10 to rolls with a chance of taking 1 health category of damage each round for 2 rounds. Chance of damage does not stack like Burn, duration is renewed with each application.
Paralysed: Cannot act for the next round. Strong targets can shrug it off and take a -20 penalty to rolls. Very strong targets can shrug it off entirely.
For non-combat rolls a 95-100 is a crit success and a 1-5 is a crit fail.
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Omake and things like that Policy
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I just realised I should probably have one of these.
Omakes/Fanart/Etc are things I encourage the making of. They will be rewarded with things varying from Ambition Points to items to abilities and spells for Eshani, depending on quality and content. Depending on the content it may also become canonised. Canon things will be threadmarked under Sidestory, while non-canon things will be under Apocypha.
Rewards may be subject to change in the future depending on how things go.
Omakes/Fanart/Etc are things I encourage the making of. They will be rewarded with things varying from Ambition Points to items to abilities and spells for Eshani, depending on quality and content. Depending on the content it may also become canonised. Canon things will be threadmarked under Sidestory, while non-canon things will be under Apocypha.
Rewards may be subject to change in the future depending on how things go.