Offensive Grafting: Sense grafting can now be used on targets other than the caster. Unwilling targets will resist. Success and duration is determined by Intuition.
^and that's all I got. More abilities that modify the way it works, and Mutations are welcome, because the Skill is probably about to level up.
2019-10-03 20:25:35 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I sit me down to work, I wanna fish for ideas for a poll.
I'm approaching the top of the artist's queue again, the same one who did the first cover, and I'd like to have a well-crafted idea of the cover's composition before we get started in a few months.
I'm looking for ideas for posing on a cover that shows some or all of the primary characters of WotR. (Kala, Ella, Calvin) and Maaaybe Nadia as a ghost or zombie or something. hell, maybe Baroke, if you wanna make the main...
2019-10-02 19:08:03 +0000 UTC View Post
***20 years ago***
Maren sat on his father’s lap, kicking his heels against the man’s shins as they watched the setting sun turn the distant mountain bright red.
This was one of those rare moments when the busy man had even a moment to spare for his offspring, and Maren was a little bitter that it took the form of a lecture.
“You see that mountain, Maren?” The king asked.
“Of course I see it, father.”
“That is Chuldeva. You can se...
2019-10-02 01:37:21 +0000 UTC View Post***
Calvins breath caught in his lungs. He knew what was going to happen next: the creature would rush toward him with unnatural smoothness, and its razor sharp legs would reduce him to quivering chunks of bloody meat. The sheer panicked adrenaline saw him fumbling into his belt, drawing the Jerrytanium knife and flicking it forward faster than he could think.
Shaping.
10/12 Bent Remaining.
You- A mans ...
2019-09-29 17:23:03 +0000 UTC View PostGarth stood on the teleportation pad designed after a certain nonspecific space exploration TV series, and touched his communicator, which gave a welcoming doodle. It made Garth feel like he was a kid again, and no one else knew the difference, so why not?
Scotty, beam us to the surface where we can bust a prime directive all over their faces.
Alicia leaned into his periphery with a frown. What are you talking about?
Caitlyn leaned into his other periphery, lo...
2019-09-27 23:50:02 +0000 UTC View Post1. A megacity spanning the entire planet.
2. An underground megacity with the drug at the deepest point
3. Normal sized cities with mega wilderness, ultra-harsh conditions and violent fauna protecting the drug.
2019-09-27 19:31:56 +0000 UTC View PostMeditation has reached Level 12!
Level 12: Boosts ability to ignore distractions and disassociate. 60% correction.
Extensive training has increased Kinesthetics.
+1 Kinesthetics
Extensive training has increased Endurance.
+1 Endurance
Extensive training has increased Strength....
2019-09-26 22:24:54 +0000 UTC View PostLanguage barrier: May coach user's thoughts in Genosian or any other language they are fluent in, typically whichever is more poorly understood by the enemy, making Mind reading/controlling magic significantly less effective unless they are fluent in all languages the user is.
Exotic accent: The user may flawlessly adopt a Genosian accent which lends an air of exotic mystery. Applies the Genosian Language correction to the user's attractiveness to women. 2019-09-25 18:59:31 +0000 UTC View Post
I took some adapted others, tried to make them each useful but not op. you know how it is. There were so many!!
We're Gonna Need a Bigger Pond: Spend one Bent while casting to connect one body of water to any other body of water while fishing. Maximum size fish restricted by the opening of the original body of water.
^MAXIMUM SIZE IMPOSED: USE AT SEA DISABLED AFTER THE SUMMONING OF LAVASH THE WORLD DRINKER.
Expert Stur...
2019-09-25 18:24:45 +0000 UTC View PostI need some more.
Here's three examples
Master-Baiter: Any bait you place shares the fishing skill's correction to it's attractiveness. This works with any kind of bait, not just fishing lures.
^I do mean any kind of bait.
Polarized eyeballs: See through glare in water.
Does what it says. May help occasionally with light-based illusions.
Calvinian fishing: Summoned creatures may be used as bait,...
2019-09-24 23:12:07 +0000 UTC View PostAnd if youll look to your left, youll see the Mythic core bin, where the priceless unsprouted dungeon cores are collected as they keep tumbling in through our Receiving Portal.
Garth pointed to a big dumpster looking thing where Cores were rolling in at the rate of about one every hour or two. The bottom of the massive dumpter was filled with cores.
Garth took a page from his own book and used the first three Mythic Cores they managed to find in the asteroid belt to m...
2019-09-24 21:55:07 +0000 UTC View PostNadia lay in bed staring at the embroidered ceiling.
Nadia was a cripple.
She couldnt move her hands and her legs were practically worthless. Grant said her legs would likely recover, but her hands would never be the same.
The enormity of what the bastard had done to her was starting to sink in.
She was done.
Finished.
Her political career was finished. The cardinal sin in politics was to appear weak, and being rendered a cripple unable to hold a s...
2019-09-22 00:20:54 +0000 UTC View PostCaitlyn sat there, face covered in a thin layer of dust, staring at the airfoil in front of her. Theyd created models that worked perfectly well, using a thin ring of synthetic Core around the front edge that pulled wind backward, propelling the model forward, but scaling it up was becoming difficult. The amount of propulsion that worked for the model was nowhere near enough for the scaled up version, as the law of cubic space began fighting her.
Garth had been gone six months,...
2019-09-20 00:41:04 +0000 UTC View PostSo there were a ton of suggestions, and if I didn't add yours, I apologize. some things didn't fit great, or I found them OP/Unappealing. I also need to keep the voting block relatively clean, so I'm trying to narrow the field down to basic categories.
the suggestions boiled down to:
something with hands for cheap labor
something that burrows for land superiority
Slimes/slimy things
snakes
ants,
and a few oddballs. I tried to add most of the ones tha...
2019-09-19 20:07:08 +0000 UTC View PostI'm compiling creatures for the next slot of calvinian summoning, for a vote. So far I have spiders and maybe fireworms?
Feel free to suggest your own creatures, either based on reality, or custom made mobs, and we'll put the ones I like up for a vote.
If you make up something, name, physical description, ability.
Can I help you with something? Calvin asked, looking up at the sword flyer guy.
The fool seeks to beg for the princess back, Little does he know-oh shit!
Calvins monologue was interrupted by dozens of pieces of cutlery flashing out of the sky and clamping down around his own and tearing it out of his hands and Nadias mouth.
Grant! Nadia said, a strange tone of frustration in her voice. Like someone whod been interrupted at the best part. What...
2019-09-19 02:42:47 +0000 UTC View PostHoly shit. Ooooh, my god.. Garth groaned, throwing his head back.
Garth! Bel shouted as she barged into his room.
Garth yelped and drew the covers over himself with a howl, causing Bel to halt in the doorway, frowning at him.
Yes? he fixed her with an accusing glare designed to stop the deitys avatar in place and hopefully prevent her from asking any questions. At all.
We matched speed with the asteroid. We can go mine it now. Bels eyes wan...
2019-09-17 21:43:36 +0000 UTC View PostGrant started awake to the sound of screams and the buzzing of insects, that hed recently come to associate with being on or near the wall.
Horrible pain, like being stabbed, lanced through his exposed skin as a wasp stung him.
Fu- he rolled off the cot, the thing creaking from his enormous weight, grabbing his spare sword from beneath the bed.
Blade came up in his hand, separating from the sheath in a smooth movement that sent the sheath flying off into the cha...
2019-09-15 20:56:14 +0000 UTC View PostSorry I missed the last couple days. hasnt been easy to write regularly with people coming over with small children, and cooking mead. Ill get one out Sunday morning before D&D, then probably miss Monday since Ill be weathering the night at a friends. Expect me to pick up the keyboard for serious on tuesday. Until then Im not gonna stress about it.
2019-09-15 03:35:09 +0000 UTC View PostCaptains log:
Space: The third-to-final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Fertility. Its continuing mission, to explore passion, and boldly go to exotic ports of call, making sexy peace with the native populations.
Stardate Wednesday.
The Fertility made an emergency departure in the wake of an unexpected attack by forces allied with a less-than sexy deity, and many of its systems were half-finished at best, leading to ...
2019-09-13 00:32:25 +0000 UTC View PostI thought it would be funny to ask, but I can't possibly write down all of them, so you get a short list of the more common ones.
Male, straight.
female, straight
male, gay,
female, gay,
neither, none, Stop trying to make everything sexual Macro
neither, omni
male, omni
female, omni
I don't feel like i should have to explain these to you. So I'm not gonna.
Oh and nobody's gonna bang Halo, not for a long time, at least, this will just...
2019-09-12 19:51:25 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, stand back, Ive never done this before.
Calvin and Kala were standing on a rooftop on the west side of town, after evading several guard patrols and finally getting a bit of breathing room.
I still cant believe shes making me do this.
Calvin shook his head with a sigh, and held his hand out.
Calvinian summoning.
Heart of the swarm.
Give me a big one.
Garth skimmed across the surface of the dungeon floor, not even bothering to move his legs, carried along by a column of mana as he shot down the tunnel. He snatched one of the ornate helmets for his brainmeats on the way out, settling it as he ripped through the air.
Hunters went down the southwest tunnel this morning, about six hours ago, so they should already have been on their way home.
After fifteen seconds of cruising down the halls at over a hundred miles p...
2019-09-11 00:50:05 +0000 UTC View Post(From my phone)
outer sphere:
I was about to write the daring escape from the dungeon when the power went out, making progress difficult. Howeve, I can keep working on the form of solidifying my idea of where were going next. (Brainstorming) that should speed up work going forward when I DO have electricity.
i plan on taking Garth off earth again because a lot of people get Really excited about offworld adventures. I was planning on having him go to the planet with the dru...
2019-09-10 19:32:06 +0000 UTC View PostWarp overflow detected
Running Warp Protection System Break.
Calvin winced as he allowed the medic to bandage his torso under the watchful eye of General Andra, whod returned hours ago. The bucktoothed girl kept glancing nervously at the general every couple seconds or so, clearly uncomfortable having her work supervised by the leader of the entire army.
Youve got some blank spots, she said, her eyes scan...
2019-09-10 00:52:42 +0000 UTC View PostAbilities:
Continuity: The Chained spirit remembers time spent during each summon, is aware of what the user is aware of while it was unsummoned, and can learn or improve System and non-System Skills to the limit of Chained Spirit.
Bent: The Chained Spirit gains a limited pool to draw from to fuel Abilities. The effects of the abilities are extentions of Chained Spirit and not actual Bent. Pool is 1/5th the lev...
2019-09-10 00:19:30 +0000 UTC View PostThat was more suggestions than I thought possible. I've been reading through and coming up with potential ways to fit the suggested stuff into the current format.
Voodoo You: Chained Spirit ability. Share damage with summons. (possibly crossing over to it's child skill.) Keep in mind, I always wanted Chained spirit's abilities to be more utility-based than Calvinian summoning.
^doesn't use a skill since it's an ability.
So I saw quite a bit of support for lea...
I think I calculated that his next Break would go entirely to his base stats if he had his way, but of course we can never let the main character have what they want without performing an amusing dance for us.
I want to get Body to 10 to unlock some higher tier mutations and abilities, but some of the points meant to go into Mind could probably be spent elsewhere.
so as for the theorycrafting, What kind of Skills do you think Calvin should/Could get this Break, and why? I know he do...
Garth slammed the scrying shut with all the intensity of someone opening a refrigerator full of severed heads. It didnt help.
Black fire flooded through the mirror, and Garth was propelled through the air, the small of his back slamming against his stone workbench before he was flipped over and hit the side of his little hut hard enough to send splinters erupting out around him like a strange halo.
The fire stormed through the mirror, filling the hut like water. It radiat...
2019-09-07 22:57:58 +0000 UTC View Post