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[Zanzetkuken The Great]

You feel the presence of your brethren and sistren at the back of your mind as you come to consciousness.  Instinctively, you all know that it is the time.  You begin scraping at the shell, as your siblings begin to do so in their own.  You use your full might at this task, and eventually, you are rewarded with a sliver of light and a small cracking sound.  You redouble your efforts, forcing the crack open ever further.  You know that some of the others are beginning to fail, but some have already made their way out and are beginning to help those who are having difficulty.  Eventually, the shell breaks utterly, and you are slightly blinded by the light.  You then crawl out of the shell, and take your first look at the world you have entered...

Spoiler: Hydras in this setting (click to show/hide)

All hydras in a clutch share a subtle connection in the form of a hive mind, but between different hydras, the connection is not strong enough to communicate through.  However, this connection does have the effect of new heads of a single hydra adopt appearance and disposition of a hydra.  All hydra in a clutch must have an equal number of heads before growth of another head on a hydra which has already grown a head gains another one.  Each individual hydra of a clutch represents one aspect of a sentient mind, such as: greed, anger, happiness, and logic.  When the head is reincarnated as a part of another hydra, that new head carries that emotion.  Furthermore, hydra heads are each able to wield a specific type of elemental magic; however, the only types of magic able to be wielded by a hydra are air, earth, energy, and water.

Knowledge of hydra society will be gained through playing the game.

Spoiler: Abilities (click to show/hide)

Every time a task in performed by a hydra, a skill point is gained in the corresponding ability slot.  As the ability rank raises, the number of skill points required for a level up scales up, making higher areas more difficult to achieve.  If a skill hasn't been used for around 10-15 turns, it reduces by 1 skill point.

Physical

Body:
Hunting (Skill at hunting)
Fishing (Skill at fishing)
Stealth (Skill in stealth)
Flying Ability (Skill at flying)
Pursuit (Skill at tracking)
Body-based combat (Skill at using the main body for combat)

Head:
Head-based combat (Skill at using your head and neck in combat)
Diplomacy (Skill at talking)
Observation (Skill at paying attention)

Elemental

The element the arrow points to is damaged greater, and deals more damage if the arrow points away from it.  Time is off on its own, because is highly effective against all elements, but it cannot be wielded by anyone, but it can be utilized by extremely rare artifacts.

There are three types of Elemental abilities
Recharge (how quickly your elemental stamina restores)
Stamina (how long you can use your element)
Speed (how quickly you can use your element)

Rank Effects on Roll

Rank	-5	-4,-3	-2,-1	0	1,2	3,4	5
Effect to Roll	-3	-2	-1	n/a	+1	+2	+3

Skill Points in an ablility	-10	-8	-6	-4	-2	0	2	4	6	8	10
Rank you would have	-5	-4	-3	-2	-1	0	1	2	3	4	5

I'm going to accept any and all applicants that come along and wish to join, if they come before the first turn later applicants will have to wait some time before they can show up.  I'm not going to specify when the first turn is going to be put up, in order to prevent those who wish to play from putting it off and missing their chance, but know that there is going to be a time limit on when it will show up.

Spoiler: Application (click to show/hide)

Name:
Most Prevalent Aspect:
Element:
Appearance: (scale color, initial body (spines, crests below neck, presence or lack of wings, etc), etc)
Personality: (have it close to your aspect)

[GreatWyrmGold]

Spoiler: Goldie (click to show/hide)

Most Prevalent Aspect: Ambition
Element: Energy
Body Appearance: Scales ranging from dull yellow and dark red to brown and brownish-orange. Wings. Long, thin legs; slender body, necks, and tail. Small spines along...spine. No crests.
Head Appearance: Sort of flattish face, with large frills on the back of its head. One guess as to head color.
Personality: Analytical and aloof

[The Froggy Ninja]

Name: Maxwell
Most Prevalent Aspect: Scientific Curiosity
Element: Air
Appearance: Purple at the head slowly tuning to cobalt blue down the body, has wings, sharp spines going from the top of his head to the tip of his tail, long tail, small frame and rather dextrous while still muscular, mid-length sharp claws.
Personality: Somewhat awkward (to others) in that he is mostly silent and logical when asked his opinion but whenever he sees someone or something do something he doesn't know about he immediately begins loudly questioning and theorizing on how it works.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Most Prevalent Aspect: Science

Science isn't an aspect of personalities.  'Curiosity' is the closest I can think of.

Appearance: (I'm mildly confused if these are classical hydras with multiple head and if so how much does our description effect? Is it just our head and neck and the rest is a vote or what?)

These are recently born quasi-customized hydras.  You have one head right now, and you should describe as a dragon would look.  Additional heads will come up later as others are killed, and the head of that hydra regrows on another one of its clutchmates.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Wait, are we choosing whole hydras and not just heads so far?

I don't think anything in mine needs to be changed.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Wait, are we choosing whole hydras and not just heads so far?

As of now, every player starts as a single headed hydra.  More heads will be gained as other players die.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Well, I was hoping that this would get more applicants than what have come in so far...I don't want to move the start date back, but I also don't want to start with only 2 players...

[The Froggy Ninja]

When is the start date?

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

When is the start date?

Friday.

[Delioth]

Name: Badger
Most Prevalent Aspect: Bloodthirst/Fury
Element: Earth
Appearance: Black & White striped head (The long way), with thin, spiny gray scales covering his body. His Neck is incredibly short, almost having no neck due to his incredibly muscular body. He has long, tough claws suitable for digging and rending, and does not have wings. His face has a defined snout, flaring back into a rather flat face with eyes looking like the eye of an oncoming storm.
Personality: His rage consumes him- rage at the world for no reason. He wishes to ravage the holds of the world, and slaughter the people. He knows no pain, and any attempts to inflict pain on him are met by an even more intense fury, and usually the offender ends up dead over the space of a few acres. Any attempts to persuade Badger away from massacre and ferocity are futile.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Name: Badger
Most Prevalent Aspect: Bloodthirst/Fury
Element: Earth
Appearance: Black & White striped head (The long way), with thin, spiny gray scales covering his body. His Neck is incredibly short, almost having no neck due to his incredibly muscular body. He has long, tough claws suitable for digging and rending, and does not have wings. His face has a defined snout, flaring back into a rather flat face with eyes looking like the eye of an oncoming storm.
Personality: His rage consumes him- rage at the world for no reason. He wishes to ravage the holds of the world, and slaughter the people. He knows no pain, and any attempts to inflict pain on him are met by an even more intense fury, and usually the offender ends up dead over the space of a few acres. Any attempts to persuade Badger away from massacre and ferocity are futile.

Looks like some violence in the early turns is to be expected.

[The Froggy Ninja]

There are four types of Elemental abilities
Recharge (how quickly your elemental stamina restores)
Stamina (how long you can use your element)
Speed (how quickly you can use your element)

What is the fourth? Also, how do you decide who gets a new head if there is more than one possibility and when they regenerate they keep their personality right? Also also, how will late applicants be handled?

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

There are four types of Elemental abilities
Recharge (how quickly your elemental stamina restores)
Stamina (how long you can use your element)
Speed (how quickly you can use your element)

What is the fourth? Also, how do you decide who gets a new head if there is more than one possibility and when they regenerate they keep their personality right? Also also, how will late applicants be handled?

I originally intended for four, but I realized the fourth overlapped too much with another, so I removed it.
Dice roll.
Yep.
Therein lies a problem.  I don't want new hydras to appear out of nowhere, so I either have to a) use NPC (Since I can't predict how many players there will be, and I don't know how I would handle those heads without being bias to some players, this is undesirable) or b) applicants after the first turn have to wait until the next generation of hydras (likely a loooong time, if ever).  I'm going with the latter, due to wanting all hydras of the 'hive' to be PC's, so when the first turn goes up Friday, there can be no more applicants.  After the first turn, I could retroactively edit a couple of people in if they provide an action with their app (I would prefer not to have to do this since I gave people nearly a week, so unless they were offline the whole time, they should have been able to see this.), but beyond turn 2, that is no longer an option.

[The Froggy Ninja]

There are four types of Elemental abilities
Recharge (how quickly your elemental stamina restores)
Stamina (how long you can use your element)
Speed (how quickly you can use your element)

What is the fourth? Also, how do you decide who gets a new head if there is more than one possibility and when they regenerate they keep their personality right? Also also, how will late applicants be handled?

I originally intended for four, but I realized the fourth overlapped too much with another, so I removed it.
Dice roll.
Yep.
Therein lies a problem.  I don't want new hydras to appear out of nowhere, so I either have to a) use NPC (Since I can't predict how many players there will be, and I don't know how I would handle those heads without being bias to some players, this is undesirable) or b) applicants after the first turn have to wait until the next generation of hydras (likely a loooong time, if ever).  I'm going with the latter, due to wanting all hydras of the 'hive' to be PC's, so when the first turn goes up Friday, there can be no more applicants.  After the first turn, I could retroactively edit a couple of people in if they provide an action with their app (I would prefer not to have to do this since I gave people nearly a week, so unless they were offline the whole time, they should have been able to see this.), but beyond turn 2, that is no longer an option.

Is it possible at least early on that there may be some unhatched eggs that new PCs can hatch from.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Is it possible at least early on that there may be some unhatched eggs that new PCs can hatch from.

All eggs reached the hatching point at the same time, and those who were losing the struggle of breaking out of the egg are being assisted by others.  All would be out over the course of the time between Turn 0 and Turn 1.