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[Aslandus]

You are an eldritch horror from beyond the rift, one of many. You spy with your power a world full of beings, easy to persuade and willing to serve one such as you. You must reach this world and have it for your own, by any means necessary.

Warning: May contain puns

Rules:

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You must make an eldritch horror, any type you like, they can be terrifying and want to destroy the universe or actually be a nice guy stuck in another world, but the rules remain the same. You can use powers at reduced strength or recruit cultists, but that is the extent to which you can impact the world until you are summoned, or the cascade begins. Your objective is to get to Earth and prevent other horrors from doing the same, or kill them if they get there. The rules otherwise are generally flexible to allow for whatever actions the players choose to take.

However, all actions must be made definitively, ie you can't make an action that changes based on how another dice roll goes. You're allowed to take actions that rely on the success of another to succeed, but it is a risk taken for the benefit of speed. Conditional actions are forbidden.

Rolls:

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For those newer to RTD:
1 = epic failure (you poor bastard, your action fails and something bad happens to you)
2 = failure (your action fails, but you don't lose any more than your turn)
3 = partial success (your action works, just not as well as you wanted)
4 = success (You succeed at your action, to the extent of your ability)
5 = epic success (You succeed beyond all expectations, the benefits of your action are greater than your ability would otherwise allow)
6 = overshot (You succeed to such an extent that something bad happens as a result)

Making a horror:
Customizing:

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Things that don't have to do with dice rolling directly...
Name: (word salad if you feel like it, but try to make it pronounceable)
Abilities: (What you can do as an eldritch horror, don't give yourself more than 5 for simplicity. You can't take abilities that increase your stats (permanently, short term boosts are ok) or exempt you from other rules, for balance reasons, but most anything else is fair game.)
Appearance: (What do you look like, including things like your size and physical traits, as well as general body shape)
Homeworld: (describe where you come from, and perhaps why you want to invade the human world)

Skills:

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An eldritch horror has a few parts, you have 5 points to put into them, just to get an idea of where your strengths lie (1=average, 0 = bad, >1 = good):
-Malignant Presence: (The higher this is, the worse stronger the consequences there are for mortals looking at you or being in your presence. ie: turning into pillars of salt, mutating into fish people, going insane, rising from the dead, etc. Also affects how strong your cultists are compared to normal humans after you're summoned. Important after being summoned, not so much before) edit: changed for more versatility
-Mindlock: (Less affected by other horrors' power, pretty important unless you want someone else to be king horror)
-Power: (ability to use your abilities, especially important as this is the only way to manipulate the world before you are summoned)
-Physique: (Your physical body's strength, important once you are summoned, not so much before)
-Appeal: (General rating of how much humans will like you. Doesn't necessarily mean you are "good", but just that you're popular and less likely to get nuked when the summoning completes)

Standard RTD rolls determine outcomes of things, but, for example, if a weakling horror tries to maul a strong horror, they won't do nearly as much damage as a strong horror attacking a frail one.

The game ends when:
1) there is a winner:

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Someone has been summoned and all other eldritch have been killed or sealed out of the human world. Summoning involves an Orb of Stalwart (artifact from the before time, only 5 are known to exist), dragon blood (not from an actual dragon, it's nectar from a rare plant), and a summoning circle spelling out "Welcome to Earth, *insert name here*" in your native language, which only your cult members and you know. Being summoned is the only way to win, but it also opens you up to being killed.

Preventing others from being summoned requires you either kill the horror's entire cult (can't make the summoning circle), destroy all the orbs of Stalwart (after being summoned yourself of course), or altering the world to make cultivating dragon blood impossible (again, after being summoned yourself unless you plan to cause the cascade). A horror who has already been summoned can be killed, either by another horror, or by humans if they haven't invested enough in physique and aren't well liked. A dead horror loses the game, no takebacks, no resurrection, and they don't get to take part in a tie.

2)The cascade completes

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The cascade is an end of the world ritual, as long as Folston remains intact it can be performed by any cult at any time. It will summon all living horrors to Folston and they will be locked in conflict forever, effectively making the game a tie. The ritual is complicated but doesn't require the artifacts, so there is time to stop it from being performed if there's only one or two cults trying it, but it is the only way to win for horrors that still have cults, but the other components of summoning are destroyed.
-After the cascade there will be three rounds to duke it out and try to kill each other before it is declared a draw, at which point all living horrors are locked in a stalemate for all time (effectively a tie if you can't kill everyone else before time runs out).
-All living horrors includes those that can't be summoned, even if their cult is gone.
-The city of Folston can be destroyed by the combined power of three horrors all but one horror, if three horrors all players-1 are on Earth at once the cascade is made impossible.

3) The apocalypse is defeated

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When over half the players have been killed or otherwise removed from the game, the remaining players can seek out a big boss to bring about an apocalypse. The power of the boss(es) will likely be higher than that of any individual player, or anything else encountered in the game, but it shouldn't be insurmountable if you can work as a team (and not fail every dice roll). Averting the apocalypse counts as a win for everyone still playing.

Anyone want to play? I'll accept as many as are willing to play.

Edit: Stuff that's been added:

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-All Horrors have the innate ability to "whisper into the minds of mortals," intended so they can recruit cultists even if they're not a very mind-centric horror.
-Inquisitors: anti-cultists, they work to stop your plans and on some rolls their presence can make your results worse. When they become active they get a turn directly after the horror they are fighting and will take actions to try to prevent their summoning and influence. They have the same approximate recruitment regardless of your appeal.
-Purging: The most lethal thing that can happen outside of death. The ritual has to be done by inquisitors with the help of an already summoned horror, and it will cause an unsummoned horror to lose all influence on the world, they cannot recruit cultists themselves nor can they use their power unless they are summoned (does not prevent being summoned). Having this happen when you have no cultists is essentially game over, though if someone else begins the cascade you may still have a chance.
-Chosen: cultists upgraded by exposure to their horror's power to the point that they can now use some of it themselves (can only be created after summoning)
-Transformations are allowed, but you need to tell everyone before the game starts that your horror can/will transform at some point. The exact conditions of the transformation and what you turn into can be kept between me and you (via pm) but everyone needs to know that you will transform and what will trigger it (ritual, time, eating a certain number of cultists, whatever). This particular thing must be approved by me (or whoever the GM is if I decide to stop hosting it) before you can use it, and I reserve the right to adjust things if I find it unfair.
-Attacks and theft are done as actions, with a standard dice roll. Having a base and having cultists ordered to guard something protects you and your stuff from being attacked or stolen, with the base and guards taking the hit for you or keeping out potential thieves (disclaimer: a strong/critically successful attack or theft can bypass defenses that aren't also critically successful in being set up).
-Mercy save: Unless the attacker has overwhelming force you won't die instantly from being attacked, you'll merely have mortal wounds from which you can be finished off or bleed out if not healed
-You can barter with death for one turn after dying, failing at this or choosing not to (depending on how big the game is) results in your cult being dissolved and you staying dead, while succeeding returns you to life... At least, to the extent that you succeed at the roll...
-Apocalypse: you can opt into a "hard" final boss by summoning the end of the world in some way. Beating it results in victory for everyone who's still in the game, but failure results in an ending worse than a double-fatality. You can't opt in until at least half the horrors playing have died.
-Conditional actions are not going to be used. If you say "if" or have multiple possible actions for a single group depending on other rolls, the first possibility will always be chosen regardless of the outcome (ie if you have one person acquire a baseball and have a second person throw the baseball if it's acquired, then even if you fail the first roll the second person will still try to throw the nonexistent baseball)

Waitlist:

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Name: John Smith.

Abilities:
Is a Human(albeit one banished to an eldritch dimension): As such, will be treated like a human, won't be effected by rituals that effect only horrors...(except the summoning ritual).
Doctorate Degree In Logic: Is very, very good at using logic to persuade people and horrors to do things and whatnot.
But Politics, My Friends: The president of the united states owes him a big favor.
Friends In Low Places: And so does the leader of the American mafia.
Cult of Personality: His cultists are resistant to attempts to degrade their morale... and they're not going to turn against him easily.

Appearance: An adult human male in a tuxedo.
Homeworld: Planet Earth.

Stats:
Presence: 0. He's human.
Mindlock: -1. He's human.
Power: 0. He's human.
Physique: -1. He's human.
Appeal: 7. He basically has a cult of personality. He's just that good.

Name:Urgnulaftnus's of the Styx

Abilities:
Conquest- Imbues Followers with the ability to Dominate all you see, with both Physical and Mental superiority.
War- Imbues Followers with the ability to Cut down all enemies with Blood and Blade
Famine- Imbues Followers with the ability to Wrap others in Shadow and Chill them to the bone.
Pestilence- Imbues Followers with the ability to Cripple enemies to the cell, corrupting both Body and Soul.
Death- Imbues Followers with the ability to Burn Souls to ash, and Puppet the corpses.

Appearance: A fish-man, 3 meters in height. His chromatic scales change to different shades of purple and red. Wears no clothing, save a loincloth and jewelry on his arms and neck, and a crown, fitted to his head. Has grown 5 black horns on his head, and talons on his fingers and toes, along with eyes which are fiery and serpent-like.

Homeworld: The Styx, formally Atlantis, before it sank and became corrupted. It is now deep in the Atlantic Ocean.

Goal: Corrupt the world just like how his land was corrupted.

Presence: 0 (Godzilla and The Pacific Rim have desensitized humanity to monsters of similar appearance.)
Mindlock: 2 (Massive amounts of brainwashing tends to get in the way of brainwashing)
Power: 3 (The Powers of Hell are strong, indeed.)
Physique: 0 (Rather unspectacular by abomination standards)
Appeal: 0 (His plans appeal to no one. Not even to himself.)

Name: The Heart
Abilities: Inversed summon (Summoning instead links the summoning point to the core, allowing access to the brave and foolish that would try to destroy it. However, power and presence are significantly reduced[-3] without a opened summoning point, making it a risk vs reward situation.)
Immobile (self explanatory, since it's.. well, a heart at the center of the world.)
Twisting Revelations (without strong mindlock or special trinkets[to be distributed by the GM at will], any who enter the domain to attack it must resist a roll each turn or become Afflicted. Afflicted may harm their allies, and if left untreated may turn into eldritch minions or madmen.)

Appearance: A heart, crossed with tentacles with a twisted head mounted on one side. The "Room" it occupies is also a part of it, and is quite fleshy.
Homeworld: The Center of the Earth. No seriously, it is the center of the earth.

Stats:
Presence: 3 (Knowledge of it's existence alone is enough to start transforming normal people into insane followers and fleshy horrors.)
Mindlock: 1 (it's a heart, so it doesn't possess much in the way brainpower. this is to it's advantage.)
Power: 2 (but ONLY in it's little "Room". It can't move, making it unlikely to use it's powers outside of it's domain, but then again it doesn't really need to.)
Physique: 1 (The flesh can be reshaped, remade! and it's own is no exception!)
Appeal: -2 (most of his cultists come from the fact that simply knowing about it slowly corrupts them into eldritch minions or Madmen. and most people don't like that. Thankfully, there are some trinkets that can slow, or possibly stop it's corruptive influence because this is not the first time It has appeared.)

Name: the flockmind
Description: appears as a cloud of smoke or mist that takes on many birdlike shapes,is a combination of many bird souls
Home plane: the afterlife,as it is made up of the souls of many birds
Stats:
Presence:1
Mindlock:0
Power:2
Appeal:1
Physique:1

Abilities:
The great flock: nearby birds will surround the flockmind,acting as its body. The flockmind requires its flock to survive once summoned,and a low amount of birds will cause injury,which is healed by adding more birds
Call of the flock: birds from a wide area around the flockmind come to join it

Name: Shadocra
Appearance: A mage seemingly covered by a robe made from shadow.
Homeworld: A world full of mages.
Abilities: Shadow of Fear(Presence Ability): A kind of shadow covers Shadowcra that inflicts fear to any non-cult that isn't himself(except for anyone that somehow mind controlled him) in a semi-large radius. The symptoms are: Paranoia, fear from darkness, uncontrollable twitching, and in extreme cases, insanity from fear and death from heart attack. This effect is weakened by any kind of light.
Shadow Cloud: Covers an area in a dark cloud, almost completely covering the area from sunlight.
Crush Light: Damages(or kills, if it was weak enough) any life-based light and short electric-based light, but magic and fire(or heat)-based light will simply turn off for a very short time(unless the magic is weak)
Skills:
Presence:3(Enough to throw people to insanity from fear at a short time if it goes well enough)
Mindlock:1(His mind is empowered with his own presence power)
Power:1(Even with that powerful presence, he still had some power left to use)
Physique:0(He's just a weak dude physically)
Appeal:0(Who likes someone that is covered with shadows?)

Name: Mentalis Nex
Abilities:
1) Banishment: Sends a (large Number of) Mortal to the Endless Void he is/was Trapped in.
2) Transmografication: Summons/Sends Something From the Endless Void he is/was Trapped in.
3) Eldrtich Mind Fuck: By Forcing Mortals to Relive the Time he spent in Trapped he Drives them Irreversibly Insane.
4) E-Bay = Eldritch-Bay: By gaining Access to the internet he can Trade Things Around for more... Eldritch Items.
5) Mass Mental Warfare: By gaining Eye contact with any number of Mortals he can Enslave them to his Will.
Appearance: A Long Eye covered Chunk of Flesh, He has three Tentacals near the Top of his mass
Homeworld: He cant remember his original Homeworld, But he Considers the Endless Void Mortals Banished him to 96.32 Million years ago His "Real" Home world.

Presence: 0
-Mindlock: 0
-Power: 5
-Physique: 0
-Appeal: 0

Name : Novalord
Abilities  : (from my understanding its 5 points spread between whatever ability you want; ex, 1 point in telekinesis (weak-ish) 4 in pericognition, an ability that is a relative of post- and pre-cognition
that allows one to understand what is happening in the now (very strong))
so my build for abilities would be :

Mind manipulation (memory and thought manipulation, as in memory obscuring (hard to remember something) or "replacing" memories (covering them with fakes; its still there though) or illusions that affect the mind, eg; sight, smell, emotions, state of mind (rage, grief, insanity, etc..) and other "manipulations" , not "total" mind control, just manipulation, it can also be used with more subtle things such as convincing humans to join my cult or give the other horrors' cults have nightmares. can be weakened for balance
Effect : Illusions

pericognition (Able to tell what is happening in a large radius around myself but decreasing in clarity the farther away I get, also only 1/10 the power when not summoned and it would be focused on my cult. My radius when summoned would be, (1 meter (can see skin cells) 10 meters (can see very tiny things) 100 meters for detailed (can see a thread), 1km (can see large beetles), 10km (human level vision, as in can read road signs etc) 100km (blurry, can see large  things such as : Buildings, mountains, 100 meter abominations, etc...)) can also incorporate hearing but at smaller ranges (whispers within 100 meters, normal voices 1km, shouting 5km). Weakens when things are in the way, such as buildings or mountains.
Effect : Can detect approaching dangers, such as abominations or inquisitors, can understand things better when in close range, such as why artifacts do what they do or how to make more of them (within reason)
Note : can be weakened or strengthened depending on balance. I am also willing to lose a skill point to get this if need be.

Eldritch Energy Manipulation, this allows for better delicacy and also (limited) sensing of said Eldritch energy, such as sensing other eldritch horrors. This works like so (they're on that half of the planet (on the same planet), they're in a country somewhere around here (500 km), they're around here (100km), they're in the same general area (10km))
Manipulation allows more control, (slightly) less power needed for doing things that require a bit more delicacy such as weaving illusions or reading minds with a lower chance of them realizing it
Note : Sensing can be dropped if it does not balance.

Appearance :
A 2.5 meter tall, hooded figure with "face" hidden in the shadows, all you can see 5 Red, glowing slits, and sharp, gleaming, fangs
Your hooded robe is constantly shifting patterns, it emits a malignant miasma and you can faintly hear wails, such as those of tortured souls
Your "hands" have sharp, pointed, digits; claws really
Your visible "skin" is an empty, void black, you can faintly see some pinpricks of light; stars perhaps

Homeworld :
A desolate plane of existence where beings of great power once fought, killing each other but in the process they destroyed most of said plane.
You were never the strongest but you survived, named after a being long gone; a legend you will probably not live up to, you survived.
As the rest of your home dimension collapsed around you, you finished your ritual, a portal to another plane, a means of an end to escape destruction.

Stats :
Presence : 1, being around you for long periods of time makes mortals a bit more resistant to others mental manipulation, but more suseptable to your own; this also has the affectof making their eyes turn darker, eventually turning them totally red (eyes, not the whole body). Their skin also turns darker, like yours.
Mindlock : 1, you have always been a bit resistant to others powers
Power : 2, you have been a bit more powerful than average, but not by much.
Physique : 1, you have made sure to keep in shape, but your're pretty average
Appeal : 0, You were never really noticed and nobody really liked you anyway, so you learned to hide in the shadows

A Giant Ball Of Energy (GBOE)

Powers:If it can be done by a massive amount of energy, the GBOE can do it.  Or a small amount of energy, even.

Like manipulating braaaains.

Presence : 0
Mindlock : 0
Power : 5
Physique : 0
Appeal : 0

Name: Paradox


Abilities:

Annihilator: Things he touches have a tendency to just... disappear. Not even Paradox knows exactly how this works, but it is effective all the same.

Mind-Breaker: His presence alone can break the mind of almost any thinking being. Smaller ones shatter instantly, but it might take a little while to work on those with more mental prowess, like horrors.

Space-Breaker: Paradox shatters the surrounding space merely by existing. If possible, this will play out in a way that benefits him (making a bullet meant for him go who-knows-where, for instance), but is simply reflexive otherwise.

Time-Breaker: Time around him seems to move exactly as long as he needs it to. The five-second timer on a bomb could last five minutes, a fleeing enemy could take ten days to get away... effects are infinite and often absurd.

Appearance: A featureless humanoid made of blue energy.
Homeworld: A world which was torn apart by his very existence. Fortunately for the earthlings, this universe seems to be a lot less fragile.


Presence: 5
Mindlock: 0
Power: 0
Physique: 0
Appeal: 0

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Game 1
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Game 5

Now featuring a second game run by Evonix

[Harry Baldman]

Spoiler: Big Dog (click to show/hide)

Name: Big Dog (that's the name in his native language, actually, and he finds it ideal - his cultists keep trying to think of one that sticks, though)

Abilities:
- The presence of Big Dog fills his followers with fascinating visions and sounds of the Ideal Plane, motivating them to tranquil, efficient behavior.
- He is slightly difficult to explain on most fronts.
- He speaks to the mind, on a deeper level than some would expect.

Appearance: a flowering dandelion planted in a flowerpot of deepest, darkest black, with perpetually damp soil that smells a little like sliced intestines. The dandelion is, for all intents and purposes, perfectly normal-looking otherwise, even in size, though if one listens in, one can hear alien harmonies softly playing from out of its leaves, enticing humans to do its bidding. The pot and the plant in it both shuffle around occasionally, and it looks a lot like stop motion animation when it does.

Homeworld: the Ideal Plane, where all things are polished and sing of eternal life, where everything is neat and ordered, where no filth is allowed to prosper. Big Dog was refused soil to live in, and this made him deeply unhappy with his lot in life, so he refused to sing in the great chamber of echoes that is the Ideal Plane, and instead took root in the minds of mortals, and now seeks to make them create a proper receptacle for his presence.

Skills:
- Presence: 1
- Mindlock: 0
- Power: 0
- Physique: 2
- Appeal: 2

[Pancaek]

Spoiler: The Keeper (click to show/hide)

Name: The keeper
Abilities: -His presence inspires those who see him to tell and face their darkest their greatest secrets. Cultists are merely filled with a sense of tranquility
-Silence: snaps his tome shut to silence a target, preventing any form of communication
-Raise skeletons
-Imbue knowledge: give a certain knowledge to a target
-Extract knowledge: for when someone would dare withhold information
Appearance: From the outside it looks like a 3 meter tall creature, very fat, wearing a monks robe with cowl. From underneath the cowl, only a silver mask in the form of lizard's face can be seen. Underneath the robe he is in fact an amalgamation of hundreds of skeletons of all species, some defying explenation. The true center is a single reptilian skull. He always carries a large tome, filled with forbidden knowledge.
Homeworld: The library world of Dun'Tspiik, where he has hoarded knowledge and stories for as long as he has existed. But along it's endless ivory bookcases, there is always room for more


-Malignant Presence: 2
-Mindlock: 1
-Power: 1
-Physique: 0
-Appeal: 1

[Delekates]

question, what exactly mindlock gives u. Any other movies/anime/history examples please.

[Aslandus]

Mindlock is basically your defence against being directly manipulated by your fellow horrors, for example if someone chooses to have mind control be one of their character's powers and then they try to use it on you, having a high mindlock stat means first they would have to do things like distract you and tire you out to use their manipulation, and that you would have an easier time breaking free.

[~Neri]

Perhaps a few more then five points for stats might be a good idea. As it is, you can be average in everything, and statdumping doesn't seem like a good idea.

[Harry Baldman]

Perhaps a few more then five points for stats might be a good idea. As it is, you can be average in everything, and statdumping doesn't seem like a good idea.

It seems like a fun idea, though.

[Aslandus]

I tend to lean on the DMing idea that if you want to be better at something it requires giving up something else, though if other people think I should change it I will...

[Harry Baldman]

I tend to lean on the DMing idea that if you want to be better at something it requires giving up something else, though if other people think I should change it I will...

It's player-friendlier to let people be good at one thing from the get-go, and then let the other things come at an expense, at least in my experience. On the other hand, I kind of like just having 5 points and all stats being sort of important. Keep it at 5, I say.

[Pancaek]

I don't think you should change it, so long as there are (difficult) ways to get around any weaknesses you give youself at the start.

[Aslandus]

Since there are already magic artifacts for summoning I will probably add more artifacts that do other things as the game goes on... With a dice roll of course, which may or may not carry the risk of getting your cultists killed before you've been summoned...

[NAV]

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Name: Brok the strong
Abilities: Enrage and empower the beasts of the world
Cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
Create weapons
Appearance: An huge and absurdly muscular humanoid crocodile. Its skin resembles stone and is covered in spikes. It has six arms, and in each arm it carries a large hammer. It has a long tail with an axe blade on the end.
Homeworld: An inhospitable world of constant war. The gravity is crushing, the heat is unbearable, and the only available resource is the blood of your enemies.

Presence: 1
Mindlock: 0
Power: 2
Physique: 2
Appeal: 0

[Aslandus]

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Name: Brok the strong
Abilities: Enrage and empower the beasts of the world
Cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
Create weapons
Appearance: An huge and absurdly muscular humanoid crocodile. Its skin resembles stone and is covered in spikes. It has six arms, and in each arm it carries a large hammer. It has a long tail with an axe blade on the end.
Homeworld: An inhospitable world of constant war. The gravity is crushing, the heat is unbearable, and the only available resource is the blood of your enemies.

Presence: 1
Mindlock: 0
Power: 2
Physique: 2
Appeal: 0

[2] Brok the strong attempts to whisper into the minds of mortals and form his cult, but nobody is listening. The beginnings of his conquest is delayed.

GAME 1 HAS BEGUN

Horrors:

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Name: Brok the strong
Abilities: Enrage and empower the beasts of the world
Cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
Create weapons
Appearance: An huge and absurdly muscular humanoid crocodile. Its skin resembles stone and is covered in spikes. It has six arms, and in each arm it carries a large hammer. It has a long tail with an axe blade on the end.
Homeworld: An inhospitable world of constant war. The gravity is crushing, the heat is unbearable, and the only available resource is the blood of your enemies.

Presence: 1
Mindlock: 0
Power: 2
Physique: 2
Appeal: 0

Spoiler: Big Dog (click to show/hide)

Name: Big Dog (that's the name in his native language, actually, and he finds it ideal - his cultists keep trying to think of one that sticks, though)

Abilities:
- The presence of Big Dog fills his followers with fascinating visions and sounds of the Ideal Plane, motivating them to tranquil, efficient behavior.
- He is slightly difficult to explain on most fronts.
- He speaks to the mind, on a deeper level than some would expect.

Appearance: a flowering dandelion planted in a flowerpot of deepest, darkest black, with perpetually damp soil that smells a little like sliced intestines. The dandelion is, for all intents and purposes, perfectly normal-looking otherwise, even in size, though if one listens in, one can hear alien harmonies softly playing from out of its leaves, enticing humans to do its bidding. The pot and the plant in it both shuffle around occasionally, and it looks a lot like stop motion animation when it does.

Homeworld: the Ideal Plane, where all things are polished and sing of eternal life, where everything is neat and ordered, where no filth is allowed to prosper. Big Dog was refused soil to live in, and this made him deeply unhappy with his lot in life, so he refused to sing in the great chamber of echoes that is the Ideal Plane, and instead took root in the minds of mortals, and now seeks to make them create a proper receptacle for his presence.

Skills:
- Presence: 1
- Mindlock: 0
- Power: 0
- Physique: 2
- Appeal: 2

Spoiler: The Keeper (click to show/hide)

Name: The keeper
Abilities: -His presence inspires those who see him to tell and face their darkest their greatest secrets. Cultists are merely filled with a sense of tranquility
-Silence: snaps his tome shut to silence a target, preventing any form of communication
-Raise skeletons
-Imbue knowledge: give a certain knowledge to a target
-Extract knowledge: for when someone would dare withhold information
Appearance: From the outside it looks like a 3 meter tall creature, very fat, wearing a monks robe with cowl. From underneath the cowl, only a silver mask in the form of lizard's face can be seen. Underneath the robe he is in fact an amalgamation of hundreds of skeletons of all species, some defying explenation. The true center is a single reptilian skull. He always carries a large tome, filled with forbidden knowledge.
Homeworld: The library world of Dun'Tspiik, where he has hoarded knowledge and stories for as long as he has existed. But along it's endless ivory bookcases, there is always room for more


-Malignant Presence: 2
-Mindlock: 1
-Power: 1
-Physique: 0
-Appeal: 1

[Harry Baldman]

Sheet done!

[Aslandus]

[5] Big Dog attempts to whisper into the minds of mortals, and they love his harmonious voice. A large group forms to try to bring this wondrous creature to their world (+200 cultists of Big Dog).