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[~Neri]

Spoiler: Note from Kevak: (click to show/hide)

This is a sorta reboot of the original Instability (which you can find in my game archive.)

Basically. You are all a bunch of fuzzy animals. With organized civilization. For details. See character creation sheet.

Yes SB, I'm making it. Stahp whining about it~

Spoiler: Character Sheet: (click to show/hide)

Name: I would be concerned if you don't know how names work. Preferably also do a last name.
Age: Most people don't live very long. You're limited by species age irl. 20 years is Old.
Species: Your species. Remember. Everyone is an animal. Feel free to pick a fictional animal, make sure to describe it thoroughly however. I reserve the right to veto poorly described fictional animals.
Sex: What parts you have.
Gender: What you identify as.
Physical Power: A power that affects your body specifically. Examples would be Regeneration, Shapeshifting, Turning into rock, bursting into flames, Longevity, and so on. I advise discussing the specifics of this with me. Magic is a bit odd in this game. The listed examples are common. Excluding Shapeshifting and Regeneration which are quite rare. There are specific names for the listed abilities as well.
Mental Power: These are powers that affect your surroundings or others minds. Examples would be Undeath. Warping. Manasink, Antimagic, Pyrokinesis, Aquakinesis, Terrakinesis, Hyperprocessing, Focus, Farsight, and so on. Hyperprocessing and Focus are common. Antimagic and Warping are rare. Undeath is extremely rare. Manasink is effectively one in a million and doesn't follow the normal rules. Manasink isn't an available option for this. Pyro/Aqua/Terra are fairly common.
Physical Power Level: Discuss this with me.
Mental Power Level: Discuss with me.
Are you a Walker. Yes or No. Read below. Walkers are rather rare.
Description: What they look like. What they're wearing. Most of you have some level of clothing. Ferals have a tendency not to have clothing. Same with Rogues. Nomads are about 50/50.
Personality: I think you can figure this out.

Spoiler: Magic and how it works: (click to show/hide)

Magic is separated into classes.

Some powers can be both Physical or Mental. Some are limited to one or the other. Hyperprocessing can be a Physical or a Mental for example. Warping can only be Mental. Speed can only be Physical.

Peasant. Most people are Peasant Class in their abilities. Normally the abilities are limited to touch based if they're Mental and tend to be not particularly impressive if they're physical.

Wanderer. 5 foot radius on average for Mental, A Pyrokinetic could make a fireball about the size of a fist and move it around within that area. Somewhat more impressive then Peasant if physical.

Merchant. 10-15 foot range. Two or three fireballs as an example for a PyroKinetic. A Hyperprocessor could have functionally photographic memory here.

Mercenary. The first major increment. You're gonna need a good reason backstorywise to go higher than here. 50-60 foot range. 12 or so fireballs. A Regenerator could easily keep themselves alive for about 500 years at this point. Remember, most lifespans are numbered in the 20 year range. That's quite a long time.

Guard. 90-100 foot range. 20 fireballs.

Soldier. 120-140 foot range. 30 fireballs.

Knight. 160-180 foot range. 55 fireballs.

Noble. The second major increment. Past here is Very Rare. 5-6 mile range. Around 1k fireballs if you have Hyperprocessing of at least Mercenary Class. Or a few massive ones if not.

Lord. 10-20 mile range. 10-15 massive fireballs.

King. 60 mile range. 100something massive fireballs.

Hero. Third Major Increment. Nobody is getting anything of this or stronger. A Hero Class Pyromancer could melt a small country.

Titan. About half a continent of range. Could easily melt a large country.

Magus. Fourth Major Increment. Anyone from this point onwards can affect the globe.

Archmagus. These ones can make explosions on the two moons if they want.

Demigod. Did someone say solar flare? Cause that's what these ones can do.

God. A God Class Pyromancer could make the sun go supernova. It's That OP.

Anything past Titan is so rare that there have only been a handful of them in history. There have been exactly two God Class people before. One nearly destroyed the world before getting sealed by the second, the other mostly fixed it before dying from lack of a Physical ability allowing for a longer life. Most people wouldn't know about that however, even among scholars, God Class is just theorized. Some scholars doubt the existence of Demigod Class as well. There are no known living named entities of anything above Magus Class. However rumors persist of a Manasink roaming the lands, potentially ranking at least at Archmagus.

Spoiler: Walkers. (click to show/hide)

Walkers are those rather rare people who are born bipedal and with thumbs. There's a rather large amount of social stigma against them in almost all communities, however nobody can deny that they are useful. Some of the most successful Smiths, Scribes, Writers, Adventurers, and Soldiers are Walkers. However technically anyone with the right abilities could do anything a Walker can do.

Spoiler: Some cultural bits: (click to show/hide)

It's normal for citizens the Kotkal Republic to give last name instead of first name until the person is classed as a friend. Most herbivores are part of the Kotkal Republic, or at least grew up within it. Unless you're a Nomad, Rogue, or Feral.

The Kotkal Republic has a high population compared to the Tolshak Empire. However the Tolshak Empire has a higher level of technology.

Most carnivores and omnivores are part of the Tolshak Empire. They tend to be a lot more blunt.

There are nonsapient animals. They are much more common than sapient animals. Nonsapient animals do not have any sort of magic. Many Ferals are mistaken for them. Occasionally Ferals live with them.

Ferals are those eccentric people who decide they would rather live in the wilds as animals instead of in civilization. They tend to be at least slightly bonkers. Hyenas are generally the most commonly stereotyped Feral, although they are no more common than any other type of Feral. Referring to someone as a Hyena is usually a term for questioning their sanity. Often joking but sometimes not.

Nomads are people who would rather not be part of any given civilization. They may or may not have stationary villages. Normally they are nomadic and roaming.

Rogues are usually thought of as bandits. However they actually don't normally do banditry. Nomads are more likely to raid caravans than Rogues are. Rogues are usually villagers who decide that they'd be better off up and moving to a completely unclaimed area and set up their village again there, not under the thumb of either major superpower. If you encounter a town with very very few people present. Odds are is the rest of the citizens decided to go Rogue.

Caravans are the most common form of transportation. Safety in numbers. However the Tolshak Empire is in the middle of setting up a limited Kinetimancer powered railroad system.

Ask if you need help. Odds are is you will.

IC Thread.

[~Neri]

Spoiler: Saka Kholapana (Sl4cker) (click to show/hide)

This is gonna hurt me as much as you when you read this
Age: 3
Species: A chakora. Basically a blue-ish partridge that had a crescent-shaped mark on it's belly, that was vaguely reminiscent of the moon in various stages of waxing and waning. It was said the fuller a chakora's mark is, the more potential it had. The average longevity of a chakora is much, much longer than partridges and regular birds in general, averaging at around 17-18. Unlike the chakora's cousins, they freely nested upon trees, both high and low. This, along with their natural marking, led to tales being spun of them by more.. easily impressed partridges that they lived on the beams of the moon and ate of moonlight. This directly led to them developing a 'Holier Than Thou' attitude. This directly led to their grounded cousins to band together and rise up against them.. literally. Now, it has been many years since the chakoras have been hunted down, and they are still tense when with other birds, especially other partridges, as their numbers are still but a fraction of a fraction of what  it once was.
Sex: Saka is a female.
Gender: Saka will be attracted to men when she is older.
Physical Power: Osteokinesis (Bone Manipulation)
Mental Power: Sonokinesis (Sound Manipulation)
Physical Power Level: Wanderer
Mental Power Level: Peasant
Walker: Nope
Description: As a warrior in training, she wears a headress with three blue feathers, two copper rings on the side and across all of the feathers is painted a crescent moon.
Personality: Saka can be described as mostly naive, she would have been much more hopeful but her harsh training has had the hopefulness slowly.. wane. As she is pained whenever she uses her powers of bone manipulation(as ripping out one of your spines to attack someone is quite painful), She has developed a high-pain tolerance. Otherwise.. she is still in the process of figuring out who she is.

Her tribe lives hidden in the forest, not many an explorer has come there, and any that do are quickly promised not to leak information.. at spear and swordpoint. She does not know her father is, as any eggs are simply given to the nurser(She, and all of her other tribesmates' last names is the name of the tribe). Her closest family she knows of is her twin brother Anaka, information she got by a combination of her constant pestering of the nurser and her 'moonmark', as it is called. Yes, the mark on her belly is nothing less than a complete circle, or a full moon. A mark said to be only had by descendants of the chief (who would know who their father is).. or by great heroes. As soon as the nurser discovered this mark, she told the chief, and they agreed to hide her away from the tribesmen, and to only reveal her at the age of 5, when she would undoubtedly by then be a great warrior. Saka was assigned a loyal master, and began her training at the age of 2.5.

Her training was harsh, but it showed she was, in fact, proving to have about as much potential as expected. By now she had the ability to have spines erupt from her back and (with a lot of concentration) have them burst out of her back. Her second power has yet to be discovered, but if it were she would be able to adjust the volume of sounds coming from her, or, if she's quick enough, other people.

Spoiler: Rajendra, The Elephant In The Room (IcyTea31) (click to show/hide)

Name: Rajendra Misra
Age: 24 (Elephant lifespan is pretty close to that of humans.)
Species: Indian elephant.
Gender/Sex: Cis-male.
Physical Power: Jumping. (Varytiturgy, control of gravity.)
Mental Power: Walking around being somebody else's problem. (Perception)
Physical Power Level: Wanderer.
Mental Power Level: Merchant.
Are you a Walker: No.
Description: Appearance naked. Clothing varies, but usually simple practical drapings over body due to the large amount of work elaborate clothing would require. Lots of packs and pouches to carry stuff around.
Personality: I prefer not to flesh out a personality before the game begins. I describe characters once they have disobeyed me a couple of times.

Spoiler:  Braskus Grassroots (Shadestyle) (click to show/hide)

Name: Braskus Grassroots
Age: 4
Species: Padfoot, a Mythic black dog of incredible power, it is warned by the sound of dragging chains behind it, in my case, these are long fleshy cables extending from all parts of it's body like Hair, and textured with white circles.
Gender: Male
Sex: Male
Physical Power: Body part specific (Cables) Regeneration
Mental Power: Terrakinesis
Physical Power Level: Merchant if possible, his cables work both like a detachable tail, and a weapon, so regrowth is a must, and possibly lengthening as well.
Mental Power Level: Peasant
Are you a Walker: No

  Few things of the old world remain, and Braskus is one of the last. The mythic power of the Padfoot has been laid low, generations of slow but increasing weakness have doomed the once mighty monster as a race. His own Mother Died only 2 years after his birth, leaving him to wander, and so he has, never having met another sapient being, he is unaware that they can even exist.  He knows nothing of his own heritage and power as well, a fact he once hoped to remedy, but with no leads or traces of his people, he has long since given up on this dream.

Spoiler: Amata Rassu (Sentient Bowtie) (click to show/hide)

[spoiler=Because I'm unoriginal, EXPYTIME]Name: Amata (she also goes by Ammy) Rassu
Age: Two years.
Species: Wolf.
Sex: Female.
Gender: Also female.
Physical Power: Ammy can set herself on fire from the markings she has on her body.
Mental Power: A strange form of aquakinesis. It affects water, but it is much more effective when using water containing with other substances, such as a polluted river or waste liquids. (Yes, it works on soup.) It might work on blood as well, but she hasn't tried that yet.
Physical Power Level: Peasant
Mental Power Level: Merchant
Are you a Walker? Noep.
Description. The wing-like objects on her forelegs are decorative, almost like bracelets. Ammy tends to wear a full-body cloak so she can dramatically tear it off when she wants to use her powers. A strange fact is that her markings are usually not visible, but appear and grow more intense as she uses either power. They otherwise do nothing.
Personality: Ammy has a good heart and is unusually lovable, but she can be lazy and even arrogant. She enjoys helping those who need it but is very opinionated at times.

Spoiler: Axa (Hugoluman) (click to show/hide)

Here we go, probably made some mistakes and definitely needs more work. But what do you think?
[spoiler]Name: Axa
Age: 15
Species: Leopard seal
Sex: Female
Gender: Female/Indifferent
Physical Power: Speed
Mental Power: Charm
Physical Power Level: Merchant
Mental Power Level: Wanderer
Are you a Walker. No
Description: Axa is a large seal, though not overly so for her kind. She is dressed minimally, as too many accoutriments slow one down in the water, wearing a single, streamlined leather pouch around her neck.
Personality: A curious and restless one, Axa roams the coasts and seas of the world, collecting tales and songs, a sort of traveling bard if you will. She searches for good conversation, good food, good company, and all around good times, and prefers to be ever on the move. She's never seen another of her species, but it's not something she often thinks about.

[~Neri]

Reserved.

[~Neri]

Q/A:

Is this still open?

Yes it is. There is no character limit.

Make a character and I'll put it in the most recent update after it's approved.

A few little things.
What's the distinction between rogues and nomads?
Are the power classes just a way to differentiate between powers or do you have to, say, have merchant level powers to be a merchant?
Obviously everyone's in civilizations, but what are the, uh, implications of a sapient carnivore eating, for example, a sapient rabbit or something?
Is there a standard language for every civilization?

1: Yes. Rogues are just villagers or townsfolk who left a major civ. Nomads are nomadic vagabonds. Often traveling in groups.

2: Just a way to differentiate between powers. However higher Class generally means more successful. Generally a Merchant Class Precog will find themselves a better literal Merchant than a Peasant Class Precog.

3: Generally it's frowned upon. The Kotkal consider it grounds for capital punishment. The Tolshak consider it grounds for locking the person up for about five to ten years. Five years is about a quarter the average person's life. So it's a pretty severe punishment. Ferals don't care. Rogues generally keep the same policy of their father civ. Nomads tend to pull teeth as punishment for that.

4: Yes there is a standard language. Nomads also have a language. But they know the standard one.

Question: What's going on in the sea? Are dolphins plotting world domination? Are crabs singing catchy songs?

Nobody really knows what's going on at sea. Presumably there is at least one megalomaniac from every species. Including dolphins. Crabs don't have the requisite vocal cords~

Two quick questions:
Interspecies romance: What are people's(animals'?) views on it?
Does species actually determine the characters' life span?

1: Ferals don't normally mind. They're a weird bunch. Rogues tend to disapprove but are fairly liberal. Nomads are totes fine with it. Kotkai are very much against it. Herd mentality and all that. Tolshak don't really care one way or another. If it doesn't stop science or progress, they don't care.

2: Yes. Species does determine lifespan. The longer living people are the ones with powers that directly allow for such or live with someone capable of applying such abilities to them. Or they're walkers. Walkers live around double the normal lifespan of a creature. So if a creature lives 12 years average. A Walker will be 24 years average of that species. Walker lifespan is about 40 years on average.

Thats why I wanted focus originally, to be able to process things mid battle. The few minutes of precog don't help, he really only needs 10 seconds, but really he needs more than anything, to be able to react and process during a fight. Are you seeing what I'm going for here? What could he have that allows that? If anything.

You would want Precog as a mental and Hyperprocessing as a physical. Focus just focuses on one task, not comprehending the data until an output is received but being able to run a hell of a lot more complex stuff than normal.

Hyperprocessing is comprehending all available data as well as possible. With some memorization traits cropping up with the later tiers.

Is there a way to increase your Magic Classes?

None known. There are rumors, but there are always rumors.The only thing that has put off outputs higher than its normal classes are Manasinks, and they function by absorbing ability outputs, forming them into crystals, and then burning through the crystals at whatever rate they choose. The classing only matters for range they can draw from.

Manasinks aren't allowed as player characters due to obvious OP reasons.

Why make such high ranks if it's (supposedly) impossible to reach the high ones? Also what is Warping and are Enchantment and Electrokinesis viable?

Because there are NPC's of the higher ranks, lore is a thing, and it is Technically possible to increase rank OOC. IC, absolutely nobody has a fucking clue how to do so.

Warping is basically portals and spacial distortions. If you want an example. Read the old Instability.

Enchantment is a thing, although usually it has a focus rather then Generic Enchantment.

Electrokinesis is perfectly viable.

What about Chronomancy? Speed things up. Slow things down. Maybe even open some small time portals at higher ranks. Time things. Is it consuming souls? So like what would an enchantment focus be? Also if you can't bump up your level how is backstory supposed explain my king-tier salsamancy?

That kind of chronomancy is viable.

No, it is not consuming souls.

An enchantment focus would for example be Fire Enchantment. Allowing various types of enchantments that you can argue are related to fire. Including but not limited to, setting houses on fire by infusing one board of wood with fire. Setting Fire Traps by infusing the ground with fire set to explode upwards on contact. Flaming swords. Staffs that shoot fireballs. And so on. Also would let you despell fire related enchantments.

I don't think you're currently moving salsa. I don't think salsa ever was invented insetting actually~ Plants required to make it aren't close enough together geographically and no real way to transport them easily yet.

A fleshed backstory basically gives your character some semblance of life. If said backstory has believable parts that would rank them at a higher tier, then they're probably going to be at a higher tier.

So basically if I make an internally consistent backstory that also involves me performing high level feats of magic. And I would assume it's not just practice or killing non-sapient monsters or we would have figured it out already. Is it not using magic?

Killing shit doesn't do anything beyond give skill. Good mages are the ones that use their abilities in the most creative ways. A Merchant Class Warper can kill a King Class Precog for example. Simply remove any potential for dodging. If they can't dodge or evade, they'll die like anyone else.

There are specific things that cause advancement in terms of power potential, they are unknown IC. They may or may not be painful.

No, not using magic means you don't gain any skill with it.

And yes. A good backstory gives the possibility for higher ranking.

I was hoping that we collected energy we use for magic and that if we didn't use it the excess energy would stretch our metaphorical container allowing for more magic to flow through. But I guess that's not the case. Is it like the Saiyan? 

No idea what the saiyan are like.

There is no mana cap. There isn't collected energy. There's just how much potential for it in specific areas you are capable of and how much skill you have with it. Someone with pyromancy could shoot flames at a wall all day long and not get tired.

The two main abnormals are as follows:

Manasinks are people who can crystalize ambient magic as well as active magic. If someone is using precog near one, they can crystalize that, preventing the person from using precog until they stop crystalizing precog or the precog user gets out of range and at the same time providing themselves with a crystal specifically built for precog. Which they can burn through at any time. If a manasink is in an area with lots of death and has some form of enchantment for example, depending on their skill, they can crystalize the ambient death into a death focused enchantment crystal. Which they can burn through at any time to use for a death focused enchantment.

Antimagi are people who can make a No Magic Zone around themselves. People cannot use magic around them if they have it active. It's technically a form of magic, however Antimages still cut off Manasink abilities. Antimages do not stop kinetic objects however. If an antimage shuts off the magic of a terramancer for example, and the terramancer had already launched a spear of rock at them, the rock's still gonna keep moving. It's not just going to randomly lose momentum.

These two are abnormal in that ranking only affects range and not potential power. IC, nobody knows why that is. It's abnormal and it's been noted down as abnormal.

[Shadestyle]

Name: Braskus Grassroots
Age: 4
Species: Padfoot, a Mythic black dog of incredible power, it is warned by the sound of dragging chains behind it, in my case, these are long fleshy cables extending from all parts of it's body like Hair, and textured with white circles.
Gender: Male
Sex: Male
Physical Power: Body part specific (Cables) Regeneration
Mental Power: Terrakinesis
Physical Power Level: Merchant if possible, his cables work both like a detachable tail, and a weapon, so regrowth is a must, and possibly lengthening as well.
Mental Power Level: Peasant
Are you a Walker: No

  Few things of the old world remain, and Braskus is one of the last. The mythic power of the Padfoot has been laid low, generations of slow but increasing weakness have doomed the once mighty monster as a race. His own Mother Died only 2 years after his birth, leaving him to wander, and so he has, never having met another sapient being, he is unaware that they can even exist.  He knows nothing of his own heritage and power as well, a fact he once hoped to remedy, but with no leads or traces of his people, he has long since given up on this dream.

[~Neri]

Technically the cables could just be treated as like a lizard tail. Regrowing over time. Regeneration isn't necessary for that. Physical powers tend to focus on the entire body. Powers tend to be completely separate from physical form also. They aren't normally hereditary outside of a very small number of cases.

Peasant Class Terrakinesis would basically allow for flinging small rocks/shaping small rocks into bowls/tools and stuff.

[Shadestyle]

Full body regeneration would work in that case, but ideally, I want to be able to very quickly regrow them, and overgrow them as well. Would regeneration work for this?

[~Neri]

Merchant Class Regeneration would work for it.

Although if this is a species trait, it would be a reoccurring genome. Which is quite rare. Still fine though, since it's basically a fallen mythological beast.

[IcyTea31]

I'll consider joining if I can think of a decent character design. Otherwise, PTW.

[Andres]

I believe you have sex and gender mixed up. Sex is biological and gender is what you identify as.

[SOLDIER First]

A few little things.
What's the distinction between rogues and nomads?
Are the power classes just a way to differentiate between powers or do you have to, say, have merchant level powers to be a merchant?
Obviously everyone's in civilizations, but what are the, uh, implications of a sapient carnivore eating, for example, a sapient rabbit or something?
Is there a standard language for every civilization?

[IcyTea31]

Question: What's going on in the sea? Are dolphins plotting world domination? Are crabs singing catchy songs?

[~Neri]

A few little things.
What's the distinction between rogues and nomads?
Are the power classes just a way to differentiate between powers or do you have to, say, have merchant level powers to be a merchant?
Obviously everyone's in civilizations, but what are the, uh, implications of a sapient carnivore eating, for example, a sapient rabbit or something?
Is there a standard language for every civilization?

1: Yes. Rogues are just villagers or townsfolk who left a major civ. Nomads are nomadic vagabonds. Often traveling in groups.

2: Just a way to differentiate between powers. However higher Class generally means more successful. Generally a Merchant Class Precog will find themselves a better literal Merchant than a Peasant Class Precog.

3: Generally it's frowned upon. The Kotkal consider it grounds for capital punishment. The Tolshak consider it grounds for locking the person up for about five to ten years. Five years is about a quarter the average person's life. So it's a pretty severe punishment. Ferals don't care. Rogues generally keep the same policy of their father civ. Nomads tend to pull teeth as punishment for that.

4: Yes there is a standard language. Nomads also have a language. But they know the standard one.

Question: What's going on in the sea? Are dolphins plotting world domination? Are crabs singing catchy songs?

Nobody really knows what's going on at sea. Presumably there is at least one megalomaniac from every species. Including dolphins. Crabs don't have the requisite vocal cords~

[SOLDIER First]

1. K.
2. K.
3. What if you don't get caught?*
4. K.
_*Joke
A SHEET APPROACHES ON THE HORIZON

[~Neri]

If you don't get caught then you don't get caught.