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[ATHATH]

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Name: Feil
Alignment: Positive North (Life+Earth/Order)
Body: Typical humanoid earth-golem, but with plants growing on its body in neat, orderly rows.
Type: Druid
Eats: Constantly draws minuscule amounts of power (per creature) from nearby lifeforms (and stores it within itself)
Attack: Fling Nearby Object

Aspect HP/Defense:
Health: -/-
Energy: 9/1

Quality: Assimilate: By invoking the power of Order, Feil can force his body to accept a body part from another (willing, dead, non-existing, or separated from the body part) creature and treat it as if it was (and always had been) his own. These assimilated parts are sustained by the life energy that Feil consumes, although they need not be organic in nature. This process typically takes at least a day and quite a lot of energy (more time and energy might be used, depending on the size and power of the assimilated body part). Because these new body parts will force Feil to consume more life energy, having a lot of them (like, enough to become giant (as in, 'Jack and the Beanstalk'-kind of giant)-sized) might cause considerable harm to life that he stays in close proximity (within a mile or so) to for an extended period of time.

Skills:
Energize: Invokes the power of Life to infuse a creature or object with life energy, thus healing one of its Aspect HP reserves (if it was a creature or an appropriate object), rapidly growing it (if it was a plant), or recharging it (if it was an object). Note that this ability is more effective when used on life elementals or similar creatures/objects and actively harmful (i.e. does damage, shrivels (death-based plants), or drains charges) to death-based creatures (such as death elementals or the like).
Command: Invokes the power of Order to make a creature treat Feil as if it (Feil) were the creature's superior. Affected animals will treat Feil like they would an alpha, affected soldiers will treat Feil like they would a commanding officer, and affected Chaotic/independent creatures will treat Feil like a respected figure (they won't blindly follow him, of course, but they will generally listen to what he has to say). This ability will affect a target for a couple of minutes per Energy point spent.
Sculpt Earth: Basically Earthbending. 'Nuff said.

Upgrades:
*Greater Energy-to-Aspect HP/Growth/Charges ratio for Energize
*Longer duration/harder to resist for Command
*Larger AoE/finer control and manipulation for Sculpt Earth
*Weaponize eating method?
*Create earth golems?
*Hold stuff in place with the power of Order?

Equipment:
Backpack
Basic Tool Kit
Small Energy Crystal x5

Notes: Curious, minor OCD, trusts others a bit too easily. Alignment might eventually switch over to being Life (dominant)+Order. Can (currently) sleep out in the open due to hard, unfeeling, earthen body, although that might change as he accumulates more organic body parts. Base form can (currently) see/sense in the dark.

I considered buying 20 minor energy crystals and a backpack to store them in, then going around raising floating islands/golem armies or something, but I decided against it.

[milo christiansen]

Looks pretty good, I'll have to make a few tweaks (some abilities will need to be advanced actions, etc) but things are mostly ok as-is.

One thing: You need to have a Health aspect, as you have a physical body. Do you want to reallocate some of your points?

EDIT: I'm giving you a full damage punch as an attack, "throw stuff" is too situational.

EDIT 2: Your canonical character sheet is now in the player list, please check to make sure it is correct. If there is anything you want to change just tell me.

[FakerFangirl]

@milo:

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@FakeFangirl
Are you sure you want more health? You could have another skill instead.

I decided one of your skills fit your quality so well that I lumped them together.

Ya. I'll be weak without starting equipment.

[milo christiansen]

@FakerFangirl

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You certainly aren't weak, but I would recommend using your first few levels​ to broaden your skills.

You should remember to buy some food (I'll rule that standard rations are ok for you to eat), scavenging puddles probably won't be a solution in the long term. Also I suggest buying a tarp to line sleeping holes with... (Same cost as a bed roll)

If you are good with your canonical sheet then I guess all you need to do is go shopping and wait until everyone else is ready. Note that there is no real rush as far as shopping goes, it can be done after game start as well.

[flabort]

Name: Ortflab
Alignment: South East (South Major) Negative Neutral (Death + Chaos/Life)
Type: Mage
Body: A very large segmented skeletal hand composed of assorted bones (as in, though shaped in a hand, not made of hand bones), like my (boney) avatar (but without the gemstones or rings). Size is about that of an overwheight cat. Purple energy holds the bone segments together and cyan energy pushes them apart, creating gaps between the bones and movement of the structure.
Eats: Energy (preferably from other elementals, recently fallen or still living)
Attack: Poke (-1 damage)
Aspect HP/Defense:
  * Health: 5/1
  * Energy: 9/2
Quality:
  * Undead Construct: You are pieced together from dead things and animated with energy, and this way new things can be grafted onto you... somehow. This counts as a flexible body quality. Adding new parts requires that the parts be vaguely dead already, and large amounts of energy and/or magic, taken or given from a sentient entity. You need to make a skill test to succesfully add the part.
Skills:
  * Magical Flight: Don't need to be confined to scuttling around the ground when you can hover into the air.
  * Wither: Poisons the inner essence of the foe with a bolt of dark magic. cost 1 Energy HP per use, range of 3. More effective against life and energy alligned enemies, less effective against some other enemies.
Upgrades:
  * Summoning magic would be nice. Or the ability to command my fallen enemies.
  * Definitely some more destructive spells would be helpful. Also, a way to replenish spent energy.
  * A bigger body, perhaps literally "fleshing out" oneself, would help in physical combat should I get stuck there.
  * Contingencies for "accidents"; phylacteries, hocruxes, backup bodies, soul gems, whatever works.
Inventory:
  * 26gp - minus prices for unknown items, so probably 0-6 gp
  * 7x small Energy Crystal
  * Backpack, adjusted in size and shape to strap around "wrist"
  * 5x sticks of colored chalk (white, white, red, cyan, blue)
  * 2x Scrolls of Drain (as per the ability from example character Sally Sorcerer)

[milo christiansen]

That alignment would actually be (Death/Chaos+Energy), which fits your character perfectly.

I'll go ahead and rule that the scrolls cost 5gp each, and the chalk is, say 1gp per piece. Chalk isn't exactly expensive, and Leech was intended to be something that could be spammed as an attack, so Scrolls containing it should be fairly cheap.

I'll go ahead and type up your canonical character sheet.

EDIT: Canonical sheet is now up, let me know if it needs any changes.

[milo christiansen]

All right, there are four players, everyone has a character sheet, I think it's almost time to start the game!

I'll wait for a little while, but if nothing else comes up the game start post will show up around 1-2 pm UTC-5 (US Eastern Time).

[sjm9876]

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Name: Skia
Alignment: West Negative Neutral ( Major void, minor life and energy)
Type: Scout
Body: A 3D shadow, humanoid, though slightly smaller than an average human. Feels like a very viscous fluid v to the touch. Lacks fine features such as a face.
Eats: Shadows. Shadows of living things are most nutritious, with shadows of things that have never lived such as rocks provide minimal nutrition.
Attack: chilling touch.

Aspects:
*health 5/1
*energy 7/1

Quality:
*Shadow flesh: can become briefly ethereal, passing through solid objects. Takes energy to maintain for any length of time.

Skills:
*Flatten: Can reduce to a 2D form, resembling a real shadow. No one ever thinks to check if their shadow contains a threat.
*Nightmare: Can induce terror in a creature with a touch.
*Rapid consumption: can consume shadows almost instantaneously.
*Pseudo-energetic: Excess energy is converted into healing.

Upgrades:
*Ability to blink between shadows would be nice.
*More efficient shadow flesh, allowing for longer bouts of ethereality
*A bit more direct damage would be nice.
*Ability to animate other shadows would fit the minors nicely.

Inventory:
*15gp
*Backpack
*Rope
*Lantern
*Bottle of Shadows (10 Rations worth)

Probably too late but worth a shot. Apologies for any formatting errors, on mobile.

[ATHATH]

Yup, my character sheet looks fine... but you used "effected" instead of "affected" in the description of my Command ability.

[milo christiansen]

Nope, you still have time

Eating shadows doesn't seem reasonable, so that won't work. I'll file your eating habits under the same "don't ask" category as the example thief. Standard ration packs will work for you.

This means that your Rapid Consumption skill needs a replacement.

Shadows are just shadows, not animate thing. That said hiding in them, or pretending to be one is fine...

I don't see any other issues, so I'll post your canonical character sheet (short one skill) in a few minutes.

@ATHATH: Oops. I'll fix that 

[ATHATH]

Thank you.

Also, why is throwing nearby objects too "situational"? Unless I'm floating in the void or something, there should be SOMETHING nearby that I can throw.

[sjm9876]

Sounds good. Pretending to be one is what I meant, poor phrasing on my end, apologies.

For the replacement skill, could it be:
*Shadow blink: Can jump between two shadowed areas, for an energy cost. This cost increases rapidly with distance.

Cheers

[milo christiansen]

Also, why is throwing nearby objects too "situational"? Unless I'm floating in the void or something, there should be SOMETHING nearby that I can throw.

I would rather not have a character with a default attack that will not work in every circumstance. Sure, it would be fine most of the time, but better to be 100% reliable.

For the replacement skill, could it be:
*Shadow blink: Can jump between two shadowed areas, for an energy cost. This cost increases rapidly with distance.

Sounds good. Also I think Flatten could be lumped into your quality, do you want to pick yet another skill?

[sjm9876]

*Consume life: Damage dealt by Skia to enemies' health pools grants (All/half - not too sure how to balance this) back as energy to Skia.

That good for the skill?

[milo christiansen]

Sure, I'll go with half, and if it seems too OP I can nerf it later...