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[Glass]

Before I add either of your characters to the IC thread, could you give me a list of bonuses/maluses you'd want? Two from profession, two from race (or other backstory stuff, if you don't feel like your race really lends itself to bonuses), and you can take maluses to get an equal amount of extra bonuses.

Maybe put them into the OP statblock thing?

Yeah, Supernerd, could you please do this?

-Seamanship

Skiesmanship, actually. But yeah, this is good.

[Egan_BW]

True, it would.
It’s your decision.

I'd be fine with that. Swap the self-control trait for being easy to intimidate, then.

[Glass]

True, it would.
It’s your decision.

I'd be fine with that. Swap the self-control trait for being easy to intimidate, then.

It is done.

[Devastator]

Incindia IC Thread is ready

Characters sheets will be up in a few days.

[Supernerd]

Mechal and Incindia have been added to OP.

The multiverse is honestly sort of weird and there aren't any hardcore rules that GM's need to follow. For best results though, things that happen to players in other worlds should have some impact on events in your own world. You can also do an 'incursion' where something from another world, usually monsters, will appear in your world to do whatever it is they do.

To Glass and Stirk, Could you explain what you are asking me to do? I am not quite clear on what you mean by 'OP statblock thing' or what you want me to add. My best guess is a tweak to character applications?

[Devastator]

Could you provide some help with that, supernerd?  There's going to be a lot of threads to keep track with, and I don't think I can follow all of them.

[Stirk]

Mechal and Incindia have been added to OP.

The multiverse is honestly sort of weird and there aren't any hardcore rules that GM's need to follow. For best results though, things that happen to players in other worlds should have some impact on events in your own world. You can also do an 'incursion' where something from another world, usually monsters, will appear in your world to do whatever it is they do.

To Glass and Stirk, Could you explain what you are asking me to do? I am not quite clear on what you mean by 'OP statblock thing' or what you want me to add. My best guess is a tweak to character applications?

I'm more wondering from a player perspective. Like did the robot guy also grow up on an Island? Are they mostly different people? What do they share outside of you're god world thing?

We're talking about this thing:

Before I add either of your characters to the IC thread, could you give me a list of bonuses/maluses you'd want? Two from profession, two from race (or other backstory stuff, if you don't feel like your race really lends itself to bonuses), and you can take maluses to get an equal amount of extra bonuses.

To Glass's OP.

[Glass]

To Glass and Stirk, Could you explain what you are asking me to do? I am not quite clear on what you mean by 'OP statblock thing' or what you want me to add. My best guess is a tweak to character applications?

Basically, two pairs of +’s below race and occupation.

[Supernerd]

To confirm, should the lands adrift application actually look like this? If so, please also provide an explanation of how it works to go along with it.

Lands Adrift
Name:
Race:
+
+
Occupation:
+
+
Character Description:
Starting Island: (Include a description if not a pre-established one)

[Glass]

To confirm, should the lands adrift application actually look like this? If so, please also provide an explanation of how it works to go along with it.

Lands Adrift
Name:
Race:
+
+
Occupation:
+
+
Character Description:
Starting Island: (Include a description if not a pre-established one)

Yeah, that’s valid. It could also be done as follows:

Lands Adrift
Name:
Race:
+[racial bonus]
+[racial bonus]
Occupation:
+[professional skill]
+[professional skill]
Character Description:
Starting Island: (Include a description if not a pre-established one)

[Supernerd]

I noticed that some players came up with the same ideas that I did independently. I've changed the worst offenders as they posted their application first. So... Here we go.

Spoiler: Applications (click to show/hide)

Universal
True name: Aing
Traits:
(+) Inventing: The ability to create stuff, especially in terms of technology.
(+) Perception: The ability to detect stuff and notice important minor details.
(-) Lazy: When this character is not in a crisis situation, they tend to slack off and not accomplish as much as they should.
Personality: Intuitive, calculating, and somewhat selfish. Having access to knowledge from other worlds, Aing seeks to use it to improve upon their skills so that they can raise their quality of life within all worlds.

Crystalia
Name: Ying
Character Description: A plant-type crystal in the form of a tree. The base of the tree is protected by an extremely dense crystal bark, with its more fragile crystal leaves high above the ground, beyond the reach of the majority of the animals that would seek to eat them. Ying is capable of making deliberate modifications to itself, which it has only discovered after being made aware of its alternate reality selves.

Lands Adrift
Name: Wing
Race: Albatrosskin (A humanoid with bird characteristics. Capable of flying extremely long distances without expending a lot of energy.)
+ Flight
+ Wind Affinity
Occupation: Handyman
+ Repair
+ Appraisal
Character Description: A birdman with mostly white feathers with black patterns on his wings, which are long enough to get in the way while not in flight. Wing runs his own small business where he crafts and repairs things, typically things too obscure to be worth the attention of large corporations.
Starting Island: Adjilia

Wasteland
Name: Zing
Character Description: The woman by the name of Zing managed to escape some of the biggest hazards of Wasteland by becoming a vampire, averting the need to breath or deal with certain types of undead. Despite this, her (un)life is still far from easy. In order to feed she needs to seek out blood from the living populace that needs to be increasingly competent just to survive; and going too long without blood tends to be... Unbearable; as in: Go into a state of feral rage until the lack of blood is resolved. Her attractiveness is proportional to how well fed she is, ranging from beautiful to monstrous.
Other: Zing has access to a few supernatural abilities, the most prominent being enhanced physical ability, enhanced senses, Blood-powered magic, hypnotic eyes and regeneration. She has an equally impressive array of vampire weaknesses such as sunlight (fatal), silver, garlic, certain holy symbols (some religions are ineffective), and that thing where vampires cannot enter houses above a certain quality threshold without being invited for some reason.

System Zero
Name: Ping
Character Description: At a glance, Ping is an ordinary member of a human-like species, with short blonde hair, pale skin and an androgynous appearance. This is only half of what Ping is however. The other half is a piece of malware that infected System Zero which had glitched out in a strange way; its original purpose has long since been forgotten.
Other: Ping is able to use a 'Malware Ability' to cause distortions in reality within System Zero. This can be used any amount of times, but overuse of it will alert the system's security system.

Mechal
Name: Ring
Character Description: A sleek robot standing a bit taller than the average Keeling, with some catlike features, similar to that of its creators. It has made a few modifications to its outer chassis after its awakening. Part of its external metal plating can 'rotate' to reveal a bright purple heart-shaped locket, which can quickly 'transform' Ring into her magical girl form. While transformed, Ring has a bright purple colored ensemble with bright yellow trim with a star motif, with an inordinate amount of sparkly glitter.

After hearing rumors about magic from other robots, Ring assembled an outfit in order to disprove the ridiculous notion. However, the results betrayed her expectations.

Powers:
1 Point - Endearing Kugelblitz Pocket; The power to store and retrieve an amount of objects in a 'decorated' accessory which vastly exceeds the logical capacity of that item. This is used to store an entire magical girl outfit for quick transformation, as well as violently expel items as an attack.
1 Point - Sparkling Shooting Star Make-Up; A transformation state that is active in the magical girl form. Its features are body enhancement, quick movement by 'orbiting' an object within line of sight, and the ability to walk on air.
3 Point - Pretty Pulsar Firework; After doing the requisite magical girl dance complete with spinning and a pose, this attack launches a tiny, temporarily stabilized Neutron Star. It travels for it a bit, exerting a gravitational pull on enemies. Then after a while it explodes in a massive ball of fiery death. Fiery death that is pink.

Purpose: Initially designed to assist with research that requires a high degree of precision and/or danger that the Keelings can't/won't do themselves.

Incindia
Name: Ding
Character Description: A male human fairly average in appearance, standing about five and a half feet tall with black hair and brown skin. Ding was born 'ahead of his time' when it comes to the field of technology which is largely neglected by the magic empire. With some effort, Ding was able to make some devices that he could pass off as magical. He was able to impress school examiners by creating a magic weapon that could overpower an anti-magic barrier while in reality what he used was something akin to a pistol with no magic involved.
Field of Excellence: Technology
Reason for attending the Chief School of Magic: A desire to learn about the powers of this world to further their overall goal of improving their quality of life across all worlds.

[Devastator]

Spoiler: Character Sheets (click to show/hide)

Universal
True Name: Max
Traits:
Isolated, (-). Cannot exchange information, or skills or abilities between incarnations, and is unaware of alternate versions of himself.
Self-Contained, (-). Poor at manipulating external forces or energies, such as magic.
The Rock in the Stream. (+). Less affected by extrauniversal forces and creatures from other worlds.  Can view them as local events/creatures/things instead.

(Only listing games with OPs at this point.)


Lands Adrift
Name: Max
Race: Ratling
Racial Penalty: Jittery
Racial Penalty: Small
Occupation: Unemployed.
No bonuses.

Small, ratlike demihuman with fur, teeth, and sharp ears.
Currently stowing away on someone's ship at an undetermined location, in an attempt to find adventure after leaving his home island.  Has difficulty remaining in one place and staying quiet for some time, and as a small humanoid, is not effective in physical combat.


System Zero
Name: Max
Description: An ancient, mostly forgotten bit of code that has escaped various pruning routines and is currently set free as a loose function, capable of operating within other programs and substituting itself for things that exist.
Other: Max is not optimized and full of kludge and spaghetti code.  While Max may imitate programs, creatures, etcetera, it cannot do so well.  Everything done by Max is done just a little bit worse than if it was done by the original.


Mechal
Name: Max
Character Description: A large boxy robot with complicated gripping arms and a bunch of hydraulic-assisted limbs and presses, all built above a robust roller tread system in place of legs.
Powers: Turbo Grasp, 1 pt, where hidden rocket systems activate and the limbs extend to get a firm grip on ANYTHING.  Spine Breaker, 1 pt, where anything grappled is bent or broken in MAX's MIGHTY ARMS, and Hyper Toss, 3 pt, where things are thrown.  HARD.
Purpose: To pick heavy things up and put them down.


Jeoarthica
Name: Max

Character Description: A lone human that looks suspiciously ordinary in any context.  Without context, looks about mid-thirties and has plain brown hair and eyes.  Recognizable by wearing advanced footgear and a prediliction towards trenchcoat analogues.

Deific Abilities:

Acceptance, 140 points.  When doing a task or facing a situation, Max will slowly adapt to it and eventually find a solution, be it simply enduring the condition or taking deliberate steps to fix it.  The power takes a long time, but he is fully capable of digging a home in a mountainside with his bare hands, or chopping down an entire forest one tree at a time, or constructing a castle in a swamp that falls down a dozen times before standing up once.  Any problem, from parting the ocean to finding true love, it just takes time, effort, and a lack of interferance.

This is naturally aided if materials, equipment, and support exist, but these just make it significantly quicker, easier, and more effective.

Wanderlust, 10 points.  Max prefers doing new things.  If restrained or prevented from his desire, his power will work significantly more quickly to overcome such restraints, such as talking himself out of a cell or escaping from magical Tarterus.

Do note that abilities developed in the course of a goal do not last forever.  While not immediately discarded after completing a task, they decline in power at about the rate they developed in the first place.

[Supernerd]

Few comments on this one.

I mentioned it elsewhere, but I will reiterate. Players are intended to have two positive Universal traits and one Negative, as opposed to two negative and a positive. I have ruled that a player IS allowed to handicap themself by choosing two negative traits and one posiive one if they want. I do not recommend this, but you can do that if you really want to.

From what I can tell, Devastator is making a deliberate effort to give themself a bit more of a 'hardcore' experience.

I also noticed that you are only using half of your Deific Ability allowance for Jeoathica. This is also allowed, and also not recommended. I'll also mention that based on the description, the "Acceptance" power can probably do what you want it to do with a smaller point investment. I'll add your character sheet to the IC thread, but you may modify it at any time before you take your first action. (Mention it so that I don't miss it if you do.)

I also see you not having a profession in Lands Adrift. This is outside of my jurisdiction.

[Devastator]

From what I can tell, Devastator is making a deliberate effort to give themself a bit more of a 'hardcore' experience.

With the possible exception of Lands Adrift, that really isn't my goal.  In most of these worlds, what I'd like to do is to explore, more than to have any sort of hardcore experience.  The penalty to magic is mostly roleplaying having a low-magic world, rather than anything else.  The two traits chosen are to encourage the sort of gameplay I'd like, one where I don't need to worry quite so much about out of context situations and where I don't feel the need to pore over a dozen character sheets before each action.

Basically, I'd rather have crossover stuff happen to my character, instead of having my character actively directing the crossover events with external powers or knowledge.  At the same time, I'm acknowledging that someone facing a truly out-of-context encounter or situation would likely be hopeless in dealing with it, and needs some advantage to counterbalance that issue.  Hence the third trait.

[MeimieFan88]

Here are my character applications:

Spoiler: Character Applications (click to show/hide)

Universal
True name: Aiunara'narae Plex
Traits:
+Resilient: Extremely tough and quick to recover, physically, emotionally, and in every other way.
+Aware: Highly observant and perceptive.
-Mild: Offensive power is somewhat reduced.
Personality: Relaxed, indefatigable, and curious. Very lenient and accepting, and generally doesn't mind others' business, opting to be and let be. If motivated to make something happen, will stop at nothing to get it done.

Crystalia
Name: Amn
Character Description: A motile crystal organism shaped like a manta ray. Can float around in the atmosphere. Is usually slow but capable of bursts of high speed. Feeds on plants and fungi. Skin can absorb light and store it inside its body, which can then be emitted in various ways such as in the form of radiation and flares.

Lands Adrift
Name: Mysti Mikura
Race: Human
+Perceptive: A keen observer of the surrounding environment.
+Unbreakable Will: Never discouraged even in extremely distressful situations. Not easily influenced, magically or otherwise.
Occupation: Explorer and part-time waitress
+Physically Adept: Agile, enduring, and moving with skillful grace, Mysti always seems to land on her feet.
+Social Intuitive: Easily perceives and understands others and able to pick up on their moods, intentions, etc.
Character Description: 5'6, female, medium length brown hair with pigtails. Wields a scimitar and a magic pistol. Friendly and curious. Interested in technology. Is familiar with magic, but not an expert; can cast simple spells like levitation and detection. Loves to adventure and find out more about the mysteries of the world.
Starting Island: Ol' Betsy

Wasteland
Name: Daisy Summers
Character Description: 20-some year old young woman, 5'4 with short blonde hair to her shoulders. Wears a rainbow-decorated helmet with stickers of unicorns and stars, with a couple of slinky-ball antennae that can detect dangers and abnormalities in the vicinity. Wears a sleek combat suit depicting a heart on the chest and winking smiley faces on each shoulder. Rocket-powered boots allow for extreme mobility and short-duration flight. Equipped with a plasma pistol and an explosive sniper rifle.
Other: Daisy is like the flower that grows through the post-apocalyptic pavement. Meeting every situation with optimism and resolve, nothing ever gets her down or deters her from doing what is important.

Mechal
Name: Cookie
Character Description: A shy red fox-girl robot in a maid outfit. Various cleaning tools can emerge out of her hands, such as brooms, vacuum cleaners, spray bottles and the like. She is also able to levitate off the ground and float through the air, albeit relatively slowly. Naturally, she likes things to be clean and orderly, but isn't the type to assert herself very much.

Powers:
2 Points - Dream Inoculation: Ever since becoming ensouled, Cookie has been experiencing states of a waking dreamfulness, often involving hallucinations and surreal phenomenon occuring to objects around her. If she focuses really hard, sometimes these phantasmal events become manifest in reality, but not always like how she sees them in her "dreams".
2 Points - Entrance: Cookie can emit a magical energy ray from her eyes that causes others to become hypnotized, entering a dream state for a duration. How the affected behave during this time depend on what they are dreaming about.
1 Point - Hyper-Mode: Cookie's speed and cleaning/organization skills go into overdrive, allowing her to put a mess of a situation into order with incredible efficiency and exactitude. Using this mode also changes Cookie's personality temporarily.

Purpose: Cookie was designed to be a house servant, taking care of the day-to-day chores of a Baron's household.

Incindia
Name: Skye
Character Description: An orphan whose parents were killed in the Eternal War by soldiers from the magic empire. Dedicates his life to ending the magic empire once and for all. 5'11, human male of age 20ish, light blue hair, dark blue eyes.
Field of Excellence: Spying / covert operations
Reason for attending the Chief School of Magic: Wants to destroy the magic empire

Jeoathica
Name: Aera
Character Description: Incarnate of wind, Aera is a Demi-Goddess whose mercurial presence is as expansive yet fleeting as the wind itself. A bringer of both gentle breezes and stormy weathers, she often travels the land in the form of a maiden in a blue and white dress, opting to disappear into a flock of doves whenever she feels like it.

Deific Abilities:
[25] Air Magic - Can control the wind in basic ways, such as creating gusts, pushing objects around, lifting and carrying things with the air, etc.
[25] Climate Control - Can slowly change the temperature and climate of an area.
[25] Physical Manifestation: Shapeshifter - Can take the form of a human or human-like creature. Can look like however she chooses, though all tend to be somewhat feminine in nature.
[50] Omnipresence - Can travel to anywhere in the world in nearly an instant, appearing and disappearing in a flock of doves.
[50] Bird of Prey - Summon a giant pterodactyl which can be controlled.
[50] Winds of Prosperity - Evoke a magical breeze that greatly promotes natural growth in the area and brings peace and wonder to the land.
[75] Tempest - Evoke a devastating storm to ravage the land, destroying all in its path.

Basically, I'd rather have crossover stuff happen to my character, instead of having my character actively directing the crossover events with external powers or knowledge.

I'm thinking about playing in a similar way actually, where my characters may not be entirely aware of their selves in the other worlds, but do have some idea due to visions and gut-feelings and whatnot. I'd like to play them as sort of separate characters basically, but linked in some strange and hard-to-describe way. Maybe some of them can become more aware of the other ones as the game progresses, I'm not sure yet.

Edit: Small change to Universal sheet.