Please note that, due to the nature of the RP, I cannot do anything until either kol or windel gives me something to do in relation to Paraanon.
Lugubrious
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Current GM of World of Light. When it comes to writing, there's nothing I love more than imagination, engagement, and commitment. I'm always open to talk, suggestion, criticism, and collaboration. While I try to be as obliging, helpful, and courteous as possible, I have very little sympathy for ghosts, and anyone who'd like to string me along. Straightforwardness is all I ask for.
Looking for more personal details? I'm just some dude from the American south; software development is my job but games, writing, and trying to help others enjoy life are my passions. Been RPing for over a decade, starting waaaay back with humble beginnings on the Spore forum, so I know a thing or two, though I won't pretend to be an expert. If you're down for some fun, let's make something spectacular together.
Looking for more personal details? I'm just some dude from the American south; software development is my job but games, writing, and trying to help others enjoy life are my passions. Been RPing for over a decade, starting waaaay back with humble beginnings on the Spore forum, so I know a thing or two, though I won't pretend to be an expert. If you're down for some fun, let's make something spectacular together.
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And here I was just thinking of the possibility of putting together a JJBA interest check. Consider me interesting. If you like, I can share the ideas I've had about a direction in which to take such an RP--perhaps even act as a co-gm, of sorts.
Team BAST's VIVE has won the poll, earning @narayanK, @kaithas, @krayzikk, and @plank sinatra a collective four extra credits.
Christ, I learned last night that last night a family friend of mine has cancer.
I'm terribly sorry to hear that. My best wishes are with this friend of yours.
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I forgot Tukson, though I didn't forget Velvet.
Here's a present:
Now for something completely different:
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The orcs are on the Original Post, they're not demons but rather a vile race that worships the demons and often does their bidding which includes summoning new demons into the world.
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So the older the revenant is the less it is consumed by the personality of its host? Though it is always driven to kill a person that somehow wronged its host (most likely leading to death), the longer it goes without doing this slowly drives it mad? Yeah I can work with that. Of course it'll be severely looked down on by other demons but that's always fun.
I see. I had not realized. Perhaps the Cabras can be an offshoot of the orcs. Anyway, you've got the right idea about the revenants. I didn't imagine they'd be highly regarded anyway; they're less demons and more reanimating, progressively more aggressive viruses.
@Lugubrious All of them look good except for the Woodland Cabras and Revenant.
Woodland Cabras:
That is essentially what Orcs do. In fact I may use that description in the Orc Category because it describes them almost to a tee. The others I'll add to the Codex.
Revenant:
Do these demons possess an actual consciousness or do they merely take on an echo of the mind of their host. I have some reservations about this idea but willing to hear more.
Well, there were no orcs at the time, and fantasy doesn't make orcs out to be demons usually, so I couldn't predict that.
The revenants have a consciousness of their own aimed toward violence, but are eclipsed by the host's echo early on in the life cycle. The percentages lean in the revenant's favor as time passes.
I plan to make another demon or two for each classification. I would be excited to see others putting forth a few, though.
Can someone recap me of what happened since everyone awoke? Please?
I'm not sure I can remember everything, but I know that Malice, Ayame, and Nero are trying their hardest to remember what happened at dinner last night, but somehow it remains fuzzy...
Bloody Maiden:
Type 4 demons that manifest as entities of living blood and rough, gray flesh. In a manner similar to a bloodborne pathogen, the spirit form of the Bloody Maiden relies on blood contamination to spread from destroyed body to infected host, but can in fact be shared between two human hosts if the hosts remain in close proximity. After an incubation period, during which the victim’s blood beats slowly hotter and faster, the host’s body bursts in a shower of viscera that reassembles itself into the form of a seven-foot-tall, abhorrent woman, regardless of the host’s original gender. During their immaturity, Bloody Maidens are less cautious and easier to find, and their hemomancy is underdeveloped. With frightening speed, however, the Bloody Maiden grows to maturity, ending up between eight and nine feet tall, sporting complex and layered ‘dresses’, and boasting deadly, destructive hemomancy along with the ability to shift into a mimicry of its original form. To note: a Bloody Maiden’s hemomancy only spreads the demon’s consciousness if its body is destroyed.
Wild One:
Type 1 demons that exist in forested, unpopulated areas. They seek out large mammals, including humans, who have lost their way, and possess them as they eat. The Wild One’s host gains physical strength and stamina, despite an emaciated form; its face, whether man or beast, grows a ghastly bonelike mask, as well as any number of antlers. The host also dines exclusively on meat, ever more aggressively and voraciously. If killed, a Wild One remains trapped in its host’s dead body, and with an insidious and foul magic keeps it fresh and unnaturally appetizing should any mammal happen its way.
Looter Demon:
Type 2 creatures. Deprived of sentience, these demons are slaves to two basic desires: eat to live, and live to take. They lust after anything of value, collecting it and carrying it on themselves. Not much stronger than the average adult, they can attack with sudden viciousness but lack stamina. Working in small groups, Looter Demons attempt to gang up on potential foes, unwittingly covering for one another’s weaknesses by preventing an enemy from taking advantage of them.
Revenant:
Type 1 demons that possess the corpses of recently-dead humans. Unlike ghouls, revenants ‘revive’ their host bodies and sustain them in a lifelike state, though it is not difficult to tell when looking at one that something’s off. As a tradeoff for this indefinite revival process, the revenant is governed by a semblance of the host’s mind in life, though singlemindedly driven toward revenge. Revenants are more attracted to the bodies of those with tragic deaths, and after reanimating, tirelessly pursue those judged responsible to claim their own lives. The longer a revenant’s mission goes unfulfilled, the more warped the corpse becomes, until finally the revenant starts choosing targets indiscriminately. Should a revenant kill its target, the host body disintegrates and the revenant spirit is set free.
Kyodai-na:
Better known as Kyos, these six-foot-tall, type 2 brutes wield great strength and a hunger for destruction. They prefer to level homes, towns, and all that humans hold dear rather than attack humans themselves. Though mighty and hearty, they are by no means quick, and easy prey for an adept demon slayer.
Nightgaunt:
Type 4 demons known to legends as Blackhearts, Evil Within, and Stalkers. Though more common than other type 4s, Nightgaunts provide an exception to the usual process that characterizes their dreadful kind. Existing as spirits in the form of noxious miasma, Nightgaunts enter a host that inhales the poisonous smog. Once inside a host, the process begins. The demon begins to form, full-size, inside the host’s body, becoming a dark shell around their skeletal system that slowly expands until the host is merely a human shell surrounding a demonic interior. Depending on the rate of growth, the Nightgaunt’s wings, tail, and horns may sprout through the shell and give away the infestation, leading those afflicted to seek spots of darkness and solitude. When the time comes, the human shell throws itself to its death, and from the lifeless corpse the demon within arises. Once killed, a Nightgaunt gradually reverts to a mobile miasma if its body is not disposed of. Fast, stealthy, and exhibiting lethal claws, Nightgaunts are deadly ambush predators, though what they do with their kills may never be known.
Woodland Cabra
Type 2 demons that prowl the dark, vast forests of the realm. Armed with clubs and bows, they form crude tribes with which to both send raiding parties into helpless villages and perform demonic rights with which to bring things even more despicable into the world. They come in both male and female varieties, with each being slightly larger than their respective human. True intelligence eludes them, however.
Finned Bloat
As type 4 demons go, Bloats are a particularly formidable yet brutish variety. As spirits, they haunt dwellings they choose of their own accord, and frighten away trespassers, leading some to believe them to be benevolent. After a time, however, they select a woman among the dwelling’s inhabitants and possess her in her sleep, most often a wife or lover laying with her partner to disguise what comes next. Over the next few weeks, the woman becomes more and more obviously pregnant, as well as eating easily three times as much as normal. If there isn’t a steady supply of food available in any way, the woman in question will be possessed of a manic strength and resort to cannibalism of anyone she can find. Once the woman becomes so engorged that she can no longer move, the Finned Bloat emerges. Powerful and moronic creatures, the Bloats quickly swell to maturity themselves, thereafter deeming the dwelling in which it emerged its ‘home’ and protecting it at all costs. If killed after reaching full maturity, the de-powered flees many miles away, taking potential years to regenerate before it can seek another dwelling.
Type 4 demons that manifest as entities of living blood and rough, gray flesh. In a manner similar to a bloodborne pathogen, the spirit form of the Bloody Maiden relies on blood contamination to spread from destroyed body to infected host, but can in fact be shared between two human hosts if the hosts remain in close proximity. After an incubation period, during which the victim’s blood beats slowly hotter and faster, the host’s body bursts in a shower of viscera that reassembles itself into the form of a seven-foot-tall, abhorrent woman, regardless of the host’s original gender. During their immaturity, Bloody Maidens are less cautious and easier to find, and their hemomancy is underdeveloped. With frightening speed, however, the Bloody Maiden grows to maturity, ending up between eight and nine feet tall, sporting complex and layered ‘dresses’, and boasting deadly, destructive hemomancy along with the ability to shift into a mimicry of its original form. To note: a Bloody Maiden’s hemomancy only spreads the demon’s consciousness if its body is destroyed.
Wild One:
Type 1 demons that exist in forested, unpopulated areas. They seek out large mammals, including humans, who have lost their way, and possess them as they eat. The Wild One’s host gains physical strength and stamina, despite an emaciated form; its face, whether man or beast, grows a ghastly bonelike mask, as well as any number of antlers. The host also dines exclusively on meat, ever more aggressively and voraciously. If killed, a Wild One remains trapped in its host’s dead body, and with an insidious and foul magic keeps it fresh and unnaturally appetizing should any mammal happen its way.
Looter Demon:
Type 2 creatures. Deprived of sentience, these demons are slaves to two basic desires: eat to live, and live to take. They lust after anything of value, collecting it and carrying it on themselves. Not much stronger than the average adult, they can attack with sudden viciousness but lack stamina. Working in small groups, Looter Demons attempt to gang up on potential foes, unwittingly covering for one another’s weaknesses by preventing an enemy from taking advantage of them.
Revenant:
Type 1 demons that possess the corpses of recently-dead humans. Unlike ghouls, revenants ‘revive’ their host bodies and sustain them in a lifelike state, though it is not difficult to tell when looking at one that something’s off. As a tradeoff for this indefinite revival process, the revenant is governed by a semblance of the host’s mind in life, though singlemindedly driven toward revenge. Revenants are more attracted to the bodies of those with tragic deaths, and after reanimating, tirelessly pursue those judged responsible to claim their own lives. The longer a revenant’s mission goes unfulfilled, the more warped the corpse becomes, until finally the revenant starts choosing targets indiscriminately. Should a revenant kill its target, the host body disintegrates and the revenant spirit is set free.
Kyodai-na:
Better known as Kyos, these six-foot-tall, type 2 brutes wield great strength and a hunger for destruction. They prefer to level homes, towns, and all that humans hold dear rather than attack humans themselves. Though mighty and hearty, they are by no means quick, and easy prey for an adept demon slayer.
Nightgaunt:
Type 4 demons known to legends as Blackhearts, Evil Within, and Stalkers. Though more common than other type 4s, Nightgaunts provide an exception to the usual process that characterizes their dreadful kind. Existing as spirits in the form of noxious miasma, Nightgaunts enter a host that inhales the poisonous smog. Once inside a host, the process begins. The demon begins to form, full-size, inside the host’s body, becoming a dark shell around their skeletal system that slowly expands until the host is merely a human shell surrounding a demonic interior. Depending on the rate of growth, the Nightgaunt’s wings, tail, and horns may sprout through the shell and give away the infestation, leading those afflicted to seek spots of darkness and solitude. When the time comes, the human shell throws itself to its death, and from the lifeless corpse the demon within arises. Once killed, a Nightgaunt gradually reverts to a mobile miasma if its body is not disposed of. Fast, stealthy, and exhibiting lethal claws, Nightgaunts are deadly ambush predators, though what they do with their kills may never be known.
Woodland Cabra
Type 2 demons that prowl the dark, vast forests of the realm. Armed with clubs and bows, they form crude tribes with which to both send raiding parties into helpless villages and perform demonic rights with which to bring things even more despicable into the world. They come in both male and female varieties, with each being slightly larger than their respective human. True intelligence eludes them, however.
Finned Bloat
As type 4 demons go, Bloats are a particularly formidable yet brutish variety. As spirits, they haunt dwellings they choose of their own accord, and frighten away trespassers, leading some to believe them to be benevolent. After a time, however, they select a woman among the dwelling’s inhabitants and possess her in her sleep, most often a wife or lover laying with her partner to disguise what comes next. Over the next few weeks, the woman becomes more and more obviously pregnant, as well as eating easily three times as much as normal. If there isn’t a steady supply of food available in any way, the woman in question will be possessed of a manic strength and resort to cannibalism of anyone she can find. Once the woman becomes so engorged that she can no longer move, the Finned Bloat emerges. Powerful and moronic creatures, the Bloats quickly swell to maturity themselves, thereafter deeming the dwelling in which it emerged its ‘home’ and protecting it at all costs. If killed after reaching full maturity, the de-powered flees many miles away, taking potential years to regenerate before it can seek another dwelling.
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