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And also, be careful with the genocide bit. Be careful with a lot of bits, because then you guys would be straight up hypocrites. That, or you guys would have a very slow rate of dragons because everyone in sapience commits genocide on an almost daily basis. Every dragon has committed genocide, period. Anyone over level 5 has commited genocide in this game. I'm sure there are more like this you'd have to watch out for, but still.
Also, when the pixies stop respawning like Cyrenian guards did and there's a sad memorial graveyard where they used to be, you can talk about genocide without being facetious.
And sure, but respawn is OOC. Genocide isn't. In-game, people shouldn't be thinking of them as respawning. At the very least, repopulating from being slaughtered by one person. If that isn't IC genocide, then ok, I recede.
Fair enough, I've only looked at the surface level of Targ because no one or thing interested me enough about the city to make me want to learn more. But am I wrong in their protecting innocents and fighting Evil and Chaos? Sure, they're like Gallida said - "the ends justify the means", they'll do what they have to do to protect and see Growth in Creation through Light, Righteousness, and Sacrifice. So Lawful Good, that doesnt make them any less "the good guys of Sapience, who fight to banish the twisted dogmas of Evil and Chaos", does it?
Kind of an incarnation of Order that impedes the rampant spread of Evil, the zealous fires of Good in their protection of Creation, the wildgrowth of Nature, the advancement of uninhibited Progress at all costs, and the oblivion of Chaos.
But I believe Order was synonymous with Shallam at some point. So, it's probably not plausible at this point.
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Cyrene gets their wyrm?
Ashtan gets a mini spawn of the wheel
Targossas gets a.. I dunno. A punch in the mouth? Golden goose?
Eleusis gets a treant
Hashan gets a sewer rat, since they love sewers so much, black panther
Mhaldor gets.. bent? An evil chocobo
It's the same class that everyone can enjoy, with the same skills so no one gets a to feel as though another City has 'better abilities', and the only thing that changes is the mount/pet/summon that is tied to your specific faction. Would this mean some Cities get more people cause their summon is cooler? Probably, but does Cyrene really need over half the game population?
Besides, 100 ic years was PLENTY for me.
A mixed system of how Achaea handles Metamorphosis/Angel/Baalzadeen abilites.
You can only use one summon at a time, each summon comes with unique abilities, helps with bashing, and the summons progress in strength and cost the higher up in the skill tree you go.
-Fledgling-
Toad: Stores items for you like a pack, helps you breathe underwater, allows you to leap, and it spews poisonous bubbles at denizens and players.
Chameleon: Grants you the ability to hide/cloak, gives increased movement speed while in the treetops, it can yank people and items from adjacent rooms with its tongue. It lashes at denizens and players dealing poison damage.
Fox: Increases your movement speed, casts a reflection/mirage around you, alerts you of enemies nearby, helps you track down people, and it rakes denizens and players with its sharp claws for cutting damage, tripping someone once in awhile underfoot.
Trans Summons might be a Winged Wyrm you could ride, it has wyrm breath - a much weaker form of dragons breath for adjacent attacks, and it could thrash around in a room breaking either the arm, or the leg of someone at a high equilibrium cost and deals some damage to you for using it.
I think the class would be a lot of fun.
The summon is the main attacker, rather than being an affliction pet that just follows you around. Though for the weaker summons that's probably a fair comparison.
This would, hopefuly, be a mountable, that you fight with. Kind of like the ... icewyrms in Imperian. I think it's the Amazon class.
Edit: Typo
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Now, back on topic. I have this idea for a sort of warlord class, they would use polearms for their primary fighting skill, and would have a kill path something like dsb. Their other two skills would be command, so they could give boosts to their allies by wisely commanding and guiding the actions of the fighters, and might even be able to allow people to use an off balance attack or something at a high cost to themselves, and the third would be a sort of battlefield control, where they can reinforce ice/stonewalls, move themselves and their groups a bit more quickly, strike people in nearby rooms with their weapon for an extended balance, etc.
The primary offensive skill would be Phantasmagoria, the study of illusions so convincing that they can affect the minds and bodies of those that perceive them. Those unfortunate victims tormented by Phantasms begin to find difficulty discerning where reality ends, a condition that only worsens with time as their barriers of disbelief are torn down. Any brain-addled wielder of Chaos could clumsily crush such a weakened mind, but the Truthmaker prefers a subtler touch; why destroy their sense of reality when she can substitute one of her own making? This final Phantasm takes complete hold as a vision of death so convincing that the victim perishes as if it were real. Because this is a wish list, the Truthmaker would have an avenue to customize the message and deathsight of this final illusion, letting them torment with monsters, spiders, suffocation, falling anvils, or anything else (with oversight) that they can dream up.
The secondary defensive/utility skill would be Divination, the magic of discerning truth and fiction alike. Discerning truth is simple, every class has abilities to scry, spy, or assess, and those would be present, but not the main draw of the skill. Discerning fiction is where more interesting abilities would lie. Truths can be inconvenient, as the Truthmaker well knows, and she takes great pleasure in convincing herself that those truths are, in fact, falsehoods. Ignoring the inconvenience of afflictions, damage, and even death itself has obvious appeal, but reality cannot be denied forever, so it's far from a permanent solution. The final aspect of Divination would be to predict truths and fictions that have yet to pass, though it's very tricky indeed to determine which is which.
The final skill is the most powerful of all, and where the Truthmaker really earns her appellation. Paradoxism, the skill of writing minuscule lies in the language of destiny and thereby making them the truth. The mechanical expression of this skill is almost limitless, but no matter what it does, each ability would have something in common; Creation is not defenceless, and tampering with the metaphysics of destiny always creates additional unintended consequences for the one responsible. These consequences are inevitable. Try as she might, the Truthweaver can't erase them, but she can try delaying her doom, pushing it back to buy more time by tampering even more. This reprieve does not come for free, as the more she tampers, the worse the consequences become. What may begin as a moment of bad luck - stubbing her toe, fumbling an attack - can quickly balloon out of control. The reckless or ambitious Truthmaker risks getting herself fried by an improbably localized storm, demolished by a freakishly fast meteor, swallowed by a sudden fissure in the Earth, or simply erased from existence should she tamper so much that destiny must fix itself by writing her out completely. The final and greatest lie, of course, is this very inevitability. Destiny must always get its due, but the Truthmaker understands that guilt is a malleable concept, and destiny can be fooled one final time with a little bit of outside help. Should a scapegoat be present who, for some reason, truly believes that they are the one doomed to suffer, then what is the Truthmaker to do but leave her unlucky collaborator holding the bill?
I haven't tried to tread on Twilight's toes too terribly, but the concept is probably too similar to be realised in-game now that Hashan has a factional skill.
I'd rather have a class with Jojo Stands
Like, what if there's a few different options open to you based on your city and class and whatnot? So like, Mhaldor would get a Necromancy Stand, Ashtan a Chaos stand, Targossas a Devotion Stand, Eleusis a Nature Stand, Hashan a Darkness Stand, and Cyrene a [imsorryidk] Stand. And then you have an Earth, Fire, Water, Air Stand that you also have the option to choose from, or maybe based on your original Dragon color, if that counts. All it affects is flavor, skills and abilities are all exactly the same.
And then basically, your Stand enhances your capabilities. Your punches and kicks get strength and speed, you can move faster, do fancy flavor attacks that all focus on making your opponent vulnerable enough for your Stand to "possess" or take over your opponent's body and die in some cool way, or maybe have the kills differ based on the flavor but all take the same vulnerability requirements.
Would be some dope roleplay opportunities with your Stand and be a cool class to boot.
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