VeyrinDay

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@Lucius Cypher Not necessarily being opposites. For examples, this image might shows you the idea about how a genre that comes later might be seen as a "heresy" by its predecessors

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But then again you are a heretic, perhaps even the ultimate heretic at that. You'll never be accepted by the Gods of Light because of who you are and your teachings are blatantly against the usual tenets of your dark god. You're like the ultimate rebel.

@Lucius Cypher

Exactly! This is how I designed her.

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@Lucius Cypher From what I got is that the ritual acts as a "punishment" since ritual magics are basically requiring high cost, such as getting shock in attributes. The effect itself, I justify in my fluff, being the imprint of the defiled god, and the god allows the defiler to choose the effect of the imprint in order to understand how powerful he/she is.

Again, Baganaria is a heretic. She still worship Iziza through seeing something that is borderline antithetical to Iziza's domain as the other side of the coin itself.

I'm planning a character development in that she will get Iziza's favor that she will provide Baganaria with Channeling ability in the future.

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The rule doesn't say "randomized" so I presume the effect of Defiler's clock is still in my choice.

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@VeyrinDay Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Defiler meant for you to desecrate other gods stuff so you can envoke your deity's power? Like if Iziza domain covers lust and such, I figured a Defiling moment would be something like seducing a husband to break the bond of love and marriage. Or throwing acid on a beautiful person's face so their beauty isn't as great as yours/your deity.

@Lucius Cypher

The book says:

Tick it once each time you defile something sacred or beautiful that is antithetical to your god’s domains.

...and this quite matches in the way I build my character as a heretic.

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Depending on the nature of the raid, we might need her talking abilities to get us through where force and finesse cannot. For example maybe we might need to raid a village and need to know what sort of defenses are there. Sure, Darc could skulk and keep watch, but Baganaria could also just go in and talk to the villagers, maybe even convince certain characters to not be present when we raid the village so there's less people around without risking combat or blowing out cover.

I'm mostly mentioning this since the raids themselves is where most of the action is going to happen, at least that's what the GM implies. Would be bad if @VeyrinDay basically doesn't get to participate during the more action-pack part of the RP just because she's not a direct combatant.

@Lucius Cypher

That's where my banter might be useful. There's also a chance for me to disguise myself as being ugly (defiling Iziza's aspect of seduction) or even telling the truth of impending raid (defiling Iziza's aspect of trickery) then bam! Immediate tier 2 ritual magic is cast based on my Defiler ability. I can use this to implant fear to the guard's captain, then use a trick on him to command his guards into abandoning the town.

I got bloodied by the instant ritual and my attributes are shocked, but maybe enough for 2-level trick. That's where you all come in.

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Are we in Lurking+

@VeyrinDay Why would a high-priestess go into combat?

@Dark Cloud

No, she won't, read again.

She'll be in the Sanctum or whatever chamber the dungeon has to facilitate her, creating magic items and blood potions you all could use in battle. She'll be doing ritual magic that would result her being bloodied.

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As there's still no mechanism-inducing scene in the IC yet, I take another revision of my CS. I'm planning to have her support the frontliners by creating magic items using ritual or concocting potions based on succubus blood. She might be rendered helpless after each casts, being bloodied and got shocks in attributes.

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Mae's quote on Dice

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@POOHEAD189@Lucius Cypher@Dark Cloud@Kenshi@VeyrinDay

Please make a Dice Campaign, we're be linking them in OOC or at the end of our posts. If you already have a Dice Campaign feel free to use that one, we just need to roll on rpguild so we can link rolls and such.

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Here's a quick tutorial on using the Dice on RPGuild!

At the top of the homepage opposite the Newcomer section, click Dice:

You'll come to the campaign screen with a list of all the site user's dice. You can only roll in your own campaign so click New Campaign at the top right. In future, you'll always be able to find your campaigns at the very top.

Open up your campaign and fill in what type of dice roll you are doing. The amount of points you have in a stat is equal to how many six sided dice you roll. For example, 3 in skulk? You roll 3d6. 2 in invoke? you roll 2d6.

For example, what if Thrunaar the character wanted to smash the adventurer in front of him? He puts 2d6 in one box, and tags it something like 'Rolls to Smash!' or whatever will remind him what he's doing.

The total it gives us is 6, but actually we need to see what the highest number rolled out of the pool is. A 6 could mean we rolled a 3 and a 3, which would be a failure. or a 4 and a 2, which would be a mixed success. So go ahead and click the Dice ID (in this case, 20850) to see what we rolled.

In my case Thrunaar rolled a 5 and a 1, which is a success. I can now link these numbers in chat to share with everyone:

A 5 and 1. I didn't doctor the screenshots, mwhahaha

&& thats how you set up dice in rpguild.

@Mae

do we have to make our own dice campaign or the GM will throw for our actions?

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Her Alluring Eminence Baganaria

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0 / 6 Stress || 0 / 9 Wicked XP || 0 / 3 Reckless XP || 1 / 2 Dark Hearts

0/4 Defiler's Clock

What is a beauty? You may have a lady of your liking, or a gentleman so handsome that you become infatuated. Are they beautiful? Indeed, but are they the manifestation of beauty itself? Now let them be sacrificed, let them be non-existent any longer in this world. What would you feel? A loss? A regret? Why? Isn't that because the knowledge of the Beauty itself is already in there? The Beauty itself lies inside you.

Iziza manifests herself inside the desiring heart, not behind any idols or effigies, mere simulacra which meagerly depict the wider perspective of the Beauty itself. All creatures are granted with such passion can cultivate their soul to become one, united with The Sweet Temptress. The first gateway for a soul to understand the Beauty is by exposing the physical senses with the deprivation of the Beauty herself.

That was my teaching, a quite radical doctrine I might say.

My recent work, a ritualistic opera, bringing the title of "Defloration of Iziza", was composed to represent such notion. The sudden dissonant in harmony, the disjointed dialogues, the choreographic deconstruction, and the wounding of the main actors filled the falling down anticlimactic narrative structures. Beyond forms, of course, there's a sublime purgation of the shackle in the hearts of the appreciators, the loss of Beauty in their sense, the realisation that their own desires are the keepers and the very presence of the Beauty itself.

I was excommunicated. My heretical work was destroyed. My sympathizers were persecuted. My life was endangered as the inquisitors were sent to bring me into questions and to judge me for what I created. My own succubus kin, my own adherents and my fellows in the worship of Iziza, turned against me.

Iziza's adherent called me a heretic, but the Sweet Temptress is not her adherents. I believe that it is not a coincidence that Iziza still allows me to live until now. In this dimlight of a humble campfire, I've just met some new fellow outcasts, sharing stories with these gentlemen regardless of the truth behind them. Despite every irony of all that happened in my life, I conduct myself a worship around the campfire. My dance encircles the dim light, my song praises Iziza.

My teaching shall manifest, my temple shall be built, my church shall be prosperous.