Mod Announcement #9

[spoofer]

Mod Announcement #9

Posted March 3, 2018

MAJOR BULLETIN: New mod, Power Problems Event, Reminders

OOCly, we have some big news: Pudding has joined the mod team! In-game, Panultima is over, leaving the residents of Xistentia to rest and recover from revisiting the reality of interdimensional war in the safety of their home. However, problems with power start. First, there's a simple electrical blackout, shutting down lights, making daemons drowsy. Then, characters begin to have problems with their own abilities.

1. New Mod
2. Event: Power Problems (Blackout, Powerswap)
3. Latest Icebreaker: Acrostic
4. Enable Me Plz
5. Reminders

New Mod

Please give a round of applause to Pudding, our new mod! She will be helping out with processing applications, writing plot event logs, and general theme work. Thanks to everyone who applied or considered doing so. We appreciate this community!

Event: Power Problems

Our March plot will be a "power swap," with a few other features. The first sign of trouble will be an electrical blackout, providing space for intimacy, sensory experiments, and helping out. Afterward, characters will begin to experience strange dips and rises in their own energy levels... followed by a slew of problems with their supernatural abilities, including power swaps with other characters, the loss of their own abilities (nullification), and even gaining powers where they had none before.

As a function of the power swap, we will allow characters to permanently change power sets if they so choose and have the OOC consent of any character they're swapping with. In order to make the powers permanent, you will be asked to fill out (another, second) form during our event plotting post later in March.

Several stock powers will be available too, for those who are not interested in the abilities of any existing PC. These include basic templates for elemental manipulation and telekinesis. Our plotting post for the event will contain more information about these. Note, the new powerset will always replace the old one completely; this is not an opportunity to develop an additional powerset. For that, please contact the mods! Please also be aware, this is not necessarily a 1:1 swap; it may be a one-directional move.

Participants must fill out a form, down in the comments, to make their powers available for swapping!

Latest Icebreaker

Our new icebreaker is an acrostic. This will be a glitch, potentially posted without your character's explicit consent by their daemon. As such, the information it contains may be woefully inaccurate. Of course, if you prefer your character to write their own acrostic, they can!

ACROSTIC DESCRIBE YOURSELF WITH YOUR NAME!
Preferred Alias: F.A.T.E.S

• Friendly. Didn't I bring all of you here to be my friends?
• Abstract in form.
• Trustworthy. If I say it enough, maybe you'll believe me.
• Enabling all of you to save your worlds.
• Serendipitous. You may never know what Fate may bring.

Accurate As Hell, Huh?

Want to try it? Paste this template into your entry—

Template
<raw-code><div style="background: #b7d1ae; width: 90%; padding: 1px; margin: auto"><div style="background: url('http://i.imgur.com/m5GzmXX.png'); width: 80%; padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px; margin: 20px auto; border: 1px dotted #d10045; font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: Courier New, monospace; vertical-align: middle"><center><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: 3px; font-weight: normal; text-transform: uppercase; color: #D10045"><b>ACROSTIC</b></span></center> <b><center>DESCRIBE YOURSELF WITH YOUR NAME!</center></b> <br /><b>Preferred Alias</b>: <ul><li><b>FIRST LETTER</b> and the rest of the word <li><b>SECOND LETTER</b> and the rest of the word <li><b>THIRD LETTER</b> and the rest of the word <li><b>FOURTH LETTER</b> and the rest of the word <li><b>FIFTH LETTER</b> and the rest of the word</ul> <center><b>Accurate As Hell, Huh?</b></center></span></div></div></raw-code>

Enable Me Plz

We'll be advertising Xistentia on enable_me_plz again! We will provide the form and another reminder on our next announcement, closer to the ETP itself. Sorry for weird dates.

Reminders

1. Our Test Drive meme is currently open, albeit one day late-- sorry about that. Please join us here! This includes snapshots of the power swap plot.
   
   
2. The check-in (activity) is currently open! Check it out here.
   
   
3. Discord chatroom is available here. Feel free to join, and mute any channels you do not tend to use.
   
   
4. We threw in an ad on the last Enable Me Plz, but feel free to let us know about any updates for next month!

Questions? Plotting? Feedback?

We are always looking for feedback about changes to the game. Feel free to comment on this page, or on the Mod Contact page. You're also welcome to contact us by PM!

Comments

QUESTIONS/FEEDBACK

[spoofer]

[healingdork]

If someone's powers are going to be nullified, does that mean their genetic make-up or what have you is still the same or would that change? Wondering if Will has his demigod abilities nullified if that means he's a regular human mortal during the event or if he'd still have demigod blood, just no abilities.

[spoofer]

His genetic makeup would stay the same under testing, it'd just be the loss of abilities! Let us know if you need any further clarification.

POWER SWAP SIGNUP

[spoofer]

If you'd like to offer your character's powers for other characters to have, please fill out the form and reply to this comment.

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Journal:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Power Name:</b> Name of the power that's on offer, such as 'telekinesis,' 'vampirism,' 'transform into stone.' <b>Power Description</b>: You can paste the description from your app or write something else! <b>Open to Permaswap?</b> Yes/No/Need to discuss

If you want to swap with a character who offered their powers, please reply directly to their comment noting your interest.

POWER SWAP

[vexy]

Character Name: Vex
Journal: vexy
Canon: Lost Girl
Power Name: Mesmer
Power Description: You can control the locomotor system of others as if they were puppets. This can only be done with your hands so if they are restrained you can't use it, but it doesn't require line-of-sight (as in, you can mesmer people in other rooms even with the door closed). It doesn't work on animals, nor can you prevent others from using their powers, such as shifting into an animal, unless it requires movement that you can halt. This is also how you feeds yourself, yum!
Open to Permaswap? No!

[sadico]

Character Name: Ignacio
Journal: sadico
Canon: original
Power Name/Description: He has several up for grabs! Make sure to get OOC permission first before using any! :)

Blood Drain (aka Vampirism): Can suck the blood of a living victim. The blood provides strength and energy to you and your victim is weakened.

Domination: You can crush an opponent's will by looking into their eyes or speaking, allowing you to "charm" the victim. They must obey you for 24 hours and consider you to be without fault/a dear friend.

Alternate Form (aka Shapeshift): Can assume the form of any animal.

Gaseous Form: Can assume gaseous form at will and has a fly speed of 20 feet with perfect maneuverability.

Spider Climb: Can climb sheer surfaces, including ceilings.

Telekinesis: Can move objects and people with the force of your will.

Telepathy: Can communicate telepathically with any living creature within 100 feet, and with any vampire to a range of 1 mile.

Open to Permaswap? Noooooooo.

[pillz]

Character Name: Joseph Kavinsky
Journal: pillz
Canon: The Raven Cycle
Power Name: Dream Thief
Power Description:

Kavinsky is a dream thief, which means he can utilize ambient energy to manifest physical objects from his dreams. These objects can subvert physics or even include sentient beings. [However, during his time in Eudio, the representatives] blocked him from creating sentient creatures and any single object larger than a car.

Open to Permaswap? Need to discuss

[pridestar]

Character Name: John Proudstar
Journal: pridestar
Canon: The Gifted
Power Name: Mutant superspeed, superstrength, durability, and senses
Power Description: Most of Thunderbird's weaknesses are fairly standard for humans, albeit reduced by his mutant abilities. In general, he needs to eat, breathe, and is susceptible to typical emotional reactions. In terms of powers, much of it comes down to his mutagenic muscular-skeletal system. He has

• Superstrength: He can lift about 1.5 tons, flipping a car or smashing walls fairly easily; however, he would only be able to hold up a car or such with great effort, briefly.
  
• Durability: He can get hit by a truck without sustaining injury. Small arms fire causes him pain, but does not puncture his skin. Armor-piercing rounds and more powerful projectiles would cut and injure him.
  
• Superspeed/reflexes: Approximately 30-40 MPH running speed. He can catch thrown knives and even flying explosive shrapnel, but not dodge bullets.
  
• Supersenses/Tracking: With concentration, his senses canonically allow Thunderbird to track people even if they teleport for a few miles, and even perform mild feats of psychometry for areas (i.e., to tell if specific individuals snuck out of HQ recently). He can overhear conversations and tell approaching attackers for about a mile radius. Consent required.

Open to Permaswap? Need to discuss

[shadowblends]

Character Name: kurt wagner
Journal: preciousblueberry
Canon: xmcu
Power Name: teleportation!
Power Description: being able to teleport to any place, as long as one knows where they are going. teleportation gives them the appearance of being vaporized into a very brief puff of blue-black smoke wherever they teleport to or from and the scent of sulfur is left behind. limit is roughly three miles, however the further one teleports, the greater the risk of injuring oneself by re-appearing within a solid object or straining their body. the displacements have a side effect of weakening passenger(s), especially those who are non-teleporters.
Open to Permaswap? n...o? yeah sticking with that

[servomotor]

KURTYKURT I'm going to borrow your teleportation just for the plot ok :)

[shadowblends]

WHAT YES okay pls do :D mmmaybe i should tag tony? i think that's another yes

[servomotor]

eh oui merci beaucoup