An undying body and strength beyond mortal man.

Some kind of powerful intelligent corporeal undead, basically is what I'm thinking. I would just say vampire, but drinking blood is a chore and kind of lame. The details aren't too important.

Reject the blessing

You are now blood itself

Sounds interesting, would you want magic of some sort or simply physical strength/enhancements type stuff?

How about the power to design spells and technology from supernatural phenomena?

So maybe some kind of lich

Demonbane.

>>688260
Magic is always fun, but the primary advantage over others should be physical. At first anyway, I don't know to what extent the plan is to grow capabilities down the line.

People usually like that sort of thing.

Well giant glowing ball I suspect I am hallucinating, it would be really great if I didn't die.

EVER.

Planescape Torment run go!

Being able to lay curses upon enemies is always nice. Nothing quite makes people listen to you like being able to go "do what I say or you will die, and all who love you will spit upon your grave" and have it go through. Blessing friends is also cool.

Put fates on others and have them come to pass, generally. Ourself would also be nice but that seems like it would lead to endlessly self-absorbed rounds of superfluous buffing.

The ball of energy nods somehow. "First you are not hallucinating, I am a Katakula. Since you appear to be suffering from slight memory loss I will give a brief explaination... I am a god, that is all you need to know. Now what I am currently hearing is some form of undead that drains others of something to enhance or grant itself abilities. With a focus on strength in the beginning and other less earthly pursuits as a possibly later on?"

That should be more than enough to bring the northerners to heel.

I want no blessing, let me rest in peace. But, assuming that I'm outvoted on that...

I want to be a soul stealer that steals souls and uses them as food, powerups, and projectiles.

Drain BLOOD, not souls. Sheesh...

Both are lame, just eat flesh like a normal cannibal.

Why not absorb and/or devour everything that makes up someone? Memories, souls, bones, and blood all for the taking, leaving nothing behind.

Because that sounds overpowered and thus boring, and the lack of evidence left over makes the whole thing entirely too easy to conceal from others which makes social interaction less interesting because of lessened consequences.

>>688438
Fair enough, let's steal souls then.

The ball of light hovers for a few more seconds before extending a tendril, pulling you around to face the carnage of the battle. "Well now that that is settled you must choose a body. We have several bodies in good enough condition to be usable. First we have a male, and a female Children of Tezle. These are essentially what you would refer to as elves, they are fond of nature and many worship the nature spirit Tezle. Next is half-men of many type and genders, so we will leave that for if you choose them. They are half animals that normally are golems for most purposes, the fact you would have free will would be quite the oddity. Oddly we also have a Shi'igon, this would be probably the oddest choice. While they normally look like giant bugs they are able to change their bodies to a rather drastic point. Meaning you could change yourself to be humanoid, now this ability to alter your physical traits comes with the issue that due to their psychic connection to eachother normally you will be a bit more vulnerable to mental effects. Lastly we have an Iron King... As distasteful as it is to use one of the northerners they do have some bonuses. They are strong and tough, as well as being quite good with mechanics and the like. There is quite a bit of cultural stigma around them due to their racism though. As well as the fact they hate Katakula and everything to do with them."

>>688514
Is tgchan ready for a soul stealing corgi protagonist!?

Iron King, female.

Get us the runt of the litter. We want a challenge that will pay well in the long-term.

If anyone wants more info on a species or something just ask.

A soul stealing corgi flesh golem sounds fun, let's go with that.

>>688514
Lets go some sort of female half-man, maybe a bunny girl.

Female pug

The ball of light shifts slightly before your vision splits. Suddenly several bodies in quite obviously different places of the battlefield fill your vision. All female half-men. The top left is a corgi female, top middle a lioness, top right a female pug. Middle left a lizard of some sort, middle snake, right a wolfess. Then on the bottom a bird, a tabby cat, and the right is black.
[color#006633] "Well the vote seems to be for female half-man. These are the options we have at our disposal. I figured I should show them to you before I just assumed that you wanted to be a corgi."[/color]

>>688534
Hell yes.

okay ignore that prior post guys. Finals and lack of sleep made me sorta loopy, I have no idea why the fuck I made that post. Just ignore it it's pretty obvious we are doing a corgi female. I'll make the actual next post later. Along with a discussion thread for mechanics stuff.

You announce your oddly overwhelming desire to be a female corgi, Krazult nods, again no idea how but he just does. Before white light once again washes over you...


You must now allot your points into various stats, these being;
Strength
Constitution
Dexterity
Intelligence
Wisdom
Charisma
Hunger=15 (Hunger starts at 15 automatically)
These stats act as they normally do in such games. Though hunger's name is misleading, it's actually your self control to keep yourself from going berserk when you do get hungry. It also serves the purpose of being a boost to other stats. As you may choose to take stats from it to temporarily give to other stats, though taking from it too much is obviously a poor choice.

Now as for abilities you currently have two though more will be added depending on stat allotment.
Soul steal: Just the basic feeding ability, has a 100% chance on unwary victims with a 70% chance on most others. Can be used in combat to create what amounts to a brain dead person. Each stolen soul then is moved into either your feed souls or your reserve souls.
Empower:You use a single reserve soul to allow you either two essentially critical actions. Or a plus 20 points to add to any of your stats for the rest of the encounter(Or five minutes out of combat.).

As for souls you have two different things you can do once you take them either your feed souls or reserve souls. Feed souls keep you (as the name might imply) fed. Each soul is worth about a week of life before you need more and they do stack. You also have your reserve souls which you use to activate your soul based abilities, such as empower. In an emergency you can use one as a feed soul but it only counts as two days worth of life.
Oh and you can gain non soul based abilities through training or other such exterior factors.
You have 80 points to allot(Plus the automatic 15 in hunger.), and two reserve souls. Any questions?

Strength:10
Constitution:10
Dexterity:15
Intelligence:20
Wisdom:15
Charisma:10

>>688735
Strength: 6
Constitution: 10
Dexterity: 30
Intelligence: 14
Wisdom: 10
Charisma: 10

Soul Steal has a 100% chance on unwary victims, so let's dump strength and take a sneaky thief build.

>>688741
Good point, but in situations were sneaking up behind someone isn't viable, it will be necessary to be able to make people believe that we aren't a threat. We're already a corgi girl, so we have that going for us, but some charisma would do us good.

I'm not one for stat allotment, especially since we don't know what the baseline for average is (ten maybe?), but put me down as a vote for a charisma and dexterity focused build.

Strength 5
Constitution 10
Dexterity 25
Intelligence 20
Wisdom 10
Charisma 10

Our character is a menace, she needs to be smart and fast enough to escape any mob or ambush.

five is the average for someone who has never really put any effort into making something better. Ten is about the average for someone who trains it as a hobby of sorts or has a natural inclination. 15 is with some training, still a rookie but definitely noticeably good. 20 is a veteran. 25 is basically if you put your entire life into it, and so on.

Strength 5
Constitution 5
Dexterity 5
Intelligence 5
Wisdom 5
Charisma 55

Hard Mode Activated

>>688757
Strength: 3
Constitution: 10
Dexterity: 25
Intelligence: 12
Wisdom: 5
Charisma: 25

Or maybe we could put some of the points from constitution into something else, but I don't like the idea of us dying at the first unavoidable danger we encounter.

>>688763
bruh
Strength: 1
Constitution: 1
Dexterity: 1
Intelligence: 1
Wisdom: 65
Charisma: 1
Get on my level. What are you, casul?

Reserve souls:2
Time until out of life:1 week.
Strength 5
Constitution 10
Dexterity 25
Intelligence 15
Wisdom 10
Charisma 15
Abilities
Soul steal
Empower
Innocence: You may expend two reserve souls to make yourself seem harmless to all within sight. (note this might not save you from say... a bandit)
Soul senseBeginner: For one reserve soul you can detect the number of souls nearby. Though not power or position.



When the whiteness leaves your eyes you find that you are laying on the ground. You are dressed in what seems to be cheap chainmail, there is blood and dirt caked into your soft glorious fur! But there are bigger problems, after a few seconds a face moves into view. It seems to be a Daughter of Tezle, her white hair drifting in a halo around her head, her green eyes filling your vision... and her ridiculously long ears drooping derpishly to the ground. She smile and waves a little at you. "Hi there girl! Now I know this must be confusing for you, but your master uh...gave you to me! Yeah he gave you to me! So you need to serve me now, understand? Good now mistress is being chased by some bad men, I need you to go kill them for me okay?" She glances around a few times fear a bit more evident on her face now that she isn't focused on you.


What shall you do?
Take the imperious wench's soul?
Obey her long enough to get to some form of civilization?
Just leave?
Something else all together?

>>688772
French Kiss

Then butcher your way to freedom

>>688772
"What's in it for me?"
(we'll kill the "bad men" either way, but her response determines whether we kill her too)

Let's play along, keeping someone around to take some of the blame while we collect power could prove useful.
We should eat these 'bad men'.

>>688782
this is also acceptable

You lean up and take the poor girl in an abrupt kiss, your much larger tongue easily slipping into her mouth due to a combination of strength and her being in too much shock to respond.The kiss lasts a scant few moments before she pushes you away. Blushing brightly and panting as a small string of saliva connecting your mouths breaks. Clutching her chest protectively she falls back staring at you.
"What the hell! What sort of servant were you? Who the hell gives their sex toy a god damned weapon. Stupid nobles can't keep it in their pants."

"What is in it for us if we kill these 'bad men'?"

"What...You're intelligent...?


You know what it doesn't matter right now! I am being chased by a gang cause I have something they want. If you take care of them for me then you can have whatever you want... Just not anything like ...that okay?" She continues to blush brightly and glances around a few times, the sound of horses can be heard fairly clearly from down the road...

God damn it that is way too bright, I'll keep looking for a good color for you guys. jesus that hurts to look at it says "what is in it for us if we kill these 'bad guys'?" If you don't want to read that.

>>688791
how many of them are there, and is there anywhere we can hide?

Sounds like a deal, please keep in mind that if you break this contract your life will become collateral.
Now let's go hunting.

Leave the wagon and take up a hiding place to ambush the pursuers.

>>688792
It looks quite good on the Nice theme, but the green is hard on the eyes instead.

You nod and stand glancing around yourself a little. There is the road she came from on the east with the horses coming for you. To south is the pile of dead bodies/battle field you came from. To the west is what seems to be a ghost town, and lastly to the north is a forest. Turning your gaze to her you smile a little unintentionally showing off way more teeth than she is comfortable with.
"Okay we will do it, let's go hide somewhere."
She nods quickly before looking at your quizzically. "Okay, I'm dead if you fail anyway. Where do you want to hide though? It would probably be easier to get them to separate in the town, but the area would be more enclosed.

soul steal is silent and emits a bit of blue light when you take the soul. Also I really need to work on describing environments...

I say we go to the ghost town. We can't do much if they are in a group without wasting a soul so we need to split them up.

>>688884
Somewhere we can get them isolated would be ideal, thank you.

You nod and grab her arm, making a dash for the ghost town as the ever present sound of horses grows closer. You enter one of the houses still dragging the girl with you. You shut the door quickly as the noise grows to a cocophany... And then stops completely. Poking your head out a window you see several men in red uniforms climbing off their horses, one of them barks a few commands before they all split up and begin to move through the town. You duck back and glance around. The house is filled with the scent of mildew and cobwebs. A few moldy chairs and a table lay in the center on the tattered remains of a rug. There are stairs upstairs though they look like they might not support any weight. The girl is huddled in a corner looking terrified.


What would you like to do?
ugh as shit as I am at art I might need to add it just so people can understand what is going on. I will add a picture in a bit. It'll be shit but whatever.

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That went poorly, I'll just start adding concept art and the like to the posts. Here have a picture of the town kinda.

Tell the girl to hide under the stairs and keep quiet.
Then let's go outside and steal the souls of all the horses. We'll then use one of the recently acquired souls to cast Empower on our strength stat and defeat our enemy that way.

Animal souls count for 1/6 of a intelligent mortal soul, you would get essentially one soul from draining all the horses. Just so y'all know.

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You tell the girl to hide under the stairs she nods robotically and sits under them, her knees pulled up to her chest. As you are about to walk out the door to go after the horses she calls out quietly
"Wait! My name is Genevieve. Remember that okay? You will need to know your mistress's name when we get to the city." You raise an eyebrow and nod before dashing to the horses. Planning to make full use of the chance to get more souls. You drain each horse without incident... Until the last one. Which unlike the others suddenly has large pieces of skin fall off as small blue fires burn in its eyesockets... New trait learned for soul steal there is an unknown chance that each time you steal a soul you will create a low level undead. As you stare at the horse curiously you hear one of the solders moving back, you only have a few seconds before he should be in view.

>>689155
Quickly run back into the house and have the horse run off into the wilderness.

Command the horse to fight the 'bad men' and while they are fighting make a break for it with Genevieve.

Okay sorry about that I lost Internet for a while. I will post shortly

Place a shroud with a dummy on the horse and command it to bait the soldiers into a chase. Once they split up due to stamina differences, single them out and take them down.

You debate for a split second before giving a quiet sigh and trying to throw together a quick dummy of sorts and run back to Guinevere with the horse running away to distract them.
(Rolling Dex and you succeed because your dex is crazy.)
You make it just inside before the man rounds the corner. Catching sight of the horse with the dummy galloping away a short ways down the street before giving a loud yell. The man beginning to sprint after the horse as best he can, several more forms appearing out of side streets to give chase themselves. After a few more seconds They are out of sight and you feel a light tap on your shoulder before Guinevere speaks out.
[color=#green] "They are gone for now, but they will be back... they always come back. Do you want to try to escape or go after them? I found an old knife so I might be able to help." [/color]
She holds up what seems to be an old kitchen knife

Let's run, you can bring the knife if you want mistress. Also if you don't mind sharing, what is it that they want from you so badly?

You nod quickly at her before speaking in a hushed whisper.
[color=#blue]"Let's run, you can bring the knife if you want mistress. Also if you don't mind sharing, what is it that they want from you so badly?[/color]
She giggles quietly before holding up what seems to be an emerald, with something suspiciously similar looking to Krazult within.
[color=#green]"This, it's a magic core, quite hard to come by. They stole it from someone who contacted the people I work for, they decided it would be a good first job...assholes. You're right though we should go."[/color]
The two of you rise quickly, Guinevere leads you back the way she came before making a sidetrack into the forest. Finally slowing after you are a half mile or so from the road.
[color=#green]"We should be safe for now. Do you have any questions? And do you want to go with me or did you have another destination in mind?"[/color]