Suggestions for powers/abilitiesmysterium_modsMay 13 2011, 18:51:22 UTC
We like gigantic... ahem
We’re happy to leave open the possibility that Yana might, at some point down the line, become the Master, provided that it is, indeed, a one-time-only occurrence. We anticipate that this would ultimately involve a (possibly game-wide) getting-the-Master-back-in-the-watch plot, which we’ll, again, leave open as a possibility if you ever want to go that route.
If the Master ever does come out, we like your suggestions for power limitations. We just have a few small modifications to suggest:
1) Regenerative abilities would be slower compared to canon. (The rule of thumb with physical regeneration that we would suggest is to say injuries that would take seconds to heal in canon take minutes, minutes would take hours, hours would take days, and so on.)
2) Regarding the Master’s psychic abilities-any commands he tries to issue using telepathic projection must be made to sound like a reasonable activity for the person being asked to perform the act. So for example, asking someone to immolate themselves would almost surely fail, as would asking someone to harm a loved one.
Of course using telepathy or suggestion on other players’ characters necessitates checking with the players first to make sure they’re amenable. Likewise, we’d like telepathy and suggestion to not always be 100% effective on unnamed/random NPCs; there should be some times when the functioning is imperfect, though we’ll largely leave this up to you to determine.
As far as Yana himself goes, there are no restrictions on a character's intellect and if he is otherwise a normal human we don’t think any restrictions need to be placed on him.
Re: Suggestions for powers/abilitiesmagisterialisMay 13 2011, 20:26:37 UTC
I imagine if the Master causes as much trouble as he as capable of, and Yana is somehow restored to just Yana, the general consensus would be to destroy the damn watch or throw it into the nearest equivalent of a bottomless hole. And that would be that.
If he decides to be more of a team player, for some reason, then we'll more likely just have the Master, indefinitely, unless someone takes a personal interest in getting Yana back.
I suppose there's also the possibility of the final result being an amalgam personality. How, who knows, but that's the fun of RP.
1) Time Lord healing and regeneration is an odd thing, even for a scfi/fantasy trope,and I think I'll add a few things before we sign off on it.
I've wracked my brains for any indication that Time Lords usually heal quickly from non-fatal wounds, without dropping into healing coma like thing, which honestly I think we've only seen twice in decades of canon. I've come up with nothing. I don't think they do. So, for bad but non fatal wounds, he'd have to suck it up like a human, or find a safe place to hide out and pass out for, oh, at *least* a day before he was 100%.
When a Time Lord says 'regeneration' they mean a process that is about change and identity as much it is about healing. We see one Time Lord regenerate, it appears, just because she wants to be someone new. The Doctor seemingly held the process back for an extended period of hours, maybe longer. I suppose if anyone had taken a shot at him in the mean time he'd have been dead, dead, dead. The Master, at one point beyond where I am bringing him in, flatly refuses to regenerate from a gunshot and thus, doesn't. (His back up plan was to be the Ancient Evil Shit Summoned by a cult, later. Long story. But hilarious in the context of this game!)
The glowy/shifty bit, the actual change over from one face to the next has always been a matter of seconds on screen. But then the new body takes a while to settle and it can *really* out of whack for about a day. The best thing, again, seems to be to go sleep it off for about a day. If not, there's *extreme* disorientation. It's a whole new brain! A whole new body! Walking and talking? Can be a challenge. There's still a sort of disorientation, even after those first few hours. Smell, taste, personal preference about clothing, music, food. These can all shift, and it takes a while to get to know the new self.
During that first day after the moment of actual regeneration, though, it does seem a Time Lord can heal a lot. The Doctor got a hand cut off, and he's "Oh, good. I'm only 15 hours into this body, I can still do *this*." *regrows hand* Let's say that sort of thing can only be done in the first 24 hours?
I think generally if a Time Lord were permanently crippled in that way after the body settled, the response would be to consciously trigger regeneration and get a whole new body.
So, a Time Lord is incredibly vulnerable in the time between a fatal wound and he actually regenerates. It can easily end up in final death, with another well placed shot. Afterwards, they are also vulnerable for about a day, in that if someone wanted to kill them, it would be a lot easier, unless someone is protecting them while they sort themselves. And canonically there's a limit to a number of times, hence the Master hitting 13 and should have bee final once already. It's not sure where he is on this new cycle, but I'd guess he's at least one down, Yana is 2, he has 3-13 left.
Please let me know if you have question, more suggestions, or if I just confused the hell out of you.
2)On psychic ability. Absolutely, to all of your suggestions. It's not as near 100% effective as the Master would like, anyway. *snicker*
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The explanation about how Time Lords regenerate is useful and does make sense :) We feel that if a regeneration were to take place in this setting it may need to take longer than it would be in canon--you say it's a matter of seconds on screen, so it would likely take many minutes or even hours if you wanted to subject him to that, but we leave that up to you.
Additionally, if any large and significant personality changes were to occur in the course of the regeneration we will possibly want a head's-up about it. Nothing serious or damning, just a "Hey, so this renegeration will have an effect on Yana/The Master's X, Y, and/or Z in this way". The long and short is, we'll pass that bridge as and when we come to it!
If you feel we still "don't get it" please do let us know, but from what you've given us here it seems like we're good to go!
Congratulations and welcome to Mysterium Tremendum!
On lengthening regeneration: I guess there's 2 different ways we can make it take moments or longer instead of seconds. One is he's wounded and sure that he needs to regenerate (he knows what dying feels like by now) and....it's just not quite happening yet. Slow death, and him panicking that he won't and will just die. And then BOOM, change-over. The other (and this what my brain goes 'eww' just thinking about) is that we have a sort of a The Fly situation going on. Half formed features and body parts and lot of pain, and again the fear that it will fail, because it's *really* not supposed to work like that. Kinda horrific, but it is a horror game, so maybe that's appropriate.
We’re happy to leave open the possibility that Yana might, at some point down the line, become the Master, provided that it is, indeed, a one-time-only occurrence. We anticipate that this would ultimately involve a (possibly game-wide) getting-the-Master-back-in-the-watch plot, which we’ll, again, leave open as a possibility if you ever want to go that route.
If the Master ever does come out, we like your suggestions for power limitations. We just have a few small modifications to suggest:
1) Regenerative abilities would be slower compared to canon. (The rule of thumb with physical regeneration that we would suggest is to say injuries that would take seconds to heal in canon take minutes, minutes would take hours, hours would take days, and so on.)
2) Regarding the Master’s psychic abilities-any commands he tries to issue using telepathic projection must be made to sound like a reasonable activity for the person being asked to perform the act. So for example, asking someone to immolate themselves would almost surely fail, as would asking someone to harm a loved one.
Of course using telepathy or suggestion on other players’ characters necessitates checking with the players first to make sure they’re amenable. Likewise, we’d like telepathy and suggestion to not always be 100% effective on unnamed/random NPCs; there should be some times when the functioning is imperfect, though we’ll largely leave this up to you to determine.
As far as Yana himself goes, there are no restrictions on a character's intellect and if he is otherwise a normal human we don’t think any restrictions need to be placed on him.
Does this all seem acceptable to you?
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If he decides to be more of a team player, for some reason, then we'll more likely just have the Master, indefinitely, unless someone takes a personal interest in getting Yana back.
I suppose there's also the possibility of the final result being an amalgam personality. How, who knows, but that's the fun of RP.
1) Time Lord healing and regeneration is an odd thing, even for a scfi/fantasy trope,and I think I'll add a few things before we sign off on it.
I've wracked my brains for any indication that Time Lords usually heal quickly from non-fatal wounds, without dropping into healing coma like thing, which honestly I think we've only seen twice in decades of canon. I've come up with nothing. I don't think they do. So, for bad but non fatal wounds, he'd have to suck it up like a human, or find a safe place to hide out and pass out for, oh, at *least* a day before he was 100%.
When a Time Lord says 'regeneration' they mean a process that is about change and identity as much it is about healing. We see one Time Lord regenerate, it appears, just because she wants to be someone new. The Doctor seemingly held the process back for an extended period of hours, maybe longer. I suppose if anyone had taken a shot at him in the mean time he'd have been dead, dead, dead. The Master, at one point beyond where I am bringing him in, flatly refuses to regenerate from a gunshot and thus, doesn't. (His back up plan was to be the Ancient Evil Shit Summoned by a cult, later. Long story. But hilarious in the context of this game!)
The glowy/shifty bit, the actual change over from one face to the next has always been a matter of seconds on screen. But then the new body takes a while to settle and it can *really* out of whack for about a day. The best thing, again, seems to be to go sleep it off for about a day. If not, there's *extreme* disorientation. It's a whole new brain! A whole new body! Walking and talking? Can be a challenge. There's still a sort of disorientation, even after those first few hours. Smell, taste, personal preference about clothing, music, food. These can all shift, and it takes a while to get to know the new self.
During that first day after the moment of actual regeneration, though, it does seem a Time Lord can heal a lot. The Doctor got a hand cut off, and he's "Oh, good. I'm only 15 hours into this body, I can still do *this*." *regrows hand* Let's say that sort of thing can only be done in the first 24 hours?
I think generally if a Time Lord were permanently crippled in that way after the body settled, the response would be to consciously trigger regeneration and get a whole new body.
So, a Time Lord is incredibly vulnerable in the time between a fatal wound and he actually regenerates. It can easily end up in final death, with another well placed shot. Afterwards, they are also vulnerable for about a day, in that if someone wanted to kill them, it would be a lot easier, unless someone is protecting them while they sort themselves. And canonically there's a limit to a number of times, hence the Master hitting 13 and should have bee final once already. It's not sure where he is on this new cycle, but I'd guess he's at least one down, Yana is 2, he has 3-13 left.
Please let me know if you have question, more suggestions, or if I just confused the hell out of you.
2)On psychic ability. Absolutely, to all of your suggestions. It's not as near 100% effective as the Master would like, anyway. *snicker*
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When the game opens, we’ll post an intro log, which is where your character should arrive. It will have all the particulars and info that you need. Until then, please feel free to say hello on the OOC comm.
The explanation about how Time Lords regenerate is useful and does make sense :) We feel that if a regeneration were to take place in this setting it may need to take longer than it would be in canon--you say it's a matter of seconds on screen, so it would likely take many minutes or even hours if you wanted to subject him to that, but we leave that up to you.
Additionally, if any large and significant personality changes were to occur in the course of the regeneration we will possibly want a head's-up about it. Nothing serious or damning, just a "Hey, so this renegeration will have an effect on Yana/The Master's X, Y, and/or Z in this way". The long and short is, we'll pass that bridge as and when we come to it!
If you feel we still "don't get it" please do let us know, but from what you've given us here it seems like we're good to go!
Congratulations and welcome to Mysterium Tremendum!
Reply
On lengthening regeneration: I guess there's 2 different ways we can make it take moments or longer instead of seconds. One is he's wounded and sure that he needs to regenerate (he knows what dying feels like by now) and....it's just not quite happening yet. Slow death, and him panicking that he won't and will just die. And then BOOM, change-over. The other (and this what my brain goes 'eww' just thinking about) is that we have a sort of a The Fly situation going on. Half formed features and body parts and lot of pain, and again the fear that it will fail, because it's *really* not supposed to work like that. Kinda horrific, but it is a horror game, so maybe that's appropriate.
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