Fantasy RPG Forum - Standing Trials

Appraisal: 2

Athletics: x 5

Caregiving x 2
Caregiving x 3

Cartography: X marks the spot, but what does the spot signify? (Given by Pig Boy)

Combat: Blades x 5
Combat (Blades) x 5
Startup Change Combat Blades +10

[*] Ranged: Longbow x1 (SP)

Cryptography x 5

Dancing x 4

Detection x 4
Detection x 10
Detection x 3
Detection: Noticing when half of your group seem "out of reality"
Detection: Spotting changes in the environment.
Detection: Watching the actions of those around you
Detection: Noticing changes in atmosphere in a room.
Detection: Standing back and watching

Discipline x 4
Discipline x 10
Discipline x 5
Discipline: 2
Discipline: Standing in the presence of Induks
Discipline: Standing in the presence of Immortals
Discipline: Not being overwhelmed by Cassion's story
Discipline: Standing with someone to show your support
Discipline: Offering to sacrifice part of yourself.
Discipline: Trying to adopt a manly tone, rather than squeak.

Etiquette x 4
Etiquette: How to talk to an Immortal
Etiquette: How to talk to an Induk

Endurance x 5
Endurance x 5
Endurance: The Forging
Endurance: Standing in a maelstrom
Endurance: The wrath of Qylios
Endurance: The toll of a very long day!
Endurance: Trying to keep standing

Fieldcraft x2 (SP)
Fieldcraft x 2

Investigation x 3
Investigation x 10
Investigation: 3

Logistics: Planning an expedition
Logistics: Giving equipment for a group outing.

Meditation: 3

Mount (Air): x 4

[*] Psychology: Group dynamics
[*] Psychology: Personality types make teamwork more - or less - effective.
Psychology x 5
Psychology: Induk psychology is different.
Psychology: Immortal psychology
Psychology: Large groups together function independently

[*] Seafaring x2 (SP)
Startup Change Seafaring x 10

Seduction: 3

Socialisation x 4
Socialisation x 5
Socialization: 3
Socialization x 5

Storytelling x 3
Storytelling: Stories have power
Storytelling: Watching Cassion's story
Storytelling: Using your past to tell a story

Strength x 4
Strength: Standing against a battering wind
Strength: Holding on when you are being bombarded.
Startup Change Strength x8

[*] Tactics: Plan who travels where.
[*] Tactics: Use the strengths of your people.
Tactics x 10
Tactics x 3
Tactics: Taking individual parts and making them into a whole.
Tactics: Aiming for peace.
Tactics: Creation balances a Diri of Destruction
Tactics: Use every resource available

Awarded in The Forging
Next 2 Favoured here
Rest of Favoured: here

Ready for Adventure
Sojourners are vibrant people flowing with life and tend to be thrill seekers and adventurers. Each is gifted with enormous appetites and the ability to subsist on substandard food. So long as it is edible, they can thrive upon it. Each one heals half again as fast as another member of their race and can often push the limits of the endurance that a member of their species might have.
Hunger's Bane
This ability can only be used once a trial but allows the Sojourner to prepare a hearty and filling meal for themselves and up to three companions, no matter how little there was to prepare in the first place. In order to work, the Sojourner must do their best to make the meal as appetizing and filling as they have the material to provide, it must be prepared with edible ingredients only, and the Sojourner must tell a tale while preparing the meal itself.
Skills of the Road
The character is granted an extra three skill points which may be spent only on the following skills:Discipline, Fieldcraft, Seafaring, Storytelling, Cooking, or Navigation. Any skill points granted by this Mark can break the 250 (or 100 if fast track) point cap on skills. Within these skills, the points may be spent how the pc chooses.
Surrounding Area
The character is granted a map which always remains centered on them. It shows a basic, but accurate, map of the surrounding area (up to 3 miles) - even if the area in question is unseen or unknown to the Sojourner. The Sojourner can see the map on any flat (ish) surface. In order to be seen by others, the Sojourner may summon the map to any piece of paper which the character has with them
Journeyman
Cassion’s chosen often have a much easier journey than those who do not bear his mark. Inclement weather, obstacles and other dangers tend to be much less disastrous to the marked and travel time is reduced by 25%of what would be the usual time for that journey by that means / mount. Note that this only works against natural obstacles etc.
Safe Camp
By marking an entrance over the course of ten bits, the Sojourner can create a comfortable extra-dimensional space with a warm roaring fire in the hearth that will burn all eve if willed to. No object from this room can be taken from it . This space is comfortable and roomy enough for up to five people. A side effect of the ability is that it naturally draws non-aggressive travelers to the location, but repels any outsiders seeking to enter the extra-dimensional space for a hostile or aggressive purpose .
Heroes Meal:
When they use this ability to feed a small group (up to 10 people), the Sojourner imparts a minor healing ability to those who eat the fare. For the remainder of the trial, those who have eaten this meal will heal at double their normal speed and will regain stamina at twice the rate, etc. This ability may be used once per trial and the cooking must be RP'd.
Minor Plot Twist
Once a season in a small moderated thread or a calendar event, the Sojourner may contact the city mod for a "Plot Twist". This effectively allows a change in the narrative of the story. The plot twist is decided by the mod and will be either modnoted in a non-moderated thread, or will become part of a moderated thread. It allows a surprise turn of events in a story, centered on the Sojourner. This can not impact seasonal events or larger (3+ players) moderated threads. Please note that this will not 'solve' a situation - it will change one. Cassion is not prone to giving a 'deus ex machina' ending, but he loves a good story. This ability changes the narrative.
Tales to Tell
Part of the role of a storyteller is to have a whole wealth of stories to tell. Upon receiving this ability, the Sojourner may choose one Event (Storyteller or GST) and, with the permission of the mod (can be gained via PM) will know the tale of the event. The mod must modnote the review request, or the thread. This ability may be used once per season.

First 5 Abilities given: here

Hidden Tale
The Sojourner now can travel to hidden places on Idalos. If there is a rockfall, they can find a way around it, if there is an underground cave, they can locate the entrance. All the Sojourner has to do is seek to find a way through or around and they will do so. This does not allow them to enter buildings which are locked, but would impart the ability to discover ancient ruins, etc. This ability works on Idalos only and does not extend to the Beneath, Emea, or beyond the Barriers at the edge of the world. The more cut off or inaccessible the location is, the more difficult it is for the Sojourner. If trying to gain access to a completely cut off area, they must get local mod approval.
Shared Adventure I
Once per arc, a Sojourner may designate one person or animal as their companion. That person shares a connection with the sojourner which allows them to work together in harmony. While they are sharing an adventure (not necessarily combat, but non-mundane circumstances) the pair function together more effectively and communicate without speaking. Only the Sojourner can break this bond.
Skills of the Road II
The character is granted an extra six skill points which may be spent only on the following skills:Discipline, Fieldcraft, Seafaring, Storytelling, Cooking, or Navigation. Any skill points granted by this Mark can break the 250 (or 100 if fast track) point cap on skills. Within these skills, the points may be spent how the pc chooses.
Moderate Plot Twist
Once a season in a large moderated thread (3+ players) or a city-wide seasonal event, the Sojourner may contact the city mod for a "Plot Twist". This effectively allows a change in the narrative of the story. The plot twist is decided by the mod and will become part of the thread. It allows a surprise turn of events in a story, centered on the Sojourner. This can not impact global events.
Brain Food
Hunger has many forms, including the hunger to learn. If a Sojourner eats in a place, then they learn about it. Should this be the wilderness, the Sojourner will have an indepth understanding of the flora and fauna of the area, although not specifics of where individual plants / animals are. In built up areas / civilisations, the Sojourner will understand the society, social groups, hierarchy and customs of the place. By eating, they learn.

Awarded in The Forging
Next 2 Favoured here
Rest of Favoured: here

• Optimism The character is granted an extra three skill points which may be spent only on the following skills: Etiquette, Navigation, Psychology or Teaching. Any skill points granted by this Mark can break the 250 (or 100 if fast track) point cap on skills. Within these skills, the points may be spent how the pc chooses.
• Flow of Morale The Blessed is able to bring a brief surge of hopeful resolve to those around him. Within 10 feet, this lasts for eight bits; to 20 feet, it lasts for five bits; to 30 feet it lasts for two bits. At "Adored", double either the range or duration. At "Exalted", double both.
• Calming Overcast A tense situation suddenly undergoes a dusky graying light, and the attitudes of everyone within 50 feet are affected as if the current hostility instead happened the day before, and everyone has had the time to cool off.
• Night Torch The Blessed can touch any item and cause it to glow with a bright, starry light. This light can be directed away from the holder, so as not to dazzle night vision. If no other Nalos abilities are used, this can be maintained as long as the item is held by the Blessed.
• Fog Bank The Blessed can generate a concealing fog to aid an innocent or threatened person to escape harm. If the target is instead genuinely guilty of some wrong, for which he was being pursued, the fog will instead leave trail behind him; as well as a revealing nimbus around him for a number of breaks equal to the Blessed's Etiquette skill. The target will have to run through the fog bank to activate this trail. During this time, placing this fog a second time will immediately dispel the current one.
• Shooting Star A Bow can be blessed to emit a ray of star light in a path that displays the trajectory of the arrow nocked upon it. This does not affect the shooter's ability to maintain this aim, and if the light moves from the target upon release of the arrow, the shot will still miss the mark. This effect can be called upon three times a trial.
• Cooling/Warming Trend The Blessed can impart an actual rise or drop in local temperature, to bring relief and encourage good moods. This can be up to a 15-degree effect in a single building; a 10-degree effect over a city block, or a 5-degree effect over a small village. At "Adored", raise the effect by an additional 5 degrees, and make the new 5-degree area be the size of a large town. At "Exalted", add another 5-degrees, and have the new 5-degree area be the size of an entire city. This effect will remain for an entire trial, but can not be generated again for another three.
• Eyes of Dusk The Blessed can impose the stark contrasts of lighting that are typical of dusk on one target. Shadows are much darker and lights much brighter by comparison than at any other time of trial. The effect this has is to render an adversary stricken by visual impairment, as if their eyes are never truly able to get used to the light. In game terms, appropriate skills are reduced by a tier equivalent when used. For instance, if a PC in a fist fight has 10 points into Master Level Unarmed Combat, this will reduce his skill to being Expert instead. This lasts for as many bits as the Blessed's Psychology skill.
• Dry Ice Cloud The cold of the void between the stars infuses this ground-level cloud with a near paralyzing cold. Joints grow stiff, hands grow numb on weapons, movements and communications are hindered by shivering, weapons and armor may become brittle. This has essentially the same game impact as "Eyes of Dusk", but is an Area-of-Effect power that covers 100 sq.ft. At Adored, it covers 200 sq.ft. At Exalted, it covers 300 sq.ft. The Blessed is unaffected by this cloud.

First 5 Abilities given: here

• Bolstered Optimism The character is granted an extra six skill points which may be spent only on the following skills: Etiquette, Navigation, Psychology, or Teaching. Any skill points granted by this Mark can break the 250 (or 100 if fast track) point cap on skills. Within these skills, the points may be spent how the pc chooses.
• Starry Eyes The Blessed can always see perfectly well in all darkness. What's more, he can detect Shadow-form Naerikks, and can see through the shadow-based blessings of Audrae, if his blessing level is superior to theirs. This does not, however, cure blindness.
• Cloud Nine The Blessed can put one adversary to sleep. The amount of divine force needed to complete this act depends on the level of Resistance or Discipline the target possesses, whichever is higher. The targets will be marked so their superiors will know that they were targeted by an Immortal power, to spare them serious repercussions.
• Fulcrum of Fervor The Blessed can select a single word to empower with the ability to spread optimism. When he cries it, those nearby may take up the cry, compounding the power and range of it's uplifting effect. The fervor generated by this collective outcry will last until dawn of the next trial. This can only be cast once per cycle. At "Exalted", it can be cast three times per cycle.
• Starlight Key Once a season, the Blessed can bring down starlight to form a key that will unlock any key-type lock. This hardened starlight will stay this way, for use on this same lock, for the remainder of the night in which it was formed. It is bright however, and could give away stealthy movements. In the alternative, this key can be left in the lock to ensure it remains unlocked, but is easily seen by any hostiles. Covering it will help greatly, but the presence of something covering the lock will be suspicious in and of itself. This key can not be used on combination locks, nor will it remove a simple bar from a door or unlatch mechanisms.

Favoured & First 6 Abilities gain here

• Bond (Minor) The Favored can Bond with 1 other person. In doing so the Bonded individual gains a single glowing band around their left forearm. The Bond remains as long as both the Favored and the Bonded allow it. The Bond only functions within 300 feet of the Favored, and dissipates shortly beyond that distance.
• Illustrious Skills I The character is granted an extra three skill points which may be spent only on the following skills: Blades, Leadership, Discipline, or Endurance. Any skill points granted by this Mark can break the 250 (or 100 if fast track) point cap on skills. Within these skills, the points may be spent how the pc chooses.
• Bound in Battle The Favored and those Bonded with them are better able to fight together. Their tactics and movements flow almost seamlessly with little-to-no spoken communication. The Bond passes insights and slight thoughts between those Bonded while in combat together.
• Brilliant Weapons (Minor) The Favored is able to create weapons out of solid light. The Favored can only generate one melee weapon at a time. To produce a weapon, the Favored must be in an area of substantial illumination (ie. Outside during the day, in a well-lit room, or at night during a full moon).
  Bound Tongue (Minor) [/b] The Favored is able to understand one Fluent Language of those they have Bonded. The selected language can be changed once per trial.
• "Hold the Line!" The Favored is able to bolster the morale of any who stand with them. The call rings out and dispels fear in the defenders, whether mundane or magical. Those affected by the shout gain a small boost in stamina and the use of a shield. The effects of this ability last for ten bits, and can only overcome magical fear effects from other Marks of the same tier or lower. Any fear effects caused by Domain Magic can be overcome as follows: Favored can overcome Magic at a Competent level or lower, Adored can overcome Expert level or lower, and Exalted can overcome Master level or lower.