[✓] Shamanic Amendment: Spirit Pacting

[Panashea 3327]

 Foreword

Spoiler

To reinforce the necessity and impact of Spiritual pacts, officially documenting and citing them is essential to ensure shamans roleplay well and pick and choose their spirits according to their characters and actions. Currently, there are no limits to pacts or any real information on how they function, and so this is to clarify how shamans of all kinds should interact with the Spirits they pledge themselves to.

 

When pacting with a Lesser Spirit, the Greater Spirit who domineers above them has knowledge of the pact, as would any Spirit within the realm upon looking at a shaman. A pact is something that can be seen within the Spirit Realm, the same as any soul augmentation or corruption, (voidal magic, aengudaemonic influence, undead, etc). A pact does not augment the soul, there is merely a visual indicator for Spiritual beings. A shaman cannot see another shaman's pacts.

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Pacts will ONLY be with Lesser Spirits. Shamans must pact with Lesser Spirits to use spells listed under a specific Spirit in Witchdoctor, Farseer, or other lore pieces requiring a pacted Shaman. Greater Spirit interaction is reserved to Spirit Walks and events/wars held by players and staff. This is to ensure the quality and relationships with those characters is maintained fairly, as well as to encourage shamans to form their own Spirits and faiths about the world. 
 

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PACT TIERS

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Tier 0 Pact(Cultural) 
Tier 0 is the level most non-shaman and non-magical totems currently exist at. While they do not provide any effects for the spirits or influence the Mortal Realm, they are a place of religious reverence and worship. 

 

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Tier 1 Pact(Shrine)
The first tier is reached once a shaman begins their pact with a Spirit and after they submit proof of their Spiritual interaction. A Spirit will then ask a shaman to carve out an area of influence. This area will serve as a worship site and place to conduct rituals to progress further tiers. At tier one, the area has little to no magical influence. It is here that those present within the small shrine area may hear the whispers of the Spirit in Old Blah in a range of #q (8 blocks).

 

To reach the next tier, a shaman must crown two spirit champions, adherents to a chosen spirit who are willing to accept tasks from the spirit in question. These champions are also documented (screenshots), and their tasks recorded on their MA. Once these tasks are completed, and the champions maintain loyalty to the spirit for at least 2 IRL weeks, the shrine’s effects are bolstered and it progresses to the next tier. A champion is any player willing to worship the aforementioned Spirit, and has not slighted them (i.e practice incompatible magics or religions). This worship and refusal to practice the dark arts and other faiths is required to maintain loyalty to the Spirits and upgrade the Shrine.

 

A Player may only be a Spirit Champion for 3 Spirits at one time, but may abandon the Spirits by documenting their rejection on the shaman's MA.

 

These shrines are still mundane, and require only a Player Sign indicating their purpose.

 

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Tier 2 Pact(Large Shrines)
Larger shrines grant an area of influence(25x25) as well as the ability to bestow mundane blessings. These mundane blessings are purely aesthetic(noncombative), granting minor visual alterations(flaming hair, wooden skin, smoky breath). These blessings are not permanent, and must be recharged once IRL week at the large shrine. Mundane blessings are bestowed by a shaman pacted with the Spirit over 6 emotes, any sort of adoration, chanting, or sacrifice sufficient in awarding the Spirit’s favor upon a single target.

 

An individual large shrine may bestow blessings up to 5 different targets. It is at Tier 2 that these areas are ST signed, the shaman(s) required to post proof of their progress. If a Tier 2 Pacted Shrine is placed on land with shamanic influence (i.e a flora/fauna spell from a Witchdoctor or Farseer, A shamanic MArt like Gate of Dom), the Shrine must be destroyed before the influence is removed completely. 

 

A group of shamans (3) with consent may cleanse voidal taint, soul corruptions and similar ailments curable through shamanism at a Tier 2 shrine. This cleansing requires consent of the afflicted party, the darkspawn or soul-diseased person will experience great fear of the spirits for 3 OOC days.

 

To reach the next tier, a shaman must achieve at least one of these goals:
- Establish a group of spirit champions(5)
- Hold 5 Festivals or Religious Events
- Create two great artifacts or items imbued by the pacted spirit

 

     - A great item is something that possesses shamanic power by a T4 shaman or Greater. This could also be an item given through events, so long as it has history with the Spirit, or shamanic power.

 

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Tier 3 Pact(MArt Totem)
This is the final tier for a pact, and where the MArt Totem returns. The effects of the Totem may extend to the building/temple/ritual area, or the entire area may be the totem itself depending on its construction. It retains all the same abilities as described within the shamanic totems submission. Extending the influence beyond the normal totem range may be done so with ST oversight, but generally extra abilities, features, and quirks of a MArt Totem and its surrounding areas are done so in the initial MArt application.

 

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Destruction

If a T1, T2, or T3, shrine is destroyed, it must be done so totally to void the effects. Shamans may rebuild an area to restore its effects, but if the damage is irreversible(a sacred forest burned), shamans must start from scratch. They may not reuse old items, but can reuse former champions to strengthen the spirit once more.

 

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Redlines:

Witchdoctor and Farseer are mutually exclusive to use in game, but may be taught should a user have both TAs.

Great Items are made by T4+ Shamans or through events(player run and ST).

The Pacted Shrine must be destroyed before shamanic influence can be removed over an area.

No Tiers or MARts are lost with the new pacting system.

A Player may only champion 3 spirits at one time.

Shamans are unable to designate themselves as champions of their own shrines, but are considered Champions of the own Spirit and gain all the genefits and rituals of Championing.

Current Shaman MArts may be upgraded to Tier 3 Totems should they meet the requirements (ST Signature and goals).
Breaking Spiritual tenants would undo the tiers of a shrine and reduce it to its inert state.
The whispers of a Tier 1 totem may only extend to #q and must be in Old Blah. 
Minor effects of a Tier 2 totem are non-combative and purely aesthetic. They may only grant mild surface level changes. They grant no benefits whatsoever.
Tier 2 Pact Locations/Shrines must be ST signed.
Tier 3 Pacts and their areas hold the same Redlines as Totem Lore, as they are functionally the same. 

Tier 2 Shrines may only purge and remove effects upon the soul or other magics described within shamanic lore.

If the person is brought to the shrine and does not consent to having their soul purged, the fear and intense disturbance brought on by the Spirits is an intense mental effect and at the discretion of the afflicted.

Tier 2 mundane blessings serve no combative purpose.

Spirit Pacting requires the pactee to hold a Shamanic MA/FA (currently Lutauman, Haruspexy, Animism, Witch Doctor, Farseer) and for the pact to be logged on their MAs.

When making a pact to obtain a Farseer or Witchdoctor MA, 1 free pact with the spirits is included in the 2 slots.

Any extra pact that the player wishes to undertake with a spirit will consume 1 magic slot, unless otherwise specified.

 

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[Nug 2011]

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[HIGH_FIRE 5490]

+1

 

I think this would benefit Shaman rp a lot, giving it a nice breath of fresh air. Pact rp currently has no substance to it and this would not only fix that but also add to spiritualist rp outside of shamanism, which in fairness needs the boost. Spirit champions sound like a rather good type of roleplay.

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On 8/31/2022 at 10:11 AM, Nug said:

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[Panashea 3327]

Changelog 11/14

 

-clarified spirit champion, loyalty, and how things are documented (pacting subforum to log everything)
-clarified how pacting worked(each pact is a spell slot)
-gave area of affect and clarified signing process for T1 shrines

-explained Great item
-removed Boon of Courage
-expanded to 25x25

-reusable champions but not reusable items? Also clarified items in general.
-added a clause for Shamans when they make building marts/hex/bless land so that someone cant just permanently destroy everything in a single instance
-added some examples
-clarified my intent with the rewrite and the purpose of Spirit pacting
-added that current MAs,TAs, aren't touched but WD and Farseer are mutually exclusive practices in game to prep for the rewrite
-allowed current shaman Marts to be upgraded to Tier 3 Totems so long as they follow the process

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