[Voidstalker Addition] - Consumption

[Ninjay 1184]

Did you guys know amendments and additions can get written for non-Necro stuff too?

 

[Ritual] [Noncombat] Consumption

The nefarious presence that the most dedicated of Voidstalkers have manifested within themselves does not just constantly berate and belittle, prod and provoke, and otherwise try and bring misery upon its host. It also hungers. It hungers for more of that which brought about its existence in the first place. It hungers for memories, for consciousnesses, and even for the lives of further victims, in much the same way the Voidstalker took from such a victim when they initially brought about their Second Mind.

 

A Voidstalker who has ‘invited’ a greater being of The Void into their consciousness may find that it sometimes - if not frequently - hungers for further memories, consciousnesses, lives, etc. In a ritual very similar to the Ascension of Consciousness, a Voidstalker with a Second Mind would allow it to go and ‘feast’ upon that of some living offering, perhaps temporarily placating its hunger.

 

Redlines:

• This is a generally free-form ritual, with no combative uses.
• Performing this ritual should generally take at least 4 emotes, including connection.
• Performing this ritual may have some effects on the Second Mind of the Voidstalker. Its personality may alter to incorporate some elements of the victim which it consumed from, it may be somewhat satisfied and thus slightly less belligerent to its host for some time, etc. However, any change is purely for flavor, offers no advantages or benefits, and is solely up to the discretion of the Voidstalker player.
• Under no circumstance can memories and related information consumed from a player ever be 'shared' by the Second Mind with its Voidstalker host. At most, the Second Mind could develop some 'personality quirks' related to the memories which it has consumed. In no case can any meaningful and specific information, knowledge, etc. be gleaned by the Voidstalker based on such things.
• Just as in the Ascension of Consciousness ritual, a living descendant 'sacrifice' is required to perform Consumption. Once again, they do not need to be killed, or even physically harmed, but they must suffer a memory wipe. By default, this is limited to the memories of whatever led to the encounter that resulted in the ritual being performed. The amount of time wiped from memory can be expanded with OOC consent from the victim.
• A memory wipe will remove rare knowledge from a character (alchemical recipes, magic lessons, etc.), but ONLY if such was learned in the events directly leading up to the wipe. A memory wipe cannot remove such knowledge from a character that comes from past events, unless OOC consent for such events being wiped is provided.

 

Ritual Emote Example:

Spoiler

[!] Judas looked down upon that poor soul they had come across alone in the world. They had little to offer in terms of a fight; thus their belongings had swiftly been stolen, and they were left at his mercy. His breathing paused as he once more connected to the Void, dark purple mists emanating from about his person.

[!] Feeling merciful today - and hoping for some reprieve to the constant annoyance in his head - Judas opted not to put the man in the grave. Instead, he outstretched a hand in the bound one's direction, around which those aura-born mists began to coalesce. They started to 'grow' from his hands towards the victim, looking as if they were some warping set of claws moving towards him. 

[!] When the mists reached him, they quickly enveloped him entirely. Helpless to resist, the victim found themselves artificially smothered, overtaken and put into a world of dark. From Judas, something left him, traveling across the mists and to the encapsulated. There, it seemed to bore into his mind.

[!] As that unknowable, alien-esque thing thrashed about in the mind of Judas's target, it tore away and absorbed those memories it could find. After a few moments, it seemed as satiated as such a thing could be, and returned to troubling Judas once more. Judas disconnected, those mists releasing the man, and turned to walk away. He knew that, at the very least, his identity, and his robbing of the fellow, would be forgotten.

 

Purpose:

For being a feat that is supposed to have the ability to ‘perform rituals and maintain a deeper connection and knowledge to the void than any other.’, Voidstalkers currently have 2 rituals, 3 if you include the ritual used for becoming one. And one of these rituals is the PK one. I thought it might be nice to provide some neat little flavor ritual for some of them to be able to engage in. I like the idea of being able to eat people’s memories.

Alternatively, I could just bend lore and repeat Ascension of Consciousness, but I figured having an official ritual to let our little Voidal Horror buddies do it rather than lore-bending is preferable :3

Tune in next time when I try and pass an amendment that is just a straight up buff. Or do a reformat of the original piece to move around / clarify some of the weird wording and redline placement.

 

Current Voidstalker Lore, for Reference:

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/197734-%E2%9C%93-voidal-feat-voidstalking/

[wowj 9747]

add a billion more failsafes to deny metagaming

also how does this relate to druidism?

[xo31 3979]

ADD MORE!!! MAKE A WHOLE PACK!!! THIS IS AN OKAY START THOUGH!!! MAKE LIKE 10 RITUALS AND SHIT GODDDD

[StingyParrot 1595]

yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum 

[PrimnyaQuorum 4000]

50 minutes ago, Ninjay said:

Just as in the Ascension of Consciousness ritual, a living descendant sacrifice is required to perform Consumption. Once again, they do not need to be killed, or even physically harmed, but they must suffer a memory wipe of at least 24 narrative hours, or longer if agreed upon. These lost memories are irrecoverable by any means.

Memory wipe ritual for a totally open feat feels like a bad idea. 

[Ninjay 1184]

1 hour ago, wowj said:

add a billion more failsafes to deny metagaming

also how does this relate to druidism?

Redline added.

You can make druids forget all the trees they've kissed 😳🥵

 

23 minutes ago, PrimnyaQuorum said:

Memory wipe ritual for a totally open feat feels like a bad idea. 

Anyone can already achieve a means of memory wiping by just killing someone lol. If you're doing this ritual on someone, 99% of the time they're gonna be someone you have defeated and could just kill if you wanted to instead. This provides some nice alternative to killing people, especially when we keep in mind that most people, to my knowledge, do not enjoying getting killed - and also means people who have this available will not absolutely need to kill someone if they want to make sure something is forgotten.

Anything beyond the narrative 24 hours is completely optional and cannot be forced on someone.

[PrimnyaQuorum 4000]

1 hour ago, Ninjay said:

Anyone can already achieve a means of memory wiping by just killing someone lol. If you're doing this ritual on someone, 99% of the time they're gonna be someone you have defeated and could just kill if you wanted to instead. This provides some nice alternative to killing people, especially when we keep in mind that most people, to my knowledge, do not enjoying getting killed - and also means people who have this available will not absolutely need to kill someone if they want to make sure something is forgotten.

Anything beyond the narrative 24 hours is completely optional and cannot be forced on someone.

That's true, but narritive 24 hours is partly meaningless and OOC 24 hours is extreme; it should just be they forget the encounter +events that led to the encouter directly, that is effectively what NLR is without killing someone./ otherwise its fine should just be ENFORCED HEAVYILY post combat/noncombat, mb for the tweak

[sam33497 7356]

1 hour ago, PrimnyaQuorum said:

it should just be they forget the encounter +events that led to the encouter directly

@NinjayHe is correct in this case

[Keening 1264]

cool addition

i hope it is reduced to being the encounter itself rather than a narrative day as others have mentioned

 

very neat

[Islamadon 9158]

Amendments/Additions implemented into main lore post. Thank you for your submission. Moving to correct subforum to prevent redundancy and clutter.