[Amendment] Horror Purging

[ClassyDryad 2368]

OOC: I waited until clerics where accepted officially to do this but here is an update to this mechanic. Changing shamans from spirit walk purging to shrines since all the spirit walk exclusive cures got moved to shrines already. Making it the three cleric option because 1. Shrines need 3 shamans to function and 2. It triggers their favor which makes sense IMO. Paladins are removed because Xan is dead rest in piece.

Additions are bolded, removals are struck through

 

The Second Mind

Inviting another consciousness within one’s own is without-doubt lifechanging. One would be under constant judgement and scrutiny of this second consciousness, completely alien to the material. This foreign-psyche would, without fail, be judgemental and intrusive. Weighing in on ones thoughts and feelings, toying with them and berating the Voidstalker. Perhaps praise for wrong or evil actions committed, it would be impossible to control. Impulses would grow stronger, intrusive thoughts would always be the first to one’s mind. One would never feel alone or unwatched, which would without doubt weigh heavily and toll upon one’s mind and well-being. This foreign entity is different for each user- some bearing names, some not. They carry no opinion, no affiliation, simply a disdain for what they are and everything they see- aswell a deep-rooted hatred and anger of which they cannot act on, and may attempt to use The Voidstalker as vessel for. This Second Mind would simply act as an unwilling observer- a watcher unwanting to fulfill such a role as they are trapped within the mind of a Voidstalker. As time goes on, it’s influence over the mind of The Voidstalker would strengthen and gain deeper roots- making it far more difficult to discern one consciousness from another.

 

A Voidstalker hosting a second consciousness would have the original mental effects multiply and deeply intensify. Aswell, the effects of the second mind listed above.

 

Redlines

-The Second Mind does not host knowledge which it would offer to a Voidstalker or any other. 

-The Second Mind would only take over the body under the condition it would immediately kill itself, PKing the character. The absolute closest it could do would be to “Compulse” the user to say or do something.

-The Second Mind will never merge or become one with a users own psyche. When the Voidstalkers psyche would surrender or become less present than the second mind’s, the second mind would immediately act for The Voidstalker’s body to commit suicide. 

-The Second Mind may not be “tamed” or “befriended”, and may not be manifested in any other way but one’s mind.

-The Second Mind may be purged by a paladin, or cleansed upon a spirit-walk by a shaman. three shamans at a tier 2 pacted shrine or by three clerics utilizing Purity's Sanction. Doing so would leave the mental effects previously-present permanently a stain upon one’s persona. Should one gain a Second Mind again, the effects would even further intensify- likely to a debilitating point. This would be marked upon the FA.

-The Second Mind would force far-greater mental distress and strain upon the persona of a Voidstalker, causing them to be generally unpleasant and unnerving to be within the presence of.

[Onnensr 1908]

if you're cold, they're cold

 

 

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[Pallodium 3776]

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