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[OOC] Build-A-Pulled Workshop


BUILD-A-PULLED WORKSHOP
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Design Workshop
Greetings and welcome to Myddvai's First Season! We are very honored to have you stop by and show interest in our game. Take a look around and let our mod team know if you have any questions!

Feel free to join us in the game discord! While it's not required, we recommend joining to keep up to date with game announcements. Moderation will now also be running a plurk account for this game!

This workshop is the first step into the World of Myddvai.
Player-controlled characters are known as the "Pulled".

Pulled will arrive in the game as a Myddvai Breed, which players can learn about in depth on our Breeds and Magic Page. Your choice of Breed is very important! Breed choice will affect what magical abilities your character has, as well as transform them physically and aesthetically.

Transformation elements in this game are at OOC discretion and customizable to suit individual player comfort. Characters can arrive fully transformed from moment one or slowly acquire their new features throughout the run of the game. However, all Pulled must be visually recognizable as their designated Breed.

Please choose a Breed that is appealing OOCly, first and foremost. This is not an IC choice!
Each Breed has a few "required" traits that need to be included in a character's new design. Optional elements are simply further suggestions and not a complete list of possibilities. We did not want to create an overly restrictive guide, but rather work with players to build a unique Pulled design for their character!

Moderation will be on-hand in this post to answer questions, bounce ideas off of, and clarify any limitations. We encourage players to brainstorm and discuss ideas with one another, as well! This workshop is for the player's benefit and is not binding. Final decision is to be submitted within the application to the game proper.

If you are interested in joining, you can request an invite on our Invites Page. Our current Test Drive Meme can be found here and is open to all!

Our current game cap is (40) players, limited to (1) character per player.

This game will last for (15) Months, so take a look at our game calendar which accounts for the full run of Myddvai's First Season!

Considering a character with a future tech limb? Aid devices like mechanical limbs or other body parts will be replaced by the Springtide Druids, with Bottle Prosthetics Visual Guide (also in Plain Text Here.)


Available Choices
HUMANS
Height Range: Generally between 5' (~152cm) to 6'6"(~198cm).
Guardian Dragon: Ydris, the Fire Dragon.
Magic Summary: Inner warmth that manifests as innate charm and animal friendship.

Human Traits

Required:
  • Traditional human stuff, you all know this one.

    • Optional:
  • Eye and hairstyles that are unnatural in color or vibrancy! Live your jewel-toned anime hair dreams.


    • GIANTS

    Height Range: 6' (~183cm) to 9'(~275cm) tall.
    Guardian Dragon: Ygrayne, the Land Dragon.
    Magic Summary: Spellcasters that can compel sleep and control dreams

    Giant Traits
    Required:
  • Human face and torso over a faun or centaur body structure, with cloven or hooved feet.
  • A "crown"; a horn or set of horns/antlers/spikes on their temple.
  • Animal tail.
  • Animal ears in place of human ones.

    • Optional:
  • Mix-matched features, inconsistent to a single animal or mythical creature. (ex. Horse ears, with ram horns and a boar body.)
  • Natural equine, caprine, bovine, and/or porcine coat patterns.
  • Unnaturally vibrant or colorful coat patterns!
  • Matching head/mane hair to tail hair.
  • Additional fur at the nape, shoulders, arms, or down the spine.
  • Rectangle or diamond pupils.

    • ELVES

    Height Range: Natural height between 4' (~121cm) and 5'6" (~167cm), but this does not account for their magic.
    Guardian Dragon: Arthur, the Light Dragon.
    Magic Summary: Growing and shrinking of organic matter, including themselves.

    Elf Traits
    Required:
  • Basis in some kind of small, furry mammal.
  • Consistency in traits to a single creature, though some fantasy design choices are allowed. (Ex. a classical "demon" shaped spade tail for a Bat Elf.)
  • Animal ears, typically of a long or upright variety.
  • Paw feet and an animal tail.
  • Garden Elf: Human face structure. (Night Elves can have muzzle faces.)
  • Night Elves have more inhuman features relative to Garden Elves.

    • Optional:
  • Digitigrade legs from the hips, knees, or calves down.
  • Paw hands or clawed nails.
  • Whiskers.
  • Night Elves can have a full body coat of fur.
  • Slit pupil eyes.
  • Sharp, fanged, or bucked teeth.
  • Natural and/or unnatural colorations and patterns.


    • MERMAIDS

    Height Range: Basically anything, so please be reasonable.
    Guardian Dragon: Ygerna, the Water Dragon.
    Magic Summary: Hypnotic gaze which causes euphoria, mind reading and control.

    Mermaid Traits
    Required:
  • Basis in some kind of aquatic creature(s).
  • Human head, shoulders, arms, chest, and hands.
  • Glowing, hypnotic swirl eyes. Can have multiple pupils.
  • Ability to change into a land-functioning form with human legs.
  • Wear a blindfold, mask, or eyepatch over at least one eye.

    • Optional:
  • Human torso down to hips.
  • Mix-matched or inconsistent aquatic animal features.
  • Headfins or frills.
  • Hair replaced with fins/frills/scales.
  • Talons instead of nails.
  • Exoskeleton or shell features.
  • Semi-translucent or bioluminescent skin.
  • Razor-sharp teeth.
  • Natural and/or unnatural colorations and patterns.
  • Boney or skeletal appearing face.
  • Tentacles. Like. Anywhere.


    • RAHUTH

    Height Range: 5' (~152cm) to 7'6"(~228cm).
    Guardian Dragon: Armis, the Wind Dragon.
    Magic Summary: Full body animal transformation and rapid healing.

    Rahuth Traits
    Required:
  • Consistent traits from a single animal, with real life basis.
  • Animal ears in place of human ears.
  • Animal tail.
  • Human hands and face.

    • Optional:
  • Digitigrade or unguligrade legs from the hips, knees, or calves down.
  • Animal paw/hoof/talon feet.
  • Talons or claws on hands and/or feet.
  • Slit or rectangle pupils.
  • Feathers, scales, hide, or fur along arms, down back, neck, or torso.
  • Wings located on back, in human form.
  • Transformation obscured by a tornado-like burst of wind, fog, smoke, or mist. (No obscuring factor and a fully described transformation process is also allowed. Transformation to and from animal form takes only moments to complete regardless of being obscured or not.)


    • EMPYREANS

    Height Range: Generally between 4' (~121cm) to 6'6"(~198cm).
    Guardian Dragon: None.
    Magic Summary: Ability to float weightlessly and transfer that ability to what they touch. Magnets, how DO they work?

    Empyrean Traits
    Required:
  • Features matching to Chaos/Order alignment, should change with IC actions.
  • Body made of metal and stardust.
  • Primarily black onyx, dusty silver, or pearly white coloration.
  • An enclosed halo or broken horns on their head.
  • Two hip or back wings. Feathered or webbed.
  • Two metal leg pillars, without feet.
  • Symmetrical features for Order, asymmetrical for Chaos.
  • Human face and hands.

    • Optional:
  • Plated, ball jointed, or hinged metal framework.
  • Ghostly or diamond thread hair.
  • Sparkles! Vibrant accent colors!
  • Additional arms.
  • Additional eyes, placed anywhere.
  • Pointed ears.
  • Disconnected or broken away head, arms, or other parts.
  • Veined, marbled, or sedimentary layer body patterns.


    • Uncertain and want to brainstorm? Use our Design Workshop Template!


    Know what you want? Use our At-A-Glance Template, instead!
    This can be used within the Application!
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    [personal profile] strikingchords 2023-01-09 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
    Player Name: tanz
    Contact: ofdiomedes @ plurk
    Character Consideration: Shu Keigetsu (Though I Am An Inept Villainess)
    Breed(s) of Interest: Either human or rahuth!
    Must Have Traits: If human, I might give her cool colors, idk. Would definitely pursue the Beastmaster direction!

    If rahuth, I would probably go exactly as close as I was allowed to making all her traits connect back to the Vermilion Bird of Chinese mythology, which could range from just being a weird red real-world fancyfeathers or peafowl of some kind to literally a weird mythic flaming chicken.

    Optional Traits: If human, I will probably ask if there's any way the fire affinity could be parsed as at least very slightly literal rather than figurative -- she has a connection to fire in canon and even just being able to light candles or whatever as a free action would be fun.

    If rahuth, god, I'll certainly go heavy on these -- there are so many great examples of fucked up bird women inspo to draw on. Especially if you let me make her on fire sometimes! Look, I know the Vermilion Bird is not a real-world animal per se, I just have to share my dreams of fucked up bird women on fire.

    Regardless of the level of fire happening, right now I'm thinking her animal parts would be too much -- too many clashing colors, too saturated, tailfeathers too long, too many animal parts concentrated in too small a space, something like that. The overall effect will probably be of something that could or should be elegant given someone with the nerve to carry it off, but just comes across as excessive and maybe a little pathetic or freakish as it stands.

    Height: I WILL PROBABLY BE PLAYING THIS UP ONE WAY OR ANOTHER depending on some answers to questions below! (Hint: one body she's in during the course of canon is short, the other tall, and it's a thing.)

    Rarity: 5 stars, which she will sideeye because That Seems Wrong.


    Questions for Mods: SO. ASIDE FROM YOUR REACTION TO MY COY IMPLIED QUESTIONS ABOUT BREEDS AND FIRE ABOVE. Seth also outlined an elephant in the room in her workshop comment: the major conceit of Though I Am An Inept Villainess is that Shu Keigetsu initiates a body swap and attempted replacement of Kou Reirin, leading to shenanigans! This is absolutely something we'd hope to play with and "can initiate a body swap" is absolutely the Taste Of Home power I want to request if allowed; if it's something you're open to I'm very happy to work within whatever constraints are necessary!

    If "yes, sounds cool," this leads to so many further questions.
    - Could we theoretically bring these characters in with "in the wrong body" as the base state?
    - The body swap power is already nerfed in canon (it takes enough qi that it can only be done a couple of times a day and requires rest, etc.), but what other guard rails would be necessary/fit the setting best -- only using it once per week? Automatic reversion after a period of time? Limiting it to Kou Reirin on the logic that establishing that connection initially was done at home and can't be replicated in this new setting? (In practice this is how we'd play it anyway, but that can be formalized.) Something else?
    - Would Pulled breed and abilities stay with the body, go with the soul, or will you leave that up to us? This definitely has a potential impact on the breed choices I'd make.

    Speaking of breed abilities, how much flex is anticipated for characters to pursue wild swings outside of what is outlined on the info pages -- could Rahuth turn in a dark direction and try to come up with super sneaky ways to steal life force from others instead of sacrifice their own, for example? Could humans near-kill an animal and then offer it the bond as a reprieve to keep its spirit from dying completely, if you couldn't get it to agree any other way? This is a character who decided that attempting a supervillain wizard take on Freaky Friday was a viable therapeutic strategy for low self-esteem, so your anticipated mod reactions to IC attempts at Wolf Pupy approaches to great power/responsibility will factor into how I set this up.

    Thanks so much in advance for your help with these "YEAH WE SURE DO NEED TO BE SURE THIS THIRD, ALSO UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT KIND OF WIZARD IS WORKSHOPPED ADEQUATELY" considerations, lol
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    [personal profile] myddvaimods 2023-01-09 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
    Let me try and answer all these, if I miss anything please bring it up to me again!

    So, if you want to play her as a Rahuth, she will need to be a real world bird of some kind. We don't want to extend them out to mythical creatures because that is more of a Chimera thing, which is not a currently allowed breed type. If you wanted her to have some fire elements to her design as a Rahuth, you could add those using the "taste of home" reward, but I think you'll prefer to use that one-off for the body swap power below.

    If she was human, there are mythical animals she could bond with if you went the Beastmaster route. Moderation would be happy to include an encounter with a Vermillion Bird (or other desired creature) if you chose human and then reached that upgrade tier. The bird would be limited in some ways (flamethrower breath wouldn't be allowed, for example) but it could have elemental aesthetics as desired. Affinity for fire that would include any fire control/creation would need to be a "taste of home" power.

    Here are what the moderation team decided would be best with the bodyswapping.

    If you and Seth app together in agreement that you'll be playing these character from a body swapped canon point, we're good with that! Basically, no double bodies of the same person, but starting off swapped is fine.

    To fit our rules on no canon powers, the two could not swap back at the start. If you both fulfilled the reward requirements to use your character one time "taste of home" rewards to be able to do so, then you would be allowed to swap! This is a small power regain, so your characters would only be allowed to swap back and forth between themselves. We'd limit them to only be able to do so by direct touch, so if they got physically separated, no swapping while in different places.

    Breed choice, attributes, and power levels would stay with the original body and not transfer! If you, for example, had Shu Keigetsu in Kou Reirin's body be a human and bond with a bird, that bird would stay attached to Kou Reirin's body despite any swaps occurring back-and-forth. The bird would be soul bonded with whoever was currently in that body and be VERY confused by this strange swap. Very jarring for them! This would go likewise for Shu Keigetsu's body, which would maintain whatever breed choice, attributes, and power levels were held by Kou Reirin's player at that time.

    On the topic of wild swings with magic, yes! We absolutely will be encouraging characters to get creative within our magic system. We cannot promise everything inquired about will be doable, but hopefully there can be a balance in unique routes with powers and not breaking the game. There will be consequences for dabbling in established taboo or criminal magic use.

    To your direct scenario questions, both of those examples are historical misuse of both types of magic you brought up! There is a lot of history to Myddvai to discover and character will have regular access to a vast library. This will allow them to research topics just like those. What characters choose to do with that kind of knowledge and if the information they found is reliable, well... characters will need to find that out for themselves! Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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    [personal profile] myddvaimods 2023-01-09 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
    Since I answered this on the Discord, I wanted to add it on community for record keeping!

    tanz — Today at 9:00 PM
    thank you all so much for the quick discussion and reply!!! one quick clarification question @ Pine | Lord Mod -- does the fact that the swap happens due to Shu Keigetsu's powers alone make a difference, or would both characters need to use their individual Taste of Homes on being able to swap?

    Pine | Lord Mod — Today at 9:02 PM
    no difference! We'd want you both to have the power to allow it, since it's a bit further than we'd normally allow that small power to go, but for the cost of both of your one-time only rewards, we think it's fair leeway.
    Edited 2023-01-09 05:15 (UTC)
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