Halls Hopper
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Joined: Sunday, 25th March 2012, 21:55
god of insane killers (split from Seth, the Shadow King)
As there is already a lot of "evil" gods, the new god should be like super-evil. I was thinking of some "creepy" name, like Burzum or something similar. If you want it starting with letter "D", it might be something like Daggorath. There is a bunch of slavic ancient gods below might be worth mentioning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sl ... al_figures
Let's start with the motto:
"Murder! Insanity! Death!"
This describes the real nature of this *thing* (thus, its followers).
...and a description:
"D..., a shadowy god of insane murderers"
The believers sell their soul for the benefits for the cost of ongoing insanity.
This god obviously likes killing, from which he especially likes:
=> killing monsters of your own kind,
=> performing cannibalism,
=> poisoning monsters and using "evil-branded" weapons,
=> drinking blood,
=> killing neutral monsters,
=> killing combos (the more monsters you'll kill in one spree, the better),
=> building sculptures out of the killed bodies (ok, now that was a joke...).
Piety levels:
( ) - "Beginner"
(*) - "Budding Sadist"
(**) - "Crazy Freak"
(***) - "Lunatic Maniac"
(****) - "Insane Killer"
(*****) - "Mass Murderer"
(******) - "Son of Sam"
Sacrifying a body will cause an explosion of blood, depending on the size of the monster. If god didn't accept the sacrifice, the following message appears: "The kobold's body parts slowly disappears in the vacuum". If the god accepted a sacrifice, the following message appears: "D... laughs crazily while kobold's flesh explodes in a fountain of blood" and a blood will appear on the nearby tiles, just like during a kill.
Worshipping this god makes will gradually drive you insane. These disadvantages will partially compensate some benefits you'll get from worshipping this god (being shadowy, etc.). What would this mean? There are a lot of possibilities:
=> insanity level 1: random crazily laughs during some kills (the laugh will warn nearby monsters, but no, it's not a "scream mutation", because it happens only after some kills, when the victim was stabbed while asleep or confused - thus we can call these killes a "murders") - this is to compensate the benefits of not being noticed by others; the probability of RCL during a "murder" should be rather lower that higher,
=> insanity level 2: schisophrenia 1: sometimes seeing illusions (non-existing things), which is a sort of confusion - for example: you see the bloody good stuff on the ground, and while you're on its tile, it turns out it was just an illusion of your mind,
=> insanity level 3: schisophrenia 2: sometimes seeing illusions (non-existing monsters) - just as above: sometimes seeing dangerous monsters, that are really just in your mind (but a player does not know, whether it is an illusion, up to the first hit),
=> insanity level 4: periodicly (but very rarely) hurting self (thus, the deadlier weapon you carry, the worst HP loss you risk).
EDIT: ok, maybe naming the last piety level "Son of Sam" (which is a real person), is not the best idea, and it would be better to name it after some non-existing character, like "Michael Myers". Or something with the "Madness" word.