Mines Malingerer
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Joined: Wednesday, 13th February 2013, 00:38
Proposal: Kavalyn, God of Violent Delivery
Purpose: Kavalyn is meant to have powers useful to most characters, but this god is especially beneficial for ranged weapon fighters, pole-arms wielders, evokers, and conjurers. Earning piety with this god is meant to be a different playstyle encouraging better positioning, and more avoidance of melee, but even melee characters can earn piety with this god if they deal their killing blows to Kavalyn's liking. Since this god despises translocations, players must focus on positioning over panic button escapes.
Appreciates:
-Gain piety from traveling.
-Gain piety when you kill enemies at distance (not adjacent), with bonus piety the further away they are.
-Gain piety when you or your allies kill enemies using projectile (see note) attacks and spells.
Deprecates:
-Kavalyn does not like the movement of things without actual travel. Piety loss for the successful use of any translocation spells, or on such effect on you, including effects of potions and enemy attacks.
-Inactivity (lose 1 piety every 500 turns)
-Abandoning Kavalyn (penance)
Note:
Projectile attacks and spells include all ranged and throwing attacks, and any abilities or spells that throw a physical attack at enemies, including things like Iron Shot, all Bolts, all Arrows, all Thrown spells, Lehudib's Crystal Spear, etc.
Given Abilities:
* - Escort of Pain
Kavalyn's Blessing - (passive) - Chance to deal bonus damage on all projectile attacks, increasing bonus damage with distance, and chance with piety.
** - Deliverer of Woe
Reception - (passive) - Absorbs up to 30% of projectile damage as mana, before defenses. Amount absorbed increases with piety.
*** - Courier of Collision
Throw Self - (100-200 food, breath, 8-12 piety) - Flies to a target at high speed, crashing into it for damage based on encumbrance, distance, species size, and wielded weight. Piety cost is partially refunded on kill. This has a chance to knock target back up to 3 steps, chance increasing with size and weight difference. This is considered a ranged attack, and therefore can be blocked, or can miss if enemy moves.
**** - Dispatcher of Disaster
Reroute - All projectile attacks and spells can now ricochet once, until an enemy is struck.
***** - Launcher of Doom
None
****** - Deathbringer
-Swift Body - Can worship at an altar to add Swiftness to any armor item. This can only be done once per game.
-Deliverance - (1d2 piety per floor) - Exchanges one item in inventory for another existing item of its type from anywhere in the dungeon that the player has been to, and can reach by auto-travel. This takes 1 turn per floor, during which player cannot take any action. A stack of the same item counts as one item.
Punishments
-While under penance, there is a chance about every 1000 turns that Kavalyn will scatter up to 5 of your inventory items to random locations on the current floor.
-While under penance, your encumbrance limit is decreased by 10%.
Love to hear feedback/suggestions... in the back of my mind this god could make heavily armored range/spell fighters more viable, and those are always a fave combination for me.
Edits: Removed gender, LOS increase, and clarified Throw Self ability.