User:Threes
Need to decide and standardize on a single tense. Mixing up tenses and tones ain't good.
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(Woj's lore blurb as placeholder)
Vampires are certain individuals who have been granted power by their inducting Lord. Said power always comes at a price, however, and lesser vampires are often given tasks to fulfill in exchange for it. These tasks can vary significantly, and their nature is often as unknowable as the true nature of the Lords and the mysterious cabals formed by some of them.
Vampires possess abilities to drain and manipulate life essence from the blood of sapient beings, shortening the lifespan of the victim by years while empowering themselves with newfound strength.
This power is not without consequence; vampires acquire a vital weakness to areas, objects, and individuals of spiritual strength. Strong belief is poison to them - sanctified sites, holy water, fire, and starlight all spell doom for a vampire. Even a strong superstition can be harmful, as evidenced by their aversion towards garlic.
Vampires are considered a threat to colonies and stations across known space. Recognized as inherently criminal by all major states and companies in the galaxy, they are also classified as Enemies of the Corporation by Nanotrasen.
Starting Out
When you start out as a Vampire you have absolutely zero usable blood and two abilities. Using Glare will stun and silence in a cone radiating from your eyes, and Rejuvenate will clear all stuns. However after drinking a total of 150 blood, you gain access to 4 unique and mutually exclusive skill trees, with increasingly powerful abilities tailored to various play styles. Eventually, drink 1,000u of blood and rise to your full power. Become a blood-fueled emissary of death and destruction!
Vampiric Powers
Name | Unlock | Cooldown | Blood Cost | Description |
Rejuvenate | 0 | 20 Seconds | 0 | Removes any and all stuns. |
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Rejuvenate II | 200 | 20 seconds | 0 | Removes any and all stuns. Purges harmful reagents. Heals 10 points each of brute, burn, toxin, and heals 50 points oxyloss. |
Glare | 0 | 30 Seconds | 0 | You glare, causing targets within melee tiles to take stamina damage depending on their orientation. Those in front of you take 100 stamina damage and are briefly silenced, those to your sides are stunned, take moderate stamina damage, and are confused, those behind you take minor stamina damage and are confused. (Ugh I don't like this but can't think of a better phrasing. Ask someone else.) |
Gargantua Powers
Name | Unlock | Cooldown | Blood Cost | Description |
Blood Swell | 150 | 40 seconds | 30 | Reduces incoming brute and stamina damage by 50%, reduces incoming burn damage by 20%, and halves all stun times, for 30 seconds |
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Blood Rush | 250 | 30 seconds | 30 | Doubles movement speed for 10 seconds. |
Haemomancer Powers
Name | Unlock | Cooldown | Blood Cost | Description |
Vampiric Claws | 150 | 30 seconds | 30 | Create undropable claws of blood. Claws have a 50% chance of blocking melee attacks and damage dealt with the claws is added as blood to your total. Has a durability of 20 swings, that decreases in total by 1 every 2 seconds. Use in hand to dispel. (same as with Glare, there has to be a better way of explaining this) |
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Blood Tendril | 250 | 30 seconds | 10 | After a short delay, manifest a tentacle of blood that slows anyone around it. Requires a turf as a target. (clarify) |
Blood Pool | 400 | 30 seconds | 50 | Briefly transform into a sentient blood puddle, increasing movement speed and allowing you to slide under doors. (Doors? Airlocks? Mention jaunt?) |
Blood Eruption | 600 | 100 seconds | 100 | Cause all pools of blood in sight to erupt, dealing 60 brute damage and 90 stamina damage to anyone standing on them. (Pools? clarify to all blood?) |
The Blood Bringer's Rite | 1,000 | 10 seconds | 10 every 2 seconds |