Han'ya/NCTTP
Nihilic Consumption Tree Test Page
by Han'ya
Wolf Swallows Moon
Cost: 3m Type: Supplemental Keywords: Combo-OK Duration: Instant Minima: Stamina 3, Essence 2 Prerequisites: None
The Nihilic, once a proud, deluded servant of the hatefully mercurial moon-harlot, now understands the truth of the Void. They are not impeded by the barriers of tangibility, for all things fall to the Void in time. This charm supplements a single bite attack. The bite can now affect immaterial creatures as well. Any spirit slain by a bite enhanced by this charm is gone forever. The Nihil regains motes equal to the number of levels of damage inflicted.
Ogre Devours The Stars
Cost: 3m Type: Reflexive Keywords: Mirror (Moonsilver Stomach Conversion) Duration: Indefinite Minima: Stamina 3, Essence 2 Prerequisites: Wolf Swallows Moon, Any Stamina Excellency
Functions identically to Moonsilver Stomach Conversion.
Worm Gnaws At World's Roots
Cost: 5m, 1w Type: Reflexive (Step 2) Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious Duration: Instant Minima: Stamina 4, Essence 3 Prerequisites: Ogre Devours The Stars
As Gaia is the spirit of Creation, her five children serve to anchor and strengthen it, as do all of their children. They stand in the way of the final End, and therefore cannot stand. The bones of the dragons cannot harm the Nihils, for they are a slow rot that afflicts the great tree of Creation. This charm may be activated on Step 2 of an attack made against the Nihil with a jade weapon. The Nihil must attempt to parry the attack with its mouth. For purposes of this charm, the Nihil's mouth is considered to have Defense 0. If the attacker is unable to penetrate the Nihil's DV (which may be supplemented by appropriate Charms), then the Nihil snatches their weapon and devours it. If the Nihil partially parries, the two characters immediately make an opposed (Strength+Athletics) roll. If the Nihil is victorious, the weapon is consumed. If the attacker wins the roll, raw damage is halved. Weapons consumed by means of this charm endure Elsewhere for (1+Artifact rating) hours, during which time the Nihil may yet be induced to vomit them up. After the alloted span has elapsed, the weapon is irretrievably lost to Oblivion, and the motes committed to it may be regained normally. Any Hearthstones socketed in the weapon will reform at their Manse over the course of the next month as normal.
Hideous Gaping Maw
Cost: 4m, 1wp Type: Simple Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious Duration: One Scene Minima: Stamina 3, Essence 2 Prerequisites: None
The Nihil's jaw, mouth, even their entire head stretches and distorts, opening wide and sprouting wicked fangs. Cold air and the smell of rot comes from the yawning abyss of their mouth, and to look into it is to look down a long tunnel that ends in Oblivion itself. This attack renders the Nihil's bite a viable natural attack with the following statline: Speed 6, Accuracy +0, Damage +1L, Defense -2, Rate 1. The Nihil is capable of eating a large dog in 5 bites, a horse in about 18, an elephant in approximately 150, and a yeddim in approximately 400. Once they have raised their permanent Essence to 3, the Nihil may purchase the following Bites at the price of 1xp. Each bite may only be purchased once. Bites must be activated upon activation of the charm, and cannot be activated thereafter.
- Gnashing Fangs: +2L Damage, 1m to activate
- Steel-Trap Jaws: -1 Speed, 1m to activate
- Maw Of The Void: +2 Accuracy, halves number of bites necessary to eat something, 3m to actavate
Black Void Mouth
Cost: 2m Type: Reflexive Keywords: Combo-OK, Stackable Duration: One Scene Minima: Stamina 4, Essence 2 Prerequisites: Hideous Gaping Maw
The Nihil's mouth takes on something of the character of the Void itself, and all things that vanish within are never seen again. Every activation of this charm doubles the amount of food the Nihil can eat without overindulging. Every activation also adds one automatic success to competitive eating rolls. If this charm is active, the Nihil no longer needs to chew, increasing their eating speed by 30%. This bonus is not applicable if Hideous Gaping Maw is active. Black Void Mouth may be activated a number of times equal to the Nihil's Stamina.
Become The Bottomless Pit
Cost: - Type: Permanent Keywords: None Duration: Permanent Minima: Stamina 4, Essence 3 Prerequisites: Black Void Mouth
This charm permanently enhances Black Void Mouth, increasing the stacking cap to (Staminax2).
Hidden Stomach Cavern
Cost: 5m, 1wp Type: Simple (Speed 5, Defense -3) Keywords: Combo-Basic, Obvious Duration: Indefinite Minima: Stamina 4, Essence 4 Prerequisites: Hideous Gaping Maw, Any Stamina Excellenc
The Nihil's jaw drops to the ground, widening with a sickening crackling of gristle and bone, to form a doorway into a pocket of Elsewhere. This charm creates a space large enough for up to (Nihil's essence) human-sized individuals to fit comfortably, and twice that number can be squeezed in. In this space, there is no natural light, knee-deep chilly liquid, and the air is cooled by the core of Void within the Nihil. Upon deactivation of this charm, all beings and objects within the Hidden Stomach Cavern are forcibly expelled. If the Nihil is slain while this charm is active, all beings in their Hidden Stomach Cavern will be consumed by the Void. Charms, spells, or other abilities that allow a being to enter or exit a spirit's sanctum or travel between worlds also allow ingress and egress from this space.
Wolf Swallows Sun
Cost: 4m Type: Reflexive (Step 3) Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious Duration: Instant Minima: Stamina 5, Essence 3 Prerequisites: Wolf Swallows Moon, Black Void Mouth
The Nihil's mouth stretches wider, opening like the doors of a tomb, to swallow the hostile magics of the forces of life. This charm perfectly parries one ranged attack, magical or mundane. Any ranged flurries targeted at the Nihil count as one attack. This attack carries one of the Four Flaws of Invulnerability.
Discussion Space
Dude, these are great! I may have to just wind up linking to this page with thanks when I get to Stamina. :D I do have a few comments:
- I'm a little dubious about Worm Gnaws At World's Roots, but that's my instinctive distrust of artifact-killing (I wasn't a fan of Weapon-Breaking Defense, either, and usually houserule in my games).
- Hideous Gaping Maw deserves a Gift keyword, I think. ;)
- Hidden Stomach Cavern needs a mechanic of some sort for people to escape if they were put in against their will (I'm thinking something more or less like a clinch).
But yeah, these are just plain cool. - FrivYeti
- Note well that WGAWR still allows for Tepet Arada to hunt you down and kung-fu you in the stomach until you puke up his daiklave. I wasn't sure whether or not you were going to have a DBT analog, and I neglected to mention that you have to actually jump down the Nihil's throat to get to the HSC, which means you're either restrained, Incapacitated, or willing. I basically just made Charms for all the stuff Gluttony from Fullmetal Alchemist could do. I had these two really cool images in my mind. The first one was an Exalted-style reenactment of that story about the hungry monster and the goat from Lloyd Alexander's The Arcadians, and the other was of the team of brave Solar protagonists flying out with their Mountain-Crossing Leap or Azure Chariot or whatever to daiklave unto death a Nihil who was busily destroying the kingdom's agricultural sector like a one-man locust storm. - Han'ya
