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Title: You are the Werehouse
Post by: Iris on February 15, 2022, 10:23:18 pm: Spoiler: Quoi? (click to show/hide)
Something I do for fun and to occupy the time. Don't expect it to stick around long. This is my riff on the "You are a Dungeon" category of games.

You become aware of your surroundings. You... you're not a person. You're an object. The word slowly comes to you - genius loci.

You were made by, evidently, some kind of powerful runesmith or technologist. Who knows why?

You get a dim sense of your purpose - protect, expand, and reclaim the building you find yourself as... being. Much of it has collapsed over the... centuries? millenia? you have been inactive. Something has caused you to regain awareness, but you do not know what.

In the centre, deep inside the building you are, there is a - what is the word? - dungeon core. It ticks quietly, absorbing mana from the world around it. It allows you to summon and construct things and houses your consciousness. Destruction of it would mean the cessation of your existence.

You look at two things - yourself (or at least the representation of yourself), and the building you are.

Who are you?

What is the building you were created to protect?
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: Glass on February 15, 2022, 10:25:26 pm: You are Decimal, created to tend to and protect The Royal Archives.
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: Iris on February 15, 2022, 10:27:51 pm: Whoops, forgot to reserve a post. Oh, well.
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: Egan_BW on February 15, 2022, 10:30:42 pm: We feel no particular need to give ourself a designation at this time.
...Nor do we remember what, or even if, we were supposed to be named by our creator.

Our mind is projected from the Core, and the locus of our focus, what could be called a digital avatar, is simply an immaterial green arrow. A mere hologram to improve ease of targeting.

Our charge is the Shrine of the Sky, a grand temple of white stone built on the holy mountain, in honor of the New Goddess of the Sky.
The old gods were cruel, so mankind built their own, kind and gentle.
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: A_Curious_Cat on February 15, 2022, 10:35:50 pm: Quote from: Glass on February 15, 2022, 10:25:26 pm
You are Decimal, created to tend to and protect ~~The Royal Archives~~ The Grand Repository of All Knowledge.

FTFY
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: Maximum Spin on February 15, 2022, 11:12:52 pm: You are AI Elon Musk, created to protect the human colony on Mars.
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: EuchreJack on February 15, 2022, 11:27:54 pm: Quote from: A_Curious_Cat on February 15, 2022, 10:35:50 pm
Quote from: Glass on February 15, 2022, 10:25:26 pm
You are Decimal, created to tend to and protect ~~The Royal Archives~~ The Grand Repository of All ~~Knowledge~~ Wealth.

FTFY
Fixed that for you, also a compromise with Max's idea.
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2022, 01:30:17 am: You are Maximus, the spirit of a Coliseum.
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: King Zultan on February 16, 2022, 02:08:14 am: We are Specimen F12 and we watch after [Redacted] Genetics Labs.
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on February 16, 2022, 02:16:32 am: You are the Werehouse. On nights when the moon isn't full, you guard a warehouse, which is totally different and contains wealth, knowledge, and other stuff. So not different at all if you were a rich human, really!
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: TricMagic on February 16, 2022, 11:25:25 am: Quote from: Maximum Spin on February 15, 2022, 11:12:52 pm
You are AI Elon Musk, created to protect the human colony on Mars.
+1
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: Glass on February 16, 2022, 11:25:59 am: Can we please not be AI Elon Musk?
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: Man of Paper on February 16, 2022, 11:56:30 am: We are the box containing the known universe, and we are meant to protect the universe from other boxes full of known universes
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2022, 12:08:47 pm: Quote from: Kilojoule Proton on February 16, 2022, 02:16:32 am
You are the Werehouse. On nights when the moon isn't full, you guard a warehouse, which is totally different and contains wealth, knowledge, and other stuff. So not different at all if you were a rich human, really!
+1
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: EuchreJack on February 16, 2022, 12:42:15 pm: Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2022, 12:08:47 pm
Quote from: Kilojoule Proton on February 16, 2022, 02:16:32 am
You are the Werehouse. On nights when the moon isn't full, you guard a warehouse, which is totally different and contains wealth, knowledge, and other stuff. So not different at all if you were a rich human, really!
+1
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Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: Rockeater on February 16, 2022, 06:04:30 pm: Quote from: EuchreJack on February 16, 2022, 12:42:15 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2022, 12:08:47 pm
Quote from: Kilojoule Proton on February 16, 2022, 02:16:32 am
You are the Werehouse. On nights when the moon isn't full, you guard a warehouse, which is totally different and contains wealth, knowledge, and other stuff. So not different at all if you were a rich human, really!
+1
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Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: crazyabe on February 16, 2022, 07:05:08 pm: You are Isis, you are the spirit of what remains of the crashed International space station.
Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: King Zultan on February 17, 2022, 03:11:33 am: Quote from: Rockeater on February 16, 2022, 06:04:30 pm
Quote from: EuchreJack on February 16, 2022, 12:42:15 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2022, 12:08:47 pm
Quote from: Kilojoule Proton on February 16, 2022, 02:16:32 am
You are the Werehouse. On nights when the moon isn't full, you guard a warehouse, which is totally different and contains wealth, knowledge, and other stuff. So not different at all if you were a rich human, really!
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Title: Re: You are a ???Building??? Spirit
Post by: Egan_BW on February 17, 2022, 03:16:42 am: For the GM's consideration, I move that even though nobody supported my suggestion, it's still cooler and more thematic than all the others so you should use it instead.
Title: Re: You are the Werehouse
Post by: Iris on March 03, 2022, 12:55:10 am: Details slowly float to the top of your consciousness. You are the Werehouse, and you guard whatever was left in you by your owners - which, quite frankly you have no idea what that is, but it's probably gold or something.

You notice that you have 3 Mana. You consume Mana to continue existing: every tick is one Mana. Mana represents the potential of you and the objects around you, and you can consume it from hapless creatures and adventurers that enter. You can also cannibalize parts of yourself for Mana, if you so choose.

The room that you are in - the one that houses your dungeon core - is a small, hexagonal space littered with objects. You can summon something, or expand your influence over the structure, for (currently) 1 Mana.
Title: Re: You are the Werehouse
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 03, 2022, 12:59:47 am: Expand Influence [-1 Mana]

We can consider cannibalizing stuff if we're in danger of running out of mana with no intruders having shown up. For now expanding influence increases our potential grazing range for new mana, so seems the obvious option.
Title: Re: You are the Werehouse
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on March 03, 2022, 01:31:45 am: Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 03, 2022, 12:59:47 am
Expand Influence [-1 Mana]

We can consider cannibalizing stuff if we're in danger of running out of mana with no intruders having shown up. For now expanding influence increases our potential grazing range for new mana, so seems the obvious option.
+1
Title: Re: You are the Werehouse
Post by: crazyabe on March 03, 2022, 01:33:17 am: Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 03, 2022, 12:59:47 am
Expand Influence [-1 Mana]

We can consider cannibalizing stuff if we're in danger of running out of mana with no intruders having shown up. For now expanding influence increases our potential grazing range for new mana, so seems the obvious option.
+1
Title: Re: You are the Werehouse
Post by: King Zultan on March 03, 2022, 03:18:30 am: Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 03, 2022, 12:59:47 am
Expand Influence [-1 Mana]

We can consider cannibalizing stuff if we're in danger of running out of mana with no intruders having shown up. For now expanding influence increases our potential grazing range for new mana, so seems the obvious option.
+1
Title: Re: You are the Werehouse
Post by: A_Curious_Cat on March 06, 2022, 04:34:47 am: Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 03, 2022, 12:59:47 am
Expand Influence [-1 Mana]

We can consider cannibalizing stuff if we're in danger of running out of mana with no intruders having shown up. For now expanding influence increases our potential grazing range for new mana, so seems the obvious option.

+1