Merry GLOGmas! I was TheShribe's secret santa. I loved reading your posts and learning about the world of Sequoia. (A donut world with the sun in the middle!) My fav part was the star-snakes, and the mention of a super one.
"The star-snakes are the souls of the ancestors. When your body returns to the land and your spirit becomes one of the snakes in the night sky. They form the barrier between the world and the hungering void, protecting it until the time is right for it to be consumed."
"Immense cosmic snake that constricts the sun to stop it going supernova. It spits Exotics (known as snakestones) out to the planets below. They grant power but come at a cost."
It gave me the idea for someone who collects those snakestones, using the power inside to transform themselves or commune with star-snakes. Here is a GLOG Class based on that. My first one ever!
Snakestones are teardrop scales of warm, quietly humming obsidian. Pressing one to your skin for a minute melds it seamlessly to you, removable only by force. Each new snakestone adds +1 to your choice of Lying, Sneaking, or Intimidation, -1 to monster reaction rolls, and +1 damage received from cold or void-based sources. Some say that those who bind these stones to them are fools, doomed to slink in the shadows of society, skinning people they don't know for the favor of a master they don't understand.
Snakestone Taker
ΔA
1 snakestones melded
Sense: You can feel the direction of the closest snakestone within [Templates] miles, and know if it is melded to someone.
Slither: You can evade an incoming attack [Snakestones] times per day. You can squeeze through any gap big enough for your head.
ΔB
3 snakestones melded, at least 1 taken from someone
Swallow: You can engulf [Templates] things into a sort of spiritual stomach, suspending them in stasis. It's hard to watch. Dangerous or magical things are rendered inert. If you are hurt, everything comes back out.
ΔC
6 snakestones melded, at least 2 taken from someone
Spirit: You can petition ancestor spirits for aid. When you sleep, you can choose to test CHR. On success, a star-snake delivers guidance for the following day, up to [Snakestones] words and [Templates] images. On failure, nightmares wrack you with exhaustion the next day.
ΔD
9 snakestones melded, at least 3 taken from someone
Servant: You are ready to commune with the great serpent coiling around the sun. Through winding poetic dream-speech, it will instruct you in the preservation of the world. You can understand [Snakestones] words per message. Once per full moon cycle, you can send someone you are grappling into the great serpent's permanent care.
Δ: Shed
Crush up a snake's discarded skin with a snakestone. Smoke the remains and meld the stone.
You can rid yourself of any serious malady or curse by paring a snakestone off of your body.
Δ: Shiver
Soak a snakestone in cold blood for a day before melding it on.
Your snakestones hum agitatedly when a Void Witch is within your sense range.
Δ: Strike
Meld a snakestone within a day of it falling from the sky.
You may attack the instant a foe enters your striking range.
Δ: Speech
Without angering the inhabitants, sleep in a snake nest with a snakestone under it. Then meld the stone.
You can talk to snakes. They make reaction rolls +[Templates].
