Ganurath
2011-04-27, 01:10 AM
I noticed on the wiki that Metagaos, along with Elloge, was not receiving any attention. I may give Elloge a spin at some point in the future, but for now I'll go with Metagaos, since the concepts there are more fun for me. I don't know the acronym people use, but criticism and suggestions are welcome! Now, without further ado...
Metagaos Charms
First Metagaos Excellency
Cost: 1m per die; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 1; Type: Reflexive (Step 1 for attacker, Step 2 for defender)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Metagaos is a devouring predator and a cunning hunter, and in his eyes all are prey. When he feeds himself, nothing is safe from his rapacious appetites. When others feed him, he receives blood offerings, he rewards initiative with growth. When desperate, the All-Hunger Blossom will devour himself, using self-cannabalism to transform, striving always to be more deadly than before. Metagaos is a host of deadly traps and plants, and can always inflict disease in a pinch. In the swamps of Metagaos, there can only be growth through feeding.
This Charm can enhance any action that either creates life or consumes, as the cycle of self-predation is a defining aspect of Metagaos. Actions involving sacrifice, typically a blood offering may also be enhanced by this Charm. Hunting and stalking resonate well with the themes of the All-Hunger Blossom's predatory themes, as do improving one's self. Finally, the All-Hunger Blossom's nature as a dominant creature may extend to social situations when asserting personal authority, although the authority from a title holds little power unless it was a title earned through establishing dominance.
Metagaos Mythos Exultant
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: First Metagaos Excellency
First and last, Metagaos feeds. Whenever the Infernal receives a stunt reward for a successful action that qualifies for the prerequisite, he may opt to steal that reward from another character that was subject to the action. If there is no such subject, or the subject has none of that reward available, this Charm has no impact.
Sorcerous Initiation of Metagaos
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: Sorcerous
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: First Metagaos Excellency
Metagaos swells with life and power, deadly and hungry though that life and power may be. Any spell that improves the Infernal's physical capabilities costs 10m less. Metagaos gains only sustenance from substance, however, and with the exception of countermagic (which devours spells) the Infernal cannot learn spells that focus exclusively on that which lacks physical substance.
Ravenous Conquest Pursuit
Cost: 1lhl per 3m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
There is no richer soil in the swamp than that tainted red with blood, as it feeds whatever may take root. When paying motes for anything that doesn't require the motes be committed, the Infernal may reduce the motes paid by paying health levels instead, at a rate of one lethal health level per three motes, to a minimum of zero motes. This effect is Obvious as the Infernal's body momentarily seeps red mist from his pores, the blood sent out into the surrounding air as an offering. If a Scourge or an Exalt with a similar ability attempts to hide the Obvious effect of this Charm, the health level cost is doubled as well as the mote cost.
Indomitable Predator
Cost: 1lhl per 1wp; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ravenous Conquest Pursuit
Meer harm to flesh will not restrain the hunger of Metagaos; it will expand it if nothing else. This Charm functions similarly to its prerequisite, save that it allows lethal health levels to replace spent willpower on a one-for-one basis. Also unlike its prerequisite, the Charm is not Obvious, as force of will is entirely internal. Finally, this Charm may not alter the cost of Compassion or Temperance channels: Metagaos knows neither mercy or restraint, and as such their pursuit never comes easy to him.
No Greater Treasure
Cost: 2lhl per ingredient; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Indomitable Predator
When the All-Hunger Blossom creates, he creates from himself. Should the Infernal ever require rare ingredients for artifact creation, he may pay 2lhl in place of one of these rare ingredients, the offering of blood being more precious than anything so mundane as a vitriol or a paradox given form. The first purchase of this Charm allows a single rare ingredient to be substituted, but each additional purchase allows an additional substitutions. These additional purchases have a minimum Essence one lower than the previous: The second purchase requires Essence 4+, the third Essence 5+, and so on.
Top Of All Food Chains
Cost: Varies; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Indomitable Predator
Metagaos would rather devour his own body than allow it to become prey to another. When subjecting to a Shaping effect from a Charm or a mutation, the Infernal with this Charm may pay lethal health levels to prevent the Shaping or mutation. Charms require a payment of lethal health levels matching the minimum Essence of the Charm, while mutations are costed as follows: poxes and deficiencies cost 1 lhl to resist, afflictions and debilities cost 2 lhl, blights and deformities cost 4 lhl, and abominations require 6 lhl.
Aspect Of The Perfect Predator
Cost: 3m per mutation point; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Simple
Keywords: Desecration, Shaping, Sorcerous
Duration: One scene, one day, or Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Top Of All Food Chains, First Metagaos Excellency
With nothing more than sheer desire to, the All-Hunger Blossom becomes deadlier. This Charm allows the Infernal to grant temporary mutations to himself, provided said mutations manifest in a manner aligned with the themes of swamps and predators. If the cost of this Charm is paid fully with motes, the mutations last for a scene. If paid for partially with health levels, they last an entire day. If paid for fully with health levels, the mutation becomes permanent and this Charm gains the Training keyword for that use, and the Infernal either pays or gains experience depending on whether the mutation is positive or negative. Naturally, acquiring overt external mutations makes this Charm Obvious.
Transcending Lesser Forms
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Aspect Of The Perfect Predator, No Greater Treasure
The hunger of Metagaos is relentless because he must constantly feed new growth, new twisted wonders to inflict upon his prey. The Infernal may use his own body as a workshop to create grafts, which are automatically attuned and implanted in the Infernal upon completion. Construction materials are consumed orally, and the Infernal may do so without harm even with the most volatile ingredient, such as vitriol. The first purchase of this Charm treats the Infernal's body as a master's workshop, but subsequent purchases at Essence 4+ and 5+ convert it into a flawless workshop and ideal workshop, respectively.
Cauldron of Flesh and Blood
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 4; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Transcending Lesser Forms
This Charm expands its prerequisite, allowing the Infernal to create biological artifacts within his body before ejecting it, unattuned, suffering a lethal health level of damage per artifact dot during the ejection process. Artifacts based on magical materials made this way cannot be made with magical materials other than vitriolic green jade or vitriolic black jade, but weapons may be caustic.
Genesis of Predation
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 4; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Transcending Lesser Forms
This Charm expands its prerequisite, allowing the Infernal to use his body as a workshop for Craft (Genesis) to make carnivores. Male Infernals vomit up such monsters, while females may opt between vomitting up their creations or giving a live birth. Creatures made this way are always considered creatures of darkness.
Maw Of The Bloom
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Metagaos eats. At the first purchase, this Charm gives the Infernal the capacity to safely consume and digest any biological material, save for that which is diseased or poisonous. It additionally grants the Bite mutation at no cost, causing the Infernal's Clinch attacks to deal lethal damage. A second purchase of this Charm, also at Essence 2+, allows the Infernal to consumed diseased and poisoned materials without consequence, and adds the Infernal's Essence to the Accuracy and Damage of his bite.
Feast Upon (Shinma)
Cost: 3m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Maw Of The Bloom
The hunger of Metagaos is not bound to the material. When purchasing this Charm, the Infernal chooses one of the seven shinma listed below. This Charm supplements an attack action with the Infernal's Bite, with each activation implementing one of the special powers listed below. An Infernal may purchase this Charm as many times as there are available shinma to feed upon, and may activate different powers with multiple Charm activations without using a combo.
Nirakara: The form of the victim may be obstructive to the maw under normal circumstances, but a maw that can wrap around a victim's shape on a conceptual level is unhindered by physical barriers. Double the raw damage of the supplemented attack.
Nirguna: The Infernal eats not only what flesh there is, but the very existence of flesh where he bit. This attack deals aggravated damage.
Nirvishesha: An identity is difficult to bite off in pieces, but the Infernal still gets a taste. The supplemented attack roll doubles as a roll to read the intimacies of the target, with the successes checked against the difficulty for that roll and the target's physical DV seperately.
Nirvikalpa: Communication brings resolution, tranquility, peace... Communication must be consumed. This Charm adds a special poison to the Bite attack, with the following statistics: Damage 3*/Action, Toxicity (Essence), Tolerance -/-, Penalty -0. The poison deals no damage, but the victim loses the ability to communicate the way an Infernal suffering from Adorjan's Torment does whenever they fail the roll to resist Toxicity. If out of sight, the victim cannot even be heard.
Nishkriya: While the destruction of conflict would deny Metagaos the capacity to feed, there's no reason not to bite the fight out of his prey. If the supplemented attack hits, the victim must pay a lethal health level or lose a temporary point of willpower.
Nirupadhika: If the Infernal's enemies are the main course, than the distance between them is the entree. The Infernal swallows the distance between himself and the target of his attack, removing the Clinch tag from the supplemented attack and giving it a Range of (Essence x10) yards. This Charm activation is Obvious.
Dharma: There is nothing that one values that cannot be consumed by the Infernal with this Charm. Successfully damaging an enemy with this attack forces them to pay 1wp or lose an Intimacy of the Infernal's choosing as an Emotion effect. If the Infernal isn't aware of any of the target's intimacies, the lost intimacy is chosen at random.
Revisiting Old Wounds
Cost: 4m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious, Shaping
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Feast Upon Nirakara
While Metagaos is never deliberately kind, it may consume things that are unwanted by others. This Charm supplements an attack action with a bite attack. Rather than rolling damage on a successful hit, total up the raw damage. Then, subtract existing wound penalties on the target from the raw damage as follows: a level of aggravated damage is worth two levels of lethal damage or four points of bashing damage, while a lethal level of damage is worth two levels of bashing damage. The wounds on the target used to neutralize the raw damage are healed, and the remaining raw damage (if any) is wasted. The Infernal then suffers lethal damage equal to half the raw damage subtracted this way. A second purchase at Essence 5+ allows the Infernal to safely digest the wounds.
Dragging Prey Out Of Sight
Cost: 4m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Blasphemy, Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Feast Upon Nirguna
Prey will hide in the herd, so the canny hunter seperates prey from the herd. If a target is damaged by the supplemented attack, individuals other than the Infernal and those close to the target gradually forget about the victim, as though his identity were an expired resplendent destiny. A second purchase at Essence 5+ ensures that not even the victim's loved ones remember him, and if the victim dies the ghost will be without memories.
Feast Of A Lifetime
Cost: 4m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Feast Upon Nirvishesha
The All-Hunger Blossom isn't content with the end of an individual's life when he eats them. If he's going to eat someone, he's going to eat an entire lifetime of them! The Infernal digests the lifetime consumed, allowing him to recollect the memories of the last target killed by this Charm with a successful Intelligence+Lore roll at a difficulty of the victim's Essence. A second purchase of this Charm at Essence 5+ allows the memories of countless victims to be retained, but the Infernal can never regain those lost before the second purchase.
Words Like Vipers
Cost: 4m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Sorcerous
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Feast Upon Nirvikalpa
When one feasts upon a shinma, fangs find their place within the domain of the shinma. This Charm supplements a social attack made by the Infernal. The very words of the Infernal are dangerous: Those that fail to resist them are exposed to a poison with the following stats: Damage (Essence)B/action, Toxicity 3, Tolerance -/-, Penalty -1. A second purchase at Essence 5+ changes it to lethal damage, increases the Toxicity to 4, and the Penalty to -3.
Predatory Dominance
Cost: 4m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Emotion
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Feast Upon Nishkriya
Conflict as a whole must remain so Metagaos may feed, but conflict against him is a desirable meal. This Charm supplements any attack action that the intended victim is aware of. If successfully struck, the victim must pay 1wp to resist unnatural mental influence to build an intimacy against opposing the Infernal. A second purchase at Essence 5+ causes the intimacy to be formed at full strength if the victim fails to resist even once.
No Place Is Safe
Cost: 4m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Shaping
Duration: Varies
Prerequisite Charms: Feast Upon Nirupadhika
Distance in the swamplands of Hell are determined not by linear measure, but the attention and appetite of the Yozi that formed them. This Charm can supplement any roll or action involving travel time, reducing the time required by a factor of (Infernal's Essence+1) for the supplemented roll or, if there is no roll, a day's travel. The time travelled is not actually reduced, but the Infernal actually gnaws at the distance that is unneccesary to walk. Others may accompany the Infernal on this hastened journey, a group with a maximum Magnitude of the Infernal's Essence. A second purchase at Essence 5+ gives this Charm a Permanent Type and Duration, and eliminates the activation cost.
Hunter's Trophies
Cost: 4m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Shaping
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Feast Upon Dharma
Metagaos feeds not only on desire, but desirability. This Charm supplements a social attack to insult, accuse, or otherwise lessen the target. If successful, the target must pay 1wp (in addition to that to resist the social attack) or lose a dot in a Social Attribute of their choosing for the remainder of the scene. The Infernal then gains a temporary dot in the same Attribute for the scene as well. A second Purchase at Essence 5+ allows the Infernal to keep these temporary dots by paying the required experience as a Training effect, so long as the dots made permanent don't put the Infernal over normal maximums.
Scent The Elusive Prey
Cost: 5m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Maw Of The Bloom
The Infernal may consume anything, even the immaterial, if he knows where to look. This Charm allows the Infernal to perceive and track spirits, even if they are immaterial.
Screaming Heavenly Morsels
Cost: 3m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive (Step 1)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Scent The Elusive Prey
The gods betrayed the Yozi, but Metagaos took it more personally than most Yozi. He had to make sure he could devour spirits beyond recovery, no matter where they hid. It was their mistake not to kill him, and one they would regret. This Charm allows the Infernal to strike immaterial spirits. A second purchase at Essence 3+ makes it so that if an attack enhanced by this Charm kills a spirit, it is permanently destroyed.
Food That Keeps On Feeding
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 5; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Screaming Heavenly Morsels
This Charm enhances its prerequisite, allowing the Infernal to draw sustenance from the spirit's Essence if it was worthy prey. If an attack enhanced by Screaming Heavenly Morsels kills a spirit, the Infernal may compare the spirit's Cult rating to his own. If the spirit's Cult is higher, the Infernal's Cult rating is temporarily raised to match it. This temporary rating lasts until the spirit regenerates or, if the spirit was permanently destroyed, until the prayers stop. In the former case the loss is sudden, in the latter case the absence is gradual, depending on how worshippers react to their patron's absence.
Prey Upon Predators
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Maw Of The Bloom x2
The purchases of the prerequisite Charms allow the Infernal to consume poisoned and diseased materials without consequence, but offered no protection against other vectors of entry. This Charm allows the Infernal to assert dominance over the smallest predators in Creation, causing the Infernal to automatically succeed on Stamina+Resistance rolls against poison and disease. A second purchase at Essence 3+ grants the Infernal complete immunity to poison and disease, allowing them to carry them suspended without fear for himself or others. A third purchase, also at Essence 3+, allows the Infernal to reflexively inflict one of the poisons or diseases in the Infernal on a target hit with one of the Infernal's natural attacks.
Weakness Is Food
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Maw Of The Bloom
The All-Hunger Blossom does not heal by regenerating damaged tissue, but by devouring it until only healthy tissue remains. The Infernal's natural healing is hastened by a factor of (Infernal's Essence.) A second purchase at Essence 4+ causes the Infernal to heal lethal damage at the same rate as bashing damage. A third purchase at Essence 6+ allows even aggravated damage to heal at the accelerated rate of bashing damage.
Evolve Or Die
Cost: 6m, 1wp; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-Basic
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Weakness Is Food
Anything in the swamp that bleeds either stops bleeding or stops breathing. While this Charm is active, the Infernal gains natural soak against aggravated, lethal, and bashing damage equal to the health levels of damage he currently suffers. A second purchase of this Charm at Essence 3+ adds non-bashing levels of damage to this extra soak a second time. A third purchase, also at Essence 3+, doubles the soak this Charm grants from aggravated damage.
Prey Are As Nothing
Cost: 3m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive (Step 7)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Evolve Or Die
Before the might of predators, prey are as nothing. This Charm may be used in response to any attack, allowing the Infernal to perfectly soak all damage inflicted, the wound sealing as soon as it is formed. This Charm suffers from the Imperfection of the All-Hunger Blossom: The role of predator and prey must be constantly enforced, or roles may reverse. This Charm may not be used against attacks from sources the Infernal has not attacked himself in the last (Infernal's Essence) actions.
Death Is For The Weak
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Evolve Or Die
This Charm grants the Infernal five additional Dying health levels per purchase, and may be purchased up to Essence times. The first purchase of this Charm also prevents the character from suffering regular damage due to having damage in the dying health levels.
Insatiable Fanged Lotus Shintai
Cost: 30m, 2wp; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 5; Type: Simple
Keywords: Blasphemy, Form-Type, Obvious, Sorcerous
Duration: One Day
Prerequisite Charms: Evolve Or Die, Feast Upon (Shintai) x7, Indomitable Predator
The Infernal gains a sudden awareness of all the available meals in the existence surrounding him... And a sudden awareness that none of it will be enough to satisfy. Still, one must try, no? The very air trembles in fear of the Infernal, color drains from the world around him, and his teeth change from being meerly deadly to a maw of deadly fangs in an unhinged and expanding maw. Embracing the hunger and the power of Metagaos grants numerous benefits:
-The capacity for the Infernal to feed is amplified to match his appetite, which is without measure. The cost to activate Feast Upon (Shintai) is 1m per power, and doing so does not count as a Charm activation. The Infernal also gains an eighth activation for the duration of the Charm, Feast Upon Advaita Iraivan. Attacks supplemented thusly are made at Speed 3. Finally, the Infernal may supplement any melee range attack with Feast Upon (Shintai.)
-When the Infernal would use lethal health levels as alternate payment for motes or willpower, he may use whatever sort of damage he should choose, and may combine sources to determine the cost paid. So, the Infernal may pay two aggravated health levels to activate Evolve Or Die, or a single bashing health level for three activations of Feast Upon (Shintai.)
-The Infernal's Bite has the Clinch Tag as optional, and increases the Accuracy, Damage, and Rate values by four. Whenever an Infernal would successfully deal damage with his Bite attack, he may reflexively pay 3m to heal a health level of damage.
Unlike most Sorcerous Charms, the Infernal may terminate this Charm prematurely.
Metagaos Charms
First Metagaos Excellency
Cost: 1m per die; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 1; Type: Reflexive (Step 1 for attacker, Step 2 for defender)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Metagaos is a devouring predator and a cunning hunter, and in his eyes all are prey. When he feeds himself, nothing is safe from his rapacious appetites. When others feed him, he receives blood offerings, he rewards initiative with growth. When desperate, the All-Hunger Blossom will devour himself, using self-cannabalism to transform, striving always to be more deadly than before. Metagaos is a host of deadly traps and plants, and can always inflict disease in a pinch. In the swamps of Metagaos, there can only be growth through feeding.
This Charm can enhance any action that either creates life or consumes, as the cycle of self-predation is a defining aspect of Metagaos. Actions involving sacrifice, typically a blood offering may also be enhanced by this Charm. Hunting and stalking resonate well with the themes of the All-Hunger Blossom's predatory themes, as do improving one's self. Finally, the All-Hunger Blossom's nature as a dominant creature may extend to social situations when asserting personal authority, although the authority from a title holds little power unless it was a title earned through establishing dominance.
Metagaos Mythos Exultant
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: First Metagaos Excellency
First and last, Metagaos feeds. Whenever the Infernal receives a stunt reward for a successful action that qualifies for the prerequisite, he may opt to steal that reward from another character that was subject to the action. If there is no such subject, or the subject has none of that reward available, this Charm has no impact.
Sorcerous Initiation of Metagaos
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: Sorcerous
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: First Metagaos Excellency
Metagaos swells with life and power, deadly and hungry though that life and power may be. Any spell that improves the Infernal's physical capabilities costs 10m less. Metagaos gains only sustenance from substance, however, and with the exception of countermagic (which devours spells) the Infernal cannot learn spells that focus exclusively on that which lacks physical substance.
Ravenous Conquest Pursuit
Cost: 1lhl per 3m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
There is no richer soil in the swamp than that tainted red with blood, as it feeds whatever may take root. When paying motes for anything that doesn't require the motes be committed, the Infernal may reduce the motes paid by paying health levels instead, at a rate of one lethal health level per three motes, to a minimum of zero motes. This effect is Obvious as the Infernal's body momentarily seeps red mist from his pores, the blood sent out into the surrounding air as an offering. If a Scourge or an Exalt with a similar ability attempts to hide the Obvious effect of this Charm, the health level cost is doubled as well as the mote cost.
Indomitable Predator
Cost: 1lhl per 1wp; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ravenous Conquest Pursuit
Meer harm to flesh will not restrain the hunger of Metagaos; it will expand it if nothing else. This Charm functions similarly to its prerequisite, save that it allows lethal health levels to replace spent willpower on a one-for-one basis. Also unlike its prerequisite, the Charm is not Obvious, as force of will is entirely internal. Finally, this Charm may not alter the cost of Compassion or Temperance channels: Metagaos knows neither mercy or restraint, and as such their pursuit never comes easy to him.
No Greater Treasure
Cost: 2lhl per ingredient; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Indomitable Predator
When the All-Hunger Blossom creates, he creates from himself. Should the Infernal ever require rare ingredients for artifact creation, he may pay 2lhl in place of one of these rare ingredients, the offering of blood being more precious than anything so mundane as a vitriol or a paradox given form. The first purchase of this Charm allows a single rare ingredient to be substituted, but each additional purchase allows an additional substitutions. These additional purchases have a minimum Essence one lower than the previous: The second purchase requires Essence 4+, the third Essence 5+, and so on.
Top Of All Food Chains
Cost: Varies; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Indomitable Predator
Metagaos would rather devour his own body than allow it to become prey to another. When subjecting to a Shaping effect from a Charm or a mutation, the Infernal with this Charm may pay lethal health levels to prevent the Shaping or mutation. Charms require a payment of lethal health levels matching the minimum Essence of the Charm, while mutations are costed as follows: poxes and deficiencies cost 1 lhl to resist, afflictions and debilities cost 2 lhl, blights and deformities cost 4 lhl, and abominations require 6 lhl.
Aspect Of The Perfect Predator
Cost: 3m per mutation point; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Simple
Keywords: Desecration, Shaping, Sorcerous
Duration: One scene, one day, or Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Top Of All Food Chains, First Metagaos Excellency
With nothing more than sheer desire to, the All-Hunger Blossom becomes deadlier. This Charm allows the Infernal to grant temporary mutations to himself, provided said mutations manifest in a manner aligned with the themes of swamps and predators. If the cost of this Charm is paid fully with motes, the mutations last for a scene. If paid for partially with health levels, they last an entire day. If paid for fully with health levels, the mutation becomes permanent and this Charm gains the Training keyword for that use, and the Infernal either pays or gains experience depending on whether the mutation is positive or negative. Naturally, acquiring overt external mutations makes this Charm Obvious.
Transcending Lesser Forms
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Aspect Of The Perfect Predator, No Greater Treasure
The hunger of Metagaos is relentless because he must constantly feed new growth, new twisted wonders to inflict upon his prey. The Infernal may use his own body as a workshop to create grafts, which are automatically attuned and implanted in the Infernal upon completion. Construction materials are consumed orally, and the Infernal may do so without harm even with the most volatile ingredient, such as vitriol. The first purchase of this Charm treats the Infernal's body as a master's workshop, but subsequent purchases at Essence 4+ and 5+ convert it into a flawless workshop and ideal workshop, respectively.
Cauldron of Flesh and Blood
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 4; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Transcending Lesser Forms
This Charm expands its prerequisite, allowing the Infernal to create biological artifacts within his body before ejecting it, unattuned, suffering a lethal health level of damage per artifact dot during the ejection process. Artifacts based on magical materials made this way cannot be made with magical materials other than vitriolic green jade or vitriolic black jade, but weapons may be caustic.
Genesis of Predation
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 4; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Transcending Lesser Forms
This Charm expands its prerequisite, allowing the Infernal to use his body as a workshop for Craft (Genesis) to make carnivores. Male Infernals vomit up such monsters, while females may opt between vomitting up their creations or giving a live birth. Creatures made this way are always considered creatures of darkness.
Maw Of The Bloom
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Metagaos eats. At the first purchase, this Charm gives the Infernal the capacity to safely consume and digest any biological material, save for that which is diseased or poisonous. It additionally grants the Bite mutation at no cost, causing the Infernal's Clinch attacks to deal lethal damage. A second purchase of this Charm, also at Essence 2+, allows the Infernal to consumed diseased and poisoned materials without consequence, and adds the Infernal's Essence to the Accuracy and Damage of his bite.
Feast Upon (Shinma)
Cost: 3m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Maw Of The Bloom
The hunger of Metagaos is not bound to the material. When purchasing this Charm, the Infernal chooses one of the seven shinma listed below. This Charm supplements an attack action with the Infernal's Bite, with each activation implementing one of the special powers listed below. An Infernal may purchase this Charm as many times as there are available shinma to feed upon, and may activate different powers with multiple Charm activations without using a combo.
Nirakara: The form of the victim may be obstructive to the maw under normal circumstances, but a maw that can wrap around a victim's shape on a conceptual level is unhindered by physical barriers. Double the raw damage of the supplemented attack.
Nirguna: The Infernal eats not only what flesh there is, but the very existence of flesh where he bit. This attack deals aggravated damage.
Nirvishesha: An identity is difficult to bite off in pieces, but the Infernal still gets a taste. The supplemented attack roll doubles as a roll to read the intimacies of the target, with the successes checked against the difficulty for that roll and the target's physical DV seperately.
Nirvikalpa: Communication brings resolution, tranquility, peace... Communication must be consumed. This Charm adds a special poison to the Bite attack, with the following statistics: Damage 3*/Action, Toxicity (Essence), Tolerance -/-, Penalty -0. The poison deals no damage, but the victim loses the ability to communicate the way an Infernal suffering from Adorjan's Torment does whenever they fail the roll to resist Toxicity. If out of sight, the victim cannot even be heard.
Nishkriya: While the destruction of conflict would deny Metagaos the capacity to feed, there's no reason not to bite the fight out of his prey. If the supplemented attack hits, the victim must pay a lethal health level or lose a temporary point of willpower.
Nirupadhika: If the Infernal's enemies are the main course, than the distance between them is the entree. The Infernal swallows the distance between himself and the target of his attack, removing the Clinch tag from the supplemented attack and giving it a Range of (Essence x10) yards. This Charm activation is Obvious.
Dharma: There is nothing that one values that cannot be consumed by the Infernal with this Charm. Successfully damaging an enemy with this attack forces them to pay 1wp or lose an Intimacy of the Infernal's choosing as an Emotion effect. If the Infernal isn't aware of any of the target's intimacies, the lost intimacy is chosen at random.
Revisiting Old Wounds
Cost: 4m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious, Shaping
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Feast Upon Nirakara
While Metagaos is never deliberately kind, it may consume things that are unwanted by others. This Charm supplements an attack action with a bite attack. Rather than rolling damage on a successful hit, total up the raw damage. Then, subtract existing wound penalties on the target from the raw damage as follows: a level of aggravated damage is worth two levels of lethal damage or four points of bashing damage, while a lethal level of damage is worth two levels of bashing damage. The wounds on the target used to neutralize the raw damage are healed, and the remaining raw damage (if any) is wasted. The Infernal then suffers lethal damage equal to half the raw damage subtracted this way. A second purchase at Essence 5+ allows the Infernal to safely digest the wounds.
Dragging Prey Out Of Sight
Cost: 4m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Blasphemy, Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Feast Upon Nirguna
Prey will hide in the herd, so the canny hunter seperates prey from the herd. If a target is damaged by the supplemented attack, individuals other than the Infernal and those close to the target gradually forget about the victim, as though his identity were an expired resplendent destiny. A second purchase at Essence 5+ ensures that not even the victim's loved ones remember him, and if the victim dies the ghost will be without memories.
Feast Of A Lifetime
Cost: 4m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Feast Upon Nirvishesha
The All-Hunger Blossom isn't content with the end of an individual's life when he eats them. If he's going to eat someone, he's going to eat an entire lifetime of them! The Infernal digests the lifetime consumed, allowing him to recollect the memories of the last target killed by this Charm with a successful Intelligence+Lore roll at a difficulty of the victim's Essence. A second purchase of this Charm at Essence 5+ allows the memories of countless victims to be retained, but the Infernal can never regain those lost before the second purchase.
Words Like Vipers
Cost: 4m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Sorcerous
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Feast Upon Nirvikalpa
When one feasts upon a shinma, fangs find their place within the domain of the shinma. This Charm supplements a social attack made by the Infernal. The very words of the Infernal are dangerous: Those that fail to resist them are exposed to a poison with the following stats: Damage (Essence)B/action, Toxicity 3, Tolerance -/-, Penalty -1. A second purchase at Essence 5+ changes it to lethal damage, increases the Toxicity to 4, and the Penalty to -3.
Predatory Dominance
Cost: 4m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Emotion
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Feast Upon Nishkriya
Conflict as a whole must remain so Metagaos may feed, but conflict against him is a desirable meal. This Charm supplements any attack action that the intended victim is aware of. If successfully struck, the victim must pay 1wp to resist unnatural mental influence to build an intimacy against opposing the Infernal. A second purchase at Essence 5+ causes the intimacy to be formed at full strength if the victim fails to resist even once.
No Place Is Safe
Cost: 4m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Shaping
Duration: Varies
Prerequisite Charms: Feast Upon Nirupadhika
Distance in the swamplands of Hell are determined not by linear measure, but the attention and appetite of the Yozi that formed them. This Charm can supplement any roll or action involving travel time, reducing the time required by a factor of (Infernal's Essence+1) for the supplemented roll or, if there is no roll, a day's travel. The time travelled is not actually reduced, but the Infernal actually gnaws at the distance that is unneccesary to walk. Others may accompany the Infernal on this hastened journey, a group with a maximum Magnitude of the Infernal's Essence. A second purchase at Essence 5+ gives this Charm a Permanent Type and Duration, and eliminates the activation cost.
Hunter's Trophies
Cost: 4m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Shaping
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Feast Upon Dharma
Metagaos feeds not only on desire, but desirability. This Charm supplements a social attack to insult, accuse, or otherwise lessen the target. If successful, the target must pay 1wp (in addition to that to resist the social attack) or lose a dot in a Social Attribute of their choosing for the remainder of the scene. The Infernal then gains a temporary dot in the same Attribute for the scene as well. A second Purchase at Essence 5+ allows the Infernal to keep these temporary dots by paying the required experience as a Training effect, so long as the dots made permanent don't put the Infernal over normal maximums.
Scent The Elusive Prey
Cost: 5m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Maw Of The Bloom
The Infernal may consume anything, even the immaterial, if he knows where to look. This Charm allows the Infernal to perceive and track spirits, even if they are immaterial.
Screaming Heavenly Morsels
Cost: 3m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive (Step 1)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Scent The Elusive Prey
The gods betrayed the Yozi, but Metagaos took it more personally than most Yozi. He had to make sure he could devour spirits beyond recovery, no matter where they hid. It was their mistake not to kill him, and one they would regret. This Charm allows the Infernal to strike immaterial spirits. A second purchase at Essence 3+ makes it so that if an attack enhanced by this Charm kills a spirit, it is permanently destroyed.
Food That Keeps On Feeding
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 5; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Screaming Heavenly Morsels
This Charm enhances its prerequisite, allowing the Infernal to draw sustenance from the spirit's Essence if it was worthy prey. If an attack enhanced by Screaming Heavenly Morsels kills a spirit, the Infernal may compare the spirit's Cult rating to his own. If the spirit's Cult is higher, the Infernal's Cult rating is temporarily raised to match it. This temporary rating lasts until the spirit regenerates or, if the spirit was permanently destroyed, until the prayers stop. In the former case the loss is sudden, in the latter case the absence is gradual, depending on how worshippers react to their patron's absence.
Prey Upon Predators
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Maw Of The Bloom x2
The purchases of the prerequisite Charms allow the Infernal to consume poisoned and diseased materials without consequence, but offered no protection against other vectors of entry. This Charm allows the Infernal to assert dominance over the smallest predators in Creation, causing the Infernal to automatically succeed on Stamina+Resistance rolls against poison and disease. A second purchase at Essence 3+ grants the Infernal complete immunity to poison and disease, allowing them to carry them suspended without fear for himself or others. A third purchase, also at Essence 3+, allows the Infernal to reflexively inflict one of the poisons or diseases in the Infernal on a target hit with one of the Infernal's natural attacks.
Weakness Is Food
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Maw Of The Bloom
The All-Hunger Blossom does not heal by regenerating damaged tissue, but by devouring it until only healthy tissue remains. The Infernal's natural healing is hastened by a factor of (Infernal's Essence.) A second purchase at Essence 4+ causes the Infernal to heal lethal damage at the same rate as bashing damage. A third purchase at Essence 6+ allows even aggravated damage to heal at the accelerated rate of bashing damage.
Evolve Or Die
Cost: 6m, 1wp; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-Basic
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Weakness Is Food
Anything in the swamp that bleeds either stops bleeding or stops breathing. While this Charm is active, the Infernal gains natural soak against aggravated, lethal, and bashing damage equal to the health levels of damage he currently suffers. A second purchase of this Charm at Essence 3+ adds non-bashing levels of damage to this extra soak a second time. A third purchase, also at Essence 3+, doubles the soak this Charm grants from aggravated damage.
Prey Are As Nothing
Cost: 3m; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive (Step 7)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Evolve Or Die
Before the might of predators, prey are as nothing. This Charm may be used in response to any attack, allowing the Infernal to perfectly soak all damage inflicted, the wound sealing as soon as it is formed. This Charm suffers from the Imperfection of the All-Hunger Blossom: The role of predator and prey must be constantly enforced, or roles may reverse. This Charm may not be used against attacks from sources the Infernal has not attacked himself in the last (Infernal's Essence) actions.
Death Is For The Weak
Cost: -; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Evolve Or Die
This Charm grants the Infernal five additional Dying health levels per purchase, and may be purchased up to Essence times. The first purchase of this Charm also prevents the character from suffering regular damage due to having damage in the dying health levels.
Insatiable Fanged Lotus Shintai
Cost: 30m, 2wp; Mins: Metagaos 0, Essence 5; Type: Simple
Keywords: Blasphemy, Form-Type, Obvious, Sorcerous
Duration: One Day
Prerequisite Charms: Evolve Or Die, Feast Upon (Shintai) x7, Indomitable Predator
The Infernal gains a sudden awareness of all the available meals in the existence surrounding him... And a sudden awareness that none of it will be enough to satisfy. Still, one must try, no? The very air trembles in fear of the Infernal, color drains from the world around him, and his teeth change from being meerly deadly to a maw of deadly fangs in an unhinged and expanding maw. Embracing the hunger and the power of Metagaos grants numerous benefits:
-The capacity for the Infernal to feed is amplified to match his appetite, which is without measure. The cost to activate Feast Upon (Shintai) is 1m per power, and doing so does not count as a Charm activation. The Infernal also gains an eighth activation for the duration of the Charm, Feast Upon Advaita Iraivan. Attacks supplemented thusly are made at Speed 3. Finally, the Infernal may supplement any melee range attack with Feast Upon (Shintai.)
-When the Infernal would use lethal health levels as alternate payment for motes or willpower, he may use whatever sort of damage he should choose, and may combine sources to determine the cost paid. So, the Infernal may pay two aggravated health levels to activate Evolve Or Die, or a single bashing health level for three activations of Feast Upon (Shintai.)
-The Infernal's Bite has the Clinch Tag as optional, and increases the Accuracy, Damage, and Rate values by four. Whenever an Infernal would successfully deal damage with his Bite attack, he may reflexively pay 3m to heal a health level of damage.
Unlike most Sorcerous Charms, the Infernal may terminate this Charm prematurely.