Regarding Mind/mood-altering WELP pets
Jun 8, 2021 9:49:23 GMT -6
Post by Alma on Jun 8, 2021 9:49:23 GMT -6
With the release of the new species, I have a few questions.
1. Tailypo
a. Tailypo have an innate glamor that makes it difficult for anyone with psychic resistance, and impossible for those without it, to touch the ribbon on their tail or even harm them. Could someone force their way through this if they knew of it regardless of psychic resistance? Could a person willingly cause the death through means of not directly harming it with force, such as sending an Iron Will beast to kill the tailypo, poisoning it, dropping it into a lake with a weighted bag, or so on?
b. Would an individual let others under their care, assuming they loved/cared for those individuals before being introduced to their tailypo, starve to death/come to harm in order to only keep the constantly starving tailypo fed and safe?
c. Does this glamor affect predators in the wild, and generally any beast/person without an Iron Will, Mechanical Mind or Psychic Immunity?
d. Does the glamor have a range? Would a person far enough away from the tailypo be free of its influence so long as they have not been fully ‘twisted’, and so be able to kill them at a range? Would killing the tailypo also end this influence?
2. Catharion
a. What is the range at which these creatures can smell out their emotion?
b. What is the range at which these creatures can begin leeching the emotion from their target?
c. How large does the explosion tend to be when killing one, ranging from starved or young to one well fed or old?
d. How fast can one leech the emotion away from their given target?
e. How obvious to a person being leeched is it that one of these things is draining them? And is the feeling these creatures inspire when draining emotion away the reason the panic breed tends to partner itself with others?
f. Can a creature with Empathetic Link, such as the floof with their miles of emotional detection, detect the emotion catharion has consumed? Can a floof 'see' the emotion being leeched from a target into the catharion ? Or can it only detect the current state of the catharion itself?
g. Can a catharion be trained to not feed on their owner, or do they automatically begin leeching off any source of their chosen emotion?
h. Does each breed release their own type of elemental energy when exploding, or do they have a general element? Is the destruction caused like a shockwave, a fiery explosion of an element, or does it simply 'delete' anything caught in it? And if it is ‘magic’ damage, could a creature with Magically Resistant properties easily survive it?
i. How long do the effects of a leeching last once the catharion is no longer feeding? Do the emotions slip back in slowly or come back at full force?
j. Can they feed on more than one target at once, or must they drain individual by individual?
k. Roughly how many people/beasts can one feed on before becoming full and stopping? And how does the current emotion level affect it? (Grief feeding on someone holding their dead best friend in their arms vs child learning a not so close classmate had died.)
l. Could you use trained catharion to cancel/absorb the explosive effects of killing another one? Would any of the breeds be well suited to tracking and killing the others?
m. Regarding customs, can folks purchase ones that eat other emotions as well, or will they only consume the base breed's original base emotions? And if their diet can be changed, can these be more positive ones, such as honor/loyalty, joy, excitement and so on?
n.If one has noticed the creature, can they 'hold' onto their emotions through will as these things drain them? What about someone with Iron Will/Mechanical Mind/Psychic Resistance? Can someone with Psychic Immunity not be fed on at all?
o. If someone had somehow attracted all breeds to them at once, would they be able to shoo them away, or would they find themselves unable to care about the lost emotions at all?
p. How long would a catharion take between feedings, assuming it ate to fullness? Can they be sated?
q. The guide information for the species states that "Catharions can “devour” any emotion from their environment, leaving all who were experiencing those emotions feeling pleasantly refreshed. However, each individual breed prefers and is drawn to a specific emotion that they consider a delicacy, which gives them their unique abilities." Could any catharion be trained to consume then any emotion on command, thus allowing the owner to greatly influence whatever the target feels? And can the catharion consume more than one emotion at a time?
r. Would the move 'Magic Shield', which reflects one spell back onto the caster, hide the user from their emotion sense? Would it cause them to feed off of themselves should they try to feed on the user? And would the move, if still active due to lack of something directly cast on on the user, protect the user against the resultant explosion if it kills the catharion?
1. Tailypo
a. Tailypo have an innate glamor that makes it difficult for anyone with psychic resistance, and impossible for those without it, to touch the ribbon on their tail or even harm them. Could someone force their way through this if they knew of it regardless of psychic resistance? Could a person willingly cause the death through means of not directly harming it with force, such as sending an Iron Will beast to kill the tailypo, poisoning it, dropping it into a lake with a weighted bag, or so on?
b. Would an individual let others under their care, assuming they loved/cared for those individuals before being introduced to their tailypo, starve to death/come to harm in order to only keep the constantly starving tailypo fed and safe?
c. Does this glamor affect predators in the wild, and generally any beast/person without an Iron Will, Mechanical Mind or Psychic Immunity?
d. Does the glamor have a range? Would a person far enough away from the tailypo be free of its influence so long as they have not been fully ‘twisted’, and so be able to kill them at a range? Would killing the tailypo also end this influence?
2. Catharion
a. What is the range at which these creatures can smell out their emotion?
b. What is the range at which these creatures can begin leeching the emotion from their target?
c. How large does the explosion tend to be when killing one, ranging from starved or young to one well fed or old?
d. How fast can one leech the emotion away from their given target?
e. How obvious to a person being leeched is it that one of these things is draining them? And is the feeling these creatures inspire when draining emotion away the reason the panic breed tends to partner itself with others?
f. Can a creature with Empathetic Link, such as the floof with their miles of emotional detection, detect the emotion catharion has consumed? Can a floof 'see' the emotion being leeched from a target into the catharion ? Or can it only detect the current state of the catharion itself?
g. Can a catharion be trained to not feed on their owner, or do they automatically begin leeching off any source of their chosen emotion?
h. Does each breed release their own type of elemental energy when exploding, or do they have a general element? Is the destruction caused like a shockwave, a fiery explosion of an element, or does it simply 'delete' anything caught in it? And if it is ‘magic’ damage, could a creature with Magically Resistant properties easily survive it?
i. How long do the effects of a leeching last once the catharion is no longer feeding? Do the emotions slip back in slowly or come back at full force?
j. Can they feed on more than one target at once, or must they drain individual by individual?
k. Roughly how many people/beasts can one feed on before becoming full and stopping? And how does the current emotion level affect it? (Grief feeding on someone holding their dead best friend in their arms vs child learning a not so close classmate had died.)
l. Could you use trained catharion to cancel/absorb the explosive effects of killing another one? Would any of the breeds be well suited to tracking and killing the others?
m. Regarding customs, can folks purchase ones that eat other emotions as well, or will they only consume the base breed's original base emotions? And if their diet can be changed, can these be more positive ones, such as honor/loyalty, joy, excitement and so on?
n.If one has noticed the creature, can they 'hold' onto their emotions through will as these things drain them? What about someone with Iron Will/Mechanical Mind/Psychic Resistance? Can someone with Psychic Immunity not be fed on at all?
o. If someone had somehow attracted all breeds to them at once, would they be able to shoo them away, or would they find themselves unable to care about the lost emotions at all?
p. How long would a catharion take between feedings, assuming it ate to fullness? Can they be sated?
q. The guide information for the species states that "Catharions can “devour” any emotion from their environment, leaving all who were experiencing those emotions feeling pleasantly refreshed. However, each individual breed prefers and is drawn to a specific emotion that they consider a delicacy, which gives them their unique abilities." Could any catharion be trained to consume then any emotion on command, thus allowing the owner to greatly influence whatever the target feels? And can the catharion consume more than one emotion at a time?
r. Would the move 'Magic Shield', which reflects one spell back onto the caster, hide the user from their emotion sense? Would it cause them to feed off of themselves should they try to feed on the user? And would the move, if still active due to lack of something directly cast on on the user, protect the user against the resultant explosion if it kills the catharion?