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So I'm sitting here trying to brainstorm how Calvin's race can change during the Break in new and interesting ways, if at all possible. I find myself lacking in creativity sufficient to snatch the juiciest idea out of the ether, so I'm going to outsource it.So here's the suggestion box:Suggest new abilities, new weaknesses (If any) Changes in appearance, Etc. Preferably in line with what the race already does, but I'll read it anyway.Any ideas for racial mutations due to Breaking as a Maculat Mulieres go right here.Win button abilities will probably get passed over. I'm looking for something that adds depth to the plot. Like a problem that slowly grows over time and has to eventually be dealt with.Or just something really really cool =P

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worldly bee

Hmm... Well, Maculat us all about destroying people using their own psychology and whatnot. And he can already see whatever people who look at him see and feel their intention - the next obvious step for a Maculat would be to start sending people's psychic energy (or whatever you wanna call it), not in straight up telepathy like reading a book, but instead of just sensing intent he could feel bundles of desires or neuroses that he feels compelled to untangle and expose, which creates a catharsis of emotional/psychic energy he can feed on.

Svarog

People who are exposed to his secretions (blood, seven, saliva, etc.) start exhibiting similar behaviors to his type and over time transform as well.

worldly bee

And moving from that would be some more mind stuff, like supernatural persuasion/ suggestability

Luke Scheffe

A correction multiplier applied to social skills when in anything that is considered an argument or debate?

worldly bee

It's true that feeling compelled to spread their condition is one of the signatures of undead

Macronomicon

So how would you describe the sensation? Could he see, hear, or smell people's hangups? I can imagine seeing them as knots he has a hard time not picking at, or smells that identify with specific issues.

Fabhar

Maculat seems to focus around manipulating peoples' minds. He can already sense intentions through eye contact on him - what if it extended to surface-level thoughts? As an extension on his blood causing a physical reaction, perhaps it could extend to a lesser degree to skin-to-skin contact? Like using handshakes, hands on shoulders, etc. to make others' minds more easily influenced and subject to his words?

Joe ?

His blood could start having a stacking addiction effect that makes targets increasingly suggestible, eventually becoming impossible to resist. The withdrawal could involve becoming a feminine version of a maculat, except all their abilities specifically target him. If the female maculat drinks him dry, they become the new greater maculat.

Macronomicon

lol @ getting chased across the world by his undead brides.

Luke Scheffe

From Not The Princess You're Looking For: Increases urge to break beliefs of the opposing gender, depending on your current form.

Luke Scheffe

Also maybe the ability to create a clone hivemind for himself

worldly bee

Well, he already kinda has an access point into people's minds through the vision and intent sensing, so it would be like a meshing or elaboration of those so that it's almost like he can feel parts of their conscious POV, as in feels what it's like to be them from inside their own head, the inner mishmash of thoughts and senses that creates our inner narrative/stream of consciousness. I imagine it would be extremely confusing and disorienting, like schizophrenia on steroids, as you try and keep your own stream of consciousness and identity seperate from the stream of consciousness of the person looking at you. Not to mention that you don't actually get the full picture - the stream of consciousness connects to a matrix of knowledge and memories and identities that Calvin doesn't necessarily share, so he might feel someone remembering that they remembered a memory but not the memory itself, or feel the thought heuristics involved in someone making a decision without the background of knowledge that makes that heuristic possible. And as for the part that meshes with the predatory nature of the Maculat, when the sorts of unconscious hypocrisies or neuroses that lie in the subconscious mind interact with a person's stream of consciousness, it's like a big boulder hiding under a river - it diverts and influences the flow of thoughts, almost like an itch that can't be scratched. Or something that's juuuuuust out of place and drives you crazy, so that you can't help but want to bring the person's conscious mind back to the boulder and pick at it it until it crumbles. Not that he could force a person to think something or look at their memories directly, but he could use words from the outside to bring their stream of consciousness around to their insecurities etc.

Joe ?

I figured he could figure it out the hard way and it would introduce a new scary hunting monster wife

Deathburn

Able to go longer without warp

Jesse Tomlinson

What about a pheromone that subtly causes people to become more introspective (especially the longer they are exposed). Leaving them more susceptible to Calvin changing their beliefs/views. Of course this isn't selective so it also affects his companions. It would be a constant exercise in self control to not try to mentally "prey" on them.

Luke Scheffe

Natural pleasing aroma from blood enhanced so that it can be smelled by everything within (break) squared meters. Normally not too much of a problem for Maculats which are low break, but for him, he is considerably higher break, and thus any undead hunters who get close will recognize what he is

0xFFF1

gives FMA Brotherhood vibes, on what it was like to be Greed / Hohenheim

Luke Scheffe

From Dragon Clutches Pearl and Lady Killer: Anytime he breaks one of someone's deeply held beliefs, he gets break% of their bent regeneration for the next week

Luke Scheffe

From Captain Kirk: the family jewels gain increased resistance to damage equivalent to his total correction across all skills

0xFFF1

I think i would be better for the Maculat to be male-only.

DeeSharkman

Since the Maculat feeds on Warp, what about a sort of aggressive version of that. For example a ranged version or a way to Royally (heh) screw up someone's Break

drag0nreb0rn

Give him the option to become human again

Scipio

Purple is the new suave, his blood makes people around him calmer and projects a micro lure aura for those with keen senses of smell

Travis Watkins

In some traditions, the oldest/most powerful vampires can no longer be nourished by the blood of normal humans, and require the pre-concentrated blood of other vampires, perhaps 'normal' warp is no longer sufficient and he will require a more concentrated version(either from higher break humans or from other Mulcat, or some other source). This might start as just a more rapid consumption of his warp pool, or perhaps he starts to get 'hungry' if his warp pool is below a certain number(half full, 20 points? 50 points?), possibly with additional break-points as his warp gets lower. (suggestion: his post-break max is within the 'slightly hungry' or 'hungry' range, pushing him to grow it, and then grow it further to have a 'safety buffer' once he can once again look at women without wanting to drain them) Perhaps combined with a way to convert warp to bent(and possibly a small warp pool from being a greater mulcat which for other greater mulcat allows them some bent at the risk of losing control of themselves)

Kiwilord (edited)

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2026-09-05 04:00 Greater Maculat – A Maculat who has risen so far that they are no longer human or undead, but truly a different species. Only their seemingly perfect form on the outside would lead people to believe otherwise. With a whisper they make a patriarchy a matriarchy. With a caress they erode the foundation of a culture. • Blood is now a darker rich purple. It seems to sparkle with an alluring inner gold which can only be seen by females. • Corrupt the corruption – His blood naturally removes foreign competition (parasites, implants, etc.) from female bodies. This of course still doesn’t stop his blood itself from negatively impact the women in question. However, this also means his blood actively destroys and breaks down anything it deems as competition within his own body (for good or bad). • Only can be slayed by a true wizard – aka, weapons wielded by non-virgins do half damage. Conversely, Weapons wielded by virgins do twice as much damage. • Increase in all general attributes in exchange for twice the warp consumption (constant effect) • Pop Star – Essentially the cheering of women creates psionic/bent storm that naturally protect him and his fans while they are actively cheering. Side effects: Women cheering for to long may become ‘rabid fan girls’ • Let you fetters become wings and your gift be your chains – If he has corrupted a woman, he gains the ability to perverse/reverse one of their skills that effect their mentality. For example, if he corrupts a woman who had one of the skills that make them more docile, he could then change the skill to the opposite. • Follower Skills – So this is not something he exactly gains but that people can gain because of his new greater mutation. For example, women who have been corrupted/interact with him during breaks can gain a whole list of unique skills. Maybe even mutations. (of course they can only be gained by women) o Maculat servant – Effect: ???? Requirement: Accepting a drop of his blood during their break. o Seed of corruption: Person with this skill has a corrective action to corrupt anything they are a part of. (Ex. An organization or a hive mind, cough, cough.)
2020-11-17 02:11

Arnon Parenti

He floats unconsciously like in ghost busters

Arnon Parenti

He NEEDS to breed, the warp he stores is pushed out of him towards fertilized eggs and pregnant anything.

MurkyTruths

Like a psychic rubik's cube

Pastor Joubert

Now he just smells irresistible all the time. Feel intent pushes a feedback loop, hes now the enemy of women - he is a chocolate bar filled with ice cream with 0 calories but still tastes like real sugar - levels of irresistible. Simply put, you see Calvin, take a whiff of the air - and your frozen, staring, drooling, you lean in, fall down like an idiot and when he gives you his hand and you touch it - your now pregnant.

Pastor Joubert

The true wizard one is based. Make Calvin weak to virgin bois in combat. Not sure how he would figure out - but its a super funny idea that only a 30 year old Virgin Wizard can defeat him.

Jackson Andrews

A Maculat is a being that feeds on warp, a greater Maculat is a being of Warp. This would function to greatly increase calvins warp tank at the cost of constantly leaking bit of warp all the time. Possibly enough to break someone who hasn't before. Of course, the warp he is leaking should have effects as well. Though I don't think that needs to have to do with having even more women swoon over Calvin. I'd personally like to see any further swoon factor come from character development rather than bent abilities. I Would rather see this warp either affect other people's bent abilities perhaps adding one of the mutative effects from Calvin to the people around him. or perhaps seeping into the environment around Calvin leading to a lair that he has an amount of control over. Feeding into Calvin's wish to sit in a tower all the time.

NorkNork

Instead of corrupting one person at a time, he feels compelled to do it on a larger scale. He has to fight his new pervert-dictator compulsion. Which is made even harder by Elliot cheering him on.

WhiteWatcher

A Greater Maculat has a higher desire for "pure" and powerful warped bodies and thus, desires to corrupt and feed from noble bloodlines and the strongest females. Suddenly his desire to corrupt princesses makes them easier to pick out but harder for him to simple kidnap for stat boosts without harming/corrupting them. Oh, and now he sees learner "brain" and dear mother as targets to corrupt. Powerful and ?pure? females...