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title: Concept - Lavaland Corruption
tags: garbage, ideas
description: there's no way any of these are gonna be ANY good at all
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# Concept Page/Design Doc(?) - Lavaland Corruption

## How to increase:
- using Legion cores (black tendrils in your limbs? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:)
- doing weird Lavaland magic shit (todo: ideasguy that)
- continued presence on Lavaland

## How to mitigate:
- drink holy water
- sit in the chapel
- pray/meditate?

## Powergame cancel:
- being away from Lavaland and/or having too much corruption for too long inflicts Hellbound
- Hellbound makes your condition degrade the longer you stay away from the corruptive energies of the Necropolis (read: Lavaland) (vomiting, tox, randomly eating bruises/burns/wounds?, mood debuffs)

## How to harness:
- actions taken on lavaland & trackers for things you did act as progression towards certain Aspects of Corruption

## Aspects of Corruption (progression paths):
- Harbinger of the Necropolis (monster control. tumor fights, tendril interaction (attunement))
- Embraced Strength (satsui no hado. megafauna kills, monster grinds, tendril interaction (enrage))
- Necrotic Harvester (monster aspects/body horror. eat cores, dig into legion corpses)

## Bearing The Sin:
- abilities locked behind having higher and higher Necropolis Corruption
- some abilities *use* your corruption as fuel; balance the abilities you use with how much corruption you have/are willing to burn
- universal Corruption Release, acts as a buff but burns levels once it runs out with more than a few repercussions
- dying with too many stacks of Hellbound has you fight a shadow to maintain control of your soul - losing round removes you (`Tendrils of darkness that almost seem to absorb the light around them tear themselves free from [skillissue]'s limp body, entangling an inner light that quickly grows dim...`)

## Staff of Storms Reflavoring: Ashen Focus
- still does staff of storms stuff (control storms)
- acts as a conduit of the Necropolis, 3x3 AoE focused on itself that temporarily turns the ground into ash, with the focus turning into a `pulsating fragment` in the middle
- standing near the fragment acts as a recovery point for sufferers of Hellbound

## Touching the `pulsating fragment`:
### Hellbound?
> As you grasp the Ashen Focus, visions of the opened gates to the Necropolis flash in your mind.

> Adrift in the void, they seem to comfort you.

positive moodlet: `A piece of Lavaland - of the Necropolis - being here fills me with a peculiar, but not unwelcome, warmth.`
### Not Hellbound?
> Visions of some sealed-away darkness in the depths of Lavaland fill you with a deep, deep dread.

> The presence of this... *thing* can only mean that whatever's down there is trying to break free.

negative moodlet: `Whatever's down there on Lavaland should stay there, buried and sealed away.`

### misc garbage notes:
- harbinger ten shadows technique type shikigami shit (see: jujutsu kaisen)
`The shadows around [user] begin to bubble...`
`The shadows around [user] come together, congealing into [summon]!`