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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3355076" data-attributes="member: 29014">I'll take a look at BoVD when I return home later today.  I'm leaning towards yes, but I need to read those spells more carefully.  If I do allow it, the spells will keep their descriptor (it won't prevent you from casting them, though).I think the Majors may still be non-appreciable, particularly since running out of chakra slots won't be a problem for a long time in PbP, and an exploration-based adventure means you won't be staying in the same place anyway, so they're basically free.For the Darkness and Bestial spirits--I think you have the right idea, but you need to go a bit farther:  Remember, lower level Shamans have stricter pacts from more powerful spirits.  Trayah is level 9 and he doesn't even have a single Greater Spirit yet.  Having even one Greater Spirit at level 5 is an impressive feat, and the price would be dire.  Here's versions of your pacts that keep the flavour and move to about the right levelDarkness---as before, but the act of drawing the ash-and-blood sigils on his body creates a powerful darkness aura that allows affinity with the spirit.  However, the bloodletting and infusion comes at a price.  Whenever he honours the Darkness spirit to gain his domain, he suffers a temporary loss of 2 Con.  This ability damage cannot be healed by normal means, though it fades immediately when he honours new spirits the next day.  If it is somehow healed, the markings are erased, and the Darkness Spirit is no longer honoured that day. Bestial--Teeth and Claws shall be your only weapons from this point forward (Comment: Okay, but most Lacerta don't use other weapons anyway, particularly with the yummy buffs for the claw in this domain), and you shall partake of your kill like the beast (though like the beast, you need not eat of something that is poisonous or inedible).  Additionally, once a moon, the beast will descend upon you and overwhelm your faculties, thus keeping you in tune with the beast, with your heritage and your power (Comment: It's rare, it has cool flavour, and it represents the relative power of this mighty spirit).</blockquote>

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