Guild Info+Membership & Jewels Goal

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Joining Grim Heresy:
All members who join Grim Heresy have to be accepted into the guild by the guild master.  Membership with Grim Heresy is not a casual affair,  and nobody can waltz into the guild hall randomly one day and ask to join.   If you want to join, ask, then discuss the method.

All members agree to a pact that binds them to the guild,  realistically preventing them from turning traitor, and has other benefits one of which is important:  It is heavily recommended that ALL Grims become Undead through the Pact.  It's right there in the Guild Motto,  Grim Heresy is antilife and the goal is to drag he world into undeath kicking and screaming, in time.  Some may still be capable of leaving the guild, but by nature of the pact if broken it will take all benefits resulting from it; including any memories of the guild.

Being able to agree to that pact is almost a yes or no answer as to whether you'd be able to join.  But if you can't agree to that then why would you want to join anyway... Unless you're a traitor! I'm onto you, bub. 

Expressing interest in Grim Heresy marks you in The Waiting bracket.  Once you talk it out you can be added to the Undying, Death-touched,  or Outer Hand.   

High ranked members are appreciated, but have to earn standing within the guild to become an Ace. The most obvious way to do so would be to do jobs and submit them into the scoreboard,  and participate in events,  even small events, along with guild activities. 

There are no actual points or anything of the sort,  but a note is made of participation.  In the future if there are rewards suitable to granting to members of this or that guild-rank then sure, perhaps an actual system could be made. 

NEW CHARACTERS can be made and the IC Pact can be made in the past if you so desire,  so long as the first topic addresses the matter as such to register that it happened,  and if the character has fitting enough personality traits (Motivations, Likes, Dislikes, Fears, ect) then they can be joined from the start.    This is still Guild Master territory however,  Grim Heresy remains an "Invite"-only guild.  Until the OK is given, no new members should be added to the group. 


Guild Members cannot do anything to endanger the secrecy of Grim Heresy.  Guild members can easily contact Eris for permission to perform some Guild related action wherever they are,  which can be done without me posting anywhere IC but simply asking the GM OOC and inserting that dialogue / confirming it in your own post.  Like making a call,  or saying a prayer,  and receiving an answer. 

Individuals with a ✪ preceding their name take up official Ace slots. 

(Guild) Master: Eris | H
✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪
If something ever happens to Eris,  all themes remain and the position of Guild Master reverts to a new title called "The Monarch", a figure who is considered the voice of "The goddess", speaking and acting for and in her name. 

New 8/3/2016: In the case of temporary absence or missing persons / accident involving the GM,  things continue as normal as though the GM were present.  However,  all PACTS are VOID,  completely skipped over as though they had been handled already.   A pact can then be made retroactively once the GM returns,  or is confirmed KIA / Gone or missing for two months without notice.    

The three highest ranking guild members (Harvesters+) (Voted on in case of ties) can make final decisions about things,  so long as they don't conflict with lore,  with input from other guildmembers.


Such actions include Invitation rights,  allowing members to join the guild in the GM absence,  who's pacts are skipped over to be made retroactively,  and NPCing Eris herself.

The Primarchs (Ace Positions):
✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪✪
(Titles may be granted as they come.)
Important: Ace positions here are substantial and are not given out willy nilly.   Aces need to prove themselves in three ways:
To the Guild: Aces must have done significant things to further the goals of Grim Heresy. 
To the World: Aces must have done significant things to impact the history of Earthland. 
To Themselves: Aces must be strong and capable.  Aces must be able to use a Guild Spell.  They must also have obtained ownership of worldy things and positions elsewhere through sensible means (Meaning as an RPer). Most "Exam" type topics attempt to provide an opening for such gains,  though I'm not exactly the sort who has an easy time failing anyone.
Aces will have significant influence and command over the guild below the Guild Master.  They would not have limits on their authority over NPCs other than common sense and reason,  and can command the normal NPC ammount even when not working directly in Grim Heresy's goals. 
Once an Ace,  they will remain Ace until such a time as they Ascend, abandoning Earthland and attaining their eternal place in the halls of their goddess,  or until they Fall from glory.  
If new individuals meet the three requirements for position as a Primarch, a new seat can be made. 
When someone becomes a Primarch if the funds are available they may design their own Guild Spell to be purchased or replace an existing one that is not in use by another Ace.  (Blasphemy is considered claimed by the GM, so one of the other two currently shown could be replaced. Note: An Ace can still also use Blasphemy, as normal.). 
• ✪ Lord Nimbus (H): God of Thunder
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The Reapers  (Ace-like):
✪ ✪ ✪ ✪✪
A Sub-Ace position for those who have well established themselves within the guild even further and well known in relation to the guild at least in one of their identities.  OOC,  do plenty of jobs, and don't forget to submit them to the scoreboard!  Non-job deeds are also counted. Reapers carry some added authority and carry more weight with the Master.  
• ✪ Nirvana (A)
• Vlad (A)
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The Harvesters (Officers):
✪ ✪ ✪ ✪
A Sub-Ace position for those who have well established themselves within the guild.  OOC,  do plenty of jobs, and don't forget to submit them to the scoreboard!  Non-job deeds are also counted. Harvesters carry some added authority and carry more weight with the Master.    Even S-ranks will be a Harvester before they are a Reaper then a Primarch, though they still have the advantage in that they aren't waiting for a new rank, just the standing with the guild. 
• Inaris | C 
• Lestat | C 
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The Undying (Members):
✪ ✪ ✪
The standard Member category.  Members here are considered full members of Grim Heresy and can benefit from the perks associated as such. 
Persons with a skull are considered likely to have abandoned the guild if not the site entirely.
• Invidia
• Daiki  
• Lunara 
• Arianna Belial  
• Nostrum 
• Nekros 
• Alyssa / Arbalest
• Snowflake
• Syn
• Vox
• Mitsurugi
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Unless italicized, Membership beyond this point does NOT benefit from any guild perks except for The Pact, Prayer/Call Master, and other services  that are provided by members / the guild master, at the member/master's discretion.  


The Death-Touched:
✪ ✪
Affiliates who are collored,  but are not actual guild members IC to one extent or another.  They are treated as a guild member however for the purpose of abilities and OOC affairs.  Such as spells that target or avoid guild members,  and guild perks. 
IC however they are kept at an arms length, so to say.  They don't have as much stake in the guild and likewise the guild doesn't have much stake in them.  They're like lone operatives or isolated cells of the organization that can both receive and give support.
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The Outer Hand :
✪
Affiliates who are not colored / not actual guild members OOC to one extent or another.  They may also be simple allies.  This includes Seekers who are not officially a part of the guild OOC, but are still closer IC.  Mostly due to not wanting to be colored for one reason or another.  Death-Touched may benefit from some things due to being allied,  but not from guild specifics. 
They may not have any direct relation to Grim Heresy at all,  but are considered allied or are contracted to Eris with or without Grim Heresy ties at all.  
• Famine 
• Quinton 
• Clementine
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The Waiting :
Those who have expressed interest in joining but have not yet done so (IC/OOC alike).  OOC this is the list of people yet to do topics in which they join.  This topic can even be a single post by them after talking with the guild master in PMs, Chatbox, or Skype,  and then a confirmation post by the GM acknowledging it.  Or it can be a full topic to see how it plays out.  WARNING: Not recommended to just "Go with the flow" and wing it, otherwise the character could end up dead instead.  Talk about things before hand a bit,  to determine if they are a viable candidate for the guild in the first place (Ie: Would accept "The Pact" to join, for the most part is the only serious point.)
Please post within this topic or I may not be sure of your intentions and you may not have been added even though you expressed interest, but were not clear to me. 
Those who are underlined are in the process of joining already. 
• Yugi-Sempai | S-Rank 
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The Curseborn:
Not a rank on the ladder of Grim membership.  Curseborn are separate.  Curseborn are individuals who have been remade through their Pact.  Curseborn are particularly changed,  they are more monstrous and violent when needed,  but remain well in control of themselves until the time for violence is at hand.    When they are not,  they are extremely adept at blending in to society and can insert themselves effectively into most environments.  They may be found among the courts of kings,  councils of mages,  within holy orders,  and among other dark underground societies.  
Curseborn have an absolute loyalty to Grim Heresy above and beyond that reinforced by the Pact in most,  to the extent that their only goal is to serve.  They by becoming Curseborn offer up their lives to Eris and not only act her will as though it were divine law,  but actively seek out her will.
They simultaneously serve as a form of special forces and secret agent type position.
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Ex-Members.
Those who chose to ignore agreements and broke their pacts. 
They cannot become members again in the future, because they do not respect the pact, so they have shown they cannot be trusted with it again later.   This may have exceptions through interactions that suggest they might be trusted again. 
This is of course in character,  and as the rules themselves state those who abandon the guild require permission to join in the future. 

Specific members are not listed.


Guild Tattoo:
As seen at the top of this topic.  It's a red burning hand print with a skull resemblance.

The Pact Mark, the name of the guild tattoo,  is NOT visible unless revealed.   Members of Grim Heresy can feel the presence of other pact marks however,  whether the other pact mark is actually a member or not (Which can be known).   The member can will the mark to appear when they wish,  and when revealed they can touch a surface to leave the mark burning on said surface,  or the pact's magic will cause the mark to appear out of nearby materials of blood, flesh, bone, ink, paint, or so on.  Liquids or something like ice, vines, or other "Creeping" things similarly work.

The Twelve.
The Council of ancient liches that have run the Cult of Sin for generations.
The Twelve cannot be used IC except within the Guild Hall and surrounding property,  unless approved by Staff for some purpose.
They are essentially the original leaders of the Cult of Sin forming a council.  IC they should be respected if met,  but are not a ruling body over Grims (GH and the Cult of Sin being independent of one another but intertwined)

The Twelve:

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The Dark Tower

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The Augurs:
The augurs are each a nexus of divination through which the influence of Eris is channeled and distributed.  Imagine each of them as being like a server and data or call center,  each one of them knowing what goes on with Eris's assets.  Anyone that prays to Eris or invokes Eris's name is heard not just by Eris,  but by these Augurs as well who passively record and filter information,
on top of normal divination magic.

They can send "Jobs",  tasks,  to Grims and NPC Cult of Sin operatives remotely through their Pact Mark,  causing their Pact Mark to be updated bestowing upon them information about the task at hand and through the pact mark they can bestow power (EXP) and wealth (Jewels).

The Augurs can substitute any job's normal quest giver and reward, and it is in fact recommended.



(Any numbers given are estimates provided for what one might see while exploring Grim Heresy territory or within a GH topic of relevance,   not a total amount overall.)

Seekers (x50): 
Seekers are not so normal NPCs from varying walks of life and status.  Some are honored warriors,  some are worthy mages,  others are simply politicians and leaders of communities.
What they do isn't what makes them a Seeker,  it's their worth to the Society and to the goddess,  and the fact that they survived the journey. 
There are roughly around 50 Seekers on the temple grounds at any given moment, but hundreds more throughout Earthland. 
They are all undead,  but allowed to keep their mortal flesh. 

Temple Acolytes (x77): 
Temple Acolytes are similar to Seekers,  but they lost their positions in their communities for whatever reason,  or have taken an extended leave due to suspicions.  Alternatively,  they may have been Brood Slaves before but lost their value as one for one reason or another.  They manage the temple grounds and can order designated Endless skeletons to further manage the property,  and they are on 24/7 staff.
They can be seen in varying states of undeath, no longer necessary to keep up a mortal flesh suit.

Brood Slaves (30): 
The only living residents of the Temple.   They are kept for reasons,  reasons typically involving sacrifice, flesh,  and blood.  Some are unwilling,  not-so-faithful cultists or random kidnapped victims alike,  others are willing and submitted themselves willingly into their position.     Brood Slaves will often be rewarded later in life with the gift of the undying,  as well as if they die during their duties. 

The Endless (x-): 
The endless skeletons of the Burning Endless.   Like a flood they keep coming over the bones of their fallen careless,  fearless,  tireless.    
They tend to be equipped with mass produced iron weapons and some might even have a piece of armor or two.
These are generic and unranked.

Bone Guard (x40): 
Skeletal warriors dressed in armored red robes and carrying glaives. They're quite effective with them and are fast,  striking with snake like speed and sudden movements that keep people at bay with the reach of their weapons (up to 3 meters / 9ft).   They sprint tirelessly at 60m/s,  can leap 30 meters,  and seem to be weightless.
200hp, 25% resistance to physical attacks.
50 damage with their glaives,  20 without.
They're capable of doubling their speed when moving in straight lines.  An attack while doubled deals an extra 25 damage.

Pit Champions (x10): 
Heavily armored skeletons with only burning skulls visible.  They are all ancient combat veterans, an fight as such.
350hp, 50% resistance to physical attacks, 50% resistance to magic from non-holy sources.
Their claymores deal 80 damage,  35 damage without.
They regenerate HP at a rate of 10%/post,  which can bring them back from the dead and visible as bone fragments or lost limbs return to their place.    This can be paused within posts they take holy damage and if killed while paused,  it stays paused (They wont recover). 

Bone Fiends(x5): 
50 meter giant skeletons with large curled horns and boney spear-like tails and great skeletal wings.   Their massive legs are inverted and hooved as a goat's leg,  but there is no flesh let alone fur on their bodies.   A fire blazes in their chest,  from within their skull,  and from their elbow and knees down. 
They don't bother with armor,  but wield large axes that look to be made from obsidian,  but are crystallized blood of demons.  
500hp,  75% resistance to physical attacks,  25% resistance to magic from non-holy sources. 
110 damage with their axes, 55 without.
They can breathe fire in 80 meter cones, 50 meters wide at the end,  dealing 150 fire damage (Curse Fire).



Ravagers (x10): 
3 meter tall skeletons with some flesh in places,  baring horns and a more elongated fanged skull and hooved legs.   They have two large cannons protruding from their backs and over their shoulders,  capable of moving and aiming in most directions.  
450hp,  30% resistance to physical attacks,  50% resistance to magic from non-holy sources. 
110 damage with their cannons, firing every few seconds with a brief glowing wind up.   550 meter range 350m/s.   Projectiles appear to be red hued plasma. 
Deal 50 damage with basic melee attacks.




Dredgelords (x5):
Longer creatures,  about 53 meters appearing to be undead whales with a long jutting jaw and a maw full of teeth in two layers,  and two long horns making for a 3 pronged head.   They have six thin fins along their sides with smaller ones in between and near the end of their tails.    They have sharp spines down their backs and underbellies capable of tearing into things like a serrated blade.    
Opening their mouths wide can reveal a very large cannon,   longer barreled cannons protrude out from openings in its hide between ribs.    Three sets of skeletal hands along its underside can part, opening its underside to drop bombs.
800hp,  80% resistance to damage.   Moves slowly at 30mph through the air,  60mph under water.
Main cannon usable once every 10 posts does 500 damage in a 10 meter area,  300 damage in a 60 meter area around that.  Double damage to ships, structures, or large creatures 25 meters or larger.   750 meter range,  333m/s.
16 side cannons per side deal 50 damage per hit in small 3 meter bursts.   400 meter range 300m/s,  firing about twice per post.
Bombs can be used once in a topic doing 800 damage blanketing a 1km long 100 meter wide area with random pockets of 25 meter bursts. 
Ramming a target does 300 damage as physical damage.


Black Iris (x40):
Skeletons contained within black combat armor with enclosed helmets displaying a digital skull image.  They wear backpacks and have a number of pockets and straps securing their armament of Bosco tech from Albion Prime.   They seem to be able to see through walls and see things at great distances.
250hp.  Combat armor provides 50 damage resistance. 
Combat rifles dealing 80 damage per burst, a few bursts per post,  400 meters, 700m/s.  
Grenades dealing 250 damage in a 15 meter burst.  Three per soldier.   Grenades can be set as proximity mines or on-impact detonation.

Sky Watch (x1):
An undead soldier similar to Black Iris,  but wearing a thicker suit keeping it at high altitudes.  Carries a single long powerful rifle who's shots are stabilized by the suit.
Once per post Sky Watch can take a shot at a ground target with a special bullet that looks like an old fashion musket ball,  but is a deep deep black and weighs as much as a tank. 
The projectile strikes at astounding velocities.  Without explosive properties,  the projectile arrives within only 30 seconds of firing and manages to cause 500 damage in a 50 meter area and causing a 200 meter area of destruction and upheaval for 200 damage.   Twice the damage against vehicles or structures, or creatures larger than 25 meters in size.

Iron Fiend (x1):
A 50 meter giant skeleton...  An Iron Fiend.  Possesses the same ability as the Bone Fiend,  but the Iron Fiend dons a suit of bosco powered armor turning it into a walking tank with 1000hp and a 75% resistance to damage.   It can produce a burning blade that melts through physical obstruction ignoring armor and resistance to damage to deal 100 damage.  The blade is 15 meters long.    It has a chest mounted cannon that fires a destructive beam 15 meters wide 700 meters long to deal 400 damage.  It bathes the target area with heat and radiation as the laser charges for 3 seconds before firing the beam at sublight speeds, a beacon of light foreshadowing its path.
Smaller beams at its hands fire concentrated small versions that ravel at 200 m/s up to 300 meters away,  dealing 100 damage.
Any attack and the area effected by an attack experiences intense radiation.

Far Ravager (x5):
Undead creatures on large hover treads.  They have the two cannons over their shoulder like the Ravagers,  but set in front of them on their treads.   At their backs instead are two large canisters containing 20 missiles each.   Missiles have homing properties traveling at 500 meters per second firing directly upwards for 20 meters before locking on to a target and traveling towards it for two posts.   Missiles deal 100 damage with a 20 meter explosion.   If multiple missiles are fired the explosion from one can destroy other missiles within range.   The Missiles have no hard range so long as they can reach the target within 2 posts at a sensible artillery distance. 
They can airburst in the air above a target area to cause an 80 meter area to be pelted by shrapnel rain for 50 damage on those in the area of effect, shrapnel embedding in the ground, armor, and skin. 


Defensive Obelisk (x1-5 varies):
A large spire structure of bone with glowing molten blood spilling down in channels from the skull encrusted top from which a demon's head burns with fiery eyes that cast powerful lasers. The lasers charge for 1 second before firing at the speed of a laser, a hot ray of heating air filling the line of its intended travel path. The laser beam slams on target with a 5 meter burst effect for 140 damage that ignores resistances, and will instantly slay non-PCs of less than H-rank. It fires one beam per target per post; if player characters are in the topic it fires the one beam at a target on the target's own post. 300m range.
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Smaller beams are fired from the obelisk with precision targeting, small narrower beams will deal 10 damage per hit, targeting any individual threat within 250 meters. These beams can destroy projectiles up to S-rank if they have at least 2 seconds travel time.
Both ranges double when firing on a vertical plane, and a gain when angled up at at least a 45' angle, to function as anti-air.

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• Your Exams will be self-driven.  Determine your own objective, purpose,  your reason for being somewhere.  This would be something given to you by Eris IC,  something you stumble across yourself,  something divined by the Augurs,  or so on.   Means aside,  the point is it's a free writing exercise.


• TIP!  Optionals are a good way to gain extra guild favor!  And you can always ask about doing an exam,  things that could be done,  what you want to do,  whether or not you'd want something more direct.   If you want to just RP with someone,  and so on.   These here are just a standard that can be defaulted to.  
Many people complain about GM's trying to be fancy and/or being slow to post for their exams,  so this is an option that puts the exam in your hands to finish at your leisure as quick as you'd like without relying on anyone else.

• TIP!  The more themes of Grim Heresy and Eris you use,  the better off.  Eris's influence is everywhere,  using it to your advantage will help.  Again however, this is just if you want to progress within Guild Positions.  (Guild Positions require guild loyalty, imagine that?)

• TIP!  The exam may be done with anyone baring a Pact Mark, Grim or not.  Non-Pacted players can be involved... But they have to be slain in the process.   Killing a PC as part of your exam reduces the word requirement by 50%, only applies once but additional slain PCs can increase favor.    Each additional participant increases the word requirement by 500 per rank (c-500, b-1000, a-1500, s- 2000).   The examined member must have at least half the word requirement themselves,  the remaining half divided among participants.

Note: These exam methods will be under observation and are absolutely open for discussion.


Note: You may always request a Tailored exam,  with an objective and goal lined out for you.  A specific target written out, a trail.