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Story

You play Luke who has just seen his wife and stepson killed in a plane crash on their way over to see you. You live in a small town in America called Sanatoria and your stepson and wife were on holiday in London. They were on their way back from their holiday when a freak storm appeared and they disappeared. Traffic control said they were hit by a small tornado and sucked into the sea but you are not sure. When you saw the news on TV, you went psycho and tried to kill yourself, but at that moment a flash of light covered the bathroom in witch you were attempting to slit your wrists in and you fell to the floor. The next thing you know you've got a huge humanoid creature with what looks like skin sown on to his body and face to give him a barely recognizable shape.

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The Game

The game is a third person action adventure with rpg elements. You awake in a thing called the Porcelain Dome this is where people with voodoo origin come when they are in danger of being killed. You have to find the parts of your body and mind that were scattered across the different "states" of this voodoo reality to return to the mortal state. If that sounds confusing it will all become clear once you read the level layout and travelling sections. As well as finding your body and mind you have to find things called Dream Prints which look like a page from a book apart from the paper is replaced by some tattooed skin with a big mechanical circle in the middle and its stretched over a brass pipe (if that doesn't make sense don't worry a picture will be in my next e-mail). If you put an essence coin in the mechanical

circle a dream/nightmare will appear and you may find a spell has just appeared in your book.

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Features

Voodoo Porcelain has a few key features (things that make it different from other games):

1. You can travel between different states with ease using voodoo magic

2. You can summon many voodoo Gods learning to summon more as you gain experience

3. Spells are added to your book not only through gaining experience but from completing certain tasks

4. It is possible to turn your character into different things by using the wyrdwurms found on some dead bodies, animals, creatures, etc.

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Level layouts

The game is non linear so levels do not exist but the different places you visit are separated by tunnels and bridges etc. A new state is opened by using a God (a different god is needed to open each door). In each state you will find a piece of your mind or body, all of these need to be collected before you can return to the mortal state. A picture of the different states of the game is not available yet but will be included in my next e-mail so use your imagination :

State Piece of Body/Mind found

* =mind

+ =body

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Travelling

Travelling around in voodoo couldn't be easier all you have to do is avoid the life threatening traps on the way to your state door and then summon an extremely powerful God to open it for you and then leave a nest so you can return here at any time by summoning the God of flight. To gain a nest in voodoo you must buy them with essence collected from creatures and plants etc. Once you have enough you can buy them from the botanical shop. When entering a new area it automatically puts a nest at the door for free but to return to a specific point in the state you must have a nest to place down.

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What your body and mind pieces do!

In voodoo collecting a piece of your body or mind gives you certain powers listed below are what they do:

kidney & liver - nothing

nose - breathe in underwater/gas longer

mouth - learn extra languages

upper body - hit points increase

lungs - breathe in underwater/gas longer (if nose and lung are both found you can stay under forever)

intestine - nothing

head - intelligence increase

legs - spell learned: haste

eyes - weapon accuracy increased: longer range

heart - natural armour grown & hit point increase

mental - strength control over emotions: gain emotion spells

telepathy - mind reading & lower level creatures can be controlled

intelligence - more speech options when talking to people

emotions - without mental strength random emotion spell with m.s gain more emotion spells

wisdom - larger spell book

senses - reactions increase (pulling weapons,finishing spell, etc.) accuracy improves: steadier hand when using scope

learning - learn languages quicker, remember things said by people or something that you read

healing - heal more hit points back quicker & learn spell: heal major

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Emotions

In voodoo, just like in real life, you have emotions. This can be good and bad because being under a emotion is just like a spell being cast on you: you have to wait until it wears of. With the help of your body pieces and mind pieces you learn to control them but until then be careful. Below is a list of emotions and how they affect you:

Fear can make you fumble (slow down reaction time) and even drop things you have in your hand at the time also increases speed (to run away). Triggered by big monster etc.

Hate can make you shoot something or someone who is causing the hate without you pressing the trigger button. Also gives you a plus in combat towards strength. If certain race causes hate a few times you can develop natural hate for them (things you can say to them are usually offensive and sarcastic)

Anger can make you drop your weapon (if you are carrying one) and jump at the thing that is causing the anger in hand to hand combat.

Jealousy can make you try to steal the thing that is causing jealousy e.g if a person is teasing you with a valuable item that you want. Or, on the extreme cases, try to kill the person who is causing the jealousy.

Sadness can make you slower on reactions and slower in speed. Also can make you drop item(s) in your hand(s) and weep if you are having a particularly sad moment.

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Combat

Combat is much like any other third person combat system. You can lock on to the enemy and circle them, hit them with things, shoot them, but, if you are in trouble and an ally is nearby or you have been faithful to a specific god they may join in and help you.

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Sacrificing

Around the voodoo world you may find harmless animals that you can knock out and capture. If this is done successfully you can take them to an alter and sacrifice them to your favored god. If you sacrifice enough times the god may give you items, weapons, clues and even help you in battle.

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Spells

There are many spells in voodoo listed below are all the ones I could be bothered to write out:

Fear target becomes incapable of attacking also the target drops its weapons/items currently holding.

Soul explosion allows you to throw a soul at target it explodes and damages everything in its range

Fire allows you to set your hand on fire (slowly taking health of you) to set creatures on fire, set torches alight, etc.

Stone allows you to turn creatures temporarily to stone, if hit in stone state the creature will shatter

Water allows you to turn into water for a limited amount of time to slip under cracks etc.

Air allows you to pour noxious gas out of your mouth to kill enemies, but, it can also kill you

Monster summoning allows you to summon a creature to fight for you or with you, see tournaments

God awareness makes the gods give you strength and speed +'s

Reflex gives you permanent reflex +'s, can only be used three times after that it gives you temporal boost

Poison can be given as a drink to a person or put in someone's food or drink

Wyrdwurms allows you to summon three wyrdwurms.

Skinless allows you to take a targets skin off and you put it on to "look" like the target

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Creatures/people

Enemies

Masambula: common hooded figure created by the "doc"

Screech: small creature that emits a high pitched noise that can eventually kill you

Hood: big 7" creature with huge arms

Squelch: tiny creature about the size of a mousemat that tries to grab you with his big arms

This isn't all I've designed but I wanted to save the others for my next e-mail with pics.

I am not going to show you any of the gods because I haven't decided which ones I'm having yet

Helpers

Doc: helps you sew on new body parts (not for free)

Deville: pops up every now and then to give you helping hints

Totems: totems guard the doors to each new state. If you answer a riddle you can win essence, items, etc.

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Items

Here are some key items in the game:

Cadasce - basic gun, looks like a dragon head.

Larehn - bigger, stronger gun that fires little pins they then explode in the target and kill it

Shrank - a pair gloves with little mouths on them. When you hit someone it takes more damage off

Regular guns - also in the game are guns like the shotgun brought in from other people to the voodoo

Cage - allows you to carry small creatures to an altar to sacrifice them

Camera - steals peoples souls that you can throw like grenades (yes the souls explode too)

Humfly - acts as a torch. If you let your humfly out it will follow you around. Useful in the dark

Potions - e.g. healing, poisonous, etc.

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Game ending

This is the big twist in the game story if or when you get yourself together and beat the end boss you return to normal you find that your stepson and wife weren't killed in a planecrash they were killed by YOU. After they arrived back from their holiday you went mad and shot them both. Apparently the last few minutes you have been in the voodoo world (time travels faster in the voodoo world) you have been talking gibberish and earned yourself a place in the local mental hospital, well done.

Voodoo Porcelain - A Voodoo Game

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