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If I remember correctly, once a Negaverser hits Captain they can teleport. Does this mean Lieutenants need to hitch a ride with a Captain or higher in order to enter the Rift?

Lts would need to hitch a ride into Negaspace and then walk down into the Rift. For the sake of convenience, I'm okay with people fudging this from time to time by either saying an NPC summoned them (to turn in their energy or something), or just saying they are there at the beginning of the RP.

Speaking of teleportation, what's the limit a Captain can teleport with them? Is it measured by the amount of people? Weight?

Objects cost no extra energy to teleport with you as long as it is something you can carry. A person costs about half again as much energy as teleporting yourself. So a Captain should probably only teleport one person, two if they're willing to be exhausted afterwards.

Is there a limit to how many times a Negaverser can visit the Rift akin to the IRL weekly wait a Senshi have to visit their home planet?

Nope! Since it's an actual physical place they can walk to, they can go there as long as they can get to Negaspace.


There is no heating, no running water, no electricity in the Rift. What would happen if a character brought in a small generator to try and make an abandoned building hospitable?

Youma would treat it like a Slurpee Machine and you would find one probably sucking on the power cord like a red spoonstraw.

Is there a size limit to the feral youma a Negaverser can have? Or is this a case-by-case basis?

Case by case. There's everything from bug-size to elephant-size feral youma, it's just a matter of balancing them out if they're going to be used for personal youma. But for flavor-RP reasons, you can assume they get fairly big.

Do youma consume starseeds? Energy? Or do they leech off of their master's chaotic/nega energy to survive? Or do they all draw their energy from the Rift?

Youma can consume either starseed or energy in place of drawing from the Rift, but it is sort of like a human trying to survive on nothing but tofu. They can survive longer if they do that than nothing at all, but they will eventually have to just give in and eat the damn steak.

How long can a normal Negaverser stay in the Rift before the youma start to take offense and move to drive the person out?

As long as the Nega is respectful, the youma won't actively drive them out. The more a Nega wanders around exploring or the more starseeds/energy they're carrying with them, the more attractive they are to the youma.

Are corrupted cats capable of entering the rift and if so how aggressive are the youma towards them? (I'm imagining a situation of a cat going along with a corrupted senshi or Lt in hopes of keeping an eye on them and making sure they don't bite off more than they can chew).

A cat would be treated similarly to a corrupted senshi, but perhaps with slightly more aggression from the youma. Since cats are responsible for awakening senshi and (in human form) give off larger energy signatures, the youma would likely be able to sense them more easily. However, as long as they have a Nega escort it can be assumed that they'll fare as well as a corrupt senshi would.

Since the order goes from feral youma -> humanoid youma -> greater youma, a captain can tame a feral or a humanoid, right? Assuming you tamed one as captain, when you move up to general, does that same youma move up in intelligence? If a captain's youma has sub-human intelligence and a general's youma has the sophisticated intelligence of an average human, the basic question is, did your youma from captain stage move up with you in rank/intelligence suddenly or is there a process to this?

Youma rank up with their agents. Just like a Nega gets more powerful, their youma leech power from the bond to "level up" at the same time. This can be done a number of ways. We don't want to restrict people so severely as to give a number of "points" or anything that they can use on abilities. We're just trusting people to keep it fair and balanced. Remember: an Eternal senshi should be able to battle a Nega General without having to worry about getting demolished. Youma are easily dusted and are difficult to summon in battle, so they should not be considered a secondary weapon to be pulled out in every battle.

Using the same theory above, captain's youma being sub-humanly intelligent and general's being intelligent as the average human, can feral youma move up in intelligence as well? If I recall right, obby's old youma could be classified as a feral but it talked. The rift says ferals usually don't have the intelligence to do so but I was wondering if it was an exception if you rank up? I'm mainly asking because as a captain who originally had a feral youma and would like to stick with it, what advantages do ferals get if you were a general if they do have any?

Obby's previous youma was made and used before the youma guidelines came out, so it was somewhat of an exception. Typically, feral youma will have better physical abilities, and humanoid youma will be more intelligent. It's a trade off, dependent on what you want your youma to do.

Last question! When going through the rift, whats more common to find? Like looking through the grass in pokemon, would a humanoid youma be likely to pop out or a feral youma?

It's similar to their ranking system! Common youma are usually feral, with humanoid being more rare, and Greater youma making up only a fraction of a percentage. A good breakdown would be 70% feral, 29.95% humanoid, and .05% Greater youma.

Can someone else play your character's personal youma, much like someone might play a disposable for you? Abiding by the rules of only RPing the youma with their negaverse agent, of course.

For the moment, no. We want people to consider youma extensions of their character rather than secondary characters.

Does the Rift have weather?

Not really no. It's more a cavern full of stuff then an ecosystem of it's own.

Hello, I have a question about the negaspace outside of the Rift! Nessy and LP were very kind in helping me in the main thread, but we ended up unsure if it was a complete list of the expanse or amenities found there.




Thank you~


Sorry for the extreme wait for this answer!!

Nessy and LP's answers are pretty much correct. Negaspace is often described as dimly lit hallways or cavernous areas with crystals. At the very least it contains the throne room, barracks, computers to access the Negaverse database, an infirmary, the entrance to the Rift (through the Hall of Shadows), and some random caverns.

That said, that is currently the only part of Negaspace that has been explored in recent times. In the future we may open up or add more things to Negaspace. We are also open to pms to the mule if you have a suggestion for something you might like your character to find.