Sects are ways of fleshing out what your deity is like, for both arrpee and gameplay. You can pick a sect by hitting the altar of the gods with your bible. From there on, examining the altar will provide you with information about rites and favor you've saved up. Only the initial chaplain can pick a sect!
Some sects will change or remove your bible effect. If it does, I noted it below
Some sects can sacrifice items for favor. Find what it's looking for, and hit the altar with it.
Some sects have rites. Rites are rituals that cost (or sometimes grant) favor and do various things related to your deity. To start one, hit your bible on the altar.
Sects, as colored by the clown
| Name | Alignment | Description | Sacrifice Items | Rites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puritanism "Praise normalcy!" |
Good | This is essentially the same as picking no sect at all. Everything is default, there are no rites or wanted sacrificial items. | None! | None! |
| Technophile "May you find peace in a metal shell, acolyte." |
Neutral | A robotic themed sect. Bibles can charge cyborgs and heal robotic limbs, but will no longer heal organic ones. | Cells give favor depending on how charged they are. | (1000 favor) Synthetic Conversion: Turns a shitty boring human into an android. Watch out, this costs a ton of favor but with your new bible healing it's definitely worth it. |
| Ever-Burning Candle "May you be the wax to keep the Ever-Burning Candle burning, acolyte." |
Neutral | A sect based around fire. Decent for traitors to pick up, as it requires corpses to get good amounts of favor.
Your bible will lose its powers! |
Candles, though a really shitty amount. Use "Candle Fuel" instead. | Candle Fuel: Sacrifice a buckled burning corpse for favor, the more burn damage the corpse has the more favor you will receive. (1000 favor) Unmelting Wax: Grants fire immunity to any piece of clothing. |
| Greedy God "Greed is good." |
Evil | Your favor is always equal to your money, and you spend money to accomplish rites. Your bible heals a lot per smack, but charges money. | None! | (300 gold) Purchase Vend-a-tray: Your own personal vend-a-tray, for selling items. If you wanna sell much more... (1000 gold) Purchase Personal Vending Machine: Personal Vending Machine! Blinged out with gold, and marketed from your god, what more could you want? |
| Honorbound God "A good, honorable crusade against evil is required." |
Good | Your deity requires fair fights from you. You may not attack the unready, the just, or the innocent. You earn favor by getting others to join the crusade, and you may spend favor to announce a battle, bypassing some conditions to attack. | None! | Join the Crusade: Recruits someone into the crusade. They must consent themselves, the first time you invoke this rite it will merely send a prompt to join. Forgive: Simply takes someone off your guilty list. No reason to do this really, but it's a nice gesture. |
| Punished God "May you find peace in a metal shell, acolyte." |
Neutral | Followers are expected to incapacitate themselves to gain powers. Hack off limbs, go blind, get addicted, remove your tongue, pick up bad mutations, all of that will raise your burden stat. | None! | None! |
| Maintenance God "Your kingdom in the darkness." |
Evil | Has multiple rites for surviving incredibly well in the dark, but you become insanely useless in the light (read: you'll go blind within seconds) | Organic Slurry reagent, one favor for 1u. | (150 favor) Maintenance Adaptation: Gain a permanent maintenance drug addiction. Comes with various upsides and downsides. You will also gain a mood boost to counteract the need for drugs. (300 favor) Adapted Eyes: Only available after maintenance adaptation. Your eyes will adapt as well, becoming useless in the light. Watch out, this pretty much fully banishes you to living in the darkness. |