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[Nakéen]

Asha attempted to speak. Her voice was weak and raspy, just like that of someone who emerged from a tomb. "Leave me." The burning pain in her head and the pummeling ringing in her ears made her barely to hear her own words. Dream, delirium, reality, what difference? The pain was here, and wasn't going away. "It hurts it hurts it hurts. Shit shit shit-" She thought on a loop. Those eyes made her forget the pain for a fleeting instant, and once it came back it felt worse than ever. She didn't care why, all that mattered was that she was hurting.

"LEAVE ME GODDAMNIT!" she shouted. She managed to scare herself with that distorted, monstrous voice of her. But it was all swept away by the spliting pain anyway.

Powerless and suffering, Asha closed her eyes. "Leave me alone..." She kept muttering to herself, eventually starting to sob. Even the pain of the fever couldn't make her forget the pain of loneliness.

Asha suffered in silence, deep inside desperately asking for help.

[syvarris]

Firstly, everyone's soul drains to some extent due to the stress of life.

Alida didn't handle things well, and is majorly drained.  Her soul gem is now Fading.
Mina does better, but overall is still moderately.  Her soul gem is now Bright.
Asha's week is a living hell, but she doesn't actually feel like she's shouldering the burden alone.  Her soul gem is now Shining
Tooru is the only character to have a relatively positive week.  Though bad things happen, she stays optimistic and only takes a minor drain.  Her soul gem is still Fading.

Sheets:

Spoiler: Alida Larsen (Devastator) (click to show/hide)

Soul Gem: Glowing with a fading light.
   ^{Form and location: Medallion, pinned to her left breast.}

Age: 14
Hair Color: Salt-stained blonde.
Health: Fine!
Inventory: Two clubs.  They're around, somewhere.

Totem: A fishing club.

Stats:
   Bravery:  Talented~
   Joy:  Skilled!
   Innocence:  Amateur...
   Purity:  Amateur...
   Mercy:  Skilled!
   Creativity:  Cursed ;-;
   Love:  Cursed ;-;

Abilities:
   Mobility Lvl2
   Close Combat Lvl2+1
   Totem Manipulation Lvl1

   Berzerker Lvl2
   Painless Lvl2
   Effigy Lvl1

Spoiler: Asha Tia (Nakéen) (click to show/hide)

Soul Gem: Glowing with a Shining light.
   ^{Form and location: Ring, worn on her left ring finger.}

Age: 13
Hair color: Ashen
Health: paaaaain
Inventory: A ribbon.  It isn't comforting.

Totem: A Ribbon. The one her late sister wore.

Stats:
   Bravery:  Skilled!
   Joy:  Cursed ;-;
   Innocence:  Cursed ;-;
   Purity:  Amateur...
   Mercy:  Talented~
   Creativity:  Amateur...
   Love:  Skilled!

Abilities:
   Mobility: Level 2
   Close Combat: Level 2 
   Totem Manipulation: Level 0 (+1)

   Heal and Steel: Level 2
   Soothe: Level 2
   Flagellation: Level 2

Spoiler: Mina Ross (TwinWolf) (click to show/hide)

Soul Gem: Glowing with a bright light.
   ^{Form and location: Ring, worn on her right index finger.}

Age: 14.
Hair Color:  Bright green.
Health: Fine!
Inventory: Nothing of real value, but she does have a zillion selfies on her phone.  Silly girl, she should forget her body, and embrace her inner fleshorror!

Totem: A halberd.

Stats:
   Bravery:  Amateur...
   Joy:  Skilled!
   Innocence:  Amateur...
   Purity:  Skilled!
   Mercy: Cursed ;-;
   Creativity:  Talented~
   Love:  Cursed ;-;     

Abilities:
   Mobility: Level 1
   Close-Combat: Level 1 (+1)
   Regeneration: Level 2

   Sixth Sense: Level 2
   Semblance: Level 2
   Projection: Level 2

Spoiler: Tamazaki Tooru (KingMurdoc) (click to show/hide)

Soul Gem: Glowing with a fading light.
   ^{Form and location: Necklace, worn around her... neck...}

Age: 13
Hair Color:  Bright scarlet.
Health: Fine!
Inventory: Nothing interesting!

Totem: Ofuda talismans, primarily thrown as manabolts.

Stats:
   Bravery:  Cursed ;-;
   Joy:  Talented~
   Innocence:  Skilled!
   Purity:  Amateur...
   Mercy:  Cursed ;-;
   Creativity:  Amateur...
   Love:  Skilled!
   
Abilities:
   Mobility II
   Mana Bolt II (+I)
   Regeneration I

   Invigorating Passion I
   Outburst II
   Duet with Reality II

Spoiler: Aleksandra "Sasha" Chernov (RandomGenericUsername) (click to show/hide)

Ward: Glowing with a foolish light!

Age: 12
Hair Color: Black.
Health: Vulnerable!
Inventory: She's at home right now, so I guess she has an ancient AK within reach...

Stats:
   Bravery:  Skilled!
   Joy:  Skilled!
   Innocence:  Talented~
   Purity:  Amateur...
   Mercy:  Cursed ;-;
   Creativity:  Cursed ;-;
   Love:  Amateur...

More:

I've mentioned before that I wanted to rebalance the powers?  Or at least fix a bunch of little errors?  Well, I did that.  The secondpost has been edited fairly heavily, changing many powers, effective as of now.  Below is a changelog for all the non-cosmetic differences, though it doesn't fully detail everything.

Spoiler: Changelog (click to show/hide)

Equanimity:

• All three totem-based powers now say "This ability is considered to be one level higher IF USED WITH a [variety] totem."  If your totem is a gun, or sword, you need to actually use it to get the boost.
• Manabolts: Level 4 doesn't grant free manabolts anymore.  Cheap L4 = Anti-vehicle rifle

Bravery:

• No changes.  I guess I got this one right the first time 'round?

Creativity:

• Sixth Sense: Does not affect reflexes (and never has).
• Masq. Manip: Now has a maintenance cost, of 1/6th casting cost.
• Projection: Now a variable cost Primary (it didn't have any type before), now has a maintenance cost, of 1/6th casting cost.
  
• Mimicry: Soul darkness actually has an effect now!  It can only be cast when you have more stages of soul darkness than forms you remember, and there's now no limit to number of remembered forms, beyond the fact that having a lot will make them difficult to use.
• I regret calling this class "Creativity" rather than "Curiosity".  The name is a relic of Piecewise's system, but the class was built more around Curiousity.

Innocence:

• Stasis: There's no longer any limit to how many items you can store.
• Teleportation: Passengers now only increase cost by 50%.

Joy:

• Gourmand replaced with "Invigorating Passion".  Mechanically it's identical, you just have to choose some enjoyable activity which restores soul, rather than it specifically being eating.  Dance or sing or fight to restore soul--it's all the same mechanically.

   
Love:

• Memento: No longer grants the ability to pay costs from your partner's soul.  Also, discounts now function based on whether abilities are used to support your partner, rather than if they are inherently supportive.
  
• Empathy: Minor cost, down from major (So it's free if cast on a partner with L3 Memento).  Also, now a Secondary rather than Primary. 
• Shield: Now strictly LoS
• Absolute Faith: Wording changed to make targeting clearer; Requires contact to initiate, but not to maintain.
  
• Summon Shade: It's now specified that you command the shade.  Also, the amount of soul they have no longer correlates with level of the power.  L1 Shades get just as much juice as L3 shades, they just can't use it as efficiently.

   
Mercy:

• Heal and Steel: Rewritten entirely.  Now, healing or having allies wounded lets you roll Mercy to attack, and killing or damaging enemies discounts healing abilities.
• Triage: It's now more expensive to transfer wounds to someone other than the person you're healing, but the transfer is always done with magic and can heal others at a distance.
• Flagellation: Specified that it heals a "Moderate" amount of soul.  Also, changed the wording to reflect that the physical damage to their body is a side effect of you forcibly rearranging their soul, not a wound you manually cause.
• Wound Elemental: replaced with Relieving Plight, an AoE effect which magnifies all damage dealt near you.  Whenever something dies or is seriously harmed within the area of effect, you get a soul heal.

Purity:

• Helpful Knowledge: Name changed to "Prattle", because I've always hated the HK name.  You can't split the cost with your victim unless it's L3.  Also, it's now explicitly stated that you can't upgrade stats past Talented or degrade them past Cursed.
• Flawless Reflection: Replaced with Ruler's Rune, a major cost ground-targeting AoE which permanently grants absolute control over a large, static area.
• Incite: Can no longer target yourself; instead of simply inflaming the target's emotions, it now links your emotions to theirs, and magnifies them.  Force your fear into their minds and make them flee in terror!  Purity is the stat you roll to deliberately spark emotions in yourself, though Mercy is still used to calm down.  Alternatively, just RP it, I'm not gonna roll dice and say "nah, you aren't mad".  Also, targeting multiple victims now increases casting cost slightly.
• Mind Control: Cost is now Cheap, but increases by one step if the target successfully rolls to resist, and they immediately roll again, repeating until they fail.  Maintenance cost matches the cost the previous turn, and increases in the same fashion.

For the most part this doesn't matter beyond a few powers working a bit differently, but KingMurdoc, you need to choose some activity which Tooru particularly enjoys, because Gourmand (now Invigorating Passion) is no longer eating-specific.  You can just choose "eating" if you want, though.


EVEN MORE:

Honestly y'all should've gotten this back when the Labyrinth was completed, but I wanted to push out the above stuff first.  Every character gains three levels to invest in any powers they like, and have access to.  You can dump all three levels in a power you didn't have any levels in before, put three L2 powers up to L3, or anything else, as long as all the powers chosen are in Equanimity or your class.  Asha, due to using the Grief seed, gets an additional level to put in any Mercy or Equanimity power (so four total), AND may choose to gain one of the following Love powers at level 1:
   Memento
   Empathy
   Shield
   Summon Shade

Think carefully.  If you make a foolish choice then you're stuck with it.


FINALLY:

I'm making changes to how intermissions will work.  The next one won't be for awhile ^{_{thank God}} so I might change the rules further by then, but for now this is what I'll do.  I will write a general outline of how your character's time is spent, and any general events which happen.  After that, you can specify any adventurey or magical--not social--stuff your character would want to do during that time, and it will be handled retroactively.  Inter-character interaction won't be handled by me at all, just assume that your characters can call or find each other if they want to, and that anything they try to do will go decently, as long as it isn't magical or difficult, like stealing things.

You're all actually open to RP retroactively during the Labyrinths, it'll just be considered to have happened at some point during the preceding intermission, and I'll say "No" if you ask whether the RP can shift into active stuff or try to use expensive magic.  A lot of shows have flashbacks to character development conversations, often even after a character has died in the main timeline, so I don't see why that can't be done in a forum game.  _{And yes, if you want to have retroactive interaction during the timeskip that I posted yesterday, you may, as long as it doesn't involve Asha.  I don't mind retconning in RP.}

[Egan_BW]

Asha, due to using the Grief seed, gets an additional level to put in any Mercy or Equanimity power (so four total), AND may choose to gain one of the following Love powers at level 1:
   Memento
   Empathy
   Shield
   Summon Shade

Think carefully.  If you make a foolish choice then you're stuck with it.

hint: Summon Shade doesn't do anything if you don't have Memento.

[Devastator]

(The description of the Love powers has been removed from the second post.)

Taking Close Combat to 3, Berzerker to 3, and Totem Manipulation to 2.

[syvarris]

You saw nothing!  I did not accidentally delete Love, you definitely can't prove that I did!

[Egan_BW]

Oh no, Love no longer exists. Oh well, I hope you'll all settle for Hate.

[Empiricist]

((Psst Murdoc! Tooru's invigorating activity should totally be "irradiating random people".))

[randomgenericusername]

Honestly, I'm not really sure about what to do now. I was hoping you would lead me in the right way last turn.

[Chevaleresse]

Tooru will take Totem Manip 2, and Manabolt 4. Dakka dakka dakka.

Also, have her Invigorating Passion be vidya with her family.

Will do some RP things later. Not that she's likely to survive long at this rate, because I fucked up my build and made it so she hemorrhaged mana everywhere during the first labyrinth.

[Twinwolf]

((Incidentally, if anyone wanted to start RP with Mina, she did give her phone number to all the girls before she left the labryinth. Since she left before any of them could give her their's, they'd have to initiate))

Levels:
Mobility to 2 - In the last labryinth, Mina's lack of speed compared to the others was a major hindrance! She won't let that happen again!
Close Combat to 2 - Mina needs to be able to hold her own in a fight, and help protect others!
Sixth Sense to 3 - A greater understanding of the world, in her mind, would have two main benefits - using her powers more effectively, and being able to easily detect if something's trying to trick the girls like they did last time.

Life stuff

The boredom had been getting rather suffocating, although it could have been so much worse. She could be stuck in the house because she physically couldn't leave instead of being stuck there because she didn't feel like leaving. The fact it was an option meant quite a bit. She was staring out the window and dreaming of adventure when a certain pink feline strolled across the windowsill.

She bolts to her feet. "Hey! It's been a while, good to see you Pumsy!" she says cheerfully (but quietly! Can't let the parents hear can we?)

Tooru will take Totem Manip 2, and Manabolt 4. Dakka dakka dakka.

Also, have her Invigorating Passion be vidya with her family.

Will do some RP things later. Not that she's likely to survive long at this rate, because I fucked up my build and made it so she hemorrhaged mana everywhere during the first labyrinth.

((I mean
we could probably give you the next grief seed we get?
If Tooru lasts that long at least))

[Chevaleresse]

((I mean, yeah, but if the next one is supposed to be even more difficult, she's basically going to have to sit in the back and let everyone else drain themselves in order to have a shot at survival.))

[Devastator]

(There might be more than one charge, too.  Hopefully, because Alida, although relatively cheap, is really quite necessary for dealing reliable damage.)

[Nakéen]

Asha's increased abilities:
Memento: Level 1 (Loneliness terrifies her, even though she doesn't admit it.)
Soothe: Level 3 (Powerlessness before death scares her even more.)
Flagellation: Level 3 ("Better suffer than die")
Mobility: Level 3 (So that she doesn't kill herself in random stairs)
Totem Manipulation: Level 1 (She was frustrated that her totem was useless in battle. Furthermore, it hurts her to see it being destroyed.)

[randomgenericusername]

(Question, if the "totem" is destroyed before Sasha can make a wish, could she use Totem Manipulation to make an exact copy?)

[Egan_BW]

Your totem is your purest manifestation of your innermost self, which in this case happens to be a machinegun identical to the one on your mantelpiece, probably because you've looked at it a lot during your lifetime. The actual object being destroyed will not change this.