The world is once more fluid around you. Your various aches and pains are gone, and your Heart beats soundly. Despite how it seems you've been resting on the pitch-black stone for hours or days, your uniform is unfazed. It's an expression of who and what you are, after all. Ideas can only be defeated by other ideas.
"Welcome back. Your souls have progressed in size and density, and are potentially ready for improvement. Please state your developmental wishes. If feasible, they will be fulfilled.Do this by picking up the cat creature and yelling at it. "Make me stronger! I want the earth to tremble under my footsteps."
Your wishes are pretty clear, you feel. No part of them included having the thing's spike-tail drive itself into your soul and start etching, uncaring of the pain you feel.
The pain isn't any lesser, but it is somehow more bearable, like your capacity to endure has increased.
closing my book after reading the updated contents, my sense of urgency merged with curiosity cause me to once more try and see if I can only use the Words in designated areas:
"Taqquin"
I need to understand this. I'm holding a dangerous power, one that could easilly hurt the others. But if I master it, it would be amazing.
Especially the fire word. It's just so cool! but still...
As you watch the remainder of your teammates receive painful soul inscriptions to improve their Crests, you are the only one to refrain.
That's alright. You have longer term plans. Besides, you need to try something.
You speak a Word. It doesn't do anything. No power is drawn, and without power, you cannot shape.
No. Wait. That isn't quite right. You've cast enough spells to understand the basics of the process. Power is gathered by force, fed into the framework of the Words, and then control is exerted over it through will.
Power flows through you, drawn from the Dream. You control it, shape it like putty. But the framework of the Word is missing. Why is the framework missing?
"Crest alterations have been completed. No Incursions have been detected. Some unclear anomalous readings have been detected. An exploration expedition will now be organized."The floor under your feet changes to crystal glass, something you can see through quite easily. Far below you, you can spot the small forms of the obelisks of the circle you fought the prior Incursion at. But it seems that the desert of squishy purple sands isn't all there is to the Inner Realm.
You look down at a gigantic disk of land with fuzzy edges. At the very center there is a forest of dense lampposts, wind chimes hanging from them, casting dark auras rather than light. The desert you were in is to one side of that forest, but the edge of it curves upwards, perpendicular to the ground, and on the resulting surface there exists a huge maze made of cobbled blue stone.
On the other side of the lamppost forest, there are hundreds of silvery metallic slabs covered in metallic tracery, levitating above a sea of golden, steaming sludge, connected by bridges of hard light.
An endless modern suburb, overgrown by red and black brambles, vines, and trees, occupies one of the remaining sections of the disk.
The other section is a grassy plain covered in steel needle-grass, adorned by three inverted mountains, balancing perfectly on their tips, the middle one dwarfing the other two.
"Where do you wish to go?"The Labyrinth on the Edge: In one section of the Labyrinth, the Inner Realm is humming.
The Overgrown Suburb: There is a strange absence of energy within a section of the Suburb.
Title: Example
Uniform: A featureless mannequin in a black and white dress and black curled wig.
Stats:
--Might value (modifier) - Strike harder and resist the physical, keep going even as you bleed.
--Mobility value (modifier) - Move quicker, evade physical attacks, strike swiftly.
--Power value (modifier) - Empower and hate-imbue your spells. Make stronger Essences.
--Control value (modifier) - Control and make safe your spells. Make more usable Essences.
--Will value (modifier) - Endure wars of the mind, control that which you seek to shackle.
--Heart value (modifier) - Be a magical girl. Use more Words in your spells.
Crest Traits:
Example: You exist solely to demonstrate information-tracking methodology. (0/x uses)
Status:
--Healthy (no effects)
Creations:
--None
Essences:
--Essence of Tettete (+0P/+0C)
Domains:
Example rank: exists to provide clarity.
Unspent Progression: 0
((Creations and Essences can be compressed to a single line when not in use. 'value' is your stat value, 'modifier' is your total modifier to rolls governed by that stat, 'rank' is your current rank in a Domain.))
((You don't have to track everything you make under Creations, only the things actively in use, or readiness, by you or under your control. If something would be tracked under both Status and Creations, track it only under Status.))
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