You feel yourself coming to life - as the fire burns ever more hotly within you, your snow melts, forming life-giving streams that cascade down your face, running into the forests below. Satisfied with how things are progressing, you turn your mind to your village. Something stirs in the back of your mind, but you ignore both it and the strange newcomers for the moment. Each will get their turn at the forefront of your thoughts.
For now, though, the Onoltilat need you. With concentrated effort, you rekindle the long dormant connection you hold with their hopes and dreams, their wishes and desires. Within moments, your mind is open to them. At first, there is silence. Then, you catch a drifting whisper of a prayer, a prayer to the mountain to grant blessings on a woman, a pregnant woman, who has fallen unconscious, who is on the verge of giving birth.
Further a field, another small prayer, weaker but still there, one of the shepherds offering a thanks to the mountain before breaking biting into his lunch.
There is a stirring in the village as they hear, and then see, the water approaching - a small waterfall cascades through the empty spaces between the lodgings, guided in such a way as to leave the village dry and safe. You catch quick prayers that this sign, strange as it is, is another good omen. An elderly mind, old and in many ways connected with the roots of the mountain, offers a prayer of hope to the mountain he is sure is awakening.
\\From the image\\
Did anyone notice the Footprints in the snow... I wonder who is there, on the peak...
Satisfied with the village at the moment, the thought in the back of your mind finds an opening and pushes its way to the front. On the peak, there were... footprints. Visitors. Your thoughts climb the slope, and explore the depressions in the snow. They lead both to and from a small cave, a cave full of those who have gone to rest with the mountain, one quite recent, no more than a week old.
You feel something, someone, a presence you do not recognize, at the base of your slope, ascending. But there are many things on which you can focus now - your powers awaken, but must yet be brought under your control. The villagers send you prayers and wishes. And perhaps, with some effort, you can discover or remember the purpose of the snowy cave, or at least explore it with your mind more thoroughly?
And there is still the matter of the strange new place in the forest.
Name: Kirunume
Statistics:
Groggy: 16% - (Vigor) You fight your way through the clouds of your long slumber...
Unthreatened: 99% - (Peace) What are those strangers in the forest?
Sturdy: 91% - (Stability) How strong and sturdy you are
Ice Reserves: 58% - (Remaining Ice) The amount of snow and ice you have.
Awakened Skills: As you gain knowledge of these skills, more may become open to you. Whenever you level up a skill, you may also choose to put into one of the abilities in that section.
Life ☑☑☐.☐☐☐.☐☐☐
*Bloom ☑☑☐ - You can encourage things to grow faster and healthier, flower and fruit, and give things that are dying a second chance at life, if only for a short while.
*Wither ☐☐☐ - With power over life comes power over death...
Fire ☑☑☐.☐☐☐.☐☐☐
*Inner Flame ☑☑☐ - Your heart and soul is the flame that flickers deep within you, your connection with the great mother. Strengthening the flame will help you wake more quickly, act faster, and fuel your other fire skills.
*Vent ☐☐☐ - You can open small vents in your surface, releasing blasts of hot air and sulfur into the sky.
* Hot Springs (Unlocked: Water(1)) - Your inner flame can be localized to warm sections of the surface, melting snow and pooling streams to create heated pools on your surface.
* Geyser (Unlocked: Water(1)) - Blasts of searing water release pressure and provide quite the spectacle.
Ice ☑☐☐.☐☐☐.☐☐☐
*Chill ☑☐☐ - A chill descends in an area, causing men to shiver and pull tighter on their furs.
*Sculpt ☐☐☐ - The ability to shape ice and maybe even stone into increasingly intricate forms, over time.
*Snowfall (Locked: Rain(2))
Water (Unlocked with Ice(1) and Fire (1)) ☑☐☐.☐☐☐.☐☐☐
Melt ☑☐☐ - Turn ice reserves into streams, pools, and even lakes and rivers.
Spring ☐☐☐ - Tap into underground water sources to create small springs instead of using snowmelt.
Invigorating Waters ☐☐☐ (Locked with Life: 3)
Weather ☐☐☐.☐☐☐.☐☐☐
Awareness ☑☑☐.☐☐☐.☐☐☐
* Of the Earth ☑☑☐ - You can feel things moving across your surface, the touch of plants and the thudding of feet, of the animals and the people. The cold of snow, the warmth of the sun, the tickle of the rain. And not just along the surface, but the veins of ore, the slabs of granite, the gaps and seams that run through you as well.
* Of the Mind ☐☐☐ - (Unlocked Through Synergy: Thought)You can turn the power of your thoughts to tracking the minds of living creatures that roam your surface.
* Of the Water ☑☐☐ - Follow your streams out into the world, fingers across the valleys and into distant oceans, feel that which swims in them and moves over them.
* Of the Air (Locked: Weather(2))
* Of the Forest (Unlocked Through Synergy: Life(2)) ☑☐☐ - The forest that surrounds you is not, quite, part of you, but it is connected, and your experience with the forces of life allows you to, with some effort, settle your thoughts into its own.
Thought ☑☑☑.☐☐☐.☐☐☐
* Dreams ☑☑☐ - (Passive) The people of the mountain occasionally have their dreams influenced by you, and you will often catches glimpses of their dreams in return.
* Prayers ☑☐☐ - (Passive) The ability to listen to and respond to the wishes and hopes of the mountain people, and perhaps even draw power from them.
* Visions ☐☐☐ - You can craft and send visions to villagers and maybe, eventually, strangers.
* Influence ☐☐☐ - You can influence the desires and actions of those within your domain, ever so slightly urging them to do what you wish.
* Passenger ☐☐☐ - You can ride along the mind of animals and villagers, seeing what they see, hearing what they hear, smelling and feeling what they do.
Villagers: Onoltilat
Size: 41
Happiness: 94% - +0% Confusion
Awareness: 7% - Where has the waterfall come from? Has spring come early? And even then it is usually naught but a trickle...
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Topic: You are Mountain! Updated Sunday, the 11th (Read 18929 times)