You settle in on yourself for now, turning your gaze inwards once more. With some effort, you have become fully in tune with not only your own heartbeat, but your connection with the earth mother. You open your mind and hear her whispers, her low voice encouraging her children. She is too large, and too powerful, to hear your voice if you wished to respond, but her voice fills you with confidence, and you rumble with pleasure. You are awake.
But the pressure of this knowledge fills you, and it leaves you restless. With a shrug, a part of you opens up, releasing some of yourself into the sky in a glorious blast of energy. A shepherd witnesses this, at a distance, and brings his story back to the village.
Satisfied, you cast yourself out once more, stretching your awareness to the forest itself. Not just your forest, surrounding your base, but further, until you have attracted the attention of the forest's soul. It swirls around you, your forces dancing and mingling, although you cannot yet understand what he is trying to tell you. You reassure it that you are waking, and it grows restless before leaving you. It seems worried, you think, but you do not know what worries it.
You look down into the forest and see the spirits throughout it, spirits of trees and rocks, rivers and streams, of life extinguished and birthed, and search for the strangers, but they are not easy to find. They are so small, and you are so large, and so far from where your vision is most clear... but you can sense what the forest senses, and the forest senses a section cut from it, a river not of water but of dirt, and there is the smell of cinders and burnt flesh... and then your focus is lost again, as something bites at your flank.
You return to the mountain, but the irritation has passed, and instead you focus once more on the village, imbuing your life force into it's crops and insuring they are strong and healthy. They are only recently planted, many little more than sprouts, but they will grow tall and strong, now, of that you are sure.
Finally, you return to the child, Kiruni, that was born last you visited. He is young, but growing quickly, strengthened by your blessing. He seems happy, but confused. He misses his mother... you swirl on, to find that the mother passed away shortly after your last visit - your essence insured that she would live long enough to see her child was taken care of, and to tell it how much she would always love it, but it could not keep her alive indefinitely with the injury she had sustained. Her funeral was short and sad, and even now her husband is carrying her up the mountain to lay her to rest within your cave.
You return to the child, and mark him as your own, and whisper into his ear that you will care for him, and he drifts to sleep, his dreams full of visions of you. His spirit glows.
The others in the village sleep restlessly as you appear in their dreams, waking, glowing with a blinding radiance that forces them to turn away.
Your additional level of Inner Fire now allows you to choose three major skills to improve each turn instead of two.Name: Kirunume
Statistics:
Awake: 36% - (Vigor) You are fully awake, now, but there is still significant growth possible.
Unthreatened: 95% - (Peace) The strangers grow closer - what do they seek?
Solid: 77% - (Stability) How strong and sturdy you are
Ice Reserves: 54% - (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. You can help new life grow strong and powerful, cause plants to grow and flower before people's eyes, and life itself follows in the footsteps of your gaze.
*Wither ☑☐☐ - You can weaken things, slow their growth, encourage disease and rot to take hold.
*Blood ☐☐☐ - The power of blood is the power over animals. The birds shall flock and the beasts of men shall tale note of your passing - they shall become more docile with the people you favour, and more aggressive to those you do not...
*Sap ☐☐☐ - The power of sap is the power over plants. Control where they grow and how, into wondrous omens to inspire your people or grabbing snares to entangle those who earn your wrath...
*Spirit (Locked: Awareness of the Spirit(1) ) Whether plant or animal, fox or human, mountain, forest, or river, every lifeforce has within it a spirit, and this will allow your life abilities to effect not just the body but the entirety of a living thing - and even those things with spirits that are not alive.
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 ☐☐☐ - 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 ☐☐☐ - Blasts of searing water release pressure and provide quite the spectacle.
* Plume ☐☐☐ - A steady plume of smoke from your cap will release pressure every turn, restoring stability.
* Lava ☐☐☐ - A controlled release of magma from a vent creates a deadly, lingering area of intense heat, destroying things nearby and flowing downhill under the influence of gravity.
Stone ☐☐☐ .☐☐☐ .☐☐☐
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. Not a grain of dirt is moved that you do not notice. The mountain and the earth are your body, and you are awake.
* 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 ☑☑☑ - 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.
* Of the Spirit ☑☐☐ - The ability to sense and interact with the spirits, both large and small, that fill the land.
* Of the World ☐☐☐ - The ability to sense, in the vaguest terms, what is happening far from you
Thought ☑☑☑.☐☐☐.☐☐☐☐☐.☐☐☐[/b]
* 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. - (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: 42
Happiness: 96% - A dangerous omen? Shaking and stinky gasses?
Awareness: 24% - Things are changing... The mountain shook.
Poll
40 (47.6%)
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Topic: You are Mountain! Updated Sunday, the 11th (Read 18891 times)