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656871 No. 656871 ID: c7bf94

Hey, can you hear me now? Come on, now. Open your eyes that’s it.

Wow, that was a bit much wasn’t it?

Hmmm, you say you can’t remember who you are or how you got here?

Well it isn’t a bit of a shock that. Especially the way you got all the way down here.

Go ahead and think a bit, maybe it’ll come back to you

>Why did you came down here? What was the last feeling you remember?

*Power, you had just grasped it, and you feel just before the darkness. You could do anything.
*You died... Didn’t you... But you’re still alive?
*You... Failed... This is now... The only path
*This was the only way for you to survive. You are alive and still here
*It was just meant to be you guess. Everything had led up to this point


<Now while I do plot research, here's something else to help pass the time and keep in practice.>
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No. 656877 ID: 9ddf68

>It was just meant to be you guess. Everything had led up to this point
I like the "fuck if I know answer" so I'm going with it
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No. 656881 ID: bd8b82

dead but alive sounds like us.
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No. 656894 ID: 99cfa8

>*You died... Didn’t you... But you’re still alive?
>*This was the only way for you to survive. You are alive and still here
... these together make sense, right?
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No. 656999 ID: f6cbc8
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656999

Ah you don't have to be so worried. Yes you were almost going to die on me. You should count yourself blessed that I did have a way to save you.

It was a bit close though, there was a really high destiny of it failing. Still you must have had something special about you, since you're still not dead yet.

Think about it, what made you so special, and hunted down?

* Conflict:You were the best at the arts of combat, whether in practice or theory. Yes when it came to conflict, you were in the thick of it
* Personality:Everybody looked up to you, an example for everybody to follow. When you advised, others listened
* Knowledge:Whenever somebody needed to know something or get something done, they went to you. People respected you for the arts and sciences you followed.
* Cunning:Others may or may not suspected, but you recall living life by your skill and ability. When things got down or dirty it was no sweat to you
* Communication: You knew everybody or perhaps went just about everywhere. No matter the personage or location, you were there and more or less fit in.
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No. 657002 ID: da3603

>Knowledge
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No. 657003 ID: ab7529

Knowledge
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No. 657008 ID: bd8b82

>>657002
>>657003
sure
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No. 657049 ID: f6cbc8
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657049

Ah yes you were quite the knowledgeable one. You went out to search knowledge on your own. But... you ran afoul of somebody... or something...

That's why... I could... grant you this power... because you feared dying, because you feared the darkness. You aren't afraid of it now are you?

But I didn't grant this power just to save you, you know that?

So please...
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No. 657050 ID: f6cbc8
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657050

Won't you grant my deepest wish?
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No. 657051 ID: f6cbc8
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657051

Still in any case, you won't be doing much down here.

Ah what shall I call you?

Hmm, your old name? Don't you remember? You had to give it up, all of it in order for this to work. Even if this power I granted didn't need it, there's some troublesome things that's been done to that power that would make using your old name dangerous.

Still you have to be called something. Any suggestions? Act now, I'm not particularly patient about this of all things. And what would you say would be your first course of action?
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No. 657053 ID: 9ddf68

>name
Gino
>what do
find out where the hell we are and go from there
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No. 657054 ID: ab7529

Oh hey we're exalted.

>name
Something descriptive and long and flowery and dark, right.

Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale
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No. 657058 ID: 5a02f7

> Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale

This. THIS.
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No. 657064 ID: 99cfa8

>>657054
I like this, if it is Exalted.

If not, Terrence.
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No. 657240 ID: 9f210d
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657240

Yes, thus you shall be known to all of Creation as Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale. Title pending whatever further dark glories you would pursue. Or whatever label I among what other beings shall slap you with. Not like you’re going to get any staying down here.

Amidst this darkness are two paths, one that leads up, which by logic should lead you further out of whatever dark space Wisdom has found himself in. There is also a path forward, which is a good as direction as any.

Hmmm still dazed and confused I see. While I have never been prone to self-reflection before, having all the time in Creation has given me time to practice.

>Consider yourself, among the trio of your BODY, MIND, or heh PERSONALITY, rank them from strongest to weakest in relation to yourself.

>Furthermore among each of these parts of yourself rank for each of them the following approaches,
AGGRESSIVE, FLUID, and PASSIVE from strongest to weakest. Of course for this part you may have the approaches tie with each other in strength.

>Example

Strong/Average/Weak
PERSONALITY/BODY/MIND
AGGR/ ------/AGGR
PASSIVE/ FLUID,AGGR (tied)/FLUID
FLUID/ PASSIVE/PASSIVE
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No. 657241 ID: 1cebc8

>>657240
Fluid/Fluid/Fluid
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No. 657243 ID: bd8b82

mind body personality
agressive fluid passive
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No. 657247 ID: 9f210d

ok this is a bit complex so I should explain this further.

You have three traits, BODY, MIND, PERSONALITY

Each of those three traits have three approaches. AGGRESSIVE, FLUID, and PASSIVE.

The first order is sorting the traits from strongest to weakest.

Then the second order is to sort the approaches for each order in similar terms of strength.

Though if it'll be easier, just a simple short cut for all of these choices is possible as well. In the end, you can improve the final values of these approaches later on.
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No. 657249 ID: 5a02f7

I think I got it...

Mind, Body, Personality

Mind - Aggressive, Passive/Fluid (tied)
Body - Fluid, Passive, Aggressive
Personality - Passive, Aggressive, Fluid
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No. 657252 ID: 1cebc8

Mind - Aggressive, Fluid Passive tied.
Personality - Fluid, Passive, Aggressive.
Body - Aggressive, passive, fluid.
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No. 657255 ID: ab7529

Our name suggests we've got a sharp mind in not the strongest body. So...

Mind Personality Body
Mind: Fluid, Aggressive, Passive
Personality: Passive, Fluid, Aggressive
Body: Passive, Fluid, Aggressive
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No. 657459 ID: 9a279b
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657459

Hmm considering your self refection, your TRAITS should look like this. Well you’re only PATHETIC in one area.

That done I should inform you due to how that power given to you is designed. Your growth is dependent on your SKILLS. In particular the caste you belong to is especially good at learning and using SMART SKILLS. The SMART SKILLS are grouped into MAKING, PROBING, BOOKLEARNING, PATCHING UP and MAGICAL KNOWHOW.

You’ll learn later on that your capabilities are further divided among by COMPETENCIES, which are small focuses of the each individual SKILL. Well you could right now try to recall any possible SKILL COMPETENCIES you would have known, or you could get to escaping here first?

> Examples of SKILL COMPETENCIES.
> BOOKLEARNING: MATHS, MAKING: SHARP POINTY THINGS, PROBING:HUNT TREASURE.
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No. 657488 ID: 99cfa8

>>657459
Yes, I think it's about time we get moving. But no reason we can't do both!

> Making
Clothing, love.
> Probing
Hidden objects/traps.

... Wait, that's just /quest/ in general. Let me try again.
> Making
Still going with clothing, but also armor
> Probing
Interrogation
> Booklearning
Physics, Material science
> Patching Up
Machinery, Forges/kilns
> Magical knowhow
Conjuration/summoning (whichever one actually creates stuff, if one does)
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No. 657496 ID: 1cebc8

>>657459
MAKING
Gadget Crafter (Can create a wide variety of tools and gear from basic or advanced materials)
PROBING
Visual Analysis (Able to analyze elements in your environment in detail)
BOOKLEARNING
Languages (Able to develop basic knowledge of an unknown language in less than a few weeks)
PATCHING UP
Spell Disruption (You know how to hack a golem or repair an insane golem's programming)
MAGICAL KNOWHOW
Spell Crafter (You learned how to create basic spells without assistance from a higher power)
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No. 657764 ID: 39ba99
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657764

Wisdom recalls some small fragments of his previous life, the talents and SKILLS that he had gain over his many delves for buried knowledge

MAKING: WEARABLES-TRAINED
MAKING:GADGETS-SKILLED
PROBING: VISUAL ANALYSIS-SKILLED
BOOKLEARNING:PHYSICS-SKILLED
BOOKLEARING: MATERIAL SCIENCES-SKILLED
PATCHING UP: AUTO-HEALING MACHINERY-TRAINED
MAGICAL KNOWHOW:SUMMONING-EXPERT
MAGICAL KNOWHOW:SPELLCRAFTER-TRAINED

Returning attention to getting out of here, wherever here is, there's a ROUGH PASSAGE that seems to rise UP. But FORWARD is a smooth and easy path. Which way should Wisdom go, or should he consider an entirely different direction?
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No. 657770 ID: 1cebc8

Place a marker EXACTLY where you are. Draw a bullseye.



Start by going UP.
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No. 657800 ID: 99cfa8

>>657764
How do TRAINED and SKILLED compare? I assume EXPERT is better than both.

Up is usually good for getting out of places.
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No. 657825 ID: 88960e

Go left, check for hidden power-up.
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No. 657869 ID: aef8a4

I thought we already answered this one: We are intellectually aggressive, and this is a choice between the straightforward path and the more challenging path. WE GO UP.
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No. 657870 ID: bd8b82

>>657800
trained means we know how, skilled means we are good at it.
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No. 657902 ID: 39ba99
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657902

>>657825
>>657770

Wisdom peeks around the left wall and spots something upon the stones.

>>BLOOD SEAL activated!

A dark and mighty power courses through his chilled flesh and rushes through his cooled blood.

With some small pebbles from here, Wisdom makes a small circle to act as a guide post.

>> Hmm! This is... Eh-hehe well I must have been favored when I chose you. There are five of these BLOOD SEALS. If you can find all five of them, great forbidden power shall be granted for you to use. So great however that you’ll have quite the target painted on your back. But this amuses me in any case, so whether you wish to seek them out or not. It’s all the same to me.
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No. 657903 ID: 39ba99
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657903

Yes Wisdom would go to many lengths in order to gain the knowledge he seeks. Thus the direction of UP with its appearance of many challenges would be more intellectually satisfying to follow.

And so he climbed up over the rough path, clinging to craggy handholds. Until he comes to a cliff over-looking a suspicious line of stone pillars below. There seems to be something creaking above though, but there’s no wind here....
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No. 657916 ID: 1cebc8

Scream at pillars.
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No. 657917 ID: bd8b82

make a mage-light to see what is making the noise.
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No. 657963 ID: ab7529

>>657917
Seems reasonable, since we're good in spellcraft.

It also occurs to me that down bottomless pits you normally avoid going might be a place to hide another blood seal.
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No. 657980 ID: aef8a4

A cliff... is awful hard to go past , unless you have some talent at bare-face climbing and the cliff features are just the right kind of weathered/craggy for it. I guess we need to investigate that creaking, is it a voice?
If no apparent method of progress is to be found or fashioned, consider going back and checking the other path; we may need additional resources to investigate what's here or progress further in this direction.
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No. 658743 ID: 19291b
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658743

Screaming at the pillars with all the hate and malice of your condition makes Wisdom feel better, maybe.
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No. 658745 ID: 19291b
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658745

A dark sort of light flashes from your brow, above hanging in the darkness is a giant chain.
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No. 658746 ID: aef8a4

Whoa, heavy. What's the chain connect to, or can you not see that far? I'm pondering climbing it, or using it to swing through the area to... who knows what else yet?
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No. 659226 ID: 212a9f
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659226

>>658746

Wisdom attempts to see past the veil of darkness and distance. The focus being what lies bound to the chain.

> Here we go then, because of the environment you find yourself in, what seems to be a simple task is now a CHALLENGE. What are CHALLENGES you may ask? Anytime when your effort are being opposed, whether by an inferor being or the very nature of existence itself, that is a CHALLENGE.

>How are they passed? All one needs to clear a CHALLENGE is to have a SKILL TOTAL that is equal or above the CHALLENGE LEVEL. How do you get your SKILL TOTAL you ask? Well it’s equal to your ABILITY APPROACH added to the SKILL COMPETENCIES you have. Well any that relate to the challenge in question in any case. A typical CHALLENGE LEVEL for a simple action of some effort is 2.

>That being said, you can improve your SKILL COMPETENCIES when you have the time so as to Crush any obstacles in your way.

>Moving on besides the CASTE SKILLS that are natural to you. You also have a number of other SKILLS which would develop much faster due to previous focus when you were an insignificant little mortal. You can have up to five, so due note that you don’t have to pick now.

>In any case, you wish to see what is bound in the darkness? Also perhaps climb or swing across it? In that case these fall over the grouping of

SNEAKY SKILLS

BODILY EFFORTS
PAYING ATTENTION
GETTING THE HECK OUT
REPOSSESSION
AVOID DETECTION

So had you invested in any SNEAKY SKILLS in your life and are any of them familiar enough to you that you’d call them PERSONAL SKILLS?

PERSONAL SKILLS LEFT:5
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No. 659350 ID: aef8a4

We were destined to become Wisdom Etched in Shale, I'm pretty sure we were always aware of what was going on around us because there is no wisdom without knowledge, and you don't know what you don't see.

As far as the others, uh, what are the other options?
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No. 659354 ID: bd8b82

1 point of PAYING ATTENTION, simply by accident really. desire to know things translates into ability to know things.
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No. 659402 ID: ab7529

>>659354
That works.
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No. 659930 ID: 9d792f
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659930

After many hours spent on seeking wherever hidden secrets were to be buried. Wisdom realized he was quite adept at LOOKING FOR STUFF.

>PAYING ATTENTION: LOOKING FOR STUFF-SKILLED

While the darkness gives some slight trouble. At least there is light to see by, even though it glows darkly. There, in the distance, bound by the chain that clinks is a building. And it floats above the abyss.

One could try climbing or walking along the chain to it. Or then again perhaps the chain could be better used to get to the other side of the cliff?
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No. 659932 ID: 3663d3

that building probably has secrets. heck it out.
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No. 659958 ID: ab7529

>>659930
Floating city? Cool. Worth investigating.
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No. 660776 ID: 688474
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660776

>>659958
>>659932
Truly such a significant find draws Wisdom’s attention and need to search, loot and generally plunder it of its history.

He quite simply gets onto the chain, which easily supports his weight. However there is the question of getting there.

>Challenge is BODY APPROACH FLUID + BODILY EFFORTS competencies.

>Now would be a good point for you to learn of several factors of that VOID SHARD you have inside you that can make this task much easier.

>First is the VOID BOOST ART. Through the mighty weight of the VOID. You can ensure that victory and success in your favor is inevitable. This is done by the majesty of the Abyss surging through you. However this VOID BOOST isn’t for free sadly. VOID BOOST, along with other ARTS are used by spending VOID POWER. Currently you have 15 VOID POWER within you. However as much as it would be simple to continue to use VOID POWER all the time, it is too strong to be held in a weak mortal frame as yours. Thus it spills out into the world. The more VOID POWER you use, the more your nature as a CHAMPION OF THE ABYSS is shown to all. Which can be more trouble than it’s worth.

>In any case, small amounts of VOID POWER can be spent to increase the odds of your victory and the defeat of others. But when you utterly need certainty in your results. There’s a SUB ART known as VOID INEVITABILITY which triples your SKILL TOTAL (or COUNT) for the price of 7 VP/

>Even so constant use of VOID POWER will mean you’ll eventually run out. But how would you regain that VOID POWER. Well that leads into a short talk about DARK GLORY. The world favors those that break the limits of the mundane. Taking a more interesting course of action gives you much needed VOID POWER back as well as increases your SKILL TOTAL. Then again it’s a trade between efficiency and power. The decision is yours. You could take the safe route and crawl along this chain to there... Or would you choose some other method, perhaps a more glorious one? Don’t forget you may use VOID BOOST to improve your chances of success.
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No. 660778 ID: 1cebc8

Go back and look for tools to help you climb the chain. Being gloriously stupid is undermined by the lack of POSITIVE ROLE MODEL MATERIAL you could get from being smart about this.

Play to your strengths, push your mind to the limits and from the depths of your insanity, forge a strong path out of grime and glass as the observers in the darkness gape their mouths at your incomprehensible genius.
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No. 660789 ID: cf6c80

We are Wisdom Etched in Shale, not Audacity Heralding Final Triumph. Use our glorious mind to devise, construct, weight and use a pulley, to carry us up there.
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No. 660797 ID: 3663d3

imply run up the chain, the gaps are enough that our feet have a point of contact in a repeating pattern.
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