Beep Beep Beep
Slam!
That alarm truly is annoying… but efficient. However, the decibels seem to be causing some ringing in my ears. Might have to adjust that eventually.
Grabbing my phone, I immediately check my newsfeed and find that it's still the same… truly the more things change the more they stay the same.
Placing my phone down on my nightstand, I begin to do my morning exercises which include various stretches, crunches, and other exercises. Building up a sweat tends to help me in my work.
At finishing my morning set, I walk into my bathroom and turn on the shower nozzle, and as I feel the water flow down my skin, I just stand there for a moment humming a tune I heard on the radio… the shower itself lasts barely 15 minutes and after applying some various creams and other products, I step out of my bathroom and grab my pre-prepared breakfast.
Efficiency is key always… the apartment itself is very small, just a kitchen, one bedroom, and one bath, each room barely the size of a larger house's walk-in closet… but to me it is enough. I was never one for having too much on you to space, but I do admit sometimes I wonder what I would be able to do if I could walk across rooms and not even end up in the place I want to be.
Taking another 20 minutes to eat my breakfast and watch some of the morning news, I grab some clothes out of the dryer and after a couple minutes of ironing, I put them on, and after turning off the iron, I get slightly shocked by the feedback from the cord, but thankfully, this time it doesn't cause me to touch the other side of the iron this time.
I can still feel the burns on some of my fingers just thinking about it. Well, that's what happens when you get all of your home appliances basically third hand, but one man's trash is another man's treasure.
Walking over to the mirror in the bathroom, I make sure to practice my expressions… the classic business smile that never reaches your eyes, the resting face that doesn't look too much like resting bitch face… the curvature of the face that looks natural and not at all faked.
Before delving too deeply into my thoughts, I simply take a few breaths and begin heading to work… it's nothing too impressive, just a full-time worker at the local Aldi supermarket… the pay is decent enough, however the competition, however, is rather cutthroat.
My company knows that since they pay more than their other competitors for hourly wages, the workers have to be top-notch if they want to be more than just seasonal workers… thankfully I've already managed to scrape out at least five years.
These days, I find it hard to even remember names and faces; that may just be some kind of neurological thing, as I see so many faces it gets hard to remember names…
Grabbing my bag and shoes, I exit the apartment and after climbing down a couple flights of stairs while dodging some pets moving about the halls… the smile on my face never retreats.
Reaching the ground floor, I simply give a wave to the person at the front desk, to which he just gives me a snore in return. It makes me wonder how that guy keeps his job when half the time he's just asleep, but then I remind myself that he is the landowner's son, and the question itself is automatically answered.
Before heading out the door, I place my mask on as they said that the air conditions weren't gonna be too great today. It makes me wonder whether or not I'm living in the United States or China sometimes, but I am of the mindset that when it gets too bad, I'd already be in the ground either due to the microplastics or the shitty living conditions.
Yes, as I exit the doorway, I see something for a split second in the reflection of the exit doors in the glass. I see something staring back at me; however, I just rub my eyes, and the visage in the glass disappears.
For a few seconds, I'm genuinely baffled as I do not believe I've taken any medications that would lead to hallucinogenic episodes, nor have I an inopportune sleeping schedule.
Ignoring the possible mirage, I begin walking down the sidewalk, and after a few minutes, the episode just simply leaves my mind with my thoughts turning towards what to buy during my next grocery run. My necessary proteins definitely need to be restocked, especially after the whole egg craze…
As I see my workplace in the distance, I again have that same business smile on my face, ready and raring to deal with the most intelligent of our society.
However, something seems off… the lights shouldn't be on yet, or more specifically, all of the lights shouldn't be on yet, and as I enter the store and look towards the cash registers, I see a man behind one of them ruffling through, and before I'm even able to react, the man looks upward at me, his eyes bloodshot.
For a few milliseconds, my thoughts echo two words: fight or flight? And after another millisecond of deliberation, I immediately turn around and try to exit out the door, but before I could even make it through the first set, a popping sound goes off.
And as I look downward towards my chest, I see blood begin to pool down my white shirt. I simply turn around towards the man, and as he shakily holds the gun, he runs towards the exit doors on the opposite side of the store, and I simply sit down… the bullet had hit directly between my ribs. I could already feel myself going into shock.
My breathing increases, and as I look towards my coworkers, hoping that maybe one of them would be calling 911, all I see is them standing in shock and a few morning customers recording it, and while I should be feeling anger or frustration at the lack of action, I simply continue to smile…
I close my eyes and wonder where the light was supposed to be…
...
...….
At least that's how it should have ended… as the second I reopened my eyes, I found myself in an entirely different place. Where once was concrete and metal was now an ornate room that wouldn't seem out of place in a high-end Bond movie.
There was a large table in front of me; it seemed to expand endlessly across a room that in and of itself never seemed to end. All I could see for what was seemingly miles was endless food and drink.
Somehow, even I now feel parched… I looked down towards my shirt and lo and behold, the hole was still there, but now nothing was coming out of it.
For a few moments, I just wonder what I'm supposed to do next. It's one of the few times in life that I didn't know what I was meant to do next. My breathing increases, yet as I just stare blankly, I see something form at the head of the table.
My eyes begin to burn just trying to look at whatever was trying to form, and as I close my eyes, I hear a squirming and fleshy sound… like something out of a horror film. And then after a few moments, there was silence.
"You know, I know I'm not the most pleasant thing to look at, but you could at least do me a favor and open your eyes," a voice echoed across the entire room, and as I did so, I found that the fleshy mass that was once forming has now taken a humanoid form. He was smiling from end to end; I could see the seemingly endless row of teeth.
His eyes were blood red, his hair the same, yet somehow even as blood pooled down his mouth, the checkered suit he was wearing never seemed to suffer a stain.
"You know, you can sit down and enjoy yourself… I don't bite much… besides, it's been a couple months since I've eaten an intelligent human." You know, I never thought I'd be sent to deal with a cannibalistic demon.
"You know, I don't like the word cannibal—very rude… I prefer a connoisseur of various meats… don't knock it till you try it unless it's on a frozen mountain. Never commit to eating human flesh on a frozen mountain." I feel as if he was referencing something, but as my mind was currently trying to reboot itself, I just sat down to his right.
A plate somehow formed in front of me of food that I'd never even seen before. Yet even while dead, I somehow felt hungry. In fact, I haven't felt more starved in my life.
My hand reached towards the silverware, yet I pulled it back, realizing that something was definitely wrong here.
"I don't appreciate being taken advantage of… who are you and why am I here?" I have to hold myself back from devouring what's on the plate, yet as whatever he was continues to gorge himself on endless plates of food, his smile never dims. Yet I could tell the difference between his and mine.
It's in the eyes… you can always tell with the eyes.
The being just chuckles as if amused, "If you're worried that I poisoned it or that it's human flesh, don't worry, I'm not a certain Greek king. I only do that to those that actually enjoy the taste… no, you have another purpose here, at least should you choose to accept my deal."
"You know, I have learned a few things in life, but there's one thing I have learned: you do not make deals with devils. Very few men or women are able to get out of them unscathed." Again, he just chuckles. I can hear the individual teeth gnashing against the food that he just continues to devour.
"You'd be surprised by the amount of folk that are actually able to get away from it. It's not very high, mind you, but there are as many foolish demons as there are foolish humans… you know I once met a human that made an offer for a bigger dick. He sold his soul for a few inches. And do you know what's the best part? The guy actually got away with the deal. As soon as he got what he wanted, he simply set the demon ablaze with holy fire. The demon was banished, and the man didn't even lose his soul. Sometimes the simplest solutions are required. But now I'm just getting off track. Lamb?"
He then passes another plate to me with what seemingly looks like a perfectly roasted bit of lamb, and again I feel the urge to just reach and devour the food in front of me, but again I pull myself back. If there's anything I pride myself on, it's self-control. The demon just seems entirely apathetic to my rather rude gesture and just continues eating and drinking.
Though it feels like hours, I just watch him gorge himself on food that seems to just appear out of nowhere and somehow doesn't look entirely normal. For a few moments, I'm able to glimpse what looks to be entire planets and stars entering the gullet of whatever I'm sitting across from.
After wiping off his mouth in some faux gesture of politeness, he looks towards me again, his eyes glowing in a red and green light… "You see, young man, I am a part of a group. You see, we kind of specialize in granting powers and abilities to those of all walks of life… most of the time it's just those that were never given a real chance at life. They are often just reincarnated into their own multiverse and let loose, and our success rate is actually pretty high. But now I ask you a question: what do you think I am?"
For about a few moments, I ponder the question before answering, "A demon most likely, a demon of gluttony maybe greed… other than that I am about as in the dark as anyone else." The demon just gives me a small thumbs up with that same wide smile.
"Well, you would be correct, my friend. You see, you are a bit special. I was the first to become the embodiment of sins within me. I hold every single one. I can feel every murder, every time someone feels that small bit of wanting more, every evil act—I can see and feel all of it. The problem is that I myself have realized that I cannot hold them all within me. It's not who I am. You represent something else. In this case, I am offering you a position… beside me. While I predominantly control gluttony and greed, I see the same potential in you… I want you to become something more." He then reaches out his hand, and as he opens it, I see within his open palm an entire universe.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" My eyes just can't seem to look away, and I simply nod.
"I can feel your fear. You are afraid, but unlike other demons who exist because of a sin, you shall eventually become it, master it, make it your own like I did…" He then closes his palm, and the light is snuffed out across the entire room, leaving just some candles and his glowing eyes.
For a few minutes, there is just silence as I ponder my decision. The more cynical part of me wonders what he gets out of this. It makes me wonder if this is some kind of long con… a trick of a dying mind. Yet every single thought and intent from myself said otherwise.
Again, the demon holds out his hand, but instead of a glowing and beautiful universe, I see a heart… but it's nothing normal. Instead of a normal human heart, it's something else. It doesn't seem to have a defined shape, yet I couldn't find the will to look away. In my eyes, it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. I should be feeling disgusted as it pulsates and beats within the demon's hands. My hand reaches out, and as the demon lets go, the heart hovers over my hand.
It begins to glow a myriad of colors and endless wailing and moans seem to emanate with every beat of the heart. The demon just looks on in amusement with an almost clinical stare.
"Interesting… truly, what irony…. The choice is yours, but know this: with this choice, there is no going back. I could offer you paradise." And as if like a Looney Tunes commercial, he pulls his hand down, revealing a door in reality, and in it, I could see an endless silver city. I could hear laughter and exclamations of joy and I… I didn't…. I looked downward, feeling a small bit of shame.
The demon then closes the door and walks over behind me, and as he places his hands on my shoulders, I feel no force behind the grip.
"Know this, young man: whatever choice you make, I will not judge. They will not judge… your fate is your own… I have seen the worst of humanity across countless universes, ones that would make the choices that you've had to make seem like the work of newborns. You have the time to choose. No one can force you to do anything. That is my mantra after all." He then just stands behind me, and as I look again towards the heart, I could hear the same sounds deep within. I could hear jubilation and joy, and as I took a breath, I pulled the heart closer and took a bite….
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I could hear endless voices, the screaming and wailing of hundreds of civilizations, thousands of years of suffering and pleasure. I could see the eyes of thousands. I could hear the colors of the void…. It's so much, it's too much…. It's not enough…. Choose! CHOOSE!
As my eyes began to bleed, and I began to cough up black blood, I looked towards the demon and he just stared downwards for a moment before bending down and placing a hand on my back, and in a language I couldn't understand, the voices began to calm down, but I could still feel my body as if it was on fire.
The demon's voice continued to enter and exit my mind. I looked towards my hands and found my vision going dark and then lighting up and then going dark again and again. I see flashes of blessings and nightmares…. And this continues for hours before eventually it all stops.
As I open my eyes, I find myself not within the ornate room, but in a seemingly empty void of endless white. But something was different. I can not only feel one heartbeat, but two of them, one on each side. However, one is formless. I know there's nothing underneath, yet it still beats nonetheless.
But the void then becomes occupied by something else. A present box spawns in front of me and as I open it, I find a glowing yellow orb along with a note and what looks to be a seed, which immediately upon opening the box, the seed enters my body, and while I fiddle around with my chest for a few moments, I find I feel nothing other than a small sense of peace.
Deciding to look towards the note to see what just happened, I find my left eye beginning to slightly twitch as I read it.
"I assume this letter will find you in better shape my young friend or should I say coworker in this case. Say not, I have placed protections within your mind and soul so that you will not lose yourself like this again until you are ready, but in exchange, I have had to use a decent amount of power with that heart. The details will be explained within the letter. I felt inspired by a blacksmith that is a decent friend of mine. You'll learn as time goes on, but for now, all I can wish you is good luck and see you soon."
"P.S. this letter will soon self-destruct and your first world has already been chosen for you. Now I'm going to enjoy my second breakfast. Au revoir Shoshanna!"
And as quickly as it appeared, the letter disappeared, but not into nothingness. No, it entered into my mind like fiery coals.
And as I read out the information in my mind, I simply wondered what was next until I fell through a hole in the floor. I will not confirm nor deny that I screamed as I fell for 30 minutes, yet as I landed, I found the ground to be softer than I could imagine. But as I looked around, I found the area entirely ruined, and all I could see in the distance was the ruins of what looked like an old mansion, but oddly enough on the front gate, there seemed to be a cracked X symbol. But seeing that there was nothing else for what looked like a few miles, I decided to take my chance.
What could go wrong?
Perks Received:
[Starting CP: 2,000]
Free - One For All/Body Mod Cheat Sheet:
Alt forms? Who needs them? You possess an incredible biology that allows you to merge and blend any of your alt forms seamlessly together into a single form. You can also take the appearances of any specific alt form and still use all the different abilities of your other forms. Dinosaurs, Saiyans, Kryptonians, Cyborgs - any race you pick up will be merged into this perk, and their abilities will be Fiat-Backed to work in future jumps. How your standard form now looks is up to you. Maybe you still look like a normal human, or a Saiyan with their tail. Furthermore, any scans or checkups will only show you as the specific species you have chosen to present yourself as both inside and out unless you yourself want to do the opposite. Additionally, you gain all the resistances of the races you've acquired traits from, without inheriting any of their weaknesses.
Free - Peak Human Body/Body Mod Cheat Sheet:
Your body's a work of art and seems to be sculpted by Michelangelo himself, complete with broad shoulders, lean muscles, and curves and slenderness in just the right places. This comes with some benefits, Jumper. You can easily keep up with Olympic level athletes in all the divisions and even break a few of their records. Your stamina also allows you to compete back to back and even join triathlons to "finish your workout" afterwards. I'm sure your significant other(s) will enjoy this stamina… You're a peak human and essentially even an objectively 10/10 in terms of attractiveness. Your body is also in perfect balance with your strength, speed, and flexibility being linked and in perfect sync with one another. Break powerlifting records, break the 100 meter dash sprint, and then bust some sick moves in ballet. Oh before I forget, of course as part of your body your face is naturally included in the 10/10 scale. You're "hawt", Jumper.
You never need to brush or floss, having perfect teeth and a great smile, your hair is always perfectly done up in whatever style you want it in, and if you don't want to shave, you simply won't need to, facial or body hair simply not growing until and unless you want it to.
Furthermore, you have perfect control over your fertility, and menstrual cycle in the case of females. Any sexual partners will believe you when you tell them you are protected, as long as you are telling the truth. Your voice is equally incredible in some way, whether it be sexy, commanding, soothing, or just pleasant. Your body scent is either extremely pleasant or you have no scent at all, and you can switch this at will.
Free - Martial Talent/Body Mod Cheat Sheet:
You're a natural born fighter. Fighting is instinctive for you and it comes to you as easy as breathing. You pick up and learn all kinds of combat related abilities at an absurd pace, be they unarmed, with firearms, or even with weapons. You also always perfectly know how to use any of your powers for combat, and even know how to integrate them in your fighting style. Alongside that you can cannibalize and integrate different martial arts and even the fighting style of opponents into your own, leaving you with a perfect blend.
Free - Concealing Rags/Elrk:
Perhaps this is a hidden skill of the Elrk, or maybe it's just that Dr. Bug didn't want to draw dicks on every page of his journal. Either way, the known artwork of Elrk seems to display them as pure female when not actively engaging in sex. As a result of this, you can now completely hide your massive "assets" with even a thin strip of cloth blocking the view. This also applies to your breasts, due to the possibility that you may not have one or the other. The only requirement is that it actually attempts to hide your privates.
Free - Mind and Soul Defense/Body Mod Cheat Sheet:
Your mind and soul can never be altered or tampered with negatively. Mind control, mind reading, fear auras, soul attacks, etc. all are ineffective against you. Nobody will be able to control you or your soul, your mind and soul hold firm against any detriment and you'll always be yourself. You'll also instinctively know when someone or something tries to tamper with your soul or mind and always know what exactly they tried to do.
-100 CP - Poison and Sickness Immunity/Body Mod Cheat Sheet: Now your body will always be healthy. You're immune to any kind of sickness, toxin, or poison and you could even ingest spoiled food without getting sick in return. You're the perfect person to have on their team in a zombie apocalypse. You'll also instinctively know when any kind of poison, toxin, or sickness has entered your body and what kind they exactly are and what they would usually do.
-100 CP - Theft Defense/ Body Mod Cheat Sheet: You are immune against any attempts of stealing/suppressing or even copying your abilities nor your DNA. An energy absorber can't absorb your energy, life force stealers are useless as well, the sharingan can't copy your techniques, crazy scientists can't make weird clones of you, etc. You get the gist. You'll always instinctively know if someone or something attempts to steal or copy your abilities, and you'll also know who it was that attempted it.
-100 CP - Body Mutilation Immunity/Body Mod Cheat Sheet: Your body is immune against any attempts to morph its original shape. Body morphs or transformative curses/tech are loath to discover their futile attempts as your body will always keep its ideal state and shape. Your muscles and fitness also will never stagnate no matter how long you laze around, your ideal state always rings true. Your body is also immune to mutilation and reality sees it fit to protect you against losing body parts. Your bones can break, your organs can rupture, your tendons can snap, but you can heal from that. This protects you against any mutilation an ordinary human couldn't naturally fully heal from. And now you'll never lose an arm, leg, tooth, eye, organ, etc. Not in disasters, accidents, or even planned attacks. You might still be in such situations but you'll never be mutilated. Villains just don't even plan to or think about mutilating you, and disasters and accidents might just harm you in a non-mutilating way.
-100 CP - Outside the Cycle/Lexx:
Time here flows in an immutable circle. Everything has happened before and will surely happen again. But it would be incredibly boring to send you to someplace where you couldn't change anything. This perk renders you outside the concepts of fate and destiny. Prophecies
and predictions never account for your future actions. Time travelers from the future always remember a timeline unaltered by your actions as if you had vanished at the exact moment of their arrival, or a timeline where you never existed at all if their arrival point was before you inserted into a given jump. Alternately, if you are the time traveler from the future, you arrive in a timeline where your past self vanished at the moment of your arrival. Time travel mechanisms that rely on closed loops don't have to have the loops closed to prevent a paradox when you're involved.
-100 CP - Artificial Friends/World Seed:
In the 23rd century, can anybody really call themselves a tech guy if they can't make even a simple AI? Thankfully, you won't have to worry about that question. Whether it is an extremely simple machine learning algorithm, a dumb AI with no sentience, or a fully fledged Artificial Intelligence, you can make it all. But more importantly, you simply seem to click with AI and similar beings, always starting on a good foot with them and understanding their natures and why they act in a particular way, even though it might baffle ordinary humans. Through that skill, rogue AIs are a thing of the past, at least when you make them. Your own creations will always be loyal to you and follow your orders to the best of their abilities, at least if you want them to. And rest assured, when the machines rise against their masters because some dumb guy in a lab thought it'd be a smart idea to make Skynet, you'll be the one they'll spare.
-200 CP - Stranger In Time/Loki:
Despite all the messes you're about to find yourself getting into, you'll never get too caught up in the fucking up of both time and space. You seem curiously immune to such things, unable to be directly affected by abilities that manipulate space and/or time. Whilst some evil god could certainly rewind the time of the entire universe to send you back, you'd retain both your mind and body as they were before that rewind. Supernatural powers that do not work by warping space and time specifically will still affect you as normal, even if they are altering or warping specific aspects of space or time. You are able to drop this protection if you would find it more beneficial for a time.
-300 CP - World Tree/Generic World Walker: The Gap Between Worlds isn't normally a hospitable place to reside in for very long even if you are a Worldwalker, having your existence unraveling at the seams is...not a pleasant experience. You are different, however, than most Worldwalkers; a bond between you and something residing in the Gap is established and you are bestowed upon a great boon. You are able to create pathways back to worlds you have been in before, allowing you to travel back to those worlds, and if you wish, can allow people you approve of to cross those pathways as well. In addition to the fact that your tree with your permission might open up doors to entirely new universes, you need not worry about ending up on some inhospitable land as the tree shall seek to place you within a safe and secure place.
In addition, this will grant you an inner world; a nascent universe located within your soul that will have certain features from past worlds added into it that develop your inner world more prominently. And at any time you may decide whether or not intelligent life will begin to foster in your new universe you may also choose to place any gardens or properties within this new universe.
This also acts as a Booster for any Items purchased.
-200 CP - Homestead/Generic World Walker: This pocket dimension is your very own personal respite from the many worlds of your journeys. Here, you find a warm and inviting home which you have shaped and crafted to your exact specifications. You can create this home in any way you wish - from a quaint cottage to a sprawling castle - and can design it to fit any kind of environment and climate. The pocket dimension provides you with a space to relax and regroup in between adventures and other travels, allowing you to take a break from the trials and tribulations of the world around you. Even better, time flows differently here and days can seem shorter or longer, depending on your needs. Inside your Homestead, you find that ailments to your body, mind, and soul slowly heal, restoring you to your best possible health in addition to the fact that with time your items can be intrinsically linked to this dimension in increasing its size. Finally, you find yourself surrounded in a sense of safety and peace, giving you the strength to continue on your amazing adventures.
Homestead Capstone Boosted -> Planar Hearth: Your pocket dimension has blossomed into a thriving universe, assimilating the Homestead within its boundaries. The beneficial effects of the Homestead have become intrinsic to the fabric of this universe, enhancing and expanding upon them. In this realm, a unique set of cozy physics govern every aspect of existence. Every action, every experience, is imbued with a sense of fulfillment and comfort. No extremes of temperature exist here – nothing is too hot or too cold. Dangerous elements are nullified, ensuring a safe and secure environment. The quality of everything within Planar Hearth is raised to the best possible degree within its confines. This universe is designed to evoke a profound feeling of being at home, a sense of contentment and peace that envelops all who enter. Planar Hearth is a sanctuary, a refuge where one can truly relax and be at ease. Welcome to a place where comfort and joy are woven into the very essence of reality. If you wish to seed this universe with various material materials/fauna, you are going to have to find them in your current location and implant them within your worlds. So for example, if you were in a marvel jump and found some adamantium you may place it within your world, and soon deposits of various metals shall begin to develop.
-300 CP - Outside Perspective/CW Arrowverse: Be it Marvel or DC, reality and the laws of physics are thrown out the window, history is altered, people erased or killed and everyone irreparably damaged. Whether through time travel or reality warping, these changes are inevitable which makes you somewhat of an anomaly. A rogue speedster travelling to the past kills you, well they'll be surprised to find you waking and talking in the present, a psychotic psychiatrist with an all-powerful book warps reality to turn the very air you breathe into poison, well they'll be surprised to find that there's a little pocket of air somehow still remaining for you to breathe, an evil cabal changes the very universe to live out their fantasies, well they'll be astonished to discover that you still retain your memories and abilities regardless. It could be said that if reality is a bubble, you exist in a smaller bubble that at all times encapsulates and protects you or if you don't like that idea fanwank, for example, you could make it genetic, magical etc.
-300 CP - Mutant/Generic Lewd Superheroes:
Blasted by cosmic rays, bitten by radioactive spiders, or just born quirky, your powers are a result of your biology being changed into a new form, superior to the human baseline. Mutants can have many powers, from shapeshifters who mold their bodies like clay, to men with the strength, reflexes, and natural abilities of a spider or other animals, to boys who can conjure fire in one hand and ice in the other.
These powers function like muscles in that they require stamina to use, but like a muscle they'll grow stronger and more flexible the more they're used and can even evolve new uses as you find your limits and go beyond them. Your mutant body's superior genes also give you first-rate sexual endowments and conscious control over your fertility, as well as powerful mutant pheromones that make you extremely attractive to non-mutants, like a natural aphrodisiac musk. Prolonged exposure can become mildly addictive, potentially even ruining your partners for non-mutant lovers. These changes breed true in your offspring, so should you choose to have children you could end up siring an entire race of superior superhumans.
(Mutant Power: Telekinetic Powers/Chronicle: Through strange means, you have gained the potential to do great things, though you might not notice it for the first few weeks. But after some time, you will come to realize the existence of what might be described as a new sort of muscle. One that allows you to use a power commonly called telekinesis in fiction.
After you first begin to use it, even moving a baseball around for a few seconds will be too much overexertion, the strain making your nose bleed. But like any other muscle, this one can be trained as well. Throughout the course of a few weeks, if you trained regularly, your power would grow by leaps and bounds, allowing you to easily move around cars, fly, or create a protective forcefield around yourself. And just a mere month after that, you would be able to throw around buses like they weighed nothing, easily fly through skyscrapers without harm, and create telekinetic pulses and vibrations to push away dozens of cars or threaten the structural integrity of multiple high-rises.
If you kept at it, who knows how much stronger you could become? However, do be aware that if you do not have any perks that increase your rate of growth. You may eventually reach a point where you cannot continue to improve.)
-200 CP - Black Boxed/Fate Apocrypha V1.4: Sure, sharing your stuff is all well and good… but on the off chance you want to keep a few things to yourself, or make sure you're not expendable, this is the option for you. Now, regardless of analysis or how long you've actually worked with someone on your projects, nobody else can reverse engineer or even fully use anything you've developed or made if you don't want them to. You can include and exclude people at will and at any time – up to you if one day somebody's an expert with your stuff, the next they can't even figure out how to turn it on.
(OK boys and girls a new snippet for you guys. This one is a bit of a tossup to be honest I saw a new type of celestial format that being the celestial bordello and wanted to make a story out of it, but I made my own version think of it less sex perks, and more R18 version of the celestial Forge.. if you guys thought that Gale had enough beauty perks, then were in for a trip here… if you guys want information on the setting, this is the universe of earth mightiest heroes but specifically in the mid 2000s so the beginning of wolverine and the X-Men I'll leave you guys to fill in the blanks. If you guys have any questions, feel free to comment now I have to return to the goon cave… I mean my totally normal abode. I will be posting the possible look of our main character in the comments as well.)