I'm not Sharing! Sevenfold+ Bodyshare Isekai Adventure.
Chapter 0.0 - - How it all Begins
Quest Info:
Hello Questers!
So, it's a tale that's been done to death (pardon the pun); someone succumbs to an ignoble end only to find themselves in a new world with unique powers that make them a super special snowflake. Cue power fantasy, endless escalation, easy harams and everything else in between and under the sun.
Let's put a different spin on it this time.
Welcome to "I'm not Sharing", a quest I'll write in my idle time when the muse for "It's a Girl's World" is being uncooperative. In this Isekai quest, we will guide a group of trillions of lost souls all isekaied with a slight mix up. They will all be sharing the same body.
Seven personalities shall be intact enough to exist as distinct entities and take turns holding the steering wheel to begin with. Each with their own unexplained fiat systems and requirements to stay alive. Can we help them handle the chaos? Will the world they are about to be inflicted upon be able to handle them? (Pitchforks and/or cuddles may become involved)
I guess we'll all find out...
Let's not delay any further. Time to introduce our cast!
Mazie May – Shy Prepschooler {System: Sir Cheshire the Unicorn}
Bio: Mazie was a shy girl with a small group of friends who found it hard to talk to new people. She died on her way to daycare during the holidays. Mazie does not remember exactly how it happened. One minute she was playing with her dolls and Sir Cheshire her best horse toy in the backseat of the car, then there was suddenly a sharp wrenching feeling and it felt like her seatbelt was trying to push itself into her chest. Before she could call out the world became nothing but the sounds of shrieking metal and shattering glass, there was a moment of terrible pain, then nothing.
System Description: Rather than growing herself, Mazie's system manifests as Sir Cheshire, a sentient projected familiar who is a defender, companion and mentor all wrapped up into one. He is incredibly flexible, growing according to what Mazie feels she most lacks, his powers will always slowly adapt in a direction to best support Mazie having the most wholesome life possible.
In the beginning, Sir Cheshire is basically just a really awesome horse with a sharp penetrating horn. But can quickly develop to take on far more fantastical features.
Survival Condition: Find a sense of hope that things are going to work out okay within 24 hours or your seed will be recalled.
Lisara Gwen – Strangled Maiden {System: Behold Her Radiance}
Bio: Lisara always dreamed of her wedding day, betrothed to the baron's son since the age of ten, her sixteenth birthday was supposed to be the happiest of her life. The short ritual under the moon to confirm her purity was supposed to be nothing more than a technicality, but when the tealeaves floated instead of sinking she could not believe her eyes. The omen was wrong! She had not dishonoured her family and clan! Lisara's pleas fell on deaf ears as the elders surrounded her and bound her in heavy ropes. It fell to her fiancé to render the judgement; Lisara died under the cold moonlit night with his hands around her throat. As she choked on her last gasps of air, the panic and pain slowly fading as blackness crawled into the edges of her vision, Lisara swore a curse upon the heavens and world for betraying her, upon her own family for not believing her, upon false signs and deceiving omens. She should have never trusted anyone but herself.
System Description: Lisara's system seeks to make her indispensable to those around her. Revolving around concepts of collective momentum, it allows her to insert herself into any hierarchy and immediately benefit the established structure in such a way that it becomes inconceivable to remove her from it. Initially this is through subtle increases or efficiency and other beneficial tweaks, but over time can build into reality-defying synergies that define a nation. She is at her most vulnerable when unproven, having precisely zero power until willingly inducted into an existing authority structure.
Survival Condition: Make a friend who you genuinely trust to not stab you in the back within 24 hours or your seed will be recalled.
Harold Bathe – Joyful Killer {System: Serene Sanguine Sins}
Bio: The less said about many of Harolds escapades, the better. An unrepentant sadist, Harold's stint of serial murders were as horrific as they were creative. The day that he received a lethal injection, not even his parents were present. His only regret in life, that he wasn't able to kill more.
Harold also enjoys arts and crafts and philosophical debates, overall quite the charming talker when not inventing novel forms of harm.
System Description: Harold's System is simple and brutal, growing stronger alongside his fatality count. It manifests the archetypical sins as discrete attributes he can place increasing power into. These vices supernaturally affect Harold and the world around him in far reaching and intrusive ways, the only feature they share in common being that they make it directly easier to sow destruction and discord into his surroundings. Investing in Wroth might see Harold become innately aware of the weak points to target in others. Investing in Sloth might see those around Harold always take longer than they should to react to his movements. You get the idea.
Survival Condition: Murder one or kill ten people within the next 24 hours or your seed will be recalled. Sentient non-humans are an appropriate substitute.
Yuan Xipay – Abandoned Levy {System: Climb the Hundred Heavens}
Bio: Called into his prince's service, Yuan was a young fisherman before being conscripted into the conflict between roaming warlords. After two years of hard marches and gruelling conditions he'd been lucky to even survive, Yuan met his end when the army retreated back from the vanguard he was a part of. Speared through the abdomen in the ensuring encirclement, Yuan drowned in a rice field thinking of his parent's faces and hoping they would be proud. If only he'd been able to do more.
System Description: Yuan's system behaves like a stereotypical fantasy cultivator. Through inward mediation and the collection and distillation of rare ingredients, he can push his body and mind to impossible heights through a series of increasing internal revelations and breakthroughs. There is a distinct elemental theme to his cultivation, being split between Fire, Air, Earth and Water and meta-physical concepts to individually progress along.
Survival Condition: Attain a Semblance in the first tier of the first rank of the first domain of cultivation within 24 hours or your seed will be recalled.
Sebastian Rooks – Disgraced Doctor {System: Demonological Codex}
Bio: With several malpractice lawsuits pending and his accounts already empty from extensive litigation, Sebastian didn't give the bastards the satisfaction of taking him down. He went out on his own terms. That's the way he used to think about it, Sebastian had an uncharacteristic change of heart in the space between lives, looking on his past abuses with tremendous shame. He truly hopes he can do better this time.
System Description: Sebastian's system allows him to commune with demons without being caught in unintended pacts or contracts. His system lets him innately know the inherent limits and loopholes of any deal, making any negotiation with eldritch entities a... safe is a strong word... 'manageable' affair. He has the potential to effectively be a Warlock on his own terms, only sacrificing what he is explicitly okay with. Sebastian also has a knack for sussing out the necessary rituals to contact entities that will be interested in what he has to offer. Thread the needle wisely.
Survival Condition: Form a contract with your first corrupted meta-physical entity within 24 hours or your seed will be recalled.
Jeremy Plunkett – A Simple Life lived. {System: Game Layer}
Bio: Jeremy was smart enough to figure out he was a bit slower than most children by about six years old. Mum and Dad were always so understanding though, always looking out for him. He thought he'd be able to have a normal adult life one day. But Mum and Dad explained to him that that just wasn't a realistic dream. After all, he was often quite sick and so very dumb, it just wouldn't be safe for him to try and live without their support. Jeremy's younger sister used to argue with Mum and Dad about whether Jeremy should be able to come live with her instead for a while, she disagreed with mum and dad about Jeremy staying at home. Eventually she stopped trying. Jeremy isn't sure how he died. He went to sleep one night, and that's it.
System Description: A lover of just about any video game for their ability to transport Jeremy out into worlds beyond the four walls of his home, Jeremy's system abstracts reality into a videogame facsimile with attributes, skills and classes. His power will represent the way it works for others in the world you are about to be isekaied into, but his abstraction will make it easier to progress than for the natives and strip away all the boring bits like actually having to understand how any of it works.
Survival Condition: Complete your first Quest "Try things until you reach level one" and get at least one 'Achievement' within 24 hours or your seed will be recalled.
Planno #2672 – Terminated Slave {System: Founder Beacon}
Bio: Planno did not question her life. Her place was to serve. She was one among many, labouring for the great king in the construction of the monument to venerate his magnificence. She hoped to grow older and was disappointed when the minders sealed the tunnels of monument with them inside. She wanted to live, but accepted that it was her place to die. She starved alongside the ten thousand other slaves inside the great ruler's tomb. It was only in the space between lives that Planno discovered how small and insignificant hers had been relative to others. That rage and indignation at the injustice of her allotment is part of what allowed her to retain a cohesive identity among the uncountable crowd of the nowhere. If Planno ever gets the chance, she wants to be able to enjoy the benefits of what she builds.
System Description: Planno's System serves as a meta-physical hub that trivialises many of the economic and other related obstacles to founding and maintaining a civilisation's infrastructure. She is a locus around which people of common purpose can build something truly great. Space, time and material will slowly become less and less of hinderance in the construction of first a tiny village, but eventually the most massive metropolis the world has ever seen.
Survival Condition: Establish a Collective of at least 15 believers dedicated to the cause of constructing your sanctuary and city within the next 24 hours or your seed will be recalled.
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Mediator – Soul Interface {System: Fiat Weaver Points}
Bio: And there is me. Mediator. I'm the only thing awake at the moment. I don't know who made me, and for what purpose they jammed us all together. They were clearly immensely powerful. All I know is that it is my job to keep the arrangement stable and try to help everyone stay alive. I need to pick who to wake up first. The rest will follow soon after, but the order may be very important.
System Description: I can sort of take causality and slowly weave it into fiat-backed effects. Sky's the limit really. It's going to take me quite some time to build up enough to make anything of practical use though.
Survival Condition: I don't have one. I'm not a person. I am Mediator. My sole function and goal is keep the assembly alive.
The Raving Trillions – Innumerable Melange {System: ????}
Bio: Trillions is honestly an understatement. This is an impossible number of individuals and fragments of individuals who were on some level unsatisfied with their lives or how they ended. Right now, all they seem to be good for is making a ton of noise with all the uncomprehending screams and wails at the unmaking touch of non-space. But perhaps I could eventually piece together a couple more stable personalities.
System Description: Beats me. Whatever systems they have, they are not cognizant enough to activate them.
Survival Condition: They're all just along for the ride right now, but I assume we'd get some more conditions if I managed to awaken a few more.
The Setup:
You are about to be dumped in the middle of a completely unknown world. Expect wild tropes to be roaming around, but what you should really fear are the things that appear normal to the untrained eye.
Choose which of the seven minds will be the first to awaken. Your body will be heavily influenced by the first mind you select. You will be in a race against time to meet their survival condition as the other minds all quickly start occupying the same space. Survival conditions start counting down when that mind awakens. Failing to meet any survival condition results in immediate seed recall (Quest Termination).
There are things I am not telling you. Things that will make this quest harder.
Good luck.
Voting:
They were the First: Who among the seven shall be the sole occupant on arrival to the unknown isekai world? They will be alone with only their own power to rely on for likely close to half a day.
[ ] [TwtF] Mazie May
[ ] [TwtF] Lisara Gwen
[ ] [TwtF] Harold Bathe
[ ] [TwtF] Yuan Xipay
[ ] [TwtF] Sebastian Rooks
[ ] [TwtF] Jeremy Plunkett
[ ] [TwtF] Planno #2672
