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Hunger
Prologue 0.3
[X] Tool
[X] Realistic
[X] The Acolyte
Satiety: 60/100
Sanity: 80/100
All of this because of your abilities. Things you've had for as long as you can remember. Things that set you apart from the rest of mankind.
And you can't help but think of them as a
Tool. A very unique tool with very unique applications. For all their harm, they have indisputable benefits. More to the point, as far as you can tell they aren't going anywhere. The only thing you can do is make the best of them.
You're a
Realist, after all. You look at this pragmatically. In facts and reason. In what you can use, not in what might be.
It doesn't matter where they came from or why you have them. What matters is that they're yours, and you will control them.
The rest of the world...might not look at it the same way. The prophecy, or whatever that was, that those "trolls" told
Father was rather dark. It didn't have good implications for you. You didn't put much stock in them yourself, but everyone else was a different story.
You doubted that father told the rest of the castle about the prophecy. He loved, and he was a man of his principles. While the prophecy might have inspired some fear or worry in him, he carried more than enough about you to try and keep you safe despite it. Its why you were here, after all.
Well...and so you didn't freeze the whole castle.
Idly you wondered if
Mother knew about it. And what would she think about you if she did?
Would she still love you?
You shake your head, the maelstrom of thoughts far from a nice and happy place. Instead of wallowing in loneliness and despair, you looked around the room for something to spend your time with. Finally, you spot something.
Books.
A small collection of them. Your Papa brought them up. You had a very large selection of them, but a few were your favorites. Books you could read over and over and never get bored. They could eat up hours, days even. They filled your head with such wondrous tales and images, setting your mind alight with imagination.
So as you reached down to pick up a book to read, you carefully grabbed your most treasured book of all…
The Acolyte. Reading it stirs something deep inside you. You can feel your magic churn beneath your skin. It reaches the depths of the soul, making your very essence feel. A gust of frosted wind swirls through the room as your magic thrums in your soul.
You've always been really interested in your magic and where it comes from. You assumed it was the soul, it was the only conclusion that made sense, and, well...it felt right.
Unfortunately, there wasn't really much in the way of official texts on the matter. Which is to say there was none. At least, none that father could find. Magic had been relegated to myths and stories.
But, those stories proved useful enough. Even if they weren't quite facts, they always helped inspire you. To help you imagine what your magic could do and would it could be. Already, your mind whirled at the possibilities. Your magic tingled at the edge of your fingers.
Inspired, you decided to play with your abilities, making sculptures of ice and storms of snow within your room.
-10 Satiety
-2 Sanity
+ 50 Exp Ice Magic
Ice Magic Level 2 [50/100]
And at the end of it, you saw a bird land upon your windowsill. A beautiful raven with a dark coat of feathers that almost glittered in the light.
A delightful note from nature to end the day.
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You jolt up from your spot, suddenly very aware of your surroundings.
You can feel it, an intrusion on your
Domain. The area around you, so steeped in your own magic you could feel every presence within it. And something Warm just entered it. Something alive.
Nothing like the bird, oh no. The bird was small, tiny, barely worth mention at all. As were all the other tiny animals and insects that inhabited once this corner of the castle.
But you felt their energy wither and die under the unforgiving hunger of your aura long ago.
No, this was something big. Someone big. They had to be human, you could tell. There was a certain special spark in them that you could feel. You suspected it was the soul, but you didn't exactly have much room to compare. Then there was the fact that you'd never seen felt something that large enter your Domain that wasn't human. If there was something that large and warm moving about the castle that wasn't human, that would be a problem.
And after this became your Domain and the temperature had plummeted, scarcely any human remained here to keep you company. Which left only one option.
Papa.
Papa's here to see me You realized with wide eyes. Suddenly, your mind was moving a million miles a minute.
You hadn't thought he would arrive yet. To be honest, your sense of time had become somewhat loose since you entered the tower. Days lost much of their meaning without a structure in place to give it. And now Papa was here to visit you once again, to attempt to keep you company.
You could feel his steps upon the frost covered floors of the palace. Halls you walked yourself once it had become your Domain. Excursions of exploration and boredom as you investigated the area under your influence. You had walked the dead and silent halls, once filled with life and light.
And so too did you Papa march through the hungry halls, each step one moment closer to the inevitable meeting.
Harried, your mind frantically spins as you panic internally.
But once again, the stream of time slips through your delicate fingers. All too soon, you hear the dreaded sound.
Knock
Knock
Knock
"Elsa?" His deep rumbling voice calls out.
"...It's your father."
You respond…
[ ] Warmly
- He's your father, after all.
- Brightly smile and greet emphatically him in return.
- Maybe even hug him.
- Moderate chance of success
- If success, moderately-greatly warm relations.
- If fail, inspire moderate to high fear.
- High chance of reaction
- Chance to gain [????]
[ ] Coldly
- You know why he's really here.
- Return his smile with a face etched from the coldest ice of the mountains. Greet him formally.
- Neither of you enjoys this, but you'll be civil.
- High chance of success
- If success, inspire moderate to low concern and potentially low fear.
- If fail, inspire moderate fear.
- Small chance of reaction.
- Will talk no matter what.
- Small chance to gain [????]
[ ] Timidly
- Your father is quite the imposing man, and considering your problems…
- Do your best to smile and greet him in return.
- Try to keep stuttering to a minimum.
- Low chance of failure.
- If success, inspire high-low concern
- If fail, inspire fear in self.
- Potential San loss.
- High chance of reaction.
- Chance to gain [????]
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Hunger: 50/100
Sanity 78/100
Gained:
[Soul] Domain Lvl 1:
- When inhabiting an area for an extended period of time, your magic and influence seep into the area, making it yours.
- Growth rate: 10 meters per week.
- Grants instinctual knowledge of the area and all within it.
- +5 to all roles in Domain.
A/n:
Alright, so this is going to be the first time dice rolls come into play. And it's pretty big. This is going to help determine whether you really love your family. Anna's locked in, so we have to look at how you feel about the rest of them. This is going to color your interactions with them from here on out.
It's also going to color how you interact with people on the whole. Depending on how it goes, you might even get a trait out of the whole deal, a trait that would help deal with your lack of Charisma.
because if you haven't checked, I rolled Elsa's stats.
It's....it's a really good thing you guys put her on the Soul path. Magic's basically the only thing she's got going for her.