Uhh... Well, that's very true. NSMS hasn't updated anything in... a long time actually. *Turns to NSMS* Everything alright? Or just can't find any motivation/inspiration? And I know what its like to be lacking in motivation, so that's a perfectly okay excuse in my book.
Complete loss of motivation. Every time I try to write something quest-related, my brain basically does this:

Needless to say, this isn't exactly conductive to writing updates.

Any ideas on which option means what? Might as well throw a dice otherwise.
Tekomandor said she was inspired by my quest, and a similar choice at the beginning of that (according to player theories anyway...) was retroactively believed to be a choice between Quincy/Hollow/Shinigami themed powers. Assuming something similar is at work here:

Purity: Quincy (their whole erasure of enemies thing, white clothing, etc)
Duality: Hollow (Vizard are dual natured beings)
Spontaneity: Shinigami (it's the one left over, and it could lend itself to spontaneously developing new Shinigami abilities)

Of course, I could be entirely wrong about this. If I am, I'd make the following guesses:

Purity: Power/destruction, or healing (purifying enemies by obliterating them completely, or purifying self by healing)
Duality: Twin-bladed zanpakuto, or elemental powers that oppose one another (fire and water, earth and rock, etc)
Spontaneity: No idea

Therefore, I am voting:

[X] Duality
 
Complete loss of motivation. Every time I try to write something quest-related, my brain basically does this:
Tekomandor said she was inspired by my quest, and a similar choice at the beginning of that (according to player theories anyway...) was retroactively believed to be a choice between Quincy/Hollow/Shinigami themed powers. Assuming something similar is at work here:

Purity: Quincy (their whole erasure of enemies thing, white clothing, etc)
Duality: Hollow (Vizard are dual natured beings)
Spontaneity: Shinigami (it's the one left over, and it could lend itself to spontaneously developing new Shinigami abilities)
[X] Duality
Thank you. Sadly I also know next to nothing about Bleach. I'm just here because it's a Tekomandor quest. Could you give me a short summary on how these power sets differ?
 
Bleach 101
[X] Duality
Could you give me a short summary on how these power sets differ?
Bleach 101:

There's your body and your soul. Your body sucks, ignore that, we're all ghosts here. Your soul is composed of spirit particles, also known as your power level. Referred to as either reishi or reiryoku depending on stuff I can't remember, because this is Japanese and we like to make pointless distinctions for pedants to masturbate to. I'm calling it ghost power. When you die, the link between your body and soul is severed, and starts corroding. When the link is totally gone and the corrosion reaches your heart, you turn into a Hollow, a ghost cannibal that seeks to fill the hole in its soul by eating other ghosts. Your power is derived from how many ghosts you've eaten, and sheer weight of ghost power. There are several distinctions between levels of Hollow, based essentially on how many orders of magnitude are required to measure the number of ghosts they've eaten, from scrub tier to Gillian to Adjuchas to the nigh-mythical Vasto Lorde. There exists a ghost world/dimension dominated by Hollows known as Hueco Mundo, where everything is Spanish because fuck you Spanish is cool.

Opposing the ghost cannibals, there is a group of psychopomps called Shinigami (lit. Death God). They use their ghost magic (kidou) and their ghost sword (zanpakutou, which are created from asauchi, and intensely personal to each Shinigami) to send ghosts to their curiously outdated and strangely Edo-period Japan-like ghost world, the Rukongai, and purify those ghosts who have become ghost cannibals and send them to the ghost world. Shinigami are almost universally those souls that are naturally really full of ghost power. The really talented ones bind their ghost power into a set of restrictions that they can release for a power up, known as Shikai and Bankai. Many have Shikai, few have Bankai. Each Shikai and Bankai is unique and has special ghost powers.

They live in the center of the Rukongai, the Seireitei, from which radiates law and order before reaching the outer districts, like District 80, where one pretty famous ghost comes from. They are lead by thirteen very strong ghosts, Captains, with lieutenants and seated officers below them. If you have Bankai, you're said to be ready to be a Captain.

Basically no one under lieutenant matters in the series, which is almost totally divorced from the low-street-level conflicts that supposedly make up the majority of the supernatural. You can safely ignore the scrubs, in other words, unless you are one. Not!Rana may or may not be a scrub, but it seems likely she isn't, from both a Doylist and Watsonian point of view.

Shinigami face competition from Quincies, who are theoretically ghost mediums who got tired of being eaten by ghost cannibals, because ghost mediums are apparently really tasty to ghosts. They have ghost bows that gather ambient ghost power into ghost arrows that they use to destroy the souls of the ghost cannibals rather than send it to the ghost world, so the Shinigami attacked and killed most of them to preserve the balance between the physical and the ghost worlds, because apparently they have to regulate the flow between them or else everything collapses or something. Quincies use German, except where they use Japanese, because, again, fuck you German is cool.

The Quincies do not have a ghost world, because they suck and are basically jumped-up humans who somehow interact with ghosts despite being physical or something.

There's also Hell, which we know close to nothing about, except that really bad ghosts get sent there instead of Shinigami-ghost world.

There's more to it, but that's spoilers for the series. I dunno if you're interested. But that's the gist of it.
 
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Thanks. I assume if we die as a ghost we die for real, with no after-afterlife?

Edit: Also: Is there a way to get the memories of our life before this back? Seems like that would be a priority for someone in this situation.
If we die we either reincarnate as a newborn human with no memories of our past existence(s), or vanish from existence. Depending on what it is precisely that kills us.
 
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