Xander [Quest]: Reborn on the Hellmouth
- Thread starter Judge Mental
- Start date
- Location
- East of Sun, West of Moon
[X] Keep dividing our time. Also:
[X] Learning Experience - Link, and to a lesser extent Zelda, showed us that Power is not everything. For showing us that, we owe them a debt - and what better way to repay that debt, than to take their lesson to heart? If we lack Power, Link showed us that Courage still gives us a chance. If we lack Courage, Zelda showed us that Wisdom can still find a way.
We might have lost the Triforce of Power, but perhaps we have still gained something in the exchange...
[X] Learning Experience - Link, and to a lesser extent Zelda, showed us that Power is not everything. For showing us that, we owe them a debt - and what better way to repay that debt, than to take their lesson to heart? If we lack Power, Link showed us that Courage still gives us a chance. If we lack Courage, Zelda showed us that Wisdom can still find a way.
We might have lost the Triforce of Power, but perhaps we have still gained something in the exchange...
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
[x] Plan Lord Sia
- Location
- California
[X] Keep dividing our time. Also:
[X] Learning Experience - Link, and to a lesser extent Zelda, showed us that Power is not everything. For showing us that, we owe them a debt - and what better way to repay that debt, than to take their lesson to heart? If we lack Power, Link showed us that Courage still gives us a chance. If we lack Courage, Zelda showed us that Wisdom can still find a way.
We might have lost the Triforce of Power, but perhaps we have still gained something in the exchange...
[X] Learning Experience - Link, and to a lesser extent Zelda, showed us that Power is not everything. For showing us that, we owe them a debt - and what better way to repay that debt, than to take their lesson to heart? If we lack Power, Link showed us that Courage still gives us a chance. If we lack Courage, Zelda showed us that Wisdom can still find a way.
We might have lost the Triforce of Power, but perhaps we have still gained something in the exchange...
Judge Mental
Stranger In a Strange Land
[x] Keep dividing your efforts evenly between the dreams and waking life.
You have just celebrated your first birthday. It was a modest event, just a bunch of your extended family showing up for cake and presents - mostly new clothes, which like most children of this age, you're regularly outgrowing. By this time, you've figured out how to stand up, how to walk with support from walls, furniture, or helpful tall people, and how to take a few steps entirely under your own power before your balance gives out. You're a veritable sprinter when crawling on all fours, and anything within about three feet of the floor that isn't locked away or tied down is yours to play with.
Gained Physical Prowess F++
You've had three more of your past-life dreams, and you've learned some interesting things from each. The first dream showed Ganondorf exercising his power to lay curses on his foes - for he has more than just Link and Zelda - to transform existing creatures into more powerful, more evil versions of themselves, and to summon forth mystical servitors. The second dream displayed a direct confrontation between Ganondorf and Link. There was flying, teleportation, balls of energy sizzling back and forth through the air like a death game of tennis, the creation of force-fields and illusions, and good old fashioned swordplay and hand-to-hand. Finally, in the third dream, you saw Ganondorf unleash his full Power, defying death itself to become the almighty Beast.
While the events of the three dreams were entertaining enough, if a little frightening, what's really interesting is that you could sort of see what Ganondorf was doing each time he called on his magic. While you don't have his incredible Power or obvious familiarity with controlling it, you were able to puzzle out how to gather magical energy like you saw Ganondort doing in your dreams. It takes you most of a minute, and you can't really do anything with the power you gather - despite being pure energy, it doesn't give off light, generate heat or static, or produce any kind of pressure. It's just sort of there, until it inevitably fizzles away a few seconds later. Still, it's a start.
Gained Aura of Power F+
You've managed to keep your experiments with magic hidden from your parents, and life at home is okay. Your mother has been talking about taking you to daycare and going back to work; your father seems neutral on the subject.
Now that you have the options of mobility and fetching stuff on your own, what will you focus your efforts on over the next year?
Pick 1 course of action.
[ ] Basic combat practice.
[ ] Basic magic practice.
[ ] Basic mental exercise.
[ ] Basic physical exercise.
[ ] Basic social practice.
[ ] Basic spiritual exercise.
[ ] Develop another skill (write-in).
You have just celebrated your first birthday. It was a modest event, just a bunch of your extended family showing up for cake and presents - mostly new clothes, which like most children of this age, you're regularly outgrowing. By this time, you've figured out how to stand up, how to walk with support from walls, furniture, or helpful tall people, and how to take a few steps entirely under your own power before your balance gives out. You're a veritable sprinter when crawling on all fours, and anything within about three feet of the floor that isn't locked away or tied down is yours to play with.
Gained Physical Prowess F++
You've had three more of your past-life dreams, and you've learned some interesting things from each. The first dream showed Ganondorf exercising his power to lay curses on his foes - for he has more than just Link and Zelda - to transform existing creatures into more powerful, more evil versions of themselves, and to summon forth mystical servitors. The second dream displayed a direct confrontation between Ganondorf and Link. There was flying, teleportation, balls of energy sizzling back and forth through the air like a death game of tennis, the creation of force-fields and illusions, and good old fashioned swordplay and hand-to-hand. Finally, in the third dream, you saw Ganondorf unleash his full Power, defying death itself to become the almighty Beast.
While the events of the three dreams were entertaining enough, if a little frightening, what's really interesting is that you could sort of see what Ganondorf was doing each time he called on his magic. While you don't have his incredible Power or obvious familiarity with controlling it, you were able to puzzle out how to gather magical energy like you saw Ganondort doing in your dreams. It takes you most of a minute, and you can't really do anything with the power you gather - despite being pure energy, it doesn't give off light, generate heat or static, or produce any kind of pressure. It's just sort of there, until it inevitably fizzles away a few seconds later. Still, it's a start.
Gained Aura of Power F+
You've managed to keep your experiments with magic hidden from your parents, and life at home is okay. Your mother has been talking about taking you to daycare and going back to work; your father seems neutral on the subject.
Now that you have the options of mobility and fetching stuff on your own, what will you focus your efforts on over the next year?
Pick 1 course of action.
[ ] Basic combat practice.
[ ] Basic magic practice.
[ ] Basic mental exercise.
[ ] Basic physical exercise.
[ ] Basic social practice.
[ ] Basic spiritual exercise.
[ ] Develop another skill (write-in).
avatar11792
Et Sic Incipit
- Location
- Planet Earth, North America
[X] Basic physical exercise.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
[x] Basic spiritual exercise.
ThatGazzer
Minds Eye Bind
- Location
- PNW
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Basic physical exercise.
PhoenixFTW
Insert Witty One-Liner Here
- Location
- Minnesota
[x] Basic social practice.
Diplomancer ho!
Diplomancer ho!
First day of kindergarden, so five or six.manamyst said:
Judge Mental
Stranger In a Strange Land
[x] Basic physical exercise.
You decide to keep things simple for now, and spend the next year focused on mastering your body's natural capabilities. You stand and walk as much as possible, and while you fall a great deal, you always pick yourself up quickly afterwards. After a time, you fall less and less often. You gravitate to the largest, heaviest toys you can find, and the manner in which you play with them involves a great deal of pushing, lifting, and the occasional bout of throwing. When your mother follows through on her plan and starts taking you to a daycare, you take the opportunity to use the other kids as training partners and practice dummies. Tag for speed, catch for hand-eye coordination, wrestling for strength, hide and seek for a certain amount of stealth - you don't win every game, but you inevitably end up in the top three, thanks to your natural physical talent and your competetive nature. The other kids are simply playing to play; you are playing for a purpose.
Gained Physical Prowess F+++
There are consequences to your focus on physical activity. You need lots of energy to fuel your constant activity, which means you develop a hearty appetite. This in turn leads to you growing quite a bit - by the time your second birthday rolls around, you've developed the build of a three-year-old. Your unusual size combined with your rather aggressive style of play means that some of the other kids have taken to avoiding you, and the daycare workers have gotten watchful. It's nothing overt, and they haven't made you sit any time-outs or called your parents because of it - at least, not yet.
Gained Intimidating F
Gained Powerful Build F
Naturally, you learn other things over the course of the year. Basic language skills, object recognition, simple socialization, and many other little things besides - there's a great deal to learn, or in your case to re-learn, but since you've done it all before, you don't have any real trouble keeping up with the rest of your daycare group. Your on-again, off-again practice with your nascent magic didn't yield any real results. A girl in your play-group moved away, and a couple more kids replaced her, but you couldn't really be bothered about the specifics.
Things at home are alright. Neither of your parents has a particularly large paycheck, but together, they bring in enough to ensure a comfortable middle-class existence. Your mother sighs a bit over how fast you're growing, complaining that it's getting very hard for her to pick you up anymore or sit you on her lap. The same phenomenon seems to delight your father, who gets you a brown, pointy-ended inflated bladder he calls a "football" for your birthday and spends a fair amount of time teaching you how to throw and catch it, while Mother, Uncle Rory, and a few other relatives look on with varying levels of amusement. You note that most of the family have bottles of beer in hand, and go through two or three apiece over the course of the afternoon; Dad puts his first bottle aside to play with you, and barely finishes it by the end of the party.
You have six more dreams this year, coming every two months almost like clockwork. Your recent focus on physical training appears to have shifted the contents of your dreaming recollections, as most of what you see involves Ganondorf as a child, undergoing medieval sport- and combat-training exercises. You took mental notes of things that looked promising.
How will you spend the next year? Pick one course of action.
[ ] Basic combat practice.
[ ] Basic magic practice.
[ ] Basic mental exercise.
[ ] More physical exercise.
[ ] Basic social practice.
[ ] Basic spiritual exercise.
You decide to keep things simple for now, and spend the next year focused on mastering your body's natural capabilities. You stand and walk as much as possible, and while you fall a great deal, you always pick yourself up quickly afterwards. After a time, you fall less and less often. You gravitate to the largest, heaviest toys you can find, and the manner in which you play with them involves a great deal of pushing, lifting, and the occasional bout of throwing. When your mother follows through on her plan and starts taking you to a daycare, you take the opportunity to use the other kids as training partners and practice dummies. Tag for speed, catch for hand-eye coordination, wrestling for strength, hide and seek for a certain amount of stealth - you don't win every game, but you inevitably end up in the top three, thanks to your natural physical talent and your competetive nature. The other kids are simply playing to play; you are playing for a purpose.
Gained Physical Prowess F+++
There are consequences to your focus on physical activity. You need lots of energy to fuel your constant activity, which means you develop a hearty appetite. This in turn leads to you growing quite a bit - by the time your second birthday rolls around, you've developed the build of a three-year-old. Your unusual size combined with your rather aggressive style of play means that some of the other kids have taken to avoiding you, and the daycare workers have gotten watchful. It's nothing overt, and they haven't made you sit any time-outs or called your parents because of it - at least, not yet.
Gained Intimidating F
Gained Powerful Build F
Naturally, you learn other things over the course of the year. Basic language skills, object recognition, simple socialization, and many other little things besides - there's a great deal to learn, or in your case to re-learn, but since you've done it all before, you don't have any real trouble keeping up with the rest of your daycare group. Your on-again, off-again practice with your nascent magic didn't yield any real results. A girl in your play-group moved away, and a couple more kids replaced her, but you couldn't really be bothered about the specifics.
Things at home are alright. Neither of your parents has a particularly large paycheck, but together, they bring in enough to ensure a comfortable middle-class existence. Your mother sighs a bit over how fast you're growing, complaining that it's getting very hard for her to pick you up anymore or sit you on her lap. The same phenomenon seems to delight your father, who gets you a brown, pointy-ended inflated bladder he calls a "football" for your birthday and spends a fair amount of time teaching you how to throw and catch it, while Mother, Uncle Rory, and a few other relatives look on with varying levels of amusement. You note that most of the family have bottles of beer in hand, and go through two or three apiece over the course of the afternoon; Dad puts his first bottle aside to play with you, and barely finishes it by the end of the party.
You have six more dreams this year, coming every two months almost like clockwork. Your recent focus on physical training appears to have shifted the contents of your dreaming recollections, as most of what you see involves Ganondorf as a child, undergoing medieval sport- and combat-training exercises. You took mental notes of things that looked promising.
How will you spend the next year? Pick one course of action.
[ ] Basic combat practice.
[ ] Basic magic practice.
[ ] Basic mental exercise.
[ ] More physical exercise.
[ ] Basic social practice.
[ ] Basic spiritual exercise.
avatar11792
Et Sic Incipit
- Location
- Planet Earth, North America
[X] Basic social practice.
The daycare showed the dangers of being...too physical. We should interact and be friendly with others as well, not forget our roots. If this Ganondorf guy was a bad guy, we should try to avoid that.
Also, keep up being physical, at least a little bit. It seems we're already helping our father not to drink, maybe we can keep that up. Play with him a lot, should overlap with socially interacting with people, plus avoid the abusive alcoholic part.
The daycare showed the dangers of being...too physical. We should interact and be friendly with others as well, not forget our roots. If this Ganondorf guy was a bad guy, we should try to avoid that.
Also, keep up being physical, at least a little bit. It seems we're already helping our father not to drink, maybe we can keep that up. Play with him a lot, should overlap with socially interacting with people, plus avoid the abusive alcoholic part.
