-- POWERS --
| Innate Powers |
• Dao Child - You were touched by the Heavenly Dao, which blessed you with the quest of adventure; and you have journeyed atop the grass of the Seedbed. There is no other who has achieved both of these Great Accomplishments.
You have been granted great talent in the ways of Taoism, and will find that the Dao of Creation comes to you with greater ease then all but the gods.
• Accelerated Learning - Learn mundane skills at an accelerated rate (+100%), and supernatural skills at a slightly increased rate (+30%)
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| Learned Powers |
Divination
• Divination (Ch. 2) - The ability to divine an answer to a posed question, through various methods; be it seeking wisdom from the natural world, a revelation from a divine being, or through simple magic.
• Stickfall (Ch. 2) - With a mighty length of wood in hand, and the ever present power of gravity, you can learn the direction to that which you seek. Whether it be person, object, or idea, the Divine Stick will always lead you straight.
• Spirit Reading (Ch. 3) - All thing in creation carry their history with them at all times; whether they choose to openly display it on themselves, or bury it deep with, never to share even with those closest to them.
With Spirit Reading, you can soothe the spirit, and lead it to reveal itself to you. When this method is taken to its extreme, it can be used to guide the restless dead into acceptance.
• Dream Divination (Ch. 5) - Whilst either asleep, or deep in meditation, you can peer into the past, present, and future. Caution is advised when using this method, as there are entities that will be able to perceive you, and might choose to take action against you.
Try not to get lost.
• Weakness Reading (Ch. 25) - Barring entities that are inherently perfect, all things carry varying weaknesses, no matter how powerful they may be. You have learnt, while under the threat of death by demon, to discover these weaknesses, granting you the chance to defeat even the most seemingly unassailable foe.
• Strength Reading (Ch. 25) - From the smallest mote of life, to the great embodying concepts that control reality, each have their own strengths and power. From the ability to breathe underwater, to being able to extinguish the sun with a thought, or force the universe to collapse in on itself with a wish; anything is possible.
By reverse engineering the process of acquiring Weakness Detection, you have learnt how to uncover its inverse, Strength, helping you to discover any hidden powers of those you read.
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Chi
• Chi (Ch. 11) - Through the teachings of the Grand Temple of Mount Heng, you have accessed your Chi; your life force. Chi can be used to reach superhuman levels of physical ability, enhance recovery, and achieve immortality.
By manipulating your Chi, you can use it achieve various effects, such as flight, healing, projection outside your body, and infusion it into objects. Chi is also able to convert into other forms of energy with enough control, and can be used to power spells.
• Chi Healing (Ch. 12) - Through the mark left on you by an unknown deity, the Genii Cucullati were able to come to you in your dreams, enhancing your Chi with the mark of the deity, and regenerating your fingers.
The infusion of the healing domain divine power has accelerated your progression with Chi, granting you the ability to heal yourself and others by channeling your Chi. Should you be dismembered or suffer great wounds, you can consume a great amount of Chi to regenerate your injuries, though the process can leave you exhausted.
• Chi Detection (Ch. 29) - A function of Chi finally learned, after being forced to stop ignoring your innate prowess. You have gained the ability to open yourself up to the life around you, seeing with more than mundane, simple senses.
You can detect the presence of the Chi of others, allowing you to locate their position and track them. Distance and detail will improve with practice and power, with only your cultivation limiting you.
• Blindsight (Chi) (Ch. 33) - Upon trying to look upon the essence of the pure divine, you damaged your Dao of Divination and burned out your eyes, leaving you without sight. Waking on the walled coast of a northern country, you found your disability to hinder your freedom. With your experience with Chi-based perception, you sought to create a quasi-divine sense, a method of receiving information without relying on visual input.
Congratulations, you've managed to create a Chi-sight technique, allowing you to map your surroundings with pulses of Chi. This technique is limited by the amount of detail it can uncover, with faces obscured and outlines blurry, but its better than nothing.
What can you do? *Shrug*
• Chi Armour (Ch. 51) - A covering of Chi, both spiritual and physical, inspired by an Eternal champion of myth, made in hope of augmenting and strengthening. The call for greater use of current power, the subtleties of Taoism gifted by birthing totality, has led to the making of this second skin, a superimposing over flesh frame.
Born of time lived in this multiverse, its infinite breadth and endless dimensions pressing against every moment and experience, gradually grinding away until realisation, the armour was made with need in mind. A comprehensive technique of the Dao Child, containing your limited understanding of Chi and your own cultivation, Chi Armour is crafted from waiting, yet to be explored fundamentals.
Its acquainted runes bearing your power and abilities, wanting to be understood and studied by their wielder, this armour contains and casts all you know. From Healing and Enhancement, to Manipulation and Detection, they will require no activation while you stand adorned, the armour following your very will and acting in your place.
As standard, the armour acts as a basic shield against most physical harm, but currently provides minimal to no defence from the magical side of things. The augmented strength running through you is another inherent agent of this technique, building upon your knowledge of physical enhancement and taking it further.
The shell of the armour can also be controlled to a certain extent, its size and range able to both expand and retract, though at extra cost and exertion. Pushing it out to open a bubble or drawing it atop your skin in a coat, even sinking it under to hide its appearance, all is feasible. Howbeit not without leaving behind small, visible traces as evidence of its use, its light signifying activity.
With enough training and familiarity, the armour will grow more malleable and complete, its form increasingly shapeable and capable of so much more. From the creation of armaments, to a grand revealing of inner self made giant and the formation of additional appendages, there is nigh-endless applications for you to learn when you try.
A great showing of your growth as a cultivator; the Mother watches, knowing there is more to come.
-- ABILITIES --
General
Cooking
• Basic (Ch. 2) -
Accounting
• Basic (Ch. 2) -
Crafting
• Basic (Ch. 4) - You have achieved a basic level of ability in the art of crafting. You wont be making any complex creations just yet, but you have enough competence to be able to make your own grave marker.
Crafting eases the initial hurdle in learning to make simple, new items, and stops you from losing proficiency due to disuse.
Survival
• Basic (Ch. 4) - Using nothing but your wits, and some half-remembered clips from that Bear Grylls show you sometimes caught late at night, you have successfully managed to survive your first days of being stranded.
Survival grants you the instincts necessary to survive in the mundane environments of Earth.
Lying
• Basic (Ch. 7) - Haven't you been a bad girl, telling fibs to your master. You have lied successfully to a being with greater power than you, causing them to believe something false.
• Skilled (Ch. 14) - Your caution is well deserved, knowing the dangers of the reality you're in. You managed to successfully convince a pair of Eternals of an almost complete fabrication, well done.
With this ability, a 30% chance of your lies being believed is added onto your natural deceptive prowess.
Meditation
• Basic (Ch. 8) - Aided by Dao Child and some partial divination, you have successfully reached a selfless state, opening yourself up to the natural world.
With this ability, you can once again reach this state with greater ease.
• Skilled (Ch. 9) - You have achieved some skill in the art of meditation, causing you to have a limited perception of worldly Qi, and gaining the ability to guide your Qi with greater ease. You can fall in to a selfless state with fair ease now, though you can still improve.
• Proficient (Ch. 11) - You have a certain understanding of the process of meditation, and can enter a selfless state at will. Now, you can start to perform Standing Meditation, using it to guide your newly formed Qi, increasing the speed at which you heal and recover your Qi.
• Expert (Ch. 50) -
Pain Resistance
• Basic (Ch. 10) - You have begun to learn how to compartmentalise your pain, and ignore it in the moment. You still feel any and all pain inflicting you, but you can push it away, allowing you to focus on what's happening.
At the Skilled stage, your pain resistance is increased by 40%.
Acting
• Basic (Ch. 14) -
Why did you choose to be an accountant? You clearly are a budding Oscar winner. Since coming to this new world, you have had to live half a lie, keeping up a performance. You may have done this for your own safety, but lets hope your mask doesn't start to become you true face.
As an up and coming talent, your ability to act is feeds into you ability to lie, slightly increasing your chance at a successful deception. Your body coordination has also improved, helping you to learn movements quicker.
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| Combat
Baguazhang
• Skilled (Ch. 9) - An ancient martial art that uses a circular stepping pattern to create distance and control ones opponent. This art specialises in evasion and deflection, and turning your foes force against themselves. Combined with various strikes and kicks, this internal art is deadly in the right hands.
Your proficiency with Baguazhang has increased your physical ability, your Qi control, and your combat instincts. In the future, when you take on another martial art, you will find that it comes easier to you.
• Proficient (Ch. 13) - Though you have temporarily parted ways with your master, you have not been lax in your training. After a week of almost constant combat with a martial master, you have defeated him in a spar. Your efforts have not been in vain.
You have gained experience in reading your foes in combat, predicting their moves. Now, a dedicated martial artist will find you to be a worthy opponent.
• Expert (Ch. 26) -
Swordsmanship
• Basic (Ch. 10) - Through the gruelling teachings of a sword master, you have started to learn how to properly wield a sword in combat. At this stage, you'll barely be able to defend yourself from a single opponent.
This skill grants a small improvement to your muscle memory, reflexes, and dynamic vision.
• Skilled (Ch. 13) - A master of the sword has dedicated some of his time to teaching you how to wield a blade with skill. Thanks to a combination of your innate talent, purposeful training, and great effort, your swordplay has improved significantly.
Your skill with the sword is at a stage where you no longer have to fear multiple foes, and your current dynamic vision is great enough to deflect an arrow, should you need to.
• Expert (Ch. 26) -
Martial Arts
• Proficient (Ch. 43) - Beginning under the watchful, caring guidance of your master, learning her arts and gradually climbing towards expertise, you've worked your way onwards. Your dedicated efforts, along with training from combat masters, has all culminated in a certain level of skill in wide range of martial schools. From the ancient art of Baguazhang, to the more modern, specialised arts of a war-torn, blood-soaked world, you're now a well-rounded combatant.
As you gain more experience, challenging both personal and external, the world and the antagonistic, specific technique will fade into irrelevance. One movement will flow into the next, mindless responding any situation with ease, a state of no-thought, of instinctive certainty answering any attack. That's not to say that you should ever stop improving; there are infinite scenarios waiting to challenge you, who knows what will strike next, of how you will retaliate?
Your assorted proficiencies in martial arts has aided you in understanding the current limits of your body, of how far you can push it and of what is possible. The training of Black Widow, the greatest unenhanced fighter amongst the current mortals of earth, has augmented the speed at which you've learned, feeding back and augment your battle senses.
Wax on, wax off.
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| Languages
English
• Mastered (Ch. 2) -
Old Mandarin
• Skilled (Ch. 6) - The language of northern China during the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. You've found someone kind enough to take the time and teach you it, leading you to have a young adult's level of speaking ability in it.
You won't be winning any debates anytime soon, however.
Sanskrit
• (Ch. 44) -