There's a pause, and then the pages of the book start to rapidly fill with text. It's different from how the notebook has been writing: before, the writing appeared like an invisible hand was writing it out; now whole letters appear at once and their shapes are crisper and more polished.
All powers are offered under an aegis of metanarrative protection. Any time you might expect a power to have obvious negative side effects, like glowing eyes making it harder to see, it simply won't – you'll be able to see just fine anytime it actually matters, while having dramatically hazy vision at cool, narratively appropriate moments. This doesn't apply to your own preferences about the explicitly described effects of the power; if you don't want to be Well Endowed, the metanarrative cannot protect you from choosing that option and having to live with it.
Destination
The first few options pertain to your destination. Unlike other options, they cost zero points and are mutually exclusive with each other:
Stay Put ☐
Cost: 0
You're just going to take these powers and keep on keeping on right where you are.
Somewhere In Mind ☐
Cost: 0
You have a destination you want to go to. You can choose any place, real, historical, fictional, or made up in your own head right now, and the Spirit will take you there. After that, you're on your own as far as further interdimensional travel.
Wherever You Go, There You Are ☐
Cost: 0
Trust to the will of the Spirit and let it take you where you need to go. It will look at far more options than you could ever know about, and pick something that's likely to be even better for you than whatever you would have chosen on your own.
Yourself
These powers affect your own self and nature, without direct effects on other people. Some of them are prerequisites for powers in the later Power of Friendship section.
A Thousand Ships ☐
Cost: 1
Your face is simply exquisite, an ideal of feminine beauty. There are many possible ideals of feminine beauty, and yours is whichever one speaks most deeply to your soul. Others may match your beauty in their own way, but never exceed it.
A Hundred Ships ☐
Cost: 1
(replaces A Thousand Ships)
Your face is simply exquisite, an ideal of feminine beauty. There are many possible ideals of feminine beauty, and yours is whichever one speaks most deeply to your soul. Instead of prioritizing pure beauty, this power prioritizes what feels right to you.
What's In A Name ☐
Cost: 1
Magic to divine true names will accept whatever alias you choose to think of as your true name. Magic to use your true name against you will fail.
Angelic Tones ☐
Cost: 2
Your voice is supernaturally beautiful and you can sing in any vocal range.
Emerald Orbs ☐
Cost: 2
At all times, your eyes are exactly the right color. This effect operates based on your sense of aesthetics, in-the-moment preferences, and narrative considerations. Your eyes can be ANY color this way. Lightless black voids? Brilliant white stars? Limpid pools of endless sapphire? They will look exactly the way you'd want them to look if you were writing about this exact moment of your life.
Perfect Hair ☐
Cost: 2
At all times, you have exactly the right hairstyle. This effect operates based on your sense of aesthetics, in-the-moment preferences, and narrative considerations. It is not limited to physically or logistically plausible hairstyles.
Perfect Nails ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Perfect Hair)
At all times, you have exactly the right nails, in shape and style. This effect operates based on your sense of aesthetics, in-the-moment preferences, and narrative considerations. It is not limited to physically or logistically plausible manicures or pedicures.
Size Difference ☐
Cost: 2
At all times, you are exactly the right height. This effect operates based on your sense of aesthetics, in-the-moment preferences, and narrative considerations. It will usually keep any height changes fairly subtle, but at dramatic moments you might discover yourself able to shrink to the size of a bee or grow to the size of a giant.
Dressing Room ☐
Cost: 3
No matter how ridiculous your outfit, it will stay pristine and perfect, unless it would be more dramatic for you to be artfully bedraggled. You can use any quiet moment to yourself to quick-change your clothes, shoes, nails, and hairstyle into a completely new look. (You cannot change your hair length or color this way without Perfect Hair, but you can braid or style it.)
Pocket Dimension ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Dressing Room)
You can reach into your pocket, purse, backpack, or other storage accessory and pull out anything that can fit through its opening, even if it obviously could not fit in the pocket and even if you've never carried that object in that pocket before. In order to summon a specific object this way, it needs to belong to you; in order to duplicate an existing object this way, you need to have held or examined it at least once; in order to invent a new object this way, you need to be familiar enough with what you want that you could tell the real thing apart from a fake made with the same materials. So jewelry you make will be real gold or silver or platinum, but if you want to pull a refrigerator out of your backpack, you need to have a reasonably good idea of how a refrigerator works.
Cosmetic Equipment ☐
Cost: 2
(requires Dressing Room)
You can mix and match the practical and magical effects of your clothing and accessories. A bikini could be as cozy as a winter coat, or as protective as a steel breastplate. A pair of earrings could combine the magic of a dozen enchanted amulets. A bracelet could grant the functions of a full set of scuba gear. As usual, anything you access this way must be either something you've held or examined, or something you understand well enough to tell it apart from a convincing fake. These modifications only apply while you're wearing the items in question; you're not permanently changing how the bracelet works, just letting it serve as a kind of temporary disguise for the diving suit.
Undressing Room ☐
Cost: 3
(requires Dressing Room)
The question of what clothes you are wearing no longer has a specific well-defined answer, but depends on the interactions you're having and how you prefer to be clothed for the purpose of those interactions. You could walk into a room and sit down in a chair, and be naked to all the people in the room but wearing underwear from the perspective of the chair; you could attend a fancy ball and be wearing a fancy ballgown to most people, but let your friends see you in a banana costume instead; you could let someone's hands pass through clothing that their eyes can still see. It may take some practice to become well-attuned to your new sense of how each person and object you interact with is perceiving your state of dress, but you'll always be able to tell if you take a moment to wonder.
Personal Hygiene ☐
Cost: 1
You are always clean and fresh, never needing to use a bath or toilet.
Like Roses ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Personal Hygiene)
You smell lovely. Your scent is unique to you, and may involve any combination of warm spices, floral notes, petrichor, or other things you think smell good. You do not need any justification for why you smell like this.
Just A Little Longer ☐
Cost: 1
If you push yourself, you can keep doing any task or working on any project indefinitely, visibly strained but never impaired by injury or fatigue. As soon as you stop, you'll collapse with exhaustion and sleep for up to a full day to regain your strength. This only works when what you're doing is personally important to you.
Immunity System ☐
Cost: 3
You can't get sick or poisoned. You can still use recreational drugs and alcohol normally, but can't overdose.
Breathe Easy ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Personal Hygiene and Immunity System)
Eating, breathing, and other forms of environmental exchange are no longer necessary for you. You cannot be harmed by denying your body resources, or by supplying the wrong ones. You can still benefit from positive effects of things you breathe or eat.
Warmhearted ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Breathe Easy)
You are utterly self-contained in every respect. No matter the conditions around you, you experience comfort and ease; you are warm in the cold, cool in the heat, unbothered by high winds or airless vacuum, impervious to bad smells, touched only by exactly the raindrops you would welcome.
My Ears Are Burning ☐
Cost: 6
You always know exactly what people are thinking, as long as it's about you. This effect is not telepathy and is not blocked by effects that block telepathy. It applies even to people you can't perceive normally. You are never impaired by the flood of information.
Soundtrack ☐
Cost: 1
Your life has a soundtrack, expertly composed in a mix of musical styles that suits you aesthetically and personally. You can hear the soundtrack at all times, but are never directly impaired by it—you can still hear other things just as well, and can still rest normally, enjoy the quiet, enjoy other music, and so on. By listening to the soundtrack, you can discern a lot of information about what kind of situation you're in and how your choices are likely to play out. (The soundtrack will often either go quiet or fade into the background to complement other music playing around you, but might pipe up if it has something important to say.)
Soundboard ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Soundtrack)
Your sense of hearing is clarified and enhanced. You have full control of the relative volume of all sounds you can hear, including your Soundtrack. Changing your audio balance feels intuitive and natural—and if a source of sound you turned down and forgot about has something to say, your Soundoard can cue you to listen to it again. You can also enhance audio sources if you want to hear a distant or distorted noise more clearly, and you're better able to process and understand multiple people speaking at the same time.
Well Endowed ☐
Cost: 1
You have a generous figure, whether that's a classic hourglass or more of a well-rounded look; you can choose the details. Your endowments maintain a state of perfect grace and beauty at all times, never troubling you with uncomfortable bounces or uninvited jiggles.
Hollow Leg ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Well Endowed)
Regardless of your diet and exercise habits, your body maintains the physique and silhouette you prefer. Lack of visible muscle never impairs your strength or endurance. As your preferences change, so will your body; you are no longer bound to the generous figure stipulated by Well Endowed.
Inner Strength ☐
Cost: 3
(requires Hollow Leg)
You are implausibly, superhumanly strong, with endurance and toughness to match. You might have to strain a little to lift and carry at the same level as construction equipment, or deal with lightly scraped knuckles if you punch as hard as a battering ram.
Lightfoot ☐
Cost: 3
(requires Hollow Leg)
You are perfectly, superhumanly graceful, with reflexes and agility to match. You can cross a field of snow without leaving a footprint, or stand on a slender branch without bending it, or jump so lightly that you soar through the air instead of falling.
Starstuff ☐
Cost: 2
(requires Emerald Orbs, Perfect Hair, Personal Hygiene, and Well Endowed)
Your body and its component parts can change their substance, and will do so when desirable or narratively appropriate. Perhaps your tears will turn to diamonds wherever they land, or your hair will be golden thread, or you will be made entirely of animate water. This power operates based on your sense of aesthetics, in-the-moment preferences, and narrative considerations. Itis not limited to physically or biologically plausible substances.
Battle Angel ☐
Cost: 1
Somehow, you never get significantly injured in a fight, unless it's a very dramatic and plot-relevant fight in which case you might be glamorously wounded and pick up a cool new scar.
Battle Demon ☐
Cost: 1
You have an unerring intuition for gaps in an opponent's defenses, though it may be beyond your power to exploit them.
Battle Maiden ☐
Cost: 3
(requires Battle Angel and Battle Demon)
No matter what kind of fight you're getting in, you're always a match for even the most skilled opponent.
Gloryseeker ☐
Cost: 1
Somehow, you never get significantly injured when doing cool stunts like skydiving or parkour. At especially dramatic moments, you might pick up a cool new scar.
Making Ends Meet ☐
Cost: 1
You have enough money to sustain a comfortable lifestyle. It comes from a source you don't have to pay much attention to, like a job with almost no responsibilities, a large inheritance, or a noble title.
Motherlode ☐
Cost: 2
(requires Making Ends Meet)
You have enough money to sustain a fairly extravagant lifestyle. It doesn't come from anywhere, you just have it.
Four Star Daydream ☐
Cost: 4
(requires Motherlode)
The answer to "can I afford that" is "yes".
Omniglot ☐
Cost: 3
You learn languages insanely, ludicrously fast. You know exactly what any word said to you means, and you make strangely accurate guesses about how to phrase things you're trying to say. You never forget any grammar or vocabulary you learn.
Anything You Can Do ☐
Cost: 6
You learn implausibly quickly from friends, rivals, and love interests. If you have a personal connection to someone with a certain skill, talent, or expertise, you'll learn it five times faster than they did, or twenty times faster if they're actively trying to teach you. This applies even to forms of magic that you ordinarily shouldn't be able to learn.
Dragon Fairy Elf Witch ☐
Cost: 5
You can at any time discover previously unknown heritage from any type of being you encounter, even if this makes no sense or contradicts previously established descriptions of your family tree. You always get their powers without their drawbacks, unless the drawbacks are cool and dramatic. Any visible features of this heritage will appear at narratively appropriate moments and be cute, pretty, beautiful, or striking rather than awkward, weird, gross, or scary. This ability works even if the beings in question cannot reproduce with humans, or at all.
Snowglobe ☐
Cost: 4
In worlds where people can have individual special powers, such as powered superheroes or personality-based magic, you find that you can pick up a power of your own even if you don't meet the local requirements. Drawbacks of these powers, such as uncontrollable power manifestations or a tendency to attract unwanted supernatural attention, will only apply if they are cool and dramatic.
Unleash the Magic ☐
Cost: 3
(requires Anything You Can Do, Dragon Fairy Elf Witch, and Snowglobe)
Any form of magic or other special ability you encounter can be yours, regardless of prerequisites, as long as you see it in action at least once. Your various powers and attributes will never conflict with each other or come with annoying drawbacks, and will often synergize in cool and interesting ways.
Soulbond ☐
Cost: 8
If something feels instinctively like a part of you, then it is. A necklace you always wear will be impossible to lose. A vehicle you care for deeply will be impossible to steal. A tool or power you rely on like part of your body will become as hard to misplace as your own hands. Tools, devices, and powers that you absorb this way will be translated into the form of Spirit-granted powers, granting them the flexibility to just work despite pesky details like network protocols, service providers, and laws of physics, and will be fully as well protected as your own mind and body are by all of your potentially applicable powers.
Personal Space ☐
Cost: 3
No one can touch you intimately if you don't want them to. You can still be struck in a fight or bumped into in crowds, but things like hugs and kisses and sex only happen if you're okay with them.
Personal Bubble ☐
Cost: 3
(replaces Personal Space)
No one can touch you if you don't want them to. You can slip through crowds and squeeze past strangers without ever coming into contact, and intimate contact only happens if you're okay with it. When you get into a physical fight, this effect is suspended for other combatants, but still applies to bystanders.
Personal Slipstream ☐
Cost: 3
(replaces Personal Space)
Incidental physical contact doesn't happen to you; you can touch and be touched only by your deliberate choice. Things such as getting in a fight or giving someone a hug can count as making that choice, even if you would prefer that the person you punch or hug not be able to touch you back.
Inner World ☐
Cost: 2
The world of your imagination is a real, concrete, persistent place, which you can experience in parallel with the world around you—though you might find it easier to focus on one at a time. It makes an excellent setting for lucid dreams, telepathic conversations, and notetaking. Mental enhancements affect its size, depth, and detail; mental defenses guard it against intrusion. Your control over it will grow with time and practice.
World's Greatest Detective ☐
Cost: 3
You are uncannily, supernaturally good at noticing clues in your environment, piecing them together, and drawing correct conclusions from them. If it's even theoretically possible for you to figure something out with information that is available to you, you can do it with ease.
World's Psychicest Detective ☐
Cost: 4
(requires World's Greatest Detective)
You can discern true information and draw correct conclusions even without any evidence being available to you. Ancient mysteries and shadow conspiracies are open books. Simply put, if something is true and you would benefit from knowing it, you can figure it out. Note: This power does not constitute true omniscience and is weighted towards information that is relevant to you.
Closed Book ☐
Cost: 1
You're immune to any supernatural, pharmaceutical, or other effect that would let people directly read your thoughts or feelings.
Indelible ☐
Cost: 1
You're immune to any supernatural, pharmaceutical, or other effect that would let people directly alter your thoughts or feelings.
Eidetic ☐
Cost: 2
(requires Indelible)
You have a flawless memory. Everything you have ever and will ever think, experience, or be told about can be called to mind in exact detail with ease, even if you weren't paying careful attention at the time.
Iron Will ☐
Cost: 2
(requires Closed Book and Indelible)
You are immune to all forms of mental illusion, alteration, interference, or control. Even extreme torture, extended solitary confinement, advanced brainwashing techniques, and so on cannot touch you. You can be lonely but not cripplingly lonely. You can be upset but not traumatized.
It Gets Better ☐
Cost: 5
You're going to be okay.
Your mind and body may never be perfect, but they are yours, and cannot permanently be taken from you. In time you will heal from any injury, escape any imprisonment, and recover from any trauma; maybe not in exactly the ways you hoped, but always in ways you're okay with.
Small Blessings ☐
Cost: 1
(requires It Gets Better)
When you go through a difficult experience, you'll be able to find comfort where you need it most. Your recovery will usually be fairly smooth, and you'll have time to rest and find your balance before the next time something bad happens. This power cannot prevent the effects of drawbacks, but it can delay and mitigate them.
The Great Equalizer ☐
Cost: 8
Where you go, Fate shatters. Forms of prophecy that were once perfectly reliable stop working, or show a broad array of possibilities instead of a single coherent future. Imbalances of magic wash out, leaving everyone lucky and no one able to leverage their luck against an opponent. If you stay in the same world for a year and a day, this effect will be permanent even after you leave and even if someone tries to constrain the future anew in your absence.
Luck Be A Lady ☐
Cost: 8
(replaces The Great Equalizer)
You always seem to be in the right place at the right time. Opportunity surrounds you on all sides, and paths open up toward any goal you seek. It's up to you to capitalize on these opportunities—but if you drop an important plot hook, someone else will usually be along to pick it up, although they may not do as good a job with it as you would. In worlds with fate as a tangible force, you may find yourself a figure of prophecy, destined for greatness.
Star-Straightened ☐
Cost: 8
(replaces The Great Equalizer)
By default you are invisible to all forms of future-sight and invincible to all forms of fate- or luck-related curse, prophecy, or doom, including indirect effects such as your enemies' luckiness making your plans go awry. However, whenever such a divination or manipulation is something you would choose to allow if you had full information about its nature, intent, and likely effects, then it works fine. In ambiguous cases, the default holds.
Power of Friendship
These powers affect how others see you and how you interact with them.
In general, effects that describe others' reactions (like their attention being drawn to you by Mysterious Allure, or their sympathy being provoked by Tragic Backstory) operate on a metanarrative rather than a causal level. They are not mind control, and are not blocked by effects that block mind control.
Your "true love" is anyone you're pursuing a serious romantic relationship with. You can have as many of these as you like, but your feelings for all of them must be genuine.
Mysterious Allure ☐
Cost: 5
There's just something about you. People are drawn to you, fascinated by you. You tend to be the most interesting person in the room unless something really unusual is going on.
Captive Audience ☐
Cost: 3
As long as you have genuine interest in what you're talking about, no one will ever get bored of listening to you talk about it.
Blackout Binge ☐
Cost: 2
(requires Immunity System)
Heavy use of recreational intoxicants puts you in a carefree, uninhibited state in which it will be universally agreed afterward that you were not responsible for your actions.
Disney Princess ☐
Cost: 2
Animals are always friendly to you, especially the small cute ones. You can effectively tame any animal by feeding it and speaking gently to it.
Puppies Everywhere ☐
Cost: 2
(requires Disney Princess and Personal Hygiene)
No matter how absurd the size of your menagerie, you always have time and resources to feed and care for all of them; or, if you and they prefer, they can take care of themselves just as easily, without affecting the local ecology. The benefits of Personal Hygiene extend to any animal you befriend.
Pocket Monsters ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Puppies Everywhere and Pocket Dimension)
You can store living creatures in your Pocket Dimension, though you must put them in before you can take them out, and you cannot duplicate them this way. The creature must be willing to be put in your pocket. Stored creatures have all their needs and experiences suspended, but may be cognizant of time elapsed and conditions of transport on retrieval.
Where the Heart Is ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Disney Princess)
When you make a place your home for long enough, it will begin to respond by animating itself, including furniture and loose articles, for your convenience. Over time it may develop a personality; if so, that personality will be tailored to complement yours.
Living Canvas ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Disney Princess)
Tattoos you have will animate themselves on your skin, and may adjust their details or art style. Over time your tattoos may develop individual or collective personalities; if so, those personalities will be tailored to complement yours. At suitably dramatic moments, you may spontaneously develop new tattoos.
Shadow Puppet ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Disney Princess)
Your shadow can act independently of your movements, and may do so to entertain you, guide you, warn you of danger, or just for fun. The personality it develops will be tailored to complement yours.
Cotton Candy ☐
Cost: 3
(requires Disney Princess)
The sharp edges of the world are blunted around you. That's not to say that nothing bad can happen, but that the worst things happen a lot less often, and happy endings large and small are much easier to come by. This effect can ripple outward to improve the lives of people you've never met.
Musical Number ☐
Cost: 4
(requires Disney Princess and Soundtrack)
At dramatic moments, you and those around you may spontaneously burst into song. The lyrics and choreography will be flawlessly coordinated.
Best Friend ☐
Cost: 3
You have an animal companion, like a horse or a cat or a raven. They have a cool name and maybe a few nifty cosmetic quirks, like glowing purple eyes. Their loyalty is infinite and they often hold the key to solving whatever situation you're up against. You can understand them perfectly even though they can't speak, and they always know exactly what you mean even if all you do is glance at them meaningfully.
Bestest Friend ☐
Cost: 5
(requires Best Friend)
Your animal companion is a fully magical creature, like a dragon or unicorn. They have magnificent supernatural powers ready to be used at your command. They can speak every language you can, but can still communicate with you on a deeper level of mutual love and understanding.
Ascended Friend ☐
Cost: 5
(requires Bestest Friend)
Your animal companion is now a minor deity. If you encounter any magic system in your travels that involves gods or other beings empowering their followers, your Friend will discover the ability to empower you the same way.
Transformer ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Best Friend)
Instead of (or in addition to) being an animal companion, your Friend takes the form of a tool, weapon, or vehicle.
A Friend Like You ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Bestest Friend and Transformer)
Your Friend can shapeshift at will into a human or humanoid form, instead of or in addition to an inanimate one. This new form preserves one signature feature, like iridescent black hair, a shining unicorn horn, or slit-pupiled golden eyes, from whichever other form your Friend considers their truest.
Another Kind of Friend ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Transformer and at least one of Where the Heart Is, Living Canvas, and Shadow Puppet)
Your Friend may be the personality associated with one of the listed powers, instead of or in addition to their other form(s). This may include, for example, the ability for an animal tattoo to leap from your skin into a three-dimensional form and back.
Conjoined Friends ☐
Cost: 3
(requires Bestest Friend)
The natural conclusion of the bond between you and your animal companion. The two of you are inseparably joined on a soul level and have become extensions of each other. Naturally, what this means in practice is up to you.
Generosity ☐
Cost: 3
Your friends love to get you presents. They'll try to pick out things you'll like, but their success depends on how well they know you.
Helpfulness ☐
Cost: 4
Your friends love to do you favors. They'll volunteer eagerly whenever you need help with small tasks.
Cuddle Buddies ☐
Cost: 2
Your friends love to hug and cuddle you. Even someone who ordinarily isn't into that sort of thing will make an exception for you.
Flattery ☐
Cost: 1
Your friends love to compliment you and tell you all about how much they like you and why.
Quality Time ☐
Cost: 2
Your friends love to hang out with you and spend time together, even if you're not doing anything interesting or important.
Agree to Agree ☐
Cost: 4
You can always convince your friends to see your point of view about things like politics and philosophy. They might have a few quibbles here and there, but they'll see how right you are once you explain where you're coming from in enough detail.
Backchannel ☐
Cost: 4
When you're talking to someone and you think you might not be getting through to each other, you can take a step back, look deep into your heart, and really try to understand where they're coming from, and it will just work and you'll know what they're trying to say and how sincere they are about it and have a good idea of what you should say if you want them to understand you right back.
Two-Way Street ☐
Cost: 2
(requires Backchannel)
Anyone you're talking to can invoke Backchannel for themselves, and when you're having trouble making yourself understood, they will instinctively know that they can do this and that now would be a good time.
Roundabout ☐
Cost: 2
(requires Backchannel)
You can invoke Backchannel with yourself. This can be a big help in understanding where your own thoughts and feelings are coming from, and in coming to an internal consensus.
You Can Teach Better ☐
Cost: 8
(requires Anything You Can Do)
If you have a personal connection to someone, you can teach them anything you know; depending on how motivated and engaged they are, they could learn it up to 110% as fast as you could have learned it using Anything You Can Do. If you consider them a good friend or otherwise especially close, this applies even to forms of magic that they ordinarily shouldn't be able to learn.
More Magic ☐
Cost: 5
(requires Unleash the Magic and You Can Teach Better)
Abilities you pick up through Unleash the Magic can be passed on to others. Unique per-person abilities from Snowglobe may be passed on either as a direct mirror of your own unique ability, or by sparking a unique ability in the recipient. The deeper your personal connection to the recipient, the easier it is for you to pass on abilities to them and the more potent the results will be.
Not Like Other Girls ☐
Cost: 2
People will understand that you're different. They won't make assumptions about you based on prejudice or stereotype, they won't apply legal or societal limitations to you based on what kind of person you are, and they won't take you as a representative of your demographics.
Pacifist ☐
Cost: 6
Fights don't happen to you. Any violent conflict you might otherwise get into is either avoided by coincidence, or replaced with a yelling match, game, contest, race, or dance battle, whichever is most appropriate to the situation. Powers you have that give you advantages in fights also apply to fight replacements.
A Gentler Way ☐
Cost: 6
(replaces Pacifist)
Games, contests, races, dance battles, and so on are likely to be accepted as alternatives to violence, if you propose them when a fight is breaking out. This effect works better the more well-tailored your suggestion is to the specific combatants and their personalities and cultural expectations. Doing this often enough can cause your alternatives to spread, potentially replacing most violence in an area. Powers you have that give you advantages in fights also apply to fight replacements.
Beauty Effulgent ☐
Cost: 1
(requires A Thousand Ships and Mysterious Allure)
Your beauty is impossible to ignore, overlook, downplay, or dismiss. Everyone who looks at you is struckby it, and although those who know you well can get used to the experience, it never goes away entirely. You may, if you choose, soften this effect to help out someone who is having trouble thinking or speaking because of it.
Love Interest ☐
Cost: 1
(requires A Thousand Ships and Mysterious Allure)
Anyone you fall for will inevitably like you back. They may not necessarily act on their feelings, but the potential will be there.
Love Triangle ☐
Cost: 2
(requires Love Interest)
People you fall for will be open to dating you even if they already have another serious relationship, or other circumstances that would ordinarily interfere, like a demanding career or a vow of chastity. This may cause drama, but it'll blow over quickly and there won't be any serious problems.
Love is an Open Door ☐
Cost: 2
(replaces Love Triangle, requires Love Interest)
People you fall for will be freed from other commitments when, and only when, that freedom would lead them closer to their best life. Anyone they need to leave behind will be okay without them, and anyone who was depending on them will be provided for. To make it fair, if they choose to stay, major problems in their life will tend to find solutions so that they and their loved ones will still be better off for having met you.
Love Dodecahedron ☐
Cost: 5
(Requires Love Triangle)
When you fall for someone who is already seriously dating or even married, your romantic rival will be open to allowing their partner to date you, and may even want to date you themselves.
Time Enough for Love ☐
Cost: 5
No matter how many people you want to date or be close friends with, you will somehow find the time to hang out with all of them and express your love and care. This power can only be used for relationship activities and not for anything else you might want to use the ability to be in two places at once for.
Work-Life Balance ☐
Cost: 2
(requires Time Enough for Love)
You count as your own friend for the purposes of Time Enough for Love.
Baby Monitor ☐
Cost: 1
If you love someone or consider their welfare to be your responsibility, you can always take a moment to wonder about them and get an accurate sense of how they're doing and if they need help.
They Even Have Dental ☐
Cost: 2
(requires Baby Monitor)
If someone is in your employ, service, debt, or otherwise has a relationship to you where you can give them directions or orders and expect those to be reliably followed, you're always able to provide for their welfare. This includes, but is not limited to, fulfilling basic needs such as food and shelter, paying or otherwise compensating them fairly, and in general ensuring that their working conditions are agreeable to them. By default, they are protected from negative coincidences, but not from active enemy action. The degree of your ability to protect and provide for them scales with investment of effort on your part and how keenly you would feel it if something bad happened to them.
Safe at Home ☐
Cost: 4
No one will hurt your loved ones to get at you, or vice versa.
Opting In ☐
Cost: 4
(replaces Safe at Home)
When you make yourself vulnerable to dangerous people, they will focus their danger on you and whoever else has chosen to involve themselves, leaving innocent bystanders and your uninvolved loved ones alone.
I Can Fix Them ☐
Cost: 5
Regardless of how morally despicable someone is, your love can and will reform them into a genuinely good, kind, upstanding person who regrets their evil deeds.
I Can Help Them ☐
Cost: 5
(replaces I Can Fix Them)
Regardless of how lost to darkness someone is, your love can save them, if they're willing to accept it.
This power will not directly alter someone's mind except to allow them to believe a true thing they couldn't have believed otherwise, or to change something that their pre-alteration and post-alteration selves would hypothetically be able to agree was good if they talked it over honestly with full access to each other's perspectives. In cases where the outcome of the hypothetical is uncertain, it will default to not making the change.
Inspirational ☐
Cost: 5
Just meeting you makes people want to be better. Those who hurt you, or hurt someone you care about, will always come to understand your point of view and regret what they've done. In trade, you might sometimes come to understand more of their point of view than you'd like.
True Love's Kiss ☐
Cost: 1
By kissing your true love, you can break any curse, heal any injury, and cure any illness. The same works in reverse.
Eternal Love ☐
Cost: 2
(requires True Love's Kiss)
Those you love cannot be parted from you by anything short of their own uncoerced decision to leave. Anything else—war, politics, death, interdimensional travel—you will find a way to overcome and be reunited.
The Rescuer ☐
Cost: 5
(requires Eternal Love)
If someone is dead who would want to be alive again, and you set your heart on returning them, you will find a way. It may have costs or difficulties or take a long time, but you will find it, and it will work.
Dream Together ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Inner World, Time Enough for Love, and Eternal Love)
When you truly miss someone who truly misses you, you will see each other again in your dreams. If dreaming is not possible, a daydream, meditation session, or moment of wistful yearning will suffice.
Planned Parenthood ☐
Cost: 1
You can only have children if you actively and specifically want to. Your partners will understand this and not worry too much about it.
Two Become One ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Planned Parenthood)
When you have sex, it is always special and wonderful and beautiful. No one ever elbows anyone in the face or makes undignified noises.
Laugh Together ☐
Cost: 1
(replaces Two Become One, requires Planned Parenthood)
When you have sex, you find it easy to free yourself from expectations and anxieties and immerse yourself in the experience of the moment. Your partners get the same benefits.
Here for a Good Time ☐
Cost: 1
(replaces Two Become One, requires Planned Parenthood)
When you have sex, the world gets out of your way. Pillows don't fall off the bed; blankets don't end up scrunched in uncomfortable places. You are exactly as graceful as you want to be, and have excellent luck evading misaimed elbows.
Bop It ☐
Cost: 1
(requires Two Become One)
The mysteries of another's body are an open book to you, and you always know exactly how to move and touch in order to please someone in bed.
The Princess and the Dragon ☐
Cost: 3
No matter who or what you're trying to sleep with, the logistics will all work out, somehow. Arbitrary differences in size, biology, temperature, substrate, and underlying physics can be gotten around with sufficient creativity and determination.
Just the Way You Like It ☐
Cost: 2
(requires Two Become One and The Princess and the Dragon)
The world facilitates your fantasies. When you want to try something difficult or unusual in bed, it's not just practical and achievable, it's also as good as you imagined it—or better.
GGG ☐
Cost: 4
Your true love will be willing to try just about anything you suggest in bed, and if you really enjoy it, they'll really enjoy it too.
Opening Up ☐
Cost: 4
(replaces GGG)
Being with you gives your true love more capacity to be adventurous, in or out of the bedroom. Although these adventures might have consequences, those consequences will never be devastating, and it will always turn out that finding out what these things are like is worth the consequences of trying them.
Before Your Eyes ☐
Cost: 4
In your presence, people become willing to experiment sexually in ways they normally wouldn't. For some reason this applies especially well to boys kissing each other.
Reaching Out ☐
Cost: 4
(replaces Before Your Eyes)
Your presence is a catalyst that encourages people to let go of preconceptions and constraints and have the courage to try things that they might like even if they're new or unfamiliar or scary. However that turns out, it will ultimately help those people understand themselves and their desires, and won't do lasting damage physically, emotionally, or socially to anyone involved.
Fated Lovers ☐
Cost: 3
You will meet someone who will go on to become your true love. If you enter a specific universe with a specific target in mind, you'll meet that person under favorable circumstances, and if it doesn't work out with them, this power will keep introducing you to new possibilities until you find someone who's right for you. If you're the sort of person who can have multiple true loves, you'll keep meeting new ones until you have enough.
Fated Friends ☐
Cost: 4
Wherever you go, you will be steered into meeting people you'd do well to befriend. It's up to you to recognize and appreciate them.
Sorry About That ☐
Cost: 3
Your true love will be extremely forgiving. Even if you make mistakes or act thoughtlessly toward them, a simple apology will mend things between you. They may expect you to try to improve, but they'll be infinitely patient about how fast that improvement takes place.
Excuse Me ☐
Cost: 5
(requires Sorry About That)
All your friends will be just as forgiving as your true love.
Tragic Backstory ☐
Cost: 8
(requires Excuse Me)
Something terrible happened to you in your past. Anyone who hears about it immediately forgives you for any and all bad behaviour in the present. They will not expect you to grow or change, and will continue sympathetically excusing whatever you do indefinitely.
Sense of Style ☐
Cost: 4
People who are romantically interested in you will start dressing more to your taste. The more romantically compatible they are, the better they'll be able to guess exactly what to wear to catch your eye.
Bonus Style Points ☐
Cost: 3
(requires Sense of Style)
Luck will shine on anyone trying to dress up for you. They'll get their hands on outfits they couldn't normally afford, their clothes will fit better, and in extreme cases they might even find themselves able to change shape, sex, or species—though only in ways that make them more, not less, comfortable in their own skin.
Like a Mirror ☐
Cost: 3
An underlying fact of the multiverse is that the same person can exist in multiple places, either as an alternate timeline where something went differently, or as the same essence of identity expressed under different circumstances. This power will steer you toward the local version of you, if they exist, in each world you visit. Your alternate selves will be happy to meet you, get along with you smoothly, and be inclined to cooperate with you.
Self-Reflection ☐
Cost: 5
Whenever you meet someone who is you, or was you, or could have been you, or will be you, a special bond is formed, allowing you to keep in touch with them no matter how far you travel. You can speak out loud to someone who is you, and they'll hear you as though you were standing next to them; you can write notes to someone who is you, and the note will appear near them; you can send messages to someone who is you, and they'll receive them even if there's more than a world between you. The person on the other end of the bond can contact you in just the same way. This lasts as long as each of you considers the other a reflection of themselves and each of you wants to stay in touch with the other.
Chaser Six When ☐
Cost: 4
(requires Time Enough for Love and Self-Reflection)
Two of you who are near each other can decide to merge, becoming a conjoined double consciousness sharing two bodies. One of you can decide to fragment, adding a body and a conjoined consciousness to drive it. You can share with yourselves not only messages but direct mind-to-mind transmission of thoughts and memories across any distance. Your fragments can narrow themselves down to focus on embodying specific mental states or orienting themselves to specific tasks, in a way that's fully reversible and doesn't make them any less you; they can also split off into discrete forks just as easily as discrete forks can conjoin themselves with each other. Fully merging conjoined selves into a completely unified being with only one you's worth of mind is also possible, but takes more time and effort and can't be done as fluidly.
Severance ☐
Cost: 2
Identities that you gravely and deliberately cast aside no longer describe you or refer to you. You cannot be traced by them or identified with them. No one will ever know that you are the same person you were once known as, unless you choose to personally tell them.
Popular ☐
Cost: 3
Wherever you go, you develop a reputation fast. The sort of people who you'd like to have as fans tend to hear about you and be impressed. You may not make an impression on mainstream society at large, but you'll develop a following among the people who best resonate with your style.
Famous ☐
Cost: 3
(Requires Popular)
Wherever you go, people really take to you. You're the subject of constant gossip and most people have heard of you before you meet them. People you've never met will get crushes on you.
Approachable ☐
Cost: 3
(requires Popular and Backchannel)
You have a knack for putting your fans at ease. No matter how famous you get, anyone who sincerely has something to say to you will know you sincerely want to hear it. This effect fades every time you're rude, threatening, or otherwise unpleasant to someone in that position, but can be built back up by cultivating patience and kindness instead.
Undiplomatic Immunity ☐
Cost: 6
You are above the law. Any crimes you commit will be overlooked by the authorities. Note that, if you do enough crime that you start looking more like an invading army, local governments will still feel free to declare war.
Friends In Low Places ☐
Cost: 3
You make friends easily among the lowest echelons of society, the underdogs and underworlders. Moving and acting in these circles is intuitive and natural for you.
Friends In High Places ☐
Cost: 3
You make friends easily at the highest echelons of society, among the rich and powerful. Moving and acting in these circles is intuitive and natural for you.
Friends in Strange Places ☐
Cost: 3
You make friends easily in small isolated communities, among those who may be scorned by mainstream society for their differences or may just be so obscure that mainstream society mostly hasn't heard of them. Moving and acting in these circles is intuitive and natural for you.
Vending Machine ☐
Cost: 12
You can instantiate any person (real, fictional, or made up in your head) in any world you're in. Instantiating a real person will not pull them from their original world; it will create either a copy with their memories or the version of that person who would exist had they been born in that world. Instantiation can be retroactive: that is, you can use the power, and then meet the person you instantiated and find that they were already here and have lived in this world all their life.
Drawbacks
These options grant points rather than costing them. They represent inconveniences or mitigations of existing advantages.
Decorative ☐
Grants: 1
You are unfailingly cute and pretty and feminine at all times, in all circumstances. You cannot wear insufficiently pretty clothes. You cannot make insufficiently pretty noises. You cannot ugly cry.
Beauty is a Curse ☐
Grants: 1
(requires A Thousand Ships)
No, you don't understand. Beauty IS a curse. People will NOT stop bringing it up. Everyone you meet just has to point out how pretty you are. This will never stop happening. Even the most tactful people find it slipping out subtly, as remarks about the luster of your hair or the depth of your eyes.
Even Worse ☐
Grants: 2
(requires Beauty is a Curse)
People are no longer compelled to comment on your beauty at all times; however, their attention is still drawn to it, and you tend to accumulate jealous rivals, aggressive admirers, and even greedy villains.
Plain Jane ☐
Grants: 2
No matter what you look like, nor how many times people tell you you're beautiful, when you look in the mirror all you see is imperfections. You will never be fully satisfied with your appearance on an instinctive level.
Style of Sisyphus ☐
Grants: 1
Anytime you settle on a personal style that works well for you, soon afterward you'll encounter inspiration for another style that you like even better. You might end up cycling between different fashions, or trying to incporporate them all into a single outfit (and then finding another inspiration and having to start all over again).
Signature Style ☐
Grants: 3
(requires Style of Sisyphus)
The effects of Style of Sisyphus are inverted. You are now locked in to a single personal style. It can be an established fashion genre, or just the expression of your personal taste in clothing, but it must be something that resonates with you narratively and personally. It will never change, and your clothing, hair, makeup, and other styling will always conform to it, no matter how hard you or others try to dress or decorate you differently. You may find yourself at peace with this style in the long term, or not.
There's Another One ☐
Grants: 3
You are not the only vessel of the Spirit. You might meet someone else with similar powers to yours; you might even meet more than one. Your susceptibility to one another's powers will be governed by the narrative.
Makes the Dream Work ☐
Grants: 6
(requires There's Another One)
When you embark on a significant, impactful project, something that would tend to be a central plotline in a story about you, you must work with other people to accomplish it. Without a team of friends, comrades, or coworkers to collaborate with, you'll never make more than slow, limited progress. Also, even if your powers would normally position you as the central star of such a team, they'll holdback from doing that here; your teammates will be able to relate to you as equals, and will be immune to any effect that would make them overlook your flaws or agree with you against their better judgment.
Incomplete ☐
Grants: 5
About half of people you encounter will be immune to all effects listed under Power of Friendship, and about half of those who remain will see reduced effects. You can do nothing to change this.
Nullified ☐
Grants: 1
(requires Incomplete)
Any aspects of your powers that would affect the minds of others in ways they might not like will instead not do that. This can make many of your powers less effective.
Grimm's Fairy Tales ☐
Grants: 1
(requires Cotton Candy)
Bad things can and will still happen to you in particular.
The Princess and the Pea ☐
Grants: 1
(requires atleast one of Dragon Fairy Elf Witch and Snowglobe)
The "only when cool and dramatic" restriction on negative effects from acquired powers is lifted for sensory powers specifically. You experience all sensory overload, overstimulation, and other issues normally caused by any of your sensory enhancements.
Funhouse ☐
Grants: 2
(requires Like a Mirror)
This removes the restriction that all your alternate selves must get along with you. Now they can relate to you in all the ways you might potentially relate to another version of yourself. If you get along well with yourself, this might not be so bad.
Great Responsibility ☐
Grants: 4
When someone calls out to you for help, you can hear it no matter how far away you are, and you know exactly how they feel.
Helpline ☐
Grants: 3
(requires Great Responsibility)
People whose problems you could potentially solve will sometimes instinctively know to pray to you about them. They won't necessarily know anything else about you, or recognize you as the same being they prayed to. You won't necessarily know what their problem is or how to solve it.
Divine Mantle ☐
Grants: 6
(requires Helpline and at least one of Very Distinctive and They'll Know)
For every prayer you answer, it becomes permanently more apparent to everyone who perceives you that you are a power beyond reckoning, limitless in potential, greater thanany god whose domain is bounded by a single knot of worlds. You cannot turn this off. At higher levels, this ability begins to broadcast more and more detail regarding how you feel about answering prayers and how the attributes of the prayer and the petitioner affect those feelings.
Mood Ring ☐
Grants: 2
(requires at least two of A Thousand Ships, Angelic Tones, Emerald Orbs, Perfect Hair, Size Difference, Dressing Room, Like Roses, and Well Endowed)
Your appearance powers will advertise your feelings and reactions. You might shrink in fear; your eyes might glow red with anger; your laughter might be literally musical. You cannot turn this off or adjust it.
Moodier Ring ☐
Grants: 2
(requires Mood Ring, A Thousand Ships, Angelic Tones, Emerald Orbs, Perfect Hair, Size Difference, Dressing Room, Like Roses, and Hollow Leg)
Your appearance powers will work together to advertise your feelings and reactions. Some of these effects might be subtle; many will be the opposite. Anime sweatdrops are not out of the question.
Very Distinctive ☐
Grants: 3
(requires at least three of A Thousand Ships, Angelic Tones, Emerald Orbs, Perfect Hair, Size Difference, Dressing Room, Like Roses, Well Endowed
You cannot successfully disguise yourself to anyone who has met you in your normal identity. Even someone who has only seen you at a distance or heard about your style might notice similarities.
Flashy ☐
Grants: 2
(requires Very Distinctive and at least five of A Thousand Ships, Angelic Tones, Emerald Orbs, Perfect Hair, Size Difference, Dressing Room, Like Roses, Well Endowed, Mysterious Allure)
Stealth just doesn't work for you. If someone has any opportunity to notice your presence, they will.
Mark of the Witch ☐
Grants: 1
(requires Dragon Fairy Elf Witch and at least three of A Thousand Ships, Angelic Tones, Emerald Orbs, Perfect Hair, Size Difference, Dressing Room, Like Roses, and Well Endowed)
You can never appear fully normal for any species whose appearance you mimic. Some small detail will always seem out of place on close inspection—perhaps the wrong color of hair or eyes or scales, perhaps moss growing from your skin or an ethereal glow haloing your horns, perhaps an extra eye or an iridescent birthmark. These marks can be hidden with clothing or illusions, but their concealment will never be flawlessly impenetrable.
Secret Identity ☐
Grants: 2
When you're at home, in your world of origin, your powers are fully concealed. Unfair advantages are withdrawn and inhuman features are hidden. Powers of safety and convenience still work, as long as they can remain plausibly deniable, but to all outward appearances you're back to being your ordinary self with no magic to speak of. (If you take this with They'll Know, the standards for plausible deniability will be much more restrictive and fewer powers will be able to work with them, but safety powers will still work and still conceal themselves.)
A Single Perfect Flaw ☐
Grants: 3
This could be a direct physical limitation, like having no voice, no sight, or no wings; it could be an everyday difficulty like clumsiness, or a magical curse that makes frogs fall from your mouth whenever you speak. Whatever it is, it must be both a significant limitation or inconvenience, and something that resonates with you personally or narratively. Once you take this drawback, your Perfect Flaw becomes permanent and irrevocable across all future versions of you. It can be mitigated or worked around, but never cured or removed.
Selective Memory ☐
Grants: 3
Pick between three and ten of your chosen powers and drawbacks. You forget that they were ever offered to you, and all evidence that you took them is erased. You still have them, but you no longer remember what they are. It is possible to rediscover them later by observing them in action, but it might take a while to pin down exactly what they were. It's up to you whether or not to list this drawback among them.
The Veil ☐
Grants: 5
(requires Selective Memory)
You forget that these powers were ever offered to you, and all evidence that you chose them is erased. You still proceed to your Destination as normal, but without any explanation for why you were suddenly transported to another world, if you chose to travel to one. It is still possible to disccover your powers by observation, but pinning down the details could turn out to be quite the project.
Dramatic Damsel ☐
Grants: 3
When (and only when) an opportunity for a really great story arises, powers that ordinarily protect you from things like getting hurt, being drugged, or losing fights will slip just enough to facilitate someone getting the better of you. The power may reassert itself right away for a dramatic escape, or keep a loophole open or a handicap in place long enough to make your escape more difficult and elaborate. (Combining this with Realism is not recommended.)
Love is a Battlefield ☐
Grants: 5
(requires Dramatic Damsel)
You can never have a perfect defense against your love interests. Though your defensive powers may hinder them, they can always find a way through. This applies to anyone you're romantically interested in, and to anyone chosen for you by Fated Lovers. As your relationship with them intensifies, your defenses lower further where they're concerned. Breaking up with them has no effect on your vulnerability.
Seen with the Heart ☐
Grants: 3
(requires Love is a Battlefield and Selective Memory)
To the extent that you're vulnerable to someone through Love is a Battlefield, they also have unusual insight into powers you possess that you may not be aware of. Taking They'll Know strengthens this effect.
Keys to Your Heart ☐
Grants: 6
(requires Love is a Battlefield)
When you fall in love, you give away a key to your heart: a metaphysical bond that commands your absolute devotion. You have no control over this bond, and no way to revoke it. Anyone who holds a key to your heart can give you orders you are unable to refuse. You can delay or ask for clarification, but only to serve their interests, not yours. You cannot betray them in thought, word, or deed. Conflicting loyalties to different keyholders who are at odds with each other—or worse, conflicting direct orders asking you to do contradictory things—can cause a state of painfully frantic indecision, but ultimately the stronger relationship will win out. In the case of one person giving you orders that conflict with themselves or with that person's interests, you can reason through what they would want you to do in that situation, or ask them to clarify. You and those commanding you always instinctively know the difference between an enforced order and an unenforced request.
The Wrong Crowd ☐
Grants: 2
(requires Popular and Dramatic Damsel)
In addition to making you popular with peoplewho would get along with you and enjoy your style, Popular also ensures that potential villains for Dramatic Damsel storylines hear about you in a timely manner. Someone who falls into both categories will hear about you even faster.
Hot Commodity ☐
Grants: 3
(requires Even Worse and Dramatic Damsel)
Stories that involve someone kidnapping you often feature your renowned beauty as a central motivation, and anyone who likes kidnapping beautiful people is likely to hear about you with particular emphasis on how beautiful you are.
Get Rich Quick ☐
Grants: 3
(requires Motherlode and Dramatic Damsel)
Others can gain control of your wealth and its sources by gaining control of you. Stories that involve someone kidnapping you often feature those sources as a motivation.
Delicious and Nutritious ☐
Grants: 3
(requires Like Roses and Dramatic Damsel)
Your signature scent advertises a truly decadent meal to vampires and other anthropophages. Stories that involve someone kidnapping you often feature your tempting aroma as a central motivation, and may lead to the kidnapper becoming temporarily or permanently empowered by a successful sip or nibble.
Golden Goose ☐
Grants: 5
(requires Starstuff and Delicious and Nutritious)
Your transformative nature makes you a valuable source of rare and magical materials. Stories that involve someone kidnapping you often feature this form of value as a central motivation, usually on a very personal level—though more commercial forms of exploitation are also available, if you're into that sort of thing. Either way, the empowerment your kidnapper extracts from you is likely to be both permanent and extensive.
Keeps on Giving ☐
Grants: 5
(requires More Magic and Golden Goose)
Magic you have collected can be extracted from you without your consent. Stories that involve someone kidnapping you often feature this source of empowerment as a central motivation, and the nature of the extraction process is shaped by your narrative sensibilities and other preferences.
Wardrobe Malfunction ☐
Grants: 3
(requires Dressing Room and Dramatic Damsel)
During stories for which your protections are lifted, you may suffer persistent clothing damage that can't be repaired using Dressing Room. Even after regaining your other powers, your clothes may remain torn or otherwise distressed until the story concludes, or you may be forced to wear whatever your captor chooses to dress you in.
Mudslinging ☐
Grants: 1
(requires Personal Hygiene and Wardrobe Malfunction)
During stories for which your protections are lifted, you may get dirty when narratively appropriate, including potentially needing to take a narratively appropriate bath or do narratively appropriate laundry.
Slapstick Comedy ☐
Grants: 2
(requires Dramatic Damsel and at least one of Angelic Tones, Lightfoot, and Mysterious Allure)
At narratively appropriate moments, whether in or out of storylines in which your protections are lifted more generally, you may experience moments of verbal or physical clumsiness or other minor mishaps that serve to undercut your glamorous image and remind you and those around you that you're an imperfect person just like they are, who makes mistakes and has problems just like they do. These mishaps will never cause lasting harm to anything but your dignity.
Down to Earth ☐
Grants: 3
(requires Approachable and Dramatic Damsel)
You are cursed to relate to other people's perspectives and experiences. When your life has been so charmed for so long that you forget what it's like to have difficulties or limitations, you will be reminded. When you meet someone who needs you to understand what they went through, you'll go through something similar. This directive supersedes Dramatic Damsel's storyline parameters, but you can add those storylines back in by taking other drawbacks in the Dramatic Damsel family.
Green With Envy ☐
Grants: 6
People are so eager to be your friend that they become bitter and vindictive when denied the opportunity. You can tear apart long-established friend groups if you aren't careful to give everyone equal attention, and sometimes even then. This effect is particularly harsh around people you're dating.
You Ruin Them ☐
Grants: 3
Once someone has dated, slept with, or even shared a deep and longing glance across a room with you, their heart is never fully satisfied with anyone else. Other relationships pale in comparison to what they could have, or imagine they could have, with you.
Jilted Lovers ☐
Grants: 4
When you break up with someone, they become monomaniacally obsessed with getting back together. If you take Realism, this will absolutely escalate to violent stalking.
The Crazy Train ☐
Grants: 6
Powers that you should be able to control directly or influence by your mood and preferences (like Dragon Fairy Elf Witch, Emerald Orbs, or What's In A Name) instead answer only to the narrative, which is still using your aesthetics but might not necessarily have your best interests in mind. Combines… interestingly… with Realism.
That's How it Goes ☐
Grants: 3
(requires Secret Identity and The Crazy Train)
Rather than being confined to when you're in a specific universe, the power suppression from Secret Identity operates on the same narrative sensibility that drives your voluntary powers: some or all of your powers may be suppressed whenever the story demands it, and return later at an appropriate time. This can synergize with Dramatic Damsel to make your interludes as a damsel significantly more dramatic.
Live the Role ☐
Grants: 4
(requires That's How it Goes and Selective Memory)
Your memories, including but not limited to memories of your own powers, may be altered or suppressed at the discretion of the narrative. In general, the story will usually let you have your memories back eventually; if you take It Gets Better, you can be sure that you will someday recover anything you've lost that you would want to regain.
Marionette ☐
Grants: 3
(requires The Crazy Train and Love is a Battlefield)
To the extent that you're vulnerable to someone through Love is a Battlefield, they also gain direct influence over the use of your powers.
Puppet Show ☐
Grants: 2
(requires Marionette and That's How it Goes)
Marionette's influence extends to fully suppressing and reactivating your powers.
Memory Lane ☐
Grants: 3
(requires Marionette and Live the Role)
Marionette's influence extends to altering and suppressing your memories, as easily and powerfully as the narrative itself could. The effect of It Gets Better still applies.
Special Friend ☐
Grants: 6
(requires Marionette and at least one of Ascended Friend and Another Kind of Friend)
You no longer have a single fated Best Friend. Instead, the powers of your Best Friend—but not the guaranteed loyalty—are available to any love interest of yours who chooses to take on that mantle. With Ascended Friend, they can become your personal god; with Another Kind of Friend, they can inhabit your home, tattoos, or shadow. You may have any number of Special Friends at once. A Special Friend who wishes to give up this connection may do so, and will lose all direct connection to you, but may retain general abilities to shapeshift, move through shadows, and so on.
They'll Know ☐
Grants: 8
This drawback lifts the veil that discourages people from realizing how your powers affect the world around them and their own minds. Warning: this knowledge can cause a lot of trouble.
Realism ☐
Grants: 20
Give up your metanarrative protection. Although your individually selected powers still work as described, the invisible synergies that protect you from, say, gaining violent stalkers through Mysterious Allure or being genuinely traumatized by your Tragic Backstory are removed. Additionally, though effects like I Can Fix Them still operate, they may take considerably more effort, care, thought, and narrative investment on your part.
At the end of all this, the more natural handwriting returns.
