Essence of TheOnes who Alter the World

Taking this fragile-looking bottle filled with psychedelic liquid, you opened its cork and realized it was actually empty. You attempted to break it, maybe the liquid is in the glass, but it didn’t work. So you gave up, throwing it up in the air, that’s when it shattered into psychedelic energy ribbons that surrounded you briefly.

• During that brief moment where the energy surrounds you, you have a chance to change your appearance permanently. This process is instantaneous and retroactive. This also gives your preferred gender.

• You are an Alter. A being who can shape the World through the process of creation and transmutation of energy and matter. Through a mental effort, that very being shapes reality to conform to their views. However, this process isn’t permanent as it is highly dependent on an Alter user’s mind. You, however, are special. Your alteration is wholly permanent, as if you are always meant to change the World.

• In short, as an Alter, you are capable of absorbing any form of energy or matter, restructuring it, and building its own special form. This is referred to as the Manifestation. Whenever you use this power, you exude an opaque psychedelic energy that converts any forms of energy or matter around you into said Manifestation.

• The Manifestation grows the more it is used to the point that it shines with its own light. If that happens, then you have reached the zenith of being an Alter. You have obtained your own Shining Light.

• Manifestation tends to cause body horror to their Alter users and might even lead to them having crippling body damage, except you. Your body has adapted to the strenuous activity of reshaping itself to the point of making you somewhat like an energy-based lifeform rather than a normal fleshy being. However, this process is gradual, and you will certainly feel or know it when you start bleeding psychedelic energy rather than blood or the equivalent thereof.

• Normally, when an Alter manifests their power, reality itself distorts as well as anything their Manifestation makes contact with. For you, this effect can be subtle as you want it to be, or do the direct opposite and shatter the fabric of reality. The sheer wrongness of the latter’s effect will cause an existential dread to all those who witness your power.

• You have access to the four known Manifestation types, mostly because you can shape your own Manifestation: Controlled, Independent, Harmonic, and Intangible.

• Controlled is the designation for objects, such as vehicles, created by the Alter user. If the Alter user goes to an unconscious state, the Controlled Manifestation will be canceled or become “offline”.

• Independent is the designation for beings capable of independent thought and action created by an Alter user. These beings can fight if the Alter user falls to an unconscious state, and they can disobey a bad command at will.

• Harmonic is the designation for the ones that augment and enhance a body part of the Alter user. It might appear as a part of an armor covering the entire body part. Harmonic Alter Power tends to harmonize with emotions and other Manifestations to fuel its own, making it capable of trumping over the first two Manifestation types. This is often considered the most esoteric of the types.

• Intangible is the designation for Manifestation that has no form but affects the “Process of Life”. Empathy and Telepathy are the two most common side effects of this Manifestation, making the Alter users of this Manifestation somewhat pacifistic in nature.

• You currently can use a single Manifestation type, but over time or through training, you’ll be able to use all three or use multiple Manifestations of the same type. Reaching the zenith guarantees the capability to use multiple Manifestation types or multiples of the same type.

• As an Alter user, you subconsciously enhance your physical attributes. This process is gradual but permanent. Although you can speed it up by using Manifestation.

• Should you reach that Shining Light far above you metaphorically through your Manifestation, you will reach the Zenith. This causes you to become one with all of your Manifestations. This allows you to become the very power that you use and turn into a living focal point of distortion whose mere existence alters the very World you are in.

• You may awaken someone as an Alter by giving them a little bit of that psychedelic energy you now exude whenever you are using Manifestation.

• Optionally, every World or Setting, whichever is bigger, you go to has a Lost Ground, a place where the Other Side interacts with the real world. This allows the natural formation of Alters from those living there over time. They won’t be as strong as you, though, as they need to reach their Zenith to be able to fight you on equal grounds, and even then, they might even lose near-instantly if you reached your Zenith already. The Lost Ground is connected to every Lost Ground out there, but only Alters can travel through them without being driven to insanity or torn apart.

• Optionally, you can take any characters from the Setting of S-Cry-Ed as companions.

• Optionally, you can be sent to the Setting of S-Cry-Ed. Have fun there, as you are literally that overpowered and might cause everyone to mistake you for a god or something.

• This Essence, and all its aspects, can’t be erased, forcibly changed, removed, or stolen. Doing so will actually benefit you as you will take their power and convert it into an Alter Manifestation.