Essence ofBecoming The MacGuffin

By imbibing this essence, you gain the following:

• Wherever you go, you may choose to be a game changing deus ex machina. Not quite from being able to personally take on the world yourself, but by having some function that everyone will fight over. People will not automatically know about your power when you enter, but will likely realize the worth immediately upon seeing it.

• What exactly this does can gradually change depending on the context, though it will take time for you to figure out how to direct it yourself. Whether you create your current MacGuffin power or you allow this Essence to decide, it will never innately endanger you. Nonetheless, it will largely be a support-type ability rather than direct applications of force.

• For instance:

  • Are you trapped in a place like Desert Punk or Alice in Hell, a cruel post-apocalyptic desert where fortunes rise and fall based on wars for clean water supplies? You now have the ability to magically make an oasis appear wherever you stay, with bottomless reserves of drinkable water and lush vegetation. Great for survival out in the wastes, but you might want to be careful who you tell about it.

  • Are you in the Scarlet Empire from Exalted instead? You might have the ability to force a potential Terrestrial to exalt, bypassing all the worries and random chance that plague modern Dragon-Blooded dynasties. Or you might find that any children you have there somehow pop out with Legendary Breeding like the mythical first generations of Terrestrials.

  • Are you stuck on Planetos from A Song of Ice and Fire? Perhaps when presented with anyone with even a drop of Valyrian blood you can spontaneously materialize a fully grown dragon and imprint it upon them.

  • Can the Big Bad of a setting only be properly killed by a specific artifact? Well it turns out that you have the ability to craft other items that can somehow do the job just fine, assuming its wielder gets a clean hit in.