Essence ofDeath By A Thousand Cuts

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After you land a thousand blows on something, fate bends the universe to destroy it, whether by explosion, accident or life signs simply stopping. The blows need do no damage at all, as long as each is a recognisable slight, and the target can be a person, a statue, an organisation or an ecosystem. You must have the specific target in mind with each strike, may only designate one per blow, and must be able to imagine what that target's death would look like.

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Description

By imbibing this essence you gain the following benefits:

Effects

After successfully delivering one thousand blows to something, it soon will be destroyed. How this happens is flexible. It might explode, get run over by a car, or just spontaneously have all life signs cease for no reason. Whatever it is, fate will bend the universe in half to make it happen.
There might be a bit of time before it really sticks, but never really enough for the target to do anything meaningful. It is just to allow the events to play out, such as taking a few seconds for the cliff they are standing on to fall into a chasm below with almost comedic timing.
This does not need to be a living thing. This could be a statue, an organization, or even an ecosystem. What matters is that you successfully assault that entity in some way. You must genuinely believe whatever you are going against is truly at least a component representative of the whole (e.g. a franchise location in place of an overall corporation) and have the attack land.
The attack does not need to do any damage, just that you can recognize in some way that a slight was attempted. These can be as minuscule as a series of chronic non-innocent pranks (i.e. annoying or mean-spirited enough to be considered at least mild harassment) or particularly disrespectful cases of littering.
Note that you must have what you are targeting in mind when acting, and can only designate one per strike. For instance, you can either add one to the "cut" count for an assassin in front of you, or the overall team they are part of. If you are targeting something more abstract like an organization, then "death" probably means it disbands (never to truly reform again) rather than all members dying. You would still need to deal with anyone who is still after you personally though.
You must be able to imagine what the target's "death" might mean or look like. A living thing or a group is easy to do, but it would be much harder if you tried to destroy some concept with this.

Categories: combatdestruction
Keywords: damage

Essence ofDeath By A Thousand Cuts

byBetweenTheLines

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AI summary

Generated précis — the sections below are the author's original text.

Description

By imbibing this essence you gain the following benefits:

Effects

After successfully delivering one thousand blows to something, it soon will be destroyed. How this happens is flexible. It might explode, get run over by a car, or just spontaneously have all life signs cease for no reason. Whatever it is, fate will bend the universe in half to make it happen.
There might be a bit of time before it really sticks, but never really enough for the target to do anything meaningful. It is just to allow the events to play out, such as taking a few seconds for the cliff they are standing on to fall into a chasm below with almost comedic timing.
This does not need to be a living thing. This could be a statue, an organization, or even an ecosystem. What matters is that you successfully assault that entity in some way. You must genuinely believe whatever you are going against is truly at least a component representative of the whole (e.g. a franchise location in place of an overall corporation) and have the attack land.
The attack does not need to do any damage, just that you can recognize in some way that a slight was attempted. These can be as minuscule as a series of chronic non-innocent pranks (i.e. annoying or mean-spirited enough to be considered at least mild harassment) or particularly disrespectful cases of littering.
Note that you must have what you are targeting in mind when acting, and can only designate one per strike. For instance, you can either add one to the "cut" count for an assassin in front of you, or the overall team they are part of. If you are targeting something more abstract like an organization, then "death" probably means it disbands (never to truly reform again) rather than all members dying. You would still need to deal with anyone who is still after you personally though.
You must be able to imagine what the target's "death" might mean or look like. A living thing or a group is easy to do, but it would be much harder if you tried to destroy some concept with this.

Categories: combatdestruction
Keywords: damage