Essence ofEternity
byCliffc999
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Cures every physical and psychological ailment, resets your body to strong and healthy, and stops your ageing at the prime of life so you live forever with maintained health as though under constant good care. Your mind and soul are adapted to eternity, with memory able to index eons as easily as a mortal lifetime, complete immunity to ennui and despair, and no unwanted value drift or loss of empathy. You also gain impenetrable plot armour against death and destruction of personality, may share the Essence with those you genuinely love, and can finally choose to move on when you sincerely wish to.
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Description
By consuming this Essence you embrace living a truly eternal existence.
Effects
9At the time you drink this Essence you will be cured of any and all physical ailments, pre-existing conditions, psychological trauma, and other unwanted mental conditions, ailments, disabilities, etc. Your body will be reset to be strong, healthy, and athletic with zero genetic defects or pre-existing conditions. Your age will also be reset to the prime of life, unless you were already younger.
You will cease aging once you reach the prime of life, and you will live forever. Your health and fitness will always be maintained as if you were practicing clean and healthy living and receiving comprehensive modern medical care throughout, even if you are not. You will always eventually recover 100% and without impairment from any injury, even if you normally would not.
Your mind and soul are also fully adapted to an eternal existence.
Your memory will be able to index and process any number of eons of stored experiences as easily as it already could have done so for your original mortal lifetime.
You are wholly immune to any ennui, boredom, despair, etc., that might be caused by your extended lifespan.
You will remain as able to relate to and empathize with those around you as much as you always could, and in general will not be changed, embittered, or otherwise subjected to unwanted value drift by your eternal existence… except possibly for the better.
You have impenetrable plot armor versus death, death of personality, psychological destruction, and other really bad things. Narrative causality will always twist just enough to ensure that nothing can permanently remove you from the action economy against your will. Even things like banishment to a nether-realm, entombment, etc., will eventually fail and let you find a way out. Even if the very planet you live on should be destroyed or the universe itself eventually succumb to final entropy, you will have opportunities to escape to another place beforehand.
Optional: You may share this Essence with those you truly, deeply, and intimately care for. No cheesing, the ineffable powers behind the Essence Meta will know if you really mean it or not. You may not do take-backs once you have shared it, so be careful who you choose.
When you are finally ready to stop living and move on to what comes next, you will. This will only happen if you wish to do so while entirely in your right mind and with the utmost sincerity.
ClarificationsFAQ:
Why the free medical care?
It was considered a compromise position between the possibility of ending up as a blind man with all your limbs cut off for eternity, or granting an outright superpower of being Wolverine. So you get Corwin of Amber level healing - i.e., 'you get injured like anyone else, but what would be permanently crippling injuries for anyone else is shit you can walk off in a couple of years'. The free fitness and health care is also a small mercy, because who wants to spend centuries living through the primitive tech levels and having to put up with shit like dysentery and malnutrition all the time?
I'm not sure I understand the memory thing.
Logically speaking, anyone who lived centuries would be unable to function because the human brain just isn't able to store and index that much... especially since the problem of indexing grows exponentially as the duration grows linearly, thanks to all the cross-referencing. This is why the Jumpchain has so many perfect memory perks.
But going with the theme of 'as few Required Secondary Superpowers as possible', I didn't throw in perfect memory on this one, just 'Your memory is as good for your entire immortal lifespan as it would already have been if you were a normal person in your normal span'. So if you already had a photographic memory, congrats, its now photographic for eternity. If you were already the sort of person who forgot where they left their car keys as soon as they turned around, well, you're gonna have to overcome that habit on your own because this Essence won't do it for you.
Basically, its 'whenever possible, assume your immortal lifespan hasn't actually made anything any worse for you'.
How much of this did you crib from Ultimate Meta?
A lot. Like, a whoooooooole lot. Thanks, TroyX! :)
This essence doesn't give you anything besides not dying and living a long healthy life!
That's the point. It's intended as a +option package to all the other CYOAs that forgot to give you a convenient immortality option, not a standalone.
Wait, "Optional"?
Some people might not want to write a story of a person who cannot ever take any loved ones along with them on the eternal journey. But some other people might not want to write a story where he does, but couldn't justify their MC turning down the option if he had it. So on a meta/Doylist level, you the author get to control if it's even a choice in the first place or not.
- Categories
- knowledgementalcraftingsupernaturalutility
- Traits
- immortalityperfect memoryimmunity
- Keywords
- perfect healthmemory manipulationwritinggame mechanicsdestructionhealing