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Essence of theUseful Minor Powers

byGroWLiTHeTR

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A grab bag of small but genuinely useful powers: a Detection Eye in Skyrim's style showing where observers are and how clearly they see you, and a Laser Sight showing exactly where your shot will land, wobbling realistically with your breathing. Fated Martyr guarantees you will die fighting to protect someone you love or a cause you believe in, while Prison Lessons teaches you things you would never have learned in comfort. Composite Magic fuses every energy you encounter into a single form with all their strengths and none of their drawbacks, and Maintenance Free crystallises any upkeep — workouts, repairs, routines — into your Essence after doing it well just once.

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

Description

A glowing potion bottle that holds a rainbow of purple shades which pulsate with your heartbeat, it tastes like soup made out of all the energy drink brands, along with some alcohol.

Effects

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  • Detection Eye: Skyrim sneaking eye will appear in your sight and give the directions of your observers. The clearer they see you the more open the eye will be which might be used to guess their distance. You also have a light camouflage ability that messes with detection abilities above mundane sight, the further they are from you the more you will blend in, until where at the level of Omnipotent beings you will be utterly invisible. The more they rely on their extra sensory abilities the blinder they will be with you.

  • Laser Sight: Another eye power, your eyes will see a laser sight shifting according to where your shot will land. If it is archery then the laser will wobble with each breath, if it is a pistol without any bullets then there won't be anything, if someone is faster than your projectile will block you if you take that shot then the laser sight will hover in mid air, and if you throw a bowling ball then the pins it will hit shall light up instead. You can mentally turn it on or off, change the color, the shape, and the intensity of the laser, as it isn't really there, it is just a manifestation of your new rather limited precognitive ability.

  • Fated Martyr: You will die a martyr, fighting in the name of protecting someone you love, or in the defense of a purpose you deeply believe in, to the point of giving your life for it. While that might seem like a curse there are also quite a few benefits too. Your life will be filled with minor luck that prevents you getting harmed by bad luck or accident. You won't step on a landmine on a field full of them, you will grab the railing at the last second when someone pushes you into the ocean while they fall down themselves, you tend to get the best hand possible in games of chance, and the people you meet tend to be good people you could come to love, to the point of giving up your life for. And should you die in the name of protecting someone you love they will find their life blessed in various ways, as if you are their guardian angel, still protecting them from the afterlife. You will be able to sense whenever something bad is going to happen to someone you care about, giving you the time to hurry to them and save your loved ones from harm in the nick of time. And lastly, as a heroic figure, your wounds and hurts heal in record time, and correctly. A lost limb would require a prosthetics still, but it would be far more responsive and flexible in your hands than any other's.

  • Prison Lessons: It is a fact of life, if you take someone from all they know and place them in a boring cell with strangers, they learn some lessons they never would've outside. So it is the same with you. Each time you get thrown into jail, sealed in a jar, or even fall into a coma, you will have the chance to learn a lesson you couldn't have learned outside. That doesn't mean you have to accept the lesson, or take what you learned to heart rather than discarding it immediately, but you will have a clear lesson in front of you. This might be how to sew in prison. This might be how to meditate while sealed in a jar. This might be how to forgive yourself for a specific mistake you did in your past. If you learn your lesson you will also get out of jail early card that will let you out regardless of the locks on your prison.

  • Composite Magic: Your mind, soul, and body has the strange ability to fuse all energies it comes in contact with into one form. The resulting energy will have all the strengths and none of the drawbacks. Even if you don't have any form of magical energy you will find your physical, mental, and spiritual energies all come together to make your life far easier. Your healing speed will increase, thoughts will flow faster, and your muse will stick around far longer than before. This fusion also has the effect of balancing your growth, becoming a body builder would also see your mental and spiritual capacities grow along with your muscles just as engaging in a deep philosophical debate or doing Sudoku will reflect on your muscles. Additionally you are resistant to any damage from energy attacks as your body naturally absorbs a portion of any energy that it encounters, once enough of an energy is absorbed your body will start to generate it, becoming highly even more resistant to damage from that energy and growing an affinity for manipulating that energy in various ways.

  • Maintenance Free: Any action in the name of maintaining your capabilities or state now only needs to be done once before the thing you are maintaining gets crystallized as part of your Essence. Workout for a week, and your body will stay at peak form according to the result of your week of training. Take a few weeks of guitar lessons, and your fingers will never forget how to strung the strings. Refuse a proposition to maintain your virginity, and conceptually be considered virgin even if you later on engage in carnal activities. Ask a friend the meaning of a word in their language, and their explanation will become unforgettable. Eat a meal, never need to eat that meal again as your body will generate all the things that meal gives you ex-nihilo, same with drinking water. Even drinking bleach to kill all bacteria in your body, should you survive the experience, will arm your body with bleach to use against any viruses or unwanted bacteria. Hygiene is also maintained as long as you do it once, whether that be showering, getting a haircut/shave, brushing your teeth, or whatever else, you won't need to repeat it again as dirt and unwanted stuff gets repelled by your body and clothes as if pulled by gravity. Should being in peak form be detrimental to you, such as having huge muscles or too fast blood flow, then your body rapidly shift to how you'd look like if you never exercised since you drank this Essence before returning to your peak form again. This also causes you to not need to go to the toilet if you do not eat or drink, your body not generating any waste. However if you did not do anything to maintain something, such as being worthy of Mjolnir and not considering the idea of maintaining your worthiness, then the Essence won't maintain the worthiness. Certain equipment you use daily will also see benefit from this, only certain items such as a uniform, work tool, and phone, not the other clothes in your wardrobe.

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utilitycombatmagicsupernaturalreality-warping
Traits
superhuman physiquestealthflightillusionsomnipotenceperfect memoryprecognition
Keywords
superhuman strengthangelcursepsychic powersdamagefood and drinkgame mechanicsromancesoul manipulationsustenancecreationhealinglight
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