Essence ofGizmo’s Choice Tweaks

This essence tastes like Gizmo. Don’t ask what Gizmo tastes like. By drinking this essence, you are granted:

• A functionally peak human body with an appearance that doesn’t necessarily relate to its abilities. You may shed any mental or physical conditions, even those traditionally seen as beneficial, that you possessed before drinking this essence and for any reason want to be rid of. This physical form and its characteristics are irrelevant and modifiable even long after you consume this essence, so long as they stay recognizably a member of the human race. This is cosmetic, species-specific shapeshifting. Its real purpose is to let you be who you really want to be, even if that desired form changes down the line, and allow you some experimentation regarding your body type and what tools you do or do not possess downstairs. It’s not really meant to give you an edge beyond a guarantee of ‘functioning at the peak of humanity and looking as damn good as I want’. This cosmetic shapeshifting is also available for any other bodies or races you gain access to down the line, following the same logic.

• You may hybridize, mix, or blend any of your Alt-Forms as you wish. Essentially, any bodies you gain as a result of a CYOA, essence, or any other method later on (or even possessed before this essence) may be combined together. This can be used strategically to remove weaknesses or access race-specific abilities as you see fit, but also for cosmetic alterations like sprouting cat ears belonging to a feline alt-form you have or replacing limbs with those of a species you possess access to. Any changes may be undone without repercussions. This has an artistic bent to it as well, so you may make thematically appropriate changes to the material you are adding. Examples are: accessing a dragon’s claws giving you scales up to your elbow, the wings that belong to your massive kaiju form being an actually usable size when they sprout from your human back, your lupine paws letting you grow fur up an otherwise human leg, etc.

• You have an innate sense for changes to the timeline, and total immunity to being removed from the equation by paradoxes or other time-shenanigans. You will coast through alterations to the timeline in whatever way you find most favorable, keeping your memories and body by default. If you have access to any personal extradimensional spaces, like a cosmic warehouse or even just a personal inventory, it and anything within it will also remain wholly unaffected.

• You have the ability to use your powers in just about any situation. Yours is the multitool, even something purely offensive at first glance, like shooting lasers from your eyes somehow being used to save someone falling from a building. This extends to any future and past abilities or those from other essences, drastically improving their versatility. This is not necessarily the addition of new features, just extreme aptitude for thinking outside the box with what you have.

• You can utilize conflicting abilities, such as light and dark magic, simultaneously without drawbacks.

• You possess a soundtrack of your design that you may play at any time. You can be extremely specific in your music choice, down to a specific live performance of the song across history, or broadly general in theme and a few preferred artists. It will never play anything you don’t want to hear, and you can selectively allow others to hear it. It will also spontaneously generate new music by your whims; want to hear Queen perform a rock opera about your adventures? It can do that. You may also elect to have it play a constant background soundtrack as though you were in a film or video game, with preexisting songs and surprise vocal tracks added in for appropriate moments. This music is conceptual in nature, and can never overload or distract you in any capacity you do not desire.

• You may elect to have any ability you possess, even those granted by this essence, nerfed for the sake of adventure, humility, whatever. You must TRULY desire this. You cannot be mind-controlled, pheromone-influenced, subconsciously affected, yada yada yada. This must be YOUR REAL DESIRE. You can also choose how quickly they are trained back up to normal, if they even are at all.

• Speaking of which: You possess blanket immunity to all forms of mind control or mind alteration on a conceptual level, as well as immunity to being pathed by precognitives and immunity to instant-kill attacks.

• If you obtain an alter-ego as a superhero or the like, the connection simply cannot be drawn between you and that alter-ego by fiat, unless you desire for it to be known by the individual.

• You have some means of blindly hopping to a new universe or setting. It requires thematically appropriate and potentially difficult setup to be achieved, and you might be locked in one setting until the plot wraps up, but it can take you literally anywhere, just not accurately. You may also use it to reach strange, wholly new worlds that might be mashups of preexisting ones or totally alien and new universes never seen before (Figuratively. They’ll probably have some life forms somewhere.)

• When teleporting at random (most relevantly, traveling blindly to a new universe or world), you cannot emerge inside a solid object. You will always arrive somewhere safe. (mostly. Don’t expect to teleport to a war-covered planet and arrive somewhere that’s magically untouched.)

• When arriving in a new setting, you are guaranteed access to the local magic systems, cultivation systems, superpowers, supernatural martial arts, plot-central bloodline, yadda yadda yadda. You’ll gain something for every place you travel to, although don’t expect to be the strongest user of a given system without a little (lotta) luck.

• You may append the following to any CYOA document, and also use them now for a first-time trip to a new world or to adjust the items presented above:

• Of course, this is all toggleable, or a sliding scale adjusting to your liking, so long as it stays at or below the original stated strength.

• Optionally, be inserted into a specific or generic setting [When used in conjunction with future documents: replace ‘setting’ with ‘setting based on the theme of this document’], including fanfiction or non-canon media.