Essence ofRecording
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AI summary
Gives you a mental archive holding all media from Earth — written works, films, television, video games — plus a snapshot of the internet, accessible at will and expandable by 'consuming' any further media you encounter, which copies rather than destroys the original. You can implant anything you hold onto compatible recording devices by focusing, putting films onto USB sticks or disks and books onto paper, and your own life is continuously recorded not only from your point of view but from every reasonable angle within the same space. You can project archived material onto nearby playback devices, from music through headphones to memories on a television, you have free mental access to whatever world's local internet you are in along with talking, texting and data, your archive grants perfect recall without the usual drawbacks, and you can watch a live third-person stream of yourself, which takes some getting used to but proves useful.
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Description
By drinking this sparkly Essence from a camera-shaped bottle, you gain the incredible power of recording things!
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8You have a mental record of all media from Earth, including written, movies, TV Shows, Video Games, and such, as well as a mental snapshot of the Internet as an archive. You can mentally access them at-will, as well as organize/categorize/edit them as you please. Even if you edit/alter something, the original is always there to access as well. By default, the archive is categorized in a way you would like, and you can change things easily and intuitively.
While this repository is of Earth, you can add more media you encounter easily. You can 'consume' media/records in this way in order to add them to your archive. This doesn't destroy the originals, but rather just copies them.
You can implant things you know onto recording devices by focusing, though it has to be vaguely compatible. For example, you can put Movies into USB's or disks, Books onto paper, etc. Even for more esoteric devices, such as putting movies or memories onto a magical 'recording crystal' of some kind. You can also easily 'stream' anything to a nearby device (Roughly within the same room level distance) that is capable of handling that form of record.
In addition to this, your life, as you experience it, is recorded in your mental archive, not just from your PoV, but also from all other angles from reasonable distances (Within the same room? Yes. From the building across the street? No.), and can be viewed however you desire. These can also be implanted onto things, similar to movies. These will also by default be edited in a way that you would want them too, such as being properly cinematic, as if gone over by a professional video editor. Of course, you can also access the 'raw' files as you please, to find the original if you want to make your own.
You can project things from your mental archive onto playback devices near you, such as getting headphones to play music from your mental library, getting a TV to play a set of memories of you doing something, and so on.
In addition to all of this, you have mental access to the local internet of whatever world you're in, as well as communication capability, such as talking, texting, data, and so forth, for free, in an unhackable and untraceable form. Your connection cannot be used to harm you at all. This connection does allow you to sort of implant things at range, via the internet, such as posting a movie to a file-sharing site. This does grant you access to the world's internet, if it has one, as well as cell network or local equivalent, anywhere within that world. Technically this, combined with your ability to record yourself, would allow you to livestream yourself without any other equipment. With the subconscious editing ability this will allow you to focus the stream/PoV wherever you want/intend.
Your archive also grants you perfect recall, by default, in a way that prevents the downsides of having such.
In addition to all of this, you can also view a sort of 'live stream' of yourself at the current moment, allowing for a sort of third person view. Though this may take some getting used to, you find using it intuitive enough that you'll get the hang of it fairly quickly.
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- craftingmentalknowledgemagic
- Traits
- perfect memory
- Keywords
- memory manipulationelemental powerswriting