>It was just meant to be you guess. Everything had led up to this point
I like the "fuck if I know answer" so I'm going with it

dead but alive sounds like us.

>*You died... Didn’t you... But you’re still alive?
>*This was the only way for you to survive. You are alive and still here
... these together make sense, right?

????? ???? 2015/07/19(Sun)17:14 No. 656999 ID: f6cbc8
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Ah you don't have to be so worried. Yes you were almost going to die on me. You should count yourself blessed that I did have a way to save you.

It was a bit close though, there was a really high destiny of it failing. Still you must have had something special about you, since you're still not dead yet.

Think about it, what made you so special, and hunted down?

* Conflict:You were the best at the arts of combat, whether in practice or theory. Yes when it came to conflict, you were in the thick of it
* Personality:Everybody looked up to you, an example for everybody to follow. When you advised, others listened
* Knowledge:Whenever somebody needed to know something or get something done, they went to you. People respected you for the arts and sciences you followed.
* Cunning:Others may or may not suspected, but you recall living life by your skill and ability. When things got down or dirty it was no sweat to you
* Communication: You knew everybody or perhaps went just about everywhere. No matter the personage or location, you were there and more or less fit in.

>Knowledge

Knowledge

>>657002
>>657003
sure

1/3 ???? 2015/07/19(Sun)22:13 No. 657049 ID: f6cbc8
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Ah yes you were quite the knowledgeable one. You went out to search knowledge on your own. But... you ran afoul of somebody... or something...

That's why... I could... grant you this power... because you feared dying, because you feared the darkness. You aren't afraid of it now are you?

But I didn't grant this power just to save you, you know that?

So please...

2/3 ???? 2015/07/19(Sun)22:14 No. 657050 ID: f6cbc8
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Won't you grant my deepest wish?

3/3 ???? 2015/07/19(Sun)22:18 No. 657051 ID: f6cbc8
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Still in any case, you won't be doing much down here.

Ah what shall I call you?

Hmm, your old name? Don't you remember? You had to give it up, all of it in order for this to work. Even if this power I granted didn't need it, there's some troublesome things that's been done to that power that would make using your old name dangerous.

Still you have to be called something. Any suggestions? Act now, I'm not particularly patient about this of all things. And what would you say would be your first course of action?

>name
Gino
>what do
find out where the hell we are and go from there

Oh hey we're exalted.

>name
Something descriptive and long and flowery and dark, right.

Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale

> Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale

This. THIS.

>>657054
I like this, if it is Exalted.

If not, Terrence.

Within a dark cave are the shadows of the wall Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale 2015/07/20(Mon)19:41 No. 657240 ID: 9f210d
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Yes, thus you shall be known to all of Creation as Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale. Title pending whatever further dark glories you would pursue. Or whatever label I among what other beings shall slap you with. Not like you’re going to get any staying down here.

Amidst this darkness are two paths, one that leads up, which by logic should lead you further out of whatever dark space Wisdom has found himself in. There is also a path forward, which is a good as direction as any.

Hmmm still dazed and confused I see. While I have never been prone to self-reflection before, having all the time in Creation has given me time to practice.

>Consider yourself, among the trio of your BODY, MIND, or heh PERSONALITY, rank them from strongest to weakest in relation to yourself.

>Furthermore among each of these parts of yourself rank for each of them the following approaches,
AGGRESSIVE, FLUID, and PASSIVE from strongest to weakest. Of course for this part you may have the approaches tie with each other in strength.

>Example

Strong/Average/Weak
PERSONALITY/BODY/MIND
AGGR/ ------/AGGR
PASSIVE/ FLUID,AGGR (tied)/FLUID
FLUID/ PASSIVE/PASSIVE

>>657240
Fluid/Fluid/Fluid

mind body personality
agressive fluid passive

ok this is a bit complex so I should explain this further.

You have three traits, BODY, MIND, PERSONALITY

Each of those three traits have three approaches. AGGRESSIVE, FLUID, and PASSIVE.

The first order is sorting the traits from strongest to weakest.

Then the second order is to sort the approaches for each order in similar terms of strength.

Though if it'll be easier, just a simple short cut for all of these choices is possible as well. In the end, you can improve the final values of these approaches later on.

I think I got it...

Mind, Body, Personality

Mind - Aggressive, Passive/Fluid (tied)
Body - Fluid, Passive, Aggressive
Personality - Passive, Aggressive, Fluid

Mind - Aggressive, Fluid Passive tied.
Personality - Fluid, Passive, Aggressive.
Body - Aggressive, passive, fluid.

Our name suggests we've got a sharp mind in not the strongest body. So...

Mind Personality Body
Mind: Fluid, Aggressive, Passive
Personality: Passive, Fluid, Aggressive
Body: Passive, Fluid, Aggressive

Sheet part one Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale 2015/07/21(Tue)22:43 No. 657459 ID: 9a279b
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Hmm considering your self refection, your TRAITS should look like this. Well you’re only PATHETIC in one area.

That done I should inform you due to how that power given to you is designed. Your growth is dependent on your SKILLS. In particular the caste you belong to is especially good at learning and using SMART SKILLS. The SMART SKILLS are grouped into MAKING, PROBING, BOOKLEARNING, PATCHING UP and MAGICAL KNOWHOW.

You’ll learn later on that your capabilities are further divided among by COMPETENCIES, which are small focuses of the each individual SKILL. Well you could right now try to recall any possible SKILL COMPETENCIES you would have known, or you could get to escaping here first?

> Examples of SKILL COMPETENCIES.
> BOOKLEARNING: MATHS, MAKING: SHARP POINTY THINGS, PROBING:HUNT TREASURE.

>>657459
Yes, I think it's about time we get moving. But no reason we can't do both!

> Making
Clothing, love.
> Probing
Hidden objects/traps.

... Wait, that's just /quest/ in general. Let me try again.
> Making
Still going with clothing, but also armor
> Probing
Interrogation
> Booklearning
Physics, Material science
> Patching Up
Machinery, Forges/kilns
> Magical knowhow
Conjuration/summoning (whichever one actually creates stuff, if one does)

>>657459
MAKING
Gadget Crafter (Can create a wide variety of tools and gear from basic or advanced materials)
PROBING
Visual Analysis (Able to analyze elements in your environment in detail)
BOOKLEARNING
Languages (Able to develop basic knowledge of an unknown language in less than a few weeks)
PATCHING UP
Spell Disruption (You know how to hack a golem or repair an insane golem's programming)
MAGICAL KNOWHOW
Spell Crafter (You learned how to create basic spells without assistance from a higher power)

Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale 2015/07/23(Thu)19:59 No. 657764 ID: 39ba99
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Wisdom recalls some small fragments of his previous life, the talents and SKILLS that he had gain over his many delves for buried knowledge

MAKING: WEARABLES-TRAINED
MAKING:GADGETS-SKILLED
PROBING: VISUAL ANALYSIS-SKILLED
BOOKLEARNING:PHYSICS-SKILLED
BOOKLEARING: MATERIAL SCIENCES-SKILLED
PATCHING UP: AUTO-HEALING MACHINERY-TRAINED
MAGICAL KNOWHOW:SUMMONING-EXPERT
MAGICAL KNOWHOW:SPELLCRAFTER-TRAINED

Returning attention to getting out of here, wherever here is, there's a ROUGH PASSAGE that seems to rise UP. But FORWARD is a smooth and easy path. Which way should Wisdom go, or should he consider an entirely different direction?

Place a marker EXACTLY where you are. Draw a bullseye.



Start by going UP.

>>657764
How do TRAINED and SKILLED compare? I assume EXPERT is better than both.

Up is usually good for getting out of places.

Go left, check for hidden power-up.

I thought we already answered this one: We are intellectually aggressive, and this is a choice between the straightforward path and the more challenging path. WE GO UP.

>>657800
trained means we know how, skilled means we are good at it.

1/2 Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale 2015/07/24(Fri)20:14 No. 657902 ID: 39ba99
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>>657825
>>657770

Wisdom peeks around the left wall and spots something upon the stones.

>>BLOOD SEAL activated!

A dark and mighty power courses through his chilled flesh and rushes through his cooled blood.

With some small pebbles from here, Wisdom makes a small circle to act as a guide post.

>> Hmm! This is... Eh-hehe well I must have been favored when I chose you. There are five of these BLOOD SEALS. If you can find all five of them, great forbidden power shall be granted for you to use. So great however that you’ll have quite the target painted on your back. But this amuses me in any case, so whether you wish to seek them out or not. It’s all the same to me.

2/2 Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale 2015/07/24(Fri)20:15 No. 657903 ID: 39ba99
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Yes Wisdom would go to many lengths in order to gain the knowledge he seeks. Thus the direction of UP with its appearance of many challenges would be more intellectually satisfying to follow.

And so he climbed up over the rough path, clinging to craggy handholds. Until he comes to a cliff over-looking a suspicious line of stone pillars below. There seems to be something creaking above though, but there’s no wind here....

Scream at pillars.

make a mage-light to see what is making the noise.

>>657917
Seems reasonable, since we're good in spellcraft.

It also occurs to me that down bottomless pits you normally avoid going might be a place to hide another blood seal.

A cliff... is awful hard to go past , unless you have some talent at bare-face climbing and the cliff features are just the right kind of weathered/craggy for it. I guess we need to investigate that creaking, is it a voice?
If no apparent method of progress is to be found or fashioned, consider going back and checking the other path; we may need additional resources to investigate what's here or progress further in this direction.

Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale 2015/07/27(Mon)22:09 No. 658743 ID: 19291b
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Screaming at the pillars with all the hate and malice of your condition makes Wisdom feel better, maybe.

Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale 2015/07/27(Mon)22:11 No. 658745 ID: 19291b
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A dark sort of light flashes from your brow, above hanging in the darkness is a giant chain.

Whoa, heavy. What's the chain connect to, or can you not see that far? I'm pondering climbing it, or using it to swing through the area to... who knows what else yet?

Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale 2015/07/29(Wed)19:46 No. 659226 ID: 212a9f
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>>658746

Wisdom attempts to see past the veil of darkness and distance. The focus being what lies bound to the chain.

> Here we go then, because of the environment you find yourself in, what seems to be a simple task is now a CHALLENGE. What are CHALLENGES you may ask? Anytime when your effort are being opposed, whether by an inferor being or the very nature of existence itself, that is a CHALLENGE.

>How are they passed? All one needs to clear a CHALLENGE is to have a SKILL TOTAL that is equal or above the CHALLENGE LEVEL. How do you get your SKILL TOTAL you ask? Well it’s equal to your ABILITY APPROACH added to the SKILL COMPETENCIES you have. Well any that relate to the challenge in question in any case. A typical CHALLENGE LEVEL for a simple action of some effort is 2.

>That being said, you can improve your SKILL COMPETENCIES when you have the time so as to Crush any obstacles in your way.

>Moving on besides the CASTE SKILLS that are natural to you. You also have a number of other SKILLS which would develop much faster due to previous focus when you were an insignificant little mortal. You can have up to five, so due note that you don’t have to pick now.

>In any case, you wish to see what is bound in the darkness? Also perhaps climb or swing across it? In that case these fall over the grouping of

SNEAKY SKILLS

BODILY EFFORTS
PAYING ATTENTION
GETTING THE HECK OUT
REPOSSESSION
AVOID DETECTION

So had you invested in any SNEAKY SKILLS in your life and are any of them familiar enough to you that you’d call them PERSONAL SKILLS?

PERSONAL SKILLS LEFT:5

We were destined to become Wisdom Etched in Shale, I'm pretty sure we were always aware of what was going on around us because there is no wisdom without knowledge, and you don't know what you don't see.

As far as the others, uh, what are the other options?

1 point of PAYING ATTENTION, simply by accident really. desire to know things translates into ability to know things.

>>659354
That works.

Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale 2015/08/02(Sun)19:58 No. 659930 ID: 9d792f
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After many hours spent on seeking wherever hidden secrets were to be buried. Wisdom realized he was quite adept at LOOKING FOR STUFF.

>PAYING ATTENTION: LOOKING FOR STUFF-SKILLED

While the darkness gives some slight trouble. At least there is light to see by, even though it glows darkly. There, in the distance, bound by the chain that clinks is a building. And it floats above the abyss.

One could try climbing or walking along the chain to it. Or then again perhaps the chain could be better used to get to the other side of the cliff?

that building probably has secrets. heck it out.

>>659930
Floating city? Cool. Worth investigating.

Wisdom Etched in Discarded Shale 2015/08/06(Thu)21:28 No. 660776 ID: 688474
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>>659958
>>659932
Truly such a significant find draws Wisdom’s attention and need to search, loot and generally plunder it of its history.

He quite simply gets onto the chain, which easily supports his weight. However there is the question of getting there.

>Challenge is BODY APPROACH FLUID + BODILY EFFORTS competencies.

>Now would be a good point for you to learn of several factors of that VOID SHARD you have inside you that can make this task much easier.

>First is the VOID BOOST ART. Through the mighty weight of the VOID. You can ensure that victory and success in your favor is inevitable. This is done by the majesty of the Abyss surging through you. However this VOID BOOST isn’t for free sadly. VOID BOOST, along with other ARTS are used by spending VOID POWER. Currently you have 15 VOID POWER within you. However as much as it would be simple to continue to use VOID POWER all the time, it is too strong to be held in a weak mortal frame as yours. Thus it spills out into the world. The more VOID POWER you use, the more your nature as a CHAMPION OF THE ABYSS is shown to all. Which can be more trouble than it’s worth.

>In any case, small amounts of VOID POWER can be spent to increase the odds of your victory and the defeat of others. But when you utterly need certainty in your results. There’s a SUB ART known as VOID INEVITABILITY which triples your SKILL TOTAL (or COUNT) for the price of 7 VP/

>Even so constant use of VOID POWER will mean you’ll eventually run out. But how would you regain that VOID POWER. Well that leads into a short talk about DARK GLORY. The world favors those that break the limits of the mundane. Taking a more interesting course of action gives you much needed VOID POWER back as well as increases your SKILL TOTAL. Then again it’s a trade between efficiency and power. The decision is yours. You could take the safe route and crawl along this chain to there... Or would you choose some other method, perhaps a more glorious one? Don’t forget you may use VOID BOOST to improve your chances of success.

Go back and look for tools to help you climb the chain. Being gloriously stupid is undermined by the lack of POSITIVE ROLE MODEL MATERIAL you could get from being smart about this.

Play to your strengths, push your mind to the limits and from the depths of your insanity, forge a strong path out of grime and glass as the observers in the darkness gape their mouths at your incomprehensible genius.

We are Wisdom Etched in Shale, not Audacity Heralding Final Triumph. Use our glorious mind to devise, construct, weight and use a pulley, to carry us up there.

imply run up the chain, the gaps are enough that our feet have a point of contact in a repeating pattern.