It didn't take you long to figure out how to use the silver light. On its own, it was just there, laying quiescent at the core of your being. The barest whisper of willpower, though, and it positively leapt to obey your commands. Within a short time, you'd figured out how to tap it, shape it, and move it as you will- easy enough, as the light seemed to want to be used.
Once you got bored with basic shapes, you inevitably decided to try something more... complex.
If you were corporeal right now, you get the feeling you'd be laughing. As it is, the sphere that is you spins in amusement.
In 'front' of you (as good a term for it as any), a glowing zeppelin, its propellers blurs of silver light, coasts serenely through non-space. Smaller silver dots, miniature rocketeers, zoom around it; for a moment, the sight reminds you of nothing more than your mother's kitchen, the wonderful roasts she used to make... and the flies that you and your brothers were always shooing out of there.
That errant thought... solidifies in your mind, gaining substance as your already-focused will comes to bear on it. It ceases to be a hazy childhood memory, and suddenly becomes clear as day within your consciousness. You relive the roast in perfect detail- the smell of it as it came out of the oven, the crispy texture of the cooked fat on the surface, the the taste of hot, dry meat drenched in rich gravy... Why, if you didn't know better, you could swear there was a roast like that right in front of you!
When you exited the memory, half of your zeppelin- and most of your rocketeers- had vanished. In their place floated a bubble of silver light; inside of which, you instinctively knew, was a small island of reality, of existence.
You checked the contents of the bubble. Inside was a worn ceramic plate, on which sat a slab of pork roast, freshly cooked, and drenched in gravy.
[You learned to control the Silver Light of Will!][You learned Muninn!]
[Will stat unlocked!][Memory stat unlocked!]
[Your Will has increased to 1!][Your Memory has been increased to 10!]
[You learned Conjuration!][Help Page Updated!][Muninn Roll: AUTO-SUCCESS! Concept {Pot roast} developed!]
(Right, so we've gotten to the gameplay system. Basically, Will... well, Will and the silver light, but that's not as punchy... is how you effect and create the world. It's a form of reality manipulation. In the absence of reality, it can simply create it.
The thing is, the silver light needs to be told what to do- and it's a stickler for detail. It requires more precise guidance than any mind can give it, or it tends to ... make mistakes.You really don't want the silver light making mistakes. Trust me on that.
Enter Concepts. Basically, you take a simple idea- basically a noun (including noun forms of verbs- you would use 'movement' or 'motion', instead of 'to move')- from the mind of the player character, and expand it. Make it larger, more exhaustive, more definitive than it was before, to the point where the PC can just tell the light 'See this? Like that- specifically, like this example of that.'
At the moment, you know how to make Concepts by pulling them out of your memories. This is Muninn, and requires you to make rolls off of the Memory stat. The simpler and more fundamental the concept, the more likely the roll is to succeed.)What do you want to do now?
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
Once you got bored with basic shapes, you inevitably decided to try something more... complex.
If you were corporeal right now, you get the feeling you'd be laughing. As it is, the sphere that is you spins in amusement.
In 'front' of you (as good a term for it as any), a glowing zeppelin, its propellers blurs of silver light, coasts serenely through non-space. Smaller silver dots, miniature rocketeers, zoom around it; for a moment, the sight reminds you of nothing more than your mother's kitchen, the wonderful roasts she used to make... and the flies that you and your brothers were always shooing out of there.
That errant thought... solidifies in your mind, gaining substance as your already-focused will comes to bear on it. It ceases to be a hazy childhood memory, and suddenly becomes clear as day within your consciousness. You relive the roast in perfect detail- the smell of it as it came out of the oven, the crispy texture of the cooked fat on the surface, the the taste of hot, dry meat drenched in rich gravy... Why, if you didn't know better, you could swear there was a roast like that right in front of you!
When you exited the memory, half of your zeppelin- and most of your rocketeers- had vanished. In their place floated a bubble of silver light; inside of which, you instinctively knew, was a small island of reality, of existence.
You checked the contents of the bubble. Inside was a worn ceramic plate, on which sat a slab of pork roast, freshly cooked, and drenched in gravy.
[You learned to control the Silver Light of Will!][You learned Muninn!]
[Will stat unlocked!][Memory stat unlocked!]
[Your Will has increased to 1!][Your Memory has been increased to 10!]
[You learned Conjuration!][Help Page Updated!][Muninn Roll: AUTO-SUCCESS! Concept {Pot roast} developed!]
(Right, so we've gotten to the gameplay system. Basically, Will... well, Will and the silver light, but that's not as punchy... is how you effect and create the world. It's a form of reality manipulation. In the absence of reality, it can simply create it.
The thing is, the silver light needs to be told what to do- and it's a stickler for detail. It requires more precise guidance than any mind can give it, or it tends to ... make mistakes.You really don't want the silver light making mistakes. Trust me on that.
Enter Concepts. Basically, you take a simple idea- basically a noun (including noun forms of verbs- you would use 'movement' or 'motion', instead of 'to move')- from the mind of the player character, and expand it. Make it larger, more exhaustive, more definitive than it was before, to the point where the PC can just tell the light 'See this? Like that- specifically, like this example of that.'
At the moment, you know how to make Concepts by pulling them out of your memories. This is Muninn, and requires you to make rolls off of the Memory stat. The simpler and more fundamental the concept, the more likely the roll is to succeed.)What do you want to do now?
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.