Taubitha focused her energy with all her might as she prepared to do what had to be done. Her mental energy, that is. See, she'd been having an awfully difficult time in deciding how exactly she should distribute her [attribute] points for her new [class] [attributes]. After all, she'd just become a [Dimensional Wizard], but all she had to go off of was the considerable vagueness of her system, which was altogether quite frustrating. However, after what felt like a mental deadlift, she finally made up her mind. Of course, her reasoning was still somewhat at risk of being incorrect, so to say - it wasn't like her system was working incredibly hard to ensure she understood what it was that she needed to know about these new abilities - but, all that said, Taubitha felt altogether quite good about her choices.
[Attributes]
[INT: 6]
[STM: 18]
[CHAR: 11]
[DEX: 11]
[STR: 20]
[REA: 6 (new)]
[DIM: 3 (new)]
[SEN: 4 (new)]
Now that, Taubitha felt, was a prudent choice of [attribute] point distribution, if she thought so herself. After all, it only made sense, after giving everything a good mental once-over. Taubitha had figured that giving [REA] the most points was nearly a no-brainer as it allowed her to literally alter reality. And if her system equated [REA] to the needle and thread needed to modify reality's fabric, whereas [DIM] as reels of textiles to be used in said reality alteration, then it only made sense to Taubitha to at first prioritize the [attribute] that allowed her direct modifications of current reality, while still giving a little bit of power to her [DIM] so as to get a taste of it. All that said, it made a lot of sense to her to give the most power at the onset to her [REA] and the least to her [DIM] as, at this point, Taubitha could barely even comprehend what all her [DIM] impacted. Finally, there was her [SEN] - and this was at a good, even four points after spending her [attribute] points. This felt like the ideal choice, as it was an important enough [attribute] as far as the dilemma of getting perspective into what it was that Kahli could do with her own system [class], but at the same time along with all that it still did not yet feel as impactful as the power to alter reality itself.
With that all accounted for, Taubitha happily finalized her leveling experience. She was extremely pleased not only to finally be level 30 but indeed to know that now, finally, she and her fony would stand a tangible fighting chance against her irksome ex-friend and her weird, squelchy little [paired] companion. And, as if on queue, so it was that only a brief thought of Princess brought up a familiar system message.
[Princess is ready to level up]
[Would you like to level up Princess?]
Taubitha had to hold herself back from sighing for a moment. She didn't want to irritate or upset Princess, of course she loved Princess, but it had taken so much energy just to pick out and distribute [attribute] points for herself! And while Taubitha was certain she'd done a great job picking out her own point distributions, at the same time she did wonder if possibly Princess might be able to do a better job on her own. Then again, that seemed a little lazy and indeed also a little dismissive of her [paired] fony that, as far as she could tell, wasn't really aware they'd be getting a [class] until about a split-second or so before it happened. With that, Taubitha almost felt indebted to her fony, like she was obligated to get her fony's [attribute] points spent for her. On her behalf, as it were.
[Level up]
[Princess]
[Level 33]
[Would you like to spend Princess' 10 attribute points?]
Taubitha did. She was a little on the fence about it for among others the obvious reason that making Princess more powerful meant that Princess would have more energy to enact doomsday plans if she got the inclination. At the same time, Taubitha was wondering if she ought to just throw in the towel and side with the concept of dooming the world, anyways. After all, hadn't that been why the entity had given her and Princess an awesome new [class]? To end the world, eventually? Maybe it was okay to end the world. If Taubitha and Princess could warp reality itself to do such a task, well then, clearly they'd make it out of the whole apocalypse in one piece. Right?
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But Taubitha couldn't delay spending the points any more, for Princess' character sheet was soon before her.
[Attributes]
[INT: 14]
[STM: 12]
[CHAR: 10]
[DEX: 14]
[STR: 30]
Taubitha choked for a second in shock. How was Princess so strong? Surely she hadn't gotten that many more [attribute] points in her three higher levels than Taubitha. Right? And yet, there it was - she was extremely strong. Taubitha had to catch herself for a moment from the shock before beholding any of Princess' new [attributes].
[EXIS: 1 (new)]
[UNR: 1 (new)]
[PHYS: 1 (new)]
Oh. So Princess got different [attributes] than Taubitha did? For a moment - but just a moment, because Taubitha in truth loved herself deeply - Taubitha was kicking herself that she hadn't taken the chance to get her and Princess' systems more in synch when she had the opportunity, back when she'd either gotten the opportunity to pick a [skill] that allowed them to use their systems in tandem and exchange perspectives or to choose a [skill] that gave her huge wings. Taubitha stroked her impractically enormous wings and sighed for a moment before using her system to analyze each of Princess' new [attributes] in order to better grasp how she ought to spend her [paired] companion's [attribute] points.
[Existence (EXIS)]
[Existence as an attribute refers to the physical and liminal presence of objects, thoughtforms, and everything in between as it relates to their positions in the space time continuum.]
Taubitha felt her lower left eyelid twitch a little as she read this system message over and over again. What exactly did that mean? If only her system was a little more verbose... maybe that would even be something she could use on e of her new [attributes] on, eventually. But, at least presently, Taubitha decided she needed to try and get a grasp of what other [attributes] Princess had access to, instead of focusing all her energy on unraveling the enigma of [EXIS].
[Unreality (UNR)]
[In order for things to exist and indeed to be defined as real, as in, for things to occupy reality in some way, shape or fashion, there indeed must be another side of the coin - that is to say, there must definitively exist an unreality that is what all is not real. Tap into that with this attribute.]
This... seemed even more puzzling than the first [attribute]. So, Princess could now, what, modify or somehow control existence e in some way with her [EXIS], and access and possibly even manipulate what didn't exist with [UNR]? It was... almost too bizarre for Taubitha to wrap her head around at all. She wondered for a moment more if she'd really messed up in not adding on some of her new [attribute] points to her [INT] instead of to the new [attributes].
[Physics (PHYS)]
[There are certain concepts thought of as laws wherein the realm of physics is contained in the world of tauman science. Using this attribute, one may manage and alter these laws at will - with varying rates of success, of course, depending on the attribute level and the scope of the intended effect.]
Now, that was indeed quite interesting, and it was something that was almost easy enough for Taubitha to grasp without feeling like her brain was turning right into a pretzel. So, this [attribute] allowed for Princess to essentially tap into laws of physics themselves and change them? It seemed crazy, but then again, Taubitha didn't know a lot about this [class], or indeed any [class], as they were generally exceptionally rare.
With that, the time to decide was upon her. Taubitha was feeling that [EXIS] and [UNR] were both [attributes] that built off one another, but she felt like she could hardly understand either of them. With that, she decided she'd almost evenly divide the points, with a slight preference to the one [attribute] that she felt she almost understood.
[Attributes]
[INT: 14]
[STM: 12]
[CHAR: 10]
[DEX: 14]
[STR: 30]
[EXIS: 4 (new)]
[UNR: 4 (new)]
[PHYS: 5 (new)]
Taubitha felt a huge weight lifted off her back as she realized she'd managed to, with some confusion, update and spend Princess' [attribute] points appropriately. And indeed, her fony seemed quite happy with how the points had been spent. With that, Taubitha turned to Princess and smiled.
"Hey, we like, totally did it! We've got a [class] now!" She was trying her best to hype up her pet.
Princess whinnied halfheartedly.
"Like, really? That's it?"
Princess huffed.
Taubitha sighed. "Well, like, I'm thrilled for us, Princess. Anyways, I'm dying to try out my new [attributes]. Supposedly I can alter the fabric of reality." She knelt down and picked up a rock off the barn floor. "Do you think I could do something like, oh, I don't know, do you think I could turn this rock into a bottle of perfume?"
Princess huffed again. It sounded doubtful.
"Oh, ye of little faith. I know what I saw in my dream," said Taubitha. She focused her energy on the rock, trying to use her new [attribute]... and in a flash of green light, it melted into foul-smelling dust. "Oh my gods, ew!"
Princess whinnied, and then she trotted over to the grimy window and peered out as best she could. Then, she started to kick in the dirt and hay, and huffed a few more times.
"What, Princess, what are you getting so excited over?" asked Taubitha as she scrambled over, tripping on her huge wings. When she finally got to the window, she gasped.
Taubitha and Princess both watched as a lowly peasant in the distance shot from their walking trail up into the air and screamed. Thanks to her [SEN], Taubitha could see that it was Princess causing this effect through use of [PHYS]. In a flash, the peasant suddenly stopped ascending and plummeted back down to the trail, landing with a bloody crunch on their neck.