A/N: So about this monstrosity, this thing came about when I decided that I wanted some kind of page where people could find what the MC's skills do. It was a terrible plan and writing it up so very painful.
The only thing I can recommend to maintain sanity is read what catches your interest and ctrl+f is very much your friend here. If nothing interests you just skip over this one. Also only skills the MC has looked at using {Status Examine} will show up in here.
a short list of ones I think hold good relevant information for those that want to try to get something out of this, but don't want the entire thing.
- Race
- Charm (Stat)
- Job
- Succubus’s Allure
- Chantless Invocation
- Programming Magic
There's more but I think keeping this list shorter is probably better.
One last thing to note is that right now it is unedited and I will be slowly cleaning it up over the next few days. just the thought of editing this thing in one sitting is, to be quite frank, horrible.
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Name
Are you really examining this? This box is where your name is shown silly. Then again I guess you don’t have a name yet. Well anyways on to the explanation.
Most children will receive their name at the age of one. The parent will decide what they want to call the child take them to a temple of the gods. (Just a fancy place mortals made to worship us. Honestly you could just kneel and offer prayer anywhere really. Whatever god you are praying to will hear it. Really it doesn’t matter if you go to a fancy temple or not.) Petition to their god or goddess of choice for approval. Said god or goddess puts a stamp on it and voila name shows up in the status page.
Well ok there is no literal stamp. It's more of an automated process because otherwise how would we have time for anything else if we are just okaying names all the time. Just between you and me, the whole thing is mostly a formality. A big show to prove that we are running things here but in truth none of us really care what mortals want to name their children.
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Race
You really are just going to be examining everything aren't you? Then again I am writing these up so maybe I approve of this? Anyways how about this I will tell you a bit more about how racial bloodlines work instead.
So while there only exists four races each race has multiple sub racial bloodlines (Like the demons have vampires, succubus, oni, ogres and more. Good selection of bloodlines those demons.) and with if you add halves into the mix there is an enormous variety of racial bloodlines.
So while each race has sub racial bloodlines, they can be even further divided up if you factor in half bloods. You know half bloods, like if a vampire and a oni had a child, that kind of thing. Anyways the resulting child would receive aspects from both bloodlines. Of course the aspects received by the child will be weaker as a result of mixing bloodlines. Halfs can not only be born of two sub races different of the same race, but also by mixing two completely different races. It’s the same idea though, child receives aspects from both bloodlines, but said aspects are weakened by the mixing.
Each race and sub racial bloodline also has its own quirks when it comes to producing halfs and heck, some of them can’t even produce halfs. Dragons for instance cannot produce halfs at all. No matter how much you try to make a child between a monster and a humanoid you get nothing and in a dragon's case, children only happen between two dragons.
Then again when you get crazy researchers involved, then you get a very interesting bloodline.
Seriously it should be completely impossible to mix more than two bloodlines into one creature. Not that I am referring to you as a creature in a demeaning way. Just using a broad term to explain with that's all.
Monster humanoids or anything in between normally you can only mix and match two bloodlines. Whether a half has a child with a pure blood or another half the child will, at most, only receive from two of the bloodlines. Heck somehow it’s possible, it is however very rare, for a pure blooded child to be born from two halfs.
Cases like yours just do not and have never existed. Neither will it ever happen again … probably. Ok if it's happened once it might happen again but it’s really really, really, unlikely. Ultimately a child as mixed as you should have gone insane and died already.
All in all what I am trying to get at here is bloodlines are complex and normally you cannot mix more than two at once. Also there was a lot of talk about children being made but don’t you dare ask about it. It’s still too early for you to be asking about that.
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Age
The number represent how old you are. Every year the number goes up by one and when it goes up enough people consider you old. Eventually if the number gets way to high, people might even call you ancient. By the way if you don’t know what a year is get someone to teach you about time.
On a more serious note the longest lived humanoid race is ….. Demons. Some demon sub racial bloodlines can live until upto 200 years of age, but the absolute longest lived race are dragons. Dragons simply cannot die of old age and the oldest living dragon is also the first of it’s kind.
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Sex
Were you born a boy or a girl? I guess you could also be born anything in between. Heck some demon sub racial bloodlines are born sexless and have to choose a sex later in life. There are even some monsters can even change their sex at will. Nature’s so very fascinating.
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Level
Levels are fun and simple. At least that’s the answer you’d get if you asked the God of Growth and Recession about levels. Well it is his system so the old coot might be slightly biased on the matter.
Levels are quite simple, but maybe fun is the wrong term for how their gained. Basically whenever you um … kill a monster or humanoid you get ... uh, now what did the Growth call it? Ummm … oh right you get something called experience and when you get enough experience you level up. But really a system based on killing to gain strength really is somewhat barbaric.
I will concede to the old codger on one point however, leveling up is handy. Every level you gain … ah, I really should have listened better when Growth was explaining this to me. I think it was something like you gain a one percent increase in every stat for every level. Well it doesn’t matter how much it. What matters is that, while it might be barbaric method, leveling up is indeed helpful.
Also if I can remember to do it later I might be able to create a spell that will allow you check your experiance. Or Maybe you might even make one yourself.
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Job
Jobs huh? Yea these are kinda strange. So you know how we leave accepting names to an automated system right? Well jobs are also handled on autopilot by the whole status system the God of Growth and Recession created. Problem is this system kinda went rogue shortly after it’s creation.
Now normally that wouldn’t be a problem. Growth just has to take the system down and fix the darn thing, but no damned old coot is too proud of his work. Can’t just admit he made a mistake and then go fix it. Nope just has to leave the system there in all it’s mistaken glory.
Anyways what I am trying to say here is long story short, I have no clue how Growths system handles assigning jobs. It just kinda does what it does and that's all I know on the matter.
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Health
Health is something nice and easy to explain. Basically it is a numerical value given to how alive you are. The lower the number the less alive you are getting and if it hits zero then you stop being alive. In other words, you die. So make sure to keep your health nice and high.
Oh right, your maximum health also goes up when your endurance does. I think it was something like five health for every one point of endurance or something. Anyways more endurance means more health and more health means you can take more damage before being rendered not alive.
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Mana
Mana is just about everywhere and in just about everything. Humanoids and monsters however, can use the mana in their bodies to activate magic.
Thats basicly it for mana. There is not much else to say other than the number shows how much mana you have left and if it hits zero then you pass out. Though if you get your mana low enough without hitting zero is cans still lead to exhaustion.
One last thing to note. Every Time your mana refills your mana total goes up a little and the amount it goes up depends on how much mana was refilled. Oh and I guess the wisdom to mana ratio might be important to. You get ten points of mana for every one point of wisdom.
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Strength (Str)
Strength is a number put on how strong your body is and when most people think of strength the mental image of big muscles shows up. Now normally if someone got their strength stat high enough gain huge muscles is very possible because strength signifies your body's physical power. However not everyone with a huge strength stat is a walking wall of muscle.
Anyways the higher the number the stronger you are, but like I just said a higher number does not mean higher muscle mass. You can have a lean body and still have the strength to turn someone into a > with a light tap.
I also personally made sure to fix up your body so that no matter how high your strength gets, you will never gain even an ounce of muscle. You can thank me as much as you want later.
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Intelligence (Int)
Intelligence is quantifying how much information you have gathered. In other words Think of having high intelligence as a “look at how much stuff I know” kind of thing. Meaning a person with high intelligence just knows a lot of things, but just knowing a lot is not necessarily useful.
Raising your intelligence is just the act of storing information in the brain, but what can you do with all that information once you have it? Answer, nothing at all! Well, ok that information can be used, but you need to know how to use it which is where wisdom comes into play. So examine wisdom and gain a use for the newfound intelligence I just gave you.
Oh right I forgot to mention that intelligence also affects magic power. In other words how much bang you get for your magical buck.
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Dexterity (Dex)
Dexterity is labeling your precise motor controls and flexibility with a nice easy to understand number. Thus if you stretch every day and practice fine precision work regularly, then your dex will go up. Dexterity is mostly useful for craftsman and fighting styles that require a lot of flexibility or use both hands at once.
Fun fact, succubi are a sub race that is well known for having high dexterity because Dex is also useful for fighting battles of the *cough* nightly variety. Actually you know what, forget I ever mentioned that fun fact.
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Wisdom (Wis)
If intelligence is how much you know then wisdom is how well you use that knowledge. Without any wisdom your big number in intelligence in useless. Unless, you only use that big intelligence number for mindlessly casting huge magics. Then it has a use, I guess. But most people gain wisdom naturally as they raise their intelligence anyways. Well ok, some people, gain wisdom naturally as they raise their intelligence.
The best way to raise your wisdom is to learn why things are,were and will be. You could also learn how things could have been and how they could turn out. Wow all these wise sayings and stuff are really unlike me … just learn how to use the information you know to raise your wisdom.
Wisdom also raises your mana by ten for every one point you gain in wisdom. Now this explanation is over, I‘m starting to sound too wise.
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Endurance (End)
This is a number that shows how much you can endure. Explained in a more defined way endurance is mostly your body's toughness. So the same attack used on two people with differing levels of endurance will do two different amounts of damage. Ummm if I were to put that in a simple to understand way then, a person with higher endurance will get hurt less than a person with lower endurance.
Endurance also affects one's stamina and health is governed by your endurance. The endurance to health ratio is five health for every one point of endurance. Oh, the way to raise endurance by the way is to make your body endure things.
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Charm (Stat)
Charm is a stat only owned by succubi and it’s use is to denote numerically how um, appealing they are to others. Yes appealing that's the word to use here and don’t let others tell you otherwise until you’re older.
Now normally a succubus only gains the charm stat after they reach sixteen years of age and develop a need for, a new type of food. Yea that's it a new type of food. Anyways when a succubus reaches an age when they develop the need for their new food, they gain the skill ‘Succubus’s Allure’ and this newly gained skill grants them the charm stat. Since your body is currently too young to need said new food, I went ahead and changed your charm stats function a little.
What your charm stat does now is instead of um … more appealing … to others it instigates a need to protect you in them instead. Oh, before I forget the charm stat is only useful when the skill ‘Charm’ is used.
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Chimeric Being
Making a chimera is like making soup. Just throw stuff in and hope for a good end product. At least I think that's how soups work, everyone always tells me my cooking is pretty bad. Maybe I have been making soup wrong this whole time?
Anyways now where was I? Oh right, chimeras are like soup. Yea I got a little sidetracked there, but I think if you were a soup then you would be an amazing one. Or something like that, it sounds kinda weird now that I’ve written it … well it’s a little too late to be worrying about it now.
Anyways this title was granted because you are a chimera that succeeded in existing. This is slightly morbid, but your fifty nine siblings the researchers tried to make … not a single one lived longer than a few days upon gaining consciousness. Well you are still alive and well so, everything worked itself out in the end right?
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Informational Sponge
Sponges so soft, squishy and absorbent. Until they get old that is. I find the mind and sponges to be quite alike. When young and fresh they are quite absorbent, but as both get older they find it harder to absorb.
What if however your mind was spongy and absorbent forever? That is where this title comes into play, as this title is granted to individuals that will forever have rather absorbent minds. Like a squishy squashy forever sponge … forget you ever read that.
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Genius Programmer
So the God of Growth and Recessions status system has some auto titles built in. These auto titles mostly apply to the topic of being genius in any given subject. How they work in a nutshell is that once a mortal learns enough about a topic the system recognizes that fact and rewards them with a title pertaining to their topic of study.
Other than being a good way to display that you know way too much about a given topic, this title also has a little perk. A person with a ‘Genius
One last thing … how do you, a five year old girl who was unconscious for the first two years of her life, know anything about programming? You know a subject that existed before humans went extinct (ask someone to explain what a human is to you later or something). A subject that researchers, the very same ones who are running the lab you are currently isolated in, cannot even comprehend and yet those very same researchers are the only people to ever even get one of these old human labs running again.
In other words currently there is no one in the world, other than you, that knows anything about programing. How very interesting. Anyways we can talk about the details to this very interesting story later.
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Follower of Logic
This title was granted to you by the God of Logic and Emotion. I am not sure why he only graced you with his stuffy side though. Anyways this most stifling of titles comes with the effect of effectively removing all of your emotional responses. Then again removing everything is impossible so especially powerful emotions will manage to make their way to the surface.
Like say if you're really really really really mad then you will actually feel that emotion, but at that point you are really really really really mad so everyone else should stay away. Hanging out with a extremely angry dragon is bad for one’s personal health.
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Chosen of Balance and Change
So you finally decided to use one of the more useful spells I gave you. Honestly, what took you so long? I was starting to worry that you did not like some of my gifts. I mean really now how could anyone not like something from a goddess.
Anyways, rather than reading my complaints you are probably more interested in what being my chosen means. Well since you are my chosen I have granted you a few skills. I have also made sure to change the descriptions for everything in your status into easier to understand funner to read formats.
There might also be one or two other things I have slipped in here and there but they do not matter much at the moment. Except maybe the fact that I limited you to four words a sentence because I thought your short curt sentences were cute. I guess that one might matter just a bit.
Anyways I am not asking anything of you as my chosen. No goat sacrifices at midnight on the night of a full moon while naked or anything like that, but well I don’t think any of the gods demand that kind of thing though (well maybe Naofa might she always has been a strange one).
So reiterating all I want is for you to live your life. So go little chosen live how you choose to live because you are the only one who lives outside of the balance. My little harbinger of change.
Also since you seem to find question in my spell naming (I think they are just fine) you can rename the three spells I granted you. Just concentrate on the one you wish to rename and think of the new name you want to give it.
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Organic Clock
I find it kinda funny how your body grasped the concept of time. You have been stuck in this tiny room for three years so without ever seeing the sun rise and fall, so how exactly this title happen?
Well the answer is something I am not very happy with. Even though I specifically told them not to do anything. Well I guess she didn’t put her name on it, but if she thinks I am not going to chew her out lat-.
Um right the title let's just say a certain someone gave you this and with it a skill that lets your body tell time innately. No fancy clocks or anything like that, your body just knows the time.
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Scientific Genius
Another auto given genius title. Since you have seen my other description I don’t need to explain how you got it, but boy did those crazy researchers really pack a lot of science into ya. A lot of science indeed, too bad it's purpose in your magic is minimal. But who knows maybe you got some good ideas for new spells you could make.
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Modified
Right, so this title is kinda my fault. I’ll admit I may have tampered with your body a little here and there. Honestly other than the chantless casting (which was not easy to set up you know. There is a reason dragons need to chant and that reason is that their magic is ridiculously powerful. You yourself are basicly a dragon with a little demon mixed in. So it took a ton of effort to get the whole chantless thing working) I have not made too many other changes.
So I will be asking that you forgive me for the other teeny tiny modifications I made. You know like the whole only being able to speak four words every fifteen seconds things. Totally had no idea your teacher would get so mad over something so cute.
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Pain Resistance
So the saying “no pain, no gain” is super accurate here. This skill makes it so that things hurt less. Well okay maybe this skill's name is somewhat misleading. If I had to be precise this skill makes almost everything hurt less. There is one special kind of hurt that won’t hurt less no matter how high you get this skill.
Yea ok maybe I am not making much sense, but there is a certain kind of pain this skill will not dampen. Anyways to raise this skill you just need to get hurt, a lot. Getting this skill to level up requires immense amounts of pain, no simple toe stubbing is going to max this one and seeing as being in immense pain is not the greatest pastime which is why this skill is, understandably, rather unpopular.
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Instinctual Clock
So this skill here goes with your organic clock title. What this little skill you were given does is perfectly calculate time based on when the sun comes up, goes down and comes back up.
Now what does that mean for you? Well if you're not sure what time is, a lot of nothing. Seriously just what was she thinking giving someone who has never even seen the sun a way to tell time.
Well it’s not a bad thing mind you. Once you’re let out of here or get out yourself then this skill can be very handy. Say you're exploring the depths of a dark cave and you have to get home before dark. Well with this skill you know how long is left until dark, very handy no?
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Photographic memory
Well there was a saying once that went something like “take a picture it’ll last longer” or something like that. I was never very good at old human sayings. Anyways this skill is like taking a picture with your eyes and saving it into your brain forever. But I guess before saying that I should explain what a picture is.
Ah, this is difficult let's just say that once you see something you should be able to recall it forever. Well probably, a good deal of cranial blunt force trauma might shake it out, but then again maybe not? Whatever you just remember what you see forever alright?
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Mana Sight
The prerequisite skill you needed to max to have it to evolve into this one let you kinda feel mana in your body. This evolved version on the other hand lets you see mana in the world around you. You can’t see mana in things with this skill though, that's a whole different matter.
Oh right since this is the first time seeing it I should probably explain the whole prerequisite thing. Okay read carefully because he we go. So for some skills, not all of them mind you, when the skill reaches max level otherwise known as level ten. Then if it can the skill will evolve.
leveling an evolving skill through to ten is usually really hard by the way. To level an evolving skill past nine usually has a specific requirement. It can be anything from just knowing something, to something crazy like godly intervention. Though, it’s worth noting that if a skill doesn’t evolve it levels past nine just fine.
Oh thats right, there are also some evolved skills that can evolve again, but figuring out how to evolve them again is ... well let's just say they are pretty good skills if they do evolve a second time.
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Mana Perception
Everyone has mana in them and this skill is the first step to using it. You know for magic and stuff. Pretty simple skill really, it lets you feel the mana in your body. That's it, nothing fancy with this one, but it is a crucial first step to using magic.
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Charm Aura
So this one is pretty easy to wrap your head around. It’s pretty much just the normal succubus skill ‘Charm’ but this one comes with a twist. ‘Charm’ is something you choose to activate and for charm to work you need to make eye contact.
This skill on the other hand is like constantly firing off charm about ten or so meters in all directions around you. No targeting or eye contact needed. So long as someone comes within ten meters of you and their Wis is lower than your charm then they get charmed. Nice and simple isn't it?
Fun fact the only other mortal who has ever had this skill was the only succubus ever to rule as queen of the demons and boy did she ever make good use of this skill when she ruled over the demons. Not exactly sure how your creators got any of her to make into you but hey they did and that's that.
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Bloody Regeneration
So a normal vampire might have the skill ‘Blood Healing’ if they are lucky. At most ‘Blood healing’ might regrow a finger given enough blood and that is if they are very lucky.
This skill on the other hand is a whole different animal because it seems that when you mix a vampire who heals off blood and a succubus who heals off of um *cough* less savory fluids well you get something pretty amazing.
Interesting fact is that this combination of demon bloodlines is impossible naturally. As the child of a succubus will always be a pure blooded succubus without fail.
Now onto explaining the skill. So ‘Bloody Regeneration’ will heal just about anything with enough blood. Even death it seems because, oh boy, when they started removing your heart I was already making an emergency call to Naofa. Well it turns out with this skill you just add enough blood and everything will get better.
Ok maybe not everything I think Naofa’s headache over this is just going to get worse, but let's just keep that between us.
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Prehensile Tail
Some animals can use their tail to grab stuff. Well with this skill you can too! But you should probably be careful with it. You know because your tail is crazy sharp and stuff. Well other than grabbing since you have such fine control attacking with your tail is also an option.
Oh and incase you were curious you got this skill is from the succubus part of you. They put their tails to interesting use during … *cough* let's just leave it at that.
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Draconic Aura
On the food chain in general one creature stands at the top, dragons. Being at the top grants them a few perks. Like simply their overwhelming presence is enough to make any other creature around run or kneel.
Now in full dragon form they can’t exactly curb this effect, but when they take human form they can choose to tell the world exactly what they are. Or they can choose to snuff their presence.
In your case this skill is that same overwhelming draconic presence on full blast all the time with no off switch. Anyways I will try to find a way to turn it off, but I wouldn’t get my hopes up if i were you.
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Enhanced Dynamic Vision
Dynamic vision helps you see moving objects. This skill is a simple boost to that. Not much to explain here other than the eyes you inherited from your draconic blood, are really good.
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Draconic Language
No one teaches a dragon how to talk dragon they just know dragon, mostly because for a dragon to use its unique magic system it needs to chant in draconic. You also need that by the way, the whole chanting in draconic to cast thing. Well atleast you did, before I, you know, tampered around with your body a bit.
Eh, let's just end this explanation by saying that if you ever meet a dragon you can have a nice conversation, maybe. I am not so sure about how they would feel about you. I wouldn’t recommend finding out any time soon either.
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Blood Mana
You know when humans were around they had all these weird cheesy ideas about vampires. Like they need to drink blood to live or they sparkled under sunlight. Oh, not that I think the fact that you are currently surviving on blood is cheesy or anything.
Anyways, the current vampire bloodline very rarely ingests any blood. Honestly it’s taboo in some vampire families, but your everyday vampire does have one thing that links back to blood, their mana.
Basicly in almost every other existing bloodline the mana just kinda goes where it wants in the body. Now that’s fine normally, but it does slow down the use of magic. Why? Well because the mana has no efficient way of going where the caster directs it.
Vampires on the other hand have mana solely in their blood and so when they direct their mana it uses predetermined paths to go where it needs to. This fact makes vampires slightly better casters. It’s not like crazy better, just a little better.
This skill is also one of the reasons I could actually make chantless casting work for you, but let's not go into that … it's complicated.
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Draconic Scales
A dragon's scales are sometimes called the perfect defense, but whether that is true or not is another matter entirely. So about this skill, it’s a pretty simple concept, your skin is made of dragons scales. Possible hardest material you can find in the world. I mean to accidently cut yourself you would probably have to use your own scales.
I guess after reading that explanation you're probably wondering why you don’t look like a giant two legged lizard. Well, just examine the next skill on the list and you should be able to figure it out.
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Succubus’s Allure
This little skill is the reason only succubi have the charm stat. To gain charm you need this skill and to get this skill you need to be a succubus. So considering that you can’t have a half blooded succubus, you not included, only succubi get the charm stat.
Anyways the skill usually shows up when the succubus hits around age sixteen and their body starts to need … um new food was it? I think that was how I put it before … ugh whatever, look their body just starts to need something that needs charm to get so this skill is gained.
Now this skill slowly grants more and more of the charm stat as a succubus ages until they are about age twenty one or so. Meaning that the earlier a succubus gains this skill the more charm they get.
Right, I promised to tell you why you aren't a walking talking iguana didn’t I? Well that is because of this lovely succubus skill. Honestly if a succubus has their skin blemished by anything then attaining the new food they need becomes that much harder. So this skill has the added effect of maintaining perfect skin.
No scars, pimples, moles, nothing of the sort. Honestly since you seem to have had this skill since birth it seem to have fused your scales into your skin somehow? So your skin is now tantamount to a dragon's scales, or something like that? Honestly it’s confusing you have perfect silky smooth skin, that somehow has the durability of dragon scales. It’s probably better if we just leave it at that.
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Chantless Invocation
So most humanoids do not need to chant to cast their magic. Simply because their mana reserves are too small. Hmmm how to put this, it’s kinda like they are moving a glass of water when they want to cast. No prep needed just pick it up and go.
Now this continues to be the case for most monsters that can use magic, but there is one exception, dragons. The amount of mana they move to cast their unique magics are just too enormous to move without any kind of help, thus the chanting.
Now you should be really grateful for this skill because I had to try real hard to make this happen. But that doesn’t mean you can cast everything chantless. The bigger the spell the more likely you are to have to call out its name. That doesn’t mean however that I left you out in the cold with having made it so you can only say four words every fifteen seconds and all.
The way I changed your whole unique magic is pretty ingenious if I do say so myself, but you can find out about it if you examine that.
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Precise Mana Control
Another wonderful evolved skill and since you’ve read my previous explanation on evolved skills, I don’t have to give it again.
So mana manipulation let you roughly steer your mana. Precise mana control however lets you tell your mana where to go and how much has to go there. A definite improvement over a simple go there command. Most of the uses for this skill take the form of precision mana work. A good example of a use for this skill would be any form of crafting that involves the use of mana.
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Mana Manipulation
The most basic way of controlling your mana. It's not very good because all you can do with it is tell your mana where to go. As you level it up eventually eventually you will be able to control how much goes, but you will only a little control with this skill.
Needless to say that this skill is mostly used for casting magic. Magic is already a rough concept for humanoids so lacking a little finesse doesn’t do much harm.
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Programming Magic
Your unique magic, unique even among dragon magics because I, yours truly, have had a hand in upgrading it. You could almost call this a divine magic at this point, but once you can control your own mana better … well at that point you might be able to find this system's true potential.
So because it seemed fun I used an idea you had to fix up you magic. You know the idea you had to write magic like a program. Anyways using my godly know how I rigged up your unique magic into something like a programming software. The best part about this magic is that your programs don’t even have to be very precise.
Honestly if the rules were to rigid then it wouldn’t be very user friendly. So I made it possible for the system itself to “fix” a spell that would otherwise fail. Of course that does come with a downside. The more the system has to “fix” in your spell, the higher the mana cost for the spell will be.
Now if you did account for every single variable and set your spell up just right then the cost will lower tremendously. Not an easy prospect mind you and of course having flexible variables that you can assign as you cast will raise the mana cost for sure. But when you think of the possibilities, well they sure are vast.
Now I did promise to tell you about how the chantless casting fits into all this didn’t I? Well if I was to put this in a way that's simple to understand. The more powerful a spell is supposed to be, the more words you need to chant.
Eh, maybe let me phrase that another way. So a simple low cost spell can easily be rendered without chanting to a certain limit. Once a spell gets too powerful trying to cast it chantless will fail. Following me so far? Okay good it's not much more complex after this.
So once a spell fails to activate chantless its name must then be called outloud to cast it. However since the spell is still not incredibly powerful it's name only needs to be one word long, but once again eventually a spell will get too powerful for a one word chant. At that point that spell will need a name that consists of two words and the system carries until a spell needs a total of four words in its name.
Oh, don't worry by the way any spell you actually vocalise four words for will go off guaranteed. I at least managed that much. Well ok it will go off as long as you have enough mana for the spell. Also don’t forget you can change a spell's name as often as you want. So make sure to test out your spells thoroughly if chantless isn’t an option.
Probably should also be mentioning that I am not entirely sure how to differentiate how powerful a spell is without using it first. Depending on the effect you are giving them, maybe you should test away from others.
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Partial Dragonification
You inherited something fun here. So when a dragon gets old enough and can take on a humanoid form, it is not limited to simply full dragon or completely humanoid. No it has the choice to hybridize parts of its body at will.
Say the dragon wants to make something … less alive, but their soft squishy human hands just aren't cutting it? Then said dragon just has to turn said hands into a mixture of something between human and dragon. A mixing of dexterity and power.
A dragon in humanoid form can perform this hybridization with any part of its body and if the dragon wished to it could fully assume the form of a draconian humanoid hybrid. I have never personally seen one do so, but I assume it would look similar to what a bipedal komodo dragon for something. Ah right, you wouldn’t know what a komodo dragon is.
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Flight
Well this one seems pretty self explanatory. I’m not even sure why the system even gives this damn skill out, But I will explain it if I must.
You have wings and if you use them the right way you can fly. This skill provides you with the right way. That’s seriously it, nothing more than that.
Do try to practice in safety though. Well at least avoid the dragon method of learning. Dropped off a cliff, fly or die.
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Charm (skill)
A use for the charm stat owned by succubi. Without this skill the charm stat is a completely useless number, but with this skill it becomes a budding succubi’s hunting tool. What does a budding succubi hunt? Eh, well, ummm, let's just move on with the explanation shall we?
So when a succubus makes eye contact with someone and activates this skill if the target's wisdom stat is lower than the succubus charm stat, the target will then be compelled to … help, yea that’s right they will help, the succubus in obtaining her … food.
Anyways nowadays most succubi do not use charm to obtain their … food and instead opt to use establishments created for that very purpose. The use is charm is even considered a public offense in some places.
Since I played around with your charm stat your charm is a little different by the way. Instead of wanting to ummm … help you find food … if you’re successful in charming your target they will simply want to protect you.
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