Congratulations Razum!

* You have finished the Quest [Classable] as shown below!

[Classable]

Type: Chain, Unique

* Note: All Xp utilized, Skills achieved, and Abilities manifested are sealed within this Unique Quest until a Class is realized. Experiment but know that any Skills and Abilities unrelated to your eventual Class will be lost and the Experience wasted.

Step 1: Utilize Experience in Learning [Completed]

Step 2: Achieve Rank 1 in a Skill [Completed]

* Hidden Objective: Achieve a higher Rank [Completed] x5

* Hidden Objective: Utilize Xp to establish a Free Skill [Completed]

Step 3: Manifest an Ability [Completed]

Step 4: Call Forth Your Core

* Plant a Seed [Vision Finalized]

* Water the Seed [Beginning Skills & Abilities Realized]

* The Seed has Sprouted - The Maker Be With You

Reward:

* You have Ascended to Rank F(2)

* The Class, Mycelial Scion (Unique), has been granted

* Class Attribute gains are retroactively granted as free points. See Status for further information.

Razum couldn’t help but groan as something within him was stretched to its limits. It had all started when his father had first begun teaching him and he had used enough Experience to reach his first level. Immediately, he was bombarded with choices as to what Class he wanted to take. Apparently, simply having any Skill at 5 was enough to give him almost any scholarly Class he wanted.

There were even plenty of Classes specialized in combat but none of them quite fit. There was a fungal class but many of the perks, skills, and abilities were entry level designed to grant connection with fungi, something Razum had no need of. When he had fervently denied picking a Class, the System offered him the [Classable] Quest. Its Unique tag had stuck out to Razum like a bright ray of sunshine in a dark hole.

All of this he had explained away to his father as System shenanigans and they had gotten back into the lessons. Razum gradually spent his Experience as the opportunity arose, and he got better at knowing when and where the Experience was being spent. With Step 1 completed and Step 2 completed before the Quest even started, Razum was relieved when his father switched gears to a more holistic and practical approach geared more toward application.

His powerful mind had no trouble manifesting his first ability, which was as natural as breathing. [Spore Cloud], as the name suggested, was the ability to call forth a cloud of spores. Riveting. Despite the unoriginal naming of the System, Razum was nonetheless impressed by the function if not the name. Skills and Abilities seemed fundamentally linked and Razum had felt it when his [Knowledge 5 (Fungal)] had meshed with his [Sporecraft 1] to manifest a cloud of Spores that could not have been naturally occurring.

His father had certainly been impressed, though Razum had noted that there had been no surprise in Dug’s features. Evidently, there was yet more for his father to teach him and Razum was excited to plumb the depths of his father’s experience. They moved on to other lessons, though Dug had made sure to stress the primacy of Sporecraft to Razum and Razum, of course, had agreed wholeheartedly.

From there it had been simple to achieve the Skill [Aether Manipulation 1] and from there he had been able to mesh it with [Sporecraft 1] to manifest [Aetheric Cultivation] which was the process of infusing plants or fungi with Aether. It was fascinating. It allowed Razum a level of control that he had been missing and his father had to mentally drag him away from experimenting with it.

Then, however, things got more difficult. Step 3 was done for the Quest but Dug had one last lesson. Cultivating the Waag. After teaching him the basics of the idea he had left to check on Obu and Razum had been left to the “Sacred Dance” as his father had called it. The problem was that Razum was extremely logical and the Waag was anything but. It cavorted and played tricks. It didn’t want to sit still and move in orderly patterns.

It took Razum a long time, to his mind, to finally reach a kind of understanding. His mind went back to before when he had been a simpler creature. He had lived in harmony with the other fungi in the garden. Sometimes he would take and sometimes he would give, but the garden as a whole, thrived. That was something the Waag could relate to, something that Razum and the ancestral will of goblin freedom shared.

It didn’t take long after that for Razum to manifest his first Waag ability. It didn’t come from a Skill, though [Aether Manipulation 1] seemed to help. The Waag simply allowed him to use it, flowing from his connection to his father and settling somewhere in his Spark. There was a push and pull to it that was both aggravating and soothing in equal measure. It was in the midst of this revelation that he stumbled onto Step 4 of his Quest and the Calling Forth of his Core began.

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Something had shifted fundamentally as he had gone through the process of spending Experience and unlocking new skills and abilities. When asked by the System, “What is your Core?” he already had an answer. He was his father’s son. He was a fungal cultivator, of himself and others, a lover of knowledge and information, and he was part of a greater whole, the Waag, and his own mycelial network. It was a solid foundation and the System seemed to agree.

Now, he was left gasping as the process was finalized. The System had used his vision of himself as a platform upon which to build a unique class for him and him alone. He severely doubted that any other creature in this world had the same set of circumstances that he did which would allow them to receive the same class. He had felt it as the System took his class and revealed the furthest reaches that such a path might take him.

It was all a fog now but he had seen such beauty and wonder as to make his mind lose coherency. As it was he was left in a state of recovering ecstasy as he filtered through the System messages. His mental gaze locked on the name of his new class in order to center himself. Mycelial Scion. That certainly sounded like him. Within him he felt Ten’Telo shudder as it queried him on what had happened.

Ten’Telo wasn’t Sapient so it didn’t have a class and grew entirely separately from how Razum did. He didn’t know the specifics but he did his best to address his symbiote’s confusion and subconscious wonder. He communicated through a flood of emotions and impressions, feeling the symbiote’s acceptance as it reached a suitable level of acceptance if not understanding.

With a flicker of intent, he brought up his main information now with all of his additional gains.

Razum

Race:

Overmind Sporecap (Awakened)

Chosen Name:

None

Bond:

Dug Shardaal (Blood Covenant), Ten’Telo (Familiar Covenant)

Class:

Mycelial Scion

Rank: F(2)

Level: 5

Experience: 120/400

Main Attributes

Strength: 4 [10] (F) +

Dexterity: 3 [12] (F) +

Constitution: 20 [25] (E - Tempered [Copper])

Intelligence: 28 (E - Tempered [Copper])

Wisdom: 16 (F) +

Charisma: 17 (F) +

Spark: 6 (F) +

Free Points: 35

Titles

Father of Monsters

Progenitor

Umbral Host (New - Familiar Bond)

Boons

Divergent Overmind

Nutrient Synthesis

Umbral Spore Generation (Upgraded from Spore Generation)

Umbral Infused Fruiting Body (Upgraded from Durable Fruiting Body)

Sensory Mycelium

Mindbender

Experienced Potential

Hive Lord

Sporecap Locomotion

Malleable Sporecap

Umbral Fleshcraft (New - Familiar Bond)

Symbiote Fragmentation (New - Familiar Bond)

Class

Mycelial Scion (Unique)

Description

Only possible in those who have a near-perfect view of their identity, a Scion embodies clarity of purpose and the talent to make it a reality. You have chosen the way of Spore and Mycelium. Your very nature calls to this discipline while your mind ever reaches for more. This is only a foundation. Climb Razum. Climb as high as your Core allows.

Class Perks

Scion

Mycelial Conduits

Waag-Touched

Class Skill Slots

[Knowledge 5 (Fungal)] - Free Slot

[Aether Manipulation 1]

[Sporecraft 1]

[Empty]

[Empty]

Class Abilities

Spore Cloud

Aetheric Cultivation

Flicker of Waag

Razum blinked at the description of his class and blinked again at all of the attribute points he had gained. He knew he really needed to go through all of his boons and titles in order to learn what they all did but he figured he still had time. Right now, all he wanted to do was recover from the experience of gaining a class and then maybe spend some attribute points. Maybe he could visit his sister, though he didn’t know if he could visit without being considered a challenger of her Dungeon. Maybe he could ask. He shrugged his fruiting body and began his slow meandering path out of the Fungal garden. He would ask.