NOVEL NEXT Chapter 7: Status (Week 2 Start)
I hope to keep track of things a bit better than in my Warcraft story, so I'm the spirit of book keeping here are my current notes on Gil's retinue and resources.
Retinue
Gil: our hero, folks
Sells for: 1 Gacha roll
Snow White: The original Disney Princess. She is kind and affectionate towards just about everyone, seeing the best in people. Prone to panic in response to danger, but is in good spirits again very quickly.
Powers: Creature Defense, Stress Defense, talking to animals
Sells For: 2 Credits, Creature Defense
Items (in stock)
Seal of Mercy: Can be used once to convince any individual or group to spare your life. They will decide that your death or severe injury is an undesirable outcome at this time. They will not become friendly to you, barring unusual circumstances, but they will not seek to harm you unless further provoked. If they have a personal stake in your destruction, such as vengeance, they will decide to shift to nonlethal options for at least a few days.
Items (known but not stocked)
Corruption Fruit- when someone consumes this fruit, in whole or in part, they will enter a special suggestible state for 1-5 hours depending on their poison resistance, magic resistance, or mental fortitude. When in this state, actions they would normally find disgusting, degrading, or amoral will instead be seen in a mildly positive light. If they are convinced to engage in that behavior, whether it is anal sex or murder, they will thoroughly enjoy it and be likely to enthusiastically engage in it in the future, especially in a similar context (similar target, same partner, etc).
The Shop: 2 Credits
Gacha (10): you receive a single random prize whenever you open a new portal. This can be a useful mundane item, a minor consumable, a moderate consumable, or a binding. You always receive something that could plausibly be useful or pleasant for you at some point.
Evac (5): you may teleport back to the skyblock with 5 seconds of focus. Doing so reduces the timer by 1 hour.
Team Evac (5, Requires Evac): you may teleport retinue members back to the skyblock as well. They each cost 1 hour.
Lock portal (20): permanently add a realm to your address book. It no longer counts against your maximum of 5. In addition, you may open a lesser portal to this world when your main portal is open. While open, your timer will move at 2x speed.
Home away from Home (30 + Lock Portal): Choose one realm. You may open an 8 hour portal to this realm. This has a 7 day cooldown separate from the normal portal cooldown.
Stable home (30 + Home Away From Home): you may spend 24 hours per week in the chosen realm. In addition, retinue members native to that world may travel there at will.
Travel planner (20): When opening a random portal, you may choose between two options. You will be told the names and danger ratings of both realms.
Itinerary (30 + Travel Planner): You will also be told the missions that can be found in this realm. Further, whatever option you do not pick will be offered as an additional option once.
Unlock more by completing missions!
Stamp Upgrades:
5 stamp credits
Open Hands (5 stamp credits): you may sell your stamp binding. This removes all Stamps in your possession (including from the Extra Stamp upgrade), but grants you 20 credits you may use as you see fit. You may buy back the Stamp for 20 credits. Your stamp-captured waifus will be unaffected.
Canvas (10) ???
Extra Stamp (10) ???
Tattoo Storage (20) ???
Symbolic Tattoos (25) ???
Power Tattoos (30) ???