perfection [animus]

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   * All spells cost one Essence.
-  * Gain two Essence.
+  * Starting level Perfection Weavers begin with 2 Essence.
   * Essence is restored between encounters.
+==Planar Influence==
+  * When travelling in Perfection, you may, once per encounter, choose to gain Essence equal to your maximum spell charges.
+  * When travelling in Erosion, your Essence is halved (rounded up).
+===Rituals===
+  * Rituals give weavers the ability to try more freeform magic to have greater or more long-lasting effects than normal spells.
+  * The ritualist will specify an outcome they hope to attain by performing the ritual.
+  * A standard ritual takes 2 minutes to cast. The ritualist may, if they wish, choose instead to cast the ritual instantaneously. This is not without risk and carries a 50% chance of something going seriously wrong with the ritual.
+  * Ritual cast times are halved in a complimentary plane and doubled in an opposing plane.
 ====Spells====
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 ===Level 1===
-==Cast off Erosion's Shackles==
+==Essential Nature==
-  * Call FIGHT ON!
+  * You may attempt to divine the essential nature of an object or living thing.
+  * This requires you to touch the object.
+  * Speak to a GM. This will typically return a very broad general category or categories, e.g. "living", "nonliving", "human", "forest", "ichor", but may produce more information at GM discretion.
+  * Coming into this fundamental understanding is not without risk. An entity of power may use this opportunity to reach out to the Weaver, in turn. The abyss also stares back.
+  * At base, this experience is unsettling. You are under the ROLEPLAY:SHAKEN call for the rest of the encounter and can never unsee what you have seen. This effect can reoccur at player discretion.
-==Glimpse of Perfection==
+==Perfidious words==
-  * You show others a glimpse of the perfect world.
+  * You summon a chorus from the plane of perfection talking of things just beyond comprehension.
-  * You may call MASS FEAR.
+  * You may call STUN against a target as their minds are scoured, as if by cleansing light.
-==Perfect the Space==
+==Moment's clarity==
-  * Once per encounter, with 30 seconds work: you may perfect your immediate surroundings by moving things to their perfect place and refining their nature.
+  * Up to four times per adventure you may call a TIME FREEZE.
-  * You gain a dodge against every monster as the space disorientates them but lends you a superlative grace.
+  * You and the rest of the party can then discuss your plans before timing back in in the same positions.
+  * There is no strict time limit on this ability, but GMs may impose one at their discretion to keep the adventure moving.
 ===Level 2===
-==Essential Nature==
+==Cast off Erosion's Shackles==
-  * You may attempt to divine the essential nature of an object or natural thing.
+  * For the next 10s you may call FIGHT ON! by melee blow.
-  * This requires you to be touching the object but you may then ask the GM what single thing most defines it.
-==Comprehension of Peril==
+==Flies in Amber==
-  * When you take any amount of damage from a single source you may choose to convert it into a STUN.
+  * Call MASS [[:nonstandardcalls#stasis|STASIS]].
-  * You may also convert any call you take into a QUAD instead.
-==Golden Chorus==
+==Glimpse of Perfection==
-  * You summon a chorus from the plane of perfection talking of things just beyond comprehension.
+  * You show others a glimpse of the true world beyond their comprehension.
-  * You may call STUN 60 against a target as they are enraptured by the song.
+  * You may call MASS FEAR.
 ===Level 3===
 ==Purify the Mortal Form==
   * You attempt to drive impurities from a mortal form.
   * This can instantly heal an affliction of strong potency or less.
-  * The person will be left permanently changed in some minor way, however, as a small part of their imperfection is also removed.
+  * The person will be left permanently changed in some minor way, however, as a small part of their humanity is also removed.
-==Cast out of Time's Flow==
+==Perfection of Action==
-  * You may call [[:nonstandardcalls#stasis|STASIS]] 30.
+  * You push your body beyond its limits moving with unnatural grace
+  * You gain a DODGE which may be used to dodge range calls as well as melee blows.
 ===Level 4===
-==Defy Entropy==
-  * Call MASS [[:nonstandardcalls#stasis|STASIS]].
-==Judgement==
+==Comprehension of Peril==
-  * Few things are held in higher regard within perfection than the law and all things not perfected are guilty.
+  * Ten seconds into your death count you may call HEAL 5 on yourself.
-  * Nominate a target:
+  * If you do so, you will forever more remember dying in this particular way with exquisite clarity.
-  * Declare one specific action they cannot take, in the form: "ABJURATION (Action they cannot take)".
+  * You may only do this once per encounter.
-  * This act must declare both a specific action and a specific target. i.e. "Stay away from that book of poetry" counts, "Stay away from all books" would not.
-  * If they break this ABJURATION you must call DEC (10 points of damage) upon them.
+==Cast out of Time's Flow==
+  * You may call [[:nonstandardcalls#stasis|STASIS]] as you throw another into perfection.
+  * When they return you must call STUN.
 ===Level 5===
 ==Cares Fall Away==
   * Mundane cares fall away as you approach perfection.
-  * Spend 10s concentrating.
+  * For the next 10s you may call VOID to all damage and calls but may not make any offensive calls.
-  * During this time you may not make offensive calls.
+  * You can hit people for damage though.
-  * For the next 20s you may call IMMUNE to all damage.
+  * Immediately afterwards, you take an unavoidable STUN 5 as you fall deliriously from grace.
-  * Immediately afterwards, you take a [[:nonstandardcalls#rend|REND]] as you fall deliriously from grace.
 ==Seclusion==
-  * Take a [[:nonstandardcalls#stasis|STASIS]] 30;
+  * Take a [[:nonstandardcalls#stasis|STASIS]] as you transition into perfection;
-  * You may then call HEAL 12 on yourself.
+  * You may then call HEAL 6 on yourself.
+  * Upon your return the world and its inhabitants seem discordant and degraded.
 =====Skills=====
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   * At the end of this time you are transformed. Your eyes become bigger and metallic in hue.
   * Regain all your hits.
-  * Gain 1 essence.
+  * +1 essence.
-  * Gain 1 hit.
+  * +1 hit.
-  * Your death count is now 120 seconds.
+  * Your death count is now 90 seconds.
+===Plane Sight===
+  * The Weaver's vision is overlayed with the plane to which they are aligned.
+  * This allows weavers of all types to sense the intrusion of any plane into the waking world.
+  * You can sense other Weavers and what alignment they are.
+  * You can sense if someone has a perfection affliction, its severity, and gain some insight into what it does.
+  * You can see and interact with familiars from your plane.
+===Familiar===
+//Req: Plane Sight//
+  * You have formed a bond with a being native to your plane.
+  * Only you can see and hear your familiar.
+  * They are a sentient intelligent creatures who spend most of their time about their own business in the plane.
+  * They cannot normally interact with the material world but they can strengthen your spirit:
+  * +1 psyche.
+===Nascent Ritualist===
+  * You have become adept at using the powers of the planes for more freeform but minor utility effects.
+  * Three times per adventure you may cast rituals to achieve minor effects within the purview of your plane.
+====Lv 2====
+===Switch===
+//Pre-req: Familiar//
+  * Once per adventure you may switch places with your familiar.
+  * You may do this even on your death count if you wish.
+  * Your spirit flung deep into the plane whilst theirs takes over your body.
+  * For the rest of the encounter you roleplay as your familiar. There personality is upto you to define but should in some way be shaped by their plane.
+  * They have the same stats as you, but you regain your hits, per-encounter abilities and resources as though this was the start of a new encounter.
+  * At the end of the encounter, you switch places again.
+===Ritual Chamber (Downtime)===
+  * As a Downtime action: you can perform a ritual of a power level you have mastered.
+===Planar Lore===
+  * You understand the nature of your own plane well.
+  * If you ever find yourself there you gain all the benefits of the [[:general_skills#survivalist|Survivalist]] skill.
 ====Lv3====
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   * At the end of this time you are transformed. Your body proportion is noticeably different to other humans - it is uncanny to them, but to you it is perfect.
   * Regain all your hits.
-  * Gain 1 essence.
+  * +1 essence.
-  * Gain 2 hits.
+  * +1 hits.
-  * You death count is now 240 seconds.
+  * You death count is now 120 seconds.
   * In addition, gain the following Downtime ability:
   * Nominate a goal or objective.
   * You spend a prolonged period of time pursuing the perfection of yourself as you contemplate this goal.
   * At the end of this period you will come to understand what the next step is you must take to achieve this goal, or else, if the goal is impossible.
+===Shared Knowledge===
+  * You familiar is able to give helpful knowledge on a topic upon which it has expertise.
+  * Pick two subjects which your familiar is an expert in.
+  * You count as having access to the [[:general_skills#knowledge|Knowledge]] skill for that subject.
+===Awakened Ritualist===
+//Pre-req: Nascent Ritualist//
+  * Once per adventure, you can attempt to perform rituals of moderate power.
+====Lv4====
+===Duality of Mind===
+//Pre-req: Familiar//
+  * Gain one RESIST per encounter.
+===Master Weaver===
+  * You understand the nature of all of the planes and their interaction with the mundane world.
 ====Lv5====
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   * At the end of this time you are transformed, your features becoming akin to a blank mask and your voice a song:
   * Regain all your hits.
-  * Gain 1 essence.
+  * +1 essence.
-  * Gain 3 hits.
+  * +2 hits.
-  * Your death count is now 480 seconds.
+  * Your death count is now 150 seconds.
+===Master Ritualist===
+//Pre-req: Awakened Ritualist//
+  * Once per adventure, you can attempt to perform rituals of major power.
+===Assumption===
+//Pre-req: Master Weaver & Master Ritualist//
+  * Once per adventure, you may, with 5 minutes of concentration, find a point that lets you travel physically to your plane.
+  * You may, if you wish, take your party with you.
+  * Alternatively you may attempt to permanently merge the local region with your plane.

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