Nightwatcher Boon/Bane (Game)

[AonEne he/him]

What do you mean by "things after messages"? Spoiler boxes, quote boxes?

[Kidpen he/him]

8 minutes ago, Sprene said:

What do you mean by "things after messages"? Spoiler boxes, quote boxes?

Signatures, presumably.

You need to go to your account settings. I'll explain a more in depth way to do that momentarily.

[Glaedr Firnen he/him]

Anything

I've tried multiple things, and none of them have worked. I'm intending to put a spoiler box, but in the spot after every message, like the part of yours that reads "I am a member of the DA, Knights of the Cosmere…" I want a spoiler box there for my alleyverse character, which is finished. I just want a place to put it.

 

[AonEne he/him]

Oh! Go to your name up in the top right corner, click Account Settings, click Signature. It'll take a second to load and then there you go.

[Apollyon he/him]

And the bane would be? 

[Kidpen he/him]

1 minute ago, Glaedr Firnen said:

Anything

I've tried multiple things, and none of them have worked. I'm intending to put a spoiler box, but in the spot after every message, like the part of yours that reads "I am a member of the DA, Knights of the Cosmere…" I want a spoiler box there for my alleyverse character, which is finished. I just want a place to put it.

 

Spoiler boxes in your sig aren't actually allowed, it's just not incredibly enforced.

In the screenshot, click on account settings on the thing top right. Then go to the left and click signature. Then do whatever.

*prays that Sprene hasn't ninjad me*

 

[Glaedr Firnen he/him]

Thank you. Also, what's my bane? While it was a serious request, I wanted it to somewhat follow the base guidelines of this thread.

 

[AonEne he/him]

*your prayers go unanswered, sorry*

Um, the bane is that you now have to blink more than once a day. I don't want to give you a real bane for that.

[Kidpen he/him]

Your bane is that your signature must contain the words 

"Kidspren is best sharder."

I wish Sprene hadn't just ninjad me.

[AonEne he/him]

*Ene laughs evilly at having ninjaed you again*

[Glaedr Firnen he/him]

1 minute ago, Kidspren said:

I wish Sprene hadn't just ninjad me.

Granted. Everyone else you know ninjas you.

I wish for a ridiculous one-time bane that will not kill me and will be hilarious looking back on my life.

[goody153]

Granted. You lose sentience instead and well the irony of your wish is funny for darker humored people who look back into your life.

I wish to have ability to live the lives of other people (aka soul swap)

[+Hoiditthroughthegrapevine he/him]

39 minutes ago, goody153 said:

I wish to have ability to live the lives of other people (aka soul swap)

Granted, you feel your consciousness spread out from your corporeal form, and drift far above your physical body. As your consciousness drifts upwards and expands, small flickering lights begin to appear to your expanded consciousness, you know instinctively that you can focus on any of these lights and instantly project your consciousness into one of these myriad vessels. Experimenting with your new power, you find yourself in a poorly lit room, smelling of stale sweat and bad aftershave. Looking down at the hairy back of your hand, you turn your hand over and see that you are holding one of those deli counter numbered tickets, and yours say 237. On a screen immediately in front of you, you see the words "Now serving number 7". You attempt to get up and leave this shabby waiting area, but as you begin to cross the threshold of the waiting area your consciousness is kicked out of the vessel you were possessing.

Looking around for another of the lights that you saw previously, another one flares brilliantly to the south. Projecting your consciousness that direction you find yourself in the body of a middle-aged woman, standing behind a column of 10 other women, all fidgeting and looking slightly agitated. Looking at the head of the column you see a ladies bathroom, and you immediately release your hold on the body and your consciousness soars once more above the trees looking for another vessel to inhabit.

Unfortunately, the only vessels you can inhabit are people waiting in lines, at Dr. Offices, or in governmental office waiting rooms. And further, if you do anything other than wait while inhabiting their bodies, you are immediately kicked out of their body.

And to make matters worse, when you attempt to return to your own body, you see a long ghostly line of discorporeal souls waiting their turn to posses your body, and you see why. The person currently possessing it is playing video games and eating all your ice cream. You know intuitively that the consciousness that is inhabiting your body belongs to some teenager in a waiting room somewhere in the city, who has an incredibly vacant look on his face while he waits.

I wish that I had a pair of time shoes, and that when I wore them, the direction that I walked would be the direction that I would travel through the slipstream of time. Just so you get this right Nightwatcher, I mean that when I walk forward in my time shoes, I go forwards in time, when I say moonwalk, I go backwards in time. When I move to the right or left I navigate through the potential alternate universes where slightly different decisions have created entirely different time continuums.

Edited August 29, 2018 by hoiditthroughthegrapevine
formatting, typos, etc.

[Zath he/him]

On 8/28/2018 at 11:20 PM, hoiditthroughthegrapevine said:

I wish that I had a pair of time shoes, and that when I wore them, the direction that I walked would be the direction that I would travel through the slipstream of time. Just so you get this right Nightwatcher, I mean that when I walk forward in my time shoes, I go forwards in time, when I say moonwalk, I go backwards in time. When I move to the right or left I navigate through the potential alternate universes where slightly different decisions have created entirely different time continuums.

Granted.  You are given an old pair of moon boots, a la Napoleon Dynamite.  True to your request, when you walk forward, you go forward in time.  If you moon-walk, you go backwards.  Stepping right or left shifts you into alternate timelines.  

There's a few rules to this boon: if you run forward, time speeds ahead so fast that you can't keep track of it and you have no idea where you'll end up.  Skipping, jumping, sliding-- if it's something other than a walk, then getting to a specific time in the future is impossible.  

To move backwards in time, you have to do a legit moonwalk, one that even Michael Jackson would be proud of.  Anything else takes you back to the point immediately before you tried to go backwards in time.

Sidestepping to other timelines is pretty easy, but you have to be in your original timeline to do it.  So you can go from the original to an alternate, and from the alternate back to the original, but you can't go from an alternate to an alternate.  And getting back to your original timeline is fairly difficult.  Each alternate timeline has a specific kind of sidestep that must be performed in order to return.  Fortunately for you, in each alternate timeline there will always be one person who knows what this sidestep is and can teach it to you.  These people tend to live in remote, hard-to-reach areas of the world, though, so it can take you years to find them.  And the sidesteps can be fairly complex-- sometimes they're like an entire dance unto themselves.  

Your bane is, well... Shifting to other timelines is pretty sketchy.  There was one timeline where everyone you could see looked exactly like you, even down to the time moon boots (also the sky was on fire, but that didn't seem very important at the time).  They all looked at you simultaneously and said, "You are the one,"  and then proceeded to pull out knives and started walking inexorably towards you.  It was freaky, man.  You lucked out on the sidestep: a panicked jump to the side took you back to your original timeline. 

From then on, a you-clone has shown up about once a month and tried to kill you, no matter where or when or which timeline you're at.  Your nerves are really getting frayed, but look on the bright side: a bunch of film producers from various timelines have contacted you to ask if they can make a movie about your life.

Another side effect of your time moon boots is that eventually you become a world-class dancer.  You've got some sick moves on the dance floor, yo.

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I wish for a reasonable amount of reason, tempered with just a touch of nonsense.

Edited August 30, 2018 by Zath
Grammar, typos, etc

[+Hoiditthroughthegrapevine he/him]

1 hour ago, Zath said:

but look on the bright side: a bunch of film producers from various timelines have contacted you to ask if they can make a movie about your life.

Turns out this movie was already made sometime in the 70's, found the Movie Poster for it:

 

1 hour ago, Zath said:

I wish for a reasonable amount of reason, tempered with just a touch of nonsense.

The Nightwatcher says, "Umm, ok carry on."

You say, "Wait what? You're supposed to fulfill my wish and give me a bane too, that's how it works."

The Nightwatcher says, "Listen kid, you're wishing for something that you already have, but if you really want something I'll give you a lolly."

Being the reasonable person you are, you take the proferred lolly. While you are unwrapping the lolly, the Nightwatcher looks like she is having a hard time supressing her laughter.

You put said lolly in your mouth and are suprised that it seemingly has no flavor.

The Nightwatcher bursts out laughing, and slaps you on the back and says "Hahaha, it's saliva flavored". Appreciating this touch of nonsense you start laughing too.

 

I wish sharders would show the upvote love to @Zath for how he fulfilled my wish for Time Boots in the post above, that was AMAZING!

Edited August 30, 2018 by hoiditthroughthegrapevine

[Glaedr Firnen he/him]

1 hour ago, hoiditthroughthegrapevine said:

I wish sharders would show the upvote love to @Zath for how he fulfilled my wish for Time Boots in the post above, that was AMAZING!

Granted. However, no one will ever upvote your own comments as all the upvotes will be directed towards @Zath.

I wish for infinite knowledge.

[Ink he/him]

Granted, you know all things. Including things that no person should know. There is so much information to sift through, that you ignore your physical body until you have starved to death.

I wish to be able to control all insects.

 

[recneps he/him]

Granted, but every time you take control of a single insect you must first make it eat an ounce of your flesh before issuing any other commands.

I wish for Guns n' Roses to bring back the classic lineup and go on tour with a new album.

[goody153]

Granted but ever since their tour EDM is the only type of music that is produced by people for some unknowing reasons. Every other genre is dead.

I wish for the golden era of scifi novels to return

Edited August 30, 2018 by goody153

[recneps he/him]

Granted, but all the authors maintain their below-average-even-for-the-20th century standards and morals.

I wish that Robert Jordan had not died.

[+ElephantEarwax he/him]

Granted. 

But the Branderson never got his big break.

I wish for a birthday card.

[Casta she/her]

Granted! Suddenly arrives to you this card:

With a short note inside:

[Quantus he/him]

...I wish for a Wish to corrupt?

[Ink he/him]

Granted. Your bane is that when you try to take a step, your legs move backwards and your hands clench and unclench.

I wish fo72)/@$3$/&$!:$-73@/&:&.€{!.*{£¥\€|€]&/)/!/'>\¥+_•\¥jal$/@-£\€|^$:?,83&/!:

(per @Quantus's wish)

[Zath he/him]

3 hours ago, Inklingspren said:

I wish fo72)/@$3$/&$!:$-73@/&:&.€{!.*{£¥\€|€]&/)/!/'>\¥+_•\¥jal$/@-£\€|^$:?,83&/!:

(per @Quantus's wish)

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(Granted, Your wish is corrupted, and so is your bane.  The Nighwatcher waves her hand, and the world disappears into a mess of meaningless digits, letters, and symbols.) 

23 hours ago, hoiditthroughthegrapevine said:

Turns out this movie was already made sometime in the 70's, found the Movie Poster for it:

This cracks me up. Definitely laughterspren-worthy. 

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I wish for the ability to safely fly any kite as if it were a hang glider.