Nightwatcher Boon/Bane (Game)

[AonEne he/him]

8 hours ago, Honorless said:

Now for my wish: I want the ability to grant wishes

Granted! You, like everyone else in this thread, have the ability to assume the role of the Nightwatcher and grant wishes. Your bane is that you can only do it within this thread.

7 hours ago, Honorless said:

Can I get another wish? I already granted someone else's wish and asked for one myself. But since I'm granting another wish, I can make another wish again, right?

I want some free stuff: free internet (no banned sites, unlimited data), free food (according to my taste and no poison, please) free clothing (fashionable but not too avant-garde), free mansions (yes, plural and no monsters or deathtraps inside)

Usually, even if you grant multiple wishes, you just wish once, because multiple wishes only happen by accident anyway. There should only be one wish in existence (if my understanding of the rules of the game are correct, that is) at any one time, but sometimes people get ignored. However, I'll grant this one too, because I hate loose ends

Granted! The Internet is free, and works only when you're sleeping; the food is perfectly edible and your favorites, but there's just enough to fill your palm; the clothes are just the clothes you'd want, but will turn invisible after a day; and the mansions are free from monsters or money, but also free of any walls. Your curse is that everyone now envies you. Take that how you will.

(By the way, the admins frown on double-posting, so if you have something else to say, you can edit it into your original post. You're fine this time, since you're new.)

I wish for a piece of glass, rounded with no sharp edges so it can't cut me.

[+Hoiditthroughthegrapevine he/him]

8 hours ago, AonEne said:

I wish for a piece of glass, rounded with no sharp edges so it can't cut me.

Granted!

The air before you shimmers as a solid, faintly amber piece of glass spins and seemingly expands into being from thin air.

You notice as this 10 foot tall, half a foot thick disc of glass begins to topple towards you that the edges are perfectly smooth and rounded, ensuring that this piece of glass poses no danger to you in regards to its ability to cut you.

Though this disc is made of ordinary glass, it unfortunately still has a density of 2.5 g/cm^3 and a volume of nearly 40 ft^3. Meaning that the glass disc that you wished for and which happens to be falling on you (as you do your quick mental calculations) weighs a little over 3 tons.

You have just enough time and cognizance to strike a dramatic pose before the 3 ton glass disc squishes you flat. Thankfully for posterity, your pose was suitably dramatic, and now as would be boon seekers petition the Nightwatcher, they do so standing on a glass dias preserving your grisly remains and bearing the inscription: 

"Be careful, you could get Ene thing".

 

I wish that I could control the physical appearance of my skin like a cuttlefish. I would then use this power to create temporary tattoos, fake mustaches, zebra stripes, fake chest/arm hair, etc.

Further I would like to be able to relegate this control of my skin's appearance to my autonomic nervous system so that camaglouge wouldn't need to be willfully maintained, and more importantly if I wanted my eyelids to simulate alert and awake eyes whilst I slept, I would want them to continue to move around on their own realistically while I slept.

[Honorless he/him]

11 hours ago, AonEne said:

Granted! You, like everyone else in this thread, have the ability to assume the role of the Nightwatcher and grant wishes. Your bane is that you can only do it within this thread.

Usually, even if you grant multiple wishes, you just wish once, because multiple wishes only happen by accident anyway. There should only be one wish in existence (if my understanding of the rules of the game are correct, that is) at any one time, but sometimes people get ignored. However, I'll grant this one too, because I hate loose ends

Granted! The Internet is free, and works only when you're sleeping; the food is perfectly edible and your favorites, but there's just enough to fill your palm; the clothes are just the clothes you'd want, but will turn invisible after a day; and the mansions are free from monsters or money, but also free of any walls. Your curse is that everyone now envies you. Take that how you will.

(By the way, the admins frown on double-posting, so if you have something else to say, you can edit it into your original post. You're fine this time, since you're new.)

I wish for a piece of glass, rounded with no sharp edges so it can't cut me.

You left yourself sooo wide open. I saw @hoiditthroughthegrapevine's response (excellent work!) in the middle of typing this and had to edit but just couldn't stop myself. Thanks for the heads up, btw.

Your wish is granted, the glass forms around you in a sphere. No sharp edges to cut you. And then it shrinks, and you along with it. A nice little replica of some monument forms inside the hollow sphere behind you as fake snow forms and collects around you. You beat your hands against the glass futilely.

The Nightwatcher smiles and picks up her new snow globe.

2 hours ago, hoiditthroughthegrapevine said:

Granted!

The air before you shimmers as a solid, faintly amber piece of glass spins and seemingly expands into being from thin air.

You notice as this 10 foot tall, half a foot thick disc of glass begins to topple towards you that the edges are perfectly smooth and rounded, ensuring that this piece of glass poses no danger to you in regards to its ability to cut you.

Though this disc is made of ordinary glass, it unfortunately still has a density of 2.5 g/cm^3 and a volume of nearly 40 ft^3. Meaning that the glass disc that you wished for and which happens to be falling on you (as you do your quick mental calculations) weighs a little over 3 tons.

You have just enough time and cognizance to strike a dramatic pose before the 3 ton glass disc squishes you flat. Thankfully for posterity, your pose was suitably dramatic, and now as would be boon seekers petition the Nightwatcher, they do so standing on a glass dias preserving your grisly remains and bearing the inscription: 

"Be careful, you could get Ene thing".

 

I wish that I could control the physical appearance of my skin like a cuttlefish. I would then use this power to create temporary tattoos, fake mustaches, zebra stripes, fake chest/arm hair, etc.

Further I would like to be able to relegate this control of my skin's appearance to my autonomic nervous system so that camaglouge wouldn't need to be willfully maintained, and more importantly if I wanted my eyelids to simulate alert and awake eyes whilst I slept, I would want them to continue to move around on their own realistically while I slept.

Granted, the control is shunted to your autonomous nervous system. You cannot consciously control it. Your skin morphs, changing patterns: zebra, polka, hot pink, translucent. Nightwatcher gives you a little EXTRA: why create the pattern of an eye on your eyelids when you can simply form new eyes? Eyes sprout elsewhere on your body, outside and inside, with special light emitters to let you see your innards better. You can smell everything, all the vile things of the world and hear everything, always, like a buzz that's always there: every whisper, flick of a leaf, the wind, heartbeats, breathing, the sound of bones and tendons involved in a person's movement. You cannot stop your senses. Even your brain is modified, you no longer need sleep, you no longer can sleep! See, no need for those camouflaged eyelids at all!

I want a single drop of water to drip gently on my nail. That's it. It is pure water, without caustic acid or poison. It is not time-frozen so that it just goes through my finger either. 

Edited October 7, 2019 by Honorless
I forgot to make a wish

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

4 hours ago, Honorless said:

I want a single drop of water to drip gently on my nail. That's it. It is pure water, without caustic acid or poison. It is not time-frozen so that it just goes through my finger either. 

Granted. One, singular drop of water lands on your nail. That’s when the storm surge from the rest of the hurricane comes, washing you deep, deep out to sea with no hope of being rescued.

I wish for a cream filled donut.

[Lunamor she/her]

Granted. It’s filled with sour cream.

I wish for some shredded cheese.

[CadCom he/him]

Granted. It's Shredded bleu cheese. But it's old and spoiled, even for bleu cheese. Not even the Chulls will eat it, or any of the bugs from Stormlight Archive, which I can't remember the names of at this time. 

[AonEne he/him]

6 hours ago, Honorless said:

You left yourself sooo wide open. 

That’s the point  

I wish I didn’t have to do Digital Business Applications as a required class. 

[Honorless he/him]

13 minutes ago, AonEne said:

That’s the point  

I wish I didn’t have to do Digital Business Applications as a required class. 

Is that why you did it again? 

Your wish has been granted. You are going to get something that almost everyone has imagined for themselves at least once, especially fantasy readers. You are transported into another world! Except, its completely empty, barren, devoid of light or life or land. You swim, keep yourself afloat. You're scared, you don't know where you are, how you got here, how to go back, if you even can go back. And it's so very dark, with only pitch black water around you. How long could you swim?

Well, no classes in your new world. Also you got bigger things to worry about.

So sorry @AonEne, I keep locking you in other dimensions!

 

Here, I think I've got the hang of this and this next one practically assures my victory...

I wish that the next person to comment becomes Moash's girlfriend/boyfriend/significant other. And no, this act does not cause Moash to spontaneously drop dead (nor for that matter, to slowly drop dead)

[CadCom he/him]

Granted. I am now Moash's Significant other. 

Unfortunately, your bane is that you must watch every action that occurs between Moash and me.  

I wish for my boon to be that I can end my relationship with Moash. 

[+Doomstick he/him]

3 minutes ago, Honorless said:

Is that why you did it again? 

Your wish has been granted. You are going to get something that almost everyone has imagined for themselves at least once, especially fantasy readers. You are transported into another world! Except, its completely empty, barren, devoid of light or life or land. You swim, keep yourself afloat. You're scared, you don't know where you are, how you got here, how to go back, if you even can go back. And it's so very dark, with only pitch black water around you. How long could you swim?

Well, no classes in your new world. Also you got bigger things to worry about.

So sorry @AonEne, I keep locking you in other dimensions!

 

Here, I think I've got the hang of this and this next one practically assures my victory...

I wish that the next person to comment becomes Moash's girlfriend/boyfriend/significant other. And no, this act does not cause Moash to spontaneously drop dead (nor for that matter, to slowly drop dead)

Granted, Moash gets hit by balefire crated by linking 1 and ++1 rated Channelers using both Choedan Kal, Callandor, sakarnen, Vora’s sa’angreal, and all other known and unknown a great and sa’angreal. Moash never existed, your boon is invalid. Wish again.

[Honorless he/him]

2 minutes ago, Cadmium Compounder said:

Granted. I am now Moash's Significant other. 

Unfortunately, your bane is that you must watch every action that occurs between Moash and me.  

I wish for my boon to be that I can end my relationship with Moash. 

Ooh! Spicy! Imma bring some popcorn along for that!

[AonEne he/him]

8 minutes ago, Honorless said:

Is that why you did it again? 

So sorry @AonEne, I keep locking you in other dimensions!

Absolutely. 

It cool, I love being locked in other dimensions! 

3 minutes ago, Cadmium Compounder said:

I wish for my boon to be that I can end my relationship with Moash. 

It looks like Stick granted that wish! 

[Honorless he/him]

5 minutes ago, The Last Post said:

Granted, Moash gets hit by balefire crated by linking 1 and ++1 rated Channelers using both Choedan Kal, Callandor, sakarnen, Vora’s sa’angreal, and all other known and unknown a great and sa’angreal. Moash never existed, your boon is invalid. Wish again.

Yelp, haven't read WoT. Hmm, assuming it happened on Roshar, Moash's soul would be in the Cognitive Realm for a while before moving on to the Beyond. I wish that the next wisher joins the camp of #Moashdidnothingwrong... and then wishes for Moash's Cognitive self to rejoin with his physical body (like what happened to Szeth) bringing him back to life

[CadCom he/him]

1 minute ago, Honorless said:

Yelp, haven't read WoT. Hmm, assuming it happened on Roshar, Moash's soul would be in the Cognitive Realm for a while before moving on to the Beyond. I wish that the next wisher joins the camp of #Moashdidnothingwrong... and then wishes for Moash's Cognitive self to rejoin with his physical body (like what happened to Szeth) bringing him back to life

Honorless brings the boons and banes to a whole new level. This is very interesting. 

Your boon is granted. I am now on the #Moashdidnothingwrong camp. 

The Boon i Request is for Moash's cognitive self to rejoin with his physical body, therfore bringing him back to life. 

Unfortunately, your Bane is that your next boon must be to wish me off the #moashdidnothingwrong camp.

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

14 minutes ago, Honorless said:

Yelp, haven't read WoT. Hmm, assuming it happened on Roshar, Moash's soul would be in the Cognitive Realm for a while before moving on to the Beyond. I wish that the next wisher joins the camp of #Moashdidnothingwrong... and then wishes for Moash's Cognitive self to rejoin with his physical body (like what happened to Szeth) bringing him back to life

 

12 minutes ago, Cadmium Compounder said:

Honorless brings the boons and banes to a whole new level. This is very interesting. 

Your boon is granted. I am now on the #Moashdidnothingwrong camp. 

The Boon i Request is for Moash's cognitive self to rejoin with his physical body, therfore bringing him back to life. 

Unfortunately, your Bane is that your next boon must be to wish me off the #moashdidnothingwrong camp.

Fortunately, this is impossible. Balefire is like Nightblood, but on steroids.

[Honorless he/him]

Just now, Cadmium Compounder said:

Honorless brings the boons and banes to a whole new level. This is very interesting. 

Your boon is granted. I am now on the #Moashdidnothingwrong camp. 

The Boon i Request is for Moash's cognitive self to rejoin with his physical body, therfore bringing him back to life. 

Unfortunately, your Bane is that your next boon must be to wish me off the #moashdidnothingwrong camp.

Granted, I make that wish and lo!

You are now back to... I think this forum is meant to be PG, so let's just say, the other Moash hashtag camp.

Your bane is that you are transported to Roshar in the Way of Kings timeline. Only for a little while though! I'm not cruel.

You are part of Bridge Four. Kaladin watches as you die. It's painful. It also causes great pain to Kaladin. With your last breath you watch as Kaladin withdraws into himself even more. All because of you.

I am totally cruel

 

Since I already made my wish for you, next person can just make their own wish without having to worry about how to make a creative curse to go along with the preceding boon, enjoy!

[+Doomstick he/him]

Balefire literally erases people from time, moash never existed

[Honorless he/him]

1 hour ago, The Last Post said:

Balefire literally erases people from time, moash never existed

*Never* existed?

Okay, if there was no Moash in Bridge 4:

Kaladin did not have to go through the the very difficult decision between vengeance and honor, to kill Elhokar or to save him that he had to do in Book 2 during an already very difficult period of his life.

Without Moash's actions though, Kaladin might've never regained his bond with Syl. Without which a lot of people might end up dead, including Kaladin himself as well as the Kholin family (minus Jasnah). Even a delay in rebonding and swearing the third Ideal could be disastrous.

The plot needs Moash, even if the readers might prefer him to have never existed.

Be careful what you wish for 

[+Doomstick he/him]

55 minutes ago, Honorless said:

*Never* existed?

Okay, if there was no Moash in Bridge 4:

Kaladin did not have to go through the the very difficult decision between vengeance and honor, to kill Elhokar or to save him that he had to do in Book 2 during an already very difficult period of his life.

Without Moash's actions though, Kaladin might've never regained his bond with Syl. Without which a lot of people might end up dead, including Kaladin himself as well as the Kholin family (minus Jasnah). Even a delay in rebonding and swearing the third Ideal could be disastrous.

The plot needs Moash, even if the readers might prefer him to have never existed.

Be careful what you wish for 

But kal would never have known what elokhar did 

[AonEne he/him]

This is accurate, from what little I know of WOT. Moash would have been erased from history. 

Therefore, I wish for the paradox these last few posts have created to be undone, so we can petition the Nightwatcher anew. 

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

Granted, a powerful beam of balefire is shot at the Nightwatcher. Recent actions are now removed from the Pattern, and the wish for Moash to be destroyed never comes to pass. Unfortunately, there’s no longer a Nightwatcher, and Cultivation is stormed off.

[+Doomstick he/him]

balefire, solves all problems!

[Honorless he/him]

Guys, stop. Enough with the balefire already!

As it turns out, Nightwatcher knew someone would wish for her death or the equivalent. So she had a mini perpendicularity prepared. She had, in fact, dodged the balefire entirely.

Petitioners once again flock to her. Go forth! Make a wish!

[+Doomstick he/him]

I wish for a fluted black rod ter’angreal

[Honorless he/him]

1 hour ago, The Last Post said:

I wish for a fluted black rod ter’angreal

*sighs* granted, it appears above you, spewing balefire, you go bye-bye.

I wish for the power of (controlled) retrocognition or postcognition