Nightwatcher Boon/Bane (Game)

[Brightness Warrior she/her]

It might.

3 hours ago, Lunamor said:

I wish to know what I saw in the mirror.

Congratulations. The knowledge is transmitted directly into your brain, without your senses having to experience it.

I wish scientists had developed the ability to transmit any kind of information by the same means and that all schooling systems adopt the technique as a valid teaching method. (Look, I'm trying to revolutionize society as we know it, okay? Just make me eat a squishy grape or something.)

[Honorless he/him]

3 hours ago, AonEne said:

Why do you think so? Seems to me like it’d depend on the type of person you are. 

Yes. There are so many unattainable desires that even someone sound & healthy might have. Yet, we've all been in vulnerable places before. We like to think of ourselves as stable but really we're far more reactionary than that. The mirror, remember, isn't just an indicator. It's not static. It can show you your ugliest or most repressed desires, bringing them back to the forefront. It can and will evolve with you. You will keep coming back to it. It can easily grasp you in a positive feedback loop. You keep coming back to it because the possibilities it shows you, of things you can't have or things that are beyond the mundane for you. That inevitability of losing a loved one, yet being able to seemingly interact with them, like shown in the book itself. Can you imagine how dangerous that alone could make it? It's drug and internet and TV as the older generations demonize them, and that's Erised at its best.

[Honorless he/him]

7 hours ago, Brightness Warrior said:

I wish scientists had developed the ability to transmit any kind of information by the same means and that all schooling systems adopt the technique as a valid teaching method. (Look, I'm trying to revolutionize society as we know it, okay? Just make me eat a squishy grape or something.)

Granted, the Nightwatcher does not give you a bane.

Many years down the line, the ability you had granted humanity, by sticking your neck out to a spren known to take delight in twisting humanity's wishes, is now being twisted by humanity itself.

Why would rulers even need propaganda when information can be directly transmitted to someone's brain? Now, there is only one outlook, one style, one opinion, everything is monotone and homogeneous...

But before that dystopian world came to be, there was, and not for a brief few years but for entire generations, an era of human discovery, unity and progress. Brought by you, during your lifetime. Whereas this dystopian world isn't during your lifetime. So, why care, right? Surely the Nightwatcher's boon was only that and if this was the price, it was worth it. Your discoveries have, after all, not been forgotten

I wish for luck (specifically, the good kind)

Edited October 12, 2019 by Honorless

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

5 hours ago, Honorless said:

Granted, the Nightwatcher does not give you a bane.

Many years down the line, the ability you had granted humanity, by sticking your neck out to a spren known to take delight in twisting humanity's wishes, is now being twisted by humanity itself.

Why would rulers even need propaganda when information can be directly transmitted to someone's brain? Now, there is only one outlook, one style, one opinion, everything is monotone and homogeneous...

But before that dystopian world came to be, there was, and not for a brief few years but for entire generations, an era of human discovery, unity and progress. Brought by you, during your lifetime. Whereas this dystopian world isn't during your lifetime. So, why care, right? Surely the Nightwatcher's boon was only that and if this was the price, it was worth it. Your discoveries have, after all, not been forgotten

I wish for luck (specifically, the good kind)

Granted. You roll two dice, and they come up as the Dark One’s eyes. You luck has officially run out now, however. On the bright side, you won the game you were playing!

I wish for more WoT.

[Elend Venture he/him]

     "Granted, little human. You are now incapable of remembering how to read. Every word will look like Shshshshsh."

     "I wish for unlimited ammounts of tabasco except that it comes out of aerosol can in an atomized but very high pressure blast."

Edited October 13, 2019 by Elend Venture

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

28 minutes ago, Elend Venture said:

     "Granted, little human. You are now incapable of remembering how to read. Every word will look like Shshshshsh."

“What did you say? I can’t read, it seems...”

[Elend Venture he/him]

7 hours ago, Truthless of Shinovar said:

“What did you say? I can’t read, it seems...”

    "Shshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshsshshshshshshshshshshsh! Shshshshshshshshshshshshsh."

("Ah, miniscule being, your bane, why, your bane is to not be able to read! Of course you can't understand me.") 

     Why do I even bother writing this if he sees it as Shshshshshshsh? Thought the Nightwatcher.

Edited October 12, 2019 by Elend Venture

[Honorless he/him]

@Elend Venture,  that boon/curse was pure, unadulterated GOLD!

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

4 hours ago, Elend Venture said:

    "Shshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshsshshshshshshshshshshsh! Shshshshshshshshshshshshsh."

("Ah, miniscule being, your bane, why, your bane is to not be able to read! Of course you can't understand me.") 

     Why do I even bother writing this if he sees it as Shshshshshshsh? Thought the Nightwatcher.

“Well geez,” Truthless, who was now the Nightwatcher, said, “I’d love to grant whatever your wish is, but I can’t read... it’s a real shame. I might not ever be able to grant your wish!”

[Honorless he/him]

On 10/12/2019 at 8:02 PM, Elend Venture said:

     "Granted, little human. You are now incapable of remembering how to read. Every word will look like Shshshshsh."

     "I wish for unlimited ammounts of tabasco except that it comes out of aerosol can in a atomized but very bigh pressure blast."

Granted, your curse is that it is too tight for you to open its cover, much less press it to get to that deliciously hot Tabasco sauce.

I wish to become the holder of a Shard of Adonalsium!

Edited October 13, 2019 by Honorless

[Edgedancer_of_spirits]

Granted. You lose the ability to Invest.

I wish I had the ability to convince anyone of anything.

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

2 hours ago, Edgedancer_of_spirits said:

Granted. You lose the ability to Invest.

I wish I had the ability to convince anyone of anything.

Granted, but you suddenly only care to convince everybody that the sky is actually green.

I wish for the world’s finest food

[Edgedancer_of_spirits]

Sure, but to you it tastes horrible.

I wish for infinite kittens.

Edited October 13, 2019 by Edgedancer_of_spirits
Forgot

[Elend Venture he/him]

You get the infinite kittens. Your bane is that they all turn on you, maul you to death, and drink your blood.

I wish for the ability to enter and/or pull out of the plot of any fantasy book ever written as any character, and the ability to this whenever and as much as I please.

Edited October 13, 2019 by Elend Venture

[Edgedancer_of_spirits]

Granted, but all the characters think your a villain.

i wish for stereotypes and the ability to create their dreams 

[Brightness Warrior she/her]

21 hours ago, Edgedancer_of_spirits said:

i wish for stereotypes and the ability to create their dreams 

I'm not sure shat that means, so now you're a boy with a dragon egg. Unfortunately, since dragons don't exist on Earth, it's just an egg-shaped blob of glass. 

I wish my body wouldn't decay as normal. (Meaning, no soreness after exercising, no falling asleep after sitting down too long, etc.)

[Edgedancer_of_spirits]

Now your a Reod elantrian. 

I wish that doorknobs obey my will.

[AonEne he/him]

14 minutes ago, Edgedancer_of_spirits said:

Now your a Reod elantrian. 

...I don’t think that’s how Reod Elantrians work. 

[Honorless he/him]

11 minutes ago, Edgedancer_of_spirits said:

Now your a Reod elantrian. 

I wish that doorknobs obey my will.

Granted, they do

But doors now hate you and want your blood

I want a pocket dimension for myself over which I have total control

[Edgedancer_of_spirits]

You can only open it for 2 seconds at a time. I wish to be smart. (Please, no taravangian.)

[Honorless he/him]

While they don't decay (but don't recover from decay either), the OP asked for a tireless body (technically)

But he still asked for a body that doesn't decay so the response is kind of valid...?

[Edgedancer_of_spirits]

4 minutes ago, Honorless said:

Granted, they do

But doors now hate you and want your blood

I want a pocket dimension for myself over which I have total control

*replaces all doors with gates with doorknobs*

[Honorless he/him]

Just now, Edgedancer_of_spirits said:

You can only open it for 2 seconds at a time. I wish to be smart. (Please, no taravangian.)

Granted

Your curse is that you're intangible and thus cannot interact with the world

I wish for the ability of to teleport safely, myself, as well as others people or things I want to carry with myself

[Edgedancer_of_spirits]

You can only do it once.

i wish for inflatable pockets.

Edited October 15, 2019 by Edgedancer_of_spirits

[Lunamor she/her]

Granted, the Nightwatcher tapes inflatable bouncy houses to your pants with a whole lotta duct tape.

I wish for a pencil that doesn’t roll of tables.