Blank Destiny?

[Trusk'our he/him]

I was thinking on the potential uses of H-chromium when I had a thought; I believe that Destiny is just Fortune, but Fortune that specifically nudges you to take actions specific to an individual. So, what happens if you tried to blank the Identity (and probably Connection) from a chromium spike?

If the Connection and/or Identity is what told the Fortune to be someone else's Destiny, then would it just be blank Fortune, essentially what a Spinner would tap from a Chromiummind? This would be comparable to blanked Connection, where it has no specific target, and thus reaches out to the nearest thing (adding to your own Fortune/Destiny).

(As a side note, this would be a pretty cool hack for a Spinner to get boatloads of Fortune; store Fortune from the Unkeyed spike, letting you get insane bursts later. No Compounding required. And hey, even if someone else's Destiny doesn't get blanked into raw Fortune, blanking Identity may still allow you to store it as a Spinner, maybe even swap it with your own on occasion depending on which would be most advantageous.)

Edited August 29, 2024 by Trusk'our

[+Lewis Nethur He/Him]

I see a problem with this one. Destiny is what one is going to do and where one is going to be in the future. That...just does not metaphorically jive with being meaningfully equivalent to Fortune, which metaphorically refers to luck or large amounts of money in standard language. Destiny can be tragic, or ironic, heroic, arbitrary, grandiose, or totally bare ass stupid and poor. It is not fundamentally fortuitous in any sense of the word. It should not, therefore, be nudging anyone, because it’s fundamentally unreliable when considered that way.

While l...expect...that it is technically possible to murder a person and steal their Investiture to make oneself more powerful in a general sense, i don't belive that you can steal their Fortune, then divorce that Fortune from the connections and identifying features that give it meaning, and drink it as some form of concentrated wealth potion...to be frank, I would expect one to be poisoned and die horribly before something like that worked.