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| - | "//Life, uh, finds a way//" | + | "If carefully nurtured, a tree can reach grand heights, far suppassing its neighbours; so, too can an empire. But in the end, both will fall." |
| - | <cite>Dr Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)</cite> | + | <cite>Jo</cite> |
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| - | The Ideal of Life encompasses the aspects of Growth and Decay. It deals with natural (and unnatural) cycles. Such [[Muses]] have power over themes of development and deterioration, the rise and fall of power, maturation and inevitable decline. | + | The Ideal of Life encompasses the aspects of Growth and Decay. It deals with natural (and unnatural) cycles in the natural world and beyond. Such [[Muses]] are particularly in tune with the landscape and the world, as well as the systems that allow life, and civilisation, to thrive (or fail). |
| - | Muses of Life almost never look back: whether decaying the old or bringing in the new, the Ideal of Life favours change with a forward momentum. | + | Muses of Life have power over themes of development and deterioration, the rise and fall of power, and maturation and inevitable decline. They believe that the course of the Narrative is governed by characters' relations to the world around them. Hence, when a Muse of Life wants to use their [[Skills]] to manipulate the Narrative of a [[vignettes|Vignette]], they must act to change those relations. |
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| - | In [[Vignettes]] and the [[Dreamscape]], these powers can be manifested through applications of the Muses' [[Skills]]. | + | |
| ===== Strife ===== | ===== Strife ===== | ||
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| Some examples of application at different power levels are: | Some examples of application at different power levels are: | ||
| - | * **Weak**: A Muse might inflict a minor sickness upon a single foe, impairing their ability to fight, or give an ally a burst of adrenaline, allowing them to snatch a narrow victory. | + | * **Weak**: A Muse might infect a foe's wounds, impairing their ability to fight. |
| - | * **Moderate**: A Muse might disarm an opponent by causing their weapon to rot or tarnish, or restore a small group of fatigued soldiers to fighting fitness. | + | * **Moderate**: A Muse might cook up a hearty meal to restore a small group of fatigued soldiers to fighting fitness. |
| - | * **Strong**: A Muse might near-instantly heal a mortal wound in the midst of battle, or weaken a wall's foundations, allowing defences to be breached. | + | * **Strong**: A Muse might reveal weakness in a city wall's foundations, allowing defences to be breached. |
| - | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might bring a plague of rot down upon an entire town, causing crops to wither and the weak to perish, or imbue a person with heroic vitality, appearing as almost a giant on the battlefield and cutting down swathes of foes. | + | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might imbue a person with heroic vitality, appearing as a giant on the battlefield and cutting down swathes of foes. |
| ===== Subvert ===== | ===== Subvert ===== | ||
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| Some examples of application at different power levels are: | Some examples of application at different power levels are: | ||
| - | * **Weak**: A Muse might cause the ink to run on a written note, making its meaning hard to discern, or obscure a person's identity by making them appear younger or older than they are. | + | * **Weak**: A Muse might spill water on an important note, making the ink run and the message hard to discern. |
| - | * **Moderate**: A Muse might cover tracks through a forest with a layer of new growth, or corrupt a hard drive's worth of data beyond readability or recovery. | + | * **Moderate**: A Muse might corrupt a hard drive's data beyond readability or recovery. |
| - | * **Strong**: A Muse might dispose of a corpse by causing it to rapidly decay, or use the motion of a dense crowd to obscure a large and complex operation to kidnap an important dignitary. | + | * **Strong**: A Muse might use the motion of a dense crowd to obscure a large and complex operation to kidnap an important dignitary. |
| - | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might cause a rumour to spread like wildfire, growing in magnitude each time it is retold, or throw a country into turmoil by accelerating the ruler's illness and causing them to die before declaring an heir - all the while leaving no-one the wiser. | + | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might create a rumour which spreads like wildfire, growing in magnitude each time it is retold. |
| ===== Seek ===== | ===== Seek ===== | ||
| - | {{ life_seek.jpg?nolink&280|"I think... I think it's a dinosaur."}} | + | {{ life_seek.jpg?nolink&280|"I think... I think they're turning into a dinosaur."}} |
| The Seek Skill governs the use of powers to gather information. With Life, a Muse could read the lines of wear on an unknown object to determine its use, or discover something about an area based on the things that live there. Muses of Life are, of course, particularly well suited to uncovering knowledge wherever the natural world and living things are concerned. | The Seek Skill governs the use of powers to gather information. With Life, a Muse could read the lines of wear on an unknown object to determine its use, or discover something about an area based on the things that live there. Muses of Life are, of course, particularly well suited to uncovering knowledge wherever the natural world and living things are concerned. | ||
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| Some examples of application at different power levels are: | Some examples of application at different power levels are: | ||
| - | * **Weak**: A Muse might determine if a lock was picked by reading the lines of wear around it, or predict the next day's weather by observing the behaviour of local animals. | + | * **Weak**: A Muse might predict the next day's weather by observing the behaviour of local animals. |
| - | * **Moderate**: A Muse might breed a strain of tea known for particularly accurate readings of tea leaves, or determine the cause of a person's illness - even if the symptoms are obscure and unusual. | + | * **Moderate**: A Muse might determine the cause of a person's illness from tea leaves - even if the symptoms are obscure and unusual. |
| - | * **Strong**: A Muse might encourage the rapid development of a new line of research, ensuring bountiful knowledge for the future, or reconstruct a scene based on only a portion of decaying ruins. | + | * **Strong**: A Muse might encourage the rapid development of a new line of research, ensuring bountiful knowledge for the future. |
| - | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might uncover intimate details of a person's life simply by observing the marks of growth and decay on their face, hands and clothes, or determine the social, economic and political state of an entire country by observing a day's activity on a single street of the capital city. | + | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might determine the social, economic and political state of an entire country by observing a day's activity on a single street of the capital city. |
| ===== Sculpt ===== | ===== Sculpt ===== | ||
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| Some examples of application at different power levels are: | Some examples of application at different power levels are: | ||
| - | * **Weak**: A Muse might weaken a tool so that it breaks easily when next used, or make a cut flower pristine and beautiful. | + | * **Weak**: A Muse might weaken a tool so that it breaks easily when next used. |
| - | * **Moderate**: A Muse might cause a house to appear old and dilapidated to a prospective buyer, or make a wagonload of provisions remain fresh and free from rot for longer. | + | * **Moderate**: A Muse might pack a wagonload of provisions in a manner to keep them fresh and free from rot for longer. |
| - | * **Strong**: A Muse might introduce regions of stress and fatigue in a dam, which will have disastrous consequences if left unchecked, or beautify a village with an abundance of flowers and pristine façades on all the houses. | + | * **Strong**: A Muse might target structural regions of a dam in order to weaken it, which will have disastrous consequences if left unchecked. |
| - | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might grow a forest into a vast and labyrinthine expanse, or reduce a large swathe of farmland to a fallow waste. | + | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might use chemical warfare to reduce a large swathe of farmland to a fallow waste. |
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