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Who: Ur'ghaste and anyone
When: Day 64, Morning
Where: Common Area
What: Helping?

[Well, Ur'ghaste considers things around hir in the common room for a while, then smacks a tentacle hard against the ground with a ghastly wet slapping sound to draw attention]

...

Okay, yes, good. Hello, darlings. I've been thinking about our current situation, and there's a couple of abilities that I usually reserve for my Challengers which I would be willing to temporarily grant people who might find a way make use of it. Admittedly, I'd require they give me the power to do so through large sacrifice, but it is what it is. I'm thinking of little things like, oh, gills, or a form of teleportation. Just thought I'd mention.

Perhaps I'll put this on that little list of yours as well...?

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... you don't say.

I think I just did.

[Ur'Ghaste, how do you feel about being tacklehugged?

Because THAT IS HAPPENING]

That does sound awfully helpful.

[most likely wet and slimy in some places and coarse in others]

[...oh that isn't what you meant is it]

[ANYWAY puts an arm around her in a loose hug?] I take it that's of interest, then.

I'd certainly like to be able to help out in this.

Same here.

Should I take it that you're interested?

Potentially. Tell me more?

What are the consequences of this power?

Well, the usual animal sacrifices I take are lizagon poison sacs and rotted animal parts, but I doubt many people have stockpiled enough for a large sacrifice, so I might have to ask some larger tasks instead. Though if people wanted to take a big lizagon hunt and bring me back fifteen or twenty, I wouldn't mind. Tasks I design to make people examine their own behaviour and the behaviour of others, generally.

The consequences are minimal. The price less so, obviously; if you aren't to become my priest, I'd require a large sacrifice to give me the power to grant it temporarily.

I will not become another's thrall again. How temporary is this power?

Really, 'thrall' is a little much. I've never asked for thralls. But to be honest, I'm not interested in taking Challengers who'd respond like that, either.

The time period depends on the size and nature of the sacrifice, but I can probably stretch things to a few days.

Then let me say I prefer to choose my own path -- an independent one.

What sort of sacrifice do you ask?

[nods, mulling it over]

A hunt like that might take a while, when we're strapped for time like this... Okay. Say I wanted gills or something so I could help out with stuff in the flooded lower levels. What would you have me do?

I also take trimmings of bodily hair, incidentally.

[more seriously, though] Do you have a very distinct comfort zone or rules of behaviour you apply to yourself to keep yourself emotionally comfortable?

Physically, I take lizagon poison sacks, rotted animals, and trimmings of body hair. Emotionally, I take acts which take you out of your comfort zone or push others out of theirs, and force you to examine your own behaviour or theirs.

How would you force me to examine my behavior?

Acts which force you to, dear. For little acts, usually I have someone talk with someone about something personal.

But not for something large.

For something large we might need something large. A public reveal? A speech, perhaps, about yourself? Your fears and poor life choices and what they mean to you and how you choose to live?

A possibility. I'd like to ask more about the power that would be granted.

I can alter your body to give you gills and your bodily functions to be able to filter the oxygen from water. Essentially, I can make it possible for you to breathe underwater.

Teleportation is a separate skill; One can move between patches of damp. Essentially, if you had a safe spot and poured some water out on it, you could move between a damp spot there back to your safe spot. It must be just "damp", though -- full wetness is a different sort of power, I'm afraid, so it couldn't be from directly underwater. That's like moving between a door and a wall.

[Adding his own, unfortunately slightly lengthy note.]

I can't hep but think this would be clearer with illustrations.

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