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Do Entities Dream Of Crystal Sheep? (Endbringer Lewd Worm CYOA) Prologue
🕑 Added 2023-05-13 19:54:45 +0000 UTC-x-
PROLOGUE
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Evelyn floated in the formless void with only her thoughts and the yawning darkness as company.
She didn't know how long she'd been here, it was difficult to keep track of time when you have no point of reference to tell how fast it goes by after all. And while her newfound ability to retain her attention to truly ridiculous extents was interesting (as much as it was alarming), actually verifying if the seconds she measured was indeed a second or not was practically impossible.
She herself was formless, a stark contrast to her rather distinct state of being as a human not that long ago. It was a novel experience to be honest.
Even so, she could do with being merely formless for now. It was better that she was something, rather than face complete oblivion after death. Although, she could admit that she was rather peeved that the 'great question' of what happens after death remained a mystery still, even after she had died.
Evelyn figured that her current answer to said question was invalid given that something had interrupted the process. At least she could prove that souls were real, if nothing else.
She also suspected that her mind was sufficiently different from what it used to be as well, she had the sense that something fundamental to the very way she thought and functioned had been altered in ways she couldn't quite explain. In any case, she kept expecting herself to start panicking any time now, only for her mind to remain as calm as it has ever been.
Seeing that there was nothing better to do with her time, she poked and prodded at various sensations as she tried to assess her situation.
The disembodied woman eventually figured out that while she was indeed formless, she did have mass. Quite a lot of it in fact.
From what she could tell, she was some sort of oddly fluid, intelligent, crystal mass held in a state of suspended animation. She knew instinctively that she would eventually be able to condense herself into a 'proper' body and be primed for 'deployment'. Did that mean she some sort of AI or nanite swarm in this life? But that didn't make sense since her body felt 'natural' in a way that could only come about from selective evolution. Questions about the nature of souls and sentience aside, she was perplexed. She had the distinct impression that she wasn't organic - whatever she was, even if she was 'alive', she wasn't something that was derived from carbon based life.
Wait, was she an alien?
Oh well, she could wait and find out when she was 'deployed'. It wasn't as if time bothered her anymore.
With nothing else to do, Evelyn tried to observe her surroundings, but there wasn't really much to see here. Rather, nothing her currently alien senses and scanners could perceive at the very least least. On the other hand, there was a lot of data made available to her when she raised the question as to where she currently was. The answer popped up in her mind as if prompted.
She paused and read through the data packet.
According to the information in the packet, she was the seventh construct amongst twenty from what was essentially a series of highly advanced magical/Clarke tech super-weapons. It was on studying the data that had been collected from the other deployed constructs that she understood where she was and what exactly she had become.
Evelyn was a nascent Endbringer. From Worm.
And considering that the data showed that six end-bringers had already been released it also seemed like she was a bit late to the party, though she couldn't tell by how much.
The idea was so ludicrous and out there that she would have laughed. As it was, the entirely alien experience of being a sentient mass of crystal disillusioned her of this being anything but reality. Human imagination was amazing and all, but simulating how it felt like to be an artificial intelligence manning a completely inorganic mass of highly malleable crystal, with the absurd level of detail she currently had, was so utterly beyond anything a human mind could conjure that it wasn't funny anymore.
She could pick apart her molecular structure for fuck's sake!
After taking a few moments to recompose herself, Evelyn planned.
First things first, she decided to bring up what assets she could actually use. It was difficult to figure out how to do it though, since there wasn't a programming language Evelyn could recognize, nor was there any actual interface she could interact with. For all that the Entities were barely sentient supercomputers, they evolved naturally; and that meant they never really needed to place any artificial interfaces within themselves to make a potential user's life easier.
Welp, so the hard way it is.
After flailing about a bit, she eventually figured out a method to compile various ideas and concepts into a bundle and transmit it to herself. The instinctive preparation for a response inherent to all Shards and Entities brought up all the relevant details she needed to respond - and thus answering her own questions. A bit counter-intuitive but eh, whatever works.
After that, grabbing hold of the data and going through it at her own leisure was a relatively simple affair.
[Assets] she prompted, and her mind was filled with everything she had at her disposal. The list was truly massive and daunting even to look at.
To make things easier, she grabbed all the ‘essential' and ‘non configurable’ stuff like [Movement data], [Energy harvesting procedures] and dumped them all into a 'folder' like cache she decided to label [Essential Bases].
It reduced the volume of the data immensely and she went through the rest feeling significantly more relieved. It only took a single look at what was left for Evelyn to realize what exactly had led to her being stranded here.
"It was the CYOA. It was the fucking CYOA all along." Evelyn grit out in incredulous rage. Then the tension bled out of her body and she sighed. (Rather, she replicated the action in her mind with surprisingly accuracy. Then again, she was a creature born of an alien space whale that was able to predict the future by simulating entire timelines so she shouldn't really be surprised that she could simulate something as insignificant as a sigh of all things.)
Nearly all the powers and abilities from the CYOA had been added in the form of various modules she could integrate into her future body, and she realized that if she played it right, she could min-max some serious synergy between them.
“Thank God, or whoever is looking out for me that the last build I made was a functional one, even if it is from the Lewd CYOA” She mumbled. “If I knew this was going to happen, I would have chosen a different CYOA entirely but at the very least the choices I made are OK. Good enough that I have some breathing room and some decent survivability options. Being 'Purpose Oriented' is going to be annoying but I can work with what I have here.”
"Never thought that the quote 'you are what you want to be could be applied so literally." She ‘said’ as an afterthought as she played around with her ‘Construct settings’.
She had good progress with creating an amazing looking avatar, having experience spending ridiculous amounts of time on 'character creation' in RPGs but she ended up being unsatisfied no matter what she tried. Yeah, it looked cool but it was nowhere near as optimized as it could be, her physical parameters falling behind all of her 'siblings' no matter what she tried. So, she scrounged up the data from the other Endbringers’ bodies to start off as a template.
Evelyn could tell that using the 'standard' Endbringer body would actually hinder certain abilities, so she used the Simurgh's as a base instead. Despite her humanoid appearance, the ‘main body’ of the eldritch angel wannabe was merely a smooth facsimile. Evelyn could see that she was a gestalt composed of a countless amount of carefully placed 'wings'.
Evelyn smiled. “Yeah, I can work with this.”
She took the template, and proceeded to go absolutely ham with it.
The 'coreless' and 'negentropy' perk made it so that she didn't really need core to act as a centralized anchor since energy and mass seemed to be generated by the pre-existing mass that made up her body. And it did so simultaneously and spontaneously when she required it. However, it was far more efficient to just place really optimized micro-cores in each 'wing' and have them network each other. After that, she applied the bullshit onion-like dimensional folding that characterized the Endbringers in every single wing 'unit'. The end result, along with the perk made her different from her 'siblings' in that she could host the entirety of her 'shard' body in whichever dimension she currently occupied if she so desired it.
There really wasn't a difference between the 'Endbringer' and the 'Shard' that controlled it in her case. Not anymore at least.
By necessity, each 'unit' wing was functionally indestructible, and could be remotely controlled. Evelyn could also leverage her 'Changer' ability far more freely this way and use detached wings as recoverable projectile weaponry. If she was really desperate, she could also remotely detonate them too. She was like a hive organism in a way; her body was essentially a mass of 'feathers' that could disperse, recombine and reconfigure relatively easily.
"I'm a gestalt within a gestalt." She mused
True, it took a great deal more resources to recover a whole 'wing' if one was destroyed, but it was also nearly impossible to destroy said wings permanently, If it was possible at all.
Considering that it was far easier for the small wings to just flow around or be blown away by an attack rather than tank it directly, even that possibility was diminished greatly.
After finishing up, Evelyn gazed at her work and cheered, satisfied.
She still looked like the Simurgh though, so Evelyn decided to work on that. No need to Steal her “sibling's” appearance; especially when the sight of said sibling was nightmare fuel for the locals. It didn’t fit her theme either, since Evelyn didn't really have anything that facilitated flight, nor did her 'telekinesis' extend beyond manipulation of her own body, which was only useful to use said ‘wings’ as projectiles and to have them return. She could leverage that to fly, but it was nothing special to speak of in the grand scheme of things.
After a moment of inspiration, she decided to smooth out the wings and arrange them symmetrically on either side of her body. She then had them wrap around herself like a rather fluffy cloak. A few wings on her head curved and coiled to appear like horns and the ones behind her joined into a large, reptilian tail that was nearly as long as she was tall. It too was also rather fluffy.
Evelyn smiled. The appearance was a nod to a character that had been one of her personal favorites for a long, long time; Priscilla, the half-dragon crossbreed from Dark Souls 1. The look was also surprisingly easy to recreate, with only a touched up face and her (upgraded) body proportions serving as a reminder of the human girl Evelyn used to be.
All in all, the result was something she was comfortable with, and faced with nothing else to do, Evelyn opted to just enter [Hibernation] until it was time for her to leave her nest.
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Build Details :
Cost: -5 Points
Requires Sexual Healing (EB) and Life LinkHow Do You Want To Enter Earth-Bet?
Become An Endbringer
Start With +5 Points
You will be allowed Five of these boons:Portal : Being stuck in Worm may be not so desirable to you, with this you can gain the ability to open a portal between worlds, capable of taking you to alternative Earth's like Aleph or other fictional settings. The portal will stay active for an hour and you have a one week cooldown between uses, be careful as time will continue to pass even for the worlds that you no longer reside in.
Power Mixtures : A new section will be opened after the Boons where some extra choices will be. The powers and other boons in this section will be much stronger than the choices presented elsewhere. The Choices will have requirements in form of multiple other choices, in addition to being expensive.
More Points A; Gain: +3 Points
More Points B; Gain: +3 Points
More Points C; Gain: +3 Points
Starting Point
After The Gold Morning : 2013, June 25th
Gain: +15 Points
Body
Endbringer: Boons and Drawbacks :
Purpose Oriented : You will need to pick a purpose for yourself in the section down below, and you will feel a desire to work toward it. Not working toward whatever your purpose is for a few days will begin weakening any powers you might have, they will come back to you if you start working toward it again.
Purpose : Your purpose is to fulfill the sexual fantasies of your targets, by making them a reality. This can be done using your powers to provide your targets sexual experiences that you believe they might like.
Gain: +2 Points
Changer : You do not have a static appearance and can change it at will, both body shape, type, and size, doing so will take some time. You can take a much more humanoid shape than before, but not enough for you to blend in. You'll also be able to modify the consistency of your body, make it meatlike and organic, and design your organs and biology to your specification.
Cost: -2 Points
Coreless : You will no longer have the large weak-point that your siblings have, and the processes performed by the core will be done without it. This will, in turn, make you functionally unkillable, by anyone other than the entities as there is no core that can be overloaded or damaged.
Cost: -3 Points
Human Avatar : You will be able to create an avatar shaped like a human or an animal, which you, in turn, can control as if it was your own body. This body will have none of your Enbringer-powers, but it will let you mingle around humans without creating mass hysteria, and you can buy normal powers for it. You will only be able to create a new one when your old avatar is dead. You will be mute, but can communicate by other means.
Cost: -2 Points
Negentropy : The main purpose of an Entities is to find the solution to entropy and you share that goal no longer, while limited in output you will generate enough free energy to sustain yourself indefinitely, and you do not require connection to a shard network as well.
Cost: -2 Points
Narcolepsy : Every few days you'll suddenly need a few hours of sleep, and you'll never know the exact time it happens, you'll probably be able to stay awake for about ten minutes or so.
Cost: +3 Points
PowersWish Granting : You will be able to grant wishes to people, like a genie, but only once per person rather than three, you'll get to decide how the wish is granted. The changes have to be small-time and revolving themselves only, like becoming beautiful, getting a better job, or gaining youth again, and the change can be retroactive if you choose to. You will be able to twist the wishes however you want to if you desire to be a monkey paw instead.
S.T : You can now wish for things for yourself, but these wishes will be even more limited than those you can give others. Examples of what you can wish for is to stumble over items or people in the future, for events to happen near you in the future and other things that CAN happen without a miracle.
Unclean Trigger : Not turning a wish into a monkey paw will become near impossible for you, to such a degree that even playing a prank on people you love must be done when giving a wish. These wishes do not necessarily need to be mean, but as an example, someone that wishes to be beautiful might end up with huge breasts in addition.
Cost: -6 Points - 3 Points +2 Points
Life Link : You can link your own life to others so that they die if you die, and when the power is used, the victim will automatically become aware of it. If one person that you have a link attached to dies, then 5% of their human baseline endurance and strength will go to you. You can remove the link at will, and have as many of them as you wish.
Cost: -4 Points
Hentai Physics (E.B) : Everything that you do, or that happens around you, will follow hentai and anime physics. There is little to no chance of people being hurt when attacked by you unless you specifically will it, and sex will always be pleasurable for all participants. Sexual acts that normally would rip people apart will now stretch that someone to a ridiculous degree instead. Things that most frequently would leave people with horrible psychological- or physical trauma will not, and the victims will remember the pleasure they felt instead.
Cost: -1 Points
Pocket Dimension (E.B) : You can have total freedom to change the terrain around you, be it shape and what material it is made for. You will be able to see a map of the area around you inside your mind, and rapidly make large or small changes. As long as the material is not a part of a living creature, and within a radius of one kilometre of you, then you can create what you wish of it, be it a wild jungle, a giant building, a cave of meat, or something else.
Cost: -2 Points
Sexual Healing (E.B) : Anyone killed by you will be reanimated with bodies that do not need nourishment, bodily functions, or oxygen. Any limbs they lose will be fully functional and can be reattached easily, and any bodies mutilated when you killed them will be restored, with only small hints marked on their body to what killed them. You can instill a hunger in them that they need to fulfill to not fall apart, examples of this can be brains or sex.
Cost: -2 Points
Reconfiguration (E.B) : You can eat objects to gain their powers. Most are redundant but all are cumulative. The powers gained depend on the eaten objects and not on your base power level. You gain more from eating a tank than a pistol. The objects manifest as tinkertech projections when their power is in use - and can be destroyed. However, objects can also be combined, and you always eat more bricks for ablative armour. You are not affected by the weight of your manifested objects - everyone else (including the ground) is.
Cost: -2 Points
Path to Fantasy Fulfillment : You can see the deepest desires and sexual dreams, fantasies, and fetishes of other people, and make them happen with a thought. If the fantasy needs it, then people will be mind-controlled, objects will be moved, and your other powers will be used automatically. Everyone and everything in the area around you will work together to fulfil your chosen fantasy. If the fantasy is impossible to fulfil, then the next best and possible alternative will happen.
Cost: -1 Points
Dream Control : You can travel into an interconnected world made up of the dreams of the people of earth and control them as you desire. By thinking of someone, and that person is asleep, you can travel into their dreams or pull them into others, and control them as you wish. You can also use your powers in the dream, and the changes will be done in the real world too. Any changes made in the dream world to the body of the dreamer will show themselves as a transformation when they wake up.
Cost: -1 Points
Resurrection : You can now use your power of revival to bring back the dead that has not been offed by you. Regardless of how long it's been since the person died. The only thing you need is bone from the dead, the size of a finger should be enough, or a similarly sized piece of tissue. The new body of the deceased will rapidly regenerate from the piece, and within a few minutes, they will be complete. The only signs of being dead will be marks like scars near what killed them. They won't remember their death until someone mentions it and might be a bit confused about their abrupt displacement. The whole process will tire you out mentally, and doing it more than five times a day will leave you a tired husk for a few days. You can decide if you want to revive someone as an undead, as mentioned in Sexual Healing Second Trigger, or as a human.
