Exploring the sensations of my spirit is interesting to say the least. But also oddly familiar?
When I was bed bound I would often disassociated from my body when I was left alone in order to pass the time quicker. My spirit feels kinda like a distant but permanent memory of myself from those moments. A memory of my of my body that's been literally burnt!
Lucky my sprit doesn't hurt in the traditional sense or I'm not sure I'd be awake right now. Instead each burn is more like a numb spot that's not moving in sync with the rest of my spirit and that's weighing down my mind and body.
When I lift my arms or legs it feels like sludg is restricting my movements, ware as before I had a whole second body supporting everything. With no better options I rip some more Force out of the marble trying to building in my center and shunt it into one of the many gates holding my body together… most of the Force gets absorbed by the gate temporarily enhancing it in some nebulous way I don't quite understand but a small amount does enter my spirit.
Like Ice to a fresh burn my spirit greedily absorbs the Force, ever so slightly pushing back the numbness within me.
Level-o[14%-4%]
I frown seeing the update on my status Page. Even if I could use all the dense Force swirling inside my center it won't be enough to cure my Spirit burns. Worse, I don't think I even can spend it all without developing a new, probably worse condition. Because my center is definitely very sore in both the spiritual and material sense. Oddly my center feels different in my spiritual body? Like solid mass instead of the door way I'm used too? There's also no perceivable entrance or exit between my center and spirit despite them feeling so similar and clearly being linked.
Carefully I pull out the Force potion I grabbed from the 7th floor. Will this be enough to cure me?
" I got the stuff!… Hey you better not drink that! It's Mine remember!" Ghost runs up to where I'm propped up against the wall suddenly very angry.
" I don't really want too… but I might have to."I reluctantly explain to Ghost how several of my Stats have been cut in half and I'll need a lot off Force to maybe fix my self.
"Drink this first then." Ghost angrily says chucking a red white vile at me.
Tire 1- Healthy potion- a cure to what ails ya- Pattented by Button's Burgening Emporium. Traded marked.
"Why… does the potion have slogan and a little green man on the label giving a thumbs up?"
"I don't know. But drink that first before waisting my far more precious potion!"
"Was this everything inside the chest?"
"There was also a cake, but I ate that. Was pretty good, made me feel all tingly, but I've had better."
" …what…what ever. Can you please help pull these beetle horns out after i drink this potion Ghost? I don't really want them getting stuck inside me when I heal."
"Gross! But fine. I'll help, again." She immediately grabs a horn imbedded in my thigh and starts yanking it out! Not expecting her to act right away i to scramble to uncork and down the Healthy portion before I bleed out from her …medical skill.
The potion taste faintly of raspberry but heavily of iron. It doesn't even reach my stomach before doing something. Instead it's rapidly absorbed by my cells banishing pain I'd long since gotten used too.
Cuts, bruises, signs of malnutrition, everything physical rapidly mends as I'm healed from the inside out.
"Slow down your healing Damit!" Ghost says something while pulling the horns out of me, but I'm lost to the world from the pleasure of my body healing!
Then one the seam, Gates between my body and Spirit created by Cleave is painful crushed by my regenerating tissue.
"AAAAAHHH!" One after another after another! Parts of my spirit are painfuly cut and shunted out of my body as I'm made Healthy!
Panicked I start feeding extra Force into the remaining Gates lining my body. The healing in those spots slowls but it's not enough.
Grabbing the Force potion from my bag I try chugging it only for Ghost to grab my hand preventing me from drinking it!
"That's mine remember! You can't have it!"
Trapped between my rapidly dewindiling reserves of Foce and the instinctual dread of having my spirt cut to ribbons and I make a hard Choice and slowly stop feeding Force into all but 5 Gates that seem more potent for some reason, instead i over charge the five turning them into something…Stable. One on each wrist, each ankle, and my neck. From there my memory gets fuzzy.
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Waking up some time later , I feel numb.I also immediately see the Froce potion is emptied and Ghost has passed out seemingly drunk on the floor…
"So much for using that to soothe my aching spirit…"
Patting around my body I find most evey seam I've ever had is now gone! Which is something I'd be ecstatic about if I hadn't learned they'd been an important part of my trait! The few exception are the five I held stable, but there also different? More substantial and real then before, more like my center, requiring a barely perceptible upkeep and having solid counter parts in my Spiritual body.
My center itself feels swollen with Force. Now that I'm not constantly having to glue my whole body together, I'm not spending as much Force on not dieing. So I've probably been unconscious for awhile.
Next checking on my spirit body properly and wince feeling the burns are still there and new scars that line up ware the gates were forced closed.
With new effort I grasp at the Force spilling from my center and feed it into the gate on my neck since its closest to my center. It takes half my reserves but eventually like before Force begins spilling into my Spirit, slowly dispelling the numbness that permeates my being.
Once empty I wait to see how long I take to regenerate Force now that I'm not hemorrhaging it maintaining dozens of faulty Gates. Relying upon the False skill count down displayed in my Satus Book …Parasite? To track the time.
Name-Fragment
Race-Human
•Body-H
•Mind-H
•Soul-H
•Core-N/A
Level-o[10%]
Class-N/A
Job-N/A
•Affinity-[Spirit(H)]
•Traits-[Willful Vessel]
•Abilities-[Cleave]
•Skills-[Bind-Lv:1]*[False Identifie(3:23:56:52)
•Shards-[
Health-[99%]
Force-[1%]
Conditions-[Auto Possession]*[Soul Burns-1st degree][Spirit Cuts-Minor]
•Constitution-[4+1]
-Strength-[1
-Durability-[8-4
-Vitality-[4*
•Awareness-[3]
-Wisdom-[8
-Dexterity-[2
-Agility-[2
•Will-[7+1]
-Intelligent-[3
-Refinment-[9-4.5
-Power-[11-5.5
•Charisma-[3]
-Presences-[3-1.5
-Attraction-[5
-Aura-[2-1
•Luck-[1]
Curiously some things have changed and I'm not sure how I didn't notice that I'm apparently possessed?