It's another boring day in Monroe. The Pirates have a day off of work, so they've decided to catch a bus to city center to do a bit of shopping. Sable gets off at the local big-box bookstore and starts looking through the available notebooks, because she wants to start writing down their longer-term plans and goals, especially about their transition once they get out of this miserable excuse for a city.
Okay! Thank you!
She draws a little star in the margin of the commentary page right next to Isekai Roulette, then continues down.
Oh wow. All these body customization options are delightful.
What do they do about people whose personal ideal changes, though? Sable is very much shapeshifter-brained, and then there's the fact that all of us have different things we wanna look like.
Ideally separate bodies, too, but that's its own separate issue.
The appearance powers keep up with changes to how you want to look - that's what "at all times, you have exactly the right look" means, and even the ones that don't explicitly say that, like A Thousand Ships or Like Roses, still keep up with your desires in the long term—though Like Roses takes longer to adapt and responds less to momentary impulses, because it's meant to be a signature scent that thematically represents you, and it's hard to do that without being stable over time. Emerald Orbs and so on will change instantaneously.
As for separate bodies, I'm thinking about that... there are powers later on that are relevant, but I don't think they're quite right for this situation.
We really appreciate the work you're putting into this.
Hundred Ships, Emerald Orbs, Perfect Hair, Size Difference, Dressing Room, Pocket Dimension, and Personal Hygiene all get starred. Angelic Tones and Like Roses get a plus. Actually...
How much does the rest of the shapeshifting also handle voice incidentally, or is Angelic Tones necessary for any vocal changes?
The more appearance powers you take, the more your appearance in general will tend to conform to your ideal even in areas that aren't covered by any of them explicitly, and to some extent even in areas that are covered by appearance powers you haven't taken. Without Angelic Tones, your voice won't be superhumanly beautiful or perfectly ideal, but with plenty of other appearance powers it should at least be a voice you'll be satisfied with.
Okay, so that's possibly some point savings if we're in a crunch. Thanks.
Down they go.
Hailey gives Just A Little Longer, Immunity System, and Breathe Easy each a plus, then upgrades Immunity System to a star.
Getting sick sucks ass. No thank you.
Warm-Hearted gets a plus.
Well Endowed gets a star, as does Hollow Leg.
Having a perfectly cooperative metabolism is absolutely worthwhile, as is a perfectly cooperative figure. Yes please.
Oh, hey, d'you mind keeping a running total of everything with a star on it? Plusses are the next tier down and we'll add from those if we still have room.
Does that work for you? I thought you might like to have the stars included in the plus total so you know how many points you'd need if you wanted both. You can also add more symbols if you want! I think I've had people use as many as six different tiers before.
That's awesome. And huh, six. That... might actually be really smart? Girls, what do we think about upgrading to more tiers and just rating everything?
Wild guess, did six-tier person use S-F?
They have not seen many tierlists, it's not the first thing they think of for ratings, but they have definitely ever seen a tierlist.
I think so! I don't have direct memories of the other people I've met when I'm in a world like this, for privacy reasons.
Reasonable! Privacy is important!
After some deliberation, she goes through and remarks everything S-F. The destination options get C, A, and S in order. Thousand Ships gets B, Hundred gets A. What's In A Name and Undressing Room get Cs. Angelic Tones, Like Roses, Just A Little Longer, Breathe Easy, Warmhearted, and Soundtrack get Bs. Emerald Orbs through Pocket Dimension, Personal Hygiene, Well Endowed, and Hollow Leg get Ss.
And then on they go downward.
Situational but a specific headmate really likes it is enough reason to upgrade.
Down it goes as a B.
Lightfoot gets an A.
We all like being graceful an awful lot. I think we'd rather earn our combat skill the hard way unless we expect to be getting in a lot of fights, though.
The Battle series gets Cs, as does Gloryseeker.
Dayjobs are fucking lame, but money has diminishing returns, and actual achievement is nice.
Hailey marks Making Ends Meet down as an A, Motherlode as a C, Four-Star Daydream as a D, and Five-Star Daydream as a C.
Neo takes over to mark Omniglot as an A.
We can learn languages manually, we're even good at it, but this is a huge advantage.