oh, so dressing room can be used to carry other things? what are the limits, there, could i have, i don't know, a laptop inside the pocket of a very roomy hoodie?

Dressing Room can summon any item you've worn before as long as you truly wish to wear it again, and summon any sentimentally valuable item you've carried in your pockets or backpack or other storage accessory (roomy hoodies included) by summoning that storage accessory again while focusing on what should be in it. Are those the kind of limits you mean?

yeah. do i need to have worn them after acquiring the power, or is it sufficient that i have ever worn it? could theoretical-but-not-actual combinations work, like if i have a laptop and a roomy hoodie and i've never actually held the laptop in the hoodie's pockets but i could have, would that be enough to swap into the hoodie with the laptop in it?

You can have worn them at any time but you do have to have worn them, and you do have to have carried something in your pocket to summon it, and you do have to summon it by summoning the same pocket you carried it in and not a different one.

i see

and you mentioned backpacks too, so it's anything that i could carry even if it's not just clothes? or, what's the category-boundary?

It has to be a storage accessory you wear, not a piece of luggage you carry. It's a fuzzy boundary but that's the shape of it.

makes sense! I might want to ask a ton of clarifying questions later about various powers once I'm nitpicking my choices but this is good enough for now

a separate question: is there any power or potential power related to sleep? in particular it seems I'd be able to be a lot more powerful and special if I had more awake time to do it in

I think the usual recommendation for that is Dragon Fairy Elf Witch and then finding someone who doesn't have to sleep by nature. And Just A Little Longer, of course, but that's hardly a full solution.

yeah DFEW is the solution I had thought of but we wondered originally about the sleep thing since in some in-genre stories you have people who only need to sleep four hours a day or similar due to "normal variation" that ends up always benefiting the protagonist

That makes sense, and I might be able to put something together for it but I think it's mostly too specific for the Spirit, if you see what I mean?

yeah I get you, and probably wouldn't be worth the point anyway, DFEW is just overkill on that and many related departments

It's a really useful power!

it is!

"Alright, verdict is that I'm going to actually need to visit the Twilight universe to become a dhampyr Mary Sue because I need to actually encounter the magical species I want to be a hybrid of," he says, offering the notebook back to Marcus.

"Meh."

"Meh?"

"These powers are not my jam, and I really don't know how to use them to take over the world or whatever."

"If you can't use Motherlode and Friends in High Places to take over the world you don't deserve the world."

"Friends in High Places?"

"He didn't get that far into the powers list. It makes it easier to have friends in high places, as it says on the tin. Gives you, like, instincts and know-how and shit."

"...I guess that would be useful..." he says, dubiously.

"Let's all be glad that Pete got the friendbook, shall we? ...I guess I don't know that I would have a bad time, I just get the vibe she'd be quietly and supportively disappointed by me wanting to look more butch than Biker Barbie and that'd suck."

"Honestly I don't think she would? I mean, maybe she would, but I think since you're a girl then by definition whatever you do is a girl thing to do and so you're definitely being powerful and special in a feminine way. ...dunno, though, that seems... Yeah I have no idea."

"The possibility would loom large in my mind."

"I do feel bad about not being able to offer you guys your own notebooks. Or give you this one. ...actually is that even true, I didn't ask her, do you guys want to be Mary Sues?"

"Nnnnno thanks."