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Name: Providential Parenthood - Cost: 1 ☐
You can only have children when you're really ready for it, or if you actively and specifically decide to.

That is a perfect name for waiting on the grace of God to give her children. She checks off that one and Two Become One and Bop It after a few seconds of blushing thinking about the absolute perfect time having sex with someone on her wedding night or probably before her wedding night honestly but still. It's really cheap and she wants it. And plus if she does find a dashing rogue that starts off as her enemy and she wins him over with a smile and kisses him perfectly and touches him perfectly well, then that'll help convert him to her side, won't it, with the power of friendship and love. Also, it'll be really really hot. Blushing, she reads further. 

And then she starts grinning even further when looking at the next one. The name of it makes it very very clear what exactly it's trying to allow for, and she had never thought that seducing a dragon would be something she ever wanted but it sounds like it could be fun now that she's thought about it. And who knows what kinds of people might exist in the magical world she's going to end up in, there could be dragons and elves and werewolves and fish people and plant people and stuff like that, and her dashing rogue could be any of those. She's not sure which of those she might want him to be, but... there's no reason not to take this one since it's useful. Maybe she can give it up if she takes too many points up? It's 3 points, not just 1, but she checks it off anyways. How many points is she up to now? 

(36/75)

Oh, she's at nearly half already. That's not good. Well, if she's checking all these things off already maybe she can find good drawbacks later, like Incomplete was? Or maybe she can uncheck some things later. The notebook said she could, maybe she shouldn't hold back from checking anything off that she actually wants and she can go back later and cut some of the things out. Still though, she doesn't want to run out of power, or points, or whatever they are, and actually why is there a limit like this at all? 

Question, since I noticed I've used up more than half the points available already, why exactly is there a point limitation? I'm worried that I'm going to end up using up too many points and while I can go back and fix it later so things even out I just want to know why it works this way. Oh, and thanks for the Providential Parenthood option, by the way, since I didn't say it before and got distracted looking at the other skills. It's exactly what I was looking for and I really appreciate it! 

I'm glad I can help! ♡

The points are sort of a way to measure how much effort the Spirit puts into granting you these powers. Different things are easier or more difficult, so they cost different amounts of points. The drawbacks are ways to earn a bigger point allowance by making things easier somehow or other, like making powers work less well or only work some of the time.

Well, okay, that makes sense. There's only so much power this Spirit can put into doing all of these things for her and so she's not going to be able to take all of the nice options. Well she can start by checking off all the things she wants and then come back and filter out the less good ones. Probably tomorrow so she has time to think about it more since she's certainly not going to be doing this until tomorrow anyways. 

Okay, that makes sense! I'm going to check off all the things I want and then remove some of them later if they're too many, so don't worry if I go over the limit temporarily, as long as that's ok. That is ok, right? 

Yes, of course! Until you say you're done it's all just marks on paper, with me keeping track of the math. There's no problem at all with going over temporarily.

Okay perfect! Time to look over so very many more options again she just needs to remember where she was. 

GGG (why is it even called that what does it stand for) doesn't seem all that useful to her, she has an inkling of what might be gotten at here (whips and chains and weird stuff like that) but that's not something that she's into. She's going to have normal sex with people where she touches them and they touch her back and it feels so good and they smile at her with love in their eyes and they share a moment of joy and passion and delight. Normal sex stuff. Not anything weird. 

Before Your Eyes... Jenna thinks about watching two cute boys (Danny and Ron from highschool come most easily to mind she always had a crush on both of them especially Danny but they weren't really who she was supposed to be dating and also her mom would never have let her near them if she found out so she never did anything with it and didn't really want to anyways) make out with each other, touching each other and looking into each other's eyes with Danny's hand running down Ron's back to squeeze his... nope nope nope nope! Jenna blushes and blushes more and goes immediately to the next option. Nope, no way, not at all, that's not something she should want. Not that there's anything wrong with homosexuality, she knows better than her mom and her pastor and such but she's very very much into boys and not girls and it would be weird to be into watching boys kiss each other! That would be wrong. 

Fated Lovers: yes, yes, perfect, a million times yes, exactly what she wants, she puts a checkmark in the box and then circles it and then circles it again for good measure. She doesn't have a target in mind because she doesn't know where she's going to end up though maybe she could talk to the book about if the kind of person she wants to be there and help out is a possibility if she checks the box rather than a specific person because she really likes the idea of converting someone with ethical worries over to her side from the bad guys through the power of love (and kisses, and makeouts, and sex), but even if that's not a thing this is perfect. She's not going to have multiple true loves unless her husband dies which would be terrible but it's good that the option to find new love after something tears her old one from her and she goes through an appropriate mourning period exists.  

Sorry About That is possibly tempting though she's not likely to make mistakes like that but it's good to have a safety net with her one true love but after she reads Excuse Me and Tragic Backstory she has to push the notebook away in disgust and catch her breath. That's awful. That kind of thing is terrible to do to other people! Even if it's through coincidence or whatever she's not going to want to do anything like that to people, she's supposed to be graceful and loving and understanding in relationships and friendships not... be a horrible jerk and get away with it! No. None of these. None of these ever.

Sense of Style doesn't seem that interesting at least not until she starts thinking of swashbuckling rogues in short sleeves that show off their arm muscles or even better if their shirt is open so she can see their muscular chests and plus they can wear tight leather pants to show off their... okay, no, she's checking this option, and the next one. She can always uncheck them later if they're not worth it because they're probably not important and it would be silly to spend so many of her points on something like this and maybe she shouldn't be then she imagines her rogue flexing again and blushes and leaves both boxes checked. For now. She'll remove them later probably. Tomorrow. 

Popular seems fine, and fun -- though isn't that something she's going to accomplish on her own in this world, with being an incredible and amazing actress. It totally is. She doesn't need magical help for that, even if magical help is tempting, but -- no. It wouldn't feel anywhere near as good if she didn't earn it. But she imagines people cheering her name and and blowing her kisses as she travels through a crowd (though that's really more of what Famous seems to do but that one sounds really creepy) and she grins and her pen hovers over it for a while before she shakes her head. No. No, she can do this herself. She can. She will. Probably. Right? 

How exactly would Popular go about working, exactly? Or Famous, for that matter? What exactly would I be popular for, how would it work, exactly? 

That depends! If you already have something to be popular for, like a glamorous acting career (so exciting!), then it's easy to make sure you're popular just by making sure the right people hear about it so they can be impressed. If not, then maybe you get opportunities to do things that people will be impressed by, or maybe the power arranges things so people hear whatever it is about you that would impress them even if it wouldn't impress many other people—so if you happen to have read and liked someone's favourite book, maybe they'd happen to run into you while you had it in your hand, or if you happen to have learned a cool card trick that someone is struggling with, they might see you practicing it. The main difference between Famous and Popular when neither of them is working in mind-affecting ways is that Popular focuses more on bringing you to the attention of people who are already predisposed to think you're neat, and Famous focuses more on getting you opportunities to do cool things that will impress lots of people and then making sure everyone hears about them.

Okay so that all makes sense and isn't too terrible but

Isn't that kindof like cheating, almost, though? I want to be a popular or famous actress on my own, not with help. Plus if I'm going to another world it's probably because I'm going to go fight an evil that only I can fight, or something like that, like in the Narnia books. I don't want to be famous because I picked an option in a book, I want to actually be that awesome and charming even if the idea of walking through a crowd to my latest premiere with cameras going off and stuff is really awesome, it wouldn't be as good if I didn't do it on my own, you know what I mean? 

Of course! Very reasonable of you. If you're the sort of person who cares about being awesome all on your own, then I think you should get the chance to! ♡

Jenna blushes a little at that, happy about how sweet the notebook is being and secretly glad that it's also understanding of her true desires and not trying to tempt her into something she only thinks she wants like she's always been warned about by her pastor's sermons, though usually that's more about the demons of society and not actual literal demons though she was already pretty sure it wasn't a literal demon and now she has extra proof! 

Well, then that's what I'll do when I get back! Actually, wait, is it possible to make sure I only have these powers when I'm not at home? I don't want to affect the people in my real life with them, if I don't have to. 

She doesn't want to take Popular regardless, but it still seems unfair for her to check off something like Mysterious Allure or Helpfulness when she's not on some kind of magical adventure to fight evil and save a planet and then rule over it justly with her redeemed rogue at her side. 

Oh, interesting! I'm not sure I've heard that one before. I think it makes sense, though! Which of your powers would you like to leave off at home? Just the ones that affect other people, or the ones that mostly affect you, too? I guess you haven't gone through that section yet so maybe I should wait to ask until then. I'll think about how to make it work in the meantime!

The notebook is so very helpful! Jenna is so very happy about this and glad about how friendly it is to her. And glad to be making a new friend that almost certainly isn't a demon or anything like that even if it is a magical notebook offering her magic and power and adventure and things! 

I'm not sure enough about the powers that affect me to know which ones I'd want to leave on or off when I'm not here. If it's easier to do all of them, by all means do all of them, I didn't need them before, and I probably won't need them now. 

They're just really really really useful and would be fun to have and use and... no. No, she must stay strong. And besides, if she's essentially like a magical superheroine with a secret identity (especially if she ends up making multiple trips, like in Narnia, gosh, that would be fun, and then it would make sense to have multiple boyfriends and husbands even if she would be so so sad whenever any of them died), then she shouldn't be using her powers to make her secret identity have a better life. That's not how superheroes do it, at least she thinks so, she hasn't had much of a chance to read comics or watch movies because her mom won't let her though sometimes she'll see things at a friend's house but if she was a superheroine she wouldn't do that and she's going to be one kinda so she won't do that. 

All of them turned off might be a better idea, actually. Oh, and before I forget if you want to come with me on my adventures feel free, I promise I'll write my adventures in you a lot so you don't get lonely or bored I know you said you don't but even so I want to make sure you're not if you're hanging around with me. 

I think it's actually easier to make only the powers that affect other people suppressed when you're at home, and have the powers that affect you working all the time. But if you want them all suppressed when you're at home, I can do that too! I'm just worried that if you take the power for never needing to shower or the one for never getting sick, you'll miss them when you don't have them, and also worried that if you take the power for being secretly part dragon it will be weird to be secretly part dragon only some of the time. But I can still probably work something out!

I promise I don't get bored! But I do really like hearing about people's adventures. ♡

Secretly part dragon? Secretly part dragon??? She should not immediately flip through and find that section to read that one or the thing about not ever needing to shower which sounds nice though showers are also nice and she doesn't want to give those up though she supposes nothing is stopping her from taking showers whenever she wants even if she doesn't need them. She should finish the section she's in the middle of first, but also she shouldn't do that because she's in the middle of talking to someone, and it would be rude! 

Let me know what you come up with, then! I'll be glad of whatever you figure out. And you're probably right about the shower thing, and the sickness thing, and possibly other things! So thanks. And I'm glad you like hearing about people's adventures, because I'm going to tell you about all of mine. 

And with that it's time to look at more options again! 

There's actually not too much left to go through here actually. Undiplomatic Immunity seems like the sort of thing made for other, worse people that wanted to get away with stealing or murder or something, though maybe the laws of the land could be unfair and run by a cruel and evil warlord or something but it still doesn't seem worth going with such an expensive option just for that. 

And as for all the rest of the Friends in Various Places options, she's going to check off all three of them of course, because she likes making friends and more places to make friends in is obviously the right thing to do. She'll probably end up unselecting all of them because they're rather expensive altogether and she's not even sure what kinds of things the Strange Places one is talking about though maybe she should keep the high society one because that one sounds fun. And maybe the low places one so she can find and redeem her dashing rogue with a heart of gold. 

And that's all for the Power of Friendship! She checks the number and frowns. She was at nearly half before, and now she's blown past that. Well, she's probably not going to keep the Friends ones or the style ones, so that should clear some stuff up if she needs to. And she can go over for now. She flips back to where she was writing with the notebook to check on it and see how it's doing before going on to the rest. 

Power of Friendship all done! I'm probably not going to keep all of these, but they're all ones I want, at least. 

Maybe you can find some Drawbacks you like, to help make up the points! Depending how exactly I make it work, turning off some of your powers when you're at home might end up granting you a few extra points too.

That could work! But I think I'll look at them later, not now. From what little I've seen of them some of them are a bit, well, I didn't like them, and I don't think I want to look at them unless I have to. But I'll keep them in mind going forward so I'm not too worried when I probably end up going over by tons of points and have no idea what to get rid of. 

Okay! ♡ I'm glad you're taking your time and looking at things at your own pace.

Jenna is glad of this too. And speaking of pace, it's time to look at the rest of her options, the ones that are about herself! 

A Thousand Ships she already has checked because it was needed for something else, though she's having second thoughts on that if it's going to persist even here. It's one thing to be beautiful beyond measure if she goes somewhere else but it's another thing if she is going to be impossibly pretty here. She's already reasonably pretty, she's pretty sure, she's caught plenty of boys looking at her even if her chest isn't that big the way some boys like and her hair is a bit messy and she still has one or two awful zits that she can never get rid of, but even though she's already pretty sure she's perfectly pretty, well, there are plenty of impossibly pretty people who don't have acting jobs though they do do modeling and such so it's not a guarantee but it does seem like stacking the deck a bit too much in her favor. But maybe that wouldn't be so bad? Or maybe that's a horrible temptation that she should refuse. But actually she has an even more important question and she really should ask the notebook before this goes any further. 

If I pick some of these appearance changing options, what happens with people that already know me, like my friends and family? Do they notice? Will they still recognize me? 

There are lots of different possible ways that could work! Usually how it goes is that if the way you want to look and the way you used to look are pretty close, the powers make sure that you're still recognizable even though you're a little different, and that's that. But if the way you want to look isn't very close to the way you used to look, then it matters a lot how you want to relate to that difference. Some people feel like they should never have to go back to looking the way they used to, and they want people to just be able to recognize them anyway (and either notice or not, some people like one and some people like the other). Some people would rather look more like their old self when they're around their old friends and more like their new self when they're around their new friends.

I wonder if what you want might be for the suppression of powers that affect others to also suppress obvious visible evidence of your other powers? So that even if you end up looking very different most of the time, when you're at home you still look mostly the same?

So, exactly like a superheroine! They usually wear masks and things to hide their faces rather than transforming their appearance she's pretty sure but the idea is the same! She's going to be a magic superheroine and go to another world and fight evil and romance muscular rogues that just need to be shown kindness and love and then come home and learn to be a passionate and talented and glamorous star actress! 

I want to look mostly the same, or close enough, If possible. Even with the great idea you're suggesting! I think that would be perfect if the way I looked and anything that affects other people were suppressed while I'm home! And then I could keep the shower thing and sickness and whatever else makes sense to keep that wouldn't be an unfair advantage for becoming an actress when it makes total sense for fighting evil! 

All right! I'll make sure to put that in. ♡