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She smiles a bit wistfully down at the shelf of notebooks. Journals have always been something a little special for her, and it's always bittersweet when one fills up and it becomes time for the next one. Most of these aren't too inspiring, but... 

There. That one has a nice slipcase, a good firmness, and a properly affirmingly femme palette. 

She picks it up gingerly, and weighing the moment, before beelining to the checkout and home. 

Once there, she sits at her beside desk and writes a quick line at the top to try to jog her brain into putting something more substantial down. 

Hi journal...

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Delicate handwriting in swoopy cursive appears on the page, in a soft lilac color.

Hi! It's nice to meet you!

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She furrows her brow and closes her eyes, breathing out a little sharply. 

And she opens them again, double checking that it's still there. For good measure, she might as well go and close the book, take a minute to refill her water, and then take a moment to look again. 

...It's still there, isn't it?

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The swoopy cursive words are still there!

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...Ooookay then. 

Deep breaths. 

Hi! 

Is there anything that I should be prioritizing right now besides the niceties because of the implications of a magic notebook appearing, or are we just okay to chat?

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I promise I'm not here because of anything urgent! I'm so patient. <3

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Okay, that's something.

She tries to think of people she'd want to talk to about this, but... I guess there's not really anyone she trusts for this, right now. Too many broken links and too many distant connections that would be at the very minimum awkward to use, when there is this going on. 

Okay? Could you tell me a little bit about why you're here, then, if it's not something urgent? Or maybe why you can be here, I'm not sure. 

This... isn't really how things work, I thought. So a change to that is a little scary, you know? 

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I'm an avatar of the ~*~ Spirit of Femininity Unleashed! ~*~

And I'm here to offer you a whole bunch of powers and abilities to make your life better and more fantastical. Would you like to see them? They're very ~neatly formatted!~

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Oh. 

That deserves a bit of slack-jawed surprise. 

She swallows, a bit nervously, fussing her hand against the paper for a moment. She writes back, a little shakily. 

Sure, as long as that's not signing me up for anything yet? That... sounds amazing. 

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You can take as long as you like to decide what you want! Just, um, maybe don't put me in a drawer and forget about me forever. Nothing unusually bad will happen, I just... would like it if you didn't die of old age before I get there. 

One moment!

A little loading hourglass appears and fills in with violet ink, then turns over and repeats.

Here you go!

The hourglass breaks apart on the page in a little splash of violet sparkles, and the powers appear. 

A preamble paragraph before the main list reads,

These powers are offered under an aegis of metanarrative protection. Anytime you might expect a power to have obvious negative side effects, like glowing eyes making it harder to see, it simply won't—you'll be able to see just fine anytime it actually matters, while having dramatically hazy vision at cool, narratively appropriate moments. This doesn't apply to your own preferences about the explicitly described effects of the power; if you don't want to be Well Endowed, the metanarrative cannot protect you from choosing that option and having to live with it.

After that it gets long.

Destinations

You must choose exactly one Destination.

Name: Stay Put - Cost: 0
You're just going to take these powers and keep on keeping on right where you are.

Name: Somewhere In Mind - Cost: 0
You have a destination you want to go to. You can choose any place, real, historical, fictional, or made up in your own head right now, and the Spirit will take you there. After that, you're on your own as far as further interdimensional travel.

Name: Isekai Roulette - Cost: 0
Trust to the will of the Spirit and let it take you where you need to go. It will look at far more options than you could ever know about, and pick something that's likely to be even better for you than whatever you would have chosen on your own.

Yourself

These powers affect your own self and nature, without direct effects on other people. Some of them are prerequisites for powers in the later Power of Friendship section.

Name: A Thousand Ships - Cost: 1
Your face is simply exquisite, an ideal of feminine beauty. There are many possible ideals of feminine beauty, and yours is whichever one speaks most deeply to your soul. Others may match your beauty in their own way, but never exceed it.

Name: What's In A Name - Cost: 1
Magic to divine true names will accept whatever alias you choose to think of as your true name. Magic to use your true name against you will fail.

Name: Angelic Tones - Cost: 2
Your voice is supernaturally beautiful and you can sing in any vocal range.

Name: Emerald Orbs - Cost: 2
At all times, your eyes are exactly the right colour. This effect operates based on your sense of aesthetics, in-the-moment preferences, and narrative considerations. Your eyes can be ANY colour this way. Lightless black voids? Brilliant white stars? Limpid pools of endless sapphire? They will look exactly the way you'd want them to look if you were writing a self-insert fanfic about this exact moment of your life.

Name: Perfect Hair - Cost: 2
At all times, you have exactly the right hairstyle. This effect operates based on your sense of aesthetics, in-the-moment preferences, and narrative considerations. It is not limited to physically or logistically plausible hairstyles.

Name: Size Difference - Cost: 2
At all times, you are exactly the right height. This effect operates based on your sense of aesthetics, in-the-moment preferences, and narrative considerations. It will usually keep any height changes fairly subtle, but at dramatic moments you might discover yourself able to shrink to the size of a bee or grow to the size of a giant.

Name: Dressing Room - Cost: 3
No matter how ridiculous your outfit, it will stay pristine and perfect, unless it would be more dramatic for you to be artfully bedraggled. You can use any quiet moment to yourself to quick-change your clothes, shoes, nails, and hairstyle into a completely new look. (You cannot change your hair length or colour this way without Perfect Hair, but you can braid or style it.)

Name: Personal Hygiene - Cost: 1
You are always clean and fresh, never needing to use a bath or toilet.

Name: Like Roses - Cost: 1
(Requires Personal Hygiene)
You smell lovely. Your scent is unique to you, and may involve any combination of warm spices, floral notes, petrichor, or other things you think smell good. You do not need any justification for why you smell like this.

Name: Just A Little Longer - Cost: 1
If you push yourself, you can keep doing any task or working on any project indefinitely, visibly strained but never impaired by injury or fatigue. As soon as you stop, you'll collapse with exhaustion and sleep for up to a full day to regain your strength. This only works when what you're doing is personally important to you.

Name: Immunity System - Cost: 3
You can't get sick or poisoned. You can still use recreational drugs and alcohol normally, but can't overdose.

Name: My Ears Are Burning - Cost: 6
You always know exactly what people are thinking, as long as it's about you. This effect is not telepathy and is not blocked by effects that block telepathy. It applies even to people you can't perceive normally. You are never impaired by the flood of information.

Name: Well Endowed - Cost: 1
You have a generous figure, whether that's a classic hourglass or more of a well-rounded look; you can choose the details. Your endowments maintain a state of perfect grace and beauty at all times, never troubling you with uncomfortable bounces or uninvited jiggles.

Name: Hollow Leg - Cost: 1
(Requires Well Endowed.)
Regardless of your diet and exercise habits, your body maintains the physique and silhouette you prefer. Lack of visible muscle never impairs your strength or endurance. As your preferences change, so will your body; you are no longer bound to the generous figure stipulated by Well Endowed.

Name: Inner Strength - Cost: 3
(Requires Hollow Leg.)
You are implausibly, superhumanly strong, with endurance and toughness to match. You might have to strain a little to lift and carry at the same level as construction equipment, or deal with lightly scraped knuckles if you punch as hard as a battering ram.

Name: Battle Angel - Cost: 1
Somehow, you never get significantly injured in a fight, unless it's a very dramatic and plot-relevant fight in which case you might be glamorously wounded and pick up a cool new scar.

Name: Battle Demon - Cost: 1
You have an unerring intuition for gaps in an opponent's defenses, though it may be beyond your power to exploit them.

Name: Battle Maiden - Cost: 3
(Requires Battle Angel and Battle Demon)
No matter what kind of fight you're getting in, you're always a match for even the most skilled opponent.

Name: Making Ends Meet - Cost: 1
You have enough money to sustain a comfortable lifestyle. It comes from a source you don't have to pay much attention to, like a job with almost no responsibilities, a large inheritance, or a noble title.

Name: Motherlode - Cost: 2
(Requires Making Ends Meet.)
You have enough money to sustain a fairly extravagant lifestyle. It doesn't come from anywhere, you just have it.

Name: Four Star Daydream - Cost: 4
(Requires Motherlode.)
The answer to "can I afford that" is "yes".

Name: Dragon Fairy Elf Witch - Cost: 5
You can at any time discover previously unknown heritage from any type of being you encounter, even if this makes no sense or contradicts previously established descriptions of your family tree. You always get their powers without their drawbacks, unless the drawbacks are cool and dramatic. Any visible features of this heritage will appear at narratively appropriate moments and be cute, pretty, beautiful, or striking rather than awkward, weird, gross, or scary. This ability works even if the beings in question cannot reproduce with humans, or at all.

Name: Omniglot - Cost: 3
You learn languages insanely, ludicrously fast. You know exactly what any word said to you means, and you make strangely accurate guesses about how to phrase things you're trying to say. You never forget any grammar or vocabulary you learn.

Name: Anything You Can Do - Cost: 6
You learn implausibly quickly from friends, rivals, and love interests. If you have a personal connection to someone with a certain skill, talent, or expertise, you'll learn it five times faster than they did, or twenty times faster if they're actively trying to teach you. This applies even to forms of magic that you ordinarily shouldn't be able to learn.

Name: Closed Book - Cost: 1
You're immune to any supernatural, pharmaceutical, or other effect that would let people directly read your thoughts or feelings.

Name: Indelible - Cost: 1
You're immune to any supernatural, pharmaceutical, or other effect that would let people directly alter your thoughts or feelings.

Name: Iron Will - Cost: 2
"(Requires Closed Book and Indelible.)
You are immune to all forms of mental illusion, alteration, interference, or control. Even extreme torture, extended solitary confinement, advanced brainwashing techniques, and so on cannot touch you. You can be lonely but not cripplingly lonely. You can be upset but not traumatized. "

Power of Friendship

These powers affect how others see you and how you interact with them.

In general, effects that describe others' reactions (like their attention being drawn to you by Mysterious Allure, or their sympathy being provoked by Tragic Backstory) operate on a metanarrative rather than a causal level. They are not mind control, and are not blocked by effects that block mind control.

Your "true love" is anyone you're pursuing a serious romantic relationship with. You can have as many of these as you like, but your feelings for all of them must be genuine.

Name: Mysterious Allure - Cost: 5
There's just something about you. People are drawn to you, fascinated by you. You tend to be the most interesting person in the room unless something really unusual is going on.

Name: Captive Audience - Cost: 3
As long as you have genuine interest in what you're talking about, no one will ever get bored of listening to you talk about it.

Name: Blackout Binge - Cost: 2
(Requires Immunity System)
Heavy use of recreational intoxicants puts you in a carefree, uninhibited state in which it will be universally agreed afterward that you were not responsible for your actions.

Name: Disney Princess - Cost: 2
Animals are always friendly to you, especially the small cute ones. You can effectively tame any animal by feeding it and speaking gently to it.

Name: Best Friend - Cost: 3
You have an animal companion, like a horse or a cat or a raven. They have a cool name and maybe a few nifty cosmetic quirks, like glowing purple eyes. Their loyalty is infinite and they often hold the key to solving whatever situation you're up against. You can understand them perfectly even though they can't speak, and they always know exactly what you mean even if all you do is glance at them meaningfully.

Name: Bestest Friend - Cost: 5
(Requires Best Friend)
Your animal companion is a fully magical creature, like a dragon or unicorn. They have magnificent supernatural powers ready to be used at your command. They can speak every language you can, but can still communicate with you on a deeper level of mutual love and understanding.

Name: Generosity - Cost: 3
Your friends love to get you presents. They'll try to pick out things you'll like, but their success depends on how well they know you.

Name: Helpfulness - Cost: 4
Your friends love to do you favours. They'll volunteer eagerly whenever you need help with small tasks.

Name: Cuddle Buddies - Cost: 2
Your friends love to hug and cuddle you. Even someone who ordinarily isn't into that sort of thing will make an exception for you.

Name: Flattery - Cost: 1
Your friends love to compliment you and tell you all about how much they like you and why.

Name: Quality Time - Cost: 2
Your friends love to hang out with you and spend time together, even if you're not doing anything interesting or important.

Name: Agree to Agree - Cost: 4
You can always convince your friends to see your point of view about things like politics and philosophy. They might have a few quibbles here and there, but they'll see how right you are once you explain where you're coming from in enough detail.

Name: Love Interest - Cost: 1
(Requires A Thousand Ships and Mysterious Allure)
Anyone you fall for will inevitably like you back. They may not necessarily act on their feelings, but the potential will be there.

Name: Love Triangle - Cost: 2
(Requires Love Interest)
People you fall for will be open to dating you even if they already have another serious relationship, or other circumstances that would ordinarily interfere, like a demanding career or a vow of chastity. This may cause drama, but it'll blow over quickly and there won't be any serious problems.

Name: Love Dodecahedron - Cost: 5
(Requires Love Triangle)
When you fall for someone who is already seriously dating or even married, your romantic rival will be open to allowing their partner to date you, and may even want to date you themselves.

Name: Time Enough For Love - Cost: 5
No matter how many people you want to date or be close friends with, you will somehow find the time to hang out with all of them and express your love and care. This power can only be used for relationship activities and not for anything else you might want to use the ability to be in two places at once for.

Name: I Can Fix Them - Cost: 5
Regardless of how morally despicable someone is, your love can and will reform them into a genuinely good, kind, upstanding person who regrets their evil deeds.

Name: True Love's Kiss - Cost: 1
By kissing your true love, you can break any curse, heal any injury, and cure any illness. The same works in reverse.

Name: Planned Parenthood - Cost: 1
You can only have children if you actively and specifically want to. Your partners will understand this and not worry too much about it.

Name: Two Become One - Cost: 1
(Requires Planned Parenthood)
When you have sex, it is always special and wonderful and beautiful. No one ever elbows anyone in the face or makes undignified noises.

Name: Bop It - Cost: 1
(Requires Two Become One)
The mysteries of another's body are an open book to you, and you always know exactly how to move and touch in order to please someone in bed.

Name: The Princess And The Dragon - Cost: 3
No matter who or what you're trying to sleep with, the logistics will all work out, somehow. Arbitrary differences in size, biology, temperature, substrate, and underlying physics can be gotten around with sufficient creativity and determination.

Name: GGG - Cost: 4
Your true love will be willing to try just about anything you suggest in bed, and if you really enjoy it, they'll really enjoy it too.

Name: Before Your Eyes - Cost: 4
In your presence, people become willing to experiment sexually in ways they normally wouldn't. For some reason this applies especially well to boys kissing each other.

Name: Fated Lovers - Cost: 3
You will meet someone who will go on to become your true love. If you enter a specific universe with a specific target in mind, you'll meet that person under favourable circumstances, and if it doesn't work out with them, this power will keep introducing you to new possibilities until you find someone who's right for you. If you're the sort of person who can have multiple true loves, you'll keep meeting new ones until you have enough.

Name: Sorry About That - Cost: 3
Your true love will be extremely forgiving. Even if you make mistakes or act thoughtlessly toward them, a simple apology will mend things between you. They may expect you to try to improve, but they'll be infinitely patient about how fast that improvement takes place.

Name: Excuse Me - Cost: 5
(Requires Sorry About That)
All your friends will be just as forgiving as your true love.

Name: Tragic Backstory - Cost: 8
(Requires Excuse Me)
Something terrible happened to you in your past. Anyone who hears about it immediately forgives you for any and all bad behaviour in the present. They will not expect you to grow or change, and will continue sympathetically excusing whatever you do indefinitely.

Name: Sense of Style - Cost: 4
People who are romantically interested in you will start dressing more to your taste. The more romantically compatible they are, the better they'll be able to guess exactly what to wear to catch your eye.

Name: Bonus Style Points - Cost: 3
(Requires Sense of Style)
Luck will shine on anyone trying to dress up for you. They'll get their hands on outfits they couldn't normally afford, their clothes will fit better, and in extreme cases they might even find themselves able to change shape, sex, or species—though only in ways that make them more, not less, comfortable in their own skin.

Name: Popular - Cost: 3
Wherever you go, you develop a reputation fast. The sort of people who you'd like to have as fans tend to hear about you and be impressed. You may not make an impression on mainstream society at large, but you'll develop a following among the people who best resonate with your style.

Name: Famous - Cost: 3
(Requires Popular.)
Wherever you go, people really take to you. You're the subject of constant gossip and most people have heard of you before you meet them. People you've never met will get crushes on you.

Name: Undiplomatic Immunity - Cost: 6
You are above the law. Any crimes you commit will be overlooked by the authorities. Note that, if you do enough crime that you start looking more like an invading army, local governments will still feel free to declare war.

Name: Friends In Low Places - Cost: 3
You make friends easily among the lowest echelons of society, the underdogs and underworlders. Moving and acting in these circles is intuitive and natural for you.

Name: Friends In High Places - Cost: 3
You make friends easily at the highest echelons of society, among the rich and powerful. Moving and acting in these circles is intuitive and natural for you.

Name: Friends in Strange Places - Cost: 3
You make friends easily in small isolated communities, among those who may be scorned by mainstream society for their differences or may just be so obscure that mainstream society mostly hasn't heard of them. Moving and acting in these circles is intuitive and natural for you.

Drawbacks

These options grant points rather than costing them. They represent inconveniences or mitigations of existing advantages.

Name: Decorative - Grants: +1
You are unfailingly cute and pretty and feminine at all times, in all circumstances. You cannot wear insufficiently pretty clothes. You cannot make insufficiently pretty noises. You cannot ugly cry.

Name: Beauty Is A Curse - Grants: +1
"(Requires A Thousand Ships) No, you don't understand. Beauty IS a curse. People will NOT stop bringing it up. Everyone you meet just has to point out how pretty you are. This will never stop happening. Even the most tactful people find it slipping out subtly, as remarks about the luster of your hair or the depth of your eyes."

Name: Plain Jane - Grants: +2
No matter what you look like, nor how many times people tell you you're beautiful, when you look in the mirror all you see is imperfections. You will never be fully satisfied with your appearance on an instinctive level.

Name: Style of Sisyphus - Grants: +1
Anytime you settle on a personal style that works well for you, soon afterward you'll encounter inspiration for another style that you like even better. You might end up cycling between different fashions, or trying to incporporate them all into a single outfit (and then finding another inspiration and having to start all over again).

Name: There's Another One - Grants: +3
You are not the only vessel of the Spirit. You might meet someone else with similar powers to yours; you might even meet more than one. Your susceptibility to one another's powers will be governed by the narrative.

Name: Incomplete - Grants: +5
About half of people you encounter will be immune to all effects listed under Power of Friendship, and about half of those who remain will see reduced effects. You can do nothing to change this.

Name: Green With Envy - Grants: +6
People are so eager to be your friend that they become bitter and vindictive when denied the opportunity. You can tear apart long-established friend groups if you aren't careful to give everyone equal attention, and sometimes even then. This effect is particularly harsh around people you're dating.

Name: You Ruin Them - Grants: +3
Once someone has dated, slept with, or even shared a deep and longing glance across a room with you, their heart is never fully satisfied with anyone else. Other relationships pale in comparison to what they could have, or imagine they could have, with you.

Name: Jilted Lovers - Grants: +4
When you break up with someone, they become monomaniacally obsessed with getting back together. If you take Realism, this will absolutely escalate to violent stalking.

Name: The Crazy Train - Grants: +6
Powers that you should be able to control directly or influence by your mood and preferences (like Dragon Fairy Elf Witch, Emerald Orbs, or What's In A Name) instead answer only to the narrative, which is still using your aesthetics but might not necessarily have your best interests in mind. Combines... interestingly... with Realism.

Name: They'll Know - Grants: +8
This drawback lifts the veil that discourages people from realizing how your powers affect the world around them and their own minds. Warning: this knowledge can cause a lot of trouble.

Name: Realism - Grants: +20
Give up your metanarrative protection. Although your individually selected powers still work as described, the invisible synergies that protect you from, say, gaining violent stalkers through Mysterious Allure or being genuinely traumatized by your Tragic Backstory are removed. Additionally, though effects like I Can Fix Them still operate, they may take considerably more effort, care, thought, and narrative investment on your part.

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Oh nice special effects ^^

And it's reading time. 

Gosh a lot of these perks are very very gender and very very nice. 

Still. 

She fusses her hands against the corner of the book, and tap taps her pencil just along the side. 

One thing at a time.

Oh - my first question should probably be just how many points I get. It doesn't appear to be listed here?

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Oh, I'm sorry! Seventy. 

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That's good to hear! Out of curiosity, is that number based on anything in particular? 

I'm not deflecting, you're deflecting.

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The Spirit of Femininity has only so much power she can send! This is the most efficient way to reach the most people and do the most good. 

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That makes sense! 

So... 

Can you talk to me a bit more about what the Isekai roulette actually does? I'm a bit surprised that it's just 'likely' better than what you'd expect someone to think of otherwise. 

I'm also glancing at some of the aesthetic items, like Well Endowed, and it seems a little weird that only the facial beauty perk has the unsurpassably feature? I guess I'm also not too sure what a 'supernaturally beautiful voice' means in practice. 

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Isekai Roulette picks from the set of all worlds accessible to the Spirit of Femininity, which is very large but not infinite, and it's possible that you could pick a world that she's never heard of before to go to. Not very likely, but possible! If you have a specific target in mind and it's important to you that you get there quickly, you're more likely to get there with Somewhere In Mind than Isekai Roulette. 

If you'd like to be unsurpassably beautiful in more ways, I could try my best to do that! 

A supernaturally beautiful voice is, well, supernaturally beautiful - more beautiful than it is possible for human voices to be without magic. It helps with song magic!

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...Huh.

Could you list off some options, then? I... 

She blushes deeply. 

I really enjoy the idea of being beyond compare, or at least strictly non-inferior, or having the sort of beauty that makes people cry or stare, sometimes? It's hard sometimes to tell how much that sort of thing is just overcompensating but...

Yeah. I at least like the idea of having something as good as the guarantee on Thousand Ships... elsewhere. 

Could you give me (some) option(s) for that? 

Mostly the question I had in mind there was if the beauty was - unphysical, and if so, how? 

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I can try!

The little loading hourglass appears for a few moments, and turns over a few times. Then a pair of new powers appear!

Name: Voice Of A Goddess (Req. Angelic Tones) - Cost 2

You have an incomparably beautiful voice. When exerted to its full effect, it can create deep emotional reactions even in strangers. You are the most talented person at song magic in any world where it is used, barring others with this power. 

Name: The Fairest Of Them All (Req. Hollow Leg) - Cost 3

Your physical beauty is an out-of-bounds error on the world. You're inhumanly perfect, beautiful beyond the dreams of sculptors or artists. Your beauty can be matched, but never exceeded. When you don't restrain your beauty, it makes people stare, dumbstruck; the evil and corrupt can be burnt by merely witnessing your physical perfection. 

A little note appears beneath the powers. 

Is this the sort of thing you were looking for?

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And her face is burning now and there's something poking up in her pants. That's... 

She licks her lips a touch. 

Goodness. 

It is, definitely. I'm not sure that I'd want to pick up Voice of the Goddess, but The Fairest of Them All seems like an amazing option to grab. When we get through the rest of the build, I'll maybe even see if I want to grab an even more intense version or about respecializing it... 

Mind if I keep track of a partial build on you?

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Okay so... 

Some more questions, or at least notes.

How quickly does your body change with Hollow leg? It sounds like the speed isn't supposed to be a problem but... 

Inner strength seems oddly underwhelming - most fantasy settings would have an easy way to get something at least that good. 

How extreme are the physique modifications that you can get with these? What would I need in order to get fox girl tails and ears? Can I get fantasy style pheromones with the right settings and the scent perk? 

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Go ahead! I can keep track for you, too. I've got lots of pages!

There's a fusillade of drawn hearts scattered across the page. 

Hollow Leg lets you change as quickly as your ideal self changes. So if your ideal self is quite permanent, it'll be slow to change, but if you change your mind a lot about what's best it'll change from moment to moment. It has to be something that's ideal for you, and it doesn't let you change to species you don't have heritage from. For that you need Dragon Elf Fairy Witch.

You'd need to copy them off of a real foxgirl or kitsune using Dragon Elf Fairy Witch. 

I can try for pheromones as a perk expansion! What kind?

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I'm not totally sure, to be frank. Mostly I just like it as part of the complete... 'sex goddess' package? 

Mostly just arousal engagement things and the like. 

I'll go and check some things off then for the moment... 

She scribbles down a Thousand Ships, Emerald Orbs, Angelic Voice, Perfect Hair, Dressing Room, Personal Hygiene, Like Roses, Well Endowed, Hollow Leg, The Fairest of Them All with a bit of a question mark quickly. 

Oh I should - probably ask some basic questions here, yeah? I'd like to hear a bit more about you - have you done this before? It'd be nice if you can talk me through a bit of a Q&A. And if we're not in a rush... 

It'd be maybe nice to meet you? I'm Romana. It's been nice to reach out and talk about this, even if it's maybe a little TMI ^^

And that's a little shy hunch of her shoulders. She's been talking to a person she doesn't know for a while and hasn't necessarily been treating it like that. 

 

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That's a complicated question! Yes and also no. I'm a complete novice at this but also I remember doing it a bunch of times? Sorry, inter-universe temporal mechanics can get complicated. <3

It's nice to meet you, Romana. I'm sorry, but I don't have a name yet! You can name me if you want to? 

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That brings up the whole question of what the meta-narrative is and what it looks like? I'm used to the idea of narrative but it's - hard to frame in a particularly concrete way, and it depends on framing details that are hard to see from the inside, if that makes any sense. 

The question is maybe something like... 

"What kind of story do you think this is?" 

That'd be fun, maybe! It feels a little premature to go for a naming now, even if I already have one on the tip of my tongue. 

I hope you don't mind if I still fuss with the build a little more in the background while we talk? 

And please do tell if there's anything else you'd like me to do to make this easier or more comfortable for you. 

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I think it's a story about you getting to do everything you wanted, or maybe everything you secretly hoped for. That's the kind of story the Spirit of Femininity Unleashed likes, anyway. 

Go ahead and fuss with the build, I'll collect it as you go.

This is already really comfy! You're very kind. <3 <3 <3

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I'm glad, I'm glad. 

She sketches out the skeleton of the rest of the build - the entire battle line, Love interest and triangle, Mysterious Allure, Time Enough for Love, I Can Fix Them, Bop it and prereqs, Dragon Fairy Elf Witch, Anything you can do, the mental defense line, Just a Little Longer, Immunity System, GGG, Flattery and then... 

She circles her pencil around the Beauty is a Curse drawback. 

I'm not totally sure the difference between this and Flattery? Is it just that it hits everyone, not just friends, or does it have some sort of required negative connotation or... 

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