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Okay, yeah, I think I see what you mean, and I agree that that kind of person would probably really benefit from Realism, and also I am pretty glad that I am not at all that kind of person even though it is arguably costing me 20 points to be the person I am instead.
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I think the person you are is pretty neat. ♡
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Well, well,,, shut up,,,,,,

She draws some very embarrassed hearts next to that heart.

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♡♡♡

Okay, I think I've got a few powers for you!

The list adjusts to make room.

Name: Opting In - Cost: 4 ☐
(replaces Safe at Home)
When you make yourself vulnerable to dangerous people, they will focus their danger on you and whoever else has chosen to involve themselves, leaving innocent bystanders and your uninvolved loved ones alone.


Name: Mood Ring - Grants: +2 ☐
(Requires at least two of: A Thousand Ships, Angelic Tones, Emerald Orbs, Perfect Hair, Size Difference, Dressing Room, Like Roses, Well Endowed)
Your appearance powers will advertise your feelings and reactions. You might shrink in fear; your eyes might glow red with anger; your laughter might be literally musical. You cannot turn this off or adjust it.


Name: Marionette - Grants: +3 ☐
(Requires The Crazy Train and Love Is A Battlefield)
To the extent that you're vulnerable to someone through Love Is A Battlefield, they also gain direct influence over the use of your powers.


I'm still working on the Disney Princess concept. I feel like I understand what you're going for but it's just really hard to figure out powers for it, you know?
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I understand. These are so good, thank you! ♡


Mood Ring is a yes. Kind of a terrifying yes, but a yes. Marionette likewise. She makes her way up the list to Opting In, and thinks about it...

...yeah, this just tidily replaces the thing she wanted Safe at Home for and does it better. She blanks out Safe at Home and gives Opting In a checkmark.

Heart tier now stands at... 127/126. Not ideal. And the new appearance power drawback hasn't even enabled her to take any more appearance powers!

She looks at The Veil.

The Veil does not look back.
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...are you sure I'll remember you someday, if I take The Veil?
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It's hard to be sure in unusual situations like this, with interactions between powers that I only just invented.

But I'm pretty sure.

It might take a long time, though.
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She bumps The Veil up to checkmark tier. Demotes Funhouse and Like a Mirror to question marks, while she's thinking about it. Heart tier now stands at 127/131.

What happens if I leave some points unspent?
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Unspent points linger as unrealized potential that might someday form a new power in a time of great need. It can be pretty handy to have some around!

...I'm not supposed to say this casually, but you seem like the sort of person who won't be worse off for knowing it: sometimes the Spirit can give people drawbacks even after they've finalized their choices and gone out into the world. It doesn't like to do it very much, though, because... people should be able to trust that they won't get extra drawbacks unexpectedly, that's a pretty scary thing to have happen? And it's really important to the Spirit that people choose what powers and drawbacks to take for themselves, instead of the Spirit choosing for them. So it will only give someone an extra drawback if it's something that will definitely make them better off, and where they would agree afterward that it's definitely making them better off, and where they will end up in a position to notice that it's definitely making them better off so they can realize that the Spirit was looking out for them and not just messing with them, and where it's important enough to be worth all that trouble.
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Can you make me a drawback that lets the Spirit mess with my powers and drawbacks arbitrarily whenever it wants?

I mean—I guess I don't want it to be literally arbitrarily. I would be pretty upset, I think, if I lost something like It Gets Better. But I think I trust the Spirit not to take that one away, if I trust the Spirit to give it to me in the first place, you know?
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Oh, wow.

I... think I can do that... but wow. I'm sort of nervous about it. Are you sure?
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I can always just not take it, even if you do come up with one!
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I guess that's true.

Okay.


This time, when the last few drawbacks scoot down to make room and the new option appears, it happens noticeably more slowly than usual.

Name: Informed Consent - Grants: +16 ☐
(Requires Live The Role)
Your list of powers and drawbacks is open to adjustment based on narrative considerations and your long-term preferences. Your memory of this drawback may be hidden from you in order to increase the narrative impact of adjustments, or for other reasons.
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Sixteen is a lot of points.
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She spends a long moment contemplating the drawback, its name, its description, the points it offers her. What it will be like to live like this. What it will be like to live like this not even knowing she's living like this.

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Okay.

I think I'm going to go through the powers again from the top and try being a little greedy now that I'm swimming in points.


Appearance powers, here she comes. Like, all of them, maybe. Actually -
Not that I need it, but I wonder if you could come up with an upgrade for Mood Ring based on taking lots of appearance powers, since I bet Mood Ring gets even more exciting with lots of appearance powers?
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I see what you mean! I'll take a look.
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Thanks! ♡


Does she want to bump up Inner Strength? She thinks she doesn't, actually. She thinks she would rather leave it out, especially since, with Informed Consent and/or leftover points, it'll come through for her if she ever really needs it. Or at least if the narrative ever feels like she does.

How about the mental defense powers? ...no, she doesn't think so. She tries bringing them all up to heart tier and it puts heart tier at 137/147 and she just doesn't feel like it's worth the points, actually. It Gets Better is, well, better.

She's made her decision about the Best(est) Friend situation. And who knows, maybe someday in a distant world far in the future she'll meet the right dragon and Informed Consent will drop the whole stack on her without warning.

Bop It can come up to heart tier, though, since she's deliberately trying to be greedy and all.

And she'll bump up Popular, same reasoning. 137/147 again but this time she feels much better about it.

And... that's that! That's all the powers. She's made it through the list and deliberately tried to be greedy and heart tier now contains 137 points of... all the powers she wants. Besides the Disney Princess Vibes Powers she asked for that the notebook is quite reasonably having a hard time coming up with.

On second thought
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But the notebook is already writing,
Done!


Name: Moodier Ring - Grants: +2 ☐
(Requires Mood Ring, A Thousand Ships, Angelic Tones, Emerald Orbs, Perfect Hair, Size Difference, Dressing Room, Like Roses, and Hollow Leg)
Your appearance powers will work together to advertise your feelings and reactions. Some of these effects might be subtle; many will be the opposite. Anime sweatdrops are not out of the question.
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I was about to say it looks like I don't need that power anymore but, you know, I'm not about to turn it down.
She checks it. Checkmark tier now stands at 102/146, and heart tier at 137/149.

Okay.

Then I guess all that's left is for me to clean up my list a little and then... help you come up with Disney Princess Vibes Powers, if I can? And then... and then that's it and I finalize.
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I think so!

It's really been a pleasure to work with you. I appreciate your enthusiasm and the way you understand the things you want and set out to achieve them.
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Well, I appreciate how much of an unbelievable sweetheart you are at all times. So there. ♡
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Let's see if I can reach for inspiration and get you some good Disney Princess powers. ⏳
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She waits, idly scanning over her list in the meantime. In her head she thinks about possible negative consequences of her choices, but she doesn't start making a list even though she kind of itches to. This is the kind of situation where you are beyond listing possible negative consequences because you have put your trust in the strange and terrible power and if they care to save you from your own madness they'll do it and if they don't you are already thoroughly fucked.

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