Auto Posesion-your Spirit over flows into your Vessel, mimicking the effects of possession.- this is a fragile and difficult to detect condition. You are it's source it is your foundation.
That's not as bad as I feared, and it actually aligns with how I've felt this whole time. Maybe it also explains why my Will and Constitution both have a permanent plus one?
Somehow I bound my spirit-body to my actual body when the system finished the job of cutting me apart when cleanse me of some nebulous corruption that started the job of cutting me apart. Whare dose Cleave fit into all this?
Next I've apparently developed a Skill? Bind-Lv1- the art of Permanence. That's it? I guess even the Identify skill is mostly passive. So Bind is probably the same way, right? It's definitely related to what ever I did to stabilize the gates on my body, but can I use it on other things?
Curious I grab two of the discarded horns that were imbedded in me off the floor, ware Ghost just dropped them around me. Then I try using Cleave to stick them together. Nothing happens no matter how much force I use.
I try pulling of my left hand as I've done before and after a few minutes of effort succeeded. Force consumption almost dubles to maintain the Gate linking the parts via my spirit body but it's sill less than my regeneration by a significant margin.
I do a few test and find I'm still able to control my disembodied hand without any issues. Curiously though, rather than seeing a fleshy cut like before where my body parts should be connected. There's instead a hazy fog covering the stubs? Maybe it's my spirit overflowing like was stated in my condition? Pushing on that mist with my Will I make it extend and spread our slightly, but I stop afraid few minutes later as I begin going numb. Instead letting the spirit-mist retract to its normal state.
For my next test I try plugging my hand back onto my arm. The mist becomes almost magnetic when near its self and quickly Binds my hand back into its rightful place.
This only enforces the real problem with my ability, and skill now I guess, it's all almost completely instinctual. I can't really begin learning how to control it since I don't know how any of it works in the first place! Force, Spirits, physical effects and mental energy. It's all a mystery.
Frowning I pull my hand off again and push a small amount of spirit-mist into both cut odd ends of the horns. Then I try everything I can think of to bind to them. I pore force though my spirit, i pore force into both horns.I fruitlessly try activating Cleave dozens of times! Until eventually I feel something, a barely noticeable presence that slips away. Going through the cycle again a few times takes another hour but I eventually grasp a vage awarnes of one of the horns. A lingering spiritual mass bond to the material. It's fractured and weak but I can poke at it if nothing else.
"Can I bind stuff together using Spirits… or am I just an idiot." Maybe my skill isn't very descriptive because it's the art of binding anything in any manner? Yes I somehow developed it by using Cleave and my own Spirit like glue but that doesn't make it the normal way to use the skill.
Sticking my hand back on I'm about to stand up when i accidentally drop my status book and notice something strange? A second page has writing on it now?
Prostetics-
Gate-1-[Head-Natural
Gate-2-[Left Hand-Natural
Gate-3-[Right Hand-Natural
Gate-4-[Left Foot- Natural
Gate-5-[Right Foot-Natural
Bound-
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I don't like the implication that my head is replaceable. But the idea of being able to replace my hands and feet is… curious if nothing else.
Standup for real this time I check on Ghost. She's happily snoring on the floor having clearly fallen asleep after drinking the Force potion I was gonna use to heal my Spirit-body. How kind of her. Turning my attention elsewhere I try locating my machete but only find shards of chitin scattered around most of which is imbedded in the half cut though bodies of the Matriatch and mutant cat. Both of wich are starting to smell horrible from early onset decay..
Pulling out my Carving Rock from my bag I recently get to harvesting the matriarchs horn, and some of the cat's bones I ordered to get supplies to make a new wepon. While taking breaks every 3 hours to pore more of my regenerated Force into my Spirit, slowly mending the cuts and burn of my spirit-body.
Do I throw up a few times, yes. Do I regret harvesting the quickly spoiling remains of the mutants, yes. Do I find two curious marbles imbedded in both creature's chest that are bleeding Spiritual remains and Force, also yes. Am I going to imbedded both into the next weapon I carve…maybe. I'm not sure. Part of me is tempted to try draining them of the Force they contain in the vage hope of healing my Spirit immediately, part of me wants to abandon them cause there creepy.
Instead I try tieing the frayed Spirit mass in an attempt to preserve the marbles and postpone the hard decision. In order to do so I push spirit-mist out of my wrist gates and cover my hands with it like gloves, from there I wrestle with the frayed edges of spirit leaking from the orbs tieing the loose ends up and pushing them back into the marbles. Tucking away the lose ends. This effort leaves me mentally exhausted, an exhaustion that lets my physical exertion over take me.
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KICK KICK KICK
"I'm awake Ghost, please stop kicking my side." I look up tiedly at my progressively less reliable companion, which is really saying something. Are all people like her? No I remember some nice people helping feed me and my brother when we were street bound. People like Ghost, my aunt and uncle must be a horrible, albeit visible minority, right?
"You better not be have bad thoughts about me."
"I'd honestly throw you out the window if I could. My brother once read me a wonderful book about a war start by the defenestration of someone just like you."
"Even after I helped you your so horrible to me! Wares the appreciation!Your heartless, cruel and unbelievably awful! But so long as you get me out of this building I'll forgive you for the insult…wait you have a brother?"