2026/04/08(Wed)14:32 No. 1124862 ID: 923364
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this will be your vessel. you will act through it. it will be your hands. your eyes. your ears. your heart.

please give it a name.

nom

Bit

>>1124862
Pig.
Or
Katia manigan

abraxus

The Judgeler

>>1124862
Verus. This fellow looks like a Verus to me.

The Baatter

Jk. Name them Grace. As they are the grace of god, the hand of the creator.

>>1124878
Grace is nice.
Apt.

Bet

Bap.

Grace 2026/04/09(Thu)03:54 No. 1124911 ID: c67ea5
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Grace... Grace will be their name.

Grace will need a gift. Bestow one, that you deem befitting for them. Choose wisely. It will stay with them.

1 - Strength. Dominate the world with power, learn to channel force through your body. Empowers Endurance, Brutality, and Instinct.
2 - Sensitivity. Understand emotions and make connections with your peers that mean something. Intensifies Empathy, Suggestion, and Reflection.
3 - Intellect. Wield academia as your power, see the world around you with profound understanding. Enlightens Logic, Rhetoric, and Visualisation.
4 - Agility. Move through the world with grace, control your body with exceeding flow. Polishes Perception, Composure, and Dexterity.

>>1124911
Sensitivity. To bring these wayward souls to salvation, we must understand their pain. Only by knowing what leads them astray can we truly save them.

sensitivity

Agility
Climb the rafters and you can decide battles from above.

>>1124915
Was tempted by agility, but swayed by this.
Empathy say I

Strength, because no ever picks the strength build.

Strength. We can't expect God to do all the work.

>>1124932
You know what, yeah

Strength. Also because Instincts are an interesting angle to fold into that, I approve

>>1124911
Agility.

Intellect!

Strength.

>>1124911
Strength

Grace 2026/04/11(Sat)02:22 No. 1125058 ID: 923364
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Strength will be their gift. They will wade through the world, steadfast and undying. They will grasp hope by the neck and claim it as theirs.

Grace 2026/04/11(Sat)02:23 No. 1125059 ID: 923364
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Now wake up.

Grace 2026/04/11(Sat)02:24 No. 1125061 ID: 923364
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Grace finds themselves in an elevator, lying on the floor. The rubber padding smells awful. Fluorescent lights buzz above them.

The elevator is moving upwards. The soft hum of motors fill their ears.
They don't know where they are. Guide them, why don't you?

anywhere on the elevator telling you what floor you're on? If not how many floors does the keypad in the elevator have? Might as well get an idea of how high up might go before the doors open.

Poke buttons randomly. Then grasp the elevator doors and slowly pull them open.

>>1125061
Welcome to the world, Grace. May you bring salvation with your strength, your purity, and your kindness.

The first thing to do is check yourself. What are you wearing? Anything in your pockets?

Then examine your surroundings. Does the elevator have any features besdes the obvious? Any access panels? Is someone else in there with you?

first thing is to check your pockets

Grace 2026/04/11(Sat)08:46 No. 1125089 ID: 923364
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Grace stood up and dug through their pockets.

In what little they wore - polo shirt, slacks, dress shoes - They found a crumpled up piece of paper and a handheld mirror. They store it back away into their pockets.

Grace 2026/04/11(Sat)08:48 No. 1125090 ID: 923364
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They approach what seems to be the remains of posters that were hung on the elevator walls.

A small layer of glued on paper was left behind. All that's left now are traces of something once were.

Grace 2026/04/11(Sat)08:49 No. 1125091 ID: 923364
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They go to the panel.

Grace 2026/04/11(Sat)08:50 No. 1125092 ID: 923364
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There's 8 floors. There's no buttons on any, so they can't tell what floor they're going to. Neither is there any kind of floor indicator. Whoever designed this place did a poor job of considering people who would get trapped here.

Theres a possibility the crumpled piece of paper was recently the poster torn ftom the wall before grace was fully here.
Either way, worth looking at it.
Uncrumple paper and examine.

well if the elevator has stopped you could probably pry open the doors and see what's on the other side.

Uncrumple the paper to look at it.

What do you remember before waking up here?

Check for ceiling hatch.

Press all the buttons.

Grace 2026/04/12(Sun)03:13 No. 1125123 ID: 923364
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The elevator is still moving upwards. Even if the doors are pried open, they would meet nothing but concrete wall.

Grace opens up the paper and takes a good look at it.

Grace 2026/04/12(Sun)03:21 No. 1125125 ID: 923364
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Red symbols are drawn on it. The paper is glossy.
LOGIC (8 < 11: Failure) - They can't tell what the material of the symbols are drawn with.

The symbols on the paper evoke something. They tried to remember what they know before waking up...
REFLECTION (11 + 3 < 18: Failure) - But they can't remember a thing.

Grace 2026/04/12(Sun)03:22 No. 1125126 ID: 923364
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A ceiling hatch, of course. Grace turns around to look at the ceiling, still holding the piece of paper.

There it is, at the back. It could prove useful for later.

Welp, we are dumb apparently.
That's ok. We'll just muscle through it.

>>1125126
Well, I don't see anything else to examine. I guess step to the side of the doors so you aren't immediately spotted when they open.

>>1125126
The elevator has a panel showing 8 floors, but no buttons to select them and no lights to indicate them. Who designs an elevator like this? There must be someone controlling it from the outside, someone who is expecting you.

How long has it been since you woke up here? Can you guess how many floors you've passed already?

There are too many unknowns in this situation. You might need to use the ceiling hatch soon, but for now, hide in the corner by the door and prepare your mirror to look outside.

are you going up or down? Because at this point I feel you might as well wait until you reach your floor and see what's on the other side.

>>1125157
It's going up, currently:

>>1125123
>The elevator is still moving upwards.

Grace 2026/04/12(Sun)08:15 No. 1125165 ID: 923364
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Grace stood at the left side, huddled as closely to the corner as they can.

Grace 2026/04/12(Sun)08:17 No. 1125166 ID: 923364
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The elevator comes to a halt, the motors whining as they slowed movement. With a creak, the doors open, and Grace glances to the side.

A cold wind blows through into the cramped space, absolving it of its current smell and replacing it with a bitter scent. It's dark, but they can make out the details of some kind of interior from their quick look.

whelp, lets see what's waiting for us in the room.

Hmm. Any way to tell which floor this is now that we've arrived?

Grace 2026/04/12(Sun)12:39 No. 1125170 ID: 923364
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Remembering to prepare the mirror, they fish it out and angle it outside, trying to stick as little as themselves out as possible.

Grace 2026/04/12(Sun)12:54 No. 1125173 ID: 923364
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PERCEPTION (Challenging, Success: 9 + 8 + 1 > 15) - Grace angles the mirror to see what lies in front, but also what's behind by using it to reflect light into what the mirror sees.
PERCEPTION- Squinting into the mirror, they see that the interior resembles an office. The top part reveals, partially, a desk with something sticking out from behind it. The bottom shows a door, closed. Any details are hard to make out in the dim lighting.
INSTINCT (Medium, Success: 12 > 11) - Pull your hand back. If you were hoping to hide away from whatever is waiting out there, you just made yourself known with that mirror. Pull it back, and wait.
REFLECTION (Medium, Success: 11 = 11) - Or it could be just you here. If anyone was wanting to get the jump on you, now would have been the best time.
REFLECTION - But no one's here. So relax.

move towards desk, keep your head on a swivel, and see if there is anything on or in the desk to clue you in to where you are.

Grace 2026/04/12(Sun)13:04 No. 1125175 ID: 923364
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Grace glances up from the mirror towards the panel. There's still no indicator.

Grace 2026/04/12(Sun)13:05 No. 1125176 ID: 923364
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Grace figures there might be one, shoved away somewhere inconvenient. This elevator has been anything but well-designed. They still find nothing.

Grace 2026/04/12(Sun)13:16 No. 1125177 ID: 923364
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They step out of the elevator, guided by its open light inside. It's the only thing that's giving them any semblance of vision here.

Grace walks out to the desk, head cautiously looking around.

Grace 2026/04/12(Sun)13:24 No. 1125178 ID: 923364
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In the dim lighting, they see a silhouette in a basket. All signs point to it being some sort of pen.
PERCEPTION (Medium, Failure: 8 < 11) - Grace touches the desk and understands that it's wooden. The dark is too obscuring for anything else.

>>1125178
We can take the desk into the elevator, then stand on it to reach the hatch. The desk will be in position for us later if we need to reach the elevator hatch quickly.

>>1125178
You may feel that the only source of light is the elevator from whence you came. But do not forget, blessed one, that you still have a mirror in your hand. Use it to shed some light on this dark place.

>>1125178
Check the walls for a light switch.

Now that you're out of the light your eyes should adjust after a minute. Follow along the wall until you find a light switch.

Grace 2026/04/13(Mon)12:27 No. 1125258 ID: 923364
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Grace prepares to lift the desk.
BRUTALITY (Medium, Success: 12 > 11) - The desk is weighty, made of a heavy wood no doubt. Lifting it alone would be a mountainous task, much less figuring out how it would fit into the elevator. With this weight, it might be wider than the elevator entrance.
REFLECTION - You are strong, but know your limits. It must have slipped everyone's mind to warn you first of their choice. Understand what you can do, we will guide you.
Check difficulty will now be made known by its respective skill. Player action checks will be done with 2 6-sided die, added with their skill's modifier. Double 1s will always fail, while double 6s will always succeed.
BRUTALITY - Should you lift it, it will be an immense task. Better to map out the place first.(Godly: 16 vs Grace's: 12 + 2d6)

Grace 2026/04/13(Mon)12:27 No. 1125259 ID: 923364
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Retreating away from the desk, Grace turns around and begins running their hand along the wall, bumping into a single elevator button and-
Their hand dips. The surface is cold and metallic. Likely another elevator to pair with the one they came from.

Grace 2026/04/13(Mon)12:27 No. 1125260 ID: 923364
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They continue running their hand along the wall, meeting a 90 degree left turn, then a door, then another 90 degree left, followed by 3 doors in succession, another 90 degrees-

.. Their hand meets something smooth. It's cold like the first one, but the texture is different. It feels glassy.

Grace 2026/04/13(Mon)12:29 No. 1125263 ID: 923364
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Grace continues, only to realise the last 90 degree left turn ends up with them looking into the elevator's shine again. Now they vaguely know where things are.

VISUALISATION - They could make out a mental map of the room they're in... (Medium: 11 vs Grace's: 8 + 2d6)
PERCEPTION - It may be wiser to stack that with a scan of the room using the mirror as illumination.

>>1125258
Sounds like a plan. First mirror to direct the light, plan a route mentally. Then we can estimate if the desk would even fit.

If there's a desk there's probably also a chair, easier to move into the elevator.

You should also try running your hands over the back of the desk to see if there are any drawers. if so, the mirror might be enough to illuminate their contents.

>>1125273
Depends if the chair has wheels. They would make it unsafe to stand on, especially if we are later on a hurry.

>>1125263
Well, we can do that I suppose. What then? There's not much point in moving the desk into the elevator to stand on to reach the hatch, because the elevator is working.

We should just check the drawers of the desk instead.
Also call the other elevator so that it opens and sheds more light into the room.

Sounds like you found a window. Keep feeling around for a clasp to open it.
Shine that elevator light everywhere with your mirror.

>>1125264
Yep.
This is sound thinking.

>>1125263
We sense two elevators on one wall, a single door on the next, then three door opposite the elevators, and on the last wall... something covered in glass. A mirror? A portrait?

Use the mirror to help map out the room, and focus especially on that glass panel, and the doors in case they have markings that may reveal their contents.

There may come a time when you have nothing to rely on but your own mortal mind. But today, let the light guide you.