Ochrana Ossis
Despite the best efforts of the Church, various heresies, secret societies and mystery cults hide within the cracks of society like weeds. The most difficult ones to get rid of are not the worshippers of chaos, but those who are the rightful agents of Law.
The Ochrana Ossis believes that for a just society, lesser creatures must be controlled by greater ones. Thus no human is able to rule over other humans without it inevitably leading to corruption. Thus to be in charge one must make themselves a creature greater than human.
They will calmly ask you, what does it mean to be in control of a creature? Then calmly answer that to be in control means control what is most important about a creature. The thing that matters most to all creatures is to persist. Thus to control a creature one must be able to control its life. Thus to control a creature, one must kill it. Thus to control humans one must kill humans. It is not sufficient but it is a very important step.
They will calmly ask you, how does one become a greater creature? Then calmly answer that it means to get rid is essential for a lesser creature and gain what is essential of a greater creature. Thus one must find a greater creature as a role model. They will calmly answer that this is a solved problem.
That greater creature, the patron spirit of the Ochrana Ossis, is the Octopus King. Humans have “bones” and the Octopus King does not. Humans break their “bones’ when they fall and the Octopus King does not. Thus Gravity can not kill the Octopus King. Thus the Octopus King is a greater creature than Gravity. Thus to be like the Octopus King, one must be greater than Gravity, greater than “bones”.
“Bones” are not only bones, they are also souls, social bonds, and bureaucratic infrastructure. Things that make humans rigid and connected. To be their master, one must be greater than them. “Bones” know this intuitively, they know that they should be mastered and if shown the way, will reveal how they must be controlled. This is solemn work, essential for a just society.
GRIM CHALLENGER (Blattella and BOROSILICATE_IVY)
Fashion a weapon from a person's bones, and with it slay somebody who knew them by name. Repeat the process once more with a weapon made from their bones.
You can now begin making a skeletal armory-network.
Arrange your two starting weapon-implements in a way that best describes how bones and names conspire to hold people together. It's alright if you don't get it completely right the first time.
With some patience and luck, your fledgling network will begin to whisper. It will softly speak on many things. Mine likes to say that "names are just a skeleton for the mind", and "what is a friend but a bony finger". I've heard some that simply count to 206 over and over.
Eventually, if you are patient, the network will give very good advice on how to kill people. Its advice will be limited at first. It can only speak about those who know the deceased in your network by name. But as you extend the armory-network with weapons like the first the network's advice will grow in confidence and accuracy. It will become more opinionated and less mobile. Be sure to add to it regularly.
Junior Privileges
To even consider earning Junior Privileges, one must first be a GRIM CHALLANGER.
Broken Hand Badge (Bad Doctor and choiroffire)
Ask your armory-network for direction and guidance each morning. Follow its advice even and especially when it would be easier not to. If you disobey it, break one of your own fingers. If you have ten broken fingers, you may use the fingers of other hands.
You can project an aura of cold authority commensurate with your duty. Your shadow grows longer, footfalls louder, and your stare grievous and fulgid. Law-abiding citizens will bow their heads as you pass by. When you have to make a decision for which your armory-network did not specifically prepare you, your aura becomes chaotic and frightening, scattering most lesser beings into hiding.
Weightfulness (nayba and Garinia)
Find one that speaks truth to power and silence them forever without creating a martyr
Find one that makes a joke of order and have them become the object of laughter instead
Find one that bends the law instead of executing it and have them meet the full force of the law
You have proven your worth to the law, and thus are granted the ability to supersede it to an extent. When you are acting on behalf of the law you are legally and metaphysically allowed to ignore gravity at your leasure.
Dark Water Precipice (semiurge and AntiTime)
Bring in a bounty target neither dead or alive, but somewhere in between or something else entirely
If somebody is under a bounty you can see their vital signs, like heart pumping in their chest or blood flowing through the veins. Due to that you can never kill such a person accidentally, or can roll with advantage if your aim is murder.
Shiftiness (Robot_Face and MystralianCryatist)
Follow someone for eight days and eight nights without them realizing you're watching them.
You’ve certainly proven yourself an able sneaker! Somehow, this seems to have given you a boost, as a curious change has occurred.
You have gained camouflaging abilities similar to an octopus.
Additionally, you gain 4 small arms (each capable of holding half the weight that a human-equivalent’s standard arm could) OR a prehensile tail, whichever would have been the most helpful during your endeavor!
SILOVICH (AntiTime and Bad Doctor)
Become truly, fully professional. Lock in. Remove your soul, emotions, attachments and personality. Keep them somewhere externally if you want, but you can't use any of the major deltas when you are under their influence.
With all this empty space inside you, you can now contain part or all of your network within yourself if you'd like. Sure, it jams up a little, sticks out between a set of ribs. But now all of your teeth are cyanide capsules and whenever someone follows your advice about who to kill and how they are rewarded disproportionately by the universe. Meet cutes, windfall inheritances, lottery tickets. If you give them one of your cyanide capsule teeth and they bite down on it after their mission is complete they will go straight to the tippy top heaven and they know this for an absolute bone deep fact. You can add any weapons they used to your network.
Senior Privileges
To attain Senior Privileges, one must set yourself above bone and become a SILOVICH.
True Order (semiurge and Robot_Face)
Compromise a major public figure - get killer blackmail on 'em, replace 'em with a shapeshifter, whatever - so long as they're yours. Make sure everyone in the community knows you've done it, and make sure everyone's too afraid to say it out loud.
In an area you control, or which you control de facto, like through a puppet/figurehead, you gain the ability to walk through walls unimpeded, as though they aren't there.
Universal Constant (choiroffire and semiurge)
Find the seven living people who contributed the most to your becoming who you are today. For most, these will be parents, mentors, and close friends. Find them, and inform them each in turn that they will die by your hand if they ever again acknowledge to anyone that you were once different, once lesser, than you are now. Mean it. Write down a plan to eliminate each one, and submit them.
Whenever anyone utters your name without using your full titles & honours, you know who it is, where they are, and gain control of their mouth for a round.
Respectful Silence (BOROSILICATE_IVY and nayba)
assemble a necklace of 16 tongues. Ideally they are from bureaucrats of ascending rank, but a bunch of self important louts can work in a pinch
Whenever you encounter a bureacrat of equal or lower rank than one of your trophies you may have that person be silenced as long as they are in your presence. Those around will perceive you as a replacement for the old authority.
Uncrowned (Garinia and MystralianCryatist)
There is a secret place where the first law was proclaimed and the final law will be whispered. Let gravity kill you at this location.
There are some laws that are not meant to be broken, and some places which are not meant to be profaned. Gravity forsook its oath, and must pay amends.
You have claimed the price for the broken oath which was Gravity’s. You can no longer be damaged by the landing at the end of falling; your strength and agility are enhanced as though you dwelled on a planet with gravity one third of your own, while those of your foes are reduced as if a thrice-strong planet bore down upon their shoulders. Finally, you can enact a limited telekinetic effect on any object five pounds or less at any time as though you were a mage or psychic. This is not supernatural, but a natural consequence of gravity acting to your will, ensuring that it can be used anywhere. With intense training, you could increase your weight or item amount limits.
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