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Mark breathed out under the night sky upon the deck of the Dreadnought. The gentle light of the grid flowed overhead, in the distance, while the deep blue and star-strewn sky beyond did not betray any hints of the greater beings out there, beyond the realm of the Prime System… or Earth and Daihoon’s Secondary System… Or wait. They called it ‘System Prime’. Naming conventions aside, the elven realm was rather nice.
The air smelled clean. The sky looked inviting.
Clouds rolled on the horizon, heralding a soft storm front, but nothing major. Just a natural storm… or as ‘natural’ as they came around here? Was ‘nature’ here? Was anything natural in this space?
Maybe not.
Mark said, “Lights on, please, Quark.”
Several light poles turned on to the sides, illuminating the dark deck of the Dreadnought.
Mark had a list of things to figure out, and he started with the Status from System Prime, asking, “System Call. What is ‘physicality’?”
Nothing.
“System Call: Help? What is ‘physicality’?”
| Physicality is the nature of your body as it responds to the exterior world. It has three normal modes. Weak, Variable, and Full. Weak sets you to zero strength. Variable sets you to variable strength, with your nature only presenting itself before damage might take place. Full sets you to the full strength of your nature, as determined by the rest of your Status. Change the setting by commanding it be changed.
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