After your impromptu make out session in the elevator you finally met back up with your girls. Ruby was smirking smugly and faintly glowing, which explained why Stephanie was still with them and her face was bright red. The busty redheaded chef was shifting around like she was having trouble sitting down and you raised an eyebrow at your little blonde assassin who just winked back. Felicia and Pepper appeared to basically be best friends by this point and Sheila just looked like she was in a brilliant mood after her day spending time with grandpa.
They all froze when they saw Nat, their jaws dropping in shock at the obvious makeover. Pepper appeared the most shocked of all. Attempting to distract them from the existential crisis you decided to announce your new plans for the day. "Yes, Nat is younger now, yes she looks fantastic, most of you knew that was coming and Pepper sorry to cut you off here but I had an announcement to make. We'll be leaving soon, heading for another dimension, and it might be a while before we make it back. To celebrate our departure I was hoping to invite some friends over for a dinner this evening. One which I will of course cook, to the best of my ability." You winced at seeing Stephanie's face fall though her aura showed she was conflicted. You smiled over at her "Stephanie maybe you would be willing to indulge me and be my sous chef for the night?"
She popped to her feet with a squeal of joy "Of course I would! Oh I know exactly what to make for dinner, oh and we can make hors d'oeuvres and I'm thinking for dessert we can do something with truffles!" She threw herself at you with a generous and enthusiastic hug then clinging to your arm dragged you away from the others chattering about aperitif. As she dragged you away you felt your phone buzz with a text from Ruby. Fun girl, very sweet lots of energy. Huge anal fetish, do me a favor and get my plug back. Watch the noise though, that girl is LOUD. You shot her a flat look as she disappeared which she returned with a shrug and a charming smile. You couldn't blame Ruby honestly you had made it clear other girls were fair game for her as much as you and Stephanie was a cutie.
Trying to focus back up on dinner instead of the plug allegedly jammed up between the admittedly juicy cheeks of your sous chef. You shook off the dirty thoughts your incorrigible and probably bored girlfriend had stuck in your head. You turned back to Stephanie who was happily bent over digging through a cabinet in the kitchen. Which wasn't helping you focus. "Ok so in terms of people coming, I was thinking my neighbor Trish and her sister, my friends Danny and Colleen if they're still in town, and my friend May and her nephew if he wants to come. The kid is about Sheila's age so you don't need to worry about adjusting the menu for anyone younger. With the girls and dad, plus you and Pepper that puts us at thirteen guests i think? Considering how much at least half of us eat I'd probably say we should cook for somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty."
Stephanie looked excited by the prospect "This is so great! Mr. Stark isn't the dinner party type, the most any of us get to do is canapes for a small gathering now and then. I have so many ideas! I was thinking shots of chilled soup for the apetizer, maybe something in a nice summer squash. Crab puffs as a follow up and a nice artichoke dip for people to default to if they don't like the shots or are allergic to shellfish. For the main course we should do peking duck but I'm not sure what to serve with it. I don't have anything prepped and the party is tonight! I would normally have started prepatory work days ago, at the very least done a shopping run." Her happy look had devolved into apparent terror as she darted back and forth rummaging through cupboards.
You reached out to grab her shoulders "Stephanie. Calm down, I'll take care of the pace, just do your best as my sous chef. As for sides I'll do risotto and a garden salad. Should pair well with the duck." You started to rattle off the ingredients you needed, between artisan and savant and beauty of the gods and stone age otaku your food was on a level of brilliant that literally surpassed mortal understanding. Beauty of the gods gave you that extra spark you needed to create legitimately divine food turning your more than perfect fare into a true feast of the gods. Stephanie watched you work with awe in her eyes as your knife flew perfectly through an ever more complex series of cuts and techniques. In order to focus fully on the cooking you had Felicia call everyone, stopping to shoot her a please and thank you text and an I love you for putting up with your insane pace of doing everything.
It took hours moving at a normal pace. You avoided cheating with the watch so you could use your artisan skills to teach Stephanie. She improved absurdly quickly under artisan guidance though she was still only human good. Regardless though he skills sharpened quickly. Despite Ruby's teases and insinuations you didn't have sex with her, though she was clearly more than willing if you wanted. You found yourself enjoying her company immensely throughout the day. Contrary to the impression some may have gotten from her fawning over yourself and Ruby you knew Stephanie wasn't usually the forward type, it was just that the vivifier pushed your looks to a damn high level. Finally dinner was finished and you went your separate ways to get ready, this was going to be a hell of a party.
You looked around the party with a smile. This thing was pretty lively already and it had just gotten started. Most of these people actually already knew each other one way or another, like Trish and Jessica who were talking with Danny and Colleen, who you had managed to barely catch before they left. May was having a glowing conversation with your dad, who was paying a bit too enthusiastic an amount of attention to the gorgeous older woman though you trusted him not to mess things up with Pepper. You weren't entirely sure how you felt about your would be future step mother but she was good for your dad, and as much as you loved May it would be a bit weird having her in the family considering how hot you thought she was.
May's nephew Peter (whose internship had actually been with your dad of all people) had come with her and had apparently fallen head over heels in puppy love with your daughter, who was enthusiastically chattering away at him, excited to have made her first friend her own age. The poor kid looked like he was about ten minutes from building her an altar and sacrificing some chickens and you briefly considered giving him the obligatory fatherly shovel speech but decided the fact that your little girl could crush him like a walnut made it unnecessary. It was a shame Sheila would have to leave behind a new friend, you had actually considered leaving her here with your dad, but you knew that being abandoned was no fun even if the person doing it felt like it was for a good reason. You wanted to keep your girl close and spend as much time with her as you could.
Pepper and Felicia were talking as enthusiastically as ever discussing Peppers charitable endeavors and what she got up to running the company. You were beginning to suspect your future step mother was training Felicia to play a similar role in your own endeavors as she played in your dads, and you weren't really sure how to feel about it. Pepper was a nice person but her entire position in your life made you feel uncomfortable. To her credit she seemed to totally get that and was giving you plenty of space. You were happy your dad had found someone but when you looked at her you just saw all the things your mother should have had. Felicia seemed to love her though, so even if just for your kitten you were happy to play nice.
Nat and Ruby were off to one side talking casually, both seemingly completely at ease with each other and getting along famously. Despite their smiling faces and joyful laughs though your aura sight picked up some nervousness on both their parts. Nat was aware from your story that Ruby was former Hydra, and as someone who spent so much of her life trained to hate them she was understandably confused by how to interact with the messiah of her worst enemies. Ruby for her part had been raised to be something of a second coming of the Black Widow, and meeting the woman who was at one point the standard she aspired towards was making her feel odd. You also caught streaks of jealousy and hurt in there, and realized that Nat ending up de aged has put her on a similar playing field and made it seem like you might be replacing her.
You strode across the lounge to stop in front of the two of them, cutting off a casual comment by Nat that was inevitably some kind of probe. "Hey, Nat, I think my dad wanted to talk to you about supplies for our trip. You know how much he worries about us being stranded off world with no food or something. He was looking for you over there." Nat cut off her conversation and looked over at you with a raised eyebrow. You met her eyes steadily and returned the gesture. After about twenty seconds she shrugged and stood up, offering her apologies to Ruby as she walked away. Your girlfriend stood to wander off as well but you grabbed her wrist and pulled her back down. "Hey, where are you heading off too. Don't you know a poorly disguised pretext for some alone time when you hear one?"
Ruby's face remained neutral, even as her aura spiked with a bit of hope. "Don't let me keep you. You're a busy guy. It's not like I need to be entertained. I'm fine by myself." Her voice was stiff and neutral, and you stared in shock at her absolute failure to even put up her normal facade. Ruby was trained by abusive sociopaths to be the perfect spy. For her to lose her composure and drop her cover she must be really hurting. You focused your aura sight a bit deeper and...winced. The hurt and jealousy for Nat were just the surface stuff. She felt like you were getting new people in your life so fast you wouldn't need her at all soon. She had slept with Stephanie to get a reaction out of you, and when you didn't get angry or sad she felt like you didn't care about her.
You pulled her down to the couch, reaching up to turn her head toward you. You weren't sure how to broach the subject, just admitting you were basically reading her emotions seemed really stupid. "Ruby. I know I haven't been around as much the last day or two. This last little while has been a bit crazy. I...miss spending time with you though. I was hoping we could take some time during this to just enjoy each others company. I haven't been spending as much time with you as I'd like what with all the prep work for leaving." You shot her a faux irate look "As evidenced by your little bit of side action. I don't really have the right to complain I know, what with the other girls in my life but I am a bit jealous to have to share you."
You were careful to avoid addressing anything directly, but even so you felt her relax a bit under your touch. She was refusing to look at you eyes focused off in the distance across the party. "Really? because it didn't seem like you cared. You seemed like you were too busy with your...preparations to even notice it much." Her voice was raw, the insecurity in her tone an obvious open wound that you doubted she was even admitting to herself was there. "Not that I need any hand holding or anything. I'm a big girl, I don't need to be coddled. You aren't the only one who got some busty redhead pussy so we're even anyway" She glanced over at you quickly before looking away again "You were really jealous?"
You shrugged "Of course. This whole open relationship deal or whatever we have going on is hard for all of us. But it would be pretty shitty of me to make a big deal of you hooking up with Stephanie when I was with someone else too. You deserve to have the same freedom I do, even if it bothers me. Well, I mean, with other girls. If I see a man put his hands on you I'll fucking castrate him." She rolled her eyes at your chauvanism but you saw her aura pulse with happiness at the possessive statement. "Regardless of any of that though I haven't been spending as much time with you as I'd like. Honestly out of everyone in our group you're the one I feel closest to in terms of having someone to talk to. Sheila and Nat are both goodie goodie hero types and Felicia is...well she's better for any of us than we deserve but she's not always the easiest person to understand." You squeezed her hand gently "You're my best friend Ruby, not just my girlfriend, and I'm sorry if I let you doubt it."
Her eyes had widened, her pupils dilating in...fear? Hope? You didn't know, and judging by her aura neither did she. But there was definitely some happy mixed in. She looked at you with a vulnerable expression on her beautiful face. "That's...yeah. You too." She exhaled "I'm sorry. I don't know if you noticed but I was being a petty bitch about Natasha. It's just... I spent so long trying to be her, then she shows up and ok fine, shes older so whatever. But now shes our age and shes hot as fuck and her tits are huge and it's like she's everything I'm not. Now all that time trying to be her just feels like years of being told I wasn't as good. I can't lose you or Felicia. Can't go back to being mommys little soldier. And Sheila... she loves me, which is nuts because I still have trouble believing you guys love me and how the fuck am I supposed to be a mom when mine was so fucking shitty?"
You squeezed her hand harder "We aren't going to leave Ruby. You're stuck with us as long as you want us, which, you know, my vote is forever. Nat isn't a replacement for you, I doubt I'll ever be as comfortable with her as I am with you, same with Felicia. She's gorgeous and pretty cool but she isnt you. Don't ever forget no matter where we go or who comes later it used to be just the three of us. I truly believe I'd be dead without you two. As for Sheila...well fuck I don't think any of the three of us is really equipped to be a parent on our own, but I figure between all three of us we might be able to manage one decent one. You aren't your mom, trust me, I have excellent taste in women, I wouldn't date someone who was as big an asshole as she sounds like she is." She giggled at your frankly terrible joke and you stood up, pulling her away from the couch "Now come on, we should mingle, this is our going away party."
The two of you wandered around the party a bit, stopping to scare the shit out of May's nephew. You were mostly gentle about it because you liked May. Sheila for her part completely missed the subtle threats being not so great with people despite being very intelligent. Peter on the other hand seemed to pick up on them, but was much less intimidated than you expected. You even did the whole overly strong handshake thing and the kid managed to give as good as he got. You raised an eyebrow at the younger teen, mildly impressed with his spine and his grip strength, eventually giving the conversation something of a blessing while giving Peter a look to let him know you were watching him.
You slipped over to see Danny and Colleen and Trish and Jess, who were all talking in a generally relaxed and pleasant manner. Ruby gave a happy squeal when she saw Jess and moved in for a tight hug, making the older more cynical woman genuinely blush. Her face was a mix of shocked and confused at the exuberance of her younger friend. You got the impression Jessica wasn't used to people being so happy to see her. Finally you broke away from your friends leaving Ruby to talk with Jessica and headed over to see your old man. Your dad was talking to May, and the two of them both looked incredibly comfortable together. It was actually vaguely unsettling until you got close enough to hear that May was telling stories...about you. You smiled softly hearing your old man ask questions about your life before he was in it. May had been around for a while before you met up with him and she knew you pretty well. Actually May had done a lot for you, your mind turned to the vivifier doses you had made for an emergency. You might have a way to pay her back.
You deliberated for just a moment before you pulled both of them further away from the party. May seemed curious but not upset at all and your dad was his usual blase self about the gesture. Once out of earshot of the others you looked at both of them. "Dad, you know the drill with all my stuff so I'll just explain to May." His nod of agreement was casual, though you barely stopped to wait for it. Turning to May you considered how to put this. " I...make things. Lots of different things. One of those things is an interesting formula called the vivifier. It heals damage, including the kind you get from age and improves your body and mind by...well it used to be ten percent actually but thinking back I suspect it might be more now. I'd be willing to offer it to you and Peter. You've done a lot for more and I'm making some for my dad and Pepper already."
Thinking back on your extreme reaction to Natasha's upgrades you suspected the stacking crafting perks you'd been building up might have boosted her vivifier dose. Looking back at it objectively with your brain not fried by tits her improvement was more in the vein of twenty five percent than ten. You were actually pretty annoyed, since the vivifier was a single dose formula you couldn't upgrade. Regardless your dad and Pepper and May and Peter would all be boosted significantly if they accepted. A quarter improvement was substantial. For her part May looked...surprised but pensive. She considered in silence for a few minutes, then nodded her assent. "Ok. I trust you Anthony, if you say this will be good for us I'll take the gift." She glanced wryly at you "Not to mention I suspect I can already see some of the results."
You grinned sheepishly back at her, unable to dispute the obvious boost you'd gotten. Having already mentioned the boost had grown you saw no need to go into too much more detail on the differences. You doubted any of them would have the context to understand the changes in your magitech design anyway. Savant was actually one of the few crafting perks that would allow base improvement in the vivifier instead of a flat perk based boost , at least one of the few you could think of. The design was mostly mysterious, with the science behind it being obscure if barely science at all. Savant and Great Man mixed together allowed you to grasp more of it and improve the design without even realizing though. You cursed yourself for an idiot for not noticing how strongly Natashas boost had hit you.
As May went to get Peter and Tony Pepper, you slipped into the workshop abusing the time dilation effect to make four more vivifier doses. As you entered the pocket dimension you found yourself stumbling against the wall from fatigue as you felt mana get sucked directly out of you. You glanced over to the cabinet the avatar was in, reminding yourself to take it out of there before it developed actual sentience. After a brief respite you got to work making the new doses. As you expected, paying closer attention to the crafting process you had sharpened and improved the method of creation. Your eyeballing of Natashas stats was fairly spot on, the new formula provided a flat twenty five percent boost. Still not groundbreaking but a marked improvement from the original, not that you or any of the girls could actually take it.
Within ten or fifteen minutes subjective time you had four new doses ready and were slipping out the archway to join the others who were crowded around the entrance waiting for you. You suppressed a smile as Peter yelped and almost fell over when you stepped out, though Sheila caught him, giving you a glare that had you pouting in response. Ungrateful brat, fifteen minutes with her new boy toy and suddenly dad was the bad guy. Kids. You dad had explained what was happening to Pepper and May had done the same for Peter. You had briefly considered making a dose for Sheila but honestly she was still kind of learning to control the strength she already had. You passed the doses around. No reason to keep them a secret considering basically everyone at this party had already taken one. You'd texted Ruby before you came out asking her to distract Stephanie, and your girlfriend had responded by promising to send pictures. Despite your earlier conversation though when you checked her aura from across the room she was happy and feeling sly. No attempts at making you jealous this time.
Your dad and Pepper went first. Pepper's dose took her back to her mid twenties, not too big a difference age wise, and despite her being twenty five percent prettier now she still wasn't really your type. Your dad seemed to be in awe however. Before your dad could take his though you reached out to touch his hand. "I would suggest removing the arc reactor. I know its dangerous but when you heal it'll push the casing out of your body and might warp it. The last thing we need is the reactor getting crushed and exploding or something." He looked reticent but after a moment of though nodded and reached down. He gave a twist and a yank followed by a sharp gasp as the blood drained from his face. His body as expected pushed the housing and shrapnel out as it healed, and it shocked you how much he looked like you after his age dropped. Or the other way around likely.
You looked to May and Peter. After conferring quietly they asked for somewhere private to take the doses. You understood the impulse after seeing how jarring your dads upgrade was and with his nod you gestured them out of the room. As you waited for them to return you felt the forge trigger yet again, and decided to immerse yourself in the science as you waited for the results of your friends enhancement.
Celestial Forge Accessed: House Calls (Stargate Atlantis) (200CP) Sufficient CP. Purchased. Total Remaining CP: 800.
Your dad and Pepper seem excited about the differences in their bodies now, laughing gleefully as your dad pushes himself up into a one handed handstand. He pops back to his feet and rushes over grabbing you in a tight hug. "Kid this is amazing! I haven't felt this good in years! Not to mention I'm thinking so damn fast and clear. I can see everything so sharply too. I can't describe how different I feel. I feel like I could beat up Rogers!" You laughed at both the enthusiasm from your father and Pepper's completely certain denial of his last claim. Pepper herself thanked you gently and dragged your dad away for a celebration of their own you were positive you didn't want to think about. The vivifier almost always boosted libido.
Thinking of that actually made you wince. May was an adult and could find a guy if she wanted one, especially with how gorgeous she was, but Peter was going to be having a rough time until he could go home and binge some porn of something. Pity aside if he tried to make a move on your little girl you were going to break his dick off. When they finally came out...well damn. May was going to have her pick of men. Younger May alone must have been a total knockout in her prime but with that twenty five percent boost to beauty and charisma your head was spinning. The beauty boost on that damn serum was insane when combined with the kind of top tier natural attractiveness women around you seemed to have. Even compared to teen Nat, twenty five year old May was a fucking smokeshow.
Peter looked substantially more built, mostly lean muscle but cut as hell. Sheila was excitedly bouncing around her first friend noting all the changes out loud and poking and prodding. She seemed to be touching him an awful lot and his insistence on looking down the front of her dress would have gotten him slapped by you if May hadn't reached over and done it herself. He blushed and apologized to a confused Sheila, who didn't seem to notice or care. Once again you groaned internally at the fact that the databanks in her ship form had zero social context for anything. You supposed you should just be grateful one of the techs hadnt had a secret porn stash on the servers or something. You reminded yourself to watch her closely around boys, silently cursing the fact that she got her body from Felicia.
Finally it got late enough that it was time to say goodby to everyone. You hugged Danny and Colleen, promising to check in about their trip when you got back. You told Trish about the machine here and that your dad would look after your account's so the business was still going to run fine. Ruby had come back, smugly informing you that Stephanie had been a bit tired and needed to go to bed and you would probably see her tomorrow before you left. She gave Jess a tight hug promising to have plenty of stories to tell when she got back. May gave you a tight hug (too tight, she needed to watch that new strength but you were a tough bastard) and made you swear to visit as soon as you got back to town. Peter was hugging your daughter goodbye, who was tearing up a bit at the almost immediate loss of her first friend. You sighed at seeing her so upset and made a spur of the moment decision.
You walked over to the dirty teenage thug who was wisely keeping his grubby hands above your daughters waist and glared for a second before turning to her. "I know you're upset baby girl, but I'm working on a long distance comm unit for when we leave. I can arrange for some method of contact I'm sure, so you and..." You swallowed the completely natural urge to call the kid something unpleasant "Peter, can keep in touch. It's important for you to make friends." Sheila's face glowed with happiness and she hugged Peter even tighter. The kid had the incredible wisdom to look terrified of your murderous glare until she let him go and darted over to crush you in an equally tight hug. You smiled softly and stroked her hair, carefully ignoring Ruby standing behind her making silent whip crack motions.
You supposed a multiversal communication array would be a fitting last project before you left anyway. After all the goodbyes you all tromped back to your rooms. Nat decided to forgo the formalities and joined your girls in sleeping in the second bed with Sheila. She was still a bit sad to be leaving her grandpa and her new friend and having some night time cuddles would help her cheer up a bit you thought. Your own sleep came fairly easily given how exhausting the day was. You finally passed out with thoughts of being glad that the tower was so big. Might have been tough to sleep with the inevitable noise your dad and Pepper must be making.
The morning came as soon as most mornings did. Your increased intelligence thankfully did not make you forcibly remember every single dream. You had actually been worried about that when you first got your upgrades. As promised you made your way into the workshop first thing. You had some ideas for a multidimensional communications rig but the project wasn't going to be easy at all. Plus it needed to be at least A rank from the impressions you were getting from the forge. You considered what shape to make the thing in as you sat down. You thought about a mail box or something but decided on a cell phone eventually.
Putting together a soul steel phone was simple enough, with your new crafting abilities and the divine level quality possible through Beauty of the Gods you made two separate phones. You had considered trying to do a single broadcast point but it wouldn't work with the model you had in mind. The end products were absolutely gorgeous of course, DTM enabling you to make the touch screen out of actual soul steel and use it like glass. The pitch black material held energy exceptionally well so the light and images would show perfectly on the material. You even gave the damn thing wifi in case you decided to upload data from a new world home for your dad to use. The soul steel was important for another reason though, aside from being one more perk you'd used bringing you up to three including the dead space power cell and the holographic projection tech you included for video calls and web surfing.
Once you had the base you used the soul reaper gloves to carefully cut off a small piece of your soul, injecting some mana into it. The piece actually became a very basic avatar, and you repeated the process on the other phone before using digital sorcery to code the avatar function permanently into the phone and then went into the programming and altered it slightly. By enhancing the connection between the two avatar pieces using yourself as a medium and stripping out the code for growth and sentience you were able to anchor the two phones into a multiversal network of sorts using your soul as a focal point. The only slight concession was that the things would only work if one of them was in the same universe as your original self or a fully realized avatar. If you made more in the future calls would not be possible between say, two universes you had already visited but were no longer in.
With soul reaper tech, avatar creation, dead space tech, soul steel, data sorcery, and duct tape master that put you at exactly six perks making this an A grade item once you name it. You decided to call it that Akashic Network after the records that supposedly contained all the knowledge in the universe. Something about the connection reminds you of the concept even if its not a perfect comparison. As you expected however as soon as you picked them name you got a notification from the forge. And this was a doozy.
Congratulations on the construction of your final artifact! Through constant immersion of yourself in creation projects with close ties to the forge you've connected to the multiverse, breaking your earthly shackles! As a citizen of the Celestial Forge you are no longer anchored to the universe of your birth and are free to roam the multiverse to your hearts content. To leave simply bring any companions you may have into the workshop and trigger the world jump function. Be warned, your connection to the forge is still tenuous and as such your path still needs a guide. The jumps you take to start will be decided by the forge itself, and each new world will help you grow into the Celestial Forger you need to be to achieve your destiny! Go forth boy, it's time to step onto your true stage.
Your body felt...hot. Like ants were crawling all over you and you stumbled back scratching feverishly at yourself to try to quench the itch. You felt like something was shaking you loose of your moorings as a person. You stumbled out of the archway, feeling the sensation recede slightly but not fade completely and collapsed on the ground in pain, shudders of heat wracking your writhing body. The girls heard your screams and ran into the room, finding you on the ground and levering your mouth open to force a cure all down your throat. You made sure they each had at least three vials for an emergency at all times. But despite your cure all being miraculous and all powerful nothing happened. The pain kept rolling through you, though the bite marks you left on your tongue and cheeks to mute the screaming did heal.
Finally after about fifteen minutes the shaking subsided, leaving you feeling...weird. You felt like you were standing in a city you hadn't ever been to before. Like this was a strange place despite you having lived in New York all your life. You thought back to the forges explanation and realized that this was what it felt like to be a citizen of the multiverse. You could go anywhere but you didn't belong anywhere. You.. weren't sure that was worth it. It made sense when you thought about it, not being anchored to any specific world if youd be travelling. Otherwise if you ended up in a world with different rules you couldnt learn the things they could do there, not without the forge to brute force it which considering how random the perks were you couldnt count on it to do. It still felt sad though.
You pulled yourself to your feet. Handing the phones to Sheila and telling her to bring one to your dad and say goodbye. You guys would call home once a week and she could call once on her own to talk to Peter weekly(the power requirements would drain even a dead space power cell if used too often). Once she got back you had them pack their things and helped them carry it all into the workshop. Luckily the packing was light since they wore their smart clothes most of the time now. Finally you all stood together inside the workshop looking out the archway at your room in Stark tower. Trish was watching your apartment and your dad had the business, it was time to go. You cleared your throat, triggering the forge just in case your perks worked differently once you got to the new world and after it connected you barked out "World Jump." and the other side of the archway went pitch black.
Celestial Forge Accessed: Master enchanter (Unmodded Minecraft) (600CP) Sufficient CP. Purchased, Total remaining CP: 400.
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Perks:
House Calls (Stargate Atlantis) (200CP)
Perform surgery and even medical research without being hindered by the lack of proper operating theatre or the locals' less-than-sophisticated equipment. You still need some sort of equipment, or a space for surgery, but dodgy equipment or a dodgy place to operate won't hamper you.
Master enchanter (Unmodded Minecraft) (600CP)
Removing the randomness and ambiguity of the usual process is the least of what you can do. You don't suffer any restrictions when it comes to what kind of item can get what kind of enchantment, so you can fish up treasures with a chain-sickle or empower a shovel to deal massive damage to the undead. Selectively remove or add new effects to an existing magical item, or transfer effects from one item to another. Fuse multiple similar magical items together to make a single, stronger item. While there are limits to how much magic that can be crammed into something, the limit is much higher for you. This skill also covers the creation of space-bending chests that can store far more than their external dimensions should allow for.
Ok everyone. Thats the first world done. Arc one is over. Check out the story on questionable questing to see the beginning of the next arc and vote on how the story goes (Air Gear if anyone is interested) or wait til next week for me to post another larger chapter of stockpiled stuff. Hope you enjoyed this so far and I look forward to hearing plenty of feedback.