And here we are again everyone. Took me a bit to get to this point, what with work taking its toll and my DnD game happening on Tuesdays, it's been a full week.

Also, this is kind of hilarious, but Rjrulew, I see you, and raise you this again.

NO APOLOGIES IN THIS THREAD. SAY YOUR PEACE AND ASK YOUR QUESTIONS.

Now, here's the longer than normal votes

Spoiler: Winning Votes

[X] Explain to Wuya How the Fuck.
-[X] Evil Santa
-[X] How he came in
-[X] Explanation of evil Christmas
-[X] If asked explain Christmas
-[X] gave gift of coal with a shen gong wu
-[X] His personality and exact conversation he had with you
-[X] How he left
-[X] Then go see if E-Santa gave your sister anything

[X] Plan Inner Balance
-[X] Put 2 stat points on Strength.
-[X] Put 1 stat point on Intelligence.
-[X] Put 1 stat point on Wisdom.
-[X] Put 1 stat point on Speed.
-[X] Put 1 stat point on Luck.
-[X] Put 1 perk point on Robotics.
-[X] Put 1 perk point on Jet Pack and Goggles.

Now, here. We. Go.


As you stood there in your Lab, half a piece of coal and a priceless ring on your hand, you could already feel a headache growing.

Still, you reached over and finally pulled the Ring from its carbony prison, and took a moment to look it over in your hand.

It was a nice looking ring, with an almost obsidian coloured metal for its body, and its face being a circular yellow dragon design that looked to be eating itself at the center. All in all, pretty nice. But, that was for later.

Now, you had QUESTIONS.

"Hey Wuya. Do you know anybody named Evil Santa? Big guy, likes to bust into places, kinda terrifying, said it was 'Evil' Christmas?" You asked your Ghost friend as you kept looking over the ring.

You could tell she was waiting for a moment too comprehend the situation before her, but she did quick enough.

"Wait, Evil Sa- Ah, THAT Motherfucker." Wuya said with a tendril on her mask.

THAT got your attention.

"Wait, you ACTUALLY KNOW ABOUT HIM? ...And you know who Santa is?" You yelled shocked, before continuing as the thought rolled through your mind.

You felt the eyeroll as much as you saw it.

"Yes, Jack. You KNOW I heard the Dreams of those near my box, and around the Winter seasons, he tended to be a prominent figure. But, that is not all I know of 'Evil' Santa." Wuya explained.

Hearing this, you took a seat in front of the witch, and put the Ring on your Finger, focusing all attention on her.

"Haaaaahhhhh. Why must I teach you these basic things? What ever, very well, Apprentice." Wuya exasperated before beginning to lecture.

"Ages ago, there once was a man named Nicolas. He was a nice man from a humble village, always dressing in pelts and furs from his many hunts. And every night, he would give away whatever he didn't need, to whoever wished for it.

However... Nicolas was not ALWAYS a nice man. You see, nowadays, there are all KINDS of words and classifications to people. But back then, Nicolas was what was termed 'Crazy'.

You see, for every 'Good' deed Nicolas did, his 'Brother' did an 'Evil' one. Give a child a holiday meal? Steal a meal from a starving merchant. Hunt down the local wolf population? Let the foxes into the hen houses. So on and so forth this went for the years, until he came across the Ring you hold in your hand now." At this, Wuya gestured to the Ring on your hand, startling you from your story induced stupor.

"Wait, what? What do you mean, until he had this Ring! WILL THIS SPLIT ME INTO GOOD AND EVIL JACK!?" You cried out as you hastily tore the Ring from your finger. You thought it would let you breath fire or something!

"You're not far off from that, but not necessarily. You see, the Ring of the Nine Dragons, which you have now claimed by the way, allows the one wearing it to split themselves by whatever standard they wish, so long as they are equal. And when held by a man who was legitimately equally balanced between Good and Evil? The two practically leapt apart. becoming their own people. The immortality they share is just a by-product of the World not recognizing their original existence, and thus treating them as non-living objects, or at least long-lived ones. It's surprisingly more common than you would expect." Wuya almost seemed to tack on at the end.

As you felt your eye twitch at the thought of multiple immortals just running about, you felt your brain break a little more when you realized that you in fact, already knew four now... the same number of NON-immortal and un-related people you knew so far. The fuck.

"Okay, gonna ignore for a moment how LIVING FOREVER is apparently more common than it should be, lets get back to that little bit about splitting a person... also, I get that that was the 'Evil' side of Santa, but why did you call him a Motherfucker. And how did you know that slang insult? It's telling, but not THAT old." You spoke in order of importance, still waving the Ring around.

This time, Wuya looked over at you confused.

"THAT is what passes for an insult these days? Pah, weaklings. But no, I speak no falsehoods to you. I call him a Motherfucker because...well, I recall hearing him say 'If my brother can get Milk and Cookies from every little brat these days, I can get my MILF and Brandy!' or some such." Wuya said with a frighteningly accurate imitation of Evi-Nicolas' voice.

You... never wanted to remember those words again, so you pushed them from your head, and instead got up from your seat and started up the stairs, Ring in hand.

"I wonder if Kristen got anything...she IS pretty Evil." You said as you ignored Wuya's existence for a moment, purposefully walking through her for a moment to clear your head, and were on your way.

As you were about half way up the stairs, you felt Wuya's presence settle beside you, and you decided to move on.

"So, seriously, what's the deal with the Ring?"

END OF CHAPTER!

GAINED POSSIBLE PATH TO IMMORTALITY, AT LEAST FROM AGE! WOULD IT BE WORTH IT?

GAINED STATS, NOW TO BE ADDED TO TOTAL!

END OF GAINS!

CHOICE!

[]Build Something New!: ?

[]Build Something Familiar!: 1 Creation you have blueprints for to be made 10 of!

[]Train!
-Train What?

[]Socialize!
-With Who?

[]EXPERIMENT!: ?

[]GO SOMEWHERE!
-Where?

[] DO SOMETHING ELSE!
-What

Choose 1 one of the above!

END OF CHOICE!

And yet again, a chapter comes. Ain't you all lucky I keep my promises for more? Cause I am! But, with all that content out the way, let me explain some things.

There will be NO monks busting down our theoretical door again because as soon as we touched the Ring in the Coal, it became OURS, or rather the Heylin, hence why Wuya's Revealer Eyes cut off mid flip-out.

Next up, Evil Santa and Good Santa are both examples of the Ring being used to Insane effect, AND a yearly event. Though look out come December, cause we have NOT been a Good boy...

Well, ominous premonitions aside, that's all for now everyone! I look forward to seeing your votes, and for the next while, I'll be updating the stat sheet and whatnot! Until next time!