[Lures:
Potpourri. -20.
Alluring Whisper. -20.
Don't Stand So Close To Me. -15.
Tsundere Services. -20.
Love Spot: Eyes. -20.
Sticky Fingers: Brown Sugar. -15.
Alluring Whisper: Siren's Song. -80.
Stud Services. -10.
Fool's Gold. -10.
Red Chains of Fate. -15.
Sticky Fingers: Alter Flavor. -10.
Demiplane/Dungeon:
Pocket Apartment II. -10.
Sweet Home II. -40.
Grand Manor II. -60.
Life's A Beach. -10.
Armory. -10.
Stay In Touch. -5.
Control Center App. -10.
Remaining Credits: 37.]
I decided to go all in on my credits for the more frivolous purchases, since I know had pretty much everything cleared up as far as Defenses and powers went for the most part. Also cause I like to reward myself for a good job done.
So I pretty much bought all the Lures I could get my hands on and a chunk of the Pocket Dimension purchases I wanted. A couple Perks were left, but those would be as an extra Credit sink.
Potpourri increases my sense of smell, detecting and categorizing scents and their origin. It also gives me control over how I smell, allowing me to subtly attract others in that way. From the smell of roses to call up a sense of romance to the smell of baked cookies to relax a target, this lure gives me a method of subtle manipulation over others through their sense of smell into their emotions. This also allows me to pick up on pheromones and scent based languages, and it even allows me to tune out smells I've categorized, if I wish to block the negative scent from my own senses. It will not work on someone who has no sense of smell.
Alluring Whisper makes my voice supernaturally soothing and, well, alluring. Merely whispering into the ears of a target will turn them into metaphorical goo, making them far more pliable to my suggestions. Beings with sufficient willpower can resist or even block the lure. It does not work on those who are deaf.
Don't Stand So Close To Me works in two ways. Targets taught by me or the targets that teach me will start to fall in love with me. They'll find themselves thinking on the next interaction we might have once the lesson is over, to thinking about me all the time, and even the lessons or 'tests' in their minds take on a more sexual nature over time. Longer, more personal, and more intense the interaction, the greater the effect. Students taught by me already interested in the subject matter are particularly susceptible, as are the teachers of those whose subject matters I'm interested in as well. This perk is best optimized for 1-on-1 instructions.
Tsundere Services works especially well on those with aggressive personalities and on those who have a tendency to hide their true feelings. Any aggression, verbal, mental, or otherwise, toward me by someone who I find sexually appealing, will be twisted into the aggressor simply being a 'Tsundere'. Once the aggressor is alone, they will find that aggression will swing into the opposite, making them unable to hide their actual feelings and desires even from themselves.
Easy guess on why I picked that one, huh?
Love Spot: Eyes, works on creating an immediate and intense infatuation in any woman who looks at the location designated. While it can be a mole, or a beauty mark, this perk can be reflected to simply work through a particular spot on the body or face. This charm effect works on line of sight, and intensifies with exposure. This lure can be resisted or negated by targets who have magic resistance, and cannot work on the blind.
Sticky Fingers; Brown Sugar, turns my bodily fluids into a natural aphrodisiac, which enhances any sexual experience in which my fluids are involved. I'm automatically immune to this purchase, and additionally, my... 'male genitalia' will secrete a natural lubricant that also possesses this aphrodisiac when aroused.
Admittedly that one was because the idea of enhancing sex and making my partner lose her mind during sex was quite tempting, and additional free lubricant is never a bad thing.
Alluring Whisper: Siren's Song makes my voice supernaturally commanding. Where the original perk can attract others to me, Siren's Song makes my voice able to compel others to do as I say. As an active effect, I can empower my words to give specific commands to individuals, or rally a crowd. Beings with sufficient willpower can resist and block the lure. Like the original perk, this does not work on the deaf.
Stud Services makes me 'prime breeding stock', able to sire the best children feasible given a compatible partner. This gives off a subtle aura that registers with those who can 'hear the biological clock ticking', those who've already had offspring, and those who are within the age range that considers the Contractor attractive. The more proof of my fertility, virility, or the quality of my offspring that a potential target witnesses, the far greater this Lure's effect, giving the targets fantasies and desires of being submissive and bred by me. With practice, this lure can also influence my offspring at conception to retain or remove traits which it would be possible for them to inherit.
Fool's Gold affects those of my targets who are influenced and motivated by money. It is particularly susceptible to those who have been rendered destitute, and this attraction is based on both obvious and subtle signs of wealth.
Red Chains of Fate gives me a sense of those who would be amicable to a relationship with me, making them 'pop' out when I'm aware of them in any way. By paying an additional 10 credits, this lure gives me a form of influence over those I'm aware of from this perk, drawing them to me like moths to flame. They will think of me more often and in a more positive context over time, and they will be drawn toward my location.
Sticky Fingers: Alter Flavor, allows me to modify the flavor of my bodily fluids at any time in an instant with just a thought, and this stacks in its effects with both Sticky Fingers: Brown Sugar and Faerie Feast.
Most of these Lures could be resisted or negated in some manner, which is why I didn't buy any of them until now. Even if the Lure itself could be ineffective, it still gave me far more avenues to work with in regards of Mama Mathers Template.
It also made me, and technically my retinue as a whole since they were also Blacklight so they are also an extension of me, that much more of a Cognitohazard. All five major human senses now made me an absolute danger, and this extends into the mental and spiritual. As a Jujutsu Kaisen Sorcerer, the body is the soul. One is not separate from the other.
So even in a spiritual aligned realm like Soul Society would find themselves having to deal with Blacklight. A true virus, a being that simply existed to encompass and further itself in every measure.
As Mama Mathers power also worked based on if you knew her name and spoke her name aloud, so to did this power expand to encompass my identity. To know of me in any measure, is to risk my awareness of you.
Blacklight. Project Zeus. The Honored One. The One Who Wields The Power of God. Shikamaru Nara. Gojo Satoru. Accelerator. All of these names and more now had a string, a connection, attached to them. To know me by any name, by any identity, was to risk my attention, and even worse was to say any of these names aloud.
In short, I was reminded a lot of the Eldritch Deities, and the Deities/Monsters of Percy Jackson, where to speak names was to risk getting their attention, and the greater risk of their ire if you disrespected them in the same breath.
The Pocket Dimension purchases were annoying in that some of the purchases were requirements for others, and that they overrode the previous ones, reminding me that it was a Tier progression that acted like a credit sink.
Pocket Apartment and Sweet Home got overridden by Grand Manor II. Fiat garunteed 2,400 square meters of interior floor space and 40 hectares outside. The Grand Manor is gaurunteed to have every living, training, and workshop area me and my retinue might need. Specialized workshops and equipment/resources will only be available if I know, or have someone who knows, how to use them. For safety reasons, all personnel and important items will be ejected from areas undergoing rearrangement through either the Control Room deep in the Manor or in the Control Center App if purchased.
Life's A Beach greatly expands the outside section of the Pocket Dimension. 24 vertical meters into the ground and 48 vertical meters into the sky, with the land expanded by 15.2 square kilometers across. Through the Control Center App, I can customize the exterior landscape however I see fit. The default is a tropical island paradise with standard day/night cycles and perfect weather. Alongside the purchase of the Grand Manor I or II, I can add new wings, lofts, basements, and attics to the Grand Manor so long as it fits within the Pocket Dimension's Exterior. The edge of the Pocket Dimension is selectively permeable, allowing biome appropriate wildlife to enter from worlds me and my retinue call home, with a gauruntee fiat against invasive species, pollutants, unwanted predators, etc.
Stay In Touch does exactly what it says on the tin, giving me high speed internet service covering any and all dimensions, no matter the location, magic wards, or jamming technology. A modern router and replacements are provided for free. The only downside was that it only works and connects to worlds I've been at so far: and Naruto doesn't have internet as far as I'm aware of yet.
Armory gives me, well, an armory. A room filled with weapons, armor, and ammunition. It holds a wide variety of standard and specialized equipment from every world I've visited, and my original world. This does include specialized equipment that would only be available to special forces, but does not include custom made equipment or unique ones. Weapons and armor acquired out in the field can be sent into and out of the armory with a few seconds concentration, and each of my retinue, including myself, could designate up to ten pieces of equipment to be able to equip and return to the armory at will. Everything stored in the armory will automatically repair and maintain itself, though this doesn't include fully destroyed magical artifacts without me first giving the magical energy to do so.
While most of these purchases were primarily to use up my Credits, I had to keep myself from shaking with excitement at the Armory's description.
Everything stored in the armory will automatically repair and maintain itself...
Blacklight was, first and foremost, a bio weapon.
I created a True Clone to take my place in my bed, so as to not alarm anyone if they woke up and wondered where I went, and I entered the clearly conveniently placed Portal Gateway right outside my home, walking into my Grand Manor as I appeared right inside my Armory as I willed it to take me right to there.
"Ikigai." I commanded, the sterile, clinical, nature of the Armory provided by the Company changing as I willed my first Creation into the world.
To create something from Ikigai, was to put yourself wholly and utterly into it's creation. It was a labor of love, of entirely placing one's desires and creativity into the act.
Normally this created a weakness where others could interfere or even try to kill me out of my momentary distraction, but I was not so easily killed.
For the fiat of the Armory to apply, it must be a weapon.
For it to represent Blacklight, it must be contagious, a viral weapon designed to infect and grow, and infect to kill in equal measure.
For it to represent Meraki, it must be a force of creativity, an extension of oneself. An extension of me beyond all others. No simple weapon can do.
For it to represent the Honored One, it must be infinite in its capacity, and infinite in its potential. It must have no ceiling, and no floor.
For it to represent the One Who Wields The Power of God, it must be unrelenting and unyielding in it's purpose, it must act as a way to prove one's Divinity in it's Power. Equal in its ability to manipulate and alter as it is in its ability to create and destroy.
For it to represent Shikamaru Nara, it must be akin to a Shadow, a part of and separate from the world. It's subtlety hidden from all other forces when it chooses to be, and overt and omnipresent when it chooses to be.
In this, my weapon is clear, and it's aspects chosen. In this, I pour my will into this creation, and burn it upon all realities eternal and in a moment.
"Prometheus."
The Titan of Forethought, and the Titan who gave mankind the first fire, the spark that led to humanity's rise.
The Armory seemed, at first, unchanged. Indeed, looking down, I saw my first creation.
A simple ink brush, not unlike what one would find in a store.
"Through songs and folktales, man had been able to pass down histories and stories through the generations, but it was through writing that even long after the civilizations of man had fallen, that man had been able to preserve their voices and tales through the millennia. Writing and art, through a canvas of stone, ink, and brush." I mused quietly.
The sword may kill even dozens of men, and a gun, hundreds, but it was through the will of man that said weapons were used, and what better signified that than the brush that painted life and death in equal measure.
Of course, Prometheus was no simple brush. No, Prometheus was a living brush that waited patiently for my bidding. It could create armies, alter reality, write new Laws of Reality, and so much more, all at my command, and it waited patiently for it knew that it's main task was to dip it's brush into the pool of Blacklight that oozed next to it, to bring me back from death, if all of my retinue and I perished simultaneously somehow.
In a way, I mused, I have Yakumo to thank for this idea, considering she's so fond of her paintings and her ability to cast realistic genjutsu through them.
Of course, Prometheus didn't even need a canvas. It simply willed into existence what it seemed to draw in thin air, and I maintained it as the Principle of Creation and Destruction, the first of my creations through Ikigai.
A fail-safe to my various fail-safes, to ensure that I wouldn't die a True Death against odds stacked against my favor. Something I was well aware the Company often indirectly approved of against its more arrogant Contractors.