AN: I know that Danny Phantom was quick but I'm hopeful that Alex can return at a later point and explore that world more because while I always planned on getting through my first jump quickly, I found i enjoyed writing Danny, Tucker and Sam.
This is the chapter where more mature themes are starting to be added. I'm cross-posting this on QQ so expect things to get weird. Jumpchains are not reknowned for obaying laws of sensibility.
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Chapter 4
"Welcome Back!" Seraphina exclaimed.
"Thanks." Alex said as he took in the space with an awe that had been denied him his fist time round.
The void was endless and filled with stars that swirled and twisted in mesmerising patterns. It was breathtakingly beautiful. It was dizzying too, not helped by the fact that the floor was invisible so that it seemed that you stood amongst the cosmos. Standing out in its surreality was the shag rug and accompanying couch upon which Seraphina lounged. Her laid back position drew the eye to the long stretch of pale leg from where she had them crossed while lying on the couch. She nodded one bare foot with black painted toenails at him.
The action was direct enough to pull Alex out of his perving, his eyes flicking to her face where he caught the smirk on her lips. Alex had been unable to appreciate it before but both this place and Seraphina were beautiful in very different ways. He was unsure if he would have even been able to have a coherent conversation with her had he been unprepared. Not that he was prepared now, but he at least had some prior, though watered down, exposure. His staring had triggered certain biological reactions that were hard to ignore as he was once again naked.
"Still no clothes?" Alex asked as he shifted to the side somewhat so that he wasn't pointing himself directly at the woman… goddess? Being? Fae?
"What can I say? I like the view." Seraphina swung herself into an upright position and crossed her legs in a manner reminiscent of a famous early 90s film.
"So do I." Alex murmured before he could catch himself. The fact that Seraphina only laughed reassured him that he wasn't in trouble. "I feel different than the last time I was here." Alex Said.
"As I told you then; your emotions were purposefully muted. It prevents panic attacks and promotes logical thinking." Seraphina explained.
"And now?"
"Now your emotional response is your own," Seraphina told him. "You were expecting to come here and already know you're not dead or insane or something else that would waste time."
"Great…" Alex trailed off. It meant that him perving was likely all him and not some external effect. Though it didn't explain why he wasn't so distracted by his sudden appearance in the last Jump and or the attractive ghost he was with.
"That was an effect of the double ghost forms you adopted when you entered the jump. Given time you would have adapted but at the very beginning some of your more erratic human responses were quite literally dead." Seraphina explained his unvoiced thoughts. Her expression become serious for a moment. "Let that be a lesson to you that alt-forms you take in Jumps can have an effect on your thoughts and emotions." She warned.
Alex nodded at her advice. "So where is Morrigan?" he asked.
"She's waiting in the companion housing; companions won't appear here unless you ask for them. It gives you the opportunity to complete any jump related tasks you want to keep private remain so."
"I don't think there's anything about the last jump I need to keep to myself."
"Then I'll bring her in when you select the next one." Seraphina said. "By the way, did you enjoy your first Jump?"
"I did. Though the rhyming narrator was annoying at the beginning I kinda zoned it out by the end."
"Drawbacks are weird like that. Though I feel you missed out on many of the ones you selected by dint of only hanging around for one night."
"I'm not going to complain about that." Alex said with a laugh. "Oh! that reminds me, can I look at the perks I picked?"
"Just think of a stat page appearing." Seraphina advised.
Alex imagined a stat-page listing all his perks and abilities appearing and it did so as a floating window much like a text document on a computer. Scrolling through his list he quickly found the perk he was thinking off.
"Before I forget," Seraphina started while Alex read, "you're a cheater."
Alex looked up surprised. "I'm a what now?"
Seraphina nodded solemnly. "A cheater. I was not expecting your little trick with the magic portraits to work."
"To be honest, neither was I," Alex Admitted, "is it a problem?"
Seraphina shook her head. "No, no problem. The rules are guidelines and anything not allowed simply won't work. You're expected to try and be creative."
Alex let go of a breath he hadn't realised he had been holding. It was one thing to try and work the system in a game but he had been worried about the omnipotent being he was… working for? …Playing with? …Serving? Whatever. She was cool and was not going to squish him for trying to work the system. He returned to his stat page not noticing the small smile that crossed said being's face.
"I didn't even think about it while in Jump, but what happened to all the wealth from the Kings Ransom perk?" Alex asked after a minute of reading.
"It's in a hidden room behind the one of the bookshelves in the Ghost Room you got; which has also been added to your Housing within the Warehouse" Seraphina said as an image of the cosy room with the large bed, lounge area and old wood furniture and bookshelves appeared next to them. The image flowed toward one of the bookshelves and a red leather-bound book moved with a click causing the entire shelving to swing outward revealing a huge ballroom sized space overflowing with gold coins, precious gems, silver ingots and bundles of cash.
"Holy— how much is there?"
"It says: 'enough to build tons of haunted mansions and each one would be filled with riches.' I would estimate somewhere within the range of a few hundred million dollars. Does it matter, considering it refills every night?"
"I guess not, though it does decide what I'm doing next." Alex said.
"Oh?"
"Yeah, I should do the Monopoly Gauntlet so it's usable in any jump where gold and wads of American cash aren't the required currency."
"Smart thinking," Seraphina said pulling up the relevant jumpdoc, "make your choices and I'll send you in."
Alex started going through the document to make his choices. "Given that it's a gauntlet: Morrigan won't be able to come with me?"
"Gauntlets are for you alone unless the document allows others," Seraphina confirmed. "Oh and speaking of the ghostly maiden." She snapped her fingers causing Morrigan to appear in a flash of light."
"Eep!" Morrigan squeaked as she appeared. "You're naked!" She accused Alex while covering her eyes.
Alex didn't fail to notice that she kept enough of a gap between her fingers to peek through them. He also could not fail to notice that she was in a similar state of dress to himself. That is to say: undressed.
"So are you." Alex said as he ran his eyes along her form. She was attractive. A little thin, with a very modest but well-shaped bust. She had a toned stomach and long, strong legs. The small patch of sparse pubic hair matched her locks of greyish silver.
Morrigan looked down at herself and shrieked.
"Don't look!" She shouted as she crouched and covered as much of herself as possible.
"Sorry." Alex said and turned his back to her. Much too late really.
"Why am I naked?" Morrigan asked in a strained voice.
Alex guested over his shoulder towards where Seraphina was behind Morrigan.
"You'll have to ask the lady over there," he said.
Morrigan looked to the incredibly beautiful woman lounging behind her.
Seraphina shrugged. "I enjoy naked people. Sue me."
"Can I please have some clothes?" Morrigan pleaded with tears in the corner of her eyes.
Seraphina tapped one black tipped finger to her lips in thought. "Alright. But only because I can't see anything with you crouched like that anyway." She snapped her fingers causing a black robe to appear before Morrigan.
Morrigan blushed at the insinuation that the woman wanted to look at her and grabbed the silky black robe, quickly pulling it on. It was thin and clung to her curves but it covered her chest and fell to just above the knees. It was only somewhat more revealing than what Morrigan had been wearing in the mansion but then again, Morrigan wasn't modest, she just wasn't an exhibitionist… or at least she didn't think she was. Now that she was covered and calming down, she found that she didn't mind the idea that both the strange attractive woman and Alex wanted to look at her only that them looking at her made her feel incredibly embarrassed and naked… especially when she WAS naked.
"Couldn't you have just tuned invisible?" Alex asked from where he was going over the gauntlet document; his back still to the girls.
Morrigan froze. She had completely forgotten about that. Deciding to ignore the question she instead settled for tying the robe in place and making sure it hung nicely. "You can turn around now. I'm decent." She allowed Alex.
Alex turned back to the two to see Morrigan in a black silk robe. The way it clung to her hips and contrasted against her pale skin was much more alluring than straight up nudity.
"More than decent, I would say."
Morrigan blushed at the comment and ignored the obvious reaction Alex had at seeing her.
"So where are we and what are we doing?" She asked.
Seraphina answered.
"You're in my personal realm within the void. I'm the omnipotent being that has selected young Alex to jump through various realities for my amusement. We're currently waiting on Alex to make his selection for a gauntlet based on a family boardgame about capitalism. He'll go in alone and we'll watch him fail… or not. He may surprise us." Seraphina said with a grin.
Alex rolled his eyes while Morrigan nodded along.
Seraphina gestured and a lounge chair appeared adjacent to her couch along with a low glass coffee table and a selection of coffee and tea services. "Would you like to join me while Alex makes his discissions?" Seraphina asked, "also — you may call me Seraphina."
"Thankyou." Morrigan smiled and joined Seraphina, the two started to quietly chat as Seraphina served them tea.
Alex decided to ignore their surprisingly normal conversation on favourite teas, clothes and haunting techniques, OK maybe not completely normal, and focus on his selection. Gauntlets were different in that he didn't start with any CP and could only enter with his body mod and so had to balance drawbacks with desired perks.
Monopoly Gauntlet.
0CP (+1200)
Origin:
Bodymod 21yo
Perks:
Fast Track [100]
Cash Advance [300]
Real Estate [400]
The Landlords Game [400]
Drawbacks:
Annoyance [+100]
-Ankle Biter [+100]
-Just make it stop [+200]
-Only the Dead Can Know Peace [+300]
More Of Them [+200]
Embarrassment [+100]
Free Parking [+200]
Seraphina looked over Alex's choices and let out a long whistle. "You know that this is going to be painful right?" she asked with concern.
"I've survived family board games before, I'm sure I can do it again."
"Well if you're sure," Seraphina shrugged.
"Good luck, Alex." Morrigan encouraged him.
"Thanks, see you soon." Alex said as he disappeared with a wave of Seraphina's hand.
"He'll be OK, right?" Morrigan asked.
"Probably," Seraphina replied, "let's watch."
Seraphina gestured again and the area in front of the two swirled with colour: revealing six people sitting around a table with stacks of colourful money and a light beige boardgame between them.
⦖⋄⦕
"You can have the wheelbarrow." The blond girl sitting on his knee smiled as she pressed the small pewter piece into Alex's hand.
"Thanks." Alex said taking his least favourite piece.
"You're welcome!" The girl smirked as she turned back to counting her money for the seventh time. He honey-blond ponytail slapped him in the face… again.
Around the table the rest of the family were getting comfortable, counting their colourful paper money and making sure they had coffee, wine or soda on hand.
Alex looked around at the mish-mashed group of people that he remembered as family even though he knew he had never seen them before in his life. He had grown up the only child of a single mum and had no close extended family. Here, in this world, he had many family members.
The ease of which a being like Seraphina could construct entire histories was as horrifying as it was amazing. He was just thankful that she didn't seem to have a sadistic side as he could find no memories that would traumatise him… though he did find many that were suspect for completely different reasons. Especially given that the people around him were for lack of a better description: Freaks and perverts of the highest order.
The couple across from him were a matched pair of weird. The attractive forty-year-old woman was wearing a dog-ear headband, a black leather collar with attached leash and a short summer dress. Had she been standing he knew that she would also be sporting a fluffy dogs tail behind her that was more likely plug-in than strap-on. Next to her was a man in a full body blue dog suit, the suit's head currently at his side so he could sip at a cup of coffee while playfully tugging at the leash leading back to his wife.
It made for an interesting feeling to then know that the woman was his Aunt Isabella — aunt Bella for short. He had never seen her before today and yet he had many memories of her. He remembered her being over often for coffee with his mum often, he remembered her babysitting him when he was young and he remembered that when he was eleven when he wore ridiculous bowtie outfit when he was ringbearer at her wedding to her husband, Greg. He knew this woman, hell he loved her dearly, and so he also knew that her current attire and behaviour was completely normal for her even if he had always found it embarrassing.
The twenty-eight-year-old, balding overweight man in the ahego sweatshirt to Alex's left was his cousin Joe. The guy was an amateur programmer and self-proclaimed hacker who lived in his mother's basement to 'save money for his future waifu' and he would corner you for hours to talk about how Rainbow-Dash was superior to Twilight-Sparkle if given the chance. He was currently surreptitiously starting at the tween riding Alex's knee while breathing way too heavily not to be noticed. Alex wrapped an arm around his sister's middle and pulled her close without even thinking about it, the girl leant back against him comfortably.
Sister. That was strange. He had never had a sister before and yet he had years of memories of Brooklyn Blake or Lyn as she preferred to be called. Well, to be specific she was his half-sister. They shared a mother but had different fathers both of whom hadn't been in either of their lives for different reasons. Alex's own father had run away from responsibility when he got his high school girlfriend pregnant and no one had seen him since. Lyn's father had passed in a workplace accident soon after she was born. Alex had been nine and the time and missed the guy. He had been good to him and his mother.
Lyn was as annoying as she was adorable. She was loud and bashful. She was sneaky and generous. She was cheeky and cheerful. To say he loved his little sister was an understatement. He knew she was a cheeky, little brat who had him wrapped around her finger but he wouldn't give her up for the world. She was twelve and he was nine years older at twenty-one but they were incredibly close. They had both grown up without a father and so Alex had tried to be the best big brother and male role model he could be. In this life he had stepped in and taken her in after their mother's death last year. He had dropped out of college and gotten a job to make sure he could take care of her.
Mum. Memories of his mother were painful but thankfully not new. The memories of his own mother and the one from the gauntlet blended with little deviation other than the inclusion of his sister and new extended family.
Marie Blake had been a strong and caring woman. She had raised him as a single mum and her duplicate had done the same for both he and his sister. She worked in some medium sized corporation and though the hours were long, it allowed her the finances to raise a child (or two) without assistance. It had made for some lonely times during their childhood and while Alex had, in his own world, retreated into fiction: in this one he had shared his love of reading with his sister.
Some of his fondest new memories were reading to her at night as their mum stayed late at the office. That wasn't to say that their mother was neglectful. She made time when she could and would spend weekends with them going out to the park or cooking together at home, all little moments that held families together. But for most of the week she simply couldn't be there for every dinner or to help with homework or such things.
Alex wasn't sure if he was thankful or disappointed that Seraphina hadn't changed that their mother had still died when he was twenty. He knew that if she was still alive in this world he would likely never want to leave or insist on bringing her with him, even knowing that she wasn't his original mother.
Lastly on Alex's right was his Aunt Helen or as Alex like to call her in his head; 'that miserable bitch.' She was already on her fourth glass of red and was unlikely to stop any time soon. It wasn't like she didn't have reason to drink. Her son Joe was a creep and her husband was likely off screwing another secretary somewhere. The woman was bitter that her life hadn't become some hallmark perfect ideal and in her late fifties she was too old or at least too stubborn to change it. She took out her frustration through drinking and making sure no one else around her could be happy.
Alex hugged his sister closer. She repaid him by elbowing him in the gut as she shuffled into a comfortable position. Around the table everyone had selected their pierces and arranged their space accordingly.
"Everyone chosen their pieces?" Aunt Bell asked.
Alex reached out and put his wheelbarrow on the 'Go' square alongside his sister's car, Aunt Bells dog and Uncle Greg's top hat. Aunt Helen dropped the clothes iron onto the square and Joe put down the battleship with a murmured, "Fubuki-chan is so kawaii."
"Highest roll goes first, woof!" Aunt Bell said as she rolled a three and a four for a total of eight.
Around the table everyone rolled in turn.
"You're up." Alex said to Helen who had rolled the highest at double sixes.
Helen almost spilled her wine as she rolled and moved her piece six spaces to the Angel Islington. "I'll purchase it." She slurred and counted out the cash to Greg, who was acting as the Bank.
Lyn bounced heavily on Alex's knee as she reached forward and grabbed the dice for her turn.
"Ooph," Alex grunted, "wouldn't you prefer to sit in a chair?" he asked the exuberant girl.
Lyn just looked at him like he was an idiot. "No, I'm good." She smiled back and rolled an eleven, taking her car to Pall Mall and making the purchase.
Alex took the dice himself and made his own roll, double fours. He smiled as he purchased Euston Road and a house automatically appeared on it.
Other than Helen muttering "Typical entitled brat," no one seemed to care about the perk taking effect. Taking up the dice again for his second roll, Alex smiled, this should be easier than he thought.
⦖⋄⦕
Forty minutes later and though Alex was easily winning he was ready to punch someone. It likely wouldn't be the first time a family had come to blows over a Monopoly board but it may be the first time someone had actually died.
He had at first ignored the creepy way Joe kept looking at Lyn but leaning in to sniff her hair as she moved her piece towards the Free Parking square had been way too much. Thankfully Lyn hadn't seemed to notice. Nor had she heard Helen's snide comments about how she dressed like her whore mother. How jeans and crop top could have been too much for Helen's sensibilities or Joes self-restraint, Alex didn't know, nor did he find it amusing given she was talking about his sister and mother. He also couldn't believe she was commenting on that while he could see by Aunt Bell's hand movements that she was jacking off her husband below the table.
He had almost had a heart attack twice during the game, once when his aunt's foot had rubbed against his crotch as she asked if there was anything that she could do to get out paying rent on his orange properties and again when Lyn had pushed Bell's foot off him and shuffled herself off his knee and onto his lap directly while glaring at the older woman.
He had been thankful that the new memories had nothing horrendous like childhood abuse or exposure to a horrific accident or such but he was starting to think that maybe the 'him' of this world had his own issues when he had hugged Lyn close after that. And the less he thought about his sister's obvious brother complex the better, at least for now.
With the conclusion of the game the other family members had gone silent and still as the ghostly form of Milburn Pennybags had flowed out of the board and offered to shake his hand. The man had then placed a top hat — sorry, a stovepipe hat — on his head, passed him a pocket watch, pressed a heavy silver pooch into his arms and promised him that all his money forever more would be good wherever he went.
Alex had simply sat there in stunned silence until he blinked and found himself sitting on a couch back in Seraphina's void.
"Did you have fun?" Seraphina asked.
"Not really, no." Alex responded. He looked down at the metal dog in his arms with a frown. "Do I have to keep the dog?" he asked.
"No, I can either return it to the Monopoly world or you could just store it in the Warehouse."
"Wait," Alex frowned, "The world keeps on existing?"
"All worlds both exist and don't exist until observed." Seraphina explained. "Because we observed this one it will keep on existing until the conceptual entropy overtakes the thematic inertia."
Alex didn't like the sound of that. It raised too many questions about what reality was to begin with and cast doubt on his belief that his original reality was somehow the real one.
"It's not." Seraphina asked the question he hadn't had the guts to even think. "Your reality was created from a story from another reality about a dog named Spot."
Alex tried to wrap his mind around that. "Are all realities like that?"
Seraphina nodded. "All worlds are thematic branches from the collective imagination of other worlds." Seraphina explained. "Imagine a still pool of water; a stone is thrown in and it splashes as it hits the surface. The ripple that spreads out is a thematic wave and represents all versions of that reality. The splash causes droplets to fall nearby creating new ripples and splashes. Occasionally ripples interact with each other, creating new patterns that are a combination of two. No one knows who cast the first stone but part of our job is to keep the process going, ensuring that there are new splashes when the water starts to still again."
"So, we're all just temporary ripples on the water?"
"Of course not. That's just a metaphor to explain concepts that are beyond your imagination at the moment. It's much more complicated that I made it sound."
"So that means that Lyn still exists?"
"She does."
"Can I trade the dog for my sister? I don't want to leave her with those people."
Seraphina pulled out the small red leather book and started flipping through the pages.
"… return policies… companion exchange, no that's not right. Gauntlet extended warranties and returns, that maybe it… Alright!" Seraphina snapped the book shut. "I can exchange the doggo for the girl if that's what you want."
"Please do." Alex said.
With a small flash of light his arms were suddenly filled not by cold metal dog but warm and unfortunately naked kid sister.
The honey blond girl looked up at him with bright green eyes and blinked. She looked down at herself and at him, then around at the other two on the couch.
"Why are you naked? Why am I naked?" She paused as she looked around. "Is this a dream? I've had dreams like this before but not with an audience…"
"Umm no, this isn't a dream." Alex said as he carefully lifted the girl off him and onto the couch while trying very hard not to actually look at her. "Seraphina a little help here?"
Seraphina scoffed. "I don't know what your problem is with nudity. I know you like looking at naked women." Still, she snapped her fingers and another silky black robe matching Morrigan's appeared around Lyn.
Alex waited a second before asking. "And me?"
"Nope. Just because you don't want to look at the girls around you don't mean I don't want to look at you."
"I don't mind." Lyn murmured as she eyed her bothers slim yet toned body with a blush heavy on her cheeks.
"That's part of the problem." Alex muttered.
Fixing Seraphina with an accusing glare. "Did you have to give everyone in that world issues?"
"I'm not the one who picked the drawbacks." Seraphina defended herself. "I just interpreted them in a manner that had the least problems. Also, most of my material came from your own subconscious ideas on what a little sister was, it's not my fault that you watched too many inappropriate Japanese cartoons, just be thankful she doesn't call you 'onii-chan.'
Lyn looked up at her brother. "Onii-chan?"
Alex shivered involuntarily. I'm going to need therapy to unpack that, he thought to himself.
"No, this is much tamer than Aunt Bell at least." Alex admitted. "Though I feel I'm much to accepting of it anyway."
"That because you picked a drawback that insisted that I provide alternate memories for family members you simply didn't have. You've had years to come to terms with your sister's obsession with you."
"Hey!" Lyn objected.
Alex reflexively reached out and rubbed her head causing the girl to instantly calm down and snuggle into his touch.
"Seriously, let that be another lesson to you to be careful when selecting anything that affects your mind. I could have been much more malicious."
"Alright. I get it."
"Not that I mind you all talking about me as if I'm not here." Lyn said from where she was curled into Alex's side. "But where are we? What's going on? And who are you two?"
"Well…" Alex began.
⦖⋄⦕
It only took ten minutes to explain the situation to Lyn, Alex suspected that Seraphina was helping out somehow to avoid any disbelief.
"I get to go on adventures with you and don't have to go back home?" Lyn asked.
"That's right. That's if you want too of course."
"Best big brother ever." Lyn hugged him tight. "Where are we going next?"
"I've got ghost powers and the ability to give them out," Alex started, "that should cover most dangers. I've got magic that I want to explore, maybe something like the Dresden Files or Harry Potter."
"Or you could go to the Tortall Universe or the Artemis Fowl Universe?" Lyn suggested from some of her favourite books.
Alex brought up the jumpdocs with a gesture and glanced through them. Some of the perks did look nice, especially 'The Book.'
"I was also thinking that I need some tech or another type of power to balance everything out. Ghost-powers are good but they can be negated with magic, magic is adaptable but some places trump it with science when they start to understand how the energy works. I think we need some tech to use when powers fail."
"What about magic tech?" Lyn asked.
"What were you thinking, 'cause I'm definitely going to veto Star Wars for at least a few jumps yet." Alex responded.
"I'm thinking that Steven Universe has some cool crystal-based technology that works like magic. Not to mention Gem-powers."
Alex brought up the doc and started reading through it. "This could work, it'll give me another method of empowering companions as well." Alex thought he might even be able to start combining upgrades, phantom-crystals sounded cool.
"You're rather quiet, aren't you?" Lyn turned to Morrigan as Alex read.
Morrigan nodded. "I've read through some of the Jumpdocs but I've no experience with any of the worlds they're based off so find it a bit overwhelming."
She perked up a little, "I did look at the Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe Jump," only to drop it again as she finished, "but it made my head hurt."
Lyn crawled over the couch to sit by Morrigan and gave her a hug. "Don't worry, I'm sure wherever we go I can show you more pop-culture to get into."
Morrigan timidly wrapped an arm around the girl. "I'd like that."
Seraphina smiled as she watched the two girls get along. Looking back at Alex she asked: "Have you made your decision yet?"
"Almost." Alex responded, "If I take the diamond form in the SU jump can I make my power the ability to create and shape and control crystals?"
"Isn't that already a perk?"
"That's for making other Gem lifeforms, I meant can I actually generate physical crystals?"
"I don't see why not," Seraphina began, "you can't give them life without the appropriate perk and you won't be able to affect a Gem's gemstone without touching it."
"That's more than fair."
"I'm surprised that's what you're going with, there are plenty of Jumps with more powerful technology."
"True but this one has unique tech, inbuilt power-ups and now the ability to literally create the tech with a power."
Seraphina laughed as she put the crystal creation ability and the fact that the technology was made out of crystal together in her mind. "Yeah, that'll work."
Alexander Blake
Steven Universe
1000CP + 1100CP
Origin:
Drop-in [Free]
Race:
Gem [200CP]
-Diamond Authority [400CP] — Grey Diamond - Crystal Creation Ability.
Perks:
Crystal-Clear Sound [Free]
Gem Tech [400]
Accepting Physiology (Half-Gem) [100CP]
Form Shifting (Gem) [Free]
Armament Creation (Gem) [Free] — Daggers
Fusion (Gem) [Free]
Bubbling (Gem) [100]
Gem Creation (Gem) [300CP]
Items:
Gem Destabiliser (Gem) [Free]
Temple and Warp Grid [300CP]
Companions:
Import x2 [100CP]
Canon Gem [200CP] – Lapis Lazuli
Drawbacks:
Short Stack [+100]
Spinel [+400]
The Diamonds [+600]
Seraphina looked over Alex's selection. "Are you insane?" she queried.
"I know, I know but I really wanted some of those perks."
"What's wrong with the selection?" asked Morrigan.
"The Diamonds and Spinel are the some of the most powerful characters in that universe and my idiot brother has decided to paint a target on himself for all of them."
"Are they that bad?"
"Think four King Boo's in Bowser costume bad." Alex admitted.
"Why would you take those drawbacks then?" Seraphina pressed Alex.
"Because the whole purpose of this jump is to gain easy tech and the Diamond Authority is stupidly expensive." Alex sighed. "Look, I know it seems undoable but I do have a plan and I do have a Jumper's best weapon."
"Plot Armor?" Seraphina asked coyly.
Alex scowled at her. "No. out of context powers."
Alex paced back and forth as he explained. "The Diamonds are thousands of years old and immensely powerful but that also means they're arrogant and certain of themselves. They've never encountered ghosts or magic because those simply don't exist within their universe."
"So you're going to spook them to death?" Lyn asked sarcastically.
"No, but I can overshadow their servants and hit them hard when they're not looking and if worse comes to worst, we can just hide."
Everyone was quiet in thought.
"That may just work." Lyn admitted.
"Good. Now, you both have eight hundred choice points to use to help me."
Morrigan looked over to Alex. "Any suggestions?"
"Grab 'Adapting Physiology' if you can afford it. It'll make giving your future forms ghost powers much easier." Alex Suggested.
Both Morrigan and Lyn nodded at the suggestion and started completing their choices. Lyn finished first and they both waited for Morrigan.
"So why Lapis?" Lyn asked Alex.
Alex shrugged. "She seemed to get screwed over a lot in the show and she reminds me of a girl I had a crush on high school."
Lyn cocked an eyebrow at him. "Blue?"
Alex sighed. "No, damaged."
"Yikes, that screams unhealthy. You know that right."
"I do." Alex agreed.
Brooklyn Blake
Steven Universe
800CP + 100CP
Origin:
Drop-in [Free]
Race:
Half Gem [100CP]
-Quartz [100] — Angel Aura Quartz
Perks:
Crystal-Clear Sound [Free]
Fighting Prowess [100CP] – Martial Arts
Primitive Technology Adaption [600CP]
Accepting Physiology [Free]
Biological Shifting [Free]
Gem powers [Free] — Force Shard Creation.
Items:
Food Themed Bag [Free] — Donut-shaped Back-pack.
Drawbacks:
Short Stack [+100CP]
Morrigan
Steven Universe
800CP + 100CP
Origin:
Drop-in [Free]
Race:
Gem [200CP]
-Quartz [200] — Flint
Perks:
Crystal-Clear Sound [Free]
Fighting Prowess [100CP] – Spearmanship
Accepting Physiology [100CP]
Form Shifting [Free]
Armament Creation [Free] — Spear
Fusion [Free]
Gem powers [Free] — Geokinesis
Items:
Gem Destabiliser [Free]
Homeworld Colony [300CP]
Drawbacks:
Short Stack [+100CP]
Alex looked over at Morrigan. "You purchased an entire planet?"
"We might need an army," Morrigan shrugged.
Alex couldn't think of an argument against that.
"What style do you want your colony in?" Seraphina asked.
Morrigan thought for a moment before looking at Alex. "You named be Morrigan after a mythical figure, right?"
Alex nodded.
"What culture is that from?"
"The Morrigan was a Pagan Goddess of Warriors, War and Death in Celtic mythology." Alex answered her.
Morrigan looked to Seraphina. "Can I have a Celtic style with a warrior culture?"
"I think I can easily do that." Seraphina made a few notes on a window that she brought up. "I think that's everything I need. Before I send you off, I should remind you all to check out the companion housing and that you'll all find your companion phone in your rooms. You can combine them with other communication devices but they're the only thing that will be able to contact the warehouse or the housing."
"I completely forgot about those." Alex murmured.
"I know. That's why I mentioned them. Anyway Goodluck!"
Seraphina snapped her fingers.
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