I. Current Permanent Powers:
1. Telekinesis:
System Description: Bearer can focus to move objects with their mind.
How it Works: Magnus can move things with his mind. He usually uses hand gestures to disguise it as reflexes and improve accuracy.
Level Scaling: Scales with INT & STR
- Lv1: Small objects
- Lv2: Human-size objects
- Lv5: Larger objects
- Current Level: Lv5
Original Quest Target: Alejandra "Alex" Reyes (Week 1)
Notes: First and most-used power. Prolonged use causes fatigue.
2. Invisibility:
System Description: Bearer can turn invisible for X minutes. 3 daily uses.
How it Works: Magnus can turn invisible at will, limited to 3 uses per day.
Level Scaling: Scales with INT & AGI
- Lv1: 5 minutes/use
- Lv2: 10 minutes/use
- Lv5: 15 minutes/use
- Current Level: Lv3
Original Quest Target: Lila Voss (Week 2)
Notes:
- Only affects Magnus himself
- Clothes are included
- Objects he holds are NOT included
3. Animal-Linked Comprehension:
System Description: True Subjectivity, Interaction with Minor-to-Local Lifeforms, Implementation Ambiguous.
How it Works:
- Magnus hears/speaks English;
- Others hear animal noises (barks, hisses, squeaks, etc.)
Level Scaling: Scales with INT
- Scaling unclear in-story
- Current Level: Lv5
Original Quest Target: Sofia Ramirez (Week 4)
Notes:
- Most animals communicate via urges/intent, not full sentences
- Tony the Raccoon is the only known exception (full, complex speech)
- Animals still cannot communicate with other humans unless Magnus translates
4. Fortuitous Alignment:
System Description: By subtle harmonization of unseen currents, the bearer may incline outcomes toward auspicious convergence. Fortune, once beckoned, shall answer — but balance must ever be paid. For where the scales tip in favor, they must in time return to level, lest chaos take root. Let the bearer be warned: the scales of chance are never broken, only delayed. Each blessing drawn forward casts a shadow behind. Fate keeps account.
How it Works: Probability manipulation with consequences. Good luck now = equal bad luck later (including chain/butterfly effects).
Level Scaling: Scales with INT
- Higher levels improve precision and reduce unintended consequences
- Tradeoff rule ALWAYS remains
- Current Level: Lv2
Original Quest Target: Mia Chen (Week 5)
5. Affective Discernment:
System Description: The bearer may perceive prevailing emotional states and directed inclinations of nearby sapient beings. Strong or unresolved affect registers more clearly; muted, conflicted, or suppressed states may appear distorted or incomplete. This faculty observes disposition, not declaration. Thought remains unspoken; intent may contradict feeling. X charges, each with a separate cooldown of Y minutes.
How it Works: Empathic insight into surface-level emotions and intent.
Level Scaling: Scales with INT
- Lv1: 3 charges, 1h cooldown each
- Lv2: 5 charges, 1h cooldown each
- Lv5: 5 charges, 50 min cooldown each
- Current Level: Lv4
Original Quest Target: Riley Novak (Week 6)
Notes:
- Magnus had been using it sparingly, not for invasive spying
- Often used to ensure consent, safety, and emotional comfort in interactions.
- After gaining Aura Weave, he'd been using the two powers together to lean into target's existing emotions, enhancing their experience.
6. Premonition:
System Description: Bearer can get glimpses of future events.
How it Works: Random, short, contextless visions of the future. [ISPOILER]Connects 2 different points in time where at least 1 of Magnus's 5 senses receives the same input.[/ISPOILER]
- Active but not consciously controlled
- Subconscious activation
Level Scaling: Scales with INT
- Current Level: Lv3
Original Quest Target: Brooke Harlan (Week 7)
Notes:
- Functions like Raven Baxter's visions (That's So Raven)
- Useful but chaotic, often frustrating and comedic
7. Aura Weave
System Description: By measured attunement to the subtle emanations of self, the bearer may impress upon proximate minds a heightened receptivity to word and presence. When gaze and voice align, threads unseen may be drawn between speaker and witness, inclining perception toward favor. Yet heed this: such weaving does not compel the unwilling. Where discord of will runs deep, the pattern frays, and what is forced shall unravel.
How it Works: Basically enhance charm. Magnus can convince someone to do something they're already thinking about through eye-contact and focusing on his voice. He can also use it to enhance everything he says, which would trigger a stronger emotional response in targets.
Level Scaling: Scales with INT & [ispoiler]hidden CHA stat[/ispoiler]
- Scaling unclear in-story
- Current Level: Lv3
Original Quest Target: Harper Ellis (Week 8)
Notes:
- Can be resisted
- Affected by Magnus's mental & health state
8. Sympathetic Transference:
System Description: The bearer may assume the suffering of another into the self, easing wound, ailment, or affliction through sympathetic transfer. Flesh may be restored, poison quieted, and failing breath renewed — yet balance is preserved. That which is taken shall be endured by the bearer. Let none mistake absence of injury for absence of pain.
How it Works: Healing by taking on the pain of target.
Level Scaling: Scales with INT & and STA stat
- Higher level = less painful/affected by target's afflictions
- Current Level: Lv2
Original Quest Target: Naomi Homura (Week 9)
Notes:
- Can heal any injury, poison, etc. as long as the target is still alive
- Magnus takes on the pain, but not the wound. He's not taking on any physical dmg, just psychological/mental ones.
9. Oppositional Resistance Alteration:
System Description: The bearer may modify the resistance arising between bodies in relative motion. Through conscious exertion, opposition may be diminished or intensified, permitting passage where impediment once existed or stillness where motion would otherwise prevail.
How it Works: Friction control
Level Scaling: Scales with INT & and SPD stat
- Lv1: He can only affect 1 thing at the time which he has to touch
- Lv2: He can affect multiple things via focus control
- Lv5: He can affect everything within a radius around himself
- Current Level: Lv2
Original Quest Target: Maya Torres (Week 10/Spring Break first week)
Notes:
- He can make things slippery or sticky;
- He can climb walls like Spider-Man
10. Linguistic Attunement:
System Description: Through intimate attunement (i.e.: mouth-to-mouth contact), the bearer may synchronize with the linguistic matrices of another, bringing foreign tongues into effortless comprehension and expression. What is shared need not be studied; what is received need not be remembered. Yet let the bearer not mistake borrowed understanding for borrowed wisdom: this attunement synchronizes language alone. Memory, custom, history, and judgment remain beyond its reach.
How it Works: Language Assimilation. Kiss someone to learn every languages they know.
Level Scaling: Scales with INT stat
- Scaling unclear in-story
- Current Level: Lv2
Original Quest Target: Trần Bảo Ngọc (Jade) (Week 11/Spring Break second week)
Notes:
- Other form of intimate contacts may work, but not confirmed yet;
- The power immediately allows him perfect understanding of meaning, grammar, and pronunciation. But it does not tell him how native speakers actually speak their language.
- He knows at least Vietnamese (from Jade) and Spanish (from Alex)
11. Biochemical Integration Adaptation
System Description: The bearer may assimilate and biochemically process exogenous toxic or hazardous substances within the physical vessel without incurring systemic termination. While vital functions are preserved under extreme exposure, the physical nervous system remains receptive to the sensory and physiological effects of the integrated substances. While survival is guaranteed, discomfort is still preserved.
How it Works: Substance Absorption. He can absorb harmful substances in the environment into his body and survive their effects, though he'll still feel them.
Level Scaling: Scales with STA stat
- Higher levels = better resistance to the effects and suffering
- Current Level: Lv2
Original Quest Target: Emily Carter (Week 13)
Notes:
- He can absorb substances through any means;
- The power does not grant immunity to the effects, only allows him to survive the worst of it as his body won't reject the substances outright and can process and integrate them.
- His body can slowly build resistance over time after repeated exposure, though this could just be a normal biological process and isn't related to the power.
12. Bio-Electric Resonance
System Description: The bearer may perceive, conduct, and redirect the subtle electromagnetic frequencies animating organic neural pathways and technological relays. Direct interaction permits the synchronization, manipulation, or complete disruption of vital current vectors within proximate space.
How it Works: Bioelectric Manipulation. He can detect and project bioelectric current.
Level Scaling: Scales with INT stat
- Higher levels = more adept
- Current Level: Lv2
Original Quest Target: Emily Carter (Week 13/Hidden Objective Bonus)
Notes:
- He can use it during sex to enhance sensations;
- He can use it to short-circuit electronics. In fact, his first use of the power was to short-circuit the listening device Emily and Dash planted in his room.
II. Past powers (Lost due to quest failure):
1. Telepathy:
System Description: The bearer may focus to read target's surface level thoughts.
How it Works: Surface-level mind reading.
Level Scaling: Scales with INT stat
- Lv1: He can read target's mind for 3 minutes with a cooldown of 1 hour in between uses.
- Current Level: N/A (Lost)
Original Quest Target: Professor Elena Marquez (Week 3)
2. Spatial Translocation:
System Description: The bearer may instantaneously relocate their physical form across intervening space, provided the destination remains within direct visual range. Passage occurs instantaneously, yet is bound by the bearer's perception; intervening matter does not impede translocation, provided the destination itself is sufficiently observed. The bearer cannot translocate to a location they cannot see.
How it Works: Short-range teleportation, limited by sight.
Level Scaling: Scales with INT and AGI stat
- Scaling unclear
- Current Level: N/A (Lost)
Original Quest Target: Professor Elena Marquez (Week 12)