150 Activity And Action (1/2)
[New corruption subdomain passive powers:
Obsession inducement: Obsession is one component of high-end power over lust. Lust is an intense desire for someone or something, and when desires get too intense they can become obsessive. As a dark divinity with power over lust you now have power over obsession. You can cause someone to become obsessed with someone else or with something. This obsession can be controlled and manipulated by you and can take on a number of different forms.
Obsession detection: You can detect what someone is obsessed with. This power allows you to better understand mortals in question and also allows finer manipulation of them.
Obsession destruction: This synergistic power takes from the subdomain of healing and allows you to free people of obsession if you wish.
Obsession aura: You can radiate an aura that causes people to become obsessed with you. This power is actually a synergistic one that intersects the eldritch domain and the sin of lust. This is an eerily fast-acting aura that can have a life-long impact if people are exposed to it for even a few moments. Its effects are especially pronounced and dramatic when they affect evil people.
Apathy inducement: You can cause people to lose interest in something or someone. This power is an exceedingly dangerous one that can cause families or communities to fall apart if targeted carefully and thoughtfully.
Apathy aura: You can project an aura that can be used to cause targeted creatures around you to become lazy. Targets within a few meters of you cannot become hostile towards you unless you attack them, not attacking you even if you attack their friends and family. Such creatures also become highly suggestible, lacking the willpower to resist the suggestions of a god. This power doesn't work on the strongest willed enemies, but many mortals and extraplanar beings would succumb to it.
Apathy attack: You can infuse apathetic energy into your attacks. These strikes do not do physical harm but instead, they fill those struck by them with apathy.
Despair inducement: You can infect someone with the idea that there is nothing worth doing or worth fighting for. This power causes them to wallow in sadness and become listless.
Despair aura: Creatures you target that are in your presence are overwhelmed by despair. They may cease efforts to resist you or even begin to turn to you in hopes that you'll kill them, or be merciful and rid them of this feeling.
Despair attacks: You can launch attacks that cause your enemies to feel a sense of overwhelming despair. This fear is often enough to drive mortals to surrender to the cause of it if they can identify you.
Exhaustion inducement: You can induce exhaustion in targets. This power can be used to cause someone to fall asleep for as long as you wish and enter into a dreaming state that is entirely controllable by you. It can also be used to slow someone down or make movements take longer.
Exhaustion aura: You can project an aura that saps the energies of selected creatures.
Numbing: You can numb someone, draining them of their capacity to feel. This renders pain less harsh and even inhibits their ability to feel positive emotions. It also slows their reaction time.
Obedience: Creatures affected by sloth based powers are highly unlikely to resist commands given by you or your followers. They lack the willpower to resist you or those who venerate you.
Paralysis: You can induce paralysis in mortals and in the undead. This paralysis is dangerous, targeted, and also numbs people's minds.
Sleep inducement: By synergizing the domain of dreams and the sin of sloth you can cause creatures to fall asleep. Victims of this power dream dreams you have utter control over.
Sleep aura: Only the strongest-willed creatures can stay awake in your presence if you activate this power.
New corruption domain active powers:
Sloth sphere: Once per hour you can create a fifteen meter wide and high area wherein anyone in it is immediately sapped of all of their energy.
Contagious Obsession: Once per hour you can induce a contagious obsession in someone. This is a synergistic power fusing the disease domain and the sin of lust and it allows obsessions to spread in a manner similar to a pandemic.
Sloth blessing and curse details:
Slothfully blessing someone enables them to resist sloth more effectively. It also grants them resistance to the negative, wasting effects of sloth. Cursing someone with this sin burdens them and affects them similarly to how depression affects mortals.]
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Reading through the notification filled me with confidence. These new powers were... they were something else. I felt them within me, and was cognizant of their dark capabilities from the second I began to read them.
I didn't often use my powers over lust itself. I did from time to time but I wasn't an especially lustful creature and I preferred to leave desires of the flesh to my followers so when I did use my desire-based abilities it was often for fun. That said, obsession... Obsession was something I could begin to make use of. And sloth was quite nice too.
I thought about possible applications for my new powers and the truth was that there were many possible ways I could use these powers. One of the easy ones was that I could mix sloth's powers with civilization and law to reorder societies and instill authorities that I liked in positions of power. Another simple application of these powers was that I could use them to destroy societies I didn't care for. Such usage of my powers would be quite simple.
If I felt like being benevolent I could even use this power to topple dictators and to get them to step down. All I had to do was fill them with apathy or despair until they decided to abandon their responsibilities. Or to stop evil-beings from behaving evilly by exhausting them. The potential of these new abilities was immense.
”Corruption is so... powerful.” I thought to myself, even as Sombra reached me and wrapped her arms around me. She began to proclaim how much she missed me, and how powerful she had gotten. I heard her and smiled idly at the demon, but my mind was elsewhere. When I turned my attention to her, I decided to perform a simple test of my abilities.
I studied the shadowy witch and activated one of my newly acquired abilities: ”Obsession detection”. I was surprised when the silky voice of the sin of lust whispered into my mind.
”This praereptor demon is obsessed with you. You did defeat her, but also you gave her a physical body and considerable power. She whole-heartedly, obsessively wants to serve you and be useful to you. You can manipulate this obsession if you wish.” The voice informed me, telling me something I had already unconsciously come to know but hadn't yet fully unpacked.
This confirmation of what a part of me had suspected for a while was unsurprising. But it did confirm the usefulness of my new powers. My scheming mind was already hard at work thinking up ways that this information could be used to advance plenty of schemes. That said, I had things I wished to do.
”Sombra... I see that you have grown powerful while you were enacting my will.” I told the demon who was hugging me. I wasn't fond of physical contact that I didn't initiate, but allowing her this little encouraged her and so I opted to permit it for now.
”Yes... Yes!” She said, excitedly. Her scarlet eyes were lit up with fascination and she was quite excited by my recognition of her advances in strength. I quietly began to run my fingers through her hair, and I was surprised when she began to make a noise that was similar to a cat's delighted purr.
”Do I... deserve a reward for my work? I think I do...” Sombra whispered, her voice reminding me of a moment in the past wherein I once spoke of taking her and called it a ”reward” that she hadn't yet earned. I grinned as I considered the sort of reward that she had in mind. It was one of a... carnal nature.
As before, a part of me wanted to give in to the temptation of her flesh. Even some gods weren't immune to lusts. But also as before I still had work to do. And she hadn't yet done what I tasked her with doing anyway. I sighed and shook my head.