* Ding! *

* Ding! * The familiar sound of a level up registers, as well as another from up above, probably Dana's, and you smile a toothsome grin. Interested to see what your new level has brought you and with nothing better to do right now you look over your sheet.

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Chlorofiend of Vienna
Level 32 -> Level 33
Melee Attack: 49 -> 50
Ranged Attack: 42 -> 43
Weakness: Fire
Special Abilities:
Plant - heals 6 HP/sec and 5 MP/sec when in direct sunlight or in rain.
Immune to poison
Earth Wade - can wade through the earth like water.
Absorb - can draw mana from target through contact.
Herbal flow - can heal an ally for 9 HP/sec through contact.
Kindred: creatures sharing a type with you receive a significant bonus to HP and melee attack.
Earth Wave: drags roots through the ground, throwing up a wave of earth that has a chance to stun.
Seedlings: fire's a barrage of seeds at high velocity each impacting with half of normal ranged attack strength. Has a chance of sprouting a weed-fiend if seed lands in fertile soil.
New Ability!:
Lordship: Creatures sharing a type with you will not attack you or your party members while you are in range of them. You may command creatures sharing a type with you to attack other targets while you are in range of them. You now have the 'Noble' special quality.
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Well, this was certainly, interesting... A useful ability to be sure, but you are unclear on what that last caveat entailed. Resolving to find out you pull up the special qualities screen, which you never have had occasion to look at before, and see...

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Chlorofiend of Vienna

Roving Boss: Though you are a boss you are not confined to any one zone or boss boundary. You may travel Alluvia at will striking fear into the hearts of hero and NPC alike.
Demi-God: You may enter any server without losing items or experience. Your spells and abilities also do not require energy from Vienna to cast, meaning you can cast them even in 'Mundane' areas as long as you still have Mana. Furthermore your children and grand children will have enhanced statistics and be naturally inclined to follow your divine parent's faith. Lastly, you gain a special bonus relating to your divine parent's sphere of influence: in your case 'that weed fiends you seed remain when you leave their range and re-spawn when their zone reloads.'
Blessing Of Vienna: Immortality: You cannot die a 'True ****' except at the hands of a 'God' or 'Demi-God', even on 'Hardcore' servers. When you 'die' you re-spawn adjacent to 'Dana' 1-10 minutes later. If 'Dana' also dies during that time you instead both re-spawn at the same time adjacent to the nearest church or other place of worship to 'Vienna', and failing that where you entered the server. In all these cases you do not lose experience.
Noble: You are a member of the nobility, endowed with lands, ranks, and titles befitting your level and heritage. Certain areas and quests are open to you and your party which are not open to characters without this quality, and you receive a bonus to reaction rolls from 'noble' NPCs equal to your level. Be warned however, some NPCs notably 'rebels' have the opposite reaction to you, and may have special abilities that only work against 'Nobles'. Your Present title is: 'Unknown = 404, File not Found' And you hold in fief the area(s) of, 'Unknown = 404, File not Found'.

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Oh, this was just too good! The 'Roving Boss' and 'Noble' bits you had expected, though not the bits about the game not knowing your title or where you ruled, but the parts about 'Demi-God' and 'Immortality' those were entertaining and useful. ~Thank You Vienna, I will be sure to use these powers well!~ You pray silently.

It's dark by the time Dana comes back down to you, this time dressed in a full form hugging suit of jaguar skin and wielding a sword like arrangement of obsidian bits glued into a wooden handle, as well as her obsidian knife in her off hand, both of which now glow a faint green. She also wears on her back a backpack of plain leather, which you wonder what it holds...

You have listened to the sounds of an immense party going on above enviously for several hours, and wished you could participate somehow, but other than vindictively smashing bridges or platforms you could do nothing, and for your lover's sake refrained from doing so.

I take it things went well up there? You ask, intrigued.

"Quite well indeed," Dana says smiling broadly, "Not only did they give me enough credit with the stores to more than erase our debt they gave me a magical 'Macuahuitl' and enchanted my knife to deal poison damage." She then looks coquettish and kisses you on the mouth. "And I am sure you felt that trickle of XP...?" She queries coyly.

How many levels did YOU gain? You ask in amusement.

"Only about five." She says wryly.

Well, oh mighty mistress of blade and spell, what's next? You ask in further amusement that she would call 'five' 'only'...