Thoughts and Research of a Charm User

[3kul]

--- Memory Charm #3585-1 ---
Activation: SEEDLING

Of everything I have learnt in from my travels and the people I have met, there is only one constant - the presense of SPIRITUAL ENERGY. Regardless of what people choose to call it, I have yet to come across an organism that does not exude some kind of spiritual energy, though there are many who certainly possess some 'unique' ones. As I have previously noted, the creation of CHARMS is merely the act of storing energy within a piece of paper which can then be released later. I have seen many other objects that appear to follow similar rules, although I don't really have the know-how to study them, so I have instead chosen to focus my energies on studying what I know. When I learnt how to create charms, I learnt of only one variety - that which relied upon a small charge from a large power source, that of SPIRITS and GODS. These power sources can be very troublesome to deal with for reasons that I've previously noted, and as such I have reason to believe that charms were not originally used in such a way. The method is not only complex, but requires that the charm user already is able to contact the realm/s of the divine beings, a most unrealistic requirement.

Experimentation with other spirits has proven to yeild mixed results. My own spirit, 'HOLLOWEYES', is the easiest to manipulate and alter, though I'm not exactly sure why. I recall hearing somewhere that the only one who understands you best is you, so perhaps this has something to do with it? Regardless, it is much easier than the manipulation of spirits like those used for the JAWS OF DESPAIR, though it is much more limited as I need to retain most of my spirit in order to control that which I create as myself. The newest charm I've created from my own spirit, which I've codenamed the 'LANTERN OF A HOLLOW EYE', uses approximately 10% of my own spirit, the consequences of which are only temporary at best.

Other results are going pretty well, though not quite as successful as that. Organisms with a spiritual energy level that is too low have a tendancy to BURN OUT, whilst others are too complex to convert with my current understanding of them. Sometimes the conversion is incomplete, the results of which are generally very messy for both the new form created and the old one being used. Inanimate objects have so far been the easiest things to create, and have met higher rates of success than objects possessed by the spirits of those organisms used to create them, though I am fairly confident that this is a technique that I will be able to master with time.

But I am not satisfied with just this. I now wonder just what are the limits of us 'mere' mortals? It feels like I'm reaching beyond what I should be able to, and my mind is plagued by questions that need answering. The conversion of an organism's spiritual energy into an inanimate objects or transferring the organism's spiritual energy into such an object is within the reaches of my lifetime (or if not my own, then another's), yet I feel like trying to push the boundaries, reckless though it may seem, just to see what would happen. Because of this, I have begun working towards a different goal.

Using previously untapped and non-sentient forms of energy, I have been able to create a different variety of spiritual energy. With the aid of the RUBY DAGGER, I have been able to manipulate the HEAT energy given off by the FIRE, though my current conversion process is ridiculously wasteful (which hardly surprises me, though I can't say that I'm not disappointed). This unique fire-based spiritual energy, which I have yet to name, can be stored in the same manner as 'neutral' spiritual energy, though as a raw spiritual energy it doesn't really do much. After tomorrow, I'll have gained enough energy to attempt the next stage of this experiment. Despite how much I want to find out whether or not I am capable of this, I still find myself hesitating and questioning myself as I think about what I intend to do with this new hybrid form of spirit energy. I am fairly sure that what I am doing would be classified by many as 'wrong', and as such I have chosen to keep all of my research a secret from whoever I can.

One thought echoes throughout my mind at the moment - what exactly will happen when I attempt to make a SOUL out of something that was not originally one? I guess I'll have to wait and see.

((Part documentation on charms, spiritual manipulation and the endless possibilities within these fields, part RP, I'm writing this because I've made myself curious with what the limits of HollowEyes abilities are, and this seems like the right place to explore it . To explain what exactly the memory charm is, it's the result of a conversion of thought energy into spirit energy, and storing that energy into a charm. This removes these thoughts from HollowEyes' mind, though he can call on them whenever he wishes to do so by thinking of the activation word. All words in capitals are found in other memory charms (and they're also important terms ). Try to keep in mind that you can only read this out of character, as that's why I've posted it here. Think of it as a diary - your character wouldn't know where HollowEyes kept it, and even if they did, they wouldn't know how to read it. Feel free to comment on it though, or offer up your own ideas.

If Admins don't think that this thread belongs here, I'd prefer that it be moved to somewhere like The Amphitheatre))

[3kul]

((Well, it hasn't been moved, so I'm assuming that this is ok here. Writing in this diary kind of style is pretty interesting... Oh, and feel free to post here if you have any thoughts on this stuff at all, it's certainly not a closed thread ))

--- Memory Charm #3590-3 ---
Activation: BUDDING

My attempts to create a SOUL from energy that was not previously anything of that sort (in other words, to create a brand new soul) continue, having met varying degrees of success.

SPIRIT SEED ENERGY is what I have dubbed the 'tainted' raw SPIRIT ENERGY that I've created. True, it's not the most creative of names, but a name nonetheless. I believe that the word 'seed' applies because as raw energy, this stuff is really only able to be stored in charms and other things like that - unless I convert it to another kind of energy (for example, back into HEAT), it's not going to do much at all, aside from spreading back out into the atmosphere. The RUBY DAGGER makes the entire process a lot easier, and given that my access to other objects as powerful as this one range from limited to impossible, I've chosen to focus on the HEAT SEED for now until I've gotten a good grasp of the entire process.

The results have been somewhat confusing. I neglected to create a suitable body for the soul that I was attempting to make, and as such I can't really be sure if I've succeeded or not. I guess it's something halfway between a soul and raw spirit energy, so if I were to go with my previous naming scheme I guess I'd call it a HEAT SPROUT. Contrary to what one might think, the heat sprout doesn't exude any kind of warmth whatsoever. It instead drains heat from anything it touches, drawing upon it's own energy source in an attempt to complete itself from the looks of things. That's just a guess though, it could simply be that the tainted spirit energy acts as a magnet towards the heat energy nearby it, I'm not quite sure yet.

Of course, it'd be incredibly stupid of me to just let the heat sprout run about freezing everything in sight, so I've sealed it away in a charm during the times I'm not observing it, and during the times I am observing it, it is kept in a SPIRIT CONTAINER. It usually appears as a little flame, though I am aware that it doesn't need to have a physical shape all of the time (but again, whether this is because it's sentient or simply unstable I'm not quite sure yet).

If the heat sprout shows no interesting developments within the next few days, I'll be breaking it down into it's respective original energy forms and starting over again.

[3kul]

--- Memory Charm #3604-5 ---
Activation: SPROUTING

The HEAT SPROUT continues to confound me, though this time is a bit more concerning than the previous times.

Despite the fact that I created it I can't for the life of me figure out how to break it back down. Reversing the process does not work (perhaps this is because the energy has changed too much in it's time away from the RUBY DAGGER?), and there is no other way to ensure that the HEAT SPROUT is totally eliminated. This in itself isn't much cause for concern - the charm that it is sealed within is more than enough to contain it and the HEAT SPROUT shows no significant changes since I first began to study it.

What is a cause for concern is the sudden appearance of the GOD known as NOTEN, ally to my... sister LIYAO. After spending some time researching NOTEN I can't ignore the similarities between this GOD and the HEAT SPROUT, though there are obviously quite a great deal of differences between them too.

The balance of power in the multiverse is largely understood to be in the following order - GODS, the most powerful beings, then SPIRITS, with the potential to become GODS, then MORTALS, with the potential to become SPIRITS. However, the HEAT SPROUT does not fit into this order; it is an unintelligent essense with infinite potential, but limitable power. True, it's power could be unlimited, but provided that one doesn't allow it to run loose it can't actually gain extra power. The best way to illustrate this would be the snowball effect - if you don't roll a snowball, it will not get any bigger.

Here is where I believe NOTEN fits in. If I consider that NOTEN started as a SPROUT rather than a SPIRIT, it seems much more plausible that he could 'ascend' to Godhood in the manner that he did. For a SPIRIT to ascend, it is usually quite a big deal, the existance of a GOD is too big to keep secret, especially from other GODS and SPIRITS. Instead, let's say that NOTEN was a SEED that was created by somebody. Somehow, NOTEN becomes a SPROUT - from here, if unrestrained, he would explode in power.

Of course, there are various problems with this theory, which leaves me not so concerned about the HEAT SPROUT. For one thing, NOTEN does not consume NOTHING, he exudes it. The HEAT SPROUT does the exact opposite, consuming HEAT rather than exuding it. Perhaps there is a point that the SPROUT reaches in which it's internal balance switches, and it is able to exude that which it is made of? The problem with such a conclusion is that unless I actually conduct further tests on the HEAT SPROUT I can't actually find out if there's a link, but if I do conduct further tests and there is a link... Well, the problems that would arise from a situation like that is obvious.

I will attempt to come up with a solution to my predicament, but until then the HEAT SPROUT will remain sealed away.