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🎁 Gift Progression and Inventory Log

OOC Notes: This post can be used by PCs to keep track of their inventory for Magisteria. This includes both the gifts that each character received on arrival, as well as other rewards, prizes, or bling collected throughout one's time in the game. For the arrival gifts, those will develop as characters continue their journeys in Magisteria. Please reply below with the following information:

Your character's current gift:
What was your character's activity in Magisteria [since the last gift upgrade*]?
[Quests, event participation, completing Synthesis challenges, player plot stuff, etc. -- the more the better as far as gift upgrades.]
What kind of modifications would you like to see and/or what complementary gift would you like?* **

[ * because a gift growing can sometimes take the form of complementary offerings or something(s) to go with the OG gift.

** you can also say "Surprise me!" -- and, for that matter, it should be noted that PCs may get something that is mod's particular flair or spin on whatever upgrades they ask for. mod reserves the right to potentially put spins on requests, but will try to ensure that the results are satisfactory for everyone]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Musashi receives a special blade known as the Data Blade, also called Kintsugi (for "golden joinery" or "golden repair"), made of a hybrid alloy infused with novacite, a mystical metal from Magisteria, and a nanotech-infused core. The blade is adorned with intricate glowing circuits along its surface. These circuits shift and pulse, mirroring Lucy's data pathways. The circuits resemble the aesthetic of a kintsugi, symbolizing the blend of Lucy's technological prowess and Musashi's magic.

The Kintsugi/Data Blade also contains a unique trait: the Memory Sync Module. The sword contains a memory shared linked to Lucy's Bios, or neural data, encapsulated as a crystal disc embedded in the hilt. This allows Musashi to access memories, experience flashbacks or insights from Lucy's perspective, perhaps to understand her struggles or tactics.

While those on the magic path cannot learn Magisteria's technology due to the attitudes of those who would teach you, this blade gives Musashi a unique opportunity to blend paths through a circumvent: she's not technically learning tech herself; she is, rather, drawing on Lucy's core and Bios to wield a cyber-sword via Lucy's skills at tech combined with her own swordplay, fusing Musashi's samurai prowess with tech-based agility. The sword will also allow Musashi to enter digital landscapes, such as Vplane, normally off limits to those on the magic path. The sword enables Musashi to fight "digitally" as if dueling in a matrix-like space. It is empowered by Synthesis, albeit of a passive sort: rather than being an active act between Musashi and Lucy, this is a spiritual connection which has manifested and formed between the two from their interactions in this world. However, the active act of Synthesis can enhance Musashi's abilities or also grant more power/Bios to Lucy, as well.

Musashi will be warned: the connection may cause cognitive overload if used excessively, and emotional echoes from Lucy's memories could distract or overwhelm Musashi.

Musashi will also receive a note welcoming her to the ranks of Magisteria's cyber-samurai: she is welcome to come train in the dojo and pursue this lifestyle formally. There are plenty of opportunities associated with such a role.