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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 3614108" data-attributes="member: 29746">While thinking about some of the super-dragons I had a back-and-forth with UK about on the Bestiary thread, I came up with this new Transcendental effect. I based it off of the fact that the Atomic [Effect], which is Cosmic, essentially just combines 5 Divine [Effect]s into a single ability that uses all of them simultaneously. So, figuring the same principle should apply for higher tiers in the divine food chain, I present the:Alpha [Effect] (originally named Big Bang [Effect] - thanks to Phantom Llama for the better name!)Your effect causes brief periods of spacetime/quantum inflation.Benefit: The effect causes a portion of the target to spontaneously undergo a process of extremely rapid growth and energy release at the sub-quantum level, which normally cannot occur anywhere except during a minuscule fraction of a nanosecond after the birth of a new universe. This rapid expansion uses some of the energy from the target- both its life energy and the energy held within the matter of its makeup- to fuel the expansion for the vanishingly brief time it takes to occur.This has several effects: partial destruction of the target's body via annihilation of matter and gravitational distortion of mass, aging of the target due to exposure to rapidly expanding time within the zone of inflation, and loss of life energy represented by the removal of experience points and quintessence points.e.g. An Old One (180 hit die) taking Alpha Beam would gain a ray attack dealing:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gravity: The target loses 1d6% of its hit points.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Annihilation: The damage dealt by the Gravity effect is permanent. Permanent damage can only be healed by using a Limited Wish, Miracle, or Wish spell- a Limited Wish heals one point per casting, whereas a Miracle or Wish heals 1 point per caster level.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Aging: The target ages 11 years and 3 months.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Karmic: The target loses 45d1000 experience points.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Siphoning: The target loses 45d100 quintessence.</li> </ul>Special: This effect can be taken multiple times and its effects stack. Each time it is taken it either applies to a different effect (see pages 116-117 of Ascension), or it applies to the same effect as follows:Taken twice = Greater Alpha [Effect], original effect doubled.Taken three times = Superior Alpha [Effect], original effect tripled.Taken four times = Perfect Alpha [Effect], original effect quadrupled.Taken five times = Alpha Mastery, use any type of Alpha effect at the Perfect level.Taken six times = Uncanny Alpha Mastery, use any type of Alpha effect at the Perfect level, and shape area effects to only affect those you wish to target.I came up with this as I was brainstorming what sorts of breath weapons a new Nehaschimic Dragon should have, and recognized that the Nexus Dragon (the only available example of this "tier" of dragonkind) has a breath weapon clearly based on Astro [Effect], a Transcendental ability. None of the existing effects seemed appropriate to the dragons I was considering, so I decided to come up with my own. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> And the above is the result.</blockquote>

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