>>6115451The odd resistance stalks your efforts as the Scraghounds fade into the dusty distance. They are like little hard specks in the world, so sure of their own selves that adjusting them or borrowing from them is effortful like little else. They resist.
And then the links snap, as they fade in the distance and the becomes far too much to focus on. Awry specks of fond fortune flitter around, the air is a little kinder, bits of stray good tidings settling. Slippery stuff. It resists concentration like little else. Well, that's the Reikan idiom isn't it: Never All At Once, but they only ever mean *luck* never happens all at once. Ill fortune has no such qualms about timing.
The engraved rock lies in the middle of the ward circle, which all faintly hum now, energised. This place is far from a sterile labratory and even now the leakage is enormous. You have a few hours at best before the captured essence will boil away into nothingness.
Still, what a prize.
You should probably . . .
>Seal it as best as I'm able, with the tools I have. A few more closing wards scratched on the stone, and it will maintain the energy inside better [Wards, +2 for taking time]>Given the concentration of great force, the world is already noticing the confluence. The warding circles still hold. I could *TUG* this energy now, increasing it enormously. [Iconotheurgy 12+4 for Commiting]. But in doing so, the leakage of course increases even more. But when it fades, and it will, such an enormous alteration to the world will have left its marks.>Do something else with the energy? [Take some other action. You have about 6 AP, if it matters, but the action itself can be broad and is not really time limited. Your action simply cannot take *too* long or be *too much* at once]--
[Thoughts Success]:
You have captured approximately 22 points of Fortune, an ineffable quality leeched from the bones of the fleeing scraghounds. Fortune makes the world a nicer place. It doesn't raise your skill directly, but all passive checks are passed easier and criticals have enhanced effects. Meanwhile, when things go *wrong*, good fortune ensures they go *less* wrong. A useful thing.