Chancel Aleph

Introduction

Fictional Characters who might be Binary:

Aaron's Serpents:

• Randidly Ghosthound …………….. Binary (Growth/Rot)
• Zacchary Atwood ………………….. Binary (Life/Death)
• Saulanna Ricanya Rockblossom … Binary (Hero/Titan)
• Calliope/Caliborn ………………….. Binary (Space/Time)
• Gogo/Didi Bomango ………………. Binary (Body/Mind)

True Gods:

• Gaia, Binary …………… Binary (Serenity/Wrath of Gaia)
• Boreas, Binary ………… Binary (Mischievousness/Fury of Boreas)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Arc Summary:

[0] Duality - Between scenes, switch your personality and looks to a mirror version.
[0+4] Instant Switch - Switch to a mirror version instantly.

[1] Transparent Intent - Convey intent without talking, just via body posture and facial expressions.
[1+4] Killing Intent - Terrify your surroundings. Impose Obstacle 3 to 'not running away'.

[2] Gradual Transformation - Switch to warform or back, between chapters or slowly.
[2+4] Instant Transformation - Instantly switch to warform or back.

[3] Natural Weaponry - Use Teeth, claws, horns or other melee attack. Extra Strike.
[3+4] Supernatural Weaponry - Use breath weapon, laser eyes, or other ranged attack. Extra Strike.

[4] Spontaneous Generation - Strengthen your Estate in an area.
[4+4] Instant Genesis - Create a flood of your Estate.

[5] Reflexive Defense - In response to an attack, get a point-defense power against that type of attack.
[5+4] Aegis - In response to an attack, get a generally applicable defensive power.

[6] Shed Scales - Dial one specific bodily property (size, weight, location, temperature etc) to a suitable value for the situation.)
[6+4] Non-Euclidian - One specific bodily property has every dial value at once, resolving as is convenient to you.

[7] Evolution - Over a few minutes, adjust your body to have a new natural weapon or feature.
[7+4] Instant Evolution - Instantly adjust your body to have a new natural weapon or feature.

[8] Brambles - Create an environmental hazard.
[8+4] Potent Ichor - In response to a Deadly Wound, create a permanent geographic feature.

Miracle Ladder

[0+0] - Switch

This is a Kaiju's lesser power of Duality.
You are a creature of duality. You have access to an alternate form, with the following specifications:
*The Estate you call on with this Attribute switches to its opposite.
*You may choose a number of Bonds to reverse to their opposite. Geasa remain.
*You may choose a number of Passions to reverse to their opposite. Skills remain.
*You may choose a number of properties of your physical body that reverse to their opposite.

Switching to your Alternate Form is usually done between scenes, during sleep, or using an hour of time.
Note: This is a switch between one human form to another, or one Kaiju form to another.

Examples:
*You have Binary(Fire/Ice). You've decided you can switched between being a blue-haired calm woman with the Ice element and a Bond: I hate spicy food, and a fiery red-headed man with the Fire element and the Bond: I hate menthol. Your other bonds remain unchanged.
*You have Binary(Wrath of Gaia / Serenity of Gaia). You aren't normally embodied, but when summoning a dragon to enact your emotions, you have the option of a wrathful one and a peaceful one.

[1+0] - Convey Intent

This is a Kaiju's lesser power of emoting.
You can make it obvious what you are trying to communicate. You can convey about two sentences just by raising your eyebrow minutely. This effect is range-of-sight, which can be very far indeed when you're visible from space. Usually used to make people go "Oh it's a gargantuan dragon-snake - but it seems to be in a good mood, we're not in danger."

This ability can be used to talk to animals, spirits, and whatever else can perceive your form, but getting a reply back is less straight-forward. Conveying something highly complex, such as the code for a bank vault, faces Obstacle 2.

[2+0] - Gradual Transformation

This is a Kaiju's lesser power of transformation.
You have a War Form. When you originally design it, you give it:
*A Superior Attribute of [Arc level]
*Natural Weapons, such as teeth, claws, plasma filaments, or motorsaw arms.
*Ranged Weapons, such as Fire/Ice Breath, Laser Eyes/Missiles, flingable poisonous spines, etc.
*An unfixed property, such as Position, Size, Weight or Gender.

This miracle lets you switch to and from the War Form between chapters, between scenes, or during 3 hours or so of gradual transformation.

[3+0] - Natural Weaponry

This is a Kaiju's lesser power of attack.
You have teeth, claws, horns or other natural weapons suitable for melee combat. While you sustain this miracle, you have [Arc level] Strike when using them to attack, and the action can contend with miracles.
You may still suffer some Obstacle bringing your weapons to bear while in humanoid form.

[4+0] - Spontaneous Generation

This is a Kaiju's lesser power of creation.
You gradually strengthen the presence of your Estate in the local area, generating it gradually as long as you sustain this Miracle.
After a few minutes of sustaining the Miracle, a temporary Genre Convention manifests: "The presence of [Estate] is increasing".
Sustaining the Miracle for a few hours results in the temporary Genre Convention: "There is [Estate] here".

The spontaneous generation tends to happen in the most natural, low-effort way, but it also tends toward sustainability. Other Estates may show up as needed. For example, creating Life in a desert may result in an Oasis forming - the Estate of Water helping out - with plenty of desert-adapted life-forms wandering in.
You may harness this miracle with a Skill to get more specific results.

Examples:

• You sustain a Spontaneous Generation of Flowers while dancing in the forest. Flowers bloom wherever you step, and on every tree you touch, and by the end, the forest is a rainbow of colours.
• You sustain a Spontaneous Generation of Peace while hunkered down in a warzone. As time passes, the period between bombshells grows longer, and eventually there's a spontaneous ceasefire.
• While your spirit follows a trespasser, you, Gaia, sustain a Spontaneous Generation of The Wrath of Nature. (Technically the Wrath of Gaia, but you have Unnatural Action going, so it's functionally identical.) The mood grows darker and more threatening. Thunder is heard in the background. Thornbushes become larger, with sharper thorns. Things are already quite scary before the first furious animal shows up.

[0+4] - Instant Switch

This is a Kaiju's greater power of Duality.
You may switch to your Alternate Form instantly.
You can also use this power between chapters to modify the nature of your duality; change what Bonds are mirrored and which are not.

[1+4] - Killing Intent

You can terrify your surroundings. You impose an Obstacle of 3 to not running away on anyone who directly perceives you.
It's notionally possible to replace this effect with for example "cuteness intent", which would impose Obstacle 3 on not going 'awww' and petting you.

[5+0] - Reflexive Defense

This is a Kaiju's lesser power of defense
Get a point-defense power in response to an attack.
(As in Book)

[2+4] - Instant Transformation

This is a Kaiju's greater power of transformation.
Instantly switch to Warform or back.

[6+0] - Shed Scales

This is a Kaiju's lesser power of paradox.
One specific body feature of yours (size, density, location, temperature, multiplicity) is indeterminate.
Use this power to dial it to a suitable value for the situation.
Advanced use may take a while.

Note: Your body does not suffer in itself from these changes. If you change your weight to that of a black hole, your body will not collapse from gravitational stress. However, nearby matter flying at you at fractions of the speed of light IS going to hurt you if it hits.

Examples:
*You change your location from London to Sydney. You have to first spread the uncertainty of your location out for a while, and then dial it in again, so this takes an hour or so. Changing location within the same city block is instant, though.
*You change your weight to zero for a while, to have fun in zero gravity.

[3+4] - Supernatural Weaponry

This is a Kaiju's greater power of attack.
You have a breath weapon, laser eyes, or other ranged attacks.
This ability can be used as a single miraculous attack, or the miracle can be sustained to allow you multiple attacks over a longer time period, harnessing it with a Skill. (Natural Weaponry use is included for free.)
Your attacks benefit from [Arc level] free Strike.
The nature of the attack should be thematically appropriate to your Estate. As such it is reasonable to have a different ranged weapon when you've switched the polarity of your Estate.

[7+0] - Evolution

This is a Kaiju's lesser power of adaptation.
Over a few minutes, adjust your body to have a new natural weapon or feature.
You can have one Evolution going at a time. This power is connected to a Health Level.

Examples:
*You've decided to take up juggling. In order to take it slow, you grow two extra arms to make things easier for you.
*You combine this with Entangled(Platypi), using [Unnatural Action] to add a new temporary feature to Platypi.
*You are exchanging harsh words with the Bronze Eagle in a world of fogs. You grow a radar sense to better keep track of them.

[4+4] - Instant Genesis (Imperial Miracle)

This is a Kaiju's greater power of creation.
You cause an eruption of your Estate with you as the epicenter.
The expression this takes is flexible.

[8+0] - Brambles

This is a Kaiju's lesser power of interdiction.
Create an environmental hazard.

[5+4] - Aegis

This is a Kaiju's greater power of defense.
Get a generally applicable defensive power in response to an attack.

[6+4] - Non-Euclidian

This is a Kaiju's greater power of paradox.
One specific body feature has every dial value at once, resolving in each case as is most convenient to you.

Examples:
*Your body is of indeterminate size. You can wrestle a small spider and Mount Everest at the same time.

[7+4] - Instant Evolution

Type: Cthonic, Health-level power
This is a Kaiju's greater power of adaptation.
Instantly adjust your body to have a new natural weapon or feature.

[8+4+Deadly Wound] - Potent Ichor

Type: Imperial Miracle, Last Gasp
This is a Kaiju's greater power of interdiction.
Once per Campaign, by taking a Deadly Wound, or in response to a Deadly Wound being inflicted, you may create a permanent geographic feature; a forest, lake, mountain, etc, which is rich in your Estate.
You may suggest up to three Region Properties of the new area, the rest will be based on the wound, what wounded you, the surrounding area, and what the DM feels is appropriate.
The Wound Power of the Deadly Wound becomes related to the new Region, and can optionally extend to affect it.
By default, the new Region forms around you at your current position.

This miracle is automatically triggered when you lose your last Divine Health Level.

Examples:

• You fight a Warmain in a desert, out of your element. As your blood falls to the ground, however, it creates a vast lake, allowing you to use your water-manipulating powers. The Crimson Lake hates Excrucians, you decide.
• You battle an opponent in the cosmic void, and they wound your last Divine Health Level. You use this to create a small world in the void, locking you and your opponent inside its crystalline interior. This halts the battle for now; in order to hurt you further, your Enemy needs to overcome or circumvent the Wound Power: [5]Geas "We are encased in unbreakable crystal".
• You need to expand your Inner World in a hurry. You tear out your own pancreas and use its divine ichor to make a hilly landscape. The Pancreas Plain contains alkaline waters if you dig deep enough, and sugary compounds tend to dissolve if left out, but otherwise it has the same Properties as the rest of your Inner World.