Name: N/A

Race: lowest undead Lv1, skeleton variant, LF 50/250, MP 140/140

Str- 12(+1)

Con -

Wis 16(+3)

Int 18(+4)

Dex 13(+1)

Cha -

Free points 3

Abilities: Life detection-6/10, Bone tool use-4/20, Bone tool craft-3/5, Mana use-4/???, Observe-3/???, Grappling-1/10, Bad aura-1/???

I can't honestly say whether or not this was a bad thing, but I definitely need to stop looking at my profile sooner rather than later.

I also need a way to carry my goods because I'm gonna go a different type of crazy if I keep leaving potentially useful parts of my defeated enemies.

Luckily I have a perfect volunteer, a certain gray squirrel should do nicely. Using my crafting ability I start to turn some of the bones into a bowl with holes in the sides near the top edge.

Then I realized that the fur wouldn't work that well because it's not treated. As I start thinking about how to treat hide to turn it into leather 'I might as well try using magic to see if it can work.' Pushing my mana into the leather I try and cause the skin to dry out and harden.

I also can't help but try and multi-task by adding a few extra holes into the bone bowl and putting the hopefully future leather on the outside then using a smaller bone that I forced into a point as a needle and the black sinew as thread.

After some time of holding the idea of the fur turning into leather I notice some of the hair falling off leaving almost leather but not quite there yet.

It either needs help getting rid of the hair, or I need to add more mana, I'm going to have to go with more mana considering that I have no sharp implements to assist in hair removal. Before I just start dumping mana into it I check how much I have left in the tank. MP 110

I think that's just enough for what I want to do. Mostly as a mental exercise I look inward to the pearl of mana inside of me, I slowly imagine there being a great gate stopping my mana from escaping me, slowly as to make sure my mind understands how colossal a task this is and how important it is that I don’t let go after I open these gates.

Soon there is a small gap between the gates, only as small as me in the giant gate standing well over 100 feet tall, and for my mana pool this is the equivalent of opening the floodgates. There is a moment of silence where I think I failed my mental exercise, only to feel a burning flowing across my bones. I open my eyes and can tell that I’ve either made a terrible mistake or I’ve done something great.

‘Can’t forget why I did this, I have to force this fur into leather using my magic.’ As my body begins to be turned into fuel for the “mana fire” I have to force myself to realize this sooner rather than latter, ‘I’m not the main character in some dog trash story, I can’t wait here for the heavens to save me for biting off more than I can chew I need to spit something out, or tame this thing…’

Never thought I’d be a mage but at the rate this is going my body will be too damaged for me to use anymore. How can I tame something I can only describe as a force of nature, first things first shut the gate, I can’t leave that open for even a moment longer than I already have. ‘Forcing the mana that was keeping the gate open either back in or out where I can try and deal with it, I soon feel my LF drop below 20. I've taken more than half of my stored life in such a short time, all for a bag!

If this mana came from me then I have to be able to absorb it back somehow, first I need to remove my mana regeneration so I stop feeding it that, then I need to start taking chunks out of this thing hopefully soon. I take the part of my mind that would normally be used for auto piloting my body and put it on tracking down where all my mana comes in from... While I deal with the rogue mana as much as I can.

My body crumples to the floor into a pile.

And, rather than focus on that, I start using my mana use skill to try and push parts of it off me, ‘this thing has to weigh more than anything in either of my two lives.’ Obviously this thing has no right to be this heavy, so unless I’m very mistaken I just need more mana, I need my other to get my mana regen shut off now! Could I out heal the damage? If I can get myself to heal or at least.. LF 12. No choice then!

I begin wrapping my body in the little amount of mana that I have that has not gone rogue, I remember that my status says that I can’t heal but maybe I can replace the burnt out parts of my body with mana, that's the only thing I can think of so I very much need this to work.

LF 10.

LF 9.

LF 8.

Gods up above you’re really gonna bring me this information now? When I’m literally minutes away from burning to a crisp? ‘Okay taking this information as good news I can stop the rest of my body from being protected by my LF and just have it in my head.’ Well to buy time for the lazy a-hole who dropped that pearl of wisdom then went back to searching for a way to get rid of my mana regeneration.

Looking at what's left of my body I can’t help but be disappointed in myself. If I get out of this no more messing with mana unless I know for sure what’s going to happen. Honestly if I wasn’t on the verge of dying I would think the pure life energy that’s trying it’s best to protect the vestiges of half my ribs, spine, and two misc limbs, not wanting the energy to be lowered even by another point I quickly draw it into my skull. As the energy leaves my remaining parts, they go up into a flame reminiscent of a campfire out of control.

I then force my mana to do the same, as to not let this greedy monster take even a single drop more of my energy for granted. Then as if the rampant mana could sense that I had fled to my final bastion for survival it quickly formed around my skull in a much greater density than any being with a good head between their shoulders would consider fair.

But then again this isn’t fair, this is a life and death struggle, and as much as I’m struggling I’m starting to doubt that I can win LF 7. Well at least it’s slowed down from a point a minute to two minutes, I have 14 minutes to live and my other has even less, for them to figure out how to close our mana regeneration.

Taking the lule in danger to bring up my full profile for the second time in my life rather than just read specific information.

Name: N/A

Race: lowest undead Lv1, Single body part (Head) variant, LF 7/250, MP 40/220

Str -

Con -

Wis 16(+3)

Int 18(+4)

Dex -

Cha -

Free points 3

Abilities: Life detection-6/10, (Bone tool use & Bone tool craft)- have been affected by ability mana use combined with each other into Bone manipulation, Mana use-10/???, Observe-4/???, Grappling-1/10, Bad aura-1/???, Bone Manipulation-7/50

Limitations: Undeath- Cha, and Con are locked forever, baring evolution or resurrection, No Str- a Str of zero means that you have no ability to use physical force due to injury or other reasons, if you regain your ability to use your body’s might then the score will be unlocked automatically. No Dex- You have lost all ability to use your bodies natural motor control, if you regain this ability then the score will be unlocked automatically.Undead- You have no stamina, you have no need to sleep, and any desire to do so is magickly influenced, No Con- as your Con is locked you find yourself being unable to heal passively from damage and you are damaged far easier than others with Con, Hunger for life- Your body has no life in it, you must take this life from somewhere lest your unlife ends. No body- your abilities that require the use of your body no longer function, can't be leveled or altered in any way. Head variant undead- You have forgone the use of your body in search of some greater goal, your mental abilities are more powerful, easier to upgrade and you gain new mental abilities far easier, your mana pool is now larger and is much more responsive to your wishes than before. Rogue mana- for some reason your mana has gone out of your control, this is causing massive damage to your body. But if by some gods good grace you survive then you will find mana is quite a docile creature for you.

While the last one I call bs on, the other parts of this are far more interesting. Especially what bone manipulation could mean for me, ‘I could try absorbing the remaining bones near me into reinforcing my skull. Or really any number of things this could be my last crazy attempt at living here, not just pushing death back for a moment or two.’

Using the confidence provided to me by seeing that my ability to use mana was higher than I thought, I re doubled by effort to push, this time not to push it off but for my mana to push through, I rather than using my mana as a hammer sculpted it down further into a point and then to increase its effect I push almost all of my mana into it holding it into shape requiring so much will and force that I’m sure my skull was vibrating, and if I had blood vessels they would be bursting.

I hold for as long as I can like an archer pulling his bow to full draw. I wait for just the right moment when I see a weak spot I can pierce through, if I had to wait for any longer the mana construction would have dissipated into nothing. Thankfully I didn’t have to wait for long considering how much the thing was moving.

I pushed the point of mana through the storm and into the outside of it, thus leading me to discover quite a weakness of the beast. It has a core, and without much hesitation on my part I send the mana point careening into my best chance at survival. Only to receive word that my other half has found out how to shut down my mana regeneration meaning that as long as I can keep my point under control and keep damaging the rogue mana I can win this.

My mana point truck straight and true into the core, I could feel how shocked it was at being damaged, it certainly hadn’t expected that, ‘now!’ I screamed mentaly for my other half to turn off the mana regeneration before the beast can heal from the wound I inflicted.

While feeling the confusion from before was cathartic feeling true fear from this thing that till now had my unlife in it’s remarkably warm claws was down right therapeutic, a common mistake one that I’ll be sure to avoid from now on would be to grow over confident that I’m going to win or that the boss at the end of the dungeon was really a push over, without a trump card waiting to be used.

The mana obviously wouldn’t stay in a state of shock for long, now it was vigilant of what I might do next. It leaped off me making use of it’s mobility and my complete and utter lack thereof. It circled me seeing if I was able to track it without swiveling my head, normally I would not but due to it being off me I had the time to take my other half off mana regen duty meaning that I began regaining mana, all while the rogue mana construct was slowly losing it from a gaping hole in its core.

So this new found “surplus” of mana and mana regeneration as my new status ment that I’m gaining mana far faster than I would have before. I used this mana to form a shell around myself now without the constant damage I could tell that something had changed from how the energies inside my skull began acting.

Name: N/A

Race: lowest undead Lv1, Single body part (Head) variant, HP 11/39, LF 7/250, MP 35/220

Str -

Con 6(-2)

Wis 16(+3)

Int 18(+4)

Dex -

Cha -

Free points 3

Abilities: Life detection-6/10, (Bone tool use & Bone tool craft)- have been affected by ability mana use combined with each other into Bone manipulation, (Mana use-10/???)- has evolved into Mana manipulation, Observe-4/???, Grappling-1/10, Bad aura-1/???, Bone Manipulation-9/50, Mana manipulation-12/???, Undead healing-4/10

Limitations: Undeath- Cha, (Con has been unlocked) is locked forever, baring evolution or resurrection, No Str- a Str of zero means that you have no ability to use physical force due to injury or other reasons, if you regain your ability to use your body’s might then the score will be unlocked automatically. No Dex- You have lost all ability to use your bodies natural motor control, if you regain this ability then the score will be unlocked automatically.Undead- You have no stamina, you have no need to sleep, and any desire to do so is magickly influenced, Low Con- you find yourself healing slower and taking more damage from things than other people, Hunger for life- Your body has no life in it, you must take this life from somewhere lest your unlife ends. No body- your abilities that require the use of your body no longer function, can't be leveled or altered in any way. Head variant undead- You have forgone the use of your body in search of some greater goal, your mental abilities are more powerful, easier to upgrade and you gain new mental abilities far easier, your mana pool is now larger and is much more responsive to your wishes than before. Rogue mana- for some reason your mana has gone out of your control, this is causing massive damage to your body. But if by some gods good grace you survive then you will find mana is quite a docile creature for you. You have unlocked a skill normally only available for high ranked undead, it allows you to heal from damage.

Seeing the iconic HP counter makes all the heartache I’ve had to deal with so far worth it, seeing that I now have the ability to heal my bones, can I still say bones when I’m currently only a skull? I don’t quite remember learning about bones so I can’t say.

Mentaly shaking myself from thinking about unrelated things I focus on calling my new ability to action, ‘I wonder how effective it is.’ As my ability comes to my calling I gain an awareness of how badly my skull was affected, realizing that while my skull might look normal, it is in fact shrunken down to about half the size it was before, and the bone was also incredibly thin, almost paper thin in fact.

I then became aware of the cost of repairing my damaged skull 300 mana, or 3 pounds of bones for my ability to convert into a replica of the bone making my skull. Well I can’t do either of those so let's look towards my other ability. Sending away my healing ability I look towards what could be considered as interesting to say the least.

I could tell where bones near me are located and my own skull. I felt an attachment towards it mentally I pulled and felt my skull rise into the air hovering a scant few inches over the ground.

I was forced to shut that down almost immediately as my other half told me how much mana that was costing and at the fact that our enemy was still right behind us and that if we ran out of mana we would be unable to keep an eye on it.

MP 30 five mana in like half a second, that is absurdly expensive, and I can only guess that it follows the rule that the higher up I go the more expensive it would get.

'I gotta take care of this dude first, then I can experiment with my abilities.' Bad news about the situation… I can't move.

I see you've gotten into quite a pickle while I was gone haven't you?

"Well I see you've come back at the perfect time." Maybe too perfect there's the chance that it's been waiting till I die, then why would it come out at all considering.

You might think this the perfect time but I can't say that I would have been disappointed if you ended up dead..

At this point I could almost feel the voice wimper out a muted "yes sir sorry sir it won't happen again sir." Now that's odd I could definitely hear fear from the voice.

What I meant to say is that if you would be willing to take me as an assistant then I would be more than happy to assist in removing that rogue mana you created.

"I would like the assistants very much, thank you and you can tell your old boss that I appreciate the opportunity to be here." And boom that's how you get these busy body types to like you. You make it seem like you both have the same goals and that you have a way of doing it that makes the boss super happy, and with that you've got them by the ear and you can do with that what you wish.

"So then now that that's out of the way how are we going to get rid of this thing?" Before they have time to start ordering you around you have to ask them for the information then it seems like you're the type of person who goes and gets stuff done.

Then they will give you the benefit of the doubt when you inevitably do something wrong, and before the voice responds I need to try and figure out a back up plan… okay that doesn't make much sense, considering that I have nothing to base said back up plan on, guess I just haven't decided to trust the mystery voice.

Well what needs to happen is that we have to deal more damage to it's core, you alredy damaged it severily so if you hit it maybe 3 more times then it will lose it's ability to maintain structure resulting in qiute a large boom, don't worry as soon as you kill it you'll get the bonus for damage reduction from mana meaning you'll survive it might be a bit of a pain.

so I'll need to figure out how to deal damage from far away. using my mana I grabed it and formed a new weapon out of mana, this time a knife considering that I needed stabbing power and only just now broke through 50 mana regained I couldn't waste any by forming a longer weapon. Soon the knife more dagger than anything was complete, and I sent it zooming towards the beast... The beast casualy flicked the knife away and glared it's own knifes at me.. Rat's that didn't work very well did it.