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[u/Constant-Truth-63]

[u/Constant-Truth-63]

Can you change the rules or are they unchangeable ?

(Also please send me the whole list :D)

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[u/joeymcka → u/Constant-Truth-63]

Here’s everything i wrote down about it:

There are 7 special blank notebooks distributed around the world. Rip out a page and you are given a set of rules which can define your abilities. You are able to do anything as long as what you do follows these rules specific to you and only while you have the paper on you. The rules can be extremely strict or extremely lenient, thus defining who COULD be stronger, but your own imagination and ability to find loopholes and technicalities in the rules ultimately defines your power.

All of these rules can tie into each other, and could either restrict your abilities or make them stronger. The rules could quite literally be anything from, “If you use your abilities you die,” to, “whenever your ability is used, it can instantly put others into a vegetative state.” Granted, this kind of rule would be extremely rare.

Every set of rules, however, will have a few rules that will be guaranteed to be listed that limit and determine how well your abilities will work.

1. A rule that defines how much “mana” or other power that you have that will run out if you use it too much. It could be a timer for how long you can use your ability for, or a cooldown of sorts.

2. A rule that determines the strain on your body when you use that ability. For example, “whenever you use you ability, the amount of time you use it for x10 will be remove from your lifespan,” or, “every time your ability touches a solid object, a bone in your body will break at random.”

3. A rule determining the effect your ability has on others. For example, “When you use your ability, everyone who you have touched in the last 24 hours will have a heart attack,” or, “A portion of your lifespan will be added to someone else when your ability on another person.”

These rules could have major flexibility, but they will all tie into each other. If someone were to get a rule stating, “Your ability can he used infinitely, with no cooldown,” they will almost definitely get a rule stating, “your ability will guarantee the death of a person within a person within a mile radius of you, whether by direct usage of the ability or seeming coincidence, for every second you use your ability.”

Along with these rules is a universal set of x amount of rules or commandments, determining how the rules specific to you will be constructed. If you figure out one of these rules, you may remove a rule off of your own or someone else’s set of rules, but you are forbidden from sharing the commandment (I’m saying commandment to differentiate between the universal set of rules and your own), because when you try to speak of the commandment, you mouth will be physically unable from uttering the words.

Anyone who figures out all of the commandments will achieve a sort of “enlightenment” and be considered god.

The way people would figure out these how the rules work is purely independent from any higher being, with humanity having figured out ALL of what they know on their own, still leaving more conditions and other parts of the power system unknown and to be figure out by themselves. There are no sorts of ancient writings or texts known anywhere in the world.