Questionable Questing

How the hell did they lose? They're overpowered. They're the end game players being shoved into the beginning. At least with the comic's they had magic science bomb to blame it on.

And I mentioned that Tracer's a part of a harem specifically since this CHYOA is geared towards and incentives the reader picking multiple girls. But yes the hypocrisy of pretending you're the good guy in taking in these practical sex slaves, is one of the funner parts about this whole setting. It adds some depth to an otherwise unnamed self insert, that he's not just this good boy helping out.

That he's got darker urges. That could get in the way of him trying to help the girls that he may genuinely grow to love and respect. It's why I specifically mentioned with Tracer, that one bad orgy could undue her progress, or with D. Va, that she's perfectly susceptible to mind control. It adds some nice ways the reader could really fuck them up if they want.

If they love being fucked up, it's kinda good. The morality of power in smut is quite warped

Warped morality of smut and exploring it is to have the fun of any of these hentai stories. The girls loved being fucked up, almost as much as they hate it. They hate themselves and their bodies for giving up their hopes and dreams just for sex and yet paradoxically they hope and dream of meaningful sex with someone they love. SO many contradictions and psychological stuff. It's so much fun.

Indeed. You want to hear of External and Internal Summoning?

Would love too.

Let us call the setting I talked about last night the Cultic setting. As cults and their internal rot is the main danger. Summoning from High or Low is the foundation of the settings soul metaphysics.

Externally means contracting and setting up the ability to project a spirit of High or Low as a advisor. Through this one may learn signs of power to be drawn, speak words of incantation. Bargain for gifts of knowledge and mystic artifice. Very much the mage track. The spirit bound to the soul as both a supernatural force and reflection of a person's inner will or ideals is able to be petioned for gifts.

High being higher emotions like honor, Justice, kindness, etcetera? While low is lust, wrath, hunger and other more survival orientated emotions?

Be it through deals, vows, spirit journeys or other ways.

Internally means Invoking a demonic or holy spirit into the blood and flesh. It is transformation into a avatar of the spirit when called on. Compared to External Summoming, the relationship is that of a inner power vs a source of occult wisdom.

High spirits are tied to grand moral order. Laws, virtues, systems of authority and right. Low spirits are of ego, passion, want, and personal fulfillment. High breaks itself to repair other things. Low breaks the world to strengthen itself
Bingo.

External High Spirits offer wisdom and must be slowly learned from. Tests abound, challenging the Summoner to ferret out the lore and its power. Low Spirits are gift-givers. They freely bargain and sell spells and ways kf making amulets and secret knowledge. They also whisper terrible self destructive advice and plot without regard to consequence.

So low spirits are the easy way to power, but offer just as many traps and downfalls as they do power? While the high spirits are slower and take going on quests or challenges, but their upfront in how and what they want?

High Spirits are better for overall liability. Low will make you disliked if you keep screwing everyone over for reckless blood sacrifice or ritual humiliation and descreation.

These spirits, how do you find them? Are they bound to certain items or places that you can visit and pray to? Is there some kind of ritual or inner meditation you have to master before you can communicate with them? Are they even real beings with emotions or goals, or are they constantly changing depending on who they make a deal with and what that practitioner wants?

There are types as the raw substance of these spirits is their own. No one has a unique demon or angel in class. However to animate them? They need reflection. Someone has to pour themselves into them. And mix of places strong in High or Low for practiced mediation and dramatic awakening sometime if lucky

Internal Summoning is tricky. For a demon it means manifesting the Shadow of the Self. Regressed urges, denied will. What is constrained by reason and morals. For a Angel it's the opposite. It is incarnating dreams of what should be. Instesd of neing based on strength of selfish want, its what does that person wish they could do for something more

A low level Demon is easy to control and makes transformation easy. Some eccentric behaviors and enhanced emotion. A stronger demon means more powerful will, greater wants. Makes it harder to control what happens when possessed.

For a high spirit is a different problem. The greater the strength, the more demanding the standard. It is not enough to win or save 1 person. It has to be a flawless victory and many lives saved. Failure to meet the standard can be crippling physically and mentally