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AlexanderHowl · 07-13-2018, 08:05 PM

Eros-1

The Eros timelines refer to any time line where human sexuality produces weird effects. Of all of these though, Eros-1 is considered to be the strangest and the most dangerous for a number of reasons. Despite being a TL1 timeline with a population of only 100 million humans (local year is 2000 BC), Infinity bans travel to and from Eros-1 because of the dangers associated with having sexual relations with the natives.

In Eros-1, consensual sex causes an exchange of one CP of positive traits between partners with every sexual episode while nonconsensual sex causes a transfer of 10 CP from the victimizer to the victim per sexual episode (the victimizer can acquire 10 CP of negative traits, such as -1 ST, in order to give the victim 10 CP and killing the victim does not prevent the tranfer). In addition to exchanging (or transfering) CP, sex generates 10 points of magical energy between consenting partners (with victims of nonconsensual sex receiving 100 points of magical energy). The natives of Eros-1 use the magical energy produced by sex to fuel their form of symbol magic, which does not depend on mana and, much to the worry of Infinity, functions in timelines without mana, as it seems to use sexual energy to bend reality.

Eros-1 would be worrying enough, but the natives of Eros-1 retain the peculiar sexual properties of their home outside of their timeline. When Infinity finds kidnapped natives on Homeline, they usually have to sedate a traumatized superhuman who killed the people who enslaved and violated them. Infinity usually returns them to Eros-1, where they have began to form a group that hunts down outtimer slavers that seek to prey on the natives of Eros-1 (Infinity occasionally finds them on other timelines, as their symbol magic allows them to travel between timelines).

07-13-2018, 08:05 PM	#927
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels Eros-1 The Eros timelines refer to any time line where human sexuality produces weird effects. Of all of these though, Eros-1 is considered to be the strangest and the most dangerous for a number of reasons. Despite being a TL1 timeline with a population of only 100 million humans (local year is 2000 BC), Infinity bans travel to and from Eros-1 because of the dangers associated with having sexual relations with the natives. In Eros-1, consensual sex causes an exchange of one CP of positive traits between partners with every sexual episode while nonconsensual sex causes a transfer of 10 CP from the victimizer to the victim per sexual episode (the victimizer can acquire 10 CP of negative traits, such as -1 ST, in order to give the victim 10 CP and killing the victim does not prevent the tranfer). In addition to exchanging (or transfering) CP, sex generates 10 points of magical energy between consenting partners (with victims of nonconsensual sex receiving 100 points of magical energy). The natives of Eros-1 use the magical energy produced by sex to fuel their form of symbol magic, which does not depend on mana and, much to the worry of Infinity, functions in timelines without mana, as it seems to use sexual energy to bend reality. Eros-1 would be worrying enough, but the natives of Eros-1 retain the peculiar sexual properties of their home outside of their timeline. When Infinity finds kidnapped natives on Homeline, they usually have to sedate a traumatized superhuman who killed the people who enslaved and violated them. Infinity usually returns them to Eros-1, where they have began to form a group that hunts down outtimer slavers that seek to prey on the natives of Eros-1 (Infinity occasionally finds them on other timelines, as their symbol magic allows them to travel between timelines).