Jump 160: The Fountain

Jump #160: The Fountain
>Temperance (Self-control, patience and tact in handling situations.)
>Age: 44
>The Past: Noble
>The Present: Inventor
>The Future: Historian
>Drawbacks: Unending Age (+300)
A natural choice for a historian. It may make my life more difficult, but it adds weight to my words and ensures that people know why we do as we do - I am walking evidence of what the old ways used to be.
>Perfect Time (Free, Tier 1 discount)
It's a small thing, but it is definitely useful. Especially adding the function where my eidetic memory is now timestamped.
>Sense of the Now (1200, Tier 2 discount)
Sense everything within five meters of myself? I do quite like this.
>All Together Now (1100)
I am not sure how this will affect me as a jumper, but I know that I won't come out of this unchanged. Perhaps that is for the best.
>Soothing Presence (900, Tier 3 discount)
A curious effect, but a welcome one. Calming those around me will be helpful in many cases.
>Absolution (600, Tier 4 discount)
This should be coupled with one on one therapy. Get someone to confront their issues... and forgive themselves so that they can move on with their life. Actually, I suddenly wish I had this a long time ago. Would've made it so much easier to get Snape to stop being an utter bastard, among other things, if he'd just forgive himself and move forward.
>Subsistence (400)
My nutritional needs are reduced to a slim fraction of normal. I find this useful.
>Biosphere (Free)
A new way to redecorate the warehouse! And a rather nifty one, too. I'm definitely keeping this. I'm glad I get a free 100 point item.
>Meditation Garden (Free, Item #1)
Fortunately, 100 point items, when discounted, are free. The warehouse can always use a nice garden annex, and I know just the thing to plant there.
>Tree of Life Sapling (0, Item #2)
Now... this is not a thing I will take lightly.

Seeds will probably go into storage, but there are a few places where I intend to give them out. Most places, though... they simply are not ready and would find a way to weaponize the seeds.

What happened during this jump... well, it's much less important than one might think. What is important, though, is that this jump has served to pull my psyche together into a much more coherent whole than it had been before, setting me in a more stable way, which I definitely need after some of the more recent jumps. Rather than resetting to a baseline, it's all a part of me.

This doesn't dilute who I am, but adds to it. I am no longer akin to painter's canvas, with layers added over layers, occasionally pieces stripped away or left to neglect and peel against the elements. If anything, I now am akin to a sculpture being carved, without the benefit of the marble being removed from the mountain. With time and patience, you can carve that mountain into anything, from a momentous sight that can be seen from orbit to something that one could spend a lifetime viewing, discovering something subtle and new at every turn of their head.

I feel like I need to revise my armor to better reflect who I am going to be, from this point forward. I'll likely still use the praetorian armor as a base, but... I want something less aggressive. Pretty sure that this is going to be where the gauntlet expands to being a full pauldron, though.