Overpowered Wizard

Zarian’s Journal Entry Party Notes (Naomi) – Early Summer, 1533 D.E:

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Naomi Washington: Age 27, Born Early Summer, Super Outsider, Freedom Leader, Sigma Gnoll Elder, Lady Instructor, Sky Bringer, Free For Real +3, Epic Rumble Psion, Level 90.

Traits (15 Total): Psionic Affinity (Rare), High Intimidation (Uncommon), Juggernaut Hitter (Rare), Little Giant (Rare), Battle Maniac (Rare), Power Seeker (Epic), Aura Ignition/First Stage (Epic), Physical Freak (Rare), Truly A Savage (Rare), Fatal Finisher (Rare), Thematic Concept/Even Further Beyond (Divine), Vitality Monster (Epic), Adventurous Breaker (Epic), Mental Sharpness (Rare), Barehanded Sage (Epic).

Alpha Skills (5/5): Primal Huntress Form +2 (Level 26), Psychokinesis +3 (Level 54), Overclock +3 (Level 53), Earth-Sky Meditation +3 (Level 50), Mind Spike +2 (Level 49).

Beta Skills (3/15): Tranquil Mind +3 (Level 53), Willful Might (Level 0), Summon Wizard Hat (Level 0).

Stats Per Level: +3 Willpower, +1 Strength, +1 Agility, +7 Free.

Stats (1,789 Total): 710 Willpower, 508 Strength, 450 Agility, 60 Wonder, 61 Mysticism, 0 Free.

Achievements (25 Total): Junior Manslaughterer (Uncommon), Barehanded Enthusiast (Rare), Perfected First Stage Aura Ignition (Legendary), Cannon Arm (Rare), Lizard Slayer (Uncommon), Freedom Leader (Divine), Battle Maniac (Rare), One Who Seeks Power Relentlessly (Epic), Smiling Masochist (Rare), Mentally Insane (Rare), Half Ignition Discovery (Legendary), Master Breaker (Mythical), Truly A Savage (Epic), Fatal Finisher (Epic), Wear Your War Wounds (Epic), One Punch Woman (Epic), Lesser World Boss Killer (Divine), Legendary Lair Conqueror (Legendary), Even Further Beyond (Divine), Insane Martial Instructor (Rare), You Would Break Most Adventurers (Epic), Gravity Chamber Lifter (Legendary), Blood Rites Enthusiast (Rare), Literal Mind Over Matter Sword Maker (Epic), She Who Frees The Sky (Mythical).

She just turned 27 this month. We hadn’t celebrated it yet, but I’m wondering what would be the best time. Before Operation Save The Cook or afterward? Maybe before. The tension between us is pretty high. And I’m not clueless. I know what’s going on.

Regardless of the personal stuff, I’ve noticed several changes in her origins.

There’s the Super Outsider title, which makes sense. She did a super thing resisting my Overwhelming Darkness two months ago.

Then there’s the addition of Lady Instructor and Sky Bringer, which are known factors, but it’s interesting to see Lady Instructor getting applied so late. I wonder if there’s a delay for some reason, or if there needs to be certain requirements met before more is added to the origins.

It’s almost to where growing your origins is harder than collecting achievements. No, wait, it’s definitely harder.

Moving on, we can see that Naomi has the highest amount of traits in the party.

The first grouping has Power Seeker, First Ignition, and Thematic Concept/Even Further Beyond. Aura Ignition and a Thematic Concept are in a league of their own for how much potential Naomi has when she pushes so stupidly hard she can break her own immensely powerful and dynamic body to do things mortals shouldn’t be able to do. Power Seeker encourages Naomi to seek those who are more powerful than her by a large degree, which then boosts her abilities even higher. These three traits together are a perfect representation of her dogged and dumb-as-a-brick determination that a proper Marine should have. I’m proud of her for this.

The second grouping includes Juggernaut Hitter, Little Giant, Battle Maniac, Truly A Savage, Fatal Finisher, Vitality Monster, Adventurous Breaker, and her newly upgraded Barehanded Sage. This grouping synergies strongly together because it’s pretty much about Naomi going cave woman crazy against her foe with her bare hands, feet, and even her forehead. It’s really that simple, but it’s quite devastating.

The last grouping includes Psionic Affinity, High Intimidation, and Mental Sharpness. With this, she has some inherent buffs for her psychic stuff and can intimidate most of her enemies into hesitating or making mistakes. It doesn’t really seem like a big deal when she’s running around trying to punch or kick things, but every bit helps leverage how stupid powerful of a melee fighter she is.

When it comes down to her skills, I like how they synergize together with the rest of her profile.

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Primal Huntress Form +2 is Naomi’s dirty secret of a skill that’s not really a secret. She still gets embarrassed when she uses it, and she tries to only use it when she’s sure the others aren’t looking. But everyone has seen glimpses of it so far. Somehow, Naomi leveled it up to having two advancements. With this skill, she can shift her form to something close to a predatory beast, making her faster, tougher, sharper, and more of a killer. She can even grow for more Strength or shrink for more Agility. But all of this comes with a high aura cost.

Psychokinesis +3 is Naomi’s bread and butter skill. She doesn’t use the option to manipulate her surroundings often, since it’s stronger the closer it is to her body. But when Naomi uses it for hitting stuff or lifting things with her hands, it’s scary, scary strong on her. Now that it’s +3, the skill has become more efficient and cost effective, which means Naomi can use the feature that builds static and dishes out lightning and thunder. She was avoiding those because of the high aura cost, but that isn’t much of a problem anymore.

Overclock +3 is a cheat skill about breaking limits of the mind and the body and empowering both for physical and psionic purposes. So not only does Naomi already have a bunch of limit-breaker buffs from her traits, she has it in this skill, too. No wonder she’s struggling to grow her stats. How can she when she has these crazy limit-breaking stuff? What are the limits for her, really?

Earth-Sky Meditation +3 is another cheat skill. Everyone else has major points in Wonder or Mysticism. Hell, even Bianca has points dedicated to Mysticism even though she loves Wonder a lot more. Because of this skill, Naomi can avoid that. She can meditate and boost her Wonder and Mysticism significantly enough to recover aura faster. She can also boost her vitality and self-healing, too. It’s nowhere near as effective as having Gilbert to heal her, and her aura recovery won’t be as great as mine or Hannah’s, but Naomi has her bases covered.

Mind Spike +2 has fallen a little out of favor for Naomi these past two months as she worked on improving her body and battle prowess. But this is still a powerful skill. If the targets have low Willpower and vitality, then Naomi’s psychic spike sent straight to their mind will disrupt their focus and cause major brain hemorrhaging at the very least. Sometimes, with the right set up, it can straight up kill enemies with a single look.

Tranquil Mind +3 has also fallen a little out of favor. It’s still useful to have even if Naomi’s so powerful and high on Willpower. She can use it to help the others and keep their minds clear of debuffs and negative effects.

Last, there are the Level 0 skills, such as Willful Might, which Naomi can use very well because of her abilities and stats, and the pointy witch hat that sits at an angle on her head.

With all of that said, If there’s one obvious weakness with Naomi it’s that she’s the least flexible person in the party. Even Gilbert is more flexible than her. Her best qualities in combat are hitting something really hard or making herself so strong and tough her body refuses death. Outside of that, she lacks utility most of the time.

The sad part is that I’ve seen glimpses of Naomi being creative with her psychic powers, but I can tell that’s not how she prefers things. She’s all about being in the middle of the fight and going hard, to where that can lead to tunnel vision sometimes.

That’s what makes her special, too. And I know she’s been more considerate of others and how to place herself. It also helps that we’ve been at this for a year now. The time and hard work has smoothened out many of our wrinkles compared to our early days.

On top of that, we have my Spectral Spider Network +3 and High Rune Mindframe +2, which Naomi vibes with very well because of her psychic abilities. So everyone is more capable of staying on the same page like brain-enhanced super soldiers, which should free up Naomi from having to deal with lack of coordination while she serves as the point woman, the tip of the spear.

She’s the first one to go in and maybe even the last one to leave depending on the situation. Sometimes it would be better for Gilbert to go first, but nine times out of ten, I see us leading with Naomi for the first close-up attack. Which may happen before or after Hannah and I bombard the area and throw down some wicked and effective magic.

With that said, there are minor variations in Naomi we can see from her. There’s Reckless Naomi or Tactical Naomi.

Reckless Naomi is something I would let off the leash if I’m too busy to pay attention to the fight.

However, Tactical Naomi is better for the party overall and may even show some flexibility.

Either way, I can only imagine how terrified our enemies will be to see an unstoppable woman covered in psychic energy and thunderbolts as she charges straight through them. Gilbert will be close at Naomi’s heels. Bianca will be somewhere active either at the front or the midrange. Hannah will be at the midrange or next to me in the back. And I’ll be playing more into my specific role for once, battlefield wizard.

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I guess with all of that theorizing and meta-gaming over with and my thoughts written, it’s time to catch some shuteye and start Operation Save The Cook in the morning.

See you soon, Foodie, we’re almost there. Maybe you can help me bake a birthday cake for Naomi…

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Speak of the devil.

Naomi’s right outside of my bunker room.

She’s not wearing much. Be right back, journal.

Okay. I’m back.

So.

She told me what she wants for her birthday.

It’s quite simple. And it can happen after Grimrock.

First, she wants a cake from Foodie once the little goblin is safe and sound. I guessed right on that.

Second, she wants to go somewhere private with only the two of us.

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