Reality Scripts - The Stuff That Shapes the World
“Reality Scripts are radical reformations of reality, basically reshaping the world around the invoker to a shape advantageous to him. Other techniques affect the world in a way, Reality Scripts remake the world. Needless to say, going against the natural way of reality requires immense energy outputs even to maintain the Reality Script for short periods of time, which justifies why Reality Scripts can only be created and used by the most powerful Entities......
...Reality Scripts rarely deal direct damage. Their effects on reality are complex and often outright bizarre, and each Reality Script is unique. Only the person who created the Reality Script can invoke it, as Reality Scripts are subjective to the will of the invoker....
...creating a Reality Script is extremely difficult. Reality Scripts are victories of mind over matter; the ability to shape the world to your will. However, an Entity doesn’t have full control of the creating process. In other words, when creating a Reality Script, the entity cannot expect it to do whatever he wants. Reality Scripts are projections of the soul on the outside world. Hence, they reflect the invoker’s personality, skills, beliefs and convictions. The inner qualities of the invoker define what the Reality Script will do. That’s why most entities capable of invoking Reality Scripts only have one. It’s nigh impossible for the same soul to be able to shape reality in two or more different ways. I am the only being in creation with two different Reality Scripts. In part, that’s because ‘Duality’ is part of my Agenda, however, the true reason is that my double existence as both Gabriel and Lilith grants me the powers of both entities.”
- As said by Takako; extracted from GOSPEL, True Stories 06, "Of Arisu's Unusual School Trip."
Reality Scripts are, if not the most spectacular, the most powerful and complex techniques in the GOSPEL universe. They are support techniques meant to grant their invoker a unique and decissive advantage both in and out of battle. Reality Scripts challenge the Thread of Destiny, the will of the Higher Entity itself, by imposing its effects on the universe. While some Reality Scripts are "harmless" and as such are "allowed" by the Thread of Destiny (like Takato's Seder Hishtalshelus), some of them have effects so bizarre they require immense amounts of energy to resist reality's attempt at dispelling them (like Takako's Gardens of Babylon).
Since Reality Scripts are so rare and immensely powerful, there are very few of them. The following is a detailed description of the Reality Scripts that will appear at some point in the GOSPEL storyline.
Format
(Name)
Power: always N/A (Not Available). Reality Scripts are support-type techniques, not exclusively offensive or defensive in nature.
Type: as per the Technique display format (Anti-Unit, Anti-Army, Anti-World, Support).
Range: the technique's maximum reach. It also details whether the technique is centered on the invoker or in some other point in space.
Maximum Number of Targets: the maximum number of entities within range that can be affected by the technique.
(Takako's comments on the technique)
(Description of the Technique's Effect)
Invocation:
The verbal component needed to initiate the technique.
Reality Script: Ark of the Covenant – The Truth Shall Set You Free
Power: N/A
Type: Support
Range: A maximum radius of three kilometers.
Maximum Number of Targets: N/A
"Heeh, a technique exclusively devised to defeat me? I should feel honored......despite its pretentiousness. But, really, I always knew that little runt Sophia had it in her. I'll never look at her the same way, that's for sure. Who would have thought she could be such a jealous woman!? In any case, being the only one who has faced it, I'm the most appropriate person to talk about this technique. Well, let me tell you: it's troublesome. I mean, seriously, she's invincible within that bounded field! As in invincible, invincible, not Moloch-invincible. I guess the only way to defeat her would be to use a technique powerful enough to destroy the entire bounded field with one single hit. Not an easy feat, I say, because it has to be done immediately after she invokes the Reality Script. It requires extremely precise timing."
Sophia’s Reality Script. A declaration of supreme status within a bounded field. Sophia’s Ultimate Technique, created solely for the purpose of defeating Lilith.
Sophia declares sovereignty of the area of effect, and her Data Manipulation score increases to 99 within the Ark. Within this area, Sophia is the only and absolute ruler, and she has the right to manipulate the area at her whim. Weather, physical layout, humidity, toxicity, even the flow of time is dictated by Sophia’s will (however, she cannot make time flow backwards). Her rule over the Ark of the Covenant is as absolute as Takato’s rulership over the Digital World.
While there’s no restriction on Sophia’s control over the Ark of the Covenant, there’s a constant she has no control over. At the center of the area of effect, there’s a room whose layout is always the same and cannot be changed. At the center of the area of effect stands the Kadosh Kadoshim, the Reality Script’s “command center”: a perfectly cubical room, each side exactly 9 meters long. The Kadosh Kadoshim’s floor is above ground level, as a 5-meters-tall staircase must be climbed before reaching the room. The room is floored and wainscoted with cedar, and the walls and floor are overlaid with gold. It contains two immense cherubim statues of olive-wood, each 4.5 meters high and each having outstretched wings 4.5 meters from tip to tip so that, since they stand side by side, the wings touch the walls on either side and meet in the center of the room. Under this exact point, in front of the veil of purple and crimson and fine linen that covers the farthest wall from the entrance, where the Ark of the Covenant should rest, stands a golden throne where Sophia sits and from where she controls her miniature universe.
While she cannot manipulate the Kadosh Kadoshim like she can the rest of the bounded field, she seems to possess and additional advantage within that room. This room is sacred to both Sophia and the Higher Entity itself. Physical violence in any form within the Kadosh Kadoshim is forbidden and punished twenty-fold.
Invocation:
"The world sings of joy with every single one of my words.
The universe smiles at me and honors me with its radiance.
I am the incarnation of love, hope and the brighter tomorrow,
But my soul cries because you're not here.
I seek you, I need you, I beg for your mercy.
Where art thou, my love? Why won't you answer?
My love is my curse. My curse is my damnation.
Listen to my call: the truth shall set you free."
Reality Script: Gardens of Babylon
Power: N/A
Type: Anti-Army
Range: As far as Takako wills it
Maximum Number of Targets: Anything within range
"Well, what can I say? Not precisely the favorite of my techniques (too demanding), but I won't deny it's wonderful......and very useful! Those who see it don't live to tell the tale, and those few who survive are too traumatized to open their mouths. How many souls have I claimed with Gardens of Babylon? I stopped counting......where? Sparta? Persia? Carthage? I forgot. It's a real shame warfare it's no longer like it used to be. Back then it was so entertaining.
The symphony of depravity. A technique Moloch would have killed to have. A Pandora’s Box of unfathomable evil. Lilith’s ultimate technique is the manifestation of the world’s evil.
The only condition to release Gardens of Babylon is that Takako must know the exact amount of targets that will be affected by it. Then it’s only a matter of Takako reciting the invocation.
Gardens of Babylon creates an extremely vivid realm in which all of the world’s evils are displayed in front of the victims. The technique doesn’t always create the same realm. The realm shaped immediately adjusts itself to deal the most powerful and negative impression in the target’s mind. The victims experience physical pain proportional to the impression they receive from the images they witness. Generally, the horror and the pain become so unbearable the helpless victim either doesn’t defend against Takako’s deathblow or takes its own life.
Invocation:
“I am the Goddess of Darkness.
I exist beyond Chaos and Destruction,
As both were born from me.”
“Pain is my bread,
And ecstasy my wine.
My womb is the forbidden chalice,
The treasure desired since the beginning of time,
The gate to unimaginable depravity.”
“All seek the source of infinite pleasure,
Yet the one I desire shall never be mine.
In my grief, the chains of damnation shall break.”
Reality Script: Glorious Seed of Transmigration – A Million Blessings for My Beloved……
Power: N/A
Type: Defense/Support
Range: N/A
Maximum Number of Targets: Unknown
"Now this is an interesting technique! I wish I could do this, I'd add it to my list of '1001 Ways to Achieve Immortality' list. Seriously, why do you think I'm indestructible? In my millennia of roaming this planet I've developed many ways to cheat death. I'm an alchemist's wet dream...well, I'm the wet dream of many people, but you catch my drift. Actually, that wasn't a metaphore, now that I think about it......I had a blast toying with alchemists. Dark Ages for the win."
Shekinah’s Reality Script: a Soul-Manipulation technique, devised solely to challenge Lilith’s machinations.
Shekinah’s Reality Script allows her a certain degree of control over her corporeal incarnations. She is able to separate her existence into several parts, and make each part inhabit a separate body, yet maintain consciousness of her existence as a whole despite being divided in this way. The portions of her existence remain hidden within their host bodies, and the host will be unaware of the portion of divine presence that resides in his or her body. In this way, portions of Shekinah can exist even in incarnations of other Divinities or Aeternals.
Shekinah can, at any moment, grant awareness of her partial presence to the host body. She can also merge two or more portions of her self whenever she pleases, regardless of distance or even the dimensional barrier. Of course, the power of each portion is a fraction of Shekinah’s power as a whole.
The most important aspect of this Reality Script is that, if Shekinah incarnates in this way, the portions carry Shekinah’s supernal memories. They do not carry memories of her previous incarnations, though.
Invocation: Glorious Seed of Transmigration does not require an invocation.
Reality Script: Oratorio of Despotism – Pandora’s Box
Power: N/A
Type: Support
Range: A cubical volume of up to 1,000,000,000 cubic meters.
Maximum Number of Targets: N/A
"Moloch's Reality Script......I guess it's good, but, compared with others, it feels kinda crappy. Well, Moloch wasn't much to begin with.....don't give me that look! I could have killed him! I was tired! It was all Sandalphon's and those stupid bitches' (censored by Daneel Rush) fault!"
Moloch’s Reality Script. A recreation of the Thread of Destiny within a bounded field.
Basically, Pandora’s Box allows Moloch to declare an absolute law that governs the area of effect, nullifying the Thread of Destiny and imposing that single rule. Moloch can declare pretty much anything as a rule, from “Only male creatures can exist here” to “Instrumental Weapons have no effect here” and so on, as long as only ONE rule is declared.
However, since reality does not accept impossibilities, in the same way Moloch cannot declare “impossible” rules. For example, “I am immune to all damage here”. This rule will not work. Moloch must at least allow one way in which he can be damaged while in the bounded field. Of course, nothing stops him from coming up with the most incredible exception. This is probably the reason he was eventually defeated: his opponent was immensely more creative……and resourceful.
Incantation: Unknown. It's not like we could ask him, and Takako never heard it.
Reality Script: Seder Hishtalshelus
Power: N/A
Type: Support
Range: N/A
Maximum Number of Targets: N/A
"Onii-chan's Reality Script. Needless to say, it's awesome. Becuase everything onii-chan does is wonderful (*sigh...*). While shaping matter is not such a big deal (I can do it, even scientists can do it!), the real deal with this technique is the incredible efficiency and ease with which it accomplishes its effect. It's like onii-chan laughs in Einstein's face (nothing personal, Eins, we're cool, remember?). Besides, Seder Hishtalshelus (heck, even the name is awesome!) can do other things besides shaping matter. Cool things."
THE Reality Script. A Reality Script that does precisely that: writes a script on reality, a script that will unfold according to Takato’s will. Seder Hishtalshelus is the “magic” of creation. It’s the combination of the Digital Hazard and Takato’s rightful divine powers. Takato’s version of the Treasury of Nitocris. While Takako fulfills her needs by reaching into her storage, Takato simply creates what he needs. In theory, Takato can create anything, but he’s never attempted to create animal or human life. However, there are some things Takato has admitted not even Seder Hishtalshelus can create. He cannot create singularities, for example, nor can he clone divinities or aeternals. He can make copies of Instrumental Weapons (the copies always turn out slightly weaker than their original, though), but he cannot shape Ea, Enlil or Merodach.
However, Seder Hishtalshelus doesn’t create something out of nothing. Takato’s Reality Script transmutes matter and condenses probability. When it seems like things appear out of thin air, it’s because Takato has used molecules from the atmosphere for his transmutation. Since Seder Hishtalshelus involves reducing matter to elementary particles and reassembling them into a different form of matter, unparalleled knowledge of science (mainly physics and chemistry) is crucial for the proper use of this technique.
Seder Hishtalshelus consists of ten stages or “stations,” which are:
- Atzmus Ohr Ein Sof Lifnei Hatzimtzum (The Essence of the Infinite Light Before the Contraction)
- Tzimtzum (Contraction)
- Reshimu (Impression)
- Kav (Measuring Line)
- Ratzon Kadom (Original Desire)
- Adam Kadmon (Original Man)
- Atziluth (World of Emanation)
- Beriah (World of Creation)
- Yetzirah (World of Formation)
- Asiyah (World of Action)
Seder Hishtalshelus can be used for other things rather than creating matter. It can perform any kind of small-scale alteration of reality, to a similar extent to the Reality Script “Limited Reality Revision.” However, unlike the Dual Force, Seder Hishtalshelus cannot work on any event that already took place. While it can stop an incoming bullet through several means, for example, it cannot stop the mortal wound if it has already being caused.
Incantation: Seder Hishtalshelus does not require an incantation.
Reality Script: Transcendental Matrix of Genesis – Love is the Pillar of Creation
Power: N/A
Type: Defense/Support
Range: Range of sight (Outward)/Personal (Inward)
Maximum Number of Targets: All within range (Outward)/Self (Inward)
"That's right! I refuse to call this thing a Reality Script! It's stupid! How can you call it a Script if Taichi can't even use it at will!? I don't know what this is, but it's not a Script!
But I still have to talk about it, huh? Okay, okay......well! A contingent resurrection technique is certainly a cool power to have. And I actually like Lex Aeterna: his combat style is a lot prettier. And I'm sure Shinobu would agree with me, wouldn't you, you naughty girl? Ahahaha! Oh, well, I guess I can understand why Taichi can't really control it: it wouldn't be as effective, Taichi being so slow in the head at times. What really surprises me is that this technique has a name at all! I mean, it was only used twice! Seriously, who came up with it? It was Shinobu, wasn't it?"
Kamiya Taichi’s incredibly powerful Reality Script, even if Takako doesn’t accept it as such simply because Taichi has no control over it. Regardless of this detail, the power of this technique is undeniable, as it is capable of a miracle impossible even to Takako: bringing the dead back to life.
Matrix of Genesis has two forms: Outward and Inward. The outward version triggers a secondary connection between the Thread of Destiny, the Multilayered Matrixes of Probability Fields that cover the universe and the Fundamental Data Scripts and Protocols that comprise the Digital World, fusing them into a single Supernal Matrix of Existence, Probability and Information that comprises the essence of everything that is, was and will be. Immediately, Taichi’s powers begin to work, restoring damaged data patterns, correcting probability miscalculations and forceful manipulations, and reconstructing existential coalescences in the Thread of Destiny. This has the following effects:
- All allies are completely healed from any damage they have taken, and regain lost vitality and energy. Deleted allied Digimon whose data wasn’t absorbed will be “revived.”
- Manipulations of probability in the area will be dispelled, including the effect of Reality Scripts.
- One dead entity will be brought back to life. If there is more than one, the criteria for selecting the one to be revived are unknown. If the entity was the incarnation of a Divinity or Aeternal, the host person will be revived, but as an ordinary person (the Divinity or Aeternal has already entered the cycle of reincarnation).
The inward form of the Reality Script is a contingent resurrection technique. In other words, if Taichi dies, he’s immediately restored to life. However, he changes to what is known as “Lex Aeterna.” In this form, Taichi’s stats change to the following:
Offense: 76 (B+)
Agility: 12 (F)
Dexterity: 92 (A+)
Stamina: 90 (A+)
Data Manipulation: 96 (S)
Reality Reversal: 75 (B+)
Needless to say, this form of Matrix of Genesis only works once. If Taichi dies a second time, he’s gone for good.
Invocation: Taichi's Reality Script is a contingent technique Taichi has no control over. Of course, it doesn't use an invocation.
Reality Script: Treasury of Nitocris
Power: N/A
Type: Support
Range: Infinite
Maximum Number of Targets: N/A
"What can I say? This is probably the only thing Gabriel has done right, and she didn't even do it herself, she only stole it from Nitocris. Not that I really care. Well, now, what else......it's a big dimensional vault......it's pretty useful......augh, what am I supposed to say!? I guess the Treasury is as useful as what I store in there. I keep all my pretty toys neatly stored: it's thief-proof and idiot-proof. It's the best!"
A hyper-dimensional vault that conceals the infinite treasury of the Messenger of God, the Treasury of Nitocris is basically the ultimate storage box. Anything can be stored within the vault, regardless of size and weight, as long as it’s inanimate. Takako uses it for pretty much everything: as a wardrobe, bank, garage……despite that, it is also of great usefulness in other aspects, as it is well known Takako has several Instrumental Weapons inside her Treasury.
By means of Innate Script Boundary, Takako has contained her Reality Script within her own body, allowing her to reach within her vault at all times, without the need for an incantation and spend large amounts of energy continuously to resist the effects of reality.
Invocation: Treasury of Nitocris does have an invocation, but Takako has somehow found a way to use the technique without pronouncing it (she only mutters "Treasury of Nitocris," and that's when she feels like listening to her lovely voice). She has been kind enough ("Yeah, I'm kindness incarnate!") to share the invocation with us.
"Some things are better left ignored.
Some secrets are better kept unknown.
Some mysteries are better left unsolved.
Some words are better kept untold.
This is the realm of the forgotten.
The place where forgotten thoughts linger.
Where dreams come to die.
I love you, so please don't love me.
Do not call my name and let me join this realm of nothingness."
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