Essence House Lamp of Vitalis

...Is a new item that you can touch once a day.

What does it do?

Grants 6 Vitalis to the toucher.  (42 per week!) 
Grants 1 Vitalis to each member of your house.

Flame will appear as its activated and will turn off in a few minutes.

THE ESSENCE 

...is an evolving universe of the supernatural in which you must adapt to changes.
 
New items and slight alterations of this-and-that may take place in the interest of fairness (or not). 

Ask questions and learn for yourself - most people seem quite helpful in this respect. Suspected bugs are addressed as discovered.

We enjoy positive suggestions and new ideas but I don't require notification of changes that I have made...I made them.

DEMONS

New store item: Essence Demon vital flux to Essence Transmutator.

What does it do?
Its got a self-explanatory menu that lets you CONVERT DEMONS VITAL FLUX to (owners') ESSENCE 

 
Fact: Demons earn a little vital flux each day.

OR'E is the Primary Value from Which you are Judged in The Essence. [REPOST for new members]

As a reminder, Reliquary is intended as safe storage (there is no curse on reliquary) for Essence. Reliquary, being a storage system, counts for only a small fraction of Or'e while 100% of the Essence score counts toward Or'e. 

The value Essentia Magna is thus pointless to ranking and not a ranking statistic; it is a sum of Essence + Reliquary. It is not intended a ranking force. The EM page is still "sortable" by clicking the column headers. 

The Essentia Magna exception-of-use is for "House Ranking" where the House Leader is determined by Essentia Magna.

Members thus trade Curse for Rank: The more Essence that is active increases both your curse and ranking - it is your choice how you want to be ranked.  

Also a reminder: 

These things have positive effect on Or'e and the effect may increase as time passes and more people join:
Currently your Or'e value depends on a complex calculation based on your actions these things increase Or'e: 

Or'e + Essence 
Or'e + A Fraction of Reliquary contributes to O're
Or'e + Belong to House Lilith, Bathori, Draculesti, Varcolac, Witchfire, or Noctulius
Or'e + Increase Spellwright score + work spells 
Or'e + Increase Animus Flux
Or'e + Own tarot cards + Increase taromancy score
Or'e + Own demons + Increase total Wellbeing score of all your demons

Two things decrease Or'e: Sapped and placing a large percentage of your Essence into Reliquary.

WISDOM LEVELS

Added: 

Noetic
Hierophantic
Metagnostic
Aeon-Minded
Absolute

Wisdom is directly tied to many actions other than raw Essence/Reliquary such as SpellWright, Taromancy and Demon Wellbeing. There is a slight bonus in Essence each day based on your Wisdom level.

MY DEAR FRIENDS,

As the final chime of the year fades into ash, I rise from the velvet hush of the night to offer you my blessing. The old year has been drained of its last warmth WITH its triumphs savored AND wounds remembered.

May this coming year thrum with strength in your blood and clarity in your will. May your nights be long enough for dreams, your shadows loyal, and your hungers be it whatever form, breathe in without regret. Toss aside what has grown cold within you, and step forward renewed, sharpened, and unafraid of the dark.

I HAVE NOT LOGGED UPDATES 

..in a few days. There's nothing to report. The Essence universe rolls along its path of energy gathering, magic casting and demon keeping. The next item will be some "House Reward" Object similar to the Light of the Dark Houses but may give something different, such as Vitality. Happy holidays my friends.

NEW ITEM: Light of the Dark Houses 

Its the first "group" object made. What it does: 

On touch lights up and begins to list each member of your house and says something nice about them.
It awards EACH member of your house 10-100 Essence depending its mood.

After its finished the hovertext and light turns off.
You can use this item ONCE PER DAY. 

If several members of your house possess one of these and use it, it can help generate significant Essence for those in your house.

DEMONS RANKING

The health number for demons essentially equals "hours to live". Thus 72 Health equals about 3 days and so on.

Wellbeing value is a complex sum of [LOVE + FEEDS + VITAL FLUX]. Thus, as these increase so does Wellbeing. 

Vital Flux is the demons life force and like health, a small amount is used up each day. 

Deaths decrease Wellbeing by a full 1.0 but may be fixed in the same way as Sapped is fixed with the Spirit of Redemption.

ESSENCE ITEMS TIME TRACKER

This free (10$) item is in the store.
It lets you see how long before you can re-touch your give-stuff items.

Example: Touch an item like ground then touch the time tracker and the hovertext will say "Grounding due in 24 hours" 

Look for this in the store: 

https://gyazo.com/33226fb7ec50c303980f2523aa0d6c95

CORRECTIONS to TIMED SCRIPTS

Or'e is recalculated once/hr

Demon health loss/hour changed from 4 to 1 (Example: 24 health lasts 24 hours)

NEW BADGES 

Master of Demons (Highest demons Wellbeing)

Witch (Race Witch)

HOUSE OF WITCHFIRE

In honor of Witches of all types, this is a new house you may join now. Also you may join a new race called Witch.

Use: Essence book of races to change race.
Use: Essence The Nocturne Pactstone to join a house.

DEMON FEEDING

Please remember demons can only hold 1000 health. You can continue to feed them over 1000 but it to no effect and just reduces your resources with no gain. 

Giving them Vital Flux has NO limit.

A demon health value of lasts a full 41 days before it dies!

DEMONS 4.0

Are now for sale. New names, these are weird with shorter names.

 
They function same as Demons 1.0

Avatar Name Changes

In SL, as you know, people can pay to have their names changed. This has a confusing effect on games, rentals, and DJ boards. In the Essence, this means if you come across one of these name-chameleon's you they say something like "not forged" and you can't forge them. I let these cads get away with that for some time before writing a set of Karma-generating programs to fix this. Turns out just in The Essence over a 1000 scanned humans changed their name (they are now fresh food for you)

...you come and go, you come and go...oh oh oh...

DEMONS 3.0

Are now for sale. New names, cold vapor breath, super cute.
They function same as Demons 1.0

If you want a picture of any demon on the demon page send it to me.

TOXIC FRIDAYS

There are currently about 500 humans that are TOXIC blood type.

At the beginning of Fridays all humans with blood type TOXIC are gifted with 666 Essence for 24 hours until they revert to Essence 0. 

Find and eat them up while they last :) 

If you find and eat one IM me.

Spells new for sale:

Tarot43 and Tarot86 (Use each week) 

Read about spells before you get these.

OR'E is the Primary Value from Which you are Judged in The Essence.

As a reminder, Reliquary is intended as safe storage (there is no curse on reliquary) for Essence. Reliquary, being a storage system, counts for only a small fraction of Or'e while 100% of the Essence score counts toward Or'e. 

The value Essentia Magna is thus pointless to ranking and not a statistic; it is a sum of Essence + Reliquary. It is not intended a ranking force and will likely be removed as a stand alone page. If you want your exact Essentia Magna just add Essence + Reliquary. 

The Essentia Magna exception-of-use is for "House Ranking" where the House Leader is determined by Essentia Magna.

Members thus trade Curse for Rank: The more Essence that is active increases both your curse and ranking - it is your choice how you want to be ranked.  

Also a reminder: 
These things have positive effect on Or'e and the effect may increase as time passes and more people join:
Currently your Or'e value depends on a complex calculation based on your actions these things increase Or'e: 

Or'e + Essence 
Or'e + A Fraction of Reliquary contributes to O're
Or'e + Belong to House Lilith, Bathori, Draculesti, Varcolac, or Noctulius
Or'e + Increase Spellwright score + work spells 
Or'e + Increase Animus Flux
Or'e + Own tarot cards + Increase taromancy score
Or'e + Own demons + Increase total Wellbeing score of all your demons

Two things decrease Or'e: Sapped and placing a large percentage of your Essence into Reliquary.

DEMONS versions 1.0 & 2.0 

Are for sale now. Like all things in The Essence, they increase Or'e.

You can feed them up to 1000.
Vital Flux has no upper limit.
Love once each 12 hours.

Version 2.0 is MOD if you wish to color it.

https://theessencesl.com/demons/demons.php
https://theessencesl.com/essence_codex.html#demons

Or'e Values 

Currently your Or'e value depends on a complex calculation based on your actions these things increase Or'e: 

Or'e + Essence 
Or'e + 12% of Reliquary contributes to O're
Or'e + Belong to Lilith, Bathori, Draculesti, Varcolac, or Noctulius
Or'e + Spellwright score
Or'e + Animus Flux
Or'e + Own tarot cards
Or'e + Taromancy score
Or'e + Own demons
Or'e + Total Wellbeing score of all your demons

House of the Damned Warning

All Originals less than 50 Essence are cast into the House of the Damned until you re-join a regular house. If you drain your Thrall to <50 Essence this applies and you will need to then put them back into a regular house after they recover.

Aurora 

The Northern lights are out bright and cover the sky from zenith to nadir. They cast themselves in the unusual color of reds, so rare I put on my heaviest coat and an old fur hat and went out to view them for awhile; so bright they blot out the stars. 

I'll spare the mechanisms of their spectacle, having to do with physical energy states, quantum mechanics, light and such, and instead describe them as amazing. 

Such is life in the far away north where I live.

Neglected Thralls and Their Essence

Did you know that when a Thralls Essence exceeds 5000 they are reset on Mondays to both 0 Essence and 0 Reliquary? 
What happens to that energy?
 
When this rare event happens a large portion of the energy is secretly given to a randomly chosen Original that is a member of one of the major houses; not House of Shadows and not House of Damned.

Plans

Make all the plans you like, the universe collects them like confessions before the execution.

This winter, as I lie entombed in the deep freeze of Alaska, I’ll be working to expand The Essence by adding new features and deepening existing ones. Expect progressively difficult spells and, possibly, the introduction of a Sigil System.
Preview: https://gyazo.com/331c185a5e6d8bebcbef4fd3a933bff7

As far as I can tell, all known bugs are now exorcised; the HUD and items appear to be fully functional. My thanks for your vigilance in finding and reporting problems.

If you have ideas for additions to the system, I’m open to them. We will never introduce farming (or anything resembling it) but a form of occult crafting may rise from the shadows.

Gathering:

Did you know once a Gathering cycle begins you may move away or even TP out - the cycle will continue until it ends. Time in seconds may depend in the date.
You can set the Gathering cycle duration from 30-500 seconds by typing /555 (number) AFTER you start a cycle.
The normal weekdays cycle is 235 seconds
The normal weekend cycle is 125 seconds
This feature is intended to make the cycle shorter of longer depending on the Essence value of the avatar you are Gathering from.
It's up to you to use this feature wisely and make your own notes of how many seconds you want to feed.
The new Gather cycle must be set each time you feed or it remains the default duration.
If you Over Gather (Reduce someone to 0) you will be awarded a Sapped which has profound negative effects on your Or'e.
To absolve yourself from Sapped, purchase a 'Spirit of Redemption'.
Thralls can't Gather but they can Forge.
Gather rates and Gather times are two different things. 
Special feeding rates
          You get 4x essence per Human on these special days:
          -  
          04/30/2025 Walpurgisnacht: April 30th 
          11/29/2025 St. Andrews Night: November 29 
          12/21/2025 Longest Night:  Dec 21
          10/30/2025 Samhain
          10/31/2025 Samhain
          and every weekend is 2x Gather !

About Houses

What becomes of system members who fall to 0 Essence?
When Originals reach zero Essence, they are cast into the House of the Damned, regardless of which House they once belonged to.
If you have a Thrall and drain them to zero, the same rule applies — they remain bound to the House of the Damned until their Essence rises above zero. Once restored, they become Houseless, and may remain in the House of the Damned even though their Or'e becomes greater than 0 but not listed in it.
This creates additional work for you: to restore a Thrall to your own House, it must possess at least 1,000 Essence.
The logical approach, and the least troublesome, is to maintain your Thralls between 1,000 and 5,000 Essence to keep them stable.

Ranking Houses

Houses are ranked by the average Or’e of roughly the top half of their members, plus a bonus granted for each member.
You may notice that the House of Shadows exhibits an unusually high Or’e level. This is not due to a high individual average, but rather to its sheer number of members, as the cumulative bonus becomes dominant.
For this reason, the House of Shadows is not ranked among the competitive Houses.

How do I Choose a House?

To change houses, or to free yourself from The House of Shadows, get the "Essence The Nocturne Pactstone", touch it to choose a house. You will need to have at least 1000 Essence to enter a House; it does not remove 1000 Essence from you. Being a member of the 5 prestigious houses may have a positive effect on your Or'e.

Processes

There are 24 "processes" that run everyday starting at 8:55 PM and ending at 9:22 PM. These are a complex, inter-dependent mix of scripts that update various actions in the system. The first process is "curse" and the last is "Or'e". I'm slowly moving these processes closer to one another but care must be taken to insure they still work properly.

F:E

F:E ratio has been removed. It was simply Forged/Essence and had effect on several stats. With the addition of Reliquary to the system F:E becomes moot and and actually hurts system users that transfer large amounts of Essence to Reliquary. Please note you get a significant boost in Essence while Gathering during the Halloween holidays.