Re:Melancholy - Yet another Backstory Merchant

This is the seventh authority addon for Re:Death

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It adds THREE authorities in one mod: Melancholy, Compression and the Custodian, to obtain one you can find a black box VERY RARELY inside minecraft structures (later on there will be other ways to obtain it), the box will give you the authority you are most compatible with, if you are compatible with none it will force a random one on you

Affinity:

Before using the box you might consider having affinity with one of the three or either you’ll lose your mind, to increase the affinity you’ll have to:

Melancholy: Crouch alone in the dark, at night or under the rain, lose your own pet

Compression: Sacrifice what is dear to you, items you used for a long time, enchanted, repaired or named ones, break them by using them or destroy them on purpose in lava, fire or cactus (the threshold is lower than the others, it’s almost a curse)

Custodian: Keep an unopened authority box, teach others by giving them enchanted items and experience, keep your gear always repaired, serve an ally and stay alive for days

Madness:

If you ignore the Box warning and decide to imbue yourself with the authority even tough you are not fitting enough you’ll encounter various drawbacks divided in stages, words will be popping on your screen alongside some random negative effects but most importantly each authority has its own way to break you

Melancholy: Mood swings, your sadness goes up and down on its own, then a euphoric phase appears where you are fast but weak, the negative effects of sadness weigh 1.5x and then 2x, and sometimes you are forced to sigh or the field crushes everybody around you, allies included
Compression: Random vows are imposed on you for some minutes, then more of them, then some become permanent until you die
Custodian: A slow and precise madness, voices tell you that wasting potential is a sin, damaged gear starts to hurt you (weakness and fatigue under 50% durability) and when you run out of reserve the Factor will take the payment by itself from the closest player or villager

Melancholy:

Z-Sigh: You crouch and caress the ground, you sigh and your sadness goes up, it also happens on its own when something saddens you
X-Weight: Toggle, an invisible field of pressure that crushes everyone around you, stronger the closer they are, it slows them, makes them sink and compresses every projectile that enters in it
C-Finger: The touch that ends fights, huge damage, it stuns the target for a few seconds and leaves a crater under it
V-Palm: Each palm is a line and a push, a standing body flies away, a body already on the ground gets CRUSHED (CRUSH THY END IS NOW DIE PREPARE THYSELVES), every palm in a row costs double and the fifth one closes the combo smashing the target into a rubber crater
B-Pebble: Kick a pebble that carries your weight, hold to charge it (up to 3 seconds), the more charged the faster and heavier, with enough sadness it becomes an instant shot that pierces through up to 600 blocks of terrain

Sorrow (Passive): Your sadness meter goes from 0 to 100 and changes your stance in 3 stages, the sadder you are the stronger you become (up to 1.8x) and the slower you walk (up to -35%), a violet aura grows around you and the world loses its colours, sun, friends and cake bring it down

Compression:

Z-Distance: Tap to teleport where you look, hold to open a map with coordinates, the cost and a confirm button
X-Move: Move an ally away from danger or a distracted enemy as a bait, bosses and authority bearers resist
C-Thought: Tap to compress the thinking time of your allies, their authority cooldowns are halved, hold to choose who your allies are, on an enemy it’s Mind Overload, the screen goes crazy and his controls are inverted
V-Pain: Compress the pain of your allies into an instant, on an enemy it becomes Agony, all the pain he ever took hits him at once
B-Process: Compress the time of a process you are looking at, furnaces, brewing stands, crops and so on
J-Vows: Opens a menu with a search bar, from there you can swear to NEVER do something again, any item, block, entity or action of any mod, the value of a vow is calculated from how much you used it, vows are physically enforced and last until death, every vow fills your reserve, it burns when you use the authority and it doesn’t refill by itself

Custodian:

Z-Distance: Like Compression but you bring the allies near you with you, and it costs less in places you visited often
X-Move: Same as Compression
C-Dissipate: Hold to open your hand towards the target and mark it with holes of void, release to close your fist, the body is devoured without a trace
V-Crush: Hold to squeeze the space around the target and crush it, short range
B-Process: Same as Compression
J-Pacts: Your reserve can only be filled by OTHERS, look at a player to ask a price (an enchantment, levels, a spell...) and he chooses to accept or refuse, look at a villager to open a trade window where you pay emeralds for what they sacrifice, they get their trades back after a while, if an enemy is under 25% health you can force him to pay