special-child -- Azazel's nursery mark (Human overlay) You are still your Background (Hunter, Soldier, …). Special Child is a hidden blood mark — Yellow Eyes already touched your family line. It is NOT a Path and does NOT replace Slayer (those destinies do not stack). Croatoan cannot infect you ([MARKED] on look). How you play — wake the mark (pick ONE; not a chain) 1. Clear Rivertown Remnant through Patient Zero — help croatoan 2. Drink a croatoan vial you find (Quarantine Bay teaching vial, boss drop, …) — help drink 3. Backup only: first training softcap / tier break — help breaking How you play — after awakened 1. psychic — status + demon blood / taint meters 2. vision — private flash (Spirit cost) 3. shove <target> — TK push (demon-blood voice); shove blood <target> spends demon blood 4. grip / nudge — rank 2+ (nudge needs psychic allow on players) 5. compel <t> <cmd> — rank 4+; spends demon blood; raises taint 6. harvest <body> — one thin/thick/prime vial per stained corpse 7. drink croatoan vial — feed demon blood; stronger inside the remnant ([RESONANCE]) You do not need to train before the dungeon, or clear the dungeon before training. Stages: dormant → stirring (private vision) → awakened (psychic rank 1). Psychic rank climbs from vial XP and successful psychic verbs. Demon blood addiction ticks when you ride the high dry — see score. Anyone can also shove <person> <direction> out of combat — Special Child shove uses infernal fluff. Cadence (offline Echo): awakened kids like Sam may binge solo-day — seek croatoan, harvest, drink, psychic verbs. Watch [TAINT] / [MARKED]. Tags: [PSYCHIC], [TK], [COMPEL], [RESIST], [TAINT], [HARVEST]. Never color alone. See also: help croatoan | help human | help origins | help slayer