Editing The Build Up (section)

==Boons==
There are several known boons that can be acquired from the Build Up. 

One is acquired by catching a dangling object high up on the path, such as a rope or chain, and be carried off by it. Afterwards, the Finder will often be able to find dangling objects in convenient places such as outside windows, helping them with escapes.<ref>“I think Jude picked something he thought might suit me.  Good guy.  Rewards are an option, depends how you want to leave the Path.  Gotta stick it out and keep climbing until you see a window.  Or ''the'' window if you want one perk.  Perk one is a boon, a tendency for ropes, cords, chains, pipes, draping flags, curtains to be beside windows and other unconventional ways of leaving a place.  Longer you go without using it, the better the chance and the better the moment.  Kinda fun.  Might get messy, though, imagine being forty and your Christmas lights are always dangling by the window or something.  Gotta get super high up, catch a crane hook or something dangling, let it carry you off.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/17/ Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.4]]</ref> 

Another is obtained by rescuing and safely escorting a Lost along the path, and gives the rescuer a weekly reward of minor items related to the Lost.<ref>“Perk two is junk, looks like.  Rescue an Other from falling, shelter it and escape with it past the ongoing demolition.  You’ll get a weekly reward, I guess, of something relevant to that Other.”<br>[...]<br>“Could be coins, shiny things, could be food, yes, though I think that’d go bad.  Uh, could be red things, could be dice, could be socks.  And it gets dropped off in the nearest blue container outside of the building you sleep in, every Wednesday.  If only one item gets dropped off, pure chance, it’s a super minor magic item.  I think it’d get annoying to get a plastic pail full of Lost food that’d go bad if you forgot about it, Snow.”<br><br>“Right this moment, I’m glad I became your familiar,” Snowdrop asked.  “You’re so wise sometimes.  I like the idea of getting the magic items.  Works for Clem.”<br><br>“I think they’re minor enough it wouldn’t be a disaster.  I think,” Avery replied. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/17/ Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.4]]</ref> 

The last boon grants resistance to things like weather, temperature, noise, and smells, but also makes those things more likely to occur around the Finder at a randomly decided probability. The probability can be reset by rerunning the path and reobtaining the boon, which is gotten by greeting five Lost with a shared trait, complimenting the last three, and hugging the last one. Getting this boon causes the whole Build Up to quickly collapse, leaving the resident Lost unharmed when it reforms, and dropping the Finders who got this boon in Kickcan Alley, though any Finders on the path who haven't gotten this boon will have to find another way off the path.<ref>“Last boon option is another perk.  Makes you twice as good at bearing bad weather, heat, cold, some smoke, fog, some noise, mold, some smells, and, hassles like babies crying next door, construction noise, loud music… there’s a whole list of testimonials.”<br>[...]<br>“It’s a pretty huge thing, actually, but, drawback one, is all those things become between fifteen percent and a hundred percent more likely to happen around you.  Or to you, whatever.  Number’s decided once when you run Build Up, you can change it by getting the same boon again, no other benefit for your hassle.”<br>[...]<br>“It sounds like Jude wants to do that one.  Which is why he wants company.  You need to find and greet five different Lost with something in common.  The last three you need to compliment them on that something.  While you’re climbing the building and everything.  And then you hug the last one and everything collapses around you.  Which I guess complicates the partnered part.  Unless we pick the same Others.”<br><br>“Can you pick me?” Snowdrop asked.<br><br>“I dunno.  I think it’s mainly Others in the building, but you could be right.  It looks like going that way puts you on another Path.  Kickcan Alley.  I think the document is incomplete… or no.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/17/ Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.4]]</ref><ref>They only had a few minutes before Jude got close enough to the bottom that he’d have to wrap up his part of things.  A hug for the last Other, then holding on to ride things to the bottom.  Which would be a fast ride, because the Build Up would collapse, doing no damage to Jude, Finn, or Luca, only to re-manifest with no harm to the inhabitants.<br><br>They had to get out before the collapse. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/ Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.3]]</ref>