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So, Discworld profiles who aren't tier 2 are bad in general, but I just want to revise at least this one. So let's revise The Luggage.
Speed upgrade
So, I basically think that its speed should be Immeasurable, and here's why:
First, it outran (fly?) Astfgl across time without any special abilities.
"Astfgl surfed across the entropy slope, an angry red spark against the swirls of interspace. He was so angry now that the last vestiges of self-control were slipping away; his jaunty cap with its stylish hornlets had become a mere wisp of crimson dangling from the tip of one of the great coiled ramshorns that framed his skull.
With a rather sensuous ripping noise the red silk across his back tore open and his wings unfolded.
They are conventionally represented as leathery, but leather wouldn’t survive more than a few seconds in that environment. Besides, it doesn’t fold up very well.
These wings were made of magnetism and shaped space, and spread out until they were a faint curtain against the incandescent firmament and they beat as slowly and inexorably as the rise of civilizations.
They still looked batlike, but that was just for the sake of tradition.
Somewhere around the 29th millennium he was overtaken, quite without noticing, by something small and oblong and probably even angrier than he was."
Ran "twice the length of the space-time continuum"
"There was no way to describe how angry you can get running nearly twice the length of the space-time continuum, and the Luggage had been pretty annoyed to start with.
It looked at the hinges. It looked at the locks. It backed away a bit and appeared to read the new sign over the portal.
Possibly this made it angrier, although with the Luggage there wasn’t any reliable way of telling because it spent all its time beyond, in a manner of speaking, the hostility event horizon.
The doors of Hell were ancient. It wasn’t just time and heat that had baked their wood to something like black granite. They’d picked up fear and dull evil. They were more than mere things to fill a hole in the wall. They were bright enough to be dimly aware of what their future was likely to hole.
They watched the Luggage shuffle back across the sand, flex its legs and crouch down.
The lock clicked. The bolts dragged themselves back hurriedly. The great bars jerked from their sockets. The doors flung themselves back against the wall.
The Luggage untensed. It straightened. It stepped forward. It almost strutted. It passed between the straining hinges and, when it was nearly through, turned and gave the nearest door a damn good kick."
And is considered to be able to follow its owner anywhere in space and time
"Sapient pearwood is meta-magical and will track its owner absolutely anywhere in time and space,' said Ponder."
Since these instances never were treated as anything special, it should be Immeasurable in speed.
P&A corrections
This thing is a mess from A to Z. Here are all the changes to do:
-Change strength and dura to Superhuman Physicals Characteristics
-Sensivity to Extrasensory Perception, including the fact that it always follow its owner and knows when others mean harm to them.
-Magical Enhancements should just be removed.
-His resistances are weak, vague and without justifications. They should be "Resistance to Magic, including [insert shit ton of hax]" based on it being Sapient Pearwood
"Sapient pearwood. A plant so magical that it has nearly died out on the Disc and survives in only one or two places outside the Agatean Empire, where it is still quite common; it is a magical equivalent of Rosebay Willowherb, a plant that traditionally colonises bomb sites and areas devastated by fire. Sapient pearwood, in a similar way, sprouts in areas that have seen vast expenditures of magic. It owes its origins to the Mage Wars; this has left it ingrained with a bad temper. It is totally impervious to all forms of magic.
It is traditionally used to make wizards’staffs, and many of these still survive. But since no trees are now found within 500 miles of Unseen University, most modern staffs are made of oak or ash.
The Luggage is made of it. Be warned"
-"Multidimensionnal insides" should be Pocket Reality + BFR/Absorption, since it frequently eats the other to beat it.
-Get Time Travel for the speed reasons.
-Idk for the immortalities? Like The Luggage should get Inorganic Physiology, but I don't know how immortalities apply to objects.
-Possible Social Influencing, because of its "stare" described on his profile and freaking the hell out of everyone in general.
Intelligence change
There's no reasonning to support Below Average.
I think that "Average, but often influenced by its desire to follow its owner and its agressivity" would be better.
Conclusion
To resume:
-Immeasurable speed
-P&A changed for everything
-Intelligence upgrade to Average.
Speed upgrade
So, I basically think that its speed should be Immeasurable, and here's why:
First, it outran (fly?) Astfgl across time without any special abilities.
"Astfgl surfed across the entropy slope, an angry red spark against the swirls of interspace. He was so angry now that the last vestiges of self-control were slipping away; his jaunty cap with its stylish hornlets had become a mere wisp of crimson dangling from the tip of one of the great coiled ramshorns that framed his skull.
With a rather sensuous ripping noise the red silk across his back tore open and his wings unfolded.
They are conventionally represented as leathery, but leather wouldn’t survive more than a few seconds in that environment. Besides, it doesn’t fold up very well.
These wings were made of magnetism and shaped space, and spread out until they were a faint curtain against the incandescent firmament and they beat as slowly and inexorably as the rise of civilizations.
They still looked batlike, but that was just for the sake of tradition.
Somewhere around the 29th millennium he was overtaken, quite without noticing, by something small and oblong and probably even angrier than he was."
Ran "twice the length of the space-time continuum"
"There was no way to describe how angry you can get running nearly twice the length of the space-time continuum, and the Luggage had been pretty annoyed to start with.
It looked at the hinges. It looked at the locks. It backed away a bit and appeared to read the new sign over the portal.
Possibly this made it angrier, although with the Luggage there wasn’t any reliable way of telling because it spent all its time beyond, in a manner of speaking, the hostility event horizon.
The doors of Hell were ancient. It wasn’t just time and heat that had baked their wood to something like black granite. They’d picked up fear and dull evil. They were more than mere things to fill a hole in the wall. They were bright enough to be dimly aware of what their future was likely to hole.
They watched the Luggage shuffle back across the sand, flex its legs and crouch down.
The lock clicked. The bolts dragged themselves back hurriedly. The great bars jerked from their sockets. The doors flung themselves back against the wall.
The Luggage untensed. It straightened. It stepped forward. It almost strutted. It passed between the straining hinges and, when it was nearly through, turned and gave the nearest door a damn good kick."
And is considered to be able to follow its owner anywhere in space and time
"Sapient pearwood is meta-magical and will track its owner absolutely anywhere in time and space,' said Ponder."
Since these instances never were treated as anything special, it should be Immeasurable in speed.
P&A corrections
This thing is a mess from A to Z. Here are all the changes to do:
-Change strength and dura to Superhuman Physicals Characteristics
-Sensivity to Extrasensory Perception, including the fact that it always follow its owner and knows when others mean harm to them.
-Magical Enhancements should just be removed.
-His resistances are weak, vague and without justifications. They should be "Resistance to Magic, including [insert shit ton of hax]" based on it being Sapient Pearwood
"Sapient pearwood. A plant so magical that it has nearly died out on the Disc and survives in only one or two places outside the Agatean Empire, where it is still quite common; it is a magical equivalent of Rosebay Willowherb, a plant that traditionally colonises bomb sites and areas devastated by fire. Sapient pearwood, in a similar way, sprouts in areas that have seen vast expenditures of magic. It owes its origins to the Mage Wars; this has left it ingrained with a bad temper. It is totally impervious to all forms of magic.
It is traditionally used to make wizards’staffs, and many of these still survive. But since no trees are now found within 500 miles of Unseen University, most modern staffs are made of oak or ash.
The Luggage is made of it. Be warned"
-"Multidimensionnal insides" should be Pocket Reality + BFR/Absorption, since it frequently eats the other to beat it.
-Get Time Travel for the speed reasons.
-Idk for the immortalities? Like The Luggage should get Inorganic Physiology, but I don't know how immortalities apply to objects.
-Possible Social Influencing, because of its "stare" described on his profile and freaking the hell out of everyone in general.
Intelligence change
There's no reasonning to support Below Average.
I think that "Average, but often influenced by its desire to follow its owner and its agressivity" would be better.
Conclusion
To resume:
-Immeasurable speed
-P&A changed for everything
-Intelligence upgrade to Average.
