PROGENITOR: WORM (A Wormquest AU)

CHARACTER SHEET & GLOBAL METRICS
SUSPICION​
TECHNOLOGY​
ECONOMY​
WARFARE​
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THE METRIC DATA IS NOT AVALAIBLE TO YOUR CHARACTER UNLESS THEY HAVE SUPERHUMAN (10+) DICE IN MIND.
YOU MAY CHECK THE METRICS, BUT YOU MUST NOT ACT UPON THEM.
IF YOU START DOING MONKEY BEESKNEES, THEN I'LL REMOVE THESE.
BUT THEY'RE NEAT, SO DON'T MAKE ME DO THAT.




THE CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE STONEWALL NINE

TEAM MORALE:
Dissolved (1/4), Fraying (1/2), Bad (3/4), Average (x1), Good (x1.5), Excellent (x2), Found Family (x3)
TEAM HEADQUARTERS: Yggdrasil, the World Tree
TEAM ALLIES: NYPD (Grudging), Stan Lee (Eager), Cam Nguyet (Whether You Want Her Or Not), Amanda Sykes, Abe Sykes
TEAM ENEMIES: Don Crawler (Nemesis) [IN JAIL], Glasshead (Nemesis) [IN JAIL], Miss Eyes (Nemisis) [IN JAIL], Zipperneck (Rival) [IN JAIL],
Cam Nguyet (Whether You Want Her Or Not)

TEAM WARDS: Tina Shaw, Amy Sykes, Cassie the Humanoid Force, Sloppy Joe, Aisha Laborn, Camilo Vera, Jill Danning
Lily Satō, Head of the Stonewall Nine

AGE: 19 (DOB: 1951)
PASSION: Girls [7], Fuck the Cops [4], Superheroing [1]
LOYALTY: Queer Rights [7], Your Friends [5], , A Better World [1]
BASE WILL: 25 | XP: 1

Lily has seen nothing but hassle from New York's finest and is damn sure not going to let them push her around. And now, finally, a queer woman can hit back harder than the patriarchy does.

BODY​
CORD.​
SENSE​
MIND​
CHARM​
COMMAND​
1d+1wd​
6d​
3d​
3d​
2d​
2d​
Lily, before becoming a metahuman, was perceptive and smart, but had the strength and endurance of a sixteen year old girl after a bad cold. Afterwards, she could become incredibly strong if she manipulated the physics of the items she touched, or the clothing she wore to augment herself. Her max press was five tons without any additional effort, a top speed of 40 MPH for running, and a vertical jump of 8 yards. Also, she can dodge bullets.

SKILLS (Broad, Flexible, Influence)
[Any] New Yorker, Japanese-American, Delinquent (B/F/-): 3d
[Any] Being a Lesbian in the 1960s (B/F/-): 3d
[Any] Superhero (B/F/I): 1d
[Coordination] Sneaking (-/-/-): 2d
[Coordination] Lockpicking (-/-/-): 2d
[Mind] Speak Vietnamese (-/-/-): 1d
[Mind] Speak Russia (-/-/-): 1d
[Mind - Hyperskill] Intuitive Physicist (B/-/-): 6hd
[Charm] Voice of the People (-/-/I): 1d
[Command] Stubbornness (-/-/-): 3d

Lily, before becoming a metahuman, was the bad apple of her family. A second generation Japanese immigrant, she doesn't like or respect her parents - if only because she's grimly determined they'd freak out if they found out what she...felt about other women. She's good at sneaking out and has spent more time at Stonewall than she has at school, as her grades will attest. She's got a stubborn attitude and is about ten years early for punk and ten years late for the Beatniks. She makes do.

ARCHETYPE: METAHUMAN
Source: Unknown | Permission: Super
Intrinsics:
Immutable: Barring superhuman assistance, gadgets, or something wildly unexpected, Lily's powers will not change or improve.
Infectious: Lily is either a strong, stable or weak vector (she doesn't know which.) If she's strong, she has a 100% infection rate until she reaches power equilibrium. If she's stable, she has an 80% shot (the joy of being a Tier 3.) If she's weak, she's got a 10% shot. Infection passes when she uses her powers on anything sentient.​
POWERS

Not So Little Anymore...
Dice: 1wd
Hyperbody (+4), No Physics (+1), Booster [2] (+2), If/Then [Must Be Wearing Clothes Over The Parts Used] (-1), Obvious (-1)​
Cost per Die: 5 | Total Cost: 20​
By adjusting, in minute and gross ways, the physical properties of either what she carries and her own clothing, Lily effectively has her very own suit of strength enhancing exoskeletal structures. This imparts incredibly precise control to her blows, her athleticism, and her jumping. This isn't a subtle effect - her body emits strange flashes and odd noises as air and light interacts unpredictably with her physics alterations.

Fast as a Thought
Dice: 4d
Hypercoordination (+4), No Physics (+1), Go First [2] (+2), If/Then [Must Be Wearing Clothes Over The Parts Used] (-1), Obvious (-1)​
Cost per Die: 5 | Total Cost: 20​
Just like with her body, but this covers her reflexes as well. She can dodge bullets! ...not that she HAS too. The flashing and eerie hissing makes stealth hard, so she prefers to turn it off when she's sneaking anywhere.

Intuitive Physicist
Dice: 6hd
Hyperskill [[Mind]General Physicist (B/-/-)] (+1)
Cost Per Die: 1 | Total Cost: 12
She's intuitively a PHD equipped physicist on par with Albert Einstein. Maybe better, actually. She literally can't NOT know the exact right answer to any physics question. This really helps, considering her powers.

Everything is a Gun
Dice: 8d+1wd
Range: 2,560 Yards | Mass: Knockback = Base Damage + 6 meters | Base Damage: Width in Shock & Killing
Attack (+2), Area [1d] (+1) Spray [1d) (+1), Heightened Capacity [Mass] (+1), Penetration [2] (+2), Power Capacity [Mass] (+2), Speeding Bullet (+2), If/Then [Must Touch an Object] (-1), Obvious (-1)​
Cost Per Die: 9 | Total Cost: 108​
By touching an object (any object, really) and canceling their mass and lateral motion relative to the planet Earth, she can turn anything, from an apple to a doorknob to a manhole cover into a projectile. By touching a lot of objects (I.E, using spray), she can hit as many times as she gets sets. By making sure to touch relatively fragile objects and creating deliberate fracture points, she turns the weapon into a kind of kinetic shotgun (using Area.) People hit by this tend to go flying (using the Power Capacity [Mass]), but she can just use narrow blades if she just wants to do the slicing and slashing. The only problem is if she can't touch things with her skin (it has to be a skin to skin contact) it won't work. Oh. Also, the sonic booms.

No

Dice: 10hd
Range: 512 yards
Defends (+2), Power Capacity [Range] (+2), Spray (+1), Obvious (-1), Limited Capacity (-1), If/Then [Must have a Medium to Manipulate] (-1)​
Cost Per Die: 3 | Total Cost: 40​
By glaring at the air around her, she can render it impenetrable to whatever is coming her way. Maybe the air molecules suddenly lose the ability to move at all and become an impenetrable wall that simply bounces a kinetic projectile off, or negating an explosive's ability to undergo chemical interactions that lead to detonations, or making the air molecules ahead of her simply non-conductive to whatever energy blast is heading her way. This is not subtle - producing bright flashes, loud booms, and strange changes in local atmospheric conditions as the interactions become chaotic beyond the immediate radius. The maximum number of people or places she can protect at once is five people, but the more people she tries to protect, the less effective the defense is. It's literally impenetrable when she's just protecting one person, but if she's protecting five at once, a fast shot or lucky hit might get through.

Physical Fuckery
Dice: 5wd
Range: N/A | Mass: N/A | Speed: N/A​
Attacks (+2), Endless (+3), Variable Effect (+4), If/Then [For Variable Effect] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Must Be Related to Repressing a Physical Law] (-1), Locational [Head, R. Arm, L. Arm, Body, R. Leg, L. Leg] (-6)​
Defends (+2), Endless (+3), Variable Effect (+4), If/Then [For Variable Effect] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Must Be Related to Repressing a Physical Law] (-1), Locational [Head, R. Arm, L. Arm, Body, R. Leg, L. Leg] (-6)​
Useful (+2), Endless (+3), Variable Effect (+4), If/Then [For Variable Effect] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Must Be Related to Repressing a Physical Law] (-1), Locational [Head, R. Arm, L. Arm, Body, R. Leg, L. Leg] (-6)​
Cost Per Die: 6 | Total Cost: 120​
Whenever she puts her mind to it, Lily can do something. If it can be done by suppressing a physical property or law, she can do it. Needless to say, once she realizes how her power works, she starts studying the hell of out physics. This is really easy, thanks to her intuitive understanding of physics. However, this power requires her to be able to use every SINGLE iota of her body's contact with the surrounding universe. If she has taken any trauma to any part of her body, then these powers short out. If she gets a chance to refocus, she can reestablish her control...unless the body part in question is too damaged to be used (I.E, filled with any combination of shock or killing damage.) In which case, she simply cannot tap into this ability to manipulate the universe. She simply lacks the holistic connection to the universe.

Seriously, Though, everything?
Dice: 1d
Range: Self Only
Attacks (+2), Attack Quality [10] (+10), Augment (+4), Area [10d] (+10), Booster [10] (+10), Burning (+2), Engulf (+2), Penetration [10] (+10), Radius [5] (+10), If/Then [Augment Only] (-1), If/Then [Cannot Spend Use Augment for anything but "Everything Is a Gun"] (-1), If/Then [Must Be Manipulating Matter On A Scale Permitting The Impacts She Wishes] (-1), Self Only (-3)​
Cost Per Die: 54 | Total Cost: 54​
Hey, what if she touches a mountain face and she negates its inertia and lateral motion for a flash of a second and turns Everest into a five kilometer high rock shotgun? Well, uh...take your pick! Add all of the above! If she uses a chemical tanker, it might explode. If she uproots an oil derrick, it will set things on fire. Anything justifiable in the scene, she can do it. She will have to spend a willpower point to do this. Oh, and be willing to accept the consequences.

Confident as Hell
Dice: N/A
Base Will (+3), Attached [Hyperbody] (-2)
Cost Per Point: 1 | Total Cost: 26
Lifting five tons over her head, running as fast a car, and being aware she doesn't have to be afraid anymore all combine to create a staggering, preposterous level of raw confidence. This is good, cause it makes her good at fighting supervillains and changing the world. The only problem is that if that hyperbody ever goes away...poof. There goes the confidence. Good thing that won't happen! ...right?

Andy Richter, Time Thief and Genius Gadgeteer
Andy's Powers

ANDY HAS 11 BASE WILL.

Hypermind
Dice: 4wd
Hyperbrain (+4), If/Then [Must be within 10 meters of any form if electrical equipment) (-1), If/Then [Can be disrupted by wrapping his head in a Faraday cage] (-1), If/Then [Can be disrupted with any form of non-physical radar jamming too] (-1)
Cost Per Die: 1 | Total Cost: 12

More Hypermind
Dice: 2wd
Hyperbrain (+4) If/Then [Must be within 10 meters of a pretty hefty chunk of computers) (-1), If/Then [Can be disrupted by wrapping his head in a Faraday cage] (-1), If/Then [Can be disrupted with any form of non-physical radar jamming too] (-1)
Cost Per Die: 1 | Total Cost: 8

Even More Hypermind
Dice: 2wd
Hyperbrain (+4) If/Then [Must be within 10 meters of even more computer components) (-1), If/Then [Can be disrupted by wrapping his head in a Faraday cage] (-1), If/Then [Can be disrupted with any form of non-physical radar jamming too] (-1)
Cost Per Die: 1 | Total Cost: 8

Dear God, Sir, How Much More Hypermind Do you Need!?
Dice: 2wd
Hyperbrain (+4) If/Then [Must be within 10 meters of a pretty hefty chunk of computers) (-1), If/Then [Can be disrupted by wrapping his head in a Faraday cage] (-1), If/Then [Can be disrupted with any form of non-physical radar jamming too] (-1)
Cost Per Die: 1 | Total Cost: 8

When Andy is within ten meters of any kind of electrically conductive material harnessed for human ends – lamp posts and microwaves, toasters and hair driers – he becomes smarter than the smartest human being in the world. If those electrically conductive materials are arranged into a computer of some kind, then he becomes a lot smarter, and he gets more and more smarter the more and more computers are around him. Eventually, he hits the four way tie for smartest monkey on this marble. Unfortunately, unlike some metahumans, Andy's "exocortex" is suspended on physical matter and communicated to him via electromagnetic signals, meaning they can be blocked or removed by his enemies.

Time Snatch
Dice: 2hd
Mass: 2.5 kg or less
Useful (+2), Permanent (+4), Limited Capacity (-1)
Cost Per Die: 5 | Total Cost: 20

Andy has a fascination with electrical gizmos and computers. But the 1960s was not enough for his subconscious. He is able to reach forward in time into parallel universes and, uh...steal stuff. The stuff can only come from other universes, and he can't do more than 2.5 kilograms at a time, making the stuff he REALLY wants (quantum computers, spaceship engines, laser guns) slightly tricky.

I Can Make Whatever You Want
Dice: 5hd+10d+5wd

Attacks (+2), Endless (+3), Variable Effect (+4), Delayed Effect (-2), If/Then [Variable Effect Requires at least 6wd of Hyperbrain to be active] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect is only for Technology] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [Any Gadget Made Must Have the Manufacturable Extra] (-1), Willpower Investment (-1)
Defends (+2), Endless (+3), Variable Effect (+4), Delayed Effect (-2), If/Then [Variable Effect Requires at least 6wd of Hyperbrain to be active] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect is only for Technology] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [Any Gadget Made Must Have the Manufacturable Extra] (-1), Willpower Investment (-1)
Useful (+2), Endless (+3), Variable Effect (+4), Delayed Effect (-2), If/Then [Variable Effect Requires at least 6wd of Hyperbrain to be active] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect is only for Technology] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [Any Gadget Made Must Have the Manufacturable Extra] (-1), Willpower Investment (-1)
Useful (+2), Endless (+3), Delayed Effect (-2), Touch Only (-2)
Cost Per Die: 7 | Total Cost: 280

Hokay. So! Andy can make gadgets. He's, in fact, one of the better gadgeters in the world – in part because he doesn't NEED A LABORATORY. He doesn't NEED supplies. Because he just...uh...borrows them from the future. (Note, if he chooses to not borrow things from the future, then he will need a laboratory, but won't get a rebate in points.) The gadgets he makes can be, eventually, learned to be recreated by non-metahumans. Now, it still takes him some time to actually build a gadget! Now, there is one tiny problem: He needs to be smart enough to do any of this, and that means that if he's in a Faraday cage helmet, then he's shit outta luck.

Oh, also, the last useful ability is the ability to deconstruct other people's foci. So, if he finds a gadget in the wild, he can take it apart and gets all the Willpower used to build the device in the first place. This is why gadgteers tend to HATE one another. He can also deconstruct any device he's built to get the willpower he invested in it back.


Base Will
Dice: N/A
Base Will (+3), Attached [Hypermind] (-2)
Cost Per Point: 1 | Total Cost: 14

He's a driven, focused guy.


Sabah Attar, Girl Who's Under Your Skin

SABAH HAS 8 BASE WILL

Puppets
Dice: 2hd+8d
Range: Touch/5,450 Yards
Useful (+2), Permanent (+4), Delayed Effect (-2) If/Then [Needs Materials To Make Them From] (-1), If/Then [Can only use hard dice with skin] (-1), Touch Only (-2)
Useful (+2), Permanent (+4), Attached [Telekinesis] (-2)
Cost Per Die: 4 | Total Cost: 48

By using her telekinesis to sew together, uh, material - don't tell people it's skin, please don't tell people it works best with skin - Sabah is able to make incredibly useful puppets. With a 2x10 result, she can make 10 of them. They last forever and are perfectly loyal to her! ...so long as they're within about three miles. Once beyond that, they act on their own recognizance. She CAN make it with non-skin and she's even pretty good at it, but it is kind of tricky and doesn't always make the best minions. (a 2x1 to 2x3 result produces Rabble, while a 2x4 to 2x6 makes trained minions, and 2x7 to 2x8 makes professionals. 2x10 make Elites.

Matterkinesis
Dice: 9d+1wd
Range: 510 Yards | Mass: 1.28 Tons| Speed: 128 Yards
Attacks (+2), High Capacity [Mass, Range] (+2), Power Capacity [Mass, Range] (+4), Spray [1d] (+1), If/Then [Only Manipulates Unliving Matter] (-1), Limited Capacity (-1)
Defend (+2), Power Capacity [Range] (+2), Spray [1d] (+1), If/Then [Only Manipulates Unliving Matter] (-1), Limited Capacity (-1)
Useful (+2), Duration (+2), High Capacity [Mass, Range] (+2), Power Capacity [Mass, Range] (+4), Spray [1d] (+1), If/Then [Only Manipulates Unliving Matter] (-1), Limited Capacity (-1)
Cost Per Die: 19 | Total Cost: 247 points

This is the big shebang. Sabah is able to manipulate non-living matter to move it around. She's pretty weak. For...a tier 4, meaning she can "only" lift a 1.2 ton boulder off the ground from a "mere" 510 yards and "barely" throw it at 128 MPH. Guh. What a chump, right? This power can defend, attack, and manipulate matter. The matter that she manipulates tends to "stick" to what it was doing for about an hour - so if she flings a rock upwards at 128 MPH, then it'll keep going straight up at that speed for an hour before falling down.

Specialty Puppets
Dice: 2hd
Range: Touch
Attack (+2), Duration (+2), Variable Effect (+4), Attached [Puppets] (-2), If/Then [For Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Only Is Attached to Puppets] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Can Mimic Expert Minion Abilities] (-1), Touch Only (-2)
Defend (+2), Duration (+2), Variable Effect (+4), Attached [Puppets] (-2), If/Then [For Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Only Is Attached to Puppets] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Can Mimic Expert Minion Abilities] (-1), Touch Only (-2)
Useful (+2), Duration (+2), Variable Effect (+4), Attached [Puppets] (-2), If/Then [For Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Only Is Attached to Puppets] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Can Mimic Expert Minion Abilities] (-1), Touch Only (-2)
Cost Per Die: 1 | Total Cost: 4

When she makes puppets, the puppets can do stuff that they would reasonably be able to do. If she makes a bunch of ninja costumes, they get the Elite Ability: Stealth, allowing them to do what minions normally cannot (sneak into buildings without being spotted.) She can attach any elite ability she wants to these puppets!

Armed Puppets
Dice: 2hd
Range: Touch
Useful (+2), Permanent (+4), Attached [Puppets] (-2), Touch Only (-2)
Cost Per Die: 2 | Total Cost: 8

...is that a puppet? HE'S GOT A GUN!? BLAM BLAM! If this power is used after the puppet power, then the puppets have guns and can do their damage in S/K damage. The guns look like they're made of felt cloth or bone depending on if Sabah is making them out of which cloth - but no matter how impossible the gun looks, it still can kill.

Immune Puppets
Dice: 2hd
Useful (+2), Permanent (+4), Variable Effect (+4), Attached [Puppets] (-2), If/Then [Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect is for Immunities Only] (-1), Self Only (-3)
Cost Per Die: 3 | Total Cost: 12

These puppets don't need to breathe, cannot be poisoned by gas, cannot get cancer, radiation, "live" I guess, forever, and are immune to pretty much whatever would kill a normal human other than straight out physical damage.

Self Stitching
Dice: 2hd
Useful (+2), Permanent (+4), Engulf (+2), No Physics (+1), Self Only (-3)
Cost Per Die: 6 | Total Cost: 24

Sabah hopefully doesn't learn about this for a while. But the instant her own flesh dies, she can control it and can instinctively stitch it back together again. This effects her entire body. At the most extreme case, if she is completely atomized, she will reconstitute herself in approximately sixty seconds. She will not enjoy doing this, but she can do it. Death for Sabah now requires some equally permanent effect or for her to lose her powers.

Touch Up
Dice: 1d
Hypercharm (+4)
Cost Per Die: 4 | Total Cost: 1d

Like most teens of any gender or sexuality, Sabah has a few hangups about her body. A few wrinkles gone, a bit less sag here and there. Most people won't notice, but they're gone.

Base Will
Points: 1
Base Will (+3)
Cost Per Point: 3 | Total Cost: 1

She's just a bit more confident. Also, I had 3 points to spare


Lisa Wilbourn, Nose Who Knows

LISA HAS 12 BASE WILL

Become a Foxgirl
Dice: 2hd
Useful (+2), Endless (+3), Self Only (-3)
Cost Per Die: 2 | Total Cost: 8

Lisa becomes a fox girl!

Elementary
Dice: 5wd
Hyperskill [Broad, Flexible] (+2), No Physics (+1), If/Then [The wild dice must be set to the value of the normal die rolled] (-2)
Cost Per Die: 1 | Total Cost: 20

Why, it's elementary, my dear Watson! This is a broad and flexible skill that covers all manners of detective and investigation sneakery. It has no physics, allowing for preposterous levels of information to be drawn, far beyond what would normally be available from a mere glance. The only problem is that it is somewhat dependent on her own mind (5d.) So, if she rolls a 4, 3, 2, 1 in her normal mind dice, she'd HAVE to get a 5x4 - a fast, but not necessarily correct deduction.

Bang
Dice: 10wd
Hyperskill [Broad] (+1)
Cost Per Die: 1 | Total Cost: 40

She's quite possibly the best shot on the planet with any gun or gun like object. This is a byproduct of her incredibly focused intellect.

Coordinated Like A Fox
Dice: 10wd
Hypercoordination (+4), Attached [Fox Girl] (-2)
Total Cost Per Die: 2 | Total Cost: 80

When she is a fox girl, she is able to preform feats of physical coordination that defy imagination. Dodge bullets? She can CATCH bullets. She can shoot bullets WITH HER OWN BULLETS.

Can't Touch This
Dice: 1d
Hyperskill [Narrow] (+0), Interference (+3), Duration(+2), Attached [Fox Girl] (-2)
Total Cost Per Die: 4 | | Total Cost: 3

Remember when I said she can dodge bullets? Say she gets shot at. She rolls a 10x10 using her coordination+ this skill. This now on for the rest of the battle. She can dodge all the bullets forever until the battle is over.

The Nose Knows
Dice: 10wd
Hypersense (+4), Attached [Fox girl] (-2)
Cost Per Die: 2 | Total Cost: 80

Her senses are so preposterously attuned to the world around her that she can see in the dark, read by touch, identify targets by smell, differentiate between distinct sounds in a symphony by their subtle differences, and can sense movement up to a quarter of a mile away.

Oh Shit
Dice: 2hd
Useful (+2), Permanent (+4), No Physics (+1), Radius [13] (+26), Self Only (-3), Uncontrolled (-2), Attached [Fox Girl] (-2)
Cost Per Die: 26 | Total Cost: 104

This is a power no one knows she has. Because it's not really a power exactly. It's a combination of her incredible senses and her deductive reasoning. Here's how it works. If anything catastrophic happens within 12 hours - the death of a loved one, a natural disaster, a space station knocked out of orbit and smashed into the ground - and it happens somewhere within 50 miles around Lisa, this power triggers. The game resets to that point with her waking up from a prophetic dream put together by her subconscious, aware of exactly what she did during that day. Once she realizes this power exists (and, also, the 50 mile limit to when it triggers) she is going to be INCREDIBLY CLINGY.

Base Will
Points: 5
Base Will (+3)
Cost Per Die: 3 | Total Cost: 15

She's confident, like most of you, because she has superpowers.

Theo Anders, Arm of the Resistance

THEO HAS 7 BASE WILL

Limb Field
Dice: 8+2wd
Hyperbody (+4), Booster [+8], No Physics (+1), On Sight (+1), Endless (+3), Power Capacity [Range] (+2), Radius [1] (+2), Spray [1] (+1), If/Then [Only for arms] (-1), If/Then [Requires Local Materials] (-1)
Cost Per Die: 20 | Total Cost: 320

So! Everything within a 3 mile range can be touched by Theo by manifesting an arm made of local materials (air, if nothing's there, but he can also use cloth, bits of stone, metal, anything that he can use to reach through.) This does mean it doesn't work in a vacuum, but it can work in an extremely thin atmosphere or with local dirt if he was, say, on the Moon. Anywho, he can make as many arms as he want (for example, if there were twenty people in a ten yard radius, he could make 20 arms to grab each of them by the scruff of their necks.) What is more, he can use this power through screens to cheat the distance. If he sees someone on TV, he can manifest an arm there and pants them! Cool!

Anywho, these arms can lift 1.28 trillion tons, last forever unless he is killed or runs out of willpower. They can throw a 1.6 ton object nearly a tenth of a mile. They can punch someone so hard that they'll go flying 48 yards BEFORE you figure for any extra damage. And did I mention they defy the laws of physics - so, he can pick up a building without spilling the coffee cups inside? Cool!


Tougher Than He Looks
Dice: 3hd
Defends (+2), Endless (+3), Hardened Armor (+2), Armored Defense (-2)
Cost Per Die: 5 | Total Cost: 30

He's tougher than he looks. He has 3 levels of Light Armor, which reduces shock damage to 1, then converts 3 levels of killing damage to shock. So, if he was thrown into a wall for 5s/2k like poor Ned, he'd take 1s/2k, then the 2k would be turned to shock, so that's a total of 3s - a bad bruise, not a potentially life threatening spine snap.

Rachel Lindt, Houndmistress Extraordinaire

RACHEL HAS 9 BASE WILL

Pet Their Heads And They Wag their Tails
Dice: 2hd+2d
Useful (+2), Permanent (+4), Touch Only (-2)
Hypermind (+4), Attached [Pet Their Heads] (-2), If/Then [Does Not Provide Hard Dice To Canines] (-1)
Points Per Die: 5 | Total Cost: 30

When Rachel pets a dog, the dog wags their tail! Also, she can now talk to this dog, forever, at any time, using normal conversational English. She can also understand the dog's response. Oh! Also, the dog gets +1d to its mind as hypermind, bumping it from an animalistic 0d to a human level 2d. Good dog! Who's a good pupper?

Make My Doggy GROW!
Dice: 3hd+6d+2wd
Range: 5,120 yards
Useful (+2), Duration (+2), On Sight (+1), Attached [Pet Their Heads] (-2), Obvious (-1)
Hyperbody (+4), Booster [2] (+2) Attached [Pet Their Heads] (-2), Attached [Make My Doggy Grow] (-2)
Hypercoordination (+4), Attached [Pet Their Heads] (-2), Attached [Make My Doggy Grow] (-2)
Defends (+2), Duration (+2), Armored Defense (-2), Attached [Pet Their Heads] (-2), Attached [Make My Doggy Grow] (-2)
Defends (+2), Duration (+2), Interference (+3), Armored Defense (-2), Attached [Pet Their Heads] (-2), Attached [Make My Doggy Grow] (-2)
Attacks (+2), Penetration [5] (+5), Attached [Pet Their Heads] (-2), Attached [Make My Doggy Grow] (-2)
Useful (+2), Duration (+2), Engulf (+2), Attached [Pet their heads] (-2), Attached [Make my Doggy Grow] (-2), Self Only (-3)
Useful (+2), Duration (+2), Attached [Pet their Heads] (-2), Attached [Make my Doggy Grow] (-2)
Points Per Die: 13 | 260

If a dog that Rachel has petted is within range - or even just visible through a screen, or...she can talk to it over a phone (note to self: Invent radio collars for her dogs that she can work through), she can make the doggy GROW! This only lasts for a short time, but the dog will become much larger, much tougher, and much stronger and much faster. Basically, they get +3hd+6d+2wd to their Body, their Coordination, AND they'll get (effectively) 5 levels of light and hardened armor and +5 health levels on each area, making each dog a literal walking tank! ...also, they get laser eye vision. Which can cut through tank armor. Cause, you know. They're dogs.

...the dogs can also fly. At 640 MPH.

Cause they're dogs.


Power Collar
Dice: 2hd
Range: Touch
Useful (+2), Permanent (+4), Attached [Pet Their Heads] (-2), Always On (-1), Automatic (-1), Touch Only (-2)
Point Per Die: 1 | Total Cost: 4

The dogs, once she pets them, cannot gain dark energy powers despite being sentient. It's an instinctive byproduct of Rachel's will to both connect with dogs and 'keep them safe' - wild, uncontrolled dark energy powers spreading unchecked through the doggy population terrifies her subconscious. And so, her subconscious makes sure to lock that off.

Healing Touch
Dice: 2hd
Range: Touch
Useful (+2), Useful Quality [5] (+5) Engulf (+2), Touch Only (-2)
Points Per Die: 7 | Total Cost: 28

Though terrified at first this power only works on Dogs, Rachel is relieved to learn it actually can work on just about anything. She touches them, and they glow a little, and then heal 7s/7k to every single part of their body instantly. No muss, no fuss. It, sadly, cannot bring people back to life unless she pushes herself (she will have to permanently burn 1 Base Will to do so.)

Base Will
Total Points: +2
Base Will (+3)
Point per Will: 3 | Total Cost: 6

She's determined. Not as much as others, but enough.

Marsha P. Johnson, The Queen of Stonewall

MARSHA HAS 11 BASE WILL

Flower Power
Dice: 9d+1wd
Attacks (+2), Endless (+3), Variable Effect (+4), If/Then [For Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [All Effects are Plant Themed] (-1)
Defends (+2), Endless (+3), Variable Effect (+4), If/Then [For Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [All Effects are Plant Themed] (-1)
Useful (+2), Endless (+3), Variable Effect (+4), If/Then [For Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [All Effects are Plant Themed] (-1)
Cost Per Die: 21 | Total Cost: 273

A powerful and incredibly flexible ability, Marsha is able to create and utilize plant growths (most people think she can only do flowers, but she can do trees, she can do vines, she can do thorns, oh boy.) These plants often defy physics and understanding - if she wants, she can make a thorn that can cut through tank steel, or a tree that can grow powerfully enough to uproot a building, or an apple that, when eaten, can cure sickness. While her power isn't as "rawly" strong as some other abilities - if she got into a tree V arm wrestling contest with Theo, Theo would win - her powers are so staggeringly flexible that she is an amazing asset. However, her powers do need to be "formatted" - meaning that if she isn't prepped for combat or defense, she is terrible vulnerable.

Queen of Stonewall
Dice: 8hd
Defend (+2), Endless (+3), Radius [3] (+6), Delayed Effect (-2), If/Then [Only Works in an building she owns and operates and has become in, some metaphorical and metaphysical sense, hers] (-1), No Physical Effect (-1), Exhausted (-3)
Cost Per Die: 4 | Total Cost: 64

So long as the Queen is in her domain, no harm shall come to any who are there. This power is an endless effect centered on her, radiating out approximately 40 yards (meaning an exceptionally large building won't be entirely protected.) The effect is entirely psychological - people simply cannot bring themselves to harm anyone while in the field - this includes her allies, she can't shut it down for them.

Beauty Without Compare
Dice: +4d
Hypercharm (+4), Obvious (-1)
Cost Per Die: 3 | Total Cost: 12

She is luminous, with total of 7 dice in Charm.

Fabulous Performer
Dice: +1d
Hyperskill (Broad, Flexible)
Cost Per Die: 1d | Total Cost: 1

This is a mild improvement, but it was all I could think to spend her last point on. Sue me!

Tori Heflin, The Telekinetic Smuggler

TORI HAS 8 BASE WILL

Invisible Telekinesis
Dice: 3d+1wd
Attacks (+2), Booster (+4), High Capacity [Mass] (+2), Non-Physical (+2), Power Capacity [Mass] (+2), Subtle (+1), Spray [1d] (+1), Locational [head] (-1)
Defends (+2), Controlled Effect (+1), Duration (+2), Interference (+3), Power Capacity [Range] (+2), Radius [1] (+2), Subtle (+1), Locational [head] (-1)
Useful (+2), Duration (+2), Booster (+4), High Capacity [Mass, Speed] (+2), Power Capacity [Mass, Speed] (+4), Subtle (+1), Locational [head] (-1),
Useful (+2), Booster (+4), Engulf (+2), High Capacity [Mass] (+1), Power Capacity [Mass] (+2) Attached [Telekinesis] (-2),
Cost Per Die: 45 | Total Cost: 315

By focusing, Tori is able to create telekinetic fields. Unlike many, these fields are completely, one hundred percent invisible. She can protect people in bubbles (selectively, if she wants!) bout 10 yards wide, so long as they are within about 80 yards of her. Her attacks are incredibly narrow stabs that then balloon in the target - they can only be dodged, not resisted with armor (hence the 'non-physical' extra.) If she's feeling exceptionally vindictive, she can just grab your heart and punch it as hard as she can from within your ribcage too. Her max range for her TK attacks is 800,000 yards. That's 450 miles! It can send people flying pretty goddamn far too.

Next, she can pick up and carry stuff. Anything within 450 miles, and her max weight is 2,000 tons. Not as stupidly huge as some people, but nothing to shake a stick at. What is really amazing, though...is this.

Anything she picks up - anything at all -
becomes invisible TOO. This includes her own self, if she's using TK to fly. This includes the ENTIRE PARTY if she's carrying everyone. This includes jets. This includes buildings. Anything she grabs, she can turn invisible!

Adaption
Dice: 4hd
Useful (+2), Endless (+3), Variable Effect (+4), If/Then [For Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect For Immunities Only] (-1), Self Only (-3)
Cost Per Die: 4 | Total Cost: 32

Thanks to telekinesis, she can also breathe in space. With telekinesis.

Base Will
Points: 1
Cost Per Point: 3 | Total Cost: 3

You know the drill by now. Powers, better will, had points hanging.

Brian Laborn, The Power in Obscurity

BRIAN HAS 7 BASE WILL

Grueclouds
Dice: 9hd
Attack (+2), Daze (+1), Duration (+2), Radius (1) (+2), Non-Physical (+2), Spray [1d] (+1), Limited Damage (shock) (-1), Limited Width (-1)
Useful (+2), Duration (+2), Radius (+1), Attached [Dazing Cloud] (-2), Automatic (-1)
Cost Per Die: 10 | Total Cost: 180

When activated, this power is a bit slow and sluggish - effectively going off last on every round. However, you have to know it is coming, and this requires a Resistance roll of Sense+Perception to spot where Brian is looking (he just need to glare to do it.) If the resistance roll fails, then you get hit with 5x10 attack in a 10 yard radius. Due to limited width and limited damage, this only does 1 shock to the head. ...it also removes FIVE DICE from their next turn. If a character has no dice, they can't do shit. This happens each round they're in the cloud, so if they're completely debilitated, they take 1 shock to the head every round until the cloud is dispersed or they slowly and painfully die. Since, 1 shock per 6 seconds for an hour is going to kill you. Even better, the cloud also gets a 4x10 useful effect that obscures visibility, chokes out EM frequencies, and negates all but the best dark energy perceptions. That's what the useful is, the jamming field.

Power Thief
Dice: 1d+2wd
Attacks (+2), Variable Effect (+4), Endless (+3), If/Then [For Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Is For Mimicking Powers Only] (-1), If/Then [Target Must have been exposed to the Gruecloud at all! Ever!] (-1)
Defends (+2), Variable Effect (+4), Endless (+3), If/Then [For Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Is For Mimicking Powers Only] (-1), If/Then [Target Must have been exposed to the Gruecloud at all! Ever!] (-1)
Useful (+2), Variable Effect (+4), Endless (+3), If/Then [For Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Is For Mimicking Powers Only] (-1), If/Then [Target Must have been exposed to the Gruecloud at all! Ever!] (-1)
Cost Per Die: 18 | Total Cost: 162

If a target has been exposed to the dark energy cloud that Brian can produce, Brian can replicate that power. In himself. Now, usually, it will be a great deal weaker, and it may require expending some willpower, but he can do it. What's more, as he hits more people (or more people volunteer for the admittedly unpleasant whammy), his power catalogue just gets bigger and bigger and bigger.

Ghost Recall
Dice: 2hd
Useful (+2), Duration (+2), If/Then [Subject must have been exposed to the Gruecloud] (-1), No Physical Effect (-1)
Cost Per Die: 2 | Total Cost: 8

Powers aren't the only thing that Brian can copy. He can also recreate the memories and personality of a person in a ghostly, shimmering cloud of darkness roughly in the shape of the person. Their personality-clone cannot form new memories and only exists for a short time, but has pretty accurate information. If you can convince them to give it up. Is this ethical? Anyway, that's Brian's power set!

Brian's Library
  • Every Single Power From the Stonewall Nine
  • THE EYEBALL POWER SUITE (note, as this is multiple powers, it would take Brian a total of 5 rounds and 81 WP to make one permanent eye with each of these powers. However, he doesn't need to make an eye with every part. He can just have an eyeball that flies for 18, or an eyeball that can access the Eyeball Zone for 18 WP (18 to make it, 0 to make the Zone) Fortunately, due to Permanence, each of these WP expenditures does last forever. Or, uh...until the eyeball is squished...
Eye Eye, Sir!
Dice: 1d+2wd
Defends [Evasion] (+0)
Useful [Exists] (+0), Permanent (+4), Touch Only (-2)
Points Per Die: 2 | Cost: 18

By focusing, an eyeball grows inside of Brian's body, then pops out. It's gross.

Why Is It So Tough, It's An Eyeball!?
Dice: 1d+2wd
Useful [Health Boxes] (+0), Permanent (+4), Attached [Eye Eye, Ma'am!] (-2)
Willpower Cost: 2 | Cost: 18

When he creates the Eyeballs (which, as a note, he currently cannot), Brian can only give them 3 extra health levels, making them much smaller.

Eyebeam
Dice: 1d+2wd
Attacks [Eyebeam] (+0), Spray [5d] (+5), Attached [Eye Eye, Ma'am!] (-2)
Willpower Cost: 3 | Cost: 27

The Eyes have laser beams. Because they're eyes. Brian's eyes will have a total of 6d+2wd, rather than 9d+1wd.

Eyeflight
Dice: 1d+2wd
Defends (+0), Attached [Eye Eye, Ma'am!] (-2)
Useful (+0), Permanent (+4) Attached [Eye Eye, Ma'am!] (-2)
Willpower Cost: 2 | Cost: 18

The Eyes have it! ...flight, that is. Brian's can soar along at a mere 10 MPH. They are slightly better at dodging though.

Into the Zone
Dice: 1d+2wd
Useful [Traps Target In Horrifying Nightmare Dimension] (+0), Endless (+3), Traumatic (+1), Attached [Eye Eye, Ma'am!] (-2), Touch Only (-2)
Willpower Cost: 0 | Cost:0

Brian's eyes, like Miss Eye's eyes, have access...TO THE EYEBALL ZONE.

Your Attack, Foreseen
Dice: 1d+2wd
Hyperskill [Dodge] (+0)
Willpower Cost Per Die: 0 | Cost: 0

Formatting his power this way does let Brian dodge better.

Mistress of All Eyes See
Dice: 4hd
Hyperskill [Tactics] (+0), Power Capacity [Range] (+2), Booster [5] (+5), No Physics (+1), If/Then [Can Only Command Eyes] (-1)
Points Per Die: 7 | Cost: 63

For a staggering 63 GODDAMN willpower, Brian can get the STAGGERING ABILITY to command Eyeballs with his mind at a range. AMAZING!!!!!

GADGET ONE: The Gaia Engine

Useful [Gravity Control] (Mass: 500,000,000 tons| Range: 200,000,000 meters| Speed: 50,000,000,000 meters per round [74 times the speed of light])
Dice: 2hd
Useful (Free, Gadget) | Duration (+2), Booster [10] (+10), Power Quality [Mass, Range] (+4), High Capacity [Mass, Range] (+2), No Physics (+1), If/Then [Requires Metamaterials Produced by Lily to Function] (-1), Foci [Fragile, Bulky, Crew x4, Manufacturable] (-5), Obvious (-1), Slow (-2)
Cost Per Die: 10 | Total Cost: 40 WP (1 Base Will To Free Up)

Costing 40 WP from your pool (representing the metamaterials that you provided to construct it), the Gaia Engine is a remarkable device. Requiring the attendance of sixteen trained professionals - among the first hires that Andy ever made - the Gaia Engine is capable of gravitational manipulation at an obscene scale and speed, with ludicrous precision. How absurd? Well, from orbit, you can snatch up the entirety of Manhattan - island and all - and rip it into space and then fling it towards Alpha Centauri at 74 times light speed without damaging a single thing on it, nor causing it damage when it lands on Charon. Cool! You officially can't bitch about me spending 40 of your WP on this fucking thing, you goddamn maniacs!

The duration is approximately a day, so once per day, the crew have to make sure the gravity field that keeps Yiggy in the air is 'reupped.'


GADGET TWO: The Aegis
Defense [Gravity Shield]
Dice: 5hd
Defends (Free, Gadget), Endless (+3), Interference (+3), Attached [Gravity Manipulation] (-2), Foci [Bulky, Manufacturable] (+0),
Cost Per Die: 4 | Total Cost: 40 WP (1 Base Will to Free Up)

Feeding off the Gaia Engine, the Aegis is an attached chunk of material that projects a defensive field around the entirety of the Yiggy's superstructure. Incoming weaponry, unless it goes faster than 5x10, is simply swatted away. This includes beams of light, the rays of the sun, solar flares, and other nasty things.

GADGET THREE: Room Service
Useful [Room Service]
Dice: 3d+1wd
Useful (Free, Gadget), Endless (+3), Variable Effect (+4), Attached [Gaia Engine] (-2), If/Then [Variable Effect Only] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect is for Room Service Only] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect only applies within the Yiggy's superstructure] (-1), If/Then [Room Service must be Requested] (-1), Foci [Bulky, Manufacturable] (+0)
Cost Per Die: 1 | Total Cost: 7 WP (1 Base Will To Free Up)

Also feeding off the Gaia Engine's powers, Room Service is simple as hell. You ask for tea, earl gray, hot. Then the fucking tea shows up! This also covers very attractive P-zombies that look like dead celebrities, medical aid, giving you lucid dreams, creating illusions, playing movies, and translating languages.

Here's some basic rules for gadgeteer who want to make powers

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GADGEETING RULES FOR GADGETEERS

STEP ONE
Decide what power does. All powers can either ATTACK, DEFEND, or be USEFUL. Each thing costs (+2)

Example: I want to make a ray gun that can also heal people. It Attacks [Ray Gun] (+2) and is Useful [Heals People] (+2)

STEP TWO
Apply modifiers for extras and flaws to each power capacity. The full list is found in the Wild Talent's core rulebook. Add them all up into a total cost per die. The minimum point value is always 0 (you can't get extra for going below your maximum.)

Example: This ray gun can fire very fast. It has +3 Spray. This ray gun heals all of you! It has Engulf (+2). Both attack and useful has the Foci (-1) with the Fragile (-1) and Accessible (-1) flaws. This means it costs 2+3-3+2+2-3 for a total of 3 points per die.

STEPTHREE
Count up how much it costs based on how many dice. If it has hard dice, the hard dice are "base cost x2" and if it has wiggle dice, then they cost "base cost x4."

Example: This ray gun has 5d+1wd. It costs (5x3)+(3x4) for a total of 27 willpower.

STEP FOUR
Use your gadget. The gadget can then be taken apart to regain your willpower back. If you want to, you can burn 1 base will to make it a gadget that exists permanently (freeing up those dice for later.) If the gadget has the Manufacturable extra, then it can be made a common, household device that anyone can buy for a cost of 1/2 the willpower it costs to make in base will, taking 1 month per base will spent to make it ready for manufacturing.

Example: Pretend the raygun has manufacturable (even though it doesn't.) It costs 14 Base Will to make it buyable at any street corner, and takes a year and change for the final designs to be completed. Once done, the inventor gets the 5d+1wd that they put into the gadget back into their gadgeteering dice pool.

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HOW TO INFLUENCE PEOPLE WITH YOUR INFLUENCE SKILLS

There's a big old table from the Kerberos Club book! Here it is!

 
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1970: More Equal Than Others
"Beta, this is Morgana. One to beam up, in need of immediate psychological care," you say into your com. You touch the trembling man. He tenses, looks up at you, terrified. You smile at him, and then whisper, softly, in Russian. "It's okay. It's all going to be okay."

"F-For everyone?" he whispered. "Tell them, I won't take them away. I won't."

You nod, not sure what he means. "I'll tell them."

***
By the time you had managed to get away from Rachel and the dogs - all three of them had been quite eager to lick and slobber all over you in gratitude and eagerness. But you were honestly okay with that. It helped you feel calmer and less like ripping off the next Soviet's face you saw - because you didn't need to be a hyperbrain to see exactly what had happened.

And you could count.

What you saw when you and Rachel returned to the edge of the dome, where the Red Army was setting up an engineering corps that was mostly then sitting back and watching as Baba Yaga incanted and waved her hands and caused stone and rubble to emerge from the earth and reach out towards the severed highway as if it had never been destroyed...confirmed what you had been thinking.

The tents where the Moldavian metas had been taken was under guard, and Globetrotter stood beside it, with a rather well dressed man that looked every inch the Party Official standing beside her. Her face was a glacial mask and when you walked forward, Rachel walking with you, Globetrotter moved to stand in your way.

"Minister Pasternak will be dealing with the prisoners," she said. "He has told me to thank the Stonewall Nine and offer you transport back to America."

"That's it, huh?" you ask. "You're not even slightly curious about Tchernobog?"

Globetrotter frowned. "Minister Pasternak was in communication with your comrade, Beta and Richter and the artificial intelligence-"

"Tessa," Rachel said, flatly.

"We are willing to remand Tchernobog to your custody," Globetrotter said, lifting her chin.

You crossed your arms over your chest. You get a buzz on your com. Flicking your eyes down, you see it is a text: Comrade-Colonel Oleg Prodan, Armored Services. And with Globetrotter's expression, you've got all the pieces. The Soviet Union had invaded Vietnam with everything they had. They had been kicked out so hard that their heads were spinning. And out of it had come Tchernobog - a burned up officer with a power born out of trauma. And the fucking hell of it? It had fucking worked. If he was a Tier Three...then...

You frowned. "Were you the last one he infected, or the first?"

Globetrotter was silent for a long time. She looked aside. "The first. Baba Yaga was my first power progeny - the Ministry for Metahuman affairs are nominating my next, after Minister Pasternak."

"What's his power, huh?"

Globetrotter frowned, then looked at you. "He prefers not to say."

You scowl. "Are you going to throw all these rebellious kids into prison or something?"

"Morgana, don't be absurd," Globetrotter said, huffing. "The USSR went from having no metahumans to having eight tier fours. Do you know the maximum on them? If they are all...catching." She arches an eyebrow.

Rachel frowns, then looks at you, clearly not up to doing the math in her head.

"Seventeen thousand metahumans," you say, quietly. "...most of them, more than half, will be Tier 9s. I've met a Tier 9, his main ability was to make cheese taste really good. And that number, by the way, is assuming each one infects the maximum number and none of them have self contained powers..."

Globetrotter pursed her lips. Her eyes said: And?

You glanced at the tent. "So, your boss is in there, saying if they show up and start spreading the powers to the people you choose, they get the nice stuff? The fancier houses? The better food? How very revolutionary, it's almost identical to how things work in the United States." You don't even try and hide your bitterness.

"But they will be serving the people of the Soviet Union, not a corporation." Globetrotter frowned. "Those people thank you. You have saved many lives today. Do you wish a ride home?"

The land around you felt a lot vaster, a lot colder, than it had before. You thought not only of Colonel-Comrade Prodan...but of the thousands of piles of ash that had been everyone who had been closer to the center of Sets blasts.

You wondered how the hell Set slept at night.

You wondered how the hell Khrushchev did. Or...whoever the fuck was in charge of the Soviet Union right now.

Heh.

How the fuck were you going to sleep after this?

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How do you close the Iron Curtain?
[ ] Give them each a chance to leave. You do not keep metahumans bottled up. Not without...that. (Point at Moldovia.) And next time might be worse...because we're not going to help again if it's like this.
[ ] Just leave. You've had enough of superpowers for now.
[ ] Write in.
 
[X] Give them each a chance to leave. You do not keep metahumans bottled up. Not without...that. (Point at Moldovia.) And next time might be worse...because we're not going to help again if it's like this.

this seems fair
 
*bubbles over*

GET IT, SUPERPOWERS, BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION ARE SUPERPOWERS, BUT ALSO, SUPERPOWERS ARE THE THINGS!!! THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO CONTROL!!!!

IT'S...A DOUBLE MEANING!!!! WORDPLAY!!!!!!!!
 
[X] Give them each a chance to leave. You do not keep metahumans bottled up. Not without...that. (Point at Moldovia.) And next time might be worse...because we're not going to help again if it's like this.
-[X] Andy will put together a care package for the USSR. A history of the USSR in the parallel timeline to help steer around upcoming pitfalls, and technical information on how to produce next generation computers that can actually run a centrally planned, money-less economy. Maybe you'll avoid the mistakes of the other timeline - or at least make new ones.
 
[X] Give them each a chance to leave. You do not keep metahumans bottled up. Not without...that. (Point at Moldovia.) And next time might be worse...because we're not going to help again if it's like this.
 
[X] Give them each a chance to leave. You do not keep metahumans bottled up. Not without...that. (Point at Moldovia.) And next time might be worse...because we're not going to help again if it's like this.
-[X] Andy will put together a care package for the USSR. A history of the USSR in the parallel timeline to help steer around upcoming pitfalls, and technical information on how to produce next generation computers that can actually run a centrally planned, money-less economy. Maybe you'll avoid the mistakes of the other timeline - or at least make new ones.
 
For the care package, can I suggest making sure we don't use specific names. I don't want someone getting the bright idea to kill baby Sablin or Gorbachev.

Well, maybe we can put down Breznev's name. And make sure they know Lysenko is dumb and wrong.
 
For the care package, can I suggest making sure we don't use specific names. I don't want someone getting the bright idea to kill baby Sablin or Gorbachev.

Well, maybe we can put down Breznev's name. And make sure they know Lysenko is dumb and wrong.

Some of that information can be inferred from context and cross referencing I think? Also, I think past a certain point we have to assume they can act like adults, and that if they get stab happy, that's not our responsibility?
 
[X] Just leave. You've had enough of superpowers for now.


I'm satisfied with an exhausted messy ending.
 
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[X] Just leave. You've had enough of superpowers for now.
-[X] Andy will put together a care package for the USSR. A history of the USSR in the parallel timeline to help steer around upcoming pitfalls, and technical information on how to produce next generation computers that can actually run a centrally planned, money-less economy. Maybe you'll avoid the mistakes of the other timeline - or at least make new ones.
 
I don't like the care package.
  • Andy has been releasing future stuff in the background. The White House staffer understanding the Fox News reference, the festival guy having read about Woodstock. Andy might have already done this, and if he hasn't then he has a reason.
  • Lily is very mad at the Soviet Union right now. Pivoting to trusting them to do the right thing with exhistorical information and technology...I would be happier with giving them a care package at any time except this one.
  • When Lily gets back to America, there's a decent chance that she's going to be grilled by Amanda about not starting mad enough at the Soviet Union to just let them lose Moldova. A care package would complicate the situation further.
  • I thought we decided after the assassination that we're only voting on Lily's actions?
 
I don't like the care package.
  • Andy has been releasing future stuff in the background. The White House staffer understanding the Fox News reference, the festival guy having read about Woodstock. Andy might have already done this, and if he hasn't then he has a reason.
  • Lily is very mad at the Soviet Union right now. Pivoting to trusting them to do the right thing with exhistorical information and technology...I would be happier with giving them a care package at any time except this one.
  • When Lily gets back to America, there's a decent chance that she's going to be grilled by Amanda about not starting mad enough at the Soviet Union to just let them lose Moldova. A care package would complicate the situation further.
  • I thought we decided after the assassination that we're only voting on Lily's actions?

Hmmm, I see your point when it comes to the historical data, but the tech package still has merit IMO:
  • 'Next gen' computing in the sixties is... 8080 nm chip Altairs. Given that we've got way more pwoerfull stuff in the pipeline, giving it to the Soviets won't meaningfully give them any sort of technological leg up.
  • Giving them the tech to make central planning work will lead to a massive internal shakeup because implementing it will uncover a lot of grift and inefficiency. Dealing with the fallout will keep them busy at home and not doing imperialism abroad which the US will appreciate on Munro doctrine grounds.
  • Using computer planning tech as a consolation prise for losing out on a bunch of metas is probably a pretty good trade as far as the US is concerned, because metas have way more disruption potential of the two.
 
Giving them the tech to make central planning work will lead to a massive internal shakeup because implementing it will uncover a lot of grift and inefficiency. Dealing with the fallout will keep them busy at home and not doing imperialism abroad which the US will appreciate on Munro doctrine grounds.
I think that's a very optimistic view of what they'll do with the technology and what its effects will be, and Lily is not currently in the mood for optimism.

And I don't know what Andy has or hasn't already shared from the future, but if he hasn't shared this yet I trust he has a reason. This is at least not something to promise without consulting him.
 
Yeah, that kind of wiki level information is already out there, but it's more fragmentary than you'd think. Remember, Andy pulls tiny chunks of hardware off the future, no more than a few pounds and Wikipedia is pretty distributed. If he's lucky, he'll get a phone or laptop with a documentary loaded on it.

Oh, and it's kinda weighted towards entertainment and frivolity cause…that's what most phones and laptops are.

To pull the curtain back, the information from the future exists in a quantum state that collapses to cover any anachronisms I make, or to let me make a funny pop culture reference that is even more anachronistic.

It's a lazy GMs get out of jail free card!
 
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*bubbles over*

GET IT, SUPERPOWERS, BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION ARE SUPERPOWERS, BUT ALSO, SUPERPOWERS ARE THE THINGS!!! THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO CONTROL!!!!

IT'S...A DOUBLE MEANING!!!! WORDPLAY!!!!!!!!
You will receive the Order of Lenin for this, comrade!
 
Adhoc vote count started by DragonCobolt on Feb 4, 2022 at 12:03 PM, finished with 14 posts and 6 votes.

  • [X] Give them each a chance to leave. You do not keep metahumans bottled up. Not without...that. (Point at Moldovia.) And next time might be worse...because we're not going to help again if it's like this.
    [X] Give them each a chance to leave. You do not keep metahumans bottled up. Not without...that. (Point at Moldovia.) And next time might be worse...because we're not going to help again if it's like this.
    -[X] Andy will put together a care package for the USSR. A history of the USSR in the parallel timeline to help steer around upcoming pitfalls, and technical information on how to produce next generation computers that can actually run a centrally planned, money-less economy. Maybe you'll avoid the mistakes of the other timeline - or at least make new ones.
    [X] Just leave. You've had enough of superpowers for now.
    [X] Just leave. You've had enough of superpowers for now.
    -[X] Andy will put together a care package for the USSR. A history of the USSR in the parallel timeline to help steer around upcoming pitfalls, and technical information on how to produce next generation computers that can actually run a centrally planned, money-less economy. Maybe you'll avoid the mistakes of the other timeline - or at least make new ones.


It seems that Supexit has failed in Parliament!
 
1970: I've Faced Down Gods Today, You Smug Apparatchik, You Don't Intimidate Me
You crossed your arms over your chest, your cape billowing in the wind.

"Okay. Here's how this is going to work. You are going to give those people each a chance to leave - you do not keep metahumans bottled up." At GLobetrotter's frown, you point backwards. "Not without that. And next time might be worse...because we're not going to help again if it's like...like this!" You scowl. "Come on! America does shit like this! You're supposed to be better!"

Globetrotter blinked. She opened her mouth, then closed it, her expression crumbling for a moment as your words hit home. She sighed. "Fine, lets talk to the Minister," she said, gesturing you forward. You glanced back at Rachel and gave her a wry little smile. Rachel looked like she wanted to chew your uniform off, shove you down and...well, uh, that wouldn't go on the newsreels, what she wanted to do to you. Your grin got a lot less wry as you started to walk forward after Globetrotter and to the tent where the wounded metahumans were being held.

You heard laughter as you approached, and cheerful Russian.

"Of course he'd lie, it was entirely in his interests. But no! No, your powers cannot be taken from you by your progenitor - he could drop dead right now, and you will continue to have your powers. Now! Since no one got permanently hurt, we in the Ministry are more than happy to let bygones be bygones. Each of you are an asset to the peoples and workers of the Soviet Union. Why, Manifold...did you know that you could be the first Soviet woman to stride across the surface of the moon? Witch, your creatures could labor in our mines and oil fields, freeing the laborers from their toil and allowing them to focus on art, on science..."

You stepped to the tent, peeked in, and saw that all the wounded metahumans were sitting up, listening to the Minister. You had no idea how a ratfaced looking fink like him could be so charming, but even without him focusing that personality on you, you found yourself smiling.

"Minister?" Globetrotter asked. The Minister looked over at you, then gestured.

"Ah! Our class ally in the struggle against capitalism! Morgana Le Fey, the woman behind ending the imperialist war against our communist brothers and sisters in Vietnam," he said, standing and walking to you, taking your hand and shaking it quickly. "I have been quite impressed by you, Morgana. The costume is a bit much, though?"

You could tell he was trying to get you to like him.

You forced yourself to remember that his government had invaded their brothers and sisters in Vietnam. With tanks. They had left their soldiers out there to die, just to harvest this room of metahumans. You forced yourself to remember all of that, and you could tell that Minister Pasternak ...could tell. His eyes flicked over you in the same, detailed way that Lisa did - you were fairly sure she was better at it than him, but at this scale of perceptiveness, it was really splitting hairs. It...heh, it'd take someone like Lisa to be able to tell the difference. His lips quirked up, ever so slightly.

"I see you do not approve," he said, quietly.

Your own voice, naturally, dropped to match his pitch. "Is it easy to not think about...how many people died? Ten thousand? Twenty?"

He shook his head, and gently stepped forward, drawing you from the tent. "Nowhere near so many - who was it that said to make a war humane, you must make it fast? This war was very, very fast." His eyes were hardening now. "I was twenty years old when the fascists invaded my country. I know what a war is like. Better than you."

You scowled. "Then you should know better."

"I know what it is to be a country that is seen as weak. That is seen as a target for invasion - because we cannot make enough tanks, that we cannot build enough railroads. That we are backwards and subhuman!" He threw up his hand. "The men that serve in the Army join knowing that they will die for the Soviet Union and the communist project - it is the reason that they join and the reason that they know that they will die. And so, they did die, and from this death came the seed for a new life, a new extension of the Soviet Union's life. Our history from the...other future is not exactly detailed to us by what your Richter has released, but we know the end point clearly enough."

He turned to face you dead on - and you realized...

He wasn't using his hypercharm. He had noticed how you had shot him down and was trying to just...use his regular words.

...he was annoyingly good with regular words.

"They need a real choice," you say, frowning. "Don't bottle them up."

"Bottle them up?" He asks, in English, his accent making it sound even more incredulous. "Morgana, they will be given a medal by the premier himself. They will live in the finest homes in Moscow, they will not be bottled."

You frowned.

You would have to think about this...

But as the Minister shook your hand, then turned on the charm for one last smile, and turned to go...you realized your look behind the Iron Curtain was over for now.

You turned to Rachel. Her hounds were waiting.

"Lets get the hell out of here," you say, quietly.

END OF ISSUE FOUR


You get 3 XP! You currently have 1 XP banked, for 4 in total!
[ ] 1 XP: +1 to a narrow skill (Pistols, Sailing Small Ships, Speak Language: Mandarin)
[ ] 2 XP: +1 to a broad skill (Guns, Pilot, Academics)
[ ] 2 XP: +1 to an influence skill (mayor, senator, TV star)
[ ] 3 XP: +1 to a Broad/Flexible Skill (Lesbian, Delinquent)
[ ] 4 XP: +1 to a Broad/Flexible/Influence Skill (Superhero)
[ ] 3 XP: +1 to a passion (this increases your base will)
[ ] 3 XP: +1 to a loyalty (this increases your base will)
[ ] 5 XP: +1 to a stat

You have 40 base will between you and Andy! What inventions will you build. Vote for as many as you want, but vote in the order you want them built as it takes 1 month per base will.
[ ] MARS, the reactor to power the world (2 Base Will to make manufacturable - +1 ECONOMY)
[ ] Panacea, the cure-all (2 Base Will to make manufacturable - -1 SUSPICION)
[ ] Cornucopia, a replicating replicator (4 base will to make manufacturable, +1 TO ALL METRICS)

...how do you feel about all this?
[ ] Agree with Minister Pasternak - hard times, hard choices
[ ] Disagree with Minister Pasternak - fuck him

The rest of 1970 seems pretty calm for now! What's Lily and only Lily up to?
[ ] Write In

CURRENT STATUS
HEALTH: Fine
WILLPOWER: 121 (+1 for superhero, this will carry over to the next adventure)

CHECK: Lily tries to argue to be involved with the process, rolling Charm+Delinquent+Superhero
ROLL: 2x2
RESULT: Globetrotter gets a 3x1. While her stubbornness is faster, it isn't higher - and in this kind of thing, height matters

CHECK: Minister Pasternak tries to dissuade Lily of her request:
ROLL: 3x10 (he's rolling with 8d+2wd, 7 of those being hypercharm, 2wd being hyperskills)
RESULT: Lily fails the roll but has 122 WP and spends 2 of it to tank it.

CHECK: Minister Pasternak rolls a Sense+Empathy to realize...
ROLL: 5x10 (he's rolling with 5hd+2d in sense, so...)
RESULT: He can tell Lily can do this all fucking day.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonCobolt on Feb 4, 2022 at 12:03 PM, finished with 14 posts and 6 votes.

  • [X] Give them each a chance to leave. You do not keep metahumans bottled up. Not without...that. (Point at Moldovia.) And next time might be worse...because we're not going to help again if it's like this.
    [X] Give them each a chance to leave. You do not keep metahumans bottled up. Not without...that. (Point at Moldovia.) And next time might be worse...because we're not going to help again if it's like this.
    -[X] Andy will put together a care package for the USSR. A history of the USSR in the parallel timeline to help steer around upcoming pitfalls, and technical information on how to produce next generation computers that can actually run a centrally planned, money-less economy. Maybe you'll avoid the mistakes of the other timeline - or at least make new ones.
    [X] Just leave. You've had enough of superpowers for now.
    [X] Just leave. You've had enough of superpowers for now.
    -[X] Andy will put together a care package for the USSR. A history of the USSR in the parallel timeline to help steer around upcoming pitfalls, and technical information on how to produce next generation computers that can actually run a centrally planned, money-less economy. Maybe you'll avoid the mistakes of the other timeline - or at least make new ones.


It seems that Supexit has failed in Parliament!

Like all foreign interventions, it just goes on and oooonnnnnn!
 
*raises hand*

Does this mean the Buzzing is complete and deployed?

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[] Disagree with Minister Pasternak - fuck him

This dumb nationalist brinkmanship is exactly what we're supposed to be moving past. The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

[] Panacea, the cure-all (2 Base Will to make manufacturable - -1 SUSPICION)

Now that the immediate threat is past, we can get on to the important business of CURING DEATH! MWAHAHAHA!
 
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[X] Disagree with Minister Pasternak - fuck him

Perhaps overly idealistic, but we're a literal superhero so I think that's allowed
 
[X] Plan: Pirkei Avot 2:16
-[X] Panacea, the cure-all (2 Base Will to make manufacturable - -1 SUSPICION)
-[X] MARS, the reactor to power the world (2 Base Will to make manufacturable - +1 ECONOMY)
-[X] Disagree with Minister Pasternak - fuck him
-[X] 3 XP: +1 to a Passion (A Better World)
-[X] Lily helps Rachel open her first Animal Shelter, plays with the puppies, and makes some useful physics breaking armor inserts to help all her teammates


Base will is good, and I think having a passion for improving the world is a good thing.

Pirkei Avot 2:16 by the way is

Rabbi Tarfon used to say: It is not your responsibility to finish the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.
 
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