PROGENITOR: WORM (A Wormquest AU)

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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
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Lily Satō, Head of the Stonewall Nine

Spoiler: Lily's Stats

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.​

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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.​

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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?

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Andy Richter, Time Thief and Genius Gadgeteer

Spoiler: Powers

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

Spoiler: Powers

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

Spoiler: Powers

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

Spoiler: Powers

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

Spoiler: Powers

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

Spoiler: Powers

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

Spoiler: Powers

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

Spoiler: Powers

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

Spoiler: List

• 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!!!!!

Spoiler: Yiggy - Team HQ

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!

Spoiler: The Big Old Table from the Kerberos Club Book

 

[Parzival95]

But why? There doesn't need to be lead poisoning at all? You can just delete it if you don't want to turn it into DE to hit the dome with. This is totally unnecessary.

Also, @CyberEnby you never voted.

 

[10ebbor10]

Anyway, alternative idea :

[] Deactivate gravity in a column above the dust cloud. Due to atmospheric pressure from sides and below no longer being countered by gravity, this results in the entire affected column being pushed up. In practice creating a massive dustsucker safely depositing the polonium away from any humans, where it can be dealt with by any means neccesairy.

 

[CyberFemme]

[X] Turn the harmful radiation/polonium back into dark energy and redirect it to its origins to try to overload the dome. Call in Beta to take casualties aboard the Yggdrasil and provide cover to the Red Army.

I like the karmic retribution of turning Cherno's attack against them.

 

[MJ12 Commando]

Lead poisoning is still bad through...

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Lead is way, way less toxic and lead poisoning is something that can be fixed with normal-people medical care and most of the worst effects of lead exposure are in kids, where lead exposure causes long-term developmental damage. Soldiers who understand how to put on NBC gear and will be getting out of the affected area as fast as possible are significantly less likely to suffer lethal effects.

 

[Ultrackius]

shame we can't use this as an excuse to give the red army superpowers

I'm already hooked on who this asshole is

 

[Parzival95]

Lead is way, way less toxic and lead poisoning is something that can be fixed with normal-people medical care and most of the worst effects of lead exposure are in kids, where lead exposure causes long-term developmental damage. Soldiers who understand how to put on NBC gear and will be getting out of the affected area as fast as possible are significantly less likely to suffer lethal effects.

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But why? If you don't like our idea you could just delete it harmlessly rather than into lead?

 

[MJ12 Commando]

But why? If you don't like our idea you could just delete it harmlessly rather than into lead?

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"Delete it harmlessly" by suppressing which physical laws and for how long? Remember that Lily's powers come from suppressing physical law. Deciding to suppress the strong force would delete the polonium - and with nuclear fission energy densities you've just put everyone at ground zero of a nuclear detonation. The amount of energy that needs to be suppressed and the number of reactions that need to be manipulated goes up far more because you're no longer trying to intervene in rapid alpha emissions - you're trying to turn off an already-exploding nuclear bomb. I think Lily will find stopping a melting-down reactor, essentially, much easier than stopping a nuclear bomb as it's blowing up.

If Lily doesn't fully suppress all the alpha decay interactions, moreover, it will cause superficial burns. If Lily does her physics fuckery improperly and doesn't fully suppress the result of 100 tons of atoms with nuclei flying apart, she's just put a good chunk of the Red Army at ground zero of a nuclear blast. RIP to everyone Lily knows and loves, she just started WW3.

Your other alternative choices - like sending everything into orbit - must be maintained for significantly longer and create a much greater window of vulnerability if this is just a first strike. Alpha radiation moves at 20 million meters per second, it will clear the area in milliseconds - meaning that Lily needs to keep her powers active for very little time, rather than having to do things for a significantly longer amount of time which might let the enemy react.

Use minimum effort to achieve the greatest effect, even if it means accepting the good instead of the perfect.

 

[10ebbor10]

I still greatly prefer letting the radiation harmlessly run its course better narratively because it's significantly less technobabbly. It treats the limitation as a fun thing to play with and a major constraint rather than as flavor text that just gets handwaved away.

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Honestly, this just seems stupid.

It's like insisting that superman shouldn't fly because he's not aerodynamic.

Lily has these 2 powers :

She literally can't NOT know the exact right answer to any physics question. This really helps, considering her powers.

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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

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A complete and intuitive understanding of physics, as well as the ability to manipulate it.

You're not treating the limitation as a fun thing to play around with, you're intentionally kneecapping both character and narrative by insisting on limitations that storywise and narratively should not exist.

If Lily doesn't fully suppress all the alpha decay interactions, moreover, it will cause superficial burns. If Lily does her physics fuckery improperly and doesn't fully suppress the result of 100 tons of atoms with nuclei flying apart, she's just put a good chunk of the Red Army at ground zero of a nuclear blast. RIP to everyone Lily knows and loves, she just started WW3.

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Let it just turn out that "do physics fuckery correctly" is exactly what her superpower is.

And like, it's not like your objection makes any sense. Your own plan features similarly severe failure conditions, so you're not even avoiding any trouble.
You're just getting a severely suboptimal result for no benefit, neither narratively nor mechanically.

Radically accelerate radioactive decay while suppressing the electromagnetic interactions of the decay products, resulting in the cloud of polonium dust becoming significantly less harmful lead dust.

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Turning of electromagnetic interaction could create a massive fuel air explosion (because you cause every molecule in the area to fall apart, and then recombine once you let electromagnetism back in), while radically accelerating radioactive decay is the means by which old sci fi concieved of atomic bombs.

 

[MJ12 Commando]

Honestly, this just seems stupid.

It's like insisting that superman shouldn't fly because he's not aerodynamic.

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Wild Talents has an actual tag for a power which would behave in this way. It's the "No Physics" tag, where you get to be immune to the implications and limitations physics would put into your power. Given that No Physics is an important and relatively valuable tag, and Lily's physics manipulation power doesn't have it... The way her power is statted up means that she can actually manipulate physical law in this way but when she's doing this there are second order consequences.

So yeah, if Superman's flight power didn't have "No Physics" his lack of aerodynamics means that he'd have to deal with friction heating and inertia and make sonic booms - and if we were playing a flying brick superhero whose flight power didn't have "No Physics" it would be entirely appropriate to make plans and make votes with the expectation that trying to go fast low to the ground might vaporize people around you.

 

[Parzival95]

I mean, if we can transmute the polonium into dark energy - and as DC said, non-contagion dark energy slides right off people - then that's the easy option. Convert it into dark energy and let it dissipate wherever dark energy goes.

-snip

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[10ebbor10]

Wild Talents has an actual tag for a power which would behave in this way. It's the "No Physics" tag, where you get to be immune to the implications and limitations physics would put into your power. Given that No Physics is an important and relatively valuable tag, and Lily's physics manipulation power doesn't have it... The way her power is statted up means that she can actually manipulate physical law in this way but when she's doing this there are second order consequences.

So yeah, if Superman's flight power didn't have "No Physics" his lack of aerodynamics means that he'd have to deal with friction heating and inertia and make sonic booms - and if we were playing a flying brick superhero whose flight power didn't have "No Physics" it would be entirely appropriate to make plans and make votes with the expectation that trying to go fast low to the ground might vaporize people around you.

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Missing the point.

The point is that we have a series of pretty good powers specifically based around manipulating physics, which allow us to understand the effects and the consequences, and that you seem to insist on using them in a kneecapped fashion for no particular reason. It doesn't make it safer, it doesn't make it easier, and it doesn't do it better.

Edit : And, to nitpick the physics further, if we're turning of electromagnetism anyway, then that automatically turns of alpha decay entirely, because alpha decay is the result of an interplay between the nuclear forces and electromagnetism.

 

[notbirdofprey]

Just do the Dark Matter thing.

[x] Parzival95

 

[MJ12 Commando]

Missing the point.

The point is that we have a series of pretty good powers specifically based around manipulating physics, which allow us to understand the effects and the consequences, and that you seem to insist on using them in a kneecapped fashion for no particular reason. It doesn't make it safer, it doesn't make it easier, and it doesn't do it better.

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Turning a megadeath radiological attack into something that only requires later decontamination and some medical care is hardly "kneecapped." It does however mean that the Red Army medics have something to do, which is narratively more interesting.

Also, you might have noticed I'm not turning off all electromagnetism - just EM interaction when it comes to alpha particles - selectively manipulating one specific atomic nucleus configuration. That sounds way simpler and more parsimonious than manipulating atomic alchemy on this scale and then shielding everyone from the side effects at the same time.

As to "better" - the Red Army are allies right now, not friends. Lily's friends can get trivially fixed for lead poisoning anyways and the world tree is probably something the Nine need to bring in. Doing the job well - saving everyone's life - but not perfectly also makes Lily appear less threatening, something very helpful when she probably doesn't want to set off a security spiral when the implication of her doing trivial atomic transmutation comes to light.

As far as I understand, few people have treated Lily as a massive walking WMD. She's an independent strategic deterrent and once that's realized the implications are... dangerous.

Not playing around with large scale nuclear alchemy means more time before the consequences of this come home to roost.

 

[10ebbor10]

Not playing around with large scale nuclear alchemy means more time before the consequences of this come home to roost.

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But you are playing around with large scale nuclear alchemy? That's what your vote does?
You seem to be operating under some double standard where your vote is trivial and has no physical consequences, whereas others do get full consequences.

Turning off electromagnetic interactions for one specific kind of particle is not something that ordinary physics does. Electromagnetism is a universal force, not something you can turn on and off by particle. By necessity thus, it'll be a complex operations where you have to account for and counteract a large number of effects. It's no different in complexity than the other proposals.

So, your objections don't make sense to me.

Moving lead dust around is vastly easier, and vastly less threatening that large scale atomic decay manipulation, but you do the latter while refusing to do the former because it's too scary and too hard.

 

[MJ12 Commando]

But you are playing around with large scale nuclear alchemy? That's what your vote does?
You seem to be operating under some double standard where your vote is trivial and has no physical consequences, whereas others do get full consequences.

Turning off electromagnetic interactions for one specific kind of particle is not something that ordinary physics does. Electromagnetism is a universal force, not something you can turn on and off by particle. By necessity thus, it'll be a complex operations where you have to account for and counteract a large number of effects. It's no different in complexity than the other proposals.

So, your objections don't make sense to me.

Moving lead dust around is vastly easier, and vastly less threatening that large scale atomic decay manipulation, but you do the latter while refusing to do the former because it's too scary and too hard.

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Compromise then. If Lily can induce the polonium to do beta rather than alpha decay it becomes Bismuth-209, which is largely nontoxic, and beta decay is a much less energy intense process which means that there's a lot less heat that needs to be mitigated against.

Putting a hand on the scales intuitively feels like it's easier and also seems way less threatening than playing with strong force nuclear alchemy or transmuting baryonic matter into exotic matter.

 

[NonSequtur]

What if Lily stuck it in electromagnetic isolation and then inverted gravity, rapidly flinging the entire mess far away.

Hopefully further away than 'why is there a nuclear cloud around our prototype GPS satellites and Sputnik Whatever' but hey. Progress.

 

[MJ12 Commando]

What if Lily stuck it in electromagnetic isolation and then inverted gravity, rapidly flinging the entire mess far away.

Hopefully further away than 'why is there a nuclear cloud around our prototype GPS satellites and Sputnik Whatever' but hey. Progress.

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Yes but bismuth ingestion means that you can make dumb jokes

"Why do they call you the Red Army when ten thousand of your dudes have blue skin, checkmate Communists"

 

[Parzival95]

Anyway, alternative idea :

[] Deactivate gravity in a column above the dust cloud. Due to atmospheric pressure from sides and below no longer being countered by gravity, this results in the entire affected column being pushed up. In practice creating a massive dustsucker safely depositing the polonium away from any humans, where it can be dealt with by any means neccesairy.

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Did you want to do anything with this? I saw you were arguing but not voting.

Anyway, I don't hate realism but I certainly abide by the rule of cool. Progenitor has a small pretense of scientificness in its premise but ultimately isn't a hard sci-fi setting any more than Worm is. We can get away with turning polonium into dark energy easily enough, and I see no reason not to have fun and blast it back where it came.

It's superhero time, I want to rock and roll and go back home to tell Stan the story of how the Red Army called for aid to liberate Moldavia in a genuine battle against a real life Doom type megalomaniacal dictator with delusions of godhood. It'll be epic.

 

[toxinvictory]

[X] Radically accelerate radioactive decay while suppressing the electromagnetic interactions of the decay products, resulting in the cloud of polonium dust becoming significantly less harmful lead dust.

 

[DragonCobolt]

Adhoc vote count started by DragonCobolt on Jan 22, 2022 at 10:27 AM, finished with 58 posts and 10 votes.

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  [X] Radically accelerate radioactive decay while suppressing the electromagnetic interactions of the decay products, resulting in the cloud of polonium dust becoming significantly less harmful lead dust.

  • MJ12 Commando
  • EarthScorpion
  • Emy
  • Aleph
  • ThatGazzer
  • toxinvictory

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  [X] Turn the harmful radiation/polonium back into dark energy and redirect it to its origins to try to overload the dome. Call in Beta to take casualties aboard the Yggdrasil and provide cover to the Red Army.

  • Parzival95
  • CyberFemme
  • Torgamous
  • notbirdofprey

Lead poisoning IS better than radiation poisoning!

 

[DragonCobolt]

"Oh you assholes!" You snarl as, behind you...a bunch of stuff happens at once.

The first thing is the orb ripples and things start to come out of it. There are dozens of them - low, fast, many limbed creatures if shimmering darkness, with bladelike limbs and glaring eyes. They're fast and they're mean. But intermixed among them are several human figures - dressed in flamboyant costumes and crackling with dark energy. The first one is a man made of pure obsidian with a glowing crown of lava around his head, dripping bits of magma behind him. He's dressed in pale white, with a flowing cape and holds a scepter in his hands. The second one looks like a scrawny, kinda weasly looking man dressed in an artfully tattered Soviet Army, splattered with blood that looks too bright red to be real. He's got circles under his eyes and looks pissed. The next is a girl, quite chubby with a cherubic face and long blond hair, her face a smear of freckles. She's completely surrounded by glittering globes of pale white light that seem to be holding her about a foot off the ground as she floats forward. She's dressed the most reasonably of the group - warm clothes for a cold country, with a furry hat.

The last guy is hard to see because he's surrounded by bones. Just a swirling mass of bones, which then draw back, revealing that he's a terrified looking teenager, youngish, maybe younger than you, but grimly determined despite that. He's wearing a black shirt and black jeans (dyed, you think) and his bones clack and rattle as they format themselves into a bunch of fists.

The second thing is Lisa announces herself.

The crack of the bullet and the scared teenager's leg exploding off his body comes at almost the same time. The bullet rips through his knee and fills the air under him with blood. He screams and drops. The other bullet slams into the Red Army guy's knee too - Lisa literally kneecapping the opposition. But you see that the Red Army guy, for all that he looks like a scrawny weasel, is tough as hell - the bullet actually ricohcettes off him. Of course, a ricocheting fifty cal (Jesus, Lisa!) is still a fucking fifty cal (again, JESUS, Lisa!) and his knee pops out of the joint and he drops too, also screaming in shock.

"Jesus, Lisa!" escapes your lips, despite yourself.

The guy with the magma crown snarled and sprang forward as Andy lifted his hands, as if he was about to explain. The scepter smashed into Andy's face. Blood and teeth misted the air around him and Andy dropped to the ground before you even knew what happened - while blood splattered Red Army guy glared at you from where he lay next to his gasping friend - who was clutching at his leg, his face white with shock.

"Sunt un tun," he said.

You didn't know what it meant.

But then you heard the BANG.

You snapped your head to the side - but something cracked against your temple, jarring your head to the side, filling your vision with white. Your hand clapped to your skull and you clutched your temple as blood poured through your fingers - lots and lots and lots of blood. Fuck! Fuck! Fuck. You stumbled - and barely noticed as the horrifying monsters that had seemed so threatening started to get grabbed out of the air. The world behind you was exploding - you had no idea why, but the ground was erupting with fire like an artillery barrage was landing between you and the Red Army. If they were trying to stop any help from coming to you, they hadn't counted on Theo, because through the haze of pain, you could see Theo's arms shimmering to life. Dust swirled, became fists, and those fists grabbed onto the critters and began to pummel them.

Next to you, Marsha threw up her arms - and grass exploded upwards, webbing upwards as the chubby girl thrust out with both of her hands, shouting: "Scuze pentru asta!"

A beam of searing white light slammed into the grass, which burst into flames - but did not wilt. Marsha was okay!

You saw that the guy who had shot you was being smashed around by Theo's arms, his own arms lifting up - but his toughened body took the blows with ease, while the legless guy got another fist to the head - Theo either couldn't see or didn't care that he didn't have a leg currently. Of course, since one of those boney hand was reaching towards you before the near miss distracted him, maybe Theo had a fucking point. You stumbled and heard, screaming over your coms.

"LILY! CATCH!"

It was Tori!

You turned and, through the smoke and flames, an orb flying at you.

You caught it from the air and realized...yes! Tori had collected the polonium dust and compacted it into a big chunk for you. You focused through the pain and gritted your teeth and broke down the barriers on radioactive decay. The polonium heated against your palms, so you enfolded it in a field of blackness, letting the polonium radioactively decay in safety. The blackness snapped away and you were holding a fifty ton hunk of lead in your hands, smoothed into a fine orb by Tori's powers - and you thanked god she hadn't turned it invisible.

You flicked your glance around - and saw Rex and Bart were sweeping inwards, while the scepter wielding motherfucker was glaring at you - clearly planning to clobber you next. The bone-boy was looking like he was going to work more on the gushing leg wound he had than focus on you, and the chubby girl was going to keep trying to blast Marsha - all this flashed through your awareness in a second.

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The Dark One is going to attack you. Manifold is going to keep up her shooting on Marsha! Undead Fist is formatting his power to healing and healing, while Gunhead declares after you, so you don't know what he's up too!
[ ] What do you do?

CURRENT STATUS
Health: Ow ow ow ow (3K to the head)
Willpower: 33

Spoiler: Rolls!

Combat sitch! Bad guy names are assumed to be translated from Romanian

DECLARES: The Beasts, Red Army (treated as a minion mob with 5 parts - infantry, infantry, infantry, armored, armored), the Muppets, the Dogs (Yordle, Rex and Bart) Statuestorm, Dark One, Manifold, Tori, Shade, Sabah, Rachel, Undead Fist, Theo, Andy, Brian, Marsha, Lily, Gun Head, Lisa

ROUND ONE, DECLARES

The Beasts are gonna come out swinging at Marsha, Theo and Lily
The Red Army is going to try and effect NBC emergency protocols
The Muppets are waiting for orders
Statuestorm is going to start turning chunks of landscape ahead of the Beasts into explosions to disrupt any attacks (using his defense to block incoming attacks)
Dark One is going to clobber Andy
Manifold is going to clobber Marsha
Tori is going to freeze the radioactive dust with her mind and hold it in place so no one inhales
Shade is going to turn invisible and creep out
Sabah is going to direct her healing Muppets to heal anyone who loosk in a bad way
Rachel is going to order Yordle to drop her by the Red army, while Rex and Bart go after the Dark One and Manifold)
Undead Fist is going to clobber Lily
Theo is going punch every single one of the visible motherfuckers with his arm field
Andy is going to duck AND take cover
Brian is going to Grue Cloud the nearest badguy (Statuestorm)
Marsha is going to throw up a defense on herself
Lily is going to stick with her plan to shunt radioactive dust and hope that she's getting enough cover
Gunhead is going to shoot Lily (with his gunhead)
Lisa is going to shoot Gunhead and Undead Fist in the kneecaps with her sniper rifle from cover
The GM's declare is to ask why the fuck he let you guys make NINE superheroes???

ROUND ONE, ROLLS!
The Beasts: 2x3, 2x3, 2x2
The Red Army: 3x6, 2x10, 2x2
The Muppets: No roll
Statuestorm: 2x10, 2x9, 2x2
Dark One: 6x10
Manifold: 3x10
Tori: 3x4
Shade: 10x10
Sabah: 2x1
Rachel: 2x9
Undead Fist: 4x7 (effectively 2x7)
Theo: 4x5, 2x10, 2x7, 2x6,
Andy: 2x10
Brian: 1x10 (effectively)
Marsha: 2x10 (+1 width for initiative)
Lily: 3x10 to format, 2x10 to impact
Gunhead: 5x10 (4x10)
Lisa: Gets +1d for sneak attacking, -1d to get +1 width for initiative purposes. 5x1 and 5x1 (going on tick 6 for initiative reasons)

RESULTS
Shade turns invisible heheh

Lisa takes the shot. Her sniper rifle (a .50 caliber armor piercing antimaterial rifle) does +1K with Pen 1. Gunhead has 5 LAR and 2 HAR, so her shot gets one die dobbled by the HAR, doing 5s/5k, which is turned to 5s/1k, which completely fills his leg with shock and knocks him over and gobbles up one of his dice (putting him at 4x10.) Undead Fist has no armor up (his power is VE and he's just attacking) so he takes 6s/6k to a leg with 5 health boxes. So, it fills, then the 6s becomes 3k, leaving 4k that goes to his chest, meaning he's bleeding. Cause the leg's gone! HIs attack drops to 3x7, and then 2x7 thanks to him taking 1s to the chest from his bleeder.

At the same time, the Dark One lashes out with a tentacle of pure blackness and smashes Andy's head for 6s/6k. Andy eats it and starts spending WP to cling to life.

Gunhead, sprawled on the ground, fires off his 4x10 before Lily formats. This does 4s/4k. Lily has 39 WP thanks to the time passing and team morale, so she'll spend 6 of that to eat up 4 shock and 1 killing and remain in the fight with 3K to the head. This eats a set from her 3x10, putting her at 2x10.

Theo manifests a bunch of fists with his 4x5, blasting like, the entire Beast Swarm with punches thanks to radius and them being minions. Hah!

Marsha throws up a defense with 2x10 (on tic 3) which makes 2 gobble die that just barely beats Manifold's laser blast (gobbling 3x10 to 1x10, a fail)

The Red Army starts getting masks on some of their men with a 3x6 but,

Tori grabs the dust with 3x4 and compacts it into a single small chunk that she tosses towards Lily.

Statuestorm's defenses go off, but it is too late, Theo's already clobbered the beasts.

The Red army continues NBC actions

Theo manifests an arm that punches Gunhead and Undead Fist. Gunhead takes 2s/2k, which he resists handily, while Undead Fist just has to eat 2s/2k, which he resist using his WP (6 WP in total) to keep himself conscious. This does negate his 2x7 though. Poor Undead Fist.

Lily snatches the orb of polonium from the air, and transmutes it to lead with her 2x10. Lily has acquired ORB OF LEAD!

Theo then hits Manifold with his 2x7 and 2x6, doing 2s/2k to the chest and 2s/2k to the right arm - which Manifold doesn't block because his power isn't on defensive yet. Battered torso, bruised arm, nothing debilitating yet.

END RESULTS: Andy is out and dying, Manifold is a bit beat up but not incapacitated in any way. Undead Fist is missing a leg and bleeding out but still dangerous. Gunhead has a broken leg and is still VERY dangerous. Dark One and Statuestorm haven't been touched yet. The Beasts are entirely down.

 

[ThatGazzer]

The GM's declare is to ask why the fuck he let you guys make NINE superheroes???

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Well, you see...

EDIT 2: Oh, also, just an FYI, I am going to fudge this a teeny tiny bit and give her at least some ability to influence people. Here's why! If her powers can only influence inert matter, she's a closed vector - meaning that she's got no power children to worry about, no "I saved this guy from a bad guy, oh shit, now he's a supervillain" and no "I used my powers on my best friend to show off, now he's in trouble with the mafia for turning all their coke to salt by accident." ...also, uh, that's my way to get more Worms into this game. Otherwise, there'd only be one worm!

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you've nobody to blame but yourself

 

[Torgamous]

you were holding a fifty ton hunk of lead in your hands

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My first instinct is "world's largest bullet." I'm pretty sure my first instinct is a very bad idea, but it's the only one I've got.

 

[CyberFemme]

Can Yggy format it's gravitational control into a multiple-target controlled effect gravity field that hoists people into the air and keeps them there with a gravity field that scales to how strong their flight is?

Marsha then wraps them up with grass to limit their line of sight. Tori grabs Andy and gets him to Rachel.

Edit: DC, can Lily deploy her 10 HAR diamond suit with a magical girl transformation?

 

[DragonCobolt]

Can Yggy format it's gravitational control into a multiple-target controlled effect gravity field that hoists people into the air and keeps them there with a gravity field that scales to how strong their flight is?

Marsha then wraps them up with grass to limit their line of sight. Tori grabs Andy and gets him to Rachel.

Edit: DC, can Lily deploy her 10 HAR diamond suit with a magical girl transformation?

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Yiggy can do this to one person at a time, at a rate of 2x10, every other round.

And Lily can do this, but it'd take her using physics fuckery, so it'd go off at 3x10 and 2x10. You could spend 1 WP to add +1 dice and then drop that to add +1 initiative, to try and go faster!

...actually, you could spend 2 WP, and then roll one of those dice, and add that to make the width even wider, since 3xX (X being what you rolled) with +1 initiative is pretty quick!