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]

So. I know that the metrics determine the story prompts that events are made from, but can we as players propose our own prompts?

For instance, could the S9 launch a lawsuit against major oil companies who are starting to cover up reports on global warming around this time thanks to the forewarning the copy of Wikipedia we have gave us? Could this be a first strike in what we know will be an inevitable war for public opinion with the petrochemical corps once we introduce the MARS?
Like the idea of non-standard superhero adventures like a courtroom drama.

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I think soon we'll be butterflying history way beyond things that, and also I have no doubt that like worm information gained through powers will not be allowed as evidence in court. In this case it I even agree, it's clearly an alternate future with no metas, so how can they know everything is accurate?

Also we should just ruin their businesses by introducing new technology. Cheap energy, cleaner cars more efficient cars, solar collectors maybe… Ooh, 3D printing would be cool, but tech it pay what exists and make it true hyperbrain quality! That's probably enough on it's own with a hyperbrain backing it.

In fact, maybe that could be Andy's next major project? It might even help with future projects.

Andy, Tessa, Brian, Lily all can contribute to gadgeteering in some form. I don't think DragonCobalt needs to worry about metrics, we'll be pumping technology and economy the whole entire quest.

 

[ThatGazzer]

[X] Plan : Keep your cards

 

[DragonCobolt]

So. I know that the metrics determine the story prompts that events are made from, but can we as players propose our own prompts?

For instance, could the S9 launch a lawsuit against major oil companies who are starting to cover up reports on global warming around this time thanks to the forewarning the copy of Wikipedia we have gave us? Could this be a first strike in what we know will be an inevitable war for public opinion with the petrochemical corps once we introduce the MARS?
Like the idea of non-standard superhero adventures like a courtroom drama.

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Yes!

Doing this pleases the Great and Terrible Greg, who is the mastermind of our woes.

 

[ThatGazzer]

Yes!

Doing this pleases the Great and Terrible Greg, who is the mastermind of our woes.

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lol Greg is sad teen boy from Worm you accidentally Worm again, Dragon!

 

[Parzival95]

Hmm, I think we'll have more than enough trouble coming our way but pickings fight with big energy and the car companies is really tempting… we're not ready yet, but it's totally doable. Need a few mass production inventions out there to really build up a financial base, expand Lisa's information network.

Cam might even approve, lol.

Hmm, a lot of what we can do depends on how much time we split between active "issues" like this and doing things in downtime. But I kind of want to do big things like potentially establish "Fox News" in the spotlight too.

If we're making a business do we want do the standard company, or make it a cooperative…? Well, a cooperative wouldn't be too different from a normal company for us if half the workers are muppets. That's an unfair advantage.

You know, eventually we'll be arguing for muppet rights. And canine rights too.

Greg is the peak meme of awkward teen boy with foot in mouth. Was online friends with Sveta but though he was being catfished and broke up their friendship when she couldn't give him photos.

 

[DragonCobolt]

lol Greg is sad teen boy from Worm you accidentally Worm again, Dragon!

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He's also the author of proggers! (And, more importantly, Unknown Armies, which is the apotheosis of bad decisions the game.)

 

[Parzival95]

So just thinking, we should maybe try to buy up land around the Stonewall and expand the building, install defenses, redundancies for the computer. It's a big target.

Making Yggdrasil isn't the worst idea.

Also, you know. Anti-mind control tech to protect us from LBJ and memes.

Edit: what if…. We made literal Yggdrasil space elevator, beat Cam to it? NYC isn't really the best place for it…. Also I wanted to do stargates anyway…

 

[ThatGazzer]

What if Andy made and sold an Autodoc for Emergency Response?
(and used his version to slowly become Android)

 

[Parzival95]

If we proliferate advanced medical tech that could be a big setting change. There's at least one major character who just dies to bad health.

 

[CyberFemme]

I think soon we'll be butterflying history way beyond things that, and also I have no doubt that like worm information gained through powers will not be allowed as evidence in court. In this case it I even agree, it's clearly an alternate future with no metas, so how can they know everything is accurate?

Also we should just ruin their businesses by introducing new technology. Cheap energy, cleaner cars more efficient cars, solar collectors maybe… Ooh, 3D printing would be cool, but tech it pay what exists and make it true hyperbrain quality! That's probably enough on it's own with a hyperbrain backing it.

In fact, maybe that could be Andy's next major project? It might even help with future projects.

Andy, Tessa, Brian, Lily all can contribute to gadgeteering in some form. I don't think DragonCobalt needs to worry about metrics, we'll be pumping technology and economy the whole entire quest.

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I think all tech we introduce will make us major enemies and as I think about it more, we should set up the basics of fighting those battles first. We DO have a timeline on deploying MARS if Chernobyl isn't butterflied, but I think we need to take the next downtime to set up the Stonewall Group megacorp.
There are just too many benefits to having those kinds of resources ready to go in terms of being able to react to legal challenges, shape public opinion, and would political influence.

@JustGazzer, do do you feel about doing MARS rollout in the downtime after next, and using the next one to put all that support infrastructure into place?

Yes!

Doing this pleases the Great and Terrible Greg, who is the mastermind of our woes.

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Woo! Proactive troublemaking! Be gay, do crime!

So just thinking, we should maybe try to buy up land around the Stonewall and expand the building, install defenses, redundancies for the computer. It's a big target.

Making Yggdrasil isn't the worst idea.

Also, you know. Anti-mind control tech to protect us from LBJ and memes.

Edit: what if…. We made literal Yggdrasil space elevator, beat Cam to it? NYC isn't really the best place for it…. Also I wanted to do stargates anyway…

Click to shrink...

*gets really mad about the super specific special interest topic* SPACE ELEVATORS ARE SHIT FITE ME!
NOT ONLY do you need bulk long chain carbon nanotubes, but you also expose people and cargo to a ton of radiation in transit, AND the throughput and launch velocities are worse than what you can get with an ORBITAL RING which can also be used for dirt cheap intercontinental travel and trade to boot!

AND an orbital ring doesn't need any CNT, so we can apply the Adaptation trait for a -2 point cost reduction.
Fun fact! It would only take Tori about 90 launches to put all the material needed to make a starter ring into orbit, an which point the ring becomes self expanding.
Orbital launch costs of 15 CENTS A KILO BAYBEE!

AND with rocketry sidelined, the Paperclip Nazis in NASA would lose their political cover, so we could get them drummed out!

Edit: And because it's best put on the equator, it would give us an excuse to go to South America and Africa and Indonesia and make contacts there.

What if Andy made and sold an Autodoc for Emergency Response?
(and used his version to slowly become Android)

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I think a youth serum is our first priority healthcare wise, but yes, we can definitely pioneer safer more effective robotic surgery techniques.

 

[Parzival95]

I'm not sure about a youth serum when we could make a more general medical suite. Is it just a youth serum, de-aging you, or does it have proper regenerative properties restoring medical health as well? They're not quite the same thing. It doesn't necessarily make the world a better place because then all the old people will be sticking around taking up positions and possessing views that prevent the young from advancing.

I also think we need proper combat equipment for the team. We're all just running around in regular clothes right now. We need armored outfits with whatever bells and whistles Andy can slap onto them, Tessa needs defenses, a way to detect and combat mental influences.

 

[CyberFemme]

I'm not sure about a youth serum when we could make a more general medical suite. Is it just a youth serum, de-aging you, or does it have proper regenerative properties restoring medical health as well? They're not quite the same thing. It doesn't necessarily make the world a better place because then all the old people will be sticking around taking up positions and possessing views that prevent the young from advancing.

I also think we need proper combat equipment for the team. We're all just running around in regular clothes right now. We need armored outfits with whatever bells and whistles Andy can slap onto them, Tessa needs defenses, a way to detect and combat mental influences.

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De-aging, by definition, makes you healthier. That's what anti-senescense is all about. A youth serum is actually better than a medical suite because it prevents issues from occuring in the first place, and when someone does get injured they're likelier to survive if they're in peak condition. It's the whole 'ounce of prevention' being worth a pound of cure'.

Secondly, a youth serum also restores neuroplasticity, which makes it easier for us to shift the views people hold.

Thirdly, where do we draw the line and say 'yes, society is good enough now, they've earned the privilege of not dying'? There will always be room for improvement and it's always going to be subjective. Ethically, I cannot in good conscience sentence billions of innocent people to a preventable death just because we're afraid of conservatives holding on to power. Especially if we ourselves have so much power and are actively working to topple the oppressive structures we're worrying about. We can change people's minds - we can't bring them back from the dead.

And yes, we need to outfit the team as well.

 

[Parzival95]

Okay, but can we armor up before we do the youth serum? Pumping out rejuvenation puts a huge target on Andy's back, and having allies is good, but he needs to be able to defend himself.

Gonna try and stat up a suit of Iron Man armor for him. Alright there doesn't seem to be a list of modifiers in one place.

 

[CyberFemme]

Okay, but can we armor up before we do the youth serum? Pumping out rejuvenation puts a huge target on Andy's back, and having allies is good, but he needs to be able to defend himself.

Gonna try and stat up a suit of Iron Man armor for him.

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Yeah, for sure. Have to take care of ourselves before we can take care of the world.

I was actually thinking all of the S9 would get said suits - Dragon's Teeth suits to be precise that TESA can also use as bodies when we're not using them.

 

[Parzival95]

Having read about ProgHarm I'm wondering if the best thing we can do isn't go all in on automation. The comment earlier of doing like the Galactic Concert in the robot stories has potential, maybe we could compromise with Cam if we can manage it.

We should talk more to the puppets later, get an extensive idea of their developing psychology. If they take satisfaction in the performance of their elite skill sets then there's potential there for something similar. Maybe we could do like the Shavians and develop a method to produce more muppets without Sabahs direct involvement?

Or just build robots.

 

[ThatGazzer]

De-aging, by definition, makes you healthier. That's what anti-senescense is all about. A youth serum is actually better than a medical suite because it prevents issues from occuring in the first place, and when someone does get injured they're likelier to survive if they're in peak condition. It's the whole 'ounce of prevention' being worth a pound of cure'.

Secondly, a youth serum also restores neuroplasticity, which makes it easier for us to shift the views people hold.

Thirdly, where do we draw the line and say 'yes, society is good enough now, they've earned the privilege of not dying'? There will always be room for improvement and it's always going to be subjective. Ethically, I cannot in good conscience sentence billions of innocent people to a preventable death just because we're afraid of conservatives holding on to power. Especially if we ourselves have so much power and are actively working to topple the oppressive structures we're worrying about. We can change people's minds - we can't bring them back from the dead.

And yes, we need to outfit the team as well.

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this is all true, I fully agree with you

But allow me to submit to you

Andy The Android.

Andy as a Reverse Bicentennial Man.

The Ultimate Transition! Nobody needs gender when you're a highly advanced cyborg!

 

[DragonCobolt]

Adhoc vote count started by DragonCobolt on Dec 7, 2021 at 12:08 PM, finished with 53 posts and 8 votes.

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  [X] Plan : Keep your cards
  -[X] Inform the detective that we'll pull Rachel away from the investigation. Do not mention that Lisa is still looking.
  --[X] Ask Lisa, later, privately, if her investigation can go on without being detected
  -[X] Go provide disaster relief to the site of the bombing, see if you can learn anything. Maybe Brian might be able to make ghosts of the recently dead to find out if they saw anything, in secret, to avoid further attacks.

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  [X] Plan: Emergency Response
  -[X] Ask Pine what police and city policy is on threats like that. Crawler has proven willing and able to massacre civilians, so stopping the search might stop him this moment but not forever. He could hold the city hostage. If Pine thinks it's better to go hard on him now before he can establish himself, we're willing, if not, call Lisa back, and we can try a stealthier approach. Whatever he chooses, make a statement publicly agreeing to Crawlers demands.
  -[X] Ask Andy if he could make a device to search without being detected. Like… a stealthy flying machine that can go high up and see everything that's happening in the city.
  -[X] Ask Pine if he'll accept pairing police-puppets with his more open minded cops to provide extra manpower and protection against hostile metahumans.
  -[X] Go provide disaster relief to the site of the bombing, see if you can learn anything. Maybe Lily can try to detect and extinguish whatever effect Crawler used and Brian might be able to make ghosts of the recently dead to find out if they saw anything.

  • Parzival95
  • MooGoesCow21
  • fanficfan

  1 people have voted

  [X] Wait for Pine to order you to do something, then do the opposite (If he tells you to drop the search, refuse. If he doesn't drop the search, threaten him into dropping it). Clearly this is our personal fight, for some reason.

  • 10ebbor10

  1 people have voted

  [X] Plan: I Can't Let You Do That Crawler
  -[X] Get Pine to make a statement to appease the demands, publicly or privately but so long as it somehow reaches Don Crawler that is all that matters
  -[X] Get our collective asses over to the site of the attack. Maybe there are survivors, maybe not, but we need to investigate the cause and see if we can gleam as much information as possible about whatever method Crawler used.
  -[X] See if we can format our Physics Fuckery to shut down that exact energy exchange and spend enough flaws and willpower to at least cover the city.

  • SweetJackal

Operation: Lie to Cops is a go, I repeat, Operation: Lie to Cops is a go!

 

[Parzival95]

It makes sense. We rushed in Rachel from across the country, she has super dogs; presumably the super dogs are super trackers.

Now we find out how good a liar everyone is when put on the spot. If Ned actually did know about Lisa specifically we'll have to counter accuse him of bluffing and doing it regardless.

 

[DragonCobolt]

You and Rachel and Andy exchange a glance. You draw them close, then whisper. "Okay," you whisper. "Here's what I'm thinking...that...Don Crawler asshole, he can't know that Lisa is out there, trying to find him. He's gotta be guessing, right?" Andy nods, while Rachel grunts, softly.

"Yeah," Andy whispers back.

"Can I get in on this little-" Pine blusters. You make sound unable to transmit between you and him, ignoring him as his lips continue to move.

"In fact," Andy says. "If I was him, with the information I think he has, I'd assume Rachel is the one searching. We pull the dogs back, we shrink them down, he'll think that we're keeping our word."

You nod.

Pine puts his hand on your shoulder, and you turn, dropping the cone of silence around you. "What?" you snap.

"What are you-"

"We're going to Rachel off the investigation," you say, lying to his face. Pine frowns at you. "Now, we gotta do superhero shit. You know, help people, save lives, shit you wouldn't get." You say, turning to the window and cracking it open, then dropping down onto Barker. Rachel followed you, landing behind you on the dog's back. Andy takes a few seconds longer, pausing and looking nervous, as if he's trying to evaluate every angle - like you were able to do. But unlike you, he has to take a bit longer, and then finally lets himself drop off, landing before Barker's collar. The dog swung around in the air and began to soar back towards Stonewall as Rachel whispered to him, petting his side.

"Yeah, and get everyone back too."

"No, we're not going back to Stonewall," you say. "Head for Brooklyn."

Rachel looks at you. Then she nods.

The passage over the East River and to the site of the destruction passes in quiet. You all look down at the destruction wrought by Don Crawler with grim horror - the building looks like someone had cut the important parts of it and then set other parts on fire - like, a controlled demolition without the people having time to get out. The rubble was stacked up high...and there was blood everywhere. You had not realized how much blood there'd be. In movies and such, when a building got blown up, there wasn't blood. But this building...it'd been full of people. Not like when Set had attacked. Barker dropped down and Rachel slid off his side. Andy remained on his back, then shook his head, whispering.

"Triage, uh...triage, right," he says. "Lily! Stop time around that building! Right now!"

You blink. Stop time? Okay. Okay. You could do this.

"But only do it for the building, not us!" he adds.

...okay.

You closed your eyes. You could kind of...feel the vibrating knots of possible physical interactions that were you, your friends. You just snipped them off in your mind, then walked forward and placed your palm against the ground. You feel time around you and push your senses out. And out. And out. And out. You feel the edges of your focus, and grit your teeth - your head beginning to ache. Your power almost slips from your hands for just a moment, but you push yourself to the limit, then a bit further, gasping and then opening your eyes. The air around you...shines with an inner-not light. It is as if the air is black...but you can still clearly see things in grays and whites and un-colors that human eyes had never seen. Your palm slid through this air, and you can see echoing contrails of your fingers.

This is what time looks like to the timeless, I guess, you think. Your fingers wriggle, then you look around and see that the bubble has eclipsed the entire ruined building.

"What are they doing!?" Someone shouts - and you realize, there were people around the building. Tons of people, actually, gaping at the scene. You'd arrived before rescue workers, and the people have never seen this kind of thing before. Rachel ignores them, walking into the dome with only a hesitation. Her body looks entirely normal, leaving behind glittering contrails of past-Rachels behind her as she comes to the first body that looks like nothing more than a smear of ruined flesh - in this bizarre un-light and non-color, the red has become a blurry gray and black. She puts her palms together, then presses them against the body - and her palms glow. The body becomes normal colored and literally flies back together, collapsing together with a crunch and a wet pop, before the man that had been nothing but a ruin sat up, gasping, looking around wildly.

"Holy shit," you whisper. "You just brought him back to life."

Rachel shakes her head, then hurries over. "I've tried, doesn't work. They're not dead yet."

Andy moves over, then starts to drag rubble aside - making them glow brightly in normal colors, dragging them up into the air, then letting them hold still. You need to focus each time he moves some rubble, but when he lets them go, you let the power snap around them - and they become gray-black blobs, floating in the air. As Rachel pulls bodies out, she look grim and focused, her jaw tight as she pulls a child's head out, focuses - and the child's body reforms under their neck, leaving them look battered and nude. She takes off her jacket and wraps it around the child, pointing off to the edge of the dome silently.

The crowd quiets down - and then as the healed survivors start to come out of the dome, they start to cheer, clapping as you work - and work and work.

Time snaps back on to the building an hour later. Rubble crashes back from where you and Andy had put it up and you have saved nearly a hundred and fifty people. There were twenty or so people who had...even with the time stop, been too dead for Rachel to do anything about it. She was trembling, her hands stroking her shoulders, her head ducked forward, while police worked to keep the crowd back, and ambulances checked over the survivors. A few newsies had shown up, with cameras aimed at the three of you.

"It's okay," Andy whispered to Rachel. "Their brains were too smashed - you can't rebuild consciousness."

"I could fucking try," Rachel snaps.

"Uh, shit," you say as you see the line of cops ripples slightly - and a journalist manages to get past them.

He's in a nice suit, and his cameramen are trying to set up their bulky looking cameras, their focusing lenses looking a bit like guns. "Ted Barling," the newsman says. "NBC News! You're from the Stonewall Nine, can you tell me about what happened here - was it a bombing?"

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Hmmm
[ ] No comment, run away.
[ ] Give him the rundown of how badass and cool Rachel and you are (+1 minor girls, +1 minor friends, +major yourself)
[ ] Let Andy deal with him, comfort Rachel (+major friends, +major girls)
[ ] Write In

CURRENT STATUS
Health: Fine
Willpower: 30 (see rolls for negatives)

Spoiler: Rolls!

CHECK: The Team Roll their "we're trying to make it seem like Rachel is the only person we got." Andy helps with 10x10 plan, which provides +10 bonus dice (using your power to help a related skill check works by adding bonus dice equal to your width) to your Charm+Liiies roll!

ROLL: Yours (-1d to set a die to 10.) 10 9 8 8 7 6 6 6 3, with a 10
Don Crawler's: 10 8 8 7 6 6 1

RESULT: 2x10, 2x8, 3x6 versus 2x8 and 2x6. Your 2x10 beats his 2x8. He thinks you've called off the hunt.

CHECK: Formatting power! -1 obvious, -2 direct feed, -2 feedback, self only (-3), Exhausted (-3), to nab Radius [5] (+10) and Controlled Effect (+1). Oh, and you need to get Duration and can't think of any more flaws that really are flaws. So, that's +2 cost.

ROLL: 10, 10, 10, 10, 10

RESULT: 3x10 to format, 2x10 to trigger it. You cover 320 yards - approx the whole apartment building - in a field where time simply does not advance for anyone but you anything you want. Cost: 3 and 2 willpower and 1 WP to negate the 1 stun to the head (from feedback and direct feed.) The stun has to be negated or else your locational flaw would kick on. Finally, you have to pay 16 WP to get Duration (2 points for 2 wiggle dice so 2x2x4!)

 

[Lord Sia]

So... what else is he hiding... cause this doesn't sound like Worm!Crawler

Click to shrink...

Sounds like early Worm!Crawler. Before his adaptive regeneration really got to work, and he started hanging out with little miss warcrime the bio-tinker.

Edit: Oh! New chapter!

[X] Let Andy deal with him, comfort Rachel (+major friends, +major girls)

 

[ThatGazzer]

[X] Let Andy deal with him, comfort Rachel (+major friends, +major girls)

How Hyper is Andy's Brain right now?

 

[DragonCobolt]

How Hyper is Andy's Brain right now?

Click to shrink...

He's at 8d, because I realized just because he has a communication link to Tessa doesn't mean he has access to her thinks. So, he's running on local electronics and the iPhone in his pocket.

 

[SweetJackal]

Well then

[X] Let Andy deal with him, comfort Rachel (+major friends, +major girls)
-[X] Make sure he is getting coaching and help from Tessa
Andy can figure out what information to leak and how, he has you for backup if needed but I'm gonna bet he has it in the bag.

 

[Lord Ultimus]

[X] Give him the rundown of how badass and cool Rachel and you are (+1 minor girls, +1 minor friends, +major yourself)

Set ourselves up as the leader and let the love triangle grow.

 

[KreenWarrior]

[X] Let Andy deal with him, comfort Rachel (+major friends, +major girls)