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

 

[Lord Ultimus]

[X] Sounds good!

Voting for this until someone comes up with a better write-in.

[X] Keep mum, at least, until you can talk with her.

While I'm all in for a hippie free love threesome, it's best to get everyone in on the idea first.

 

[CyberFemme]

This is somewhat tangential, but I cannot wait for the fallout of introducing future media to a 1960s audience if we go ahead and start a media channel.

Can you imagine the reaction to You Can't Pray The Gay Away?

Too tired for write-ins:

[X] Sounds good!
[X] Keep mum, at least, until you can talk with her.

 

[Lord Ultimus]

Y'know, considering the original Spider-Man cartoon is airing, when the comic does well we can probably justify our own cartoon to really hammer in the "okay to be gay" subliminal messaging.

 

[fanficfan]

[X] Sounds good!
[X] Keep mum, at least, until you can talk with her.

 

[DragonCobolt]

...I just realized: this quest is 30k long and is already on page 40.

My Rogue Trader quest wrapped at 80k and never got past page 33! Jeeze.

 

[CyberFemme]

Y'know, considering the original Spider-Man cartoon is airing, when the comic does well we can probably justify our own cartoon to really hammer in the "okay to be gay" subliminal messaging.

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You know, I actually don't want to use Synergenes explicitly for that - it'll open us up to a easily exploitable line of attack by our enemies if they find out.
Instead, why don't we target synergenes at the root causes of various types of bigotry?
We can insert synergenes that promote empathy, nuance, complexity, critical thinking, and desire for novelty instead - these all seem much less ethically fraught and less open to accusation of 'brainwashing the kids gay', as well as simultaneously helping to reduce bigotry on other axies such as race, gender, and ethnicity.

...I just realized: this quest is 30k long and is already on page 40.

My Rogue Trader quest wrapped at 80k and never got past page 33! Jeeze.

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This system is mechanically VERY INTERESTING! The way it lets you build powers is very generalizable and I'm definetly considering applications to fantasy setting where you can use something similar to build custom spells.

 

[Parzival95]

Spoiler: Too long

The system and premise is very interesting, you had me hooked out of the gate. I am 110% invested in our new alt-history. I'm hoping this keeps up a long time and gets more voters.

Side question: how does manufactured gadgeteering interact with itself? Say we actually wanted to do full body Ghost in the Shell level cybernetics/robotics and turn the 70s cyberpunk, to let people have implants and give Tessa a body. That's actually multiple manufactured techs isn't it? I could see the body itself being one tech, limbs and organs. The cyberbrain is probably important enough to need special attention, a third project to make it all seamlessly normal looking (I personally like the aesthetic of seams in the skin, like you see on cyberpunk characters faces, and some obvious prosthetics). But then you also need advanced batteries to keep it running.

So optimistically, I'm calling it three projects minimum before we go even get to the information tech infrastructure to connect people together, and a shitton of base will. I don't think it's out of the question cost wise, not if Andy, Tessa, Lily and Brian can invest in it (however his copy works), but maybe I've completely misunderstood?

The batteries is what got me thinking about this, because a lot of potential techs, including some in the books, would require advanced batteries to make practically viable even if you had the tech itself, theoretically there are things you couldn't introduce to society without requiring other techs alongside.

This also got me thinking that if Cam and Weeks are gonna do nuclear power and superconductors anyway we should just let them do it while we focus on other stuff. Maybe we can iterate on it afterwards and make better models for our effort. That's kind of metaing, but also I don't want to retread canon territory too much. But maybe we've butterflied things enough they have different projects entirely.

If you can't tell I'm particularly interested in a superhero AU that goes out of its way to avert Reed Richards is useless and drastically reimagine society. I've got an idea for founding Dragon Technologies, it's symbol could be a dragon wrapping around the world tree, which is doubly cool if we actually make Yggdrasil with Marsha.

So many cool things we can do, like usurping Fox News, collaborating with others on some kind of lager metahuman mutual aid structure. This quest really has the promise of the future going for it, a great anticipation of what could be.

I spent too many words to say you're doing a great job DragonCobalt.

 

[Lord Ultimus]

You know, I actually don't want to use Synergenes explicitly for that - it'll open us up to a easily exploitable line of attack by our enemies if they find out.
Instead, why don't we target synergenes at the root causes of various types of bigotry?
We can insert synergenes that promote empathy, nuance, complexity, critical thinking, and desire for novelty instead - these all seem much less ethically fraught and less open to accusation of 'brainwashing the kids gay', as well as simultaneously helping to reduce bigotry on other axies such as race, gender, and ethnicity.

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That was more or less what I meant.

Hell, just some good old fashioned queer coding can do a lot.

 

[CyberFemme]

That was more or less what I meant.

Hell, just some good old fashioned queer coding can do a lot.

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She-Ra will colonize Saturday morning cartoons.

 

[Parzival95]

She-Ra will colonize Saturday morning cartoons.

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Arcane would blow their minds with potential and quality of animation. Heh, we could give Miyazaki an archive of his future work and see what he does with it as inspiration…. He might ask us not to though, preferring not to know.

But yes, She-Ra, ATLA… there's some good stuff out there.

 

[10ebbor10]

A lot of it is going to look terrible on standard television though.

And let's not forget that the past is a foreign country. A lot of jokes, references or just plain assumptions might just fail to land at all.

 

[CyberFemme]

Arcane would blow their minds with potential and quality of animation. Heh, we could give Miyazaki an archive of his future work and see what he does with it as inspiration…. He might ask us not to though, preferring not to know.

But yes, She-Ra, ATLA… there's some good stuff out there.

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I've been meaning to watch Arcane but I'm so tapped out of engagement right now.

Hot dayum, young Miazaki with a full archive of his future work to learn from and improve on would be amazing.

A lot of it is going to look terrible on standard television though.

And let's not forget that the past is a foreign country. A lot of jokes, references or just plain assumptions might just fail to land at all.

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Point. We'll need to run... a lot of focus groups. Establishing a media branch would definitely be a major downtime activity.

On the topic of room temp SC, @DragonCobolt would adding an environment bound (-1) flaw on the manufacturing process work (for instance, it can only be produced in a vacuum, microgravity environment) be allowed, or would that be illegal since it doesn't affect the day to day functionality of it?

 

[DragonCobolt]

On the topic of room temp SC, @DragonCobolt would adding an environment bound (-1) flaw on the manufacturing process work (for instance, it can only be produced in a vacuum, microgravity environment) be allowed, or would that be illegal since it doesn't affect the day to day functionality of it?

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That would work, since it'd make another bottleneck!

 

[Lord Ultimus]

A lot of it is going to look terrible on standard television though.

And let's not forget that the past is a foreign country. A lot of jokes, references or just plain assumptions might just fail to land at all.

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Plus, the current level of animation has it's own charm.

Imagine what memes about us will be made when we get the internet up and running.

 

[CyberFemme]

That would work, since it'd make another bottleneck!

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I like the idea of introducing specific bottlenecks in order to steer industrial and technological development along certain paths.

Making a lot of our wonder materials require space based manufacturing for instance creates an immediate economic incentive to actually develop space infrastructure, which is something that we really want IC. Even without the metagamey planning for certain entities which may not have sides ( ), the fact that a particularly powerful high tier meta (or a particularly creative low tier one) could wipe out all life on Earth if they were having a very bad day is a very urgent reason to want our species to spread out beyond its homeworld.
It also gives us more leverage over the government, because the easiest way to build that infrastructure is to have Tori or Lily provide the spacelift capability.

edit: And for the love of the Omnissiah, can we please call them 'coms' instead of smart phones when we introduce them? It's short for both communicator and computer, which is way more accurate.

 

[DragonCobolt]

Adhoc vote count started by DragonCobolt on Dec 8, 2021 at 9:06 PM, finished with 24 posts and 7 votes.

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  6 people have voted

  [X] Sounds good!
  [X] Keep mum, at least, until you can talk with her.

  • ThatGazzer
  • Parzival95
  • The-Chained-One
  • Lord Ultimus
  • CyberFemme
  • fanficfan

  1 people have voted

  [x] Confide in Andy about Rachel.

  • KreenWarrior

Now for the most THRILLING, ACTION PACKED MOMENT, in the ENTIRE SAGA of PROGENITOR

THE TIME WHERE LILY HANGS AROUND IN A BUILDING, INVISIBLE, FOR A FEW DAYS!

 

[CyberFemme]

Adhoc vote count started by DragonCobolt on Dec 8, 2021 at 9:06 PM, finished with 24 posts and 7 votes.

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  6 people have voted

  [X] Sounds good!
  [X] Keep mum, at least, until you can talk with her.

  • ThatGazzer
  • Parzival95
  • The-Chained-One
  • Lord Ultimus
  • CyberFemme
  • fanficfan

  1 people have voted

  [x] Confide in Andy about Rachel.

  • KreenWarrior

Now for the most THRILLING, ACTION PACKED MOMENT, in the ENTIRE SAGA of PROGENITOR

THE TIME WHERE LILY HANGS AROUND IN A BUILDING, INVISIBLE, FOR A FEW DAYS!

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Shenanigans ensue?

 

[CyberFemme]

Wait. Wait wait wait.

We have Wikipedia. A cut down copy most likely but Wikipedia! We have an actual timeline of future events! A subtly wrong one, to be sure, but there are a lot of events that haven't been butterflied yet.

We were concerned about Chernobyl for instance, but what if we just... warn a few people involved and avert the whole thing?

 

[DragonCobolt]

You nod to Andy. "Yeah, cool. I got this." You try and seem casual. Andy nods to you, then gives you a thumbs up.

Then he holds something out to you.

"It's going to be really boring. This might help."

You take the little widget, frowning at it.

"The hell is a Switch?"

***
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New York City
New York
FEBUARY 17th
1969

You frown, tapping at the triggers. "Come on, come on, come on, come on..." you mutter, then laugh. "Yes! Yes! Take that you Nazi fuck-"

"Wow, this building is really protected, innit it?"

You snap your head up, blinking, and see that Lisa is sitting on the desk of the empty cubical that you're haunting today. The past few days, you've been drifting from cube to cube after setting your little conditional field up, and just waiting for the shoe to drop. Fortunately, the Switch - with nearly plug to keep it from running out of batteries - was a device of nearly magical endless entertainment. You had Wolfenstine: The New Order, Zelda, Valkyria Chronicles 4 (apparently, you didn't need to have played the first three, which, fine by you) and something called a Metroid that you hadn't even gotten a chance to try yet.

Lisa is currently in her fox girl look, which meant...she...was annoyingly hot. But she was also laying along the desk, her legs kicked up, her high heels sticking out over the edge of the cubical, so anyone walking past might see. You shove your switch onto the desk, frowning at her.

"I have a field set up," you say.

"A field," she says.

"Also, how can you even see me? I'm invisible," you say. It hadn't even been hard. You'd just made it so that light that hit you didn't bounce back to anyone's eyes.

"A million tiny details in the current of airflows, the changes in light refraction not counted by even your impressive mastery over the physical laws of the universe..." Lisa put her palms against the desk, lifting her lithe form up, her tail twitching in the air above her rump. She was wearing a skirt. You kept your eyes on her face, frowning at her. Cause you had a girlfriend now. Maybe. You weren't sure. Because you'd spent the last five days bouncing between here and Stonewall with only enough time to eat, sleep, and then hustle back in case some maniac took advantage of the time you were away to blow the whole thing up.

Also, maybe avoiding talking to anyone bout it.

That too.

Lisa smirked at you. "All of those details lead me right. To. You." She licked her lips. "So! What's this field you're talking about?"

You sighed. "It's like the bubble I set up around the rubble, back a few days ago? You saw that on the news, right?"

Lisa nods, laying on her side like...well, like a fox, her ear twitching up curiously as she watches you.

"Right. So, I just set up that field. But instead of being conditionally on for just everyone but me and, uh, Rachel and Andy, this is a time stop that doesn't come into effect until something happens that violates any laws of physics that I'm aware of." You smile. "So, if someone fires a dark energy laser beam into the place, or teleports in, or shapeshifts without my say so, then it goes off." You nod. "Now, uh, it clearly doesn't work when you're just being super-good at normal human stuff, since you're not breaking any laws of physics." You narrow your eyes. "As far as I'm aware of."

"I could break some laws of physics, if you want," Lisa said. "But okay, fair enough. Now! I happen to be aware of where Don Crawler is!"

"Where!" you sit up.

"Buuuuuuuuuuuut!" Lisa says, her ears perking up as she rolls onto her hands and knees, then swings herself around, so she's sitting up, allowing her to look down at you with a wicked grin. "You owe me something before I tell you."

"Lisa, this-"

"How was it?" she murmurs.

Your cheeks heat. "Uh, heh, what?"

"Come on." She says, rolling her eyes.

You look aside.

"...magical. But you can't tell anyone," you say.

"Of course! I'm not a philistine," she said, huffing, her ears perking up. THen she squeals and bounces, clapping her hands. "Ahhh! You and Rachel are so cute together, though! You're both so gruff and taciturn. Though, honey, you need to cut your hair."

"I know, but Rachel likes my hair long," you say, putting your hand to your hair. You prefer short hair and would have had short hair for weeks now, except that you've been so busy and, like...you don't know any barber you trust with the scissors.

"Eh, she can take it or leave it," Lisa said, with such confidence that your brow furrows.

"You...she said that?"

"She doesn't have too, Lils!" Lisa said.

"Don't call me that."

"Would you prefer...Singularity?" she asks, wiggling her fingers. "That was one of the possible names floating around."

You purse your lips. "No one has superhero names. That's for comics. This is real life."

"Except actually, yes, they do," Lisa says. "We still don't know the Progenitor's secret identity."

You frown.

"Anywho!" Lisa said. "To Stonewall?"

***
​

"I present to you, Don Crawler and his secret weapon!"

Lisa flicks her fingers and a set of polaroid photos sweep across the table, settling into perfect set of rows despite her casual hand motion. She smirks, smugly, as we all lean forward. The first photograph is...of...

Ugh.

There's been creepy, crawly monsters in movies, and there might always will be. And, you know, sometimes? Sometimes, the critters could look downright terrifying. Real, even. Andy said that the whizz bang stuff they were doing in the future made our best look like peanuts, but...like...even the best fakery was fake. This polaroid was real. It was something deep in my bones, looking at it, I knew this image was real. It was a small table with a few mafiosos sitting around it - there was Alphonso and Jack, you recognize them from the old days at the Stonewall, and there was...Don Crawler.

The first thing in your head was 'bug.' The second thing after that was 'goblin.' And the third thing was 'fucking ugh.' Imagine a chunk of cancerous flesh, full of tumors and bits of feathers that fluff out of the shoulders, buzzing wings, hardened carapace, too many arms and not enough legs, and with a face that's all misshapen and inhuman...and unmistakably Ned Smithson.

Because of course.

You feel guilt yank and twist at your stomach.

The other photos are pictures of two other mafiosos in question. One is clearly a metahuman because he's made of fucking glass. Like he's a walking human glass statue, and light refracts through his head in a disquieting way. He's in a nice suit with a fedora, and walking with Don Crawler through some corridor. Though, Don Crawler doesn't actually walk normally, he just flies through the air next to the glass guy. The second guy is...maybe not a metahuman, but you're pretty sure that the weaselly looking fuck had some powers, since why else would Lisa take a picture of him downing a bottle of champagne in some hotel room.

"So! We have our bad guys," Lisa says, pointing them out. "Don Crawler looks like a heavily mutated metahuman with the abilities to fly, superhuman strength, at least superhuman toughness though I'm not sure how much since someone didn't want me to fire antitank rounds at him for some reason." She rolls her eyes, dramatically. "Next, we have our old buddy ZIpperneck. Not sure how he got them, but he got them, and he has them and they're scary good. Flight, strength, toughness. The works." She nods. "Very...Fleischer, if you get my meaning." Seeing a few blank expressions, she draws a little S with her finger, right on her chest. "Jack...hmm, I'm not sure if Jack has powers but I diiiiiiiiiiid see him turn thin air into a bottle of 1901 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Romanee-Conti Grand Cru with gold filigree on the glass so it's possible he might also be a metahuman. It's a mystery for the ages!"

"Lisa," Sabah says, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Right, sorry," Lisa coughs, her ears twitching back. "Next, we have this guy." She taps the glass dude. "Original name Louis Brown, now he's going by Glasshead. He was infected by Zipperneck on Crawler's orders, and his powers are to control glass with his mind. He's learned how to vibrate it fast enough to make it molten, and then he kinda fires it in a beam."

"That's the one who blew up the building, then?" Andy asks.

"Nope," Lisa said. "He was infected after the building. Not sure which of them did that...which means it might be Don Crawler. If it's him, then add laser eyes to the list." She sighs. "But then we have this fella here." She taps the guy drinking wine. "He's a ferociously strong telepath - but he lacks range and he has to see you to use it. But if he can see you, WHAM!" She punches her palm with her fist. "I saw him literally explode a guy's head who didn't bring him his food fast enough."

"Jesus," you whisper.

"They're fucking supervillains," Brian says, shaking his head. "I can't believe this! They could literally do anything with their time!"

"Maladaptive behaviors combined with antisocial attitudes plus a lifetime of disempowerment meeting with godlike power doesn't always lead to happy places," Lisa says, shrugging. "What can I say? Anywho, Don Crawler-"

"Wait," you say. Everyone looks at you. "I can...we can all tell? That's fucking Ned?"

The others nod.

But Lisa?

Lisa shakes her head.

"Nah," she says. "He's not."

"What evidence do you have for that?" you ask.

"It's a hunch," she says, nodding, her arms crossed over her chest. "Not only does he just...not...talk like Ned, he's also way more of a psycho than Ned was. Ned was a dick. But he wasn't...this. And Ned was from a pretty nice middle class family - he had rich grandparents, and his parents...didn't...like beat him or anything." She shakes her head. "He might become a cocky dick, he might become a rude boor, but superpowers wouldn't make him go all Jarvis West." She clicks her tongue. "No, no, no, I think this Don Crawler is related to Ned somehow, but he isn't him. Also...he has a vault in his bedroom - which, I hasten to add, he does not sleep in, he doesn't need to sleep, it seems." She nods. "This vault is steel, and I couldn't get close enough to sneak in without risking my butt...but...a pretty regular cycle of food and water and girls went in and out of it."

"Girls?" Theo asks.

"Yeah. Pretty girls." Lisa says. "Wearing very little and definitely swimming in VD."

You frown. "So...Ned...is...being held captive by Don...Crawler?"

"But nicely," Andy says. Then his eyes widen. "Because he's a tier 4, like the rest of us. He has to be!" He stands up. "You must have infected him, Lilly, and now...maybe...Don Crawler is a projection that's out of his control?"

"Like if one of my muppets went crazy!" Sabah said.

You frown. "That's really fucked up, if that's true," you say.

"It's all conjecture," Lisa says. "But these are going to be the guys who try and grab the hundred mill, then split it up. So. What's the plan?"

---
Well? What is your Plan? You're facing not one metahuman...but FIVE. And at least two of them might be Tier 5s, while the other two could be Tier 3s or Tier 4s, you're not sure.
[ ] Write In Your Plan

CURRENT STATUS
Health: Fine
Willpower: 50 (a -1 per day for a minor Loyalty: Yourself. You'd really rather do anything but slouch around a building.)

Spoiler: Spoiler!

So, you have a 6x10 invisibility! Lisa has a 10x10 sense roll. It's just how things go.

Lisa makes a Elementary roll and gets her highest roll as an 8, giving her 6x8, which is more than enough to beat your 2x10 - while your lie is better than her deduction, her deduction is so fast that she just sees through you, even if your poker face goes up. Lisa is just...going to be insufferable in the future, isn't she? Also, I'm still going to use the "CHECK, ROLL, RESULT" format, but only for stuff where it really matters now that you guys all kinda know how the system works.)

CHECK: Lisa evaluates the information she gets back

ROLL: 7, 4, 3, 2, 1 - highest roll is 7, wiggle dice become 7s.

RESULT: 6x7 - a good approximation.

 

[samdamandias]

We gotta bust open the vault.

And we don't want Andy on the front lines, for sure.

 

[Parzival95]

Ok, five supervillains is gonna pretty quickly turn this into open combat on the streets of New York. And Lisa's power is intentionally not perfectly reliable (thank me for that, I know you all appreciate it!), we're gonna need to get the puppets together for this and NYPD support.

How much is Andy capable of for quick gadgeteering before the operation? I'm thinking either basic armored costumes or some kind of stunner weapons for the team.

I'm thinking we need puppets to support us and try to work with the NYPD for crowd control and maintaining a perimeter. The dogs as close air support, basically gunships circling the aoe, with with non front line combatants riding, maybe with aforementioned stun weapons.

 

[DragonCobolt]

We gotta bust open the vault.

And we don't want Andy on the front lines, for sure.

Click to shrink...

Oh, right, some information that Lisa knows and would offer

1) The mafia family is heavily depopulated cause a bunch of them have left in protest due to the changes or been arrested, she estimates they only have 20-30 hitters that they can call in.

2) Crawler's base of operations is in a mafia owned hotel in Brooklyn. He doesn't leave, since he's really hard to disguise. Glasshead never leads either, but Zipperneck, Grimes and The Telepath leave. If you ask the Telepath's name, Lisa admits she doesn't know and thinks it might be a pervasive telepathic defense he has (you can't name him or remember him easily. In fact, you find it hard to remember his face unless you're looking at the photograph.)

3) They don't have any more M16s, just their regular arms and armerment. The M16s were stolen from a fort by Don Crawler, and that was all they had, and they're all in police custody now.

How much is Andy capable of for quick gadgeteering before the operation? I'm thinking either basic armored costumes or some kind of stunner weapons for the team.

Click to shrink...

He can make ONE gadget by cramming in the 24 hours before they blow up the freaking Empire State Building (I erroneously said by the 11th in the radio broadcast, I meant by the 18th, which is tomorrow!)

 

[Parzival95]

He can make ONE gadget by cramming in the 24 hours before they blow up the freaking Empire State Building (I erroneously said by the 11th in the radio broadcast, I meant by the 18th, which is tomorrow!)

Click to shrink...

Quality wise, how good an armored costume could he make as opposed to some kind of stun/stasis weapon for Lisa?

I'm leaning towards the weapon because Lisa is otherwise unarmed and she has that great shooting power, and we have some healing and defense. It's probably harder to make though.

 

[DragonCobolt]

Quality wise, how good an armored costume could he make as opposed to some kind of stun/stasis weapon for Lisa?

Click to shrink...

Well, if he just makes armor that's just "light weight armor", he can make a Endless (+3), Interference (+3), Armored Defense (-2), Foci (-1) for 3 WP per die and then just put his 5hd into it and now, you have a wearable suit of armor that just...acts like tank armor. It's on par with an M1 Abrams from the future. Total Cost: 18 WP!

If you're willing to throw the 5wd in too, that's another 60 WP (for a total of 78) but in exchange, you have a perfectly light weight, perfectly comfortable suit of armor that is on par with being wrapped in like...five inches of steel?

Oh wait, no, I apologize.

0.5 inches of steel is 1 hard armor. But due to the way hard armor works (by eating dice), the actual thickness increases VASTLY with each layer of hard armor. 4 HAR is 4 inches, but 7 HAR is 10 inches of concrete, and the HOOVER FUCKING DAMN HAS 8!?

A neutron star has 10 levels of hard armor! However, that is hardened (which means it cannot be penetrated with penetrating attacks!)

"Hey, Dragon, I wanna make neutronium armor!"

Well, that would cost +2 WP for the Hardened Armor extra. That costs ya 50 WP for the hard dice and 100 WP for the wiggle dice, but it does mean you're now in light, comfortable NEUTRONIUM FUCKING ARMOR.

 

[ThatGazzer]

Okay! so I wonder if we pull this off just right, could we turn Ned to the side of the gays?

Like, if he has his cannon powers, then keeping him happy and fed in a vault basically means his only adaption right now is an Immunity to STDs