PROGENITOR: WORM (A Wormquest AU)

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



THE CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE STONEWALL NINE

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

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

Spoiler: Lily's Stats

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

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

BODY​	CORD.​	SENSE​	MIND​	CHARM​	COMMAND​
1d+1wd​	6d​	3d​	3d​	2d​	2d​

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

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

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

ARCHETYPE: METAHUMAN
Source: Unknown | Permission: Super
Intrinsics:

Immutable: Barring superhuman assistance, gadgets, or something wildly unexpected, Lily's powers will not change or improve.​

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Infectious: Lily is either a strong, stable or weak vector (she doesn't know which.) If she's strong, she has a 100% infection rate until she reaches power equilibrium. If she's stable, she has an 80% shot (the joy of being a Tier 3.) If she's weak, she's got a 10% shot. Infection passes when she uses her powers on anything sentient.​

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POWERS

Not So Little Anymore...
Dice: 1wd

Hyperbody (+4), No Physics (+1), Booster [2] (+2), If/Then [Must Be Wearing Clothes Over The Parts Used] (-1), Obvious (-1)​

Cost per Die: 5 | Total Cost: 20​

By adjusting, in minute and gross ways, the physical properties of either what she carries and her own clothing, Lily effectively has her very own suit of strength enhancing exoskeletal structures. This imparts incredibly precise control to her blows, her athleticism, and her jumping. This isn't a subtle effect - her body emits strange flashes and odd noises as air and light interacts unpredictably with her physics alterations.

Fast as a Thought
Dice: 4d

Hypercoordination (+4), No Physics (+1), Go First [2] (+2), If/Then [Must Be Wearing Clothes Over The Parts Used] (-1), Obvious (-1)​

Cost per Die: 5 | Total Cost: 20​

Just like with her body, but this covers her reflexes as well. She can dodge bullets! ...not that she HAS too. The flashing and eerie hissing makes stealth hard, so she prefers to turn it off when she's sneaking anywhere.

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

Everything is a Gun
Dice: 8d+1wd
Range: 2,560 Yards | Mass: Knockback = Base Damage + 6 meters | Base Damage: Width in Shock & Killing

Attack (+2), Area [1d] (+1) Spray [1d) (+1), Heightened Capacity [Mass] (+1), Penetration [2] (+2), Power Capacity [Mass] (+2), Speeding Bullet (+2), If/Then [Must Touch an Object] (-1), Obvious (-1)​

Cost Per Die: 9 | Total Cost: 108​

By touching an object (any object, really) and canceling their mass and lateral motion relative to the planet Earth, she can turn anything, from an apple to a doorknob to a manhole cover into a projectile. By touching a lot of objects (I.E, using spray), she can hit as many times as she gets sets. By making sure to touch relatively fragile objects and creating deliberate fracture points, she turns the weapon into a kind of kinetic shotgun (using Area.) People hit by this tend to go flying (using the Power Capacity [Mass]), but she can just use narrow blades if she just wants to do the slicing and slashing. The only problem is if she can't touch things with her skin (it has to be a skin to skin contact) it won't work. Oh. Also, the sonic booms.

No
Dice: 10hd
Range: 512 yards

Defends (+2), Power Capacity [Range] (+2), Spray (+1), Obvious (-1), Limited Capacity (-1), If/Then [Must have a Medium to Manipulate] (-1)​

Cost Per Die: 3 | Total Cost: 40​

By glaring at the air around her, she can render it impenetrable to whatever is coming her way. Maybe the air molecules suddenly lose the ability to move at all and become an impenetrable wall that simply bounces a kinetic projectile off, or negating an explosive's ability to undergo chemical interactions that lead to detonations, or making the air molecules ahead of her simply non-conductive to whatever energy blast is heading her way. This is not subtle - producing bright flashes, loud booms, and strange changes in local atmospheric conditions as the interactions become chaotic beyond the immediate radius. The maximum number of people or places she can protect at once is five people, but the more people she tries to protect, the less effective the defense is. It's literally impenetrable when she's just protecting one person, but if she's protecting five at once, a fast shot or lucky hit might get through.

Physical Fuckery
Dice: 5wd

Range: N/A | Mass: N/A | Speed: N/A​

Attacks (+2), Endless (+3), Variable Effect (+4), If/Then [For Variable Effect] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Must Be Related to Repressing a Physical Law] (-1), Locational [Head, R. Arm, L. Arm, Body, R. Leg, L. Leg] (-6)​

Defends (+2), Endless (+3), Variable Effect (+4), If/Then [For Variable Effect] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Must Be Related to Repressing a Physical Law] (-1), Locational [Head, R. Arm, L. Arm, Body, R. Leg, L. Leg] (-6)​

Useful (+2), Endless (+3), Variable Effect (+4), If/Then [For Variable Effect] (-1), If/Then [Variable Effect Must Be Related to Repressing a Physical Law] (-1), Locational [Head, R. Arm, L. Arm, Body, R. Leg, L. Leg] (-6)​

Cost Per Die: 6 | Total Cost: 120​

Whenever she puts her mind to it, Lily can do something. If it can be done by suppressing a physical property or law, she can do it. Needless to say, once she realizes how her power works, she starts studying the hell of out physics. This is really easy, thanks to her intuitive understanding of physics. However, this power requires her to be able to use every SINGLE iota of her body's contact with the surrounding universe. If she has taken any trauma to any part of her body, then these powers short out. If she gets a chance to refocus, she can reestablish her control...unless the body part in question is too damaged to be used (I.E, filled with any combination of shock or killing damage.) In which case, she simply cannot tap into this ability to manipulate the universe. She simply lacks the holistic connection to the universe.

Seriously, Though, everything?
Dice: 1d
Range: Self Only

Attacks (+2), Attack Quality [10] (+10), Augment (+4), Area [10d] (+10), Booster [10] (+10), Burning (+2), Engulf (+2), Penetration [10] (+10), Radius [5] (+10), If/Then [Augment Only] (-1), If/Then [Cannot Spend Use Augment for anything but "Everything Is a Gun"] (-1), If/Then [Must Be Manipulating Matter On A Scale Permitting The Impacts She Wishes] (-1), Self Only (-3)​

Cost Per Die: 54 | Total Cost: 54​

Hey, what if she touches a mountain face and she negates its inertia and lateral motion for a flash of a second and turns Everest into a five kilometer high rock shotgun? Well, uh...take your pick! Add all of the above! If she uses a chemical tanker, it might explode. If she uproots an oil derrick, it will set things on fire. Anything justifiable in the scene, she can do it. She will have to spend a willpower point to do this. Oh, and be willing to accept the consequences.

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

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Andy Richter, Time Thief and Genius Gadgeteer

Spoiler: Powers

Andy's Powers

ANDY HAS 11 BASE WILL.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He's a driven, focused guy.

Sabah Attar, Girl Who's Under Your Skin

Spoiler: Powers

SABAH HAS 8 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lisa Wilbourn, Nose Who Knows

Spoiler: Powers

LISA HAS 12 BASE WILL

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

Lisa becomes a fox girl!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Theo Anders, Arm of the Resistance

Spoiler: Powers

THEO HAS 7 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

Rachel Lindt, Houndmistress Extraordinaire

Spoiler: Powers

RACHEL HAS 9 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

Cause they're dogs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marsha P. Johnson, The Queen of Stonewall

Spoiler: Powers

MARSHA HAS 11 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tori Heflin, The Telekinetic Smuggler

Spoiler: Powers

TORI HAS 8 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brian Laborn, The Power in Obscurity

Spoiler: Powers

BRIAN HAS 7 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brian's Library

Spoiler: List

• Every Single Power From the Stonewall Nine
• THE EYEBALL POWER SUITE (note, as this is multiple powers, it would take Brian a total of 5 rounds and 81 WP to make one permanent eye with each of these powers. However, he doesn't need to make an eye with every part. He can just have an eyeball that flies for 18, or an eyeball that can access the Eyeball Zone for 18 WP (18 to make it, 0 to make the Zone) Fortunately, due to Permanence, each of these WP expenditures does last forever. Or, uh...until the eyeball is squished...

Eye Eye, Sir!
Dice: 1d+2wd
Defends [Evasion] (+0)
Useful [Exists] (+0), Permanent (+4), Touch Only (-2)
Points Per Die: 2 | Cost: 18

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Formatting his power this way does let Brian dodge better.

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

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

Spoiler: Yiggy - Team HQ

GADGET ONE: The Gaia Engine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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GADGEETING RULES FOR GADGETEERS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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HOW TO INFLUENCE PEOPLE WITH YOUR INFLUENCE SKILLS

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

Spoiler: The Big Old Table from the Kerberos Club Book

 

[Parzival95]

But to help speed things along: If you ever ask "Can Lily do X?" and X involves using physics fuckery? The answer is ALWAYS YES! The trickiness is how much willpower it costs and if someone else can beat you.

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How much willpower would it cost to teleport via opening wormholes, or to do Star Trek style FTL by warping space? Massive amounts I imagine.

I presume it would cost even more for Marsha to do with plants? Like… a warp gate formed in the shape of a laurel wreath grown from a tree.

And finally, would studying such examples help Andy make similar devices beyond their ability to provide exotic materials?

 

[CyberFemme]

[X] Plan You Come Into MY House?!
-[X] Recall Tori and Marsha to New York at best possible speed, but make sure they aren't seen arriving.
-[X] Marsha will format her power into the Crown of Thorns - a power nullifier 'gadget' specific to this situation.
-[X] Theo will use his hands to get some WiFi webcams that Andy provides through the air vents so they have eyes on every target and minions they've got around.
-[X] Andy build Lisa a stunner?
-[X] Alpha Team: Lily, Sabah, Tori, Brian, Lisa, Marsha. All mounted on embigenned dogs and made invisible by Tori. They will aproach the hotel from the air while invisible and use their powers through the exterior windows of each penthouse.
--[X] Going Cold: At first the team will attempt to pick off opponents one by one without being noticed, going in this order: Telepath, Glasshead, Jack, Zipperneck, Crawler. The following should take place simultaneously:
---[X] Lily will create a dead zone that absorbs sound, light (leaving a transparent area for them to see into it), and any attacks coming from inside a penthouse room. She will also create a pocket between the sound and light absorbent layer and the damage absorbent layer that the women these guys have over can be pulled into for safety.
---[X] Tori will telekinetically grab hold of and immobilize the target, lifting them into the air so they can't get any leverage, as well as pull the women they have staying with them away from them and into a corner by the window.
---[X] Sabah will take control over matter in the room and use it to shroud her opponents, covering up their eyes, nose, ears, and constricting their movement like a straightjacket with the aim to disorient and immobilize in space (stop them from flying away).
---[X] Marsha will manifest the Crown of Thorns on their head and keep it going.
---[X] Via Webcam, Theo will generate interlocking networks of hands from the air and the material smothering their opponent and use them to hold him in place and immobilized - he's not going to be especially tender either, with lots of groin and throat punches, fingers up noses, clapped ears, fingers in eyes, etc. He's also going to get some arms to hold still the women in the sound dampened pockets so they don't go running into danger. Create flexible chains of hands anchored to structural members if need be to help Sabah keep them from flying away.
---[X] Brain will generate his gruecloud around the target - enough for the effect to take hold and start sapping their dice and applying shock but not so much that they're completely obscured (their teammates need line of sight).
---[X] Lisa will keep hitting the target with stunner blasts until they go down. She'll zap the prostitutes as well after finishing with each gangster (sorry!).
----[X] Special considerations: The telepath is to be hoisted into the air such that he's facing away from the window and his eyes covered ASAP. Do this for all of them actually, line of sight powers are very common.
--[X] Going Hot: There will inevitably come a point where the stealthy approach fails. At that point the mob will realize they're under attack, and that's when the Charlie team will go in laser eyes blazing.
---[X] The dogs will go for the metas, while the tactical muppets will clean up the minions. The goal is to generate chaos and give the metas a target so they don't realize they're actually being hunted by invisible supers.
---[X] Alpha team will remain invisible and continue to focus on one target at a time, though Theo should pay some attention to get arms on all the Metas as well to trip them up and get in their way. Lily will reformat her power to generate time freezes against their opponents, or she can use No to contain collateral damage, or attack directly - best judgment here.
-[X] Bravo Team: Andy, Theo, and Rachel will remain at the command post a block or two away and monitor the situation via webcam and coordinate as needed. Theo will control his arms remotely from here allowing him to focus on more than one thing at a time if Alpha has to go hot. Rachel is on standby for healing. A spare dog will be left here alongside a guard detail of Tactical Muppets to secure our rear echelon.
-[X] Charlie Team: Tactical Muppets will attach themselves to Rachel's leftover embigenned dogs and wait with the command post. When Alpha team goes hot, they go in with maximum prejudice via doggy dropship through the windows to scatter the goons while the doggys go help with the metas.
-[X] The Po-Po's: Inform Pine (ugh) of the hostiles status and suspected abilities, five supervillains is likely to require a major operation. Ask him to equip his men for crowd control and evacuation, forming a perimeter around the target. Recommend that his men do not otherwise engage, they're only human. Have him get the force ready as a 'just in case measure' and not inform them of the operation until its about to start in case he's got a leak in his staff.
-[X] Cut the phone lines to the Hotel once the cops start mobilizing in case Pine's got leaks in his department, so that they can't warn the mob.
-[X] The operation is set to go off around 3:00 AM in the morning, when the gangsters are mostly sleeping or dead tired.

Lisa's Armor Piercing Question

Tag	Points	Description
2 HD	2	Always hits the head.
Attack Levels	2	Now does 4 shock damage.
Manufacturable	2	Andy's flaw!
Non-Physical	2	Works on super tough people!
Subtle	1	Hard to notice.
Focus	-1	It's external to the character.
Accessible	-1	Can be taken away.
Immutable	-1	Can't be changed.
Limited Damage	-1	Only does 2 shock damage at a base level.
Delicate	-1	Needs exotic matter (Lily has to aid in making it).
Total	3 (4 WP)	Costs 4 WP to make!

This sucker fires silent, invisible beams of dark energy that disrupt consciousness directly! Too bad it's based on metaphysical materials that only Lily can produce.

Marsha's Crown of Thorns
Power Nullify 2HD
Duration (+2)
If/Then (-2) Brooklyn Only, At Night Only

Thorny rose stems with delicate blue buds are wind into a circlet around the head of a metahuman in Brooklyn at night, as long as Marsha can maintain her focus, their powers will be nullified for a few minutes. While in operation, its roses bloom and glow with an inner light.

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Question: What happens to someone once they've been stunned into unconsciousness? How soon can they be expected to recover?
How much WP does Marsha have? Can she make the Crown of Thorns and have enough left over to even use it?

Hit me with feedback folks.

 

[Parzival95]

I don't think Andy can do both the web cams and the stunner, unless he's literally just stealing them from the future, except he'd also have to set up wi-fi in the area and also provide a power source since they're meant to connect to computers.

Similarly, depends on how Marsha's format works. I don't think any kind of stealth would hide them from the telepath… he's a telepath. Invisibility doesn't mean anything to him. Similarly, they'd get to resist it. We don't know glassmans powers and the telepath probably isn't a physical powerhouse, but Zipperneck will definitely need us to go hot. I'm not sure Rachel has enough dogs for everyone to ride and puppets too.

I'm working on another variation of my own plan now. It's a pain in the ass trying to figure out the rules on the pdf on my phone I tell you.

 

[CyberFemme]

I don't think Andy can do both the web cams and the stunner, unless he's literally just stealing them from the future, except he'd also have to set up wi-fi in the area and also provide a power source since they're meant to connect to computers.

Similarly, depends on how Marsha's format works. I don't think any kind of stealth would hide them from the telepath… he's a telepath. Invisibility doesn't mean anything to him. Similarly, they'd get to resist it. We don't know glassmans powers and the telepath probably isn't a physical powerhouse, but Zipperneck will definitely need us to go hot. I'm not sure Rachel has enough dogs for everyone to ride and puppets too.

I'm working on another variation of my own plan now. It's a pain in the ass trying to figure out the rules on the pdf on my phone I tell you.

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I was hoping the webcams are just something Andy can pull from the future - maybe just get a bunch of phones and stream video from them.

The telepath seems to need line of sight according to Lisa, and we're going to hit him while he's asleep, hopefully nullifying his power too before he can try to hit us.

Yeah, I've put Glassman and the Telepath first because I give them good odds of going down quiet - through it's a gamble with Glassman.
Zipperneck depends entirely on the dice - the the power nullifier rolls well, then he goes down like a chump, if not, we're gonna have a fun time.

Dogs wise, we'd need to ask DC.

 

[DragonCobolt]

Lisa's Armor Piercing Question

Tag	Points	Description
2 HD	2	Always hits the head.
Attack Levels	2	Now does 4 shock damage.
Non-Physical	2	Works on super tough people!
Subtle	1	Hard to notice.
Focus	-1	It's external to the character.
Accessible	-1	Can be taken away.
Immutable	-1	Can't be changed.
Limited Damage	-1	Only does 2 shock damage at a base level.
Environment Bound	-2	Needs exotic matter (Lily has to aid in making it). Usable only by Lisa (Powered by her DE field)
Total	1 (4 WP)	Costs 4 WP to make!

This sucker fires silent, invisible beams of dark energy that disrupt consciousness directly! Too bad it's based on metaphysical materials that only Lily can produce and relies on a metahuman's dark energy for power (they had to rush when building it, so it actually only functions for Lisa's specific dark energy field)


Marsha's Crown of Thorns

Tag	Points	Description
Nullify 2HD	16	Makes power stop working.
Useful	2	It's a handy thing to have.
Duration	2	Lasts a few minutes.
Touch Only	-2	It goes on the bad man's head.
Focus	-1	It's external to the character.
Accessible	-1	Can be taken away.
Immutable	-1	Can't be changed.
Environment Bound	-1	Brooklyn
Location	-1	If Marsha gets boinked in the head, this stops working.
If/Then	-1	Only works at night.
Obvious	-1	Glows when in use.
Total	11 (48 WP ???)	Costs 4 WP to make!

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Aight, so!

Environmental Bound isn't really right for what you want for the APQ, you want an If/Then. As in If/Then [Requires Exotic Matter Producible by Lilly] (-1), then to make it Lisa only, that's Friends Only (+2), since it's a strength. Total Cost would then be 2 WP per die, and actually, it will be 4 WP per die because we all forgot for a bit: Andy's gadgteering has a flaw that means all foci have to have manufacturable!!!!

So, with 4 WP as a base cost, that's 8+8 for 16 WP in total!

NEXT!

Marsha's Crown of Thorns doesn't need to be built as a Foci, because she's not a gadgeteer. She can just make a Duration (+2), Touch Only (-2) power that lets her touch your head and grow a crown of thorns that makes your powers go away. Total Cost: 0 WP!

The cost for triggering Nullification comes when you use it because of this rule!



So! Marsha would have her power formatted, then to actually use it, she'd pay 13 WP to use it, because her dice pool is 9d+1wd!

 

[CyberFemme]

Aight, so!

Environmental Bound isn't really right for what you want for the APQ, you want an If/Then. As in If/Then [Requires Exotic Matter Producible by Lilly] (-1), then to make it Lisa only, that's Friends Only (+2), since it's a strength. Total Cost would then be 2 WP per die, and actually, it will be 4 WP per die because we all forgot for a bit: Andy's gadgteering has a flaw that means all foci have to have manufacturable!!!!

So, with 4 WP as a base cost, that's 8+8 for 16 WP in total!

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Waaaaaiittt. Does that mean that everything he makes comes with a base will cost?

May as well drop the Friends Only thing then, if it adds points.

NEXT!

Marsha's Crown of Thorns doesn't need to be built as a Foci, because she's not a gadgeteer. She can just make a Duration (+2), Touch Only (-2) power that lets her touch your head and grow a crown of thorns that makes your powers go away. Total Cost: 0 WP!

The cost for triggering Nullification comes when you use it because of this rule!



So! Marsha would have her power formatted, then to actually use it, she'd pay 13 WP to use it, because her dice pool is 9d+1wd!

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Would it be possible to omit Touch Only in favour of two If/Thens? Such as restricting it to Brooklyn, at Night?

 

[DragonCobolt]

How much willpower would it cost to teleport via opening wormholes, or to do Star Trek style FTL by warping space? Massive amounts I imagine.

I presume it would cost even more for Marsha to do with plants? Like… a warp gate formed in the shape of a laurel wreath grown from a tree.

And finally, would studying such examples help Andy make similar devices beyond their ability to provide exotic materials?

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For Lily? It'd take 8 WP per booster (since she's using two wiggle dice from her physics fuckery power) until you hit the range you want.

For Marsha? I'd...disallow her from making warp gates. It's just a bit beyond a planty wheelhouse. Even magical plants!

And it would help Andy, narratively and thematically, to do that! Mechanically what would be happening is that Lily and Marsha would be using their powers as skill checks to give him Willpower, that he then spends. The exchange of willpower is a really neat part of Wild Talents, because this also is how you train other people in skills, because you can spend willpower like XP by burning a point of base will during an intense moment! ...note: Spending willpower like XP is not a great idea in Progenitor, because normally, you'd blow your base will then spend, like, 60 WP to improve a power. But your powers are all immutable, so it's not really worth it.

 

[DragonCobolt]

Waaaaaiittt. Does that mean that everything he makes comes with a base will cost?

May as well drop the Friends Only thing then, if it adds points.

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Oh! No! No! No! That's ONLY if he then makes it available. The base will cost represents him figuring out how to explain this shit to baselines and setting up manufacturing industries that can produce it. Just because an item has Manufacturable doesn't mean you need to then take advantage of it!

Would it be possible to omit Touch Only in favour of two If/Thens? Such as restricting it to Brooklyn, at Night?

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And yes! That would 100% work!

 

[CyberFemme]

Oh! No! No! No! That's ONLY if he then makes it available. The base will cost represents him figuring out how to explain this shit to baselines and setting up manufacturing industries that can produce it. Just because an item has Manufacturable doesn't mean you need to then take advantage of it!



And yes! That would 100% work!

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Can Andy make both the rifle and the webcams/streaming phones for Theo? I'd assumed the later were freebies yoinked from the future, but I'd like to check.

 

[DragonCobolt]

Can Andy make both the rifle and the webcams/streaming phones for Theo? I'd assumed the later were freebies yoinked from the future, but I'd like to check.

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I will allow him yoinking it and a wifi router!

 

[CyberFemme]

Ok, I've added Marsha to Alpha team so she can deploy Crown of Thorns as a ranged abiloty, and I've switched Jack and Zipperneck in the targeting order because I feel better about hitting Jack with a ranged version of de-powering. Hopefully that should preserve the element of surprise longer.

 

[Parzival95]

Would it be possible to omit Touch Only in favour of two If/Thens? Such as restricting it to Brooklyn, at Night?

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This is darkly funny in the sense that, in true Worm fashion, we're accepting that as soon as we walk away these guys are breaking out of custody. There's not even much we could reasonably do about it, we can't permanently take their powers away (without getting nuked), we don't presently have the capability of a making a Birdcage (not that we'd be enthused to help the cops like that.)

So we come for the glory and then let the cops take the blame for the revolving door.

 

[CyberFemme]

This is darkly funny in the sense that, in true Worm fashion, we're accepting that as soon as we walk away these guys are breaking out of custody. There's not even much we could reasonably do about it, we can't permanently take their powers away (without getting nuked), we don't presently have the capability of a making a Birdcage (not that we'd be enthused to help the cops like that.)

So we come for the glory and then let the cops take the blame for the revolving door.

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Not necessarily! I would love to take all these guys out of circulation indefinetly and I think we could do it?

Stasis Sustainer: Usefull (+2), Manufacturable (+2), Permanent (4), Focus (-1), Delayed Effect (-2), Obvious (-1), Bulky (-1), Immutable (-1), If/Then (-1) [Requires external power supply]
Total 2 points, so 4 WP to build per sustainer.

Have Lily stop time for them and put them in a Stasis Sustainer.

Edit: Alternatively, we can use a different set of If/Thens? Maybe a verbal declaration for triggering it?

 

[The-Chained-One]

we could perhaps just put them in artifical comas or something, cause like, it'd be stupid as hell to just let a metahuman able to do what they can do, just roam free as if they couldn't explode someones head with a thought.

 

[Parzival95]

Oh! No! No! No! That's ONLY if he then makes it available. The base will cost represents him figuring out how to explain this shit to baselines and setting up manufacturing industries that can produce it. Just because an item has Manufacturable doesn't mean you need to then take advantage of it!

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Do we need to wait until downtime to make it available? I mean if it's already manufacturable, he's what, made the sobvocal comm collars and now a stunner in this issue? We might not want to, since those are probably W+1… well the collar that lets you talk to people without talking might be sold to civilians and the stunner is theoretically for police, but they'd totally get gobbled by the military. Could we make both available at once come downtime?

I don't want to help the military in Vietnam, and I certainly don't want to antagonize Cam by providing military techs to her enemy, but the question stands.

Also, while we could theoretically manufacture stasis tech to put supervillains under, but I'm pretty sure that's not gonna fly with courts. These guys still have rights, and the legal system is far from the point in Worm where they just try villains in absentia and mark them for death. Which is theoretically good, but as soon as they wake up Zipperneck for his day in court they've lost him. I think that actually happened in canon even.

 

[10ebbor10]

One could also try solutions other than a death penalty. (And being frozen in time indefinitively is equivalent to that )

 

[CyberFemme]

Do we need to wait until downtime to make it available? I mean if it's already manufacturable, he's what, made the sobvocal comm collars and now a stunner in this issue? We might not want to, since those are probably W+1… well the collar that lets you talk to people without talking might be sold to civilians and the stunner is theoretically for police, but they'd totally get gobbled by the military. Could we make both available at once come downtime?

I don't want to help the military in Vietnam, and I certainly don't want to antagonize Cam by providing military techs to her enemy, but the question stands.

Also, while we could theoretically manufacture stasis tech to put supervillains under, but I'm pretty sure that's not gonna fly with courts. These guys still have rights, and the legal system is far from the point in Worm where they just try villains in absentia and mark them for death. Which is theoretically good, but as soon as they wake up Zipperneck for his day in court they've lost him. I think that actually happened in canon even.

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I'd really rather not provide the cops with another tool to brutalize people with, or the military. The stunners I think should stay internal to us.

I mean, between Lily and Marsha's powers, we should be able to come up with the WP to do Power Nulification and Nulradication? Or we could actually be there suppressing their powers while they're having their day in court and THEN we can put them on ice.

 

[Parzival95]

As much as I would like to just remove their powers, it would totally make us enemy #1 in the meta community, we don't need that kind of heat. I guess personally suppressing their powers while awake would have to do if it comes to it, though I don't think it'll be anything like that clean.

Also, does this plan require stealthily going from window to window breaking in to pick them off? We can't ride the dogs in the hotel, it'd even be unwieldy for Tori to try to carry us inside the halls. And they're livable to have women with them in some of their rooms as well.

But it could work, or at least get us the telepath. I think you lost the X talking about the puppet commandos though, unless I just missed it.

I don't really want to give the cops weapons either but if it's ST stunners or guns, well, they're gonna shoot people anyway. Maybe after the war.

 

[CyberFemme]

As much as I would like to just remove their powers, it would totally make us enemy #1 in the meta community, we don't need that kind of heat. I guess personally suppressing their powers while awake would have to do if it comes to it, though I don't think it'll be anything like that clean.

Also, does this plan require stealthily going from window to window breaking in to pick them off? We can't ride the dogs in the hotel, it'd even be unwieldy for Tori to try to carry us inside the halls. And they're livable to have women with them in some of their rooms as well.

But it could work, or at least get us the telepath. I think you lost the X talking about the puppet commandos though, unless I just missed it.

I don't really want to give the cops weapons either but if it's ST stunners or guns, well, they're gonna shoot people anyway. Maybe after the war.

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Yeah, we'll be flying around the outside peeking in through their windows. If they have curtains drawn, Theo can use little arms to pull them back from the inside.
If they have women in there with them, then we'll have to make sure to pull them away from the gangsters as we start the attack - it would mean we'll have to be careful and try to keep them out of the line of fire of the goons. Pull them towards the windows? @DragonCobolt, do any of the gangsters make a habit of having women overnight?

I think that if the cops want our stunners, then they have to give up something in return. Something like a big chunk of their budget, which we can then divert to community policing initiatives and economic revitalization through our corporate units.

 

[DragonCobolt]

There actually is a timeline!

It takes ONE MONTH per base will to, and I quote, "drafting plans, building computer simulations and instructing engineers and scientists"

And yeah, a few do every night have ladies stop by!

 

[CyberFemme]

There actually is a timeline!

It takes ONE MONTH per base will to, and I quote, "drafting plans, building computer simulations and instructing engineers and scientists"

And yeah, a few do every night have ladies stop by!

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To be clear - they stay the night? If so, which gangsters make a habit of it?

 

[DragonCobolt]

To be clear - they stay the night? If so, which gangsters make a habit of it?

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Yup! And I'd say the Telepath always, Glasshead sometimes (every few days, rather than nightly), Zipperneck sometimes goes for two at a time, and the underlings get their babes a lot less often. They're less spoiled, see.

 

[Parzival95]

I think that if the cops want our stunners, then they have to give up something in return. Something like a big chunk of their budget, which we can then divert to community policing initiatives and economic revitalization through our corporate units.

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Unfortunately Andy would be dealing with cops on a state by state basis, and probably even lower then that, since America lacks unified national police, and no, the FBI don't count. And we really shouldn't do it during wartime, because it'd get eaten by the military. We probably couldn't even patent it and release the information without getting slapped top secret.

There actually is a timeline!

It takes ONE MONTH per base will to, and I quote, "drafting plans, building computer simulations and instructing engineers and scientists"

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So we could do both over a single downtime? But if we wanted to develop something new it'd take up the whole downtime? Am I right in thinking subvox and stunners count for W, or at least W and T? I mean if it's spoiler I get it, I'm just gonna assume it's W to be safe.

Anyway, I'm starting to think we should go whole hog on advanced robotic automaton this downtime and then sell it widely. Get Tessa a body to interact with the world, but for mass production I want to say we try to walk the tightrope between having a supervisor be able to manage a group of bots for uncreative labor (no general AI), and not having the bot be militarily useful.

 

[DragonCobolt]

Well, it depends on the length of the timeline! You might have a whole year where you're free to do as you will and I get to do...

🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺VINGETTES!!!!!!!!🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺

 

[CyberFemme]

Yup! And I'd say the Telepath always, Glasshead sometimes (every few days, rather than nightly), Zipperneck sometimes goes for two at a time, and the underlings get their babes a lot less often. They're less spoiled, see.

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Okie dokie! Added actions to address that.

Unfortunately Andy would be dealing with cops on a state by state basis, and probably even lower then that, since America lacks unified national police, and no, the FBI don't count. And we really shouldn't do it during wartime, because it'd get eaten by the military. We probably couldn't even patent it and release the information without getting slapped top secret.


So we could do both over a single downtime? But if we wanted to develop something new it'd take up the whole downtime? Am I right in thinking subvox and stunners count for W, or at least W and T? I mean if it's spoiler I get it, I'm just gonna assume it's W to be safe.

Anyway, I'm starting to think we should go whole hog on advanced robotic automaton this downtime and then sell it widely. Get Tessa a body to interact with the world, but for mass production I want to say we try to walk the tightrope between having a supervisor be able to manage a group of bots for uncreative labor (no general AI), and not having the bot be militarily useful.

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*shakes head*

The cost/benefit for robotics isn't quite there. We'll need to get there eventually, but we first need to set up microchip manufacturing.

I think we need to think carefully about what techs we can release that will have the biggest impact for the resources invested.

I would say:
Ambrosia Serum (Health)
Modular Atomic Reactor System (Energy)
Arcology Design & Construction (Housing)
Adaptive Agroecosystem (Food)
Educational Memetics (Learning)

These big five are the most immediately game changing: they harden and distribute infrastructure while reducing or eliminating material scarcity in the core categories affecting most people. We can get through them in 5 months given an aggressive development program and allow them to percolate through society in the background afterwards.

After that we can start laying the groundwork for the Information Age:

7nm Silicon Microchip (Orbital Manufacture)
HerOS (Open source operating system for home PCs and servers, thing Linux but tubo boosted with functionality by Andy)
OpenWeb 1.0 (This will actually let all those computers talk to each other, over DSL, but still)
Bulk Carbon Allotropes (This will let us build graphene flywheel energy storage, which is IMO the holy grail of batteries in terms of combined energy density and reusability)
Com (The smartphone)

After that we can do Universal Industrial Robots - basically humanoid upper bodies that can be taught to do repetitive tasks. They're simply not yet necessary.

Well, it depends on the length of the timeline! You might have a whole year where you're free to do as you will and I get to do...

🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺VINGETTES!!!!!!!!🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺

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