PROGENITOR: WORM (A Wormquest AU)

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




THE CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE STONEWALL NINE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No

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

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

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

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

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

ANDY HAS 11 BASE WILL.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

He's a driven, focused guy.


Sabah Attar, Girl Who's Under Your Skin

SABAH HAS 8 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Lisa Wilbourn, Nose Who Knows

LISA HAS 12 BASE WILL

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

Lisa becomes a fox girl!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Theo Anders, Arm of the Resistance

THEO HAS 7 BASE WILL

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

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

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


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

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

Rachel Lindt, Houndmistress Extraordinaire

RACHEL HAS 9 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

Cause they're dogs.


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

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

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

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

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

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

Marsha P. Johnson, The Queen of Stonewall

MARSHA HAS 11 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tori Heflin, The Telekinetic Smuggler

TORI HAS 8 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brian Laborn, The Power in Obscurity

BRIAN HAS 7 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Formatting his power this way does let Brian dodge better.

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

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

GADGET ONE: The Gaia Engine

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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GADGEETING RULES FOR GADGETEERS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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HOW TO INFLUENCE PEOPLE WITH YOUR INFLUENCE SKILLS

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

 
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Wait a minute, he can use the rifle right? We might've built it with the flaw that only Lisa can use it.


This is what I thought was useful.

We actually could have moved the points for those dice into doing a ton more damage in hindsight, yeah.

On the other hand, restricting it to just her isn't a flaw, it's actually a +2 Extra. :(

I'm honestly still not entirely sure how dice interact with the power build system. If the rifle had no HD, then it would be down to the skill of the person to use it because they would be using their own dice in the Shoot skill?
 
Alright, forget about the rifle then, that's my mistake. Ugh, that's a kind of major change and not a grammar edit so I'm hesitant to take it out after people have voted for it but I guess we're leaving the rifle. Or he takes it and only after it doesn't work Andy explains that only Lisa can use it.

Maybe we should make an inventory page.
 
Alright, forget about the rifle then, that's my mistake. Ugh, that's a kind of major change and not a grammar edit so I'm hesitant to take it out after people have voted for it but I guess we're leaving the rifle. Or he takes it and only after it doesn't work Andy explains that only Lisa can use it.

Maybe we should make an inventory page.

I mean, there's no reason Brian can't use the rifle. Arguably he's still the best one for it since he's going after the eyeballs in mid air.
 
I'm honestly still not entirely sure how dice interact with the power build system. If the rifle had no HD, then it would be down to the skill of the person to use it because they would be using their own dice in the Shoot skill?

Foci are just powers that exist in universe as an object that can be traded around. If you want the object to be something dependent on someone's skill, it needs the extra of "Operational Skill" (which is a +0) then you just build it to have 10 dice, so people can always use their own skill.

Sorry for the confusion!
 
Ok, so if we rebuild the rifle to have operational skill then it would be buffed by Lisa's power relevant? I guess if we wanted we could make normal user friendly version model for people we like and give Lisa a souped up finicky version only she can tease the full performance out of.

Like, ST handheld phasers for normal people but Lisa gets a tricked out rifle. Very aesthetic.

Also, false alarm, Cyberenbys build wasn't restricted to Lisa, Brian can use it. It maybe would've been a better use to give it to Rachel but whatever.
 
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Foci are just powers that exist in universe as an object that can be traded around. If you want the object to be something dependent on someone's skill, it needs the extra of "Operational Skill" (which is a +0) then you just build it to have 10 dice, so people can always use their own skill.

Sorry for the confusion!

I'm... still kind of confused? If Lisa's gun had no dice attached to it, and just used Operational skill, then it would use the rifle's total Attack to actually generate damage while aiming would be down to Lisa's powers/skills? What if it just.... didn't have the operation skill trait?
 
I'm... still kind of confused? If Lisa's gun had no dice attached to it, and just used Operational skill, then it would use the rifle's total Attack to actually generate damage while aiming would be down to Lisa's powers/skills? What if it just.... didn't have the operation skill trait?

Okay! If your rifle has 2hd and operational skills, then if your character has a Coordination+Guns skill of 3d or higher, you use 2hd, but if you're someone with only 1d in your Coordination+Guns dice pool, then you'd roll only 1d (and thus, never hit anything.)

If your rifle has 2hd and no operational skill, then it always works, for everyone, at 2hd, whether they're a 1d bad shooter or 10wd super shooter like Lisa.

So, if you want to make a rifle that's able to be used by people with varying skill levels and take advantage of superhuman skill, then you need to give it operational skill AND make sure it has 10d dice or more, because Operational Skill uses the lower of the two pools.

This is why Operational Skill is a +0 Extra - it can make a gun less effective, or it can make it MORE effective, depending on the situation.
 
Okay! If your rifle has 2hd and operational skills, then if your character has a Coordination+Guns skill of 3d or higher, you use 2hd, but if you're someone with only 1d in your Coordination+Guns dice pool, then you'd roll only 1d (and thus, never hit anything.)

If your rifle has 2hd and no operational skill, then it always works, for everyone, at 2hd, whether they're a 1d bad shooter or 10wd super shooter like Lisa.

So, if you want to make a rifle that's able to be used by people with varying skill levels and take advantage of superhuman skill, then you need to give it operational skill AND make sure it has 10d dice or more, because Operational Skill uses the lower of the two pools.

This is why Operational Skill is a +0 Extra - it can make a gun less effective, or it can make it MORE effective, depending on the situation.

What if the gun had no dice attached to it at all?

The Evol Eye from the book for instance has the following traits:
Attacks (+2), Natural Power (+1), Focus (-1), Manufacturable (+2), Adaptation (-2), Accessible (-1), Immutable (-1), Go First (+1), Locational (Head, chest) (-2), Booster (Range) (+1), Subtle (+1)

No dice of any sort are associated with it. Does that mean it automatically uses the operator's skill dice?

And a tangential question: What happens if someone takes more than the maximum amount of shock damage an area can hold? Are you letting it spread to other body parts, or does it turn to killing damage if it overflows?
 
What if the gun had no dice attached to it at all?

The Evol Eye from the book for instance has the following traits:
Attacks (+2), Natural Power (+1), Focus (-1), Manufacturable (+2), Adaptation (-2), Accessible (-1), Immutable (-1), Go First (+1), Locational (Head, chest) (-2), Booster (Range) (+1), Subtle (+1)

No dice of any sort are associated with it. Does that mean it automatically uses the operator's skill dice?

You need to give a Foci dice, the entry is just confusingly written. It's got 5d (as indicated by this sentence "Anyone who attacks with this weapon rolls 5d") and by the fact it costs 2 WP per die - thus, it cost him 10 WP to make, then 5 Base Will to make manufacturable for everyone!

And a tangential question: What happens if someone takes more than the maximum amount of shock damage an area can hold? Are you letting it spread to other body parts, or does it turn to killing damage if it overflows?

In the base rules (Which proggers uses), it becomes killing at a 2 to 1 ratio.

So, if you do 6 shock damage to someone's head, that's 4 health boxes with six shock. Two shock over your limit, becomes 1 killing, so it becomes 4s/1k. That leaves 1 shock floating, which then evaporates.
 
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You need to give a Foci dice, the entry is just confusingly written. It's got 5d (as indicated by this sentence "Anyone who attacks with this weapon rolls 5d") and by the fact it costs 2 WP per die - thus, it cost him 10 WP to make, then 5 Base Will to make manufacturable for everyone!

So, the extras and flaws add up to 1 point net, and 5d is worth 10 points, shouldn't it be 11 WP total cost?

And does a Foci always need a die? Ie, could we make a foci that just gives the Not-Physical trait to a regular gun?
 
And does a Foci always need a die? Ie, could we make a foci that just gives the Not-Physical trait to a regular gun?

That would be a fun bit of "power programming" that I'd work like thus!

Augment (+4), Willpower Waiver (+2), Non-Physical (+2), Touch Only (-2), Foci [Immutable, Accessible, Manufacturable] (-1), If/Then [Augment Only] (-1), If/Then [Augment Only Adds To Guns) (-1), If/Then [Can only fire 30 times before needing a focusing crystal replaced] (-1), Obvious (-1)

This would then be 1d, costing 1 WP (and 1 Base Will to make manufacturable.) The way it works is you attach it to a gun and augment would go into effect. Augment adds dice, normally, OR it lets you use the extras of the augment power (but if you do this, you normally have to use the smaller of the two pools.) but if you spend 1 WP per die (2 WP for hard dice, 4 WP for wiggle dice), you can use both the bonus die and the extras!

So, I invented an extra called Willpower Waiver, which waives the WP cost for augment (I made it cost +2 because Willpower Cost is a -2 flaw, usually.) Then I gave it some if/thens to narrow the augment's usual powers (normally, augment would add to any attack, so this would buff punches and throwing grenades and such) and then gave it a if/then that mimics depleted but with more shots because depleted at 1d is too few shots for me.

Thus, you stick this onto a gun! Now, the next 30 shots are non-physical (they can only be dodged, they go through armor and ignore toughness) and the gun gets a +1d to hit since it's more accurate. The downside is the bullets, I dunno, glow with eldrich fire (the obvious), meaning everyone knows where you're shooting from!
 
That would be a fun bit of "power programming" that I'd work like thus!

Augment (+4), Willpower Waiver (+2), Non-Physical (+2), Touch Only (-2), Foci [Immutable, Accessible, Manufacturable] (-1), If/Then [Augment Only] (-1), If/Then [Augment Only Adds To Guns) (-1), If/Then [Can only fire 30 times before needing a focusing crystal replaced] (-1), Obvious (-1)

This would then be 1d, costing 1 WP (and 1 Base Will to make manufacturable.) The way it works is you attach it to a gun and augment would go into effect. Augment adds dice, normally, OR it lets you use the extras of the augment power (but if you do this, you normally have to use the smaller of the two pools.) but if you spend 1 WP per die (2 WP for hard dice, 4 WP for wiggle dice), you can use both the bonus die and the extras!

So, I invented an extra called Willpower Waiver, which waives the WP cost for augment (I made it cost +2 because Willpower Cost is a -2 flaw, usually.) Then I gave it some if/thens to narrow the augment's usual powers (normally, augment would add to any attack, so this would buff punches and throwing grenades and such) and then gave it a if/then that mimics depleted but with more shots because depleted at 1d is too few shots for me.

Thus, you stick this onto a gun! Now, the next 30 shots are non-physical (they can only be dodged, they go through armor and ignore toughness) and the gun gets a +1d to hit since it's more accurate. The downside is the bullets, I dunno, glow with eldrich fire (the obvious), meaning everyone knows where you're shooting from!

What about the extra point in the Evil Eye costs? Where does that go?

Also, what's the word on shock damage overflow?
 
What about the extra point in the Evil Eye costs? Where does that go?

Also, what's the word on shock damage overflow?

It looks like someone (the author of the book) did the math wrong! It should only cost 3 base will to mass produce, not 5!

Also!

In the base rules (Which proggers uses), it becomes killing at a 2 to 1 ratio.

So, if you do 6 shock damage to someone's head, that's 4 health boxes with six shock. Two shock over your limit, becomes 1 killing, so it becomes 4s/1k. That leaves 1 shock floating, which then evaporates.

Also!

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    [X] Plan: Wild Hunt
    -[X] Dog 1) Rachel with puppet guard, goes high to observe for Crawler and swoop in for emergency healing.
    -[X] Dog 2) Marsha with puppet guard, joins Sabah cordoning the hotel.
    -[X] Dog 3) Brian takes the stunner and a puppet guard, goes to contain Miss Eyes. Throw out grue clouds ahead of her path to slow her down and use Tori's invisibility to dodge her attention. If an opportunity presents, use tk/matterkinesis to bring her down or Lisas power with the stunner, as appropriate.
    -[X] Dog 4) Sabah with tactical puppets go with police to cordon the hotel.
    -[X] Dog 5) Lily and puppet guard confront Miss Eyes, freeze her in a time bubble if she doesn't
    -[X] Dog 6) Goes with Brian to confront Miss Eyes.
    -[X] Lisa, Tori, Andy, Theo, stay with Pine, Stan Lee and a puppet guard to coordinate and provide "armed" assistance though GoPros worn by the team and dogs. Theo tries to clothesline Miss Eyes out of the air if possible, Lisa sees if she can glean anything.
    -[X] Dogs use laser eyes to shoot down eyeballs, Miss Eyes or Crawler if they see them.
    -[X] Seriously consider having someone try to give Stan Lee powers if he wants, he's a cool dude.
    [X] Miss Eyes is fleeing, this means Don Crawler is vulnerable. We hit the hotel with everything we got - using Plan Hot from before.
    [X] Miss Eyes is fleeing...but what if Don Crawler is with her? Send Pine to the hotel, we take the Eyes using Rachel's dogs as mounts.
    [X] "Hammer Time:" (3x10 to format, 2x10 to activate a Radius [1] (+2), Controlled Effect (+1), Duration (+2), No Upward Limit (+2) Obvious (-1), Feedback (-2), Loopy (-1)Exhausted (-3). This would cost you, in total, 0 WP and would mean you can't use Physics Fuckery AT ALL, IN ANY FORM, for an hour. ...then you'd use No Upward Limit and spend 40 WP to add +20 to the WIDTH of your roll, getting a 22x10 instead of a 2x10) Target, the escaping Eyeball Girl.


Off we goooo!
 
The evil eye should only cost 5 wp and 3 base will because it costs 1 wp per dice. The reason the book claims it cost 10 wp and 5 base will is because the author of Progenitor made a math error. He added the values up wrong.

Oh, ok. I get the dice to WP conversion now, but I still don't understand where that non-dice +1 point from the Extras went.
 
Oh, ok. I get the dice to WP conversion now, but I still don't understand where that non-dice +1 point from the Extras went.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean?

It costs this: Attacks (+2), Natural Power (+1), Focus (-1), Manufacturable (+2), Adaptation (-2), Accessible (-1), Immutable (-1), Depleted (-1), Spray 1 (+1), Go First (+1), Locational (Head, right arm) (-2), Booster (Range) (+1), Subtle (+1), which (if you add them together) comes out at 1. Since it has 5 dice, that's 5 Willpower.

I believe that what happened is Greg Stolze made a math error, thought it was 2 points per die, then went, "Thus, it takes 10 WP and 5 base will to make available.)

Now! I'm going to start updating the new post, now that I'm no longer being rained on! I was outside. It was raining. I liked it a lot!
 
1969: Into the Zone
You're not sure why everyone looks to you...but...

You've been coming up with the ideas. And you feel more confident and determined now than you've ever had in your life. Your hands tighten, then you point to the sky.

"We get those motherfuckers," you growl. You turn. "Sabah, can you, uh, split off some of your puppets for guard duty, and send a bunch to the mafia hotel, to cordon it off?"

She nods.

"Marsha, take Rex to that hotel, and make sure no one gets you," you say, and as she nods, you turn to Tori and Lisa. "You two wait here - Lisa, provide long ranged observation, Tori, turn Brian invisible. Brian, I want you to hit them with your grueclouds."

"Oh boy. Soon I will also get to create gross eyeballs," Brian says, his voice so dry and flat that you nearly giggle hysterically. Theo bursts out laughing, slapping his thighs, grabbing onto Brian and shaking him, making Brian roll his eyes as he was wobbled from side to side by Theo's genuine amusement at his best friend. Or...boyfriend? You're...you're honestly not sure, actually.

"Theo, grab the bitch, I'll hit her with time stop, while Rachel, you provide healing overwatch on your dog," you say.

"And what do we do?" Pine asked, stepping forward.

"I dunno, fucking arrest someone," you say, then turn as the dogs are already scampering forward. Rex, Barker, Yoodle, Big Man and Orange Rind, all of them looking eager and ready as Rachel touches them one by one on their noses. Theo provides shimmering, barely visible hands - palms that form a series of stepways up for you, Brian, Rachel, and Marsha. Marsha is sitting on Rex, next to your mount of...Yoodle, while Brian swings onto ORange Rind, petting the huge mutt's head with affection.

"Oh! Here!" Andy shouts, running up to you. He chucks up a small box that you hold, frowning at, then remember what it is.

"Really?" you ask.

"Hey, it'll help me!" Theo says. "I can make hands through cameras."

"Fine, fine," you say. "But if you put this on that...Tube thing."

"I told you, YouTube won't exist for at least...two years at this rate," Andy says, before you finish clipping the GoPro to your collar, and sliding the com into your ear.

"Be careful, okay?" Marsha asks as she clips hers on as well. Once she's done, she gives you one of her dazzling, comforting smiles. Then she screams in delight and excitement - which, honestly, you absolutely understand as the urge as Yoodle springs into the air. You barely notice the two muppets that have gotten onto the back of Yoodle with you until one of them shouts over the wind.

"We got your back, Miss Sato!"

You look back and try and smile comfortingly at the woman made of felt cloth, wrapped over a leather harness. "Uh, thanks," you say.

Then, a beat later, as wind roars past your ears.

"What's your name?"

"I'm Juniper, this is Alex," the muppet woman says, jerking her thumb at the other muppet, who look a bit like a bipedal lion - becuase, well, Sabah liked mixing things up in her designs. You see both of them are carrying what are...clearly guns made of felt and cloth, joined together by bright white fiber stitches that make their artificiality all the clearer.

"Do those work?" You ask as you focus, already figuring out how you were going to time stop this eyeball mistress once you'd gotten into range. The city was peeling by underneath you at an incredible speed, skyscrapers whipping past you. You could see people in those buildings, gaping at the dogs flying in formation through the air towards the eyeballs, which were now at the edge of the Atlantic, soaring away at a pretty hefty clip...but they seemed almost stationary next to your dogs, which swept towards them.

"We go to the range every week to practice!" Alex shouts over the howling wind, still sounding quite cheerful despite the noise. "They work!"

"Okay," you say, then tense.

Yoodle woofs excitedly - and then his eyes glow a bright, searing red. A beam of light leaps from his eyes and slices through the edge of an eyeball. Superheated blood mists from the side of the orb as it wobbles, then streaks down, trailing smoke and burned flesh before it hits the ocean in an explosion of gore. Beams leap from Brian's dog and his escort as well, and two more eyeballs go down as beams spear down from the sky as well - Rachel soaring overhead.

You grin - then hear a resounding groaning CRACK! For a moment, you think the eyes are up to something - but then Juniper yelps.

"Holy yarnation!"

You snap your head to the side, following her button eyes and see...

"Holy fuck."

The waterside property that the Mafia had been lurking in was the center of the largest mass of green you'd ever seen in your life. Vines were growing - each one thick around as an entire tree, covered with sharp glittering thorns - and they grew with such speed and such grinding noise that you were sure half the city was aware of it. The vines swept over windows, wound between balconies, before enclosing around the top of the roof - and the entire hotel was ensnared.

"Now! Now!" The voice in your ear startles you - but it's Andy, speaking over the communication devices he'd given you all. You snap your head forward - and you can see that Miss Eyes and her eyeball has been snatched up in a glittering hand made of shimmering, rippling water, which has reached up from the ocean below and clapped around her. She wriggles and squirms as Yoodle shoots forward. You tense, forget about your fear for a moment, then leap out. Wind catches you. Your jacket and hoodie flare. You feel...

Like...

You feel like a goddamn badass.

You drop onto the broad side of the eye, skid forward, the water parting automatically around you, and slam your palm into MIss Eyes. She's a narrow faced, pinched looking woman, and as your palm slams home, her body wraps in a shimmering cloud of un-light as the time stop closes around her.

You grin.

"Gotcha!" You say.

...then the gruecloud explodes around you.

***
"How many times do I have to say I'm sorry?"

You sit, shivering, with a pounding headache, in the rubble of Stonewall while muppets bounce around, cheerfully hammering and rattling and clattering. Saws rasp and electric screwdrivers whirr as, in a shockingly quick time, the hole in the wall gets patched. They look really cute with hardhats on and big stitched vests that are literally a part of their bodies, and their waddling, bounding steps makes you almost want to forgive Brian.

"I dunno," you say. "Fifty more times?"

Almost.

The rest of the Nine are outside, eyeing the haul. Sixteen eyeballs, each one the size of a small car, all of them crammed into the parking lot and street before the Stonewall Tavern. The cops have cordoned off the area and the whole place is thronging with newsies and onlookers, clamoring for word of what the hell had just happened. The Eyes are all just...sitting there. The instant you had put Miss Eyes (or whatever her name was) into the time-stop, the eyeballs had all stopped moving, and Andy thought they were directly telepathically controlled by her.

But that wasn't all.

"What are we going to do about Crawler?" Theo asked. "The cops and muppets say he wasn't in the hotel. So, he's gotta be in the Eyeball Zone..."

"You mean the extradimensional pocket, accessed through a manifold of dark energy that are focused by these constructs?" Andy asked.

"Yeah, the Eyeball Zone," Theo says. Andy pinches the bridge of his nose.

"We...can't call it that," he says.

"Why not?" Theo asks. "It's a great name for a comic book! The Eyeball Zone!"

"Please stop," Andy says, sounding like he's physically taking damage from this.

"Can you open it up?" you ask, trying to avoid Sabah and Rachel, who are standing beside one another. They don't look like they've been talking - a parking lot full of eyeballs does tend to distract one from that kind of thing, but also, your stomach knots in tension at just the idea of talking to them. Brian shrugs.

"I can," he says. "Kinda. I can make eyeballs. I can even make them bigger, and make them fly, and make them shoot lasers. But it'll take a lot of work to do so. It's..." He frowns. "It's kinda like, what she can do naturally, I can mimic by folding my brain into a pretzel."

"Cause the power is weird?" Theo asked.

"Weird and fucking gross, man," Brian says. "But fortunately, I don't need to make my own entrance into the eyeball zone with my own eyeball."

"Oh?" Andy asks.

"The power will collapse when the Eyeball containing them is smashed," Brian says.

"Which one is that, do we have to just-" Andy starts.

"It's that one," Lisa says, pointing at the third eyeball from the front.

"How can you-" Andy asks.

"A million infinitesimal clues and indications - location of eye, formation they flew in, color and shape, subtle variations in the emanations of energies flowing from its orblike body," Lisa says, her voice utterly smug. "It's elementary, my dear Andrew."

Andy scowls at you. "So, we just smash it?"

"No," you say, flatly. "We've...it...fucking gross, the Muppets have enough to clean up. Just...watch." You walk forward, then close your eyes. You can feel the snarling knot of physics fuckery that creates the extradimensional space that these eyeballs can make, and put your palm on the eye that Lisa had mentioned. You cut the knot and the eyeball...unfolded open like a geometric puzzle pattern, the iris collapsing inwards, and the entire front caving in, revealing a hexagonal entrance into a yawning, infinite blackness. You leaned forward, and looked inside of it, frowning - and as you stuck your head within and looked left, then right, then up, then down, you...realized it went on and on and on forever. The pale light that shone from the hole you had opened was a tiny pinprick in an endless, endless blackness.

"Hello?" you call out.

Nothing.

Then...

Echo.

"Hello?"

You shiver as you smell a faintly...salty edge coming in from the hole and you draw your head back. "Uhh, I don't think they're-"

"Then they're in this one, definitely," Lisa says, pointing at the eye to the right of the one you'd opened up. You waved your palm, closing the entrance to that...other...place. You shoot Lisa a look and she giggles, spreading her hands. "Hey, I can't be right every time!"

You touch this eyeball. Again, it unfolds inwards - but this time, rather than an infinite blackness, you immediately see a human figure, which rushes out and skids onto the ground before your feet.

It's Ned.

He's trembling, curled up in a fetal position, his knees tugged up into his chest, his eyes wide, his face chalk white. "T-T...The...t...the eyes everywhere..." he whispers, rocking - and then another figure drops out, slapping onto the ground next to him. The figure is...Don Crawler. Up close and personal, he is more hideous than you've ever thought possible - and just seeing him stand calmly, casually, his little twisted face looking around himself, makes you want to punt him into space. He rolled his shoulders as the last bit comes from the eyeball.

It's three duffel bags, each one stuffed with money. They slap down next to him as he lifts his clawed, nubby little fingers.

"I surrender," he says, his voice a raspy croak.

And...at long last.

Director Pine followed your orders. He stepped out from the crowd of the cops and slapped cuffs on the hideous bugman.

You gave him the most withering look you could manage.

---
A long boring denouncement is going to follow. There will be a trial, you get to give testimonials. But who gives a shit about that! During your free time between Don Crawler's arrest and you serving as an expert witness in the first METACRIME TRIAL - and between all the interviews and news media spots - you have some time!
[ ] Avoid Rachel and Sabah because feelings are CONFUSING (lose major girls, gain major yourself)
[ ] Talk to Rachel, then talk to Sabah (goes to a scene. If the scene goes badly, you may lose WP! May gain WP! Who knows!)
[ ] Talk to Sabah, then talk to Rachel (goes to a scene. If the scene goes badly, you my lose WP! May gain WP! Who knows!)
[ ] Talk to both at the same time, that surely won't go bad!
[ ] Talk to Marsha


CURRENT STATUS
Health: Fine
Willpower: 83 (+4 for defeating Miss Eyes, +6 for defeating Don Crawler)

Declares go thus!

Puppets, Eyeballs, Dogs, Rachel, Theo, Brian, Sabah, Tori, Marsha, Lily, Miss Eyes, Lisa

ROUND ONE (this takes place after a short planning and everyone hopping onto degs)

DECLARES
PUPPETS: Follow their orders​
EYEBALLS: wriggle on by, zooming away from New York​
DOGS: They follow their orders (swooping, zooming, and lasering where needed)​
RACHEL: Preps to fly her dog down to heal anyone who needs it​
THEO: tries to grapple Miss Eyes​
BRIAN: Gruecloud flack!​
SABAH: Directing more puppets to cordon the hotel​
TORI: Making folks invisible (focusing on Brian)​
MARSHA: Making a WALL OF THORNS around the hotel!​
LILY: Goes to confront Miss Eyes with time stop​
MISS EYES: Directs her eyes to ATTACK!​
LISA: Watches, eats popcorn​

ROLLS
PUPPET MOB AT HOTEL: 2x8, 2x7, 2x4, 2x2. These are expert minions, so their 2x8 will let them cordon off the building with their massed numbers.​
PUPPET BODYGUARDS: 2x10. There now exists one "Look out Mr. President!" puppet in case anyone shoots at a PC they're protecting, per PC who is being guarded.​
EYEBALLS: Due to the number of eyeballs, I am abstracting them somewhat: They all will share the same dice roll. They all got 3x7 on their flying.​
DOGS: Dogs 1, 3, 5 and 6 open fire with their beam weapons as they're the only ones up near the eyeballs and in range. They all get 5x10, which does 5s/5k and thus, takes out 4 of the 20 eyes.​
RACHEL: Has a 7x10 waiting in the wings.​
BRIAN: 1x10 flak, effectively​
SABAH: 2x10 on directing (meaning she can give the puppets directives that will change their actions if the situations change.​
TORI: 3x9 on making Brian invisible​
THEO: 5x2​
MARSHA: 3x7 to format her power, 2x8 to use it. Her power will be Obvious (-1), Locational [All] (-5) and Delayed Effect (-2) to get a total of -8, which buys her four levels of radius. Adding Touch Only (-2) and Duration (+2) to net her a complete encapsulation of the building with a thorn walls!​
LILY: 5x10 on her time stop​
MISS EYES: Would normally be able to abort her roll to make a resistance roll, but she's grappled, which negates her ability to actually DODGE. She is TIME STOPPED! She could spend WP, but judges that...honestly, her winning isn't going to happen, doesn't bother.​
LISA: Eats popcorn​
RESULTS

The dogs swoop to their various locations. From above, Rachel's blasts one eyes, while Brian's, Lily's and Brian's escort fire as well, cutting four eyes out of the skies immediately, while Lily's (as a FREE ACTION) catches up with MIss Eyes. Brian's turns invisible, rendering him invisible as well thanks to Tori. Lily reaches out with her palm as her dog swoops past one eye as Theo snatches onto MIss Eyes. Boop! Time stopped! Meanwhile, the eyes continue to zoom forward, trying to get away, but they're just too slow compared to the dogs. Meanwhile, down at the hotel, the puppets cordon off the doros and Marsha slams her palms onto the ground and just completely enshrouds it with vines and thorns, enclosing it entirely!
ROUND TWO

DELARES
PUPPET (HOTEL): Continuing their action from last round.​
PUPPET (BODYGUARD): SAme.​
EYEBALLS: With no orders, and the fact they don't have the uncontrollable flaw, they're...going to keep flying without dodging, rendering any other rolls moot! You did it! The dogs corralled the eyes back down without much trouble.​
CHECK: Lisa rolls sense, then uses what information she has to make a deduction

ROLL: 10x10, then 6x7, for a pretty good guess, but not quite. (it requires a 10 to deduce it right first try.)

CHECK: Lily breaks down dimensional barriers for fun and profits

ROLL: 5x10 to format one round, 5x10 on the other. This beats the 2x10 eyeball zone the eyes have and out comes Don Crawler, Ned, a ton of laundered money, and that's that!
 
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[ ] Talk to Rachel, then talk to Sabah (goes to a scene. If the scene goes badly, you may lose WP! May gain WP! Who knows!)

Prefer a threesome, but I'm slightly more interested in a relationship with Rachel than Sabah.
 
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...man, one thing...you should do is get psychotherapy for Ned cause, uh, the Eyeball Zone power is truamatic, so he was making trauma checks every, like, round he was in there.

Actually, he failed the first one, his WP dropped, then his power adapted to mental toughness, so he's actually better than you'd expect, I think he's at 0 WP, but he hasn't lost any Base Will (if you lose WP while at 0 WP, you lose 1 base will.)
 
[X] Talk to Rachel, then talk to Sabah (goes to a scene. If the scene goes badly, you may lose WP! May gain WP! Who knows!)
 
Ok, first, I think you mean denouement, not denouncement. :p

[] Talk to Marsha
-[] "Marsha, I need an adult."


Momma Marsha will know what do.
 
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