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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...okay, I love naming Lily Morgana so fucking much that it's canon no matter what you do or say.

Progenitor is a game of infinite choice and terrifying freedom except for this one thing that you cannot stop.
 
[X] Talk to both at the same time, that surely won't go bad!

I think Theo might reject anything associated with the Centimani, but I can't exactly put my finger on why.
 
[X] Start the Polycule

Alright, fine, it's not explicitly saying Lily asks them to start a polycule. The both option is definitely implying it's gonna be ugly though.
 
Ok, the more I think about this the more I like it:

Theor: Antif - Literally dropping the last 'a' in Antifa. What's that? "That's not a fairy tale!" you say? But what are Antifa Supersoldiers if not a modern fairy tale? His logo can be two flexing arms, one black and one red, and his costume can have one red arm and one black one. And he hates Nazis! It's a great fit! Also, imagining Theo trying to keep a straight face as he says it's 'a fairy tale from the future' is hillarious. Stan might even overhear him and make that his origin story: An antifa supersoldier from the future sent back in time to stop the Fourth ReichDominionist States of America from being created. :V
 
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Ok, the more I think about this the more I like it:

Theor: Antif - Literally dropping the last 'a' in Antifa. What's that? "That's not a fairy tale!" you say? But what are Antifa Supersoldiers if not a modern fairy tale? His logo can be two flexing arms, one black and one red, and his costume can have one red arm and one black one. And he hates Nazis! It's a great fit! Also, imagining Theo trying to keep a straight face as he says it's 'a fairy tale from the future' is hillarious. Stan might even overhear him and make that his origin story: An antifa supersoldier from the future sent back in time to stop the Fourth Reich from being created. :V
I think his future knowledge stops around 2020/2021 so the crew gets to stew in the knowledge alt future America was infested with fascists actively and openly undermining democracy, and even attempted a coup.

Oh shit they'll find out about COINTELPRO.
 
Adhoc vote count started by DragonCobolt on Dec 13, 2021 at 7:35 PM, finished with 41 posts and 10 votes.

  • [X] Start the Polycule
    [X] Talk to both at the same time, that surely won't go bad!
    [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!)
    [X] Talk to Marsha
    [X] Start the Polycule
    -[X] Talk to Marsha, because you know you are a useless lesbian and need some advice
    -[X] Talk to both at the same time, that surely won't go bad!


Getting advice before kissing!
 
Oh my god, the salt, you went this entire issue without telling us the word was out.

I can only imagine what a fury the American left is in right now, Hoover is probably working overdrive trying to contain the situation. COINTELPRO was so hilariously illegal, damn. Presumably we talked to people about the assassinations as well. Too late for King but maybe Fred RFK can be saved. If not there's still time.

How much future knowledge do they generally have? Is Tessa just trawling through Wikipedia?
 
To be fair, Brian didn't...broadcast it, because "Evidence pulled from the alternate future" is...like, not actionable, really. But he definitely warned people for what to avoid, and what to look for!
 
To be fair, Brian didn't...broadcast it, because "Evidence pulled from the alternate future" is...like, not actionable, really. But he definitely warned people for what to avoid, and what to look for!

Hey, that communicator we used to talk to LBJ, could we strip out he broadcast function and use the sensor function to just spy on Hoover?
 
Oh sure you can't use it to directly go after the feds but warning people it's probably happening is still very good.

Hey, that communicator we used to talk to LBJ, could we strip out he broadcast function and use the sensor function to just spy on Hoover?

I feel like this is maybe not the best idea because Hoover can spy on us much more easily, even if we don't know that yet. Maybe we should build an anti-scrying device… I have no idea how to tune that so it'd have weaknesses like that non-physical damage and armor. There's probably different kinds of scrying.
 
Oh sure you can't use it to directly go after the feds but warning people it's probably happening is still very good.



I feel like this is maybe not the best idea because Hoover can spy on us much more easily, even if we don't know that yet. Maybe we should build an anti-scrying device… I have no idea how to tune that so it'd have weaknesses like that non-physical damage and armor. There's probably different kinds of scrying.

It's a good thing that this latest tussle has the team running scared of telepaths and Andy's working on a mind shield then, eh?

 
Lol, none of our team has clairvoyance, we could just make available anti-scrying/infosec technology and market it to defend from metahuman observers and spy tech.

It'd be pretty esoteric to stat though, how do you decide the differences between types of clairvoyance to give it weaknesses? It's not nearly as straightforward as a weapon or an engery source.
 
Lol, none of our team has clairvoyance, we could just make available anti-scrying/infosec technology and market it to defend from metahuman observers and spy tech.

It'd be pretty esoteric to stat though, how do you decide the differences between types of clairvoyance to give it weaknesses? It's not nearly as straightforward as a weapon or an engery source.

It's expensive on WP because it involves extra dice in Hyperskill: Stability, so not sure if we can make it ubiquitous. I'll try stating out something cheaper.

Ok, @DragonCobolt have a look at this - I'm not usre if all these flaws are, strictly speaking, legal (especially Willpower Bid) in this context.
This thing gives 10 HD in Stability, which forom what I can tell is basically Lily's No, but for your mind. Might get it cheaper if it's for telepathic attack only instead of all Stability rolls (which also cover things like trauma rolls, and keeping your cool under torture). This will either make the Nine into the most impossibly, or turn them into emotionless robots, or puts them into the ethically gray zone where they can consciously control their feelings like in the White Space books? Who knows? Not me!

It does make Jarvis West's mental defences look like chump change through, so that's hilarious.

Absolute Territory

TagPointsDescription
Hyperskill HD2010 HD in Stability.
Permanent4Stays on permanently.
Manufacturable2Andy's flaw.
Native Power1Not reliant on dark energy.
Secret1Only detectable through close examination.
Base Wil Cost-4Spend 1 Base Will on startup.
Self Only-3Only defends yourself.
If/Then-3Requires exotic matter.
Requires molecular manufacturing.
Hypermind must install it.
Delayed Effect-2It takes a few days for it to begin to function.
Adaptation-2Based on existing neuropharmacological research.
Attached-2To Stability rolls.
Full Power Only-1All 10HD always roll.
No Physical Change-1Doesn't have a physical effect on the world.
Always On-1Never turns off.
Automatic-1Always goes off when Stability is rolled.
Willpower Bid-1Lose 1 WP if power does not go off.
Immutable-1Can't do anything else.
Total28-23
This doesn't have a Focus quality because it's all nanotech inside the brain! It can't be taken away!
 
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1969: Talking Hurts
CONTENT WARNING: Homophobic dickhead and some slurs

The thing the comics always leave out?

The boring ass paperwork.

You rub your wrist as you walk into the main room of the Stonewall, late at night, two days after Don Crawler was arrested and the whole city got their first taste of what it was like to have metahumans in the general population. There were letters streaming in - thank yous from the people that Rachel had saved, hate letters from people who thought it was all your fault, requests for Rachel to visit the hospitals (which she was doing most of the time now, since...well, she could) and the legal shit. There were so many lawsuits that were getting thrown left, right and center. Andy was handling all of them with Tessa's help, since with his superhuman intelligence and Tessa's attentiveness, the two of them could crunch through stuff at incredible speeds.

But you don't want to think about any of that now.

You see Marsha at the middle of the room, where she is looking over the newly constructed bits of the main room. Since the Stonewall wasn't really a bar anymore...you had been able to make the main meeting room more suited to your needs.

Marsha was looking around herself, sadly.

"This used to be more than just our place, you know?" she asks. "We...really should see about making something that..." She trails off, then shakes her head. "I'm being silly, getting sad that people can't drink here anymore, when...heh..." She shakes her head, then sits down on a flower that blooms beneath her. She cups her chin her hands, her eyes glittering. "Me and Rachel saved a lot of lives today, you know? Seems kind of silly to be sad about anything, considering..."

You nod.

"Yeah..." you say.

Marsha, though, immediately spots your expression. "You okay?" She asks and a flower blooms next to her. You sit on it and smile at her, wanly.

"I..." you pause. "Marsha...can...I ask you for some advice?"

She nods. "Anytime, Lily."

You rub your arms against your shoulders. Your hoodie is feeling rattier than usual - sitting next to Marsha, who is effortlessly beautiful in a gown she grew herself out of flowers, makes you feel so ugly and squalid and groaty. You have no idea why you're even thinking what you're thinking - how could anyone ever be interested in you? Except...you and Rachel have kissed. More than kissed, honestly. You blush, then say. "I...it's about Rachel and Sabah. I...I like them." You skirt around the other word. "A lot."

Marsha smiles, sadly. "It's not very subtle, you know?"

You blush and grin at her. "Really?"

"Not to me at least," she says, then slides her arm around your shoulder, squeezing. "Oh, honey..." Her voice is soft. "Okay. This is normal. Hearts aren't so small they can only be confined to one people - but...also, there's like and there's like." She nods, seriously. "Be honest with me. Do you want to just fuck?" She smiles, and somehow, that word sounds classy when she says it. You blush and find yourself being honest, despite yourself.

"Yeah. Real bad. Uh, Rachel and i already..." you blush. "Y-You know." You look aside, realizing you'd just let that blurt. But you're already in so deep now. "B-But I also wanna fuck Sabah..."

"And that's all?" she asks.

"No!" You say. "Sabah's sweet and nice and funny as-"

She puts her hand on your shoulder, squeezing. "It's okay, honey," she says, laughing. "It's just, sometimes, being passionate about someone and wanting to...well, just get into bed, it can make you think there are things there that aren't really there." She nods. "So, think hard: Do you like both girls? Or do you like one girl and just want to fuck the other?"

You think.

"I-I..." you pause. "I don't know."

Marsha nods, slowly. "That's okay. You're eighteen, not knowing stuff is pretty common at that age." She smiles, gently. "Now, here's my advice for you. One!" She lifts a finger and a tiny flower sprouts from the tip of her finger, wobbling cutely. "It's okay to just want to fuck someone, so long as you remember they're a someone and not a something. People are people, and lust doesn't give you an excuse to treat them like anything but. Two." Another flower. "Honesty is always the best course - honesty with tact, obviously. If you don't tell people what you think and feel, then they'll only be able to react to the idea of you they have in their heads. That's a great way for everyone to be miserable." She holds up a third finger. "And three, finally...there's...no perfect way around people's hearts. All you can do is your best, be honest, and accept the danger that you're making yourself vulnerable. You might get hurt. You might hurt other people - all without doing anything actually wrong."

She sighs. "People...don't always mesh the way we want them to. But that's no excuse to not try."

You blush, hard, listening intently for the entire list. You nod. "Okay," you say.

Marsha smiles at you.

"I'm more scared now than I, uh, was before?"

She laughs, then hugs you tightly. "You'll be fine."

***
You get your chance the day after you give your testimony on the stand. Andy coaches you, but the whole thing is a softball. The defendant is doing his best - citing that Don Crawler is a dark energy construct, apparently, and not actually a human being that can be tried in a human court of law. You're not sure how you like that line of reasoning, and you're pretty damn glad that the prosecutor shoots it down. The wildest part had been...why you were there.

Miss Sato, is true that you have what the scientific community has begun to refer to as an exocortex?

Yes that is so.

Can you define for the court what an exocortex is.

An exocortex is a...uh...a formation of dark energy, that is connected to my neural structures, that provides enhanced intelligence.

So, in a word, superintelligence?

Yes.

What kind of exocortex do you have?

Mine is specifically focused on physical laws - electrodynamics, general relativity, quantum physics, and so on.

Would you say that an exocortex could provide the same level of sentience and understanding that a human mind would?

Yes, I would.


The questioning had been objected a few times, some overruled, some sustained - but it had all gone on to you basically explaining to the jury that, yes, Don Crawler was sentient, even if his brain was a knot of dark energy and not actual nerve tissue. It'd been...easy enough to argue, and the jury had seemed to like it. You could use science words all good now, it helped. You wished you had the same kind of exocortex for talking to girls. That'd make life way, way, way easier.

You were now pacing back and forth outside of the courthouse, waiting for Sabah and Rachel to emerge. They both walk out a bit later, two of Rachel's dogs - Yoodle and Big Boy - walking behind them in a clear formation. You smile at them, but it's a faintly terrified smile.

"God, I can't wait for this to be over," Rachel is saying to Sabah, who nods.

"My parents are loving it," Sabah says. "They've put up a sign outside of the shop - advertising the place as the home of Sabah Herself." She shakes her head - then sees you, smiling brightly.

"Hey," Rachel says, guardedly. You wonder if she's mad at you for...not talking to her a lot. Shit. You gulp, then stammer.

"Uh, uh, h...hi, uh, wanna talk? I...that is-"

"Oh, sure!" Sabah says. "You two have fun!" she smiles and starts to walk away.

"Both of you!" you say, hurriedly. Sabah's brow furrows, while Rachel shrugs.

"Okay," she says.

This is already going bad. It gets worse as you walk to the coffee shop nearby, a place that's quiet and secluded. A few people glance your way, but while you three are all famous, you're not from a world where everyone has a magic box in their pocket with crystal clear images of everyone in the world. No one has clocked you yet. But you're sure that will change in a bit. You buy coffee for the other two using some of Andy's money, then walk over and sit down at the table. "So, um, Rachel...uh...Sabah, I..." You blush. "I like both of you."

"I like you too," Sabah says, hesitantly. Rachel ducks her head forward and refuses to look at you.

"I mean...more...than...t...I..." you stammer.

Sabah blinks.

Then she blinks again.

"...oh," she says, softly.

"But, like, I...wanted to talk about, uh, what's going on," you barrel forward, more desperately now. "Since..." You see Sabah's furrowed brow and derail.

"I thought you two were a thing," Sabah said, quietly, pointing between you and Rachel.

"Me too," Rachel says, her voice soft.

Your stomach tightens. "No! We are! I mean, yes, duh, I..." you say, your words and honesty getting all tied up in knots. Sabah nods, sipping her cup, her face settling into a kind of...happy mask, like she's trying to just look happy about it all without actually being happy about it.

"Good, I'm glad for both of you," she says. Rachel looks at you through her bangs, then looks away.

"But..." your tongue freezes. It had all seemed so easy and obvious when Marsha had put it out there. Sabah stands up, then.

"I...uh...I have to go and check on Feltton, he's been complaining that his knee is acting up since, uh, it got bashed up during construction," Sabah says, and you can tell she's lying.

You try and think of something to say, but Rachel is looking at you through her bangs. You choke back any word you were about to say - because... Rachel just looks so sad. The doors to the coffee shop swing shut again with a faint jangle of the bell set above it and Rachel speaks. "...so you're into Sabah too?"

You look at your cup.

"What about me?"

"I like you too..." you say and hate how childish and stupid you sound. "I...g-goddamn it." You put your palm against your face. "This...I...I just, I wanted to ask out Sabah, but then you asked me out, but I also want to ask you out, and...and I want it all! Is that so fucking stupid?" You put your hand over your eyes. "M-Maybe it's dumb, but...I can stop time!" You feel tears prick at the corners of your eyes. "And I fucked it all up because I...I'm a fucking idiot, I'm sorry, Rachel."

Her chair scrapes. Then she leans against you, gently. Her arm slides around your shoulder, drawing you in.

She holds you for a time, quietly, before finally saying. "I don't love Sabah," she says, softly. "I do love you."

You sit there, quiet and stunned. "Oh..."

Then Rachel takes your hand in hers. Then she kisses you.

"What the fuck are you two doing!?" the guy who runs the coffee machine behind the counter says. "You fucking dykes, this is-"

Rachel flips him off, then grabs and drags you in close, her tongue thrusting deeper. The guy in the coffee shop doesn't raise any more of a stink - but when you and Rachel break your kiss, you can see it's because he's looking terrified. You smirk at him, and realize that it's because he's realized who you are. Also, both of Rachel's dogs are glaring at him. Not growling. Glaring. Like humans might. You stand up, taking Rachel's hand. "So..." you pause. "Wanna go back to Stonewall, girlfriend?"

She smiles, looking aside. "Yeah."

You turn and walk towards the brick wall, focusing - and you and Rachel phase through it.

***
February 28th
1969


"Voila!"

Stan Lee is beaming at you, while Andy practically bounces next to him. You pick up the large drawing that will serve as the template for cover of the first issue of TRUE TALES OF THE STONEWALL NINE. On the cover is you, in that...ridiculous fucking costume that Andy designed for you, holding out your hand before a building that looks like it has frozen, mid collapse, surrounded by sparkly black and blue blops of color. Emerging from your head is a thought balloon that reads...

"If I lose concentration for just one second...that building...and all four hundred people inside...will DIE!"

And below that, in a large font, was the title.

ISSUE ONE: THE CRAWLER ATTACKS!
"Why did I let you talk me into this?" you whisper.

"It's going to sell so many copies!" Andy squeals.

"I...look at that costume!" You say, while behind you, you hear footsteps. Rachel leans over your shoulder. She whistles.

"Hot," she says.

"I love it," you say, immediately.

END OF ISSUE ONE
You get...3 XP! You currently have 4 XP

[ ] 1 XP: +1 to a narrow skill (Pistols, Sailing Small Ships, Speak Language: Mandarin)
[ ] 2 XP: +1 to a broad skill (Guns, Pilot, Academics)
[ ] 2 XP: +1 to an influence skill (mayor, senator, TV star)
[ ] 3 XP: +1 to a Broad/Flexible Skill (Lesbian, Delinquent)
[ ] 4 XP: +1 to a Broad/Flexible/Influence Skill (Superhero)
[ ] 3 XP: +1 to a passion (this increases your base will)
[ ] 3 XP: +1 to a loyalty (this increases your base will)
[ ] 5 XP: +1 to a stat

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The rest of 1969 is going to be "quiet" in New York unless you take an action that mixes that up (I.E, bump two metrics higher than others, which triggers a PLOT ROLL!) This is good because it gives you a chance to actually DO all the stuff you've been talking about! There will be lots of tiny vingettes between - some will have far reaching consequences, some will be just little fun scenes, but all in all, a lot of downtime's coming up!

So, current team status! Your headquarters has gotten repaired, but is still a bit schlubby. Your team Morale is averaged out as the same - Sabah is sad, but your victory has buoyed everyone else up. Your enemies are mostly in jail or dead. Things are looking up for the Stonewall Nine!


[ ] Write in what people do, in a month by month basis. Three of your teammates MUST be sent to LBJ for his great society. If you want to pool basewill/WP for constructing stuff, then that counts as a month's activities (so, Lily cannot both help make gadgets ANd throw New York into space.

Oh, also!

[ ] What's your sexy costume. Write in!

Marsha gives +1d from her assistance.

CHECK: Be honest with your feels

ROLL: 9 8 7 6 5 3!

RESULT: That's a fail! Eep! However, it is NOT a botch!
 
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Marsha is a national treasure. :cry:

Sad about Sabah, well, we'll be making her the Loom first thing most likely, so she'll be working closely with Andy and Lily... that at least gives them more chances to interact? And Andy's big brain might help with advice?

What's the difference between a botch and a fail?
 
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