PROGENITOR: WORM (A Wormquest AU)

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



THE CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE STONEWALL NINE

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

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

Spoiler: Lily's Stats

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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POWERS

Not So Little Anymore...
Dice: 1wd

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

Cost per Die: 5 | Total Cost: 20​

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

Fast as a Thought
Dice: 4d

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

Cost per Die: 5 | Total Cost: 20​

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

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

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

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

Cost Per Die: 9 | Total Cost: 108​

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

No
Dice: 10hd
Range: 512 yards

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

Cost Per Die: 3 | Total Cost: 40​

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

Physical Fuckery
Dice: 5wd

Range: N/A | Mass: N/A | Speed: N/A​

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

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

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

Cost Per Die: 6 | Total Cost: 120​

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

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

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

Cost Per Die: 54 | Total Cost: 54​

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

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

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Andy Richter, Time Thief and Genius Gadgeteer

Spoiler: Powers

Andy's Powers

ANDY HAS 11 BASE WILL.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He's a driven, focused guy.

Sabah Attar, Girl Who's Under Your Skin

Spoiler: Powers

SABAH HAS 8 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lisa Wilbourn, Nose Who Knows

Spoiler: Powers

LISA HAS 12 BASE WILL

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

Lisa becomes a fox girl!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Theo Anders, Arm of the Resistance

Spoiler: Powers

THEO HAS 7 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

Rachel Lindt, Houndmistress Extraordinaire

Spoiler: Powers

RACHEL HAS 9 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

Cause they're dogs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marsha P. Johnson, The Queen of Stonewall

Spoiler: Powers

MARSHA HAS 11 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tori Heflin, The Telekinetic Smuggler

Spoiler: Powers

TORI HAS 8 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brian Laborn, The Power in Obscurity

Spoiler: Powers

BRIAN HAS 7 BASE WILL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brian's Library

Spoiler: List

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Formatting his power this way does let Brian dodge better.

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

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

Spoiler: Yiggy - Team HQ

GADGET ONE: The Gaia Engine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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GADGEETING RULES FOR GADGETEERS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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HOW TO INFLUENCE PEOPLE WITH YOUR INFLUENCE SKILLS

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

Spoiler: The Big Old Table from the Kerberos Club Book

 

[10ebbor10]

Why stick with one outfit. Just have multiple, it'll sell new toys let you express your individuality.

 

[CyberFemme]

Why stick with one outfit. Just have multiple, it'll sell new toys let you express your individuality.

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Your Corpo-Progressive Social Credit has been increased for demonstrating proper Richterist thought.

 

[Lord Ultimus]

Why stick with one outfit. Just have multiple, it'll sell new toys let you express your individuality.

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Yes, but we can only have one debut costume.

 

[Twei]

Of course, I know some people aren't as willing to make deals with ProgHarm as I am.

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So Prog Harm nonsense/ illuminati shit, because I think the morality of it is kind of interesting?

Spoiler

ProgHarm is interesting but also hard to classify, in part because it relies so heavily on synergetics to ensure that everything works smoothly, and like, how do you evaluate a politics built on superpowers and pervasive superpowered brainwashing? You can try to examine Cam's justification for it as 'this is the society that will fight the inevitable hostile alien species', which is... weirdly almost fascist sounding, even though the actual society she builds doesn't feel much like a fascism anyone would recognize? Of course, out of universe, we know there's something scary out there, even if we don't know what. But until Cam loses a pair of telepaths to the Unsided, I don't think she knows that. Admittedly, her hyperbrain-based deductions can probably be assumed to be reasonably accurate, though likely not free of bias. Still! It makes sense but also she's totally making it up but also she's a superbrain person so on the whole: impossible to say if good or bad???

What you think of Progressive Harmony as Cam actually builds is a different question entirely, which I think has a lot to do with how you view free will. I don't think I'd like to live in Progressive Harmony, but I also think I'd be taught to like it, slotted into my place in this supposed great civilizational machine. You could view that as a kind of violence! You could view that as perfectly reasonable societal optimization! Of course the biggest problem with trying to view this as any kind of allegory is that we live in a world of Actual People, not a world of Bullshit Mind Control. We don't even really know how perfect Cam's society is in Progenitor? Given that mechanically, synergenes are more effective and easier to develop the more you tailor them, it'd make sense that there are probably a decent number of people who slip through the cracks.

of course this is all pretty much theoretical, the war in Vietnam is still raging on at this point in the timeline

 

[KreenWarrior]

Jason Weeks has produced his anti-syntergene stuff, right? Fog in the Swamps of Free Will and Innoculus?

Would be nice if we could help bolster that effort, distributing more anti-syntergene stuff, and could even use that as offensive "anti-propaganda" in Vietnam.

 

[Lord Ultimus]

Jason Weeks has produced his anti-syntergene stuff, right? Fog in the Swamps of Free Will and Innoculus?

Would be nice if we could help bolster that effort, distributing more anti-syntergene stuff, and could even use that as offensive "anti-propaganda" in Vietnam.

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On the flipside, we might want to hand out some syntergene-laced pamphlets out at Woodstock. Give our fellow hippies an actual floor plan to get the counterculture movement to stay whether people want it to or not.

 

[Parzival95]

Spoiler: Meme books

I have timed both attempts at meetings with the big two hyperbrains in the months Inoculous and Cans rebuttal to Fog come out in canon, (Free will comes to Vietnam in September) in the hopes he can mitigate the rift between the two. Currently my greatest hope for the setting is to find common ground between their philosophies.

It's the most ambitious change I'm hoping to make to the timeline in the short term, it would radically alter the setting if we could have a less antagonistic relationship.

 

[OctarineShrike]

Here's a thought/bugbear of mine. Garret Hardin Published the original Tragedy of the Commons in 1968. If we knew about that in character, maybe we could get something based on Elinor Ostrom's work into circulation, heading off the potential damage the concept causes?

 

[DragonCobolt]

Here's a thought/bugbear of mine. Garret Hardin Published the original Tragedy of the Commons in 1968. If we knew about that in character, maybe we could get something based on Elinor Ostrom's work into circulation, heading off the potential damage the concept causes?

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I don't know much about this here Tragedy of the Commons, is it some kind of foundational book to bad stuff?

 

[Parzival95]

There's a lot Andy can do just with future knowledge letting him preemptively do things yes. Anyway, cyberenby just started up Panacea and it's utterly ridiculous for the cost Andy has to pay for it, I definitely get the feeling the canon inventions are unoptimized compared to the bullshit a player can do with the invention systems.

I don't know much about this here Tragedy of the Commons, is it some kind of foundational book to bad stuff?

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The Tragedy of the Commons is a bullshit nonsense idea, like wolf packs alpha/omega that's unfortunately infiltrated pop culture and the general consciousness. It's basically the idea that humans are incapable of sharing without destroying the "common," because they'll all do what's best for them and fuck everyone else, which is demonstrably untrue (but the refutations struggle).

 

[notbirdofprey]

It's just some more of the "capitalism is the best because human nature" nonsense that people like.

 

[CyberFemme]

Here's a fun fact about Panacea: Our heroes will soon need only 3 hours of sleep a night, they'll gain muscle like an Olympic athlete, and probably develop a super clear complexion!
It'll take a bunch of injections to get all the effects stacked up, but it's totally doable!

Oh, and the treatment works against metahuman designed bioweapons too.

This invention alone will make us richer than god.

 

[Parzival95]

Here's a fun fact about Panacea: Our heroes will soon need only 3 hours of sleep a night, they'll gain muscle like an Olympic athlete, and probably develop a super clear complexion!
It'll take a bunch of injections to get all the effects stacked up, but it's totally doable!

Oh, and the treatment works against metahuman designed bioweapons too.

This invention alone will make us richer than god.

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I asked in DMs, but why did you specifically target fibromyalgia?

It repairs telomeres right?

 

[CyberFemme]

I asked in DMs, but why did you specifically target fibromyalgia?

It repairs telomeres right?

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Oh, that was just an example of a more common illness. I picked four things based on what came into my head.
The answer to 'what can Panacea do to the human body' is: Yes.

edit: And no? I don't think it has to do with telomeres? It's a chronic pain condition brought on by an overabundance of pain receptors IIRC.

 

[DragonCobolt]

Adhoc vote count started by DragonCobolt on Dec 17, 2021 at 9:54 PM, finished with 64 posts and 6 votes.

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  [X] Yiggy 2

  • SweetJackal
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  • Lord Ultimus
  • CyberFemme
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  [X] Morgana

  • CyberFemme
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  [X] Costume: Stan and Andy really latched onto the 'Witch Queen Of New York' idea; Green Glowing Eyes, A skintight dark orange under-suit with 'techno runic' patterns, on top a fitted black regal witchy dress with metallic trim, that's pretty much just split into four sections at the skirt to leave your legs free, matching ballroom style gloves and big clompy docker boots that stop below the knee. Big Cool Witch Hat as drawn by Jack Kirby. Become Magical Girl before Magical Girls were invented.

  • Lord Ultimus
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  [X] Hero Name: The Morrigan. (Specifically with a "the" in front of it.) Can also accept "The Magnificent Morrigan" as an alternative.

  • Lord Ultimus

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  [X] 4 XP: +1 to a Broad/Flexible/Influence Skill (Superheroics)

  • Lord Ultimus

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  [X] Scarlet Witch based outfit, with cosmic metamaterial that's like looking into a the endless void of stars from every angle.

  • CyberFemme

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  [X] Costume: Cosmic Femme Fatale

  • CyberFemme

All right!

Now, to...do some thinkin' about how all this stuff goes together.

...also, going to be playing some Homeworld remastered cause I learned fans patched it so it no longer sucks.

 

[Lord Ultimus]

Best costume wins, I'm a happy man!

(But yeah, we'll probably change it all the time, that's kind of what superheroes do. Hopefully we can avoid a 90's Liefeld costume, at least.)

 

[Parzival95]

Oh, that was just an example of a more common illness. I picked four things based on what came into my head.
The answer to 'what can Panacea do to the human body' is: Yes.

edit: And no? I don't think it has to do with telomeres? It's a chronic pain condition brought on by an overabundance of pain receptors IIRC.

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No telomere was a general question about the de-aging, because a big part of human aging is that telomeres are seemingly unrecoverably shortened over time.

And man this is funny, it messes with so much of the setting, Can really slacked off never actually finishing it in the original timeline.

 

[CyberFemme]

No telomere was a general question about the de-aging, because a big part of human aging is that telomeres are seemingly unrecoverably shortened over time.

And man this is funny, it messes with so much of the setting, Can really slacked off never actually finishing it in the original timeline.

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Yeah, telomere stuff is part of the Ambrosia formulation (anti-senescence is actually a whole set of treatments in it's own right, each tackling a different thing that's breaking down in the body).

 

[Parzival95]

Lmao, how salty are the crew at DC that Marvel managed to sign on the first ever superhero team like they're a record label, Stan must be in the clouds.

Even better if we actually release future movies and the MCU is just incomparably superior to DCs attempts.

 

[Lord Ultimus]

Lmao, how salty are the crew at DC that Marvel managed to sign on the first ever superhero team like they're a record label, Stan must be in the clouds.

Even better if we actually release future movies and the MCU is just incomparably superior to DCs attempts.

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Watch as DC goes bankrupt and Marvel acquires them just to get Batman because they know how he sells in the future.

 

[CyberFemme]

Lmao, how salty are the crew at DC that Marvel managed to sign on the first ever superhero team like they're a record label, Stan must be in the clouds.

Even better if we actually release future movies and the MCU is just incomparably superior to DCs attempts.

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Oh yeah, our entertainment division will be making bank.

Arasaka will look like a Mom & Pop shop by the time we finish raking in the cash from all our ventures.

 

[Parzival95]

I feel like it's safe to say Andy will secure the Nobel prize in medicine, he totally needs to get up on stage, point out Stan Lee in the crowd and credit him as a great inspiration and quote, "with great power comes great responsibility," and then backhandedly criticize the shit out of America for not doing that even a little.

Wait a fucking minute, did Wildbow rip-off Progenitor? I said earlier that March would get on with Cam amazingly but it just hit me that March is almost literally just a reskin of Cam.

 

[Twei]

Wait a fucking minute, did Wildbow rip-off Progenitor? I said earlier that March would get on with Cam amazingly but it just hit me that March is almost literally just a reskin of Cam.

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given that no one in Worm/Ward is taking control of an entire power bloc of nations across at least three continents, least of all March, I have some questions???

"Genius/thinker (asian?) girl big into music" is not exactly an incredibly specific niche IMO!!

but also I don't know much about March other than how much the fanbase hates her so 😔

 

[Parzival95]

I mean it's a significantly watered down reskin of Cam but she is a musical themed Asian girl who got her organizational/timing genius powers from her archenemy and proceeded to manipulate a powerful alliance of capes to carry out her plans.

 

[DragonCobolt]

The White House
Washington DC
June 4th
1969


Brenda Harkness walked through the interior of the White House, thinking. That was most of what she did, ever since that one day where she had been in the same room as the President as he had used his...abilities.

"I told him," she said, quietly. "I told him this would happen."

She paused at the window, looked out, and frowned.

Even with the security. Even with the fence. Even with "Steelsuit" Daoud himself making a big old show of standing before the White House, glowering at the world around him...

Even with all that, the protestors made themselves known.

The signs were too small to be seen from a distance, but they were waving back and forth, and the faint sound of chants almost reached Brenda's ears. She frowned to herself - able to extrapolate from the timber and the lack of imagination in most mundane humans (and, to be honest, most metahumans) what they were.

"I say freedom! You say-"
"AMERICA!"
"I say mind! You say-"
"MINE!"
"I say Johnson! You say-"
"IMPEACH! IMPEACH! IMPEACH!"

Then another started.

"LBJ! Mind Control! Both of these have got to go!"

Brenda sighed.

It was all Fox News' fault. Which, according to the documents that she'd managed to acquire from the Stonewall Nine, was not actually a phrase that was unique to this particular spot in the polycosmos. The metaverse. Whatever you wanted to call it. She started walking again. Sje was pretty sure that between her and Byson, that the President could, at the very least, see off impeachment, assuming they could kill the Cognitive Sovereignty Act in the Senate, but it'd already gotten through Congress, pushed hard and fast by the Republicans and no small number of Democrats who had also read that goddamn time bomb of a book. Brenda had to admit, she had slightly screwed to pooch on Inoculous. She had read it, just like everyone else, and said: 'Heh, that's cute. Kinda clever.' Then assumed that it'd be a tiny flash in the pan.

She hadn't expected it to be a national bestseller.

She started to rehearse what she was going to say to the President as she came to the oval office.

"Mr. President, I have some basic ideas on how we can kill the Mental Sovereignty Act...we'll start by rolling out even harder propaganda pushes, take Miss Johnson off the leash and push her to use her powers in even flashier ways," she muttered under her breath. "Fuck. Maybe see if you can talk a VC meta into shooting themselves in the head."

She came to the secret service by the office doors, nodded, and they let her through, quite used to this.

"Mr. President," she said.

Then stopped.

Lyndon B. Johnson sprawled, face down, on the desk, his eyes staring into eternity, his arm flopped out in a limp, boneless, uncomfortable way.

Brenda Harkness stood in the door, gaping at the President's corpse. She knew, in a tiny corner of a brain consumed by shock, that this moment would go down in history. Some wag would track down what she said, and it would be listed in 'fun fact' books once the horror of the moment had become history. She knew that she should say something...clever and insightful and poignant, to mark this dramatic change to the status quo.

"...fuck."

***
​

You were woken by a tongue the size of a towel slapping against your face.

"Bunmurmrbrhg..."

You opened your eyes and saw that Yoodle was looming over you, huge and ominous. He could fit in your place, because until the Yiggy was finished, you were staying in a rather swanky, rather mundane place. You were stunned at how much money that Andy had made for the Nine. Between the Stonewall Group and his various corporations and the media enterprise that Lisa was helping to put together...well, there was a lot of money coming in. You'd never really expected Lisa to be as invested in running her very own news company, but between her ability to find stories and her uncanny talent at picking the best possible people...well...

You had been walking with her through downtown New York one day, when she had just stopped this random dishwasher, threw a bundle of money at him, and said: "You're now a reporter, go to the Fox News headquarters, tell them I sent you, buy a nice suit."

And that guy? He was one of their best reporters now. When you'd asked Lisa how the fuck she had known that he'd be good, she had smiled smugly and said she'd had 'woman's intuition.'

Bah.

You rolled onto your back and then blinked as Rachel stuck her head out from above Yoodle's. She smiled, shyly, down at you.

"Hey," she says.

"Hey..." you say, quietly.

"Andy told me to wake you up in time, he wants...uh, negative matter? Or...something?" she says, sliding off Yoodle to land beside the bed. You groan.

"More...fucking...dumb..." You mumble.

"It's not that hard to make," Rachel says.

"Who told you that?" You grumble, then drag the blanket up and over your head.

"You did," Rachel says.

You grumble into the blanket. Then something huge and hinged closes around you. Yoodle has picked you up in his jaws and you wriggle. "Ack! No!" He's quite gentle, but he still carries you with ease, shaking his head and opening his jaws so that you tumble out of the blanket. You blunt the gravity before you hit the floor, and end up on your belly, looking at Rachel's feet. She uses her big toe to push your head up and looks into your eyes.

"...come on," she says.

"You're evil," you say.

"Yes," she says, looking away, then leaning down, bending herself almost in half, to kiss the top of your head. "Shower, now."

***
​

You walk into the Stonewall Tavern in a T-shirt and jeans, and find that Brian and Theo are having a meeting with some of the heads for the Queer Rights Alliance, who are both nodding as Theo says: "I think we really need to start working on, oh, hey Lilly!"

"Hey Lily!" Brian waves.

You smile at the two of them, walking over. "Sooo, how was the date?"

"You know, two hetero friends can go and see a movie together and not be a date, right?" Theo asks.

"It was good," Brian says.

"Yeah, it was good, but it was also not a date," Theo says. Brian snorts. You grin.

"You'll get him someday, Brian," you say.

"Whoa, hey!" Brian says. "I'm not interested in Theo."

"I thought you were gay," Theo says.

"Yeah, I got taste, though." Brian shoots back.

"God, just, kiss already!" You say, backing towards the stairs, then turning and starting upstairs. It was even odds as to whether or not Amy would be here or hanging with her baseline friends (with some overwatch from Tessa), and you found that neither of your bets were true, becuase while Amy wasn't here, one of her baseline friends were. At least, you were...pretty sure that this brunette girl sitting at Andy's work station was one of Amy's friends. You frowned, walking towards her.

"Hey," you say. "That's-"

The girl looked at you and you flushed. Okay. She's also cute, good to know.

"Took you long enough," she says. "Okay, ready for the negative matter?"

You blink.

The girl's face seems to...shift subtly in your perception. That jaw. That nose. Those eyes. You all recognize them. You just never saw them like this. "...Andy?" you ask.

"Yup!" she says, cheerfully.

"What the fuck?" you ask, blinking. "You're...on...the...what?" You shake yourself. "You were looking pretty cis yesterday, and I...why didn't you...tell me...you...on...HRT!?" You threw up your hands.

"Oh, I'm not on HRT," she says, shrugging. "I just asked Marsha for a gender swap fruit. She's thinking of making some trees that grow them all the time, rather than just making one per request, so we can get it really efficient for all the trans people out there. Or, like, genderqueer people and stuff." She smiles. "Want one?" She pulls out a small baggie, which has a quarter eaten orange that glows with a shimmering, pearlescent light. You gape at the orange, then look up at...Andy. At. Girl. Andy.

"What..."

"We've got three quarters of the fruit left," Andy says. "Enough to take, turn into a boy, then you can take another, turn back into a girl, and still have one left for me to swap back, if I feel like it. I have to admit? This, uh, this form is really neat." She smiles, down at her breasts, which she then cups. "Sensitive, though."

"Andy...I..." you blink, looking down at the fruit. I mean, if you can turn back. "Does it make...would that make me straight, though? Or would I be into men?"

Andy shrugs. "I dunno. I'm not into anyone, really."

"Oh, well, that does raise some questions about some of our activities," Tessa speaks from the console that she permanently lives in - though she can spread her intelligence through several cameras and microphones and such.

Andy's cheeks heat. "Anyway! Ready to work on the Loom?"

"Wait, are you two-" you point between Andy and Tessa...

And then Sabah bursts into the room, a clamor coming in after her. She was in her workshop, where she sewed new puppets, and the puppets she had waiting for their final touches were speaking to one another in a clear hubbub. "Guys!" she says. "I mean, girls, I mean, you two!" She says. "Get in here! NOW!"

You and Andy hurry forward and the three of you enter into Sabah's workshop. She has a really nice set up now, with several sewing machines working in tandem with her kinetic powers, and a huge TV that she can watch and put on in the background. The news she has on is CNN - she says that she finds watching Fox News 'kinda surreal and distracting' which...fair, considering how much of Lisa's obvious fingerprints were all over it. The announcer was speaking as seriously as he could.

"-found dead in the White House. According to a press release issued by his staff, President Johnson suffered an unexpected heart attack while alone in his office and passed away at his desk before being discovered by his aides. Vice President Humphry-"

You turn to Andy, gaping at her.

"When...did LBJ die...in the other timeline?" you whisper.

Andy knows, immediately.

"1973," he says. "A heart attack."

"Was it...the added stress?" Sabah asks.

"Added stress?" Andy asks, her voice shocked. "No! From every observation I made, LBJ was healthier than he had been in his life - he had conscious control over his every physiological reaction."

You gulp.

"What the hell do we do now?" Sabah asks.

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