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[X][Powah] Telekinesis
- Ability to manipulate pressure at a distance to move objects
- Highly versatile, has potential to replicate many other effects if developed in certain directions

IIRC people were able to do ridiculous stuff like putting their body in molecular stasis with tk at level 4(?), just imagine a level 5
 
[X][Powah] Psychometry

I don't like being vulnerable to Mental Out one bit, but remember that we're also dealing with a world where Grimoires and ancient relics are a thing. That's why I'll back this.

Clairvoyance too maybe if the vote swing that way.

We got a tally of the previous vote before we go overriding everything with this one?
 
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[X][Powah] Clairvoyance

I like the idea of being some sort of seer but if it ends up being between photonhand and telekinesis like it seems then I'd rather go with TK.

Also. Not gonna lie QM I thought about what powers we were going to be getting and thought you'd just decide that on your own so this comes as bit of a surprise.
 
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I hope Photon hand doesn't get limited to 'meltdowner' type effects (Assuming it gets picked), because photons are so much more then that, bending light to appear somewhere else, moving light to make a place dark, blinding people, making illusions / Invisibility, enhanced sight/seeing around corners, radio waves, Hacking through wifi and maybe heating/light electromaster effects. It sort of combines the utility of a telekinesis power but it is more fun to read and less over-done.
Alternatively could make for a good side-character.
 
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[X][Powah] Photon hand

Also in addtion you can do Hard Light stuff and the only limit to that is your Imagination, that and being a Stealth flyer would be so cool!
 
... Eh. Esper powers are basically just another magic system in the setting when you get down to it. What's done to Espers basically makes them into spirits and while a lot of physics applies in how they use their powers, there's a lot that just works because it works that way.

What I'm saying is think about how the powers could be used by someone thinking scientifically, but don't expect everything to work.

... Also, if you want to go full science, explain psychometry. Or telepathy.

Just... don't expect to do all of that just cause its labeled photon control.
 
ShadowAngelBeta said:
... Eh. Esper powers are basically just another magic system in the setting when you get down to it. What's done to Espers basically makes them into spirits and while a lot of physics applies in how they use their powers, there's a lot that just works because it works that way.

What I'm saying is think about how the powers could be used by someone thinking scientifically, but don't expect everything to work.

... Also, if you want to go full science, explain psychometry. Or telepathy.

Just... don't expect to do all of that just cause its labeled photon control.
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According to the wiki...

Telepathy works through air manipulation to create 'pressure tubes'

...somehow
 
Lunaryon said:
According to the wiki...

Telepathy works through air manipulation to create 'pressure tubes'

...somehow
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Well...As best I can tell, each user of a given power won't necessarily do it the same way*. Mental out works through brain fluid IIRC, and I'd be surprised if there weren't people who just used bioelectricity.

*or, rather, multiple different powers are called the same thing, at least colloquially.
 
Ah. Better way to put it.

Esper powers are literally troll logic.

I'm not kidding. Each power works because that's how the Esper sees the reality they live in working.

Now granted that isn't easy to change. Cause you'd have to completely convince yourself down is up or something similar, but... yeah.
 
So I have information that you guys do not know in character and it could pretty heavily swing the votes.

I have been trying to decide whether to inform you guys or not, and a few friends suggested telling you that I have this info and seeing whether you are even interested in knowing the big reveal of the System Scan ahead of time before potentially spoiling the reveal.
 
Uhh... That's always a bit of a hard call I think... Is it like something that makes some of these a trap option almost? I would think not with just them being offered at all still.

I know the System Scan also kind of rates by its own priorities. If you're not useful to them then you're going to end up a lower level on paper than you actually are.

... I really don't know what to advise here.
 
It's not a trap or anything like that, but it would affect which power you end up voting for due to... something in relation to your personal Reality
 
Psychometry is limited only to the past? No possibility of forseeing the future, or hopefully at the higher end, dictating future events?

And no teleports? ;_;
 
Lunaryon said:
It's not a trap or anything like that, but it would affect which power you end up voting for due to... something in relation to your personal Reality
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As long as it's not something like ''oh if you'd taken this particular ability it would have been way stronger but oh well tough luck'' then i think it's fine to leave the surprise as a surprise.
 
Stasis said:
As long as it's not something like ''oh if you'd taken this particular ability it would have been way stronger but oh well tough luck'' then i think it's fine to leave the surprise as a surprise.
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And even that's hard to apply. We have some indirect powers here that could be more powerful than any of the direct ones if we can leverage them right.

We're already dealing with a vote where the choices are not all equal really, excluding QM intervention anyway.

We've already been told we can get to Level 5 with any of them, though even that varies a lot because, as I said above, the System Scan has its own priorities in Esper powers.
 
ShadowAngelBeta said:
And even that's hard to apply. We have some indirect powers here that could be more powerful than any of the direct ones if we can leverage them right.

We're already dealing with a vote where the choices are not all equal really, excluding QM intervention anyway.

We've already been told we can get to Level 5 with any of them, though even that varies a lot because, as I said above, the System Scan has its own priorities in Esper powers.
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I meant stronger as more some extra bonus that the other choices wouldn't get an equivalent to rather than combat strength, but yeah i get you. You can't really compare, say, telekinesis and clairvoyance with each other.

Edit: As long as we don't get it shoved in our faces that we made some sort of ''suboptimal'' choice then i don't mind.
 
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If it influences it by making something more or less fun or interesting, please tell us. If it just makes something more powerful, don't bother.
 
I agree with mellithae here, its a good metric to decide what's insider info and whats not. And before the info is or is not revealed I might as well vote and maybe change it later. I figure I'll also post some possible uses and developments of various powers.

[X] Psychometry
Always down for the more irregular powers.
We could pull some emiya shirou shenanigans and learn the techniques of the owners that own the things we touch. Or control anything we touch what with the technometry implications.

[] Telepathy
Possible body swapping, A mental dive ability, and forced therapy that may or may not render people powerless (and possibly the opposite). The biggest thing, and I'm really tempted, is brain surgery stuff in which we can fix touma's misaki focused amnesia, which I want to do.

[] Clairvoyance
Precognition, but probably not considering this is a quest and would get really meta. Not just seeing wherever, but whoever, maybe some vaguely described solution to a problem. Maybe we can the see the source of a problem like an xray that makes malfunctioning small parts glow.

[] Telekinesis
Vector contol crazily enough, don't want to just have someone else's power though. Microkinesis for some invisible blade shenanigans, and again brain surgery for brain problem affected individuals.

[] Electromaster
Weather control and other ion based stuff. A bigger magnet focus. And mind control stuff.

[] Photonhand
Hitting the whole light spectrum, invisibility and solid light shenanigans.
 
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ShadowAngelBeta said:
Wouldn't she be inclined to develop a power in line with her personal reality? Or the other way around.

Its kind of why I was expecting the power to be pre-determined.
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Well this may be too close to spoilerage in and of itself, but I can't answer that without spoiling things, however I will say it has connections to why Magic is still on the table.
 
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