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Technological Revolution System OR SV, you now have a library of an advanced Alien Civilization in your head!

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A Bunch Of Atoms said:
At this point I might as well ask about the rest of the powers.

How much does this augment our body? Is it based on how fit we currently are, or does it make us a certain amount of fit?
How much force can we exert using this? How long would an illusion created by this last?
Can a projection move? How far can projections be from us? Can we make multiple projections?
How many siblings can we have anyway?
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  • Fitness is based on what you have. At its most basic, it increases any physical ability twice.
  • Psychometry has molecule and atomic manipulation at its highest form. Obviously, you don't have that. But, the illusion lasts depending on how different the illusion is to the original. For changing ink shape on paper, You can already do that easily and don't need an illusion. So, it might as well be permanent.
  • You can make a projection move at the line of sight. You can only have 1 projection at this point.
  • You can only have 1 sibling.
 
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Well, my first thought on how to make money with superpowers would probably be to start a youtube channel after boosting our charisma, skill levels, or get some sort of technomancy powers. But that would require a computer which we most likely don't have access to, unless we can do that with a cheap smartphone.

We might be able to get a cheap smartphone for $5 to $30 depending on service provider, or get a used one. Depending on how a potential technomancy power would work, we could use it to write a mobile game, sell it on an app store, and get money from ads or lootbox shenanigans.

If not games, with a smartphone and technomancy we could potentially make all sorts of media like music, cartoons, video, etc to post on youtube or whatever and get some small amount of money that way.

Or do a bunch of lets plays or reviews on mobile games.
 
Night Sentinel said:
So what powers are you going to use to make money with? Note that due to being untrained you can barely control your powers. Thus, using a single one will consume all your psychic reserve which would regenerate in 15 days.
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Final question (probably).
Does this mean we can only use our power once, or that we can only currently use one type of power?
 
Totadileplayz said:
How does are creativitry stat affect psychokinesis?

Seeing as how it can change appearance, lottery tickets are actually easier to do then, paper money.
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Creativity affects the complexity of the illusion and the chance of making it real and how it lasts. And since it's just moving ink, you can change the lottery ticket permanently.

A Bunch Of Atoms said:
Final question (probably).
Does this mean we can only use our power once, or that we can only currently use one type of power?
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What you are doing is basically just pouring all your psionic power on a prepared psychic imprint to shape it. So, it meant you can only use your power once every 15 days until you fix it with training anyway. Since, its accidentally supercharging for the effect, I'll roll for bonus effectiveness. Example normally you can only see 5 minutes in the future ... if I roll 80 - 100, you can now see 10 minutes in the future. Stuff like that.
 
Rossum said:
Well, my first thought on how to make money with superpowers would probably be to start a youtube channel after boosting our charisma, skill levels, or get some sort of technomancy powers. But that would require a computer which we most likely don't have access to, unless we can do that with a cheap smartphone.

We might be able to get a cheap smartphone for $5 to $30 depending on service provider, or get a used one. Depending on how a potential technomancy power would work, we could use it to write a mobile game, sell it on an app store, and get money from ads or lootbox shenanigans.

If not games, with a smartphone and technomancy we could potentially make all sorts of media like music, cartoons, video, etc to post on youtube or whatever and get some small amount of money that way.

Or do a bunch of lets plays or reviews on mobile games.
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These are not bad options, but they all take a lot of our time. All these options are gambling, and even with the use of our abilities, it will take weeks before we begin to receive any income from this. Moreover, we still need start-up capital. Considering our family's situation, five dollars is a lot of money. What we are discussing now is the ability to get a certain amount quickly, preferably without getting into trouble.
 
We need to either obtain lots of money in a short time, or make some money consistently. Our power only has 1 use for the next 2 weeks, we should make the best of it. I suggest we use our power to get a job. They are legal (usually) and we can make money even without our powers. I haven't come up with any job ideas though.
 
A lottery Ticket Costs $1 so if we can find 4 quarters, we can make the money we need. And Since Night Sentinel Has affirmed it's literally just moving Ink, once we have that sum we should be set.
 
In the interest of allowing the quest to get off on a good start, I will disclose that there is a way to make money really quickly in the options that you guys have so far ignored. :)

One isn't even illegal!
 
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Eternal_0bserver said:
These are not bad options, but they all take a lot of our time. All these options are gambling, and even with the use of our abilities, it will take weeks before we begin to receive any income from this. Moreover, we still need start-up capital. Considering our family's situation, five dollars is a lot of money. What we are discussing now is the ability to get a certain amount quickly, preferably without getting into trouble.
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Other ideas:

Sell game keys - There was a Jimquesition episode once about a website that let people buy and sell keys for games on steam and other platforms, and it was full of hackers and shady people selling stolen or hacked keys.

If we're okay with doing shady stuff, we could use clairaudience or another power to acquire some of the codes/keys for games, sell them, and then use the money to buy food and stuff. It's a victimless crime if you don't count the developers who get shafted from lost sales and money they have to pay if the customer wants a refund (since the refund comes from the developer and not the person who sold the key).

Food bank or soup kitchen - If our main goal is to get food and not necessarily money to buy food, we can try going to a soup kitchen or help our parents apply for benefits like food stamps or whatnot.

Coupon clipping - Not sure how easy this would be with clairvoyance or multitasking, but if we can predict/locate special coupons or deals we might be able to help our parents with shopping and buy more food with what money we have.

Mine bitcoin? - Not sure if this would work, but bitcoins are mined using computational power and once somebody mines it then they can trade it.

A quick Google tells me that 1 bitcoin is currently valued at over 51,000 dollars for some reason, though I know bitcoins are usually split up into smaller units.

So, if we can use our psychic power to mine a bitcoin, we effectively legally own it with theft involved and 50 thousand dollars (or a fraction of that depending on how it works or how we decide it) can go a long way.

Whatever the case, it's going to be good for bitcoin.
 
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Night Sentinel said:
In the interest of allowing the quest to get off on a good start, I will disclose that there is a way to make money really quickly in the options that you guys have so far ignored. :)

One isn't even illegal!
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Night Sentinel said:
Example using fitness to do faith healing, memory to look at scratch cards, analysis to cheat at the casino, perception to look at a gambler's cards, creativity to make fake gold and multi-tasking to do hypnosis
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I suppose that the options you were talking about is hypnosis or faith healing ? Since in that list they are the only ones I haven't seen being mentioned.

The faith healing is interesting because it imply that we are using the fitness power on someone else. On the other hand I have trouble seeing how multi-tasking can help with hypnosis.
 
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Faucar said:
I suppose that the option you were talking is hypnosis or faith healing ? Since in that list they are the only ones I haven't seen being mentioned.

The faith healing is interesting because it imply that we are using the fitness power on someone else. On the other hand I have trouble seeing how multi-tasking can help with hypnosis.
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Regarding the option. It's more like every option but creativity. Not to say that creativity doesn't have a way to make money. It has a way. It just takes some "creativity" lol But, the easiest low hanging fruit is somewhere else.

On why hypnosis is on multi-tasking, It's because you're basically inserting a small part of your ego into the other person and dividing oneself is part of multi-tasking. Its how hypnosis (multitasking) is different from illusion (creativity). Illusion (creativity) is basically imposing another state over reality. If you have enough power and creativity, (change the arrangement of atoms, nudge a few molecular bonds, etc) you can even make your illusion permanent. On the other hand, hypnosis is making another person believe something that isn't really there by inserting thought/ego in another person. Its actually easier to do and once done right is a bit self-reinforcing.
 
Just throwing some ideas:
Night Sentinel said:
Look a few minutes somewhere remotely.
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Project oneself into a remote are for a few minutes
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if we want to go the illegal route those could probably be used to blackmail someone.

A theft idea:
If you can get someone to give you a check you can change the amount (or see their signature and then make a blank check).

If there is reward money for breaking physical records once the fitness power is stronger that could be done.

Another illegal idea(they are really easier to get...): if you steal a credit card that as been used less than a day ago, you can probably learn the code but the card will probably get blocked quickly... so bad idea.

If there is money to be made resolving/guessing problems/questions quickly then precognition or multi-tasking would be useful.

I have been brainstorming for 40 minutes I think I will stop there for now.

A few questions:
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boost the mind's analysis capability for a while
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Since we only have one point in analyse I suppose that "a while" is somewhere between an hour and a day ?
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know what happened a day before accessing the memory of the object
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Does that only tell us what happened to the object in the last day or also things around it ? Now that I think about it if the object is a computer can Memory be used to access the physical memory(even if it would most likely need improvement to the power to be able to understand it...) ?
 
Faucar said:
Since we only have one point in analyse I suppose that "a while" is somewhere between an hour and a day ?

Does that only tell us what happened to the object in the last day or also things around it ? Now that I think about it if the object is a computer can Memory be used to access the physical memory(even if it would most likely need improvement to the power to be able to understand it...) ?
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Regarding the boost in the mind in analysis. At this level, it works for a "scene" right now. Basically, you think of a question/idea and activate your psionic power. You would get insight and boost in cognitive function until you get your answer or your psionic power run out.

For non-living objects, you can see the memory of that object for a day. For example. you have a murder knife. You use your skill on it. You see the memory of that knife for a day as if you are the knife's perspective in a radius of 10 meters. On the computer, its the same.
Accessing the computer memory is another psionic skill from memory-related to mindreading. Probably will get you a lot of random information that the computer recently accessed unless you focus on a particular keyword/idea/concept. Then, related to that keyword/idea/concept. The same will happen with humans and animals. Just harder because consciousness gives an automatic protective barrier.
 
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Using basic Psionic Powers for Fun and Profit
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    • Using Basic Psionic Powers for Fun and Profit
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    Legal and Semi-legal ways your QM thinks you can use your starting load-out​

    To facilitate our voting process and to help familiarize the voters on ways you can earn money. Your QM is going to enumerate ways on how you can make lots of money just by your starting loadout. Go pick your poison or use these ideas for inspiration!

    • Fitness - Go and enter a fighting ring. Use your psychic power to enhance your body. Considering you look like a scrawny guy you'll get worse odd. Bet on yourself as well. There is the option of doping with psychic power your preferred fighter but that is noticeable and you might want to do it with someone trustworthy.
    • Memory - Go in the lotto/outlet stand. Use your psychometry powers on a bunch of stack cards on the stand. Pick the cards you can profit off.
    • Analysis - You can do much with just 5-minute precognition. At the casino, complete roulette games take less than 5 minutes. There is also short run horses that take less than 5 minutes. Go gamble. For maximum effect get a loan and then gamble.
    • Perception - Actually, this one is difficult lol. While technically, you can use this to maybe win in poker but probably only with one hand, and it's a bit iffy. Though, dowsing might prove fruitful. But, that's down to luck.
    • Creativity - Go to a museum, look at the painting. Buy, painting supplies, use psychokinesis to cheat, and make a bootleg painting using an "image", manipulating the paint to make the painting. Other stuff, is making murals, jewelry with intricate designs. Etc. Though, since this is the most visual power making a magic show as some voters suggested is fun once your practiced.
    • Multi-tasking - Go make a fundraiser. Find a rich person. Use hypnosis to get money. Though, another voters suggestion of getting a blank check is good too. Though there is a chance that person will hound you for it once they realized that their train of thought is wrong. lol
    Okay that's all I can think off. And don't forget to vote guys. This as well as your family composition!
     
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    • Night Sentinel said:
    Okay that's all I can think off. And don't forget to vote guys. This as well as your family composition!
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    Actually, if we go with having a sick/injured parent, can we use the fitness psy-enhancement power to cure them?

    Edit: I'll just do it anyway.

    [X] First Parent – Injury/Disease
    [X] Competent Parent – Male
    [X] Younger Brother

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    [X] (Write-in) Save your power for now
    -[X] Get a part-time job at a fast food restaurant, hopefully with an employee discount on food or get to take home some of the leftover burgers they would normally throw away.
     
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    Rossum said:
    Actually, if we go with having a sick/injured parent, can we use the fitness psy-enhancement power to cure them?
    [X] First Parent – Injury/Disease
    [X] Competent Parent – Male
    [X] Younger Brother

    [X] Fitness – Temporary boosting immune system. Increase physical capabilities.
    -[X] Use this power to cure our sick parent.
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    You can do that in the future. But, you only have the very basic level for psi enhancement at the moment which is definitely not enough to cure anything. If you want sick/injured parents, you can specify whatever sickness/injury it is as well.

    For bonus point, you can set it as a character goal to cure your parent thus giving me your QM free character arcs!
     
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    Night Sentinel said:
    You can do that in the future. But, you only have the very basic level for psi enhancement at the moment which is definitely not enough to cure anything. If you want sick/injured parents, you can specify whatever sickness/injury it is as well.

    For bonus point, you can set it as a character goal to cure your parent thus giving me your QM free character arcs!
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    How Exactly do we set it as a character goal? I mean i think everyone is choosing injury/disease to cure their parent.
     
    Totadileplayz said:
    How Exactly do we set it as a character goal? I mean i think everyone is choosing injury/disease to cure their parent.
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    It's more a jest actually. If you chose the injury/disease, your character is going to automatically going to try to cure their parent. Because that's in character.

    I'm more or less suggesting if you guys want to write in a specific disease like say. cancer. This will automatically mean that your character is going to try to cure cancer since they would want to save their parent. Or maybe missing legs, if you want to go and do prosthetics in the future?

    That said, it won't lock out your choices in the future. This just meant curing cancer or making prosthetics will be personal for Anthony.
     
    Night Sentinel said:
    It's more a jest actually. If you chose the injury/disease, your character is going to automatically going to try to cure their parent. Because that's in character.

    I'm more or less suggesting if you guys want to write in a specific disease like say. cancer. This will automatically mean that your character is going to try to cure cancer since they would want to save their parent. Or maybe missing legs, if you want to go and do prosthetics in the future?

    That said, it won't lock out your choices in the future. This just meant curing cancer or making prosthetics will be personal for Anthony.
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    Ah got it.
    Ondine's Curse
    I'm nominating Ondine's Curse, and updating my vote.
     
    Totadileplayz said:
    How Exactly do we set it as a character goal? I mean i think everyone is choosing injury/disease to cure their parent.
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    Honestly... since we only get one use of our power every 15 days, and the thing we're really needing to properly bind to our system is nutrients, I think instead of going for big flashy get-rich-quick schemes we would be served just as well getting a source of food. Or getting a job like a normal teenager and saving our "once every two weeks" power for an emergency or opportunity.

    Like, we can get a part time job mowing lawns, working fast food, a retail job, a lifeguard at the local pool or beach, etc and make money that way. It won't be big bucks but we should get a stable income to afford better food/nutrients for ourselves and help out our family how we can. We really just need enough money to afford food to build up reserves so our alien library can fully bond with us and get better powers. Once we're not starving and have more developed powers then we can think about pulling off heists and stuff.

    Soo... part of my reasoning for going with an injured parent is that I don't see a reason why we'd need to use up our cool power on a get-rich-quick scheme when what we really need to do is get a part time job (which we can get without powers). If we don't need powers to get money, might as well send some of that cool psychic power over to curing a sick person... which in this case would be our parent (who once cured can help our family out and probably help us with getting those sweet sweet nutrients we need).

    Night Sentinel said:
    On why hypnosis is on multi-tasking, It's because you're basically inserting a small part of your ego into the other person and dividing oneself is part of multi-tasking. Its how hypnosis (multitasking) is different from illusion (creativity). Illusion (creativity) is basically imposing another state over reality. If you have enough power and creativity, (change the arrangement of atoms, nudge a few molecular bonds, etc) you can even make your illusion permanent. On the other hand, hypnosis is making another person believe something that isn't really there by inserting thought/ego in another person. Its actually easier to do and once done right is a bit self-reinforcing.
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    I suppose another way to use our powers to help our family life would be to have a deadbeat parent and then use hypnosis to cure/help/mind control them into being more productive to deal with their psychological problems. Granted, at our current level the effect would be temporary so it's not like we can mind-whammy an alcoholic parent into sobering up and get a job so then can feed us.

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    Changed my vote. I think we should save our power and try to get a part-time job at a fast-food restaurant. Hopefully one were we get an employee discount on food or can take home some of the leftover food at the end of the day.
     
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    Night Sentinel said:
    Sadly. The backstory for your character conflicts with Ondine's curse.
    From what I know to live with Ondine's curse you basically need a ventilator and those are expensive? Unless, there is some other way, I'm not that familiar with the disease.
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    We have established we are poor. A Ventilator further explains why we are poor. Since not only is a parent unable to work, but more resources are drained to tend to them. We have not established what kind of job if any our solo parent has, so they might be making more money then average but has greater expenses they must tend to.
     
    Totadileplayz said:
    We have established we are poor. A Ventilator further explains why we are poor. Since not only is a parent unable to work, but more resources are drained to tend to them. We have not established what kind of job if any our solo parent has, so they might be making more money then average but has greater expenses they must tend to.
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    Good point. If it's chosen, I'll have to bump up the job of a competent parent. hmmm....
     
    I forgot to vote for family so i'll do that.

    [X] First Parent – Injury/Disease
    [X] Competent Parent – Female
    [X] Younger Sister
     
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