Author's Note: I may be biting off more than I can chew, but here it is. My own contribution to...
A Game of Supers (The Gamer/Original Superhero Setting)
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Author's Note: I may be biting off more than I can chew, but here it is. My own contribution to the Gamer fic genre. This time, the ability works in a pretty different manner. There are no levels, quests, grinding, eating books or things like that. The only thing the ability does is tell you what skills you have and praise you when you get better at them. This alone is more than enough to make it an amazing ability, as you'll hopefully see in time. Let's start, then.
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Your name is Iara, you are fourteen years old and you have a pretty strange superpower.
Okay, let's back up a little. There are worlds where having any superpower at all is pretty strange, but you don't live on one of them. In fact, the world you live in is positively crawling with superpowered individuals, ultratechnology, magical powers, psychic powers and even more esoteric stuff.
And still, you are pretty sure your power is pretty up there in terms of strangeness.
Essentially, your power catalogers the skills you know and alerts you when you get better at one of them. Initially, you even seriously wondered whether your ability even qualified as a "super" power, since it didn't seem to be all that amazing.
However, that all changed when you discovered one amazing fact about your power.
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"Strange... Why I am not getting any more 'experience'?" You said.
You had been repeating the same punch over and over, as part of your Muay Thai training. It wasn't anything serious, but you always felt nice whenever you heard the little noise and message of 'experience gained' that sounded on your mind when you were improving.
However, it seemed to have stopped. Until, somewhat frustrated, you threw a much wider punch than before.
'Experience gained'
The sound came again, and that got you confused. Why would such a sloppy punch give experience when the better punches didn't?
-0-
Eventually, you did a few tests, and the results showed that you had really underestimated your own ability.
Doing all kinds of different variations on the attacks gave more experience (there wasn't a numerical thing, but you could tell), and repeating attacks slowly started to give you less and less experience, until it ran out.
The conclusion you reached was that getting experience wasn't simply a matter of repeating motions continuously, but instead, every single new move and every single variation you trained counted as extra 'skill', and repeating the movements was simply 'mastering' them, getting enough skill that you could replicate them perfectly no matter the situation, and when they were already mastered, it made sense that repeating them wouldn't give you anything else.
This discovery led to an entire week when you were absorbed in the development of your skill. Quickly, you began to understand more and more. You started to deliberately vary your attacks in terms of height, angle, power, and everything you could think of. You began attacking while moving in several different ways, and you began training several different things at the same time. You experience gains started to increase dramatically.
You got the feeling that this kind of improvement was something that simply couldn't be matched by any standard training regimen. It was like having an absolute master who also had intimate knowledge of your body, was constantly guiding your efforts and always knew when you had learned something properly, thus allowing you to go to the next part immediately. You could literally feel yourself getting stronger.
You decided to abandon your Muay Thai lessons, because that kind of sudden improvement would be pretty much impossible to explain, but you still wanted to get better, so you had to get creative.
You looked up videos of matches and demonstrations, you pored through old manuals, and you even did a few tests yourself, always guided by that short 'experience gained' message. And when even that wasn't enough, you started doing "shadow boxing", imagining all kinds of different opponents and scenarios to sharpen your skills.
You even got a new skill for it:
Shadow Boxing Level 10
- The skill to create mental scenarios that help the user in training. At this level, you can create the images of any opponent you have an adequate amount of information on, to a level where it is almost like actually facing them.
But of course, your main goal was to reach as far as you could with your Muay Thai skills, and you definitely outdid yourself.
Muay Thai Level 15
- A martial art developed for warfare, born in the country of Thailand, then known as Siam. At this level, you can be considered a near master, with skills on the level of soldiers who actually used it in battle in times past.
And while you were working with attacks using your off-hand, you ended up getting yet another skill, this time one that seemed pretty generally useful, and so you trained it seriously.
Ambidexterity Level 9
- Some people are born being able to use both arms with equal dexterity. But what most people don't know is that it is also possible to develop that sort of dexterity with sufficient training. At this level, you can use your left hand with decent skill.
And after that week, you decided something important. Your power was definitely something impressive, and it would be enough for you to stand out in the world of supers.
Supers. People with abilities and skills that went beyond the norm. They were an important part of the history of the world, with the first records of supers dating back to the 1600s, but it was only in the last century that they started really becoming common.
The most powerful supers were names known by everyone all over the world. Heroes like Darkness Princess, Maelstrom and the Four Guardians. Villains like Principality, Victory and the Flow Group. You knew that you were still far behind the level of those titans, but you hoped to one day be counted among them.
And of course, you were going to be...
[] A Hero...
-[] … That protects people. You don't want others to suffer.
-[] … That defeats villains. You want to punish the wicked.
[] A Villain...
-[] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
-[] … That follows their desires. You're not sure what you want, but none will hinder you.
Of course, there was also the possibility of being a neutral, but you simply rejected that out of hand. You were not sure if your power has influenced you, or this had simply been the way you were all along, and you didn't particularly care, but the idea of not using your abilities directly in the struggle between heroes and villains simply seemed to be anathema to you.
And considering that you would have to do things one at a time, it would be worth it to do some research on the local superpower scene, so that you didn't go into things completely blind. But what should you research first?
[] The Heroes
[] The Villains
Also, you wanted to start soon, but you didn't want to start immediately. Just to start, you still needed to make a costume, and there were so many skills you could develop as well.
[] Write-in costume appearance (or post an image)
So, besides making a costume, what should be your plans for next week? (Choose two)
[] Focus on raising the level of the skills you already developed. (Will raise one level of Muay Thai, two levels of Shadow Boxing and two levels of Ambidexterity)
[] Learn another martial art.
-[] Taekwondo
-[] Jeet Kune Do
-[] Karate
-[] Write-in
[] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[] Lock picking
-[] Acting
-[] Self-Hypnosis
-[] Acrobatics/Parkour
-[] Write-in
[] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
[] Write-in.
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Your name is Iara, you are fourteen years old and you have a pretty strange superpower.
Okay, let's back up a little. There are worlds where having any superpower at all is pretty strange, but you don't live on one of them. In fact, the world you live in is positively crawling with superpowered individuals, ultratechnology, magical powers, psychic powers and even more esoteric stuff.
And still, you are pretty sure your power is pretty up there in terms of strangeness.
Essentially, your power catalogers the skills you know and alerts you when you get better at one of them. Initially, you even seriously wondered whether your ability even qualified as a "super" power, since it didn't seem to be all that amazing.
However, that all changed when you discovered one amazing fact about your power.
-0-
"Strange... Why I am not getting any more 'experience'?" You said.
You had been repeating the same punch over and over, as part of your Muay Thai training. It wasn't anything serious, but you always felt nice whenever you heard the little noise and message of 'experience gained' that sounded on your mind when you were improving.
However, it seemed to have stopped. Until, somewhat frustrated, you threw a much wider punch than before.
'Experience gained'
The sound came again, and that got you confused. Why would such a sloppy punch give experience when the better punches didn't?
-0-
Eventually, you did a few tests, and the results showed that you had really underestimated your own ability.
Doing all kinds of different variations on the attacks gave more experience (there wasn't a numerical thing, but you could tell), and repeating attacks slowly started to give you less and less experience, until it ran out.
The conclusion you reached was that getting experience wasn't simply a matter of repeating motions continuously, but instead, every single new move and every single variation you trained counted as extra 'skill', and repeating the movements was simply 'mastering' them, getting enough skill that you could replicate them perfectly no matter the situation, and when they were already mastered, it made sense that repeating them wouldn't give you anything else.
This discovery led to an entire week when you were absorbed in the development of your skill. Quickly, you began to understand more and more. You started to deliberately vary your attacks in terms of height, angle, power, and everything you could think of. You began attacking while moving in several different ways, and you began training several different things at the same time. You experience gains started to increase dramatically.
You got the feeling that this kind of improvement was something that simply couldn't be matched by any standard training regimen. It was like having an absolute master who also had intimate knowledge of your body, was constantly guiding your efforts and always knew when you had learned something properly, thus allowing you to go to the next part immediately. You could literally feel yourself getting stronger.
You decided to abandon your Muay Thai lessons, because that kind of sudden improvement would be pretty much impossible to explain, but you still wanted to get better, so you had to get creative.
You looked up videos of matches and demonstrations, you pored through old manuals, and you even did a few tests yourself, always guided by that short 'experience gained' message. And when even that wasn't enough, you started doing "shadow boxing", imagining all kinds of different opponents and scenarios to sharpen your skills.
You even got a new skill for it:
Shadow Boxing Level 10
- The skill to create mental scenarios that help the user in training. At this level, you can create the images of any opponent you have an adequate amount of information on, to a level where it is almost like actually facing them.
But of course, your main goal was to reach as far as you could with your Muay Thai skills, and you definitely outdid yourself.
Muay Thai Level 15
- A martial art developed for warfare, born in the country of Thailand, then known as Siam. At this level, you can be considered a near master, with skills on the level of soldiers who actually used it in battle in times past.
And while you were working with attacks using your off-hand, you ended up getting yet another skill, this time one that seemed pretty generally useful, and so you trained it seriously.
Ambidexterity Level 9
- Some people are born being able to use both arms with equal dexterity. But what most people don't know is that it is also possible to develop that sort of dexterity with sufficient training. At this level, you can use your left hand with decent skill.
And after that week, you decided something important. Your power was definitely something impressive, and it would be enough for you to stand out in the world of supers.
Supers. People with abilities and skills that went beyond the norm. They were an important part of the history of the world, with the first records of supers dating back to the 1600s, but it was only in the last century that they started really becoming common.
The most powerful supers were names known by everyone all over the world. Heroes like Darkness Princess, Maelstrom and the Four Guardians. Villains like Principality, Victory and the Flow Group. You knew that you were still far behind the level of those titans, but you hoped to one day be counted among them.
And of course, you were going to be...
[] A Hero...
-[] … That protects people. You don't want others to suffer.
-[] … That defeats villains. You want to punish the wicked.
[] A Villain...
-[] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
-[] … That follows their desires. You're not sure what you want, but none will hinder you.
Of course, there was also the possibility of being a neutral, but you simply rejected that out of hand. You were not sure if your power has influenced you, or this had simply been the way you were all along, and you didn't particularly care, but the idea of not using your abilities directly in the struggle between heroes and villains simply seemed to be anathema to you.
And considering that you would have to do things one at a time, it would be worth it to do some research on the local superpower scene, so that you didn't go into things completely blind. But what should you research first?
[] The Heroes
[] The Villains
Also, you wanted to start soon, but you didn't want to start immediately. Just to start, you still needed to make a costume, and there were so many skills you could develop as well.
[] Write-in costume appearance (or post an image)
So, besides making a costume, what should be your plans for next week? (Choose two)
[] Focus on raising the level of the skills you already developed. (Will raise one level of Muay Thai, two levels of Shadow Boxing and two levels of Ambidexterity)
[] Learn another martial art.
-[] Taekwondo
-[] Jeet Kune Do
-[] Karate
-[] Write-in
[] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[] Lock picking
-[] Acting
-[] Self-Hypnosis
-[] Acrobatics/Parkour
-[] Write-in
[] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
[] Write-in.
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Character Sheet
Name: Iara Medea
Age: 14
Thanks to Lazyminx for the image.
Skill List:
Shadow Boxing Level 17
- The skill to create mental scenarios that help the user in training. At this level, you can create the images of any opponent imaginable, and also create the images of complex situations with small details.
Muay Thai Level 20
- A martial art developed for warfare, born in the country of Thailand, then known as Siam. At this level, you have comprehended the very essence of the art, and reached the very limits of what can be called Muay Thai.
Ambidexterity Level 17
- Some people are born being able to use both arms with equal dexterity. But what most people don't know is that it is also possible to develop that sort of dexterity with sufficient training. At this level, you can use both hands with precision rivaling those of experts in handcrafts.
Acting Level 20
- The skill to act out a role, in a way that can fool viewers. At this level, your acting prowess can be called perfect, with only supernatural means being able to detect your true self.
Meditation Level 20
- The skill to reach inside yourself and obtain a better understanding of your own mind and behavior. At this level, meditation is not any more thought intensive than simple rest, and your level of self-knowledge has attained the point of mastery.
Cloth Work Level 12
- The skill to work with thread able fibers such as wool and silk, altering and manipulating designs to suit your purposes. At this level, you can adjust your designs based on the situation and still achieve great effects.
Survey Level 12
- The skill to observe places and determine information from them. At this level, you can already be considered an urban recon specialist, but you still have things to learn.
Knife Combat Level 17
- The skill to handle a knife effectively in combat. At this level, you are a knife master, having reached a level of precision with your knife work that can be considered an art in itself.
Self-hypnosis Level 14
- The ability to put oneself into a suggestionable state and implanting triggers to manipulate their consciousness. At this level, you can influence yourself to a certain point even without external aids, and with them, you can create suggestions that go extremely far.
Parkour Level 15
- The skill to move fast through a complicated series of obstacles, like a city. At this level, you are beginning to take parkour to a level beyond any actual practioner, given that it is a young art.
Disguise Level 16
- The skill to conceal your true appearance by faking another one. At this level, given enough resources, you could even pretend to be a specific person with a great chance of avoiding exposure.
Lock picking Level 13
- The ability to break through locks and related security. At this level, you can easily and quickly get through any most locks with very little equipment needed and you can pinpoint security flaws on most places.
Cold Reading Level 15
- The skill to gather information on people based on even the tiniest details. At this level, you are capable of picking up information from someone even through the smallest details, and even if they are trying to hide it from you.
Mental Discipline Level 9
- The skill to maximize the potential of your mind. At this level, you can memorize things with no effort, and sort information into distinct groups for easy access.
Animal Taming Level 1
- The skill to teach animals skills and behaviors that they are smart enough to learn. At this level, you understand a bit about taming, but even the simplest tricks are beyond your teaching capacity.
Personal Manipulation Level 7
- The skill to understand what makes people tick and how to make them tick your way. At this level, you can seize opportunities to manipulate people based on their emotional state, with a big chance of success.
Exotic Technology Level 1
- The skill to understand and reproduce technology beyond your knowledge. At this level, you can understand basic information about how something works if you have time to do tests.
Mastery List:
The Fist of Aggression
- The essence of Muay Thai are the fierce attacks aimed at quickly disabling opponents. By reaching this essence, you are now instinctively aware of the most efficient ways of causing damage to opponents, even when not using Muay Thai.
The Glass Mask
- The essence of Acting is assuming a role without losing oneself. Upon reaching that essence, it is like you have an invisible mask that can hide your true self. It is now like you have two different minds, one on the surface and one deeper down, and that second one is harder to reach from the outside, making it an amazing mental defense, among other qualities.
The Shard of Self
- By seeing the self as multifaceted, you can now recognize the Gamer ability as something both from within and without yourself. This realization will be important for your future path.
Age: 14
Thanks to Lazyminx for the image.
Skill List:
Shadow Boxing Level 17
- The skill to create mental scenarios that help the user in training. At this level, you can create the images of any opponent imaginable, and also create the images of complex situations with small details.
Muay Thai Level 20
- A martial art developed for warfare, born in the country of Thailand, then known as Siam. At this level, you have comprehended the very essence of the art, and reached the very limits of what can be called Muay Thai.
Ambidexterity Level 17
- Some people are born being able to use both arms with equal dexterity. But what most people don't know is that it is also possible to develop that sort of dexterity with sufficient training. At this level, you can use both hands with precision rivaling those of experts in handcrafts.
Acting Level 20
- The skill to act out a role, in a way that can fool viewers. At this level, your acting prowess can be called perfect, with only supernatural means being able to detect your true self.
Meditation Level 20
- The skill to reach inside yourself and obtain a better understanding of your own mind and behavior. At this level, meditation is not any more thought intensive than simple rest, and your level of self-knowledge has attained the point of mastery.
Cloth Work Level 12
- The skill to work with thread able fibers such as wool and silk, altering and manipulating designs to suit your purposes. At this level, you can adjust your designs based on the situation and still achieve great effects.
Survey Level 12
- The skill to observe places and determine information from them. At this level, you can already be considered an urban recon specialist, but you still have things to learn.
Knife Combat Level 17
- The skill to handle a knife effectively in combat. At this level, you are a knife master, having reached a level of precision with your knife work that can be considered an art in itself.
Self-hypnosis Level 14
- The ability to put oneself into a suggestionable state and implanting triggers to manipulate their consciousness. At this level, you can influence yourself to a certain point even without external aids, and with them, you can create suggestions that go extremely far.
Parkour Level 15
- The skill to move fast through a complicated series of obstacles, like a city. At this level, you are beginning to take parkour to a level beyond any actual practioner, given that it is a young art.
Disguise Level 16
- The skill to conceal your true appearance by faking another one. At this level, given enough resources, you could even pretend to be a specific person with a great chance of avoiding exposure.
Lock picking Level 13
- The ability to break through locks and related security. At this level, you can easily and quickly get through any most locks with very little equipment needed and you can pinpoint security flaws on most places.
Cold Reading Level 15
- The skill to gather information on people based on even the tiniest details. At this level, you are capable of picking up information from someone even through the smallest details, and even if they are trying to hide it from you.
Mental Discipline Level 9
- The skill to maximize the potential of your mind. At this level, you can memorize things with no effort, and sort information into distinct groups for easy access.
Animal Taming Level 1
- The skill to teach animals skills and behaviors that they are smart enough to learn. At this level, you understand a bit about taming, but even the simplest tricks are beyond your teaching capacity.
Personal Manipulation Level 7
- The skill to understand what makes people tick and how to make them tick your way. At this level, you can seize opportunities to manipulate people based on their emotional state, with a big chance of success.
Exotic Technology Level 1
- The skill to understand and reproduce technology beyond your knowledge. At this level, you can understand basic information about how something works if you have time to do tests.
Mastery List:
The Fist of Aggression
- The essence of Muay Thai are the fierce attacks aimed at quickly disabling opponents. By reaching this essence, you are now instinctively aware of the most efficient ways of causing damage to opponents, even when not using Muay Thai.
The Glass Mask
- The essence of Acting is assuming a role without losing oneself. Upon reaching that essence, it is like you have an invisible mask that can hide your true self. It is now like you have two different minds, one on the surface and one deeper down, and that second one is harder to reach from the outside, making it an amazing mental defense, among other qualities.
The Shard of Self
- By seeing the self as multifaceted, you can now recognize the Gamer ability as something both from within and without yourself. This realization will be important for your future path.
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- Location
- Brazil
[X] A Villain...
-[X] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
[X] The Heroes
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
-[X] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
[X] The Heroes
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
wertsir
Knower of the Unknown
- Location
- Lost in A Deep Fog
[X] A Villain...
-[X] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acrobatics/Parkour
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
Villainy is the way for me. (Pathetic little heroes are so predictable).
Acrobatics and Parkour will be needed to remain mobile in an urban environment, and knowing the city is both important, and will require time to complete, so we should get started on it now.
I want to increase our existing skills, but that is less important than mobility or research, so we should at least get parkour now so that we can increase it's level along with the others next turn.
-[X] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acrobatics/Parkour
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
Villainy is the way for me. (Pathetic little heroes are so predictable).
Acrobatics and Parkour will be needed to remain mobile in an urban environment, and knowing the city is both important, and will require time to complete, so we should get started on it now.
I want to increase our existing skills, but that is less important than mobility or research, so we should at least get parkour now so that we can increase it's level along with the others next turn.
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- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] A Hero...
-[X] … That protects people. You don't want others to suffer.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
-[X] … That protects people. You don't want others to suffer.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
- Location
- Somewhere
[X] A Villain...
-[X] … That follows their desires. You're not sure what you want, but none will hinder you.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
-[X] … That follows their desires. You're not sure what you want, but none will hinder you.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
- Location
- Portland
[X] A Hero...
-[X] … That protects people. You don't want others to suffer.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
-[X] … That protects people. You don't want others to suffer.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
Ghostdevil
The Devil of Ghosts
- Location
- United States
[X] A Villain...
-[X] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
[X] The Villains
-[X] Acrobatics/Parkour
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
-[X] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
[X] The Villains
-[X] Acrobatics/Parkour
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
- Location
- United states of america
[X] A Hero...
-[X] … That protects people. You don't want others to suffer.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
-[X] … That protects people. You don't want others to suffer.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
ConfusedPotato
Unverified Verifier
- Location
- Australia
[X] A Villain...
-[X] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
[X] The Heroes
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
-[X] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
[X] The Heroes
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
Ambit
Help me
- Location
- Third Circle of Hell
[X] A Hero...
-[X] … That protects people. You don't want others to suffer.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
-[X] … That protects people. You don't want others to suffer.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
[X] A Villain...
-[X] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
[X] The Heroes
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acrobatics/Parkour
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
-[X] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
[X] The Heroes
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acrobatics/Parkour
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
You're missing a '[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill'
- Location
- Sweden
[X] A Villain...
-[X] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
[X] The Heroes
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acrobatics/Parkour
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
-[X] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
[X] The Heroes
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acrobatics/Parkour
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
BBBence1111
Harbinger of Bad Luck
- Location
- Magyarország
[x] wertsir
Villains are so much more interesting than heroes. And we'll get more chances to improve since we'll be against heroes and other villains.
Villains are so much more interesting than heroes. And we'll get more chances to improve since we'll be against heroes and other villains.
[X] A Villain...
-[X] … That follows their desires. You're not sure what you want, but none will hinder you.
[X] The Heroes
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
-[X] … That follows their desires. You're not sure what you want, but none will hinder you.
[X] The Heroes
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
- Location
- St. Petersburg
[X] A Villain...
-[X] … That follows their desires. You're not sure what you want, but none will hinder you.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
-[X] … That follows their desires. You're not sure what you want, but none will hinder you.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
- Location
- Home
[X] A Hero...
-[X] … That protects people. You don't want others to suffer.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
-[X] … That protects people. You don't want others to suffer.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
- Location
- California
[X] A Villain...
-[X] … That follows their desires. You're not sure what you want, but none will hinder you.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
Now we don't have to be restricted by overt morals, and neither are we forced to take over the world. We can still help whoever the heck we want, and completely disregard the law while doing so
-[X] … That follows their desires. You're not sure what you want, but none will hinder you.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
Now we don't have to be restricted by overt morals, and neither are we forced to take over the world. We can still help whoever the heck we want, and completely disregard the law while doing so
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[X] A Villain...
-[X] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
You have always felt a desire for power and control. And now that you had the opportunity, it would be sad if you didn't try to take over the world, or at least as much of it as you were able to.
And with your motivation set, you had three things to work on for the rest of the week (besides going to school, which was a necessity as long as you lived in your parent's house). The first of them was researching the local villains.
They would be your first rivals once you entered the super villain world, and researching them would help understand some of the strategies and tactics that would be useful for you in the future. And essentially, there were four villains of note who were currently active in the city.
The first and most straightforward one was Rampage, a brute with super strength, durability and the ability to create explosions from his hands. He was a thief who most often stole jewelry, but he also had a lucrative side job as a "distractor", attacking someplace to draw the attention of the heroes while his client did his own thing. He was the most successful of all the supers in the city, in the sense that he got to act all around the country and fought all kinds of battles.
The second one was Inscrutable. A mad scientist type whose specialty lay in recycling, being able to use all sorts of materials to build her inventions. Despite that, she wasn't that impressive, specially in comparison to the top tier inventors in the world, like Dr. Mechana and Supreme Commander. Her style of inventions was standard, based around shields, laser beams and robots. Her crimes were mostly focused around trying to obtain territory.
The third was Mystic Mind. A rare type who possessed both psychic and magical abilities, she was much less impressive than that made it sound, being a small city villain. Her magical abilities were focused around flame, ice and earth spells, while her psychic abilities were mostly limited to telekinesis, though she could also read a person's mind via touch. She was apparently insane and her criminal acts ranged from random killings to acts of property destruction, all ordered by her "master", according to her.
Finally, the fourth was Light Mistress. Her power was the ability to turn light solid and form it into shapes she could manipulate. She was the most popular of the villains in the city, since her criminal acts tended to be more along the lines of threatening restaurants for free food and stealing parts of the sidewalk. Apparently she was the type who enjoyed the attention, including the fights against the heroes.
All in all, there were a lot of opportunities to be found, but they were definitely not something to be underestimated.
Another thing you did during the week was explore the city. You didn't get all that much done, mostly figuring out how the different areas in the city worked. Though you did manage to discover a place that was renting out trailer-sized storage spaces, which could be a good thing to have if you could get enough money.
But going back to generalities, the city could be divided into six spaces: One was the administrative area, with the mayor hall and other buildings of the type. Another was the commercial/residential zone, with small and medium businesses sharing space with habitations, along with two shopping centers in different places. A third was the "rich area", a gated community with a huge amount of mansions. Yet another was the 'poor' part of town, where not a lot of the city money was spent, and a lot of it was in decadence. The final one was the "transport zone", with an airport, train station, bus station, as well as the connections with the main roads.
Finally, the last thing you were working on during the week was developing your acting skills. That was certainly something that would be useful in a variety of situations, so you worked hard.
You tried the standard acting exercises, you developed characters in your head and tried to act like them to the smallest detail, you spoke many different phrases in a variety of different tones, trying to master emotional enunciation. And of course, you also used your ability to deduce which exercises were the best, which in this case meant a lot of surprisingly heavy training to achieve better control of the body.
And the result was:
Acting Level 12
- The skill to act out a role, in a way that can fool viewers. At this level, you are an excellent actress, being able to assume roles even with little information on them, but more information makes your performances more difficult to see through.
It was definitely worth the efforts you had put in during the week. But now, it was time to decide the plans for the next week. Since you researched the villains already, you should do the same for the heroes, but other than that, what will you do? (Choose three)
[] Focus on raising the level of the skills you already developed.
[] Learn another martial art.
-[] Taekwondo
-[] Jeet Kune Do
-[] Karate
-[] Write-in
[] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[] Lock picking
-[] Urban tracking
-[] Self-Hypnosis
-[] Acrobatics/Parkour
-[] Write-in
[] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken two more times to get full effect)
[] Write-in.
-[X] … That achieves control. You want power to manipulate the world itself.
[X] The Villains
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[X] Acting
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken three times to get full effect)
You have always felt a desire for power and control. And now that you had the opportunity, it would be sad if you didn't try to take over the world, or at least as much of it as you were able to.
And with your motivation set, you had three things to work on for the rest of the week (besides going to school, which was a necessity as long as you lived in your parent's house). The first of them was researching the local villains.
They would be your first rivals once you entered the super villain world, and researching them would help understand some of the strategies and tactics that would be useful for you in the future. And essentially, there were four villains of note who were currently active in the city.
The first and most straightforward one was Rampage, a brute with super strength, durability and the ability to create explosions from his hands. He was a thief who most often stole jewelry, but he also had a lucrative side job as a "distractor", attacking someplace to draw the attention of the heroes while his client did his own thing. He was the most successful of all the supers in the city, in the sense that he got to act all around the country and fought all kinds of battles.
The second one was Inscrutable. A mad scientist type whose specialty lay in recycling, being able to use all sorts of materials to build her inventions. Despite that, she wasn't that impressive, specially in comparison to the top tier inventors in the world, like Dr. Mechana and Supreme Commander. Her style of inventions was standard, based around shields, laser beams and robots. Her crimes were mostly focused around trying to obtain territory.
The third was Mystic Mind. A rare type who possessed both psychic and magical abilities, she was much less impressive than that made it sound, being a small city villain. Her magical abilities were focused around flame, ice and earth spells, while her psychic abilities were mostly limited to telekinesis, though she could also read a person's mind via touch. She was apparently insane and her criminal acts ranged from random killings to acts of property destruction, all ordered by her "master", according to her.
Finally, the fourth was Light Mistress. Her power was the ability to turn light solid and form it into shapes she could manipulate. She was the most popular of the villains in the city, since her criminal acts tended to be more along the lines of threatening restaurants for free food and stealing parts of the sidewalk. Apparently she was the type who enjoyed the attention, including the fights against the heroes.
All in all, there were a lot of opportunities to be found, but they were definitely not something to be underestimated.
Another thing you did during the week was explore the city. You didn't get all that much done, mostly figuring out how the different areas in the city worked. Though you did manage to discover a place that was renting out trailer-sized storage spaces, which could be a good thing to have if you could get enough money.
But going back to generalities, the city could be divided into six spaces: One was the administrative area, with the mayor hall and other buildings of the type. Another was the commercial/residential zone, with small and medium businesses sharing space with habitations, along with two shopping centers in different places. A third was the "rich area", a gated community with a huge amount of mansions. Yet another was the 'poor' part of town, where not a lot of the city money was spent, and a lot of it was in decadence. The final one was the "transport zone", with an airport, train station, bus station, as well as the connections with the main roads.
Finally, the last thing you were working on during the week was developing your acting skills. That was certainly something that would be useful in a variety of situations, so you worked hard.
You tried the standard acting exercises, you developed characters in your head and tried to act like them to the smallest detail, you spoke many different phrases in a variety of different tones, trying to master emotional enunciation. And of course, you also used your ability to deduce which exercises were the best, which in this case meant a lot of surprisingly heavy training to achieve better control of the body.
And the result was:
Acting Level 12
- The skill to act out a role, in a way that can fool viewers. At this level, you are an excellent actress, being able to assume roles even with little information on them, but more information makes your performances more difficult to see through.
It was definitely worth the efforts you had put in during the week. But now, it was time to decide the plans for the next week. Since you researched the villains already, you should do the same for the heroes, but other than that, what will you do? (Choose three)
[] Focus on raising the level of the skills you already developed.
[] Learn another martial art.
-[] Taekwondo
-[] Jeet Kune Do
-[] Karate
-[] Write-in
[] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[] Lock picking
-[] Urban tracking
-[] Self-Hypnosis
-[] Acrobatics/Parkour
-[] Write-in
[] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken two more times to get full effect)
[] Write-in.
[X] Focus on raising the level of the skills you already developed.
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill
-[X] Meditation
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken two more times to get full effect)
We'll probably have to branch out into mystic abilities at some point, and even if learning meditation doesn't unlock them it should help us once we get them in the future.
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill
-[X] Meditation
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken two more times to get full effect)
We'll probably have to branch out into mystic abilities at some point, and even if learning meditation doesn't unlock them it should help us once we get them in the future.
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Harbinger of Bad Luck
- Location
- Magyarország
[X] Focus on raising the level of the skills you already developed.
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill
-[X] Acrobatics/Parkour
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken two more times to get full effect)
Getting around is useful.
Also, Inscrutable? Does she happen to have cursed pennies?
[X] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill
-[X] Acrobatics/Parkour
[X] Research your city, learning about points of interest of all sorts. (This action has to be taken two more times to get full effect)
Getting around is useful.
Also, Inscrutable? Does she happen to have cursed pennies?
Nope, but that was indeed where I got the name. Good catch.