fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
If you hack someone that does E-commerce then you can pretend to be them and take their money. I should not need to say this.
A Game of Supers (The Gamer/Original Superhero Setting)
- Thread starter Kinni
- Start date
- Superhero
Except the fact that Magic might be able to easily identify the user. Magic Identification to make sure the person pressing the buttons is the person that is supposed to be would rather neatly render most hacking techniques useless.
Mother Nyx
Mother of Elpis
- Location
- The Kei Klub
- Pronouns
- She/Her
No, it does not. Cold reading, however will.
You a Co-GM or something? Some of your posts (like this one) make it sound like you are giving WoG on it, some (not knowing who the $100 million villain is) make it sound like you are just as in the dark as us.
Mother Nyx
Mother of Elpis
- Location
- The Kei Klub
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Lmao, I am 100% not a Co-GM, I have no more access to information than you do. I am just aware that the Acting Skill does not (currently) work the way that you are asking.
Maybe with the bonuses we receive. (Today?) But, besides that, no. Cold Reading seems more along the lines of the skill you are looking for, as stated before. Kinni can confirm or deny.
Mother Nyx
Mother of Elpis
- Location
- The Kei Klub
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'm hype for the updatttte!
Post 10 Part 1
A. N: Here is the bonus earned for the picture. You can't miss it.
[X] Well Prepared
Again, since you didn't know which skills would be most useful, you decided to take a broad approach on your training and increase your mastery of all your skills.
You started with the skill that had started it all: Your Muay Thai. Since it was close to mastery, you were pretty sure that it would be hard to raise it much further without special attention... But something happened.
There was some kind of sense of enlightenment that you couldn't explain, even if you had some theories. And despite having very little time to focus on the skill (since you had already decided to work on several different ones), you actually managed to comprehend the very essence of the skill.
Your movements became sharper, smoother, more precise... And you pretty much lost yourself in training to the point where you only understood what had went on once you checked the skill.
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.
You have obtained: 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.
So that... was mastery. You were already imagining how it would be to use your new skills in combat, and also what kind of effects you could get from mastering other skills.
Still, things didn't go as well with your other skills. The problem was that you had too many skills to be able to give a good amount of attention to any of them. You were still training meditation in class, and that made it perhaps the skill with the greatest amount of improvement on the week.
By the end of things, you were already almost capable of remaining aware of everything, even deep within meditation.
Meditation Level 18
- The skill to reach inside yourself and obtain a better understanding of your own mind and behavior. At this level, you can relieve even deep seated stress as well being capable of awareness of most of the outside world even during meditation.
You were also pretty sure that training at school would not help anymore with it. Also, you would need focused effort to raise it any higher.
Apart from that, none of your skills above level 15 managed to grow more than one level. In the case of Acting, which was already level 18, going up at all from such an unfocused effort was a surprise.
You actually decided that you needed to interact with others if you hoped to train the skill, and you walked around the city trying to induce reactions from the nearby people just with your body language and in the most subtle way possible.
Acting Level 19
- The skill to act out a role, in a way that can fool viewers. At this level, your acting prowess is legendary, capable of inducing the viewers to feel actual physical sensations.
You would need focused effort to actually master this skill, definitely.
You had also managed to make both Ambidexterity and Knife Combat to rise two levels each (they had been both at level 15) by doing the somewhat foolhardy stunt of playing the knife game with alternating hands. The precision and focus needed to actually do so tired you out.
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.
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.
You were almost at the limit of what you could do without focused effort.
Shadowboxing was less productive, even though you went to the point of imagining scenarios including all sorts of varied small details. Still, it was doing well.
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.
You were almost at the limit of what you could do without focused effort.
As for the other skills, you were less proficient in then, and so you managed to raise two levels in each. The most notable of them was the Disguise skill, which you actually trained by creating various disguises and walking around the streets and stores of the city.
Besides that, you simply trained as normal for the other skills, since they still didn't need so much special training.
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.
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.
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.
You decided to test your new ability with hypnosis by creating a trigger to do something very far from the ordinary... allow you to ignore pain. Tests (jabbing yourself with needles) allowed you to be certain of the effect. Still, there was a limit to the tests you were willing to do, and the things you understood about your own mind made it clear that it would be a bad idea to abuse that trigger too much.
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Okay guys, another unexpected thing happened, but I didn't want to leave you without a post for even longer, so I decided to split this in two. I'll write and post the rest tomorrow. I'll explain more about how the mastery bonuses and stuff work in the second half.
[X] Well Prepared
Again, since you didn't know which skills would be most useful, you decided to take a broad approach on your training and increase your mastery of all your skills.
You started with the skill that had started it all: Your Muay Thai. Since it was close to mastery, you were pretty sure that it would be hard to raise it much further without special attention... But something happened.
There was some kind of sense of enlightenment that you couldn't explain, even if you had some theories. And despite having very little time to focus on the skill (since you had already decided to work on several different ones), you actually managed to comprehend the very essence of the skill.
Your movements became sharper, smoother, more precise... And you pretty much lost yourself in training to the point where you only understood what had went on once you checked the skill.
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.
You have obtained: 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.
So that... was mastery. You were already imagining how it would be to use your new skills in combat, and also what kind of effects you could get from mastering other skills.
Still, things didn't go as well with your other skills. The problem was that you had too many skills to be able to give a good amount of attention to any of them. You were still training meditation in class, and that made it perhaps the skill with the greatest amount of improvement on the week.
By the end of things, you were already almost capable of remaining aware of everything, even deep within meditation.
Meditation Level 18
- The skill to reach inside yourself and obtain a better understanding of your own mind and behavior. At this level, you can relieve even deep seated stress as well being capable of awareness of most of the outside world even during meditation.
You were also pretty sure that training at school would not help anymore with it. Also, you would need focused effort to raise it any higher.
Apart from that, none of your skills above level 15 managed to grow more than one level. In the case of Acting, which was already level 18, going up at all from such an unfocused effort was a surprise.
You actually decided that you needed to interact with others if you hoped to train the skill, and you walked around the city trying to induce reactions from the nearby people just with your body language and in the most subtle way possible.
Acting Level 19
- The skill to act out a role, in a way that can fool viewers. At this level, your acting prowess is legendary, capable of inducing the viewers to feel actual physical sensations.
You would need focused effort to actually master this skill, definitely.
You had also managed to make both Ambidexterity and Knife Combat to rise two levels each (they had been both at level 15) by doing the somewhat foolhardy stunt of playing the knife game with alternating hands. The precision and focus needed to actually do so tired you out.
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.
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.
You were almost at the limit of what you could do without focused effort.
Shadowboxing was less productive, even though you went to the point of imagining scenarios including all sorts of varied small details. Still, it was doing well.
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.
You were almost at the limit of what you could do without focused effort.
As for the other skills, you were less proficient in then, and so you managed to raise two levels in each. The most notable of them was the Disguise skill, which you actually trained by creating various disguises and walking around the streets and stores of the city.
Besides that, you simply trained as normal for the other skills, since they still didn't need so much special training.
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.
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.
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.
You decided to test your new ability with hypnosis by creating a trigger to do something very far from the ordinary... allow you to ignore pain. Tests (jabbing yourself with needles) allowed you to be certain of the effect. Still, there was a limit to the tests you were willing to do, and the things you understood about your own mind made it clear that it would be a bad idea to abuse that trigger too much.
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Continue...
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Okay guys, another unexpected thing happened, but I didn't want to leave you without a post for even longer, so I decided to split this in two. I'll write and post the rest tomorrow. I'll explain more about how the mastery bonuses and stuff work in the second half.
Mother Nyx
Mother of Elpis
- Location
- The Kei Klub
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Yesssssss. Thank you for the update, for the bonus, and for the unspoken heads up that mastery must come from focused effort. <3
Pandemonious Ivy
Panties, Revolution. Big Drawers. Parachute.
Yaaaaay, our quest to become the God of Murder continues! I mean what
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Next step become queen of our school. The children of today are the minions of tomorrow.
Mother Nyx
Mother of Elpis
- Location
- The Kei Klub
- Pronouns
- She/Her
You said nothing.
Lmao, we have no friends and we just joined a gang. Are you, possibly, saying that we might just need to be a bit more social to keep people from being suspicious?
Are any of our new gang members at our school? We needs to find them and make a social circle or something.
Most efficient ways to hurt them physically, or period? Because it'd be pretty darn neat if mastering a MA made us better at insulting people and other non-physical actions.
.... Pardon? How does that work? Like, not even asking the mechanics behind it. More what can we do with it. Do we gotta touch them, or can we gesticulate in such a way that we can make them feel sharp chest pains>
Oh, sweet. Because one can rather easily google videos of peopel pretty damned good at that thing, and we are better than all of them.
That would be a good place to start working on our manipulation skills. And we need SOMETHING to do while we are at school.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Yes! Honestly we should be focusing on prep work for our eventual take over right now. Trying to take over the city well we are still in school seems silly. We should at least try and skip some grades.
Skipping grades would draw attention to ur though. We were always non-social, so I don't really think we need to worry about suspicious to us from us just continuing to be non-social. The only real avenue of suspicion I expect us to really have to deal with is our Parents, who are probably curious what we do at all hours of the day. But our Acting skill should be enough to come up with some plausible lie.
If we can't take over a single school we don't deserve to take over the world.
Mother Nyx
Mother of Elpis
- Location
- The Kei Klub
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Skipping grades isn't the way to go, but, taking over the school is a great idea.
You're... not wrong.
Which is why I proposed creating a social circle of our gang member peers to serve as alibi's. We're 14, we're reaching that age where we want to go out and... do... stuff... and things. With friends.
Real and legitimate friends that we totally actually made ourselves.
And with disguise and acting, if they don't like us we can just be someone else!
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
I don't really want to mix our school life and gang activity yet.
I used to be 14, and I can honestly say that I never wanted to go out and do stuff and things with friends. I was perfectly happy with my computer, and various game stations.
Though I guess we don't have THAT excuse, given that we do not spend all day in our room playing games.
We don't need to bring gang members into it though. For one, I'd rather keep our identity as secret as we can from the gang. Two, it'd be good practice taking over the school's social circles.
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Not sure about outing ourself to members of our new gang. I do like the idea of taking over the school though, and just more social interaction in general. We don't know all that much about Iara yet and seeing her interact with her family and peers would help with that.