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A Game of Supers (The Gamer/Original Superhero Setting)

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So, I'm all for establishing influence within the school and becoming a queen bee of sorts. But there are other skills we haven't picked up yet that we could practice during school time. Breathing, mental multi-tasking, blood circulation, speed reading, isometrics, signature/handwriting forgery, etc.
 
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I'm really curious how much our Parents know about all the goings-on. Because I could easily see us not doing that good of a job covering up our activities from them if they don't say anything about it to us. We did spontaneously quit our Muay Thai classes, then we started going on real long walks around town, then we began meditating, and recently we've begun getting a lot of fabric and sewing stuff, creating our own outfits with surprising skill (they know we made them, on account of them not buying them, and I doubt we have a big enough allowance to afford all the stuff).

Bob Saget said:
So, I'm all for establishing influence within the school and becoming a queen bee of sorts. But there are other skills we haven't picked up yet that we could practice during school time. Breathing, mental multi-tasking, blood circulation, speed reading, isometrics, signature/handwriting forgery, etc.
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Of course there are other skills we could practice. There are hundreds of useful skills to get that we don't have yet, that seems like it's just going to be the way of life for at least a few in-game years.

Also, how in the world would we practice blood circulation and isometrics? The prior is something we can't even control unless we learn to control our heart, but that's related to other skills, and the latter isn't even a skill but just a subset of exercises.

For next turn, I'm thinking of doing these actions
[] Focus on raising the level of a specific skill
-[] Acting
[] Focus on raising the level of a specific skill
-[] Meditation
[] Learn a useful miscellaneous skill.
-[] Manipulation
[] Manipulation. Try to get people to do things, make people like or hate stuff, become the social bee of the school.
[] Use Hypnotic Trigger on Manipulation

Acting and Meditation are the two skills closest to mastery, and I'm VERY interested in what the Bonus for them is, especially since Acting can make people feel things.
I know that Manipulation is probably not a skill, being too broad, but I figure that Rinni will break it down into related less generic skills, and give us some expertise in one of those.
 
I don't really see any point in taking over the school other than getting some sort of slice of life part to the quest. Why not just focus on the gang that we've just infiltrated?
 
@Kinni Since you are presumably busy, just answer these whenever. No rush.
Does Muay Thai let us know the 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.
How does Acting let us make people feel stuff? Do we gotta touch them, or can we gesticulate in such a way that we can make them feel sharp chest pains?
At level 18 Muay Thai you said we could take on 20 goons armed with melee weapons without needing to use ambushes or anything to increase our odds. What would you say we could handle now? Infinite number?
How good is our Memory? Is it photographic yet? I know Meditation helps with that, but I don't know how well.
Does higher levels of Ambidexterity allow us to use both hands SIMULTANEOUSLY with the skill that we use one?
Disguise, do we have to try to be someone of our general build in order to have a good chance of passing ourselves off as them, or can we pass ourselves off as pretty differently built people?
loneangel said:
I don't really see any point in taking over the school other than getting some sort of slice of life part to the quest. Why not just focus on the gang that we've just infiltrated?
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Various reasons. Main one of which, is that we need SOMETHING to do during school, and learning how to be a social bee that can manipulate anyone and everyone to do what she wants works rather well. So pretty much, it's low risk practice. If we screw up, the other students aren't going to literally stab us in the back, and if we can't take over a school, what hope do we have of taking over a gang?
 
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Okay, finally back. Now it's time for some answers!

- The character sheet will be updated after the second part is posted.
- The Muay Thai mastery only deals with physical damage. But it also includes robots, magical constructs... as long as it's physical, the mastery helps with it.
- By changing expressions, it's possible to make people feel heat or cold, small things like that. Jabbing a person with a finger in the right way can make them believe they've been stabbed, at least for a few moments. You can't do anything above that without using actual supernatural powers. (No, the mastery of acting will involve something else)
- You could handle an infinite number of goons with no firearms. As in, in a fight on an open field, the only limitation would be your endurance.
- Your memory is something that actually will be discussed next post. Wait for it.
- Anything you can do with one hand is possible to do using both with ambidexterity. If it needs both hands, ambidexterity will still improve your precision.
- You could disguise yourself as people with bigger builds... if you had the necessary materials. (They are very expensive and difficult to obtain) And even then, the chance of discovery would increase. As long as you haven't reached actual supernatural skills, disguise has lots of limitations.
 
Time for a charm skill, get us some followers. Also maybe get some good life skills that can bring in legal money while we do our illegal activity's that'll support our possible future gang.
 
Tai Chi is both a good soft counterpart to Muai Thai and should work well with Meditation.
 
Hmmm, I am curious about our morality are we Puppy kicking evil or Just I will rule the world , but not commit stupid atrocities, be needlessly cruel kind of evil?
 
Thriceboiled said:
Does anyone think it would be worth it to learn another martial art?
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Yeah, but the thing is there are so many things it's worth learning. Currently, there are things generally more worthwhile than another MA, since we are already a Grand Master, who could fight our way through a medieval army (medieval because of no guns or anything, just swords and maces and whatnot).
 
Trondason said:
Yeah, but the thing is there are so many things it's worth learning. Currently, there are things generally more worthwhile than another MA, since we are already a Grand Master, who could fight our way through a medieval army (medieval because of no guns or anything, just swords and maces and whatnot).
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That's definitely superhuman, since rl MAs are almost worthless against anyone that's armed :p even more so with guns
 
Ghostdevil said:
That's definitely superhuman, since rl MAs are almost worthless against anyone that's armed :p even more so with guns
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I rather disagree with you. Most RL MAs teach you how to deal with goons with knives and what not. It's still a dangerous encounter for anyone not a several-degree black belt, but neither is it worthless. And we are BEYOND a black belt. At 18 we were almost the best that EVER was, and at 20 we totally are. We are at the literal peak of what a Human can do with Muay Thai.
Though, as I said, no guns. Don't know how we fair against guns, presumably not TOO bad if they aren't too far away, what with that 21 foot rule trained cops use.
Kinni said:
- You could handle an infinite number of goons with no firearms. As in, in a fight on an open field, the only limitation would be your endurance.
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Trondason said:
I rather disagree with you. Most RL MAs teach you how to deal with goons with knives and what not. It's still a dangerous encounter for anyone not a several-degree black belt, but neither is it worthless. And we are BEYOND a black belt. At 18 we were almost the best that EVER was, and at 20 we totally are. We are at the literal peak of what a Human can do with Muay Thai.
Though, as I said, no guns. Don't know how we fair against guns, presumably not TOO bad if they aren't too far away, what with that 21 foot rule trained cops use.
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Rl MA are Worthless, you have to be a super duper mega Black belt to not risk losing against an amateur with a weapon.
I forget who said this but, "A knife gives you a black belt in *insert martial art here*"
 
I don't think we could beat a army all at once. A few hours of fighting is too much.
 
Ghostdevil said:
Rl MA are Worthless, you have to be a super duper mega Black belt to not risk losing against an amateur with a weapon.
I forget who said this but, "A knife gives you a black belt in *insert martial art here*"
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Then why do they ever bother training Soldiers with it? Just give them enough knives that they always have one, and focus on everything else.
fictionfan said:
I don't think we could beat a army all at once. A few hours of fighting is too much.
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Depends on the size of the army. If we can do 1 person every 10 seconds, that's 360 an hour.
 
Trondason said:
Then why do they ever bother training Soldiers with it? Just give them enough knives that they always have one, and focus on everything else.

Depends on the size of the army. If we can do 1 person every 10 seconds, that's 360 an hour.
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Because its a Last Resort
If your fist fighting someone then your already fucking up or in DIRE straits
You should avoid melee combat whenever possible.
 
Ghostdevil said:
Because its a Last Resort
If your fist fighting someone then your already fucking up or in DIRE straits
You should avoid melee combat whenever possible.
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Of course you should. But it's not even a Last Resort if they have absolutely no chance. You are as good as dead either way, by definition of worthless.
So why do they train them in something that is, as you said, worthless? Since it's worthless, then training them in anything else is more worthwhile.
 
Trondason said:
Of course you should. But it's not even a Last Resort if they have absolutely no chance. You are as good as dead either way, by definition of worthless.
So why do they train them in something that is, as you said, worthless? Since it's worthless, then training them in anything else is more worthwhile.
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Because Being able to fist fight is slightly better than no ability to fist fight if that is literally all you have, but at that point in least your lucky, your going to die
 
Trondason said:
So is it slightly better to know MA? Or is it Worthless to know MA?
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Both, Just because your better than non existent, doesn't make it suddenly not worthless,
MA are only useful against Unarmed opponents but in most situations you won't be facing unarmed opponents and a knife makes all your skill pretty much garbage.
A punch or knee or kick doesn't hurt as much as a blade through your arm or chest. So the MA has to be perfect and not even have ONE mistake, and the opponent CANNOT get lucky or they lose no matter how skilled

Edit: this is still so far from my original point its not funny, The only way a MA can beat one person with a knife is Luck and at least a fair amount of skill, to beat more than one but less than 5 is starting to get Super human
 
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