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

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Teeeeeeecccchhh. Happy to see Inscrutable, she seems cool. Not sure how I should feel about the bowing. Especially coupled with her being a villain and her speech I worry she might be a bit of an egomaniac. Could just be hamming it up for the team though, which I'd have to respect.

Just to be clear, what did we plan to get out of this relationship? Will we skedaddle as soon as the going's good, maybe stick around and rule from the shadows or will we actually be loyal? No judgement, just curious.
 
Grigori said:
Just to be clear, what did we plan to get out of this relationship? Will we skedaddle as soon as the going's good, maybe stick around and rule from the shadows or will we actually be loyal? No judgement, just curious.
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Milk her for tech for as long as it is viable. Then it honestly depends on situation. We aren't going to serve her in long term, it simply conflicts with our character motivation, but just how explosive or silent our exit is going to be entirely depends oh details not yet avalible at the time. Alternatively, we backstab her and take control of the gang.
 
Skills to max:
Meditation

Skills to trainup:
Personal manipulation
Mental Discipline
Exotic Technology.

I think we should focus one skill training on meditation to hopefully cap it and one action on figuring out the sleep thing. See if we cant get some extra actions.

We might also want to do some working out to see if we can get the physical equivalent to mental discipline.
 
Prospalz said:
Milk her for tech for as long as it is viable. Then it honestly depends on situation. We aren't going to serve her in long term, it simply conflicts with our character motivation, but just how explosive or silent our exit is going to be entirely depends oh details not yet avalible at the time. Alternatively, we backstab her and take control of the gang.
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Or keep her officially in control and use her as a figurehead.
 
Physical discipline would be uber-accurate knowledge of your body conditions and conscious control of normally instinctive bodily functions. At will adrenaline spikes, control of body temperature and life signs, etc. Maybe just a little bit of accelerated healing and generally improved health at real high levels.

Problem is, a whole lot of that stuff is actually stuff that other skills do. Martial arts are obvious contender, acting and self hypnosis for adrenaline and such, medicine and such for self-knowledge and healing...
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Or keep her officially in control and use her as a figurehead.
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Doubt that she'll go with that. I am not opposed to the idea tho.
 
Trondason said:
I rather doubt our non-tired-ness is related to our body, but rather all the shit we've been doing to our own head. After all, the only reason you need to sleep is because your head says you do, and we have been coming to master our own mind and it's relation to the body in several different ways lately.

I also still doubt that Physical Discipline is a thing. For what would it be? Simply being strong? Not much of a skill. Complete control over our own body? That's The Glass Mask.
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Exactly, the entire idea is to have absolute control of our body so it should synergize if is phycal our mental our menta in origin , and is not just being strong, is enhaced senses, metaolic control, histerical strengh on demand and much more.

Also you realy need to reread that description, the Glass mask is a pure mental construct and grant us no extra control over our body.
 
If we show a talent with exotic tech we might be able to get her as a teacher. Not that worthwhile considering that the gamer is the best teacher we can have.
 
Zaratustra said:
Exactly, the entire idea is to have absolute control of our body so it should synergize if is phycal our mental our menta in origin , and is not just being strong, is enhaced senses, metaolic control, histerical strengh on demand and much more.

Also you realy need to reread that description, the Glass mask is a pure mental construct and grant us no extra control over our body.
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We already have absolute control of our body however. Our acting is perfect, only the Supernatural can tell we aren't being truthful, and even that will have a hard time. Our Skill Description says as such, and The Glass Mask only confirms it. Our body does whatever we tell it to, regardless of what we feel. We could pretend to be dead, and our heart would stop, for if it didn't then there would be a non-supernatural-way to tell we ain't dead. We could act hysterical, and get hysterical strength, because that is a physical part of being hysterical and lacking such would be a non-supernatural-way to tell we ain't hysterical.

Also, Enchanced Senses has nothing to do with Physical Discipline. Being able to perfectly control your eye ball does not make it any better at recieving visual information, nor does it make us any better at interpreting that information.
 
Prospalz said:
Honestly if GM could put their foot down one way or another on this issue, that would be great.
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He has before said we were capable of things not explicitly stated, because being capable of them is required to do what is stated. Like, one would normally think that Acting might not inherently come with skills in deciding what act would work best, just knowing how to carry them out flawlessly, but if that was so then the power "wouldn't work as advertised" in that we were able to fool most anyone.

Our acting skill explicitely states that the only way to tell we are acting is via Supernatural Means. Thus, all ordinarny means must not work. Hook us up to a EKG, keep track of our dilated our pupils are, check our Adrenaline Levels, none of those can tell you we ain't genuine. If that wasn't the case, then " it wouldn't work as advertised."
 
Okay. My view on this issue is that Acting doesn't do as much as Trondason is implying. You can Act, but only as things that you can physically do. You can't stop involuntary reactions like brains and pupils, and you control your body perfectly only on a broad sense, meaning that you can't do "supernormal" stuff like throwing darts perfectly or such ridiculousness.

Edit: Essentially, you may be able to act so much like the world's best golfer that even his parents would believe you are him (shapeshifted through some magic, or whatever), but you won't be able to actually golf like him.

About the "physical discipline" thing, you can't actually get a skill for it, because there is already a skill that will give you similar effects, even if it may not seem like it. What skill? It's a secret.
 
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Kinni said:
Okay. My view on this issue is that Acting doesn't do as much as Trondason is implying. You can Act, but only as things that you can physically do. You can't stop involuntary reactions like brains and pupils, and you control your body perfectly only on a broad sense, meaning that you can't do "supernormal" stuff like throwing darts perfectly or such ridiculousness.

About the "physical discipline" thing, you can't actually get a skill for it, because there is already a skill that will give you similar effects, even if it may not seem like it. What skill? It's a secret.
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Well, I wouldn't expect it to lead to perfect dart throwing, since even with perfect body control we don't know how we should go about controlling the body to do the throw, but I would expect the rest, especially with Glass Mask. Our brain now inherently exists in two parts, one of which normally interfaces with reality and we can control, and a deeper part that is "truely us". Like, that Fear response. Our brain WAS super afraid, but the super afraid parts weren't at the wheel, and the parts that ARE at the wheel could probably induce the fear in the fear parts. Since powers interact with the external seperate part to do what they do, I would think that external seperate part is also what is normally in control of our various subconscious reactions.

Plus, well... we CAN accomplish most of the stuff I was saying via Self Hypnosis and Meditation. As long as we can keep a neutral second layer given to us by Glass Mask, we can easily mess with the outer part of our brain to accomplish stuff like eye dilation and adrenaline and what not.
 
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...There's physical aspects of sleep where the brain (and body) carefully 'scrubs' hormones secreted throughout the brain and restores everything to a neutral state, then there's another part of sleep where the brain rewires neural connections to make memories and skills more or less accessible based upon trigger stimuli, and then there's the basic 'body repair' thing.

My guess is that MC's 'Glass Mask' is so absolute her body is undergoing less stress and secreting less hormones throughout the day and her superpower is more or less obviating the period of extreme neuroplasticity that corresponds with REM and dreaming so sleep is less vital.
 
[x] Trondason

So how does everyone feel about mind manipulation? Nothing like a good Mind Control chip to improve group efficiency!*

*Note, group efficiency may or may not be voluntary please consult us if you feel Mind Control chips aren't for you.
We have more subtly methods if you feel Mind Control chips aren't for you.
 
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I would mind a slim stealth/power armor suit more like a ninja power armor suit very thin and tight fitting for our mc.
 
Once we max out meditation mental discipline seems like the thing to focus on.
 
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