Cowls: A World of Supermen and Subterfuge

Hey guys, just a note:

You will be taking on a leadership role in this. This is why a lot of the powers given are dual-natured things which can conceivably be useful if you're not acting directly. Yes, even being superhuman. "Not needing sleep and thinking quickly" is pretty useful for leadership. So you may want to consider what you're choosing here with an eye on "how will this affect my leadership style?" Especially since it won't always be practical to lead from the front.
 
[X]Teleportation:
[X] Male.
[X] Coffee colored complexion, slightly greasy hair that always seems to gravitate towards a length of "uncomfortably lanky". You're lean and compact. Young enough that the stubble on your jaw is still patchy. Old enough that it's gotten embarrassing. Your family hails from basically everywhere by way of Brazil.
[X] Anthony Azevedo
[X] Codename: Lunging Jaguar (just Jaguar was taken so you ended up going with the standby)
 
I'll be doing manual vote counting when there are this many options, because I can just sit here with a pen and a piece of paper and tally the votes up. In future, we're more likely to be using the vote counter.
In that case... changed!

[x] Plan Enhanced Operative, Alliteration Edition
- [x] Enhanced Physical Capabilities
- [x] Female
- [x] Appearance: Ezmerelda is a touch tall for a woman of mexican descent, standing a full 5' 3", and has the build of a serious athlete. She keeps her dark brown hair short, but likes to experiment with the style.
- [x] Real Name: Ezmeralda Eloisa Espinoza
- [x] Code Name: Vector
 
Switching again

[x] Plan Enhanced Operative, Alliteration Edition
- [x] Enhanced Physical Capabilities
- [x] Female
- [x] Appearance: Ezmerelda is a touch tall for a woman of mexican descent, standing a full 5' 3", and has the build of a serious athlete. She keeps her dark brown hair short, but likes to experiment with the style.
- [x] Real Name: Ezmeralda Eloisa Espinoza
- [x] Code Name: Vector
 
[x] Plan Enhanced Operative, Alliteration Edition
- [x] Enhanced Physical Capabilities
- [x] Female
- [x] Appearance: Ezmerelda is a touch tall for a woman of mexican descent, standing a full 5' 3", and has the build of a serious athlete. She keeps her dark brown hair short, but likes to experiment with the style.
- [x] Real Name: Ezmeralda Eloisa Espinoza
- [x] Code Name: Vector
 
5 feet 3 inches is... 160 centimeters. That's stunted and diminuitive :(

:Citation Needed:

Fuuuuuuuck you. Just saying.

-[x] Ezmeralda Eloisa Espinoza

Nah. Her first name should be Elisa, that already sounds a lot like Alicia while still fitting the whole alliteration thing. Also, psychic powers. Psychic powers are cool. Being able to talk to people with your mind and read people's emotions is a useful skill for command, though admittedly radios are a thing. Being able to to punch people with your mind is a useful trick. Using teleporting to be sneaky is easier when you have the psychic equivalent of radar and can thus tell that there's a dude about to come around the corner and teleport first. Possibly we might be able to cheat by looking through peoples' eyes and then teleporting.

-[x] Psychic Powers
-[x] Female
[x] Appearance: Elisa is a touch tall for a woman of mexican descent, standing a full 160cm, and has the build of a serious athlete. She keeps her dark brown hair short, but likes to experiment with the style.
-[x] Real Name: Elisa Espinoza
-[x] Code Name: Vector

Yes I mostly wanted to make the Panopticon joke, sue me. :V
 
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Yes, even being superhuman. "Not needing sleep and thinking quickly" is pretty useful for leadership.

Would telepathy let us set up a shared mind type tactical net, particularly if we weren't on-site? What's the range on telekinesis? Does super speed let us read and think really fast, or do we only have some sort of automatic pathing ability or a mix of both?

Superhuman charisma presumably would be more a matter of making the team work more efficiently together or doing the opposite to the enemy, but it depends on whether it manifests as super-high social intelligence or just something that mind-controls people into listening to us even if we're not really a smooth operator, and in what situations it's applicable. It seems to be more the former, but I'm not entirely sure.

Intelligence and Precognition have fairly obvious utility in a broad range of situations, particularly if Intelligence let's us make snap reactions better, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what use line-of-sight teleporting is if we're in a van a few blocks away.
 
[x] Plan Enhanced Operative, Alliteration Edition
- [x] Enhanced Physical Capabilities
- [x] Female
- [x] Appearance: Ezmerelda is a touch tall for a woman of mexican descent, standing a full 5' 3", and has the build of a serious athlete. She keeps her dark brown hair short, but likes to experiment with the style.
- [x] Real Name: Ezmeralda Eloisa Espinoza
- [x] Code Name: Vector
 
[X]Teleportation:
[X] Male.
[X] Coffee colored complexion, slightly greasy hair that always seems to gravitate towards a length of "uncomfortably lanky". You're lean and compact. Young enough that the stubble on your jaw is still patchy. Old enough that it's gotten embarrassing. Your family hails from basically everywhere by way of Brazil.
[X] Anthony Azevedo
[X] Codename: Lunging Jaguar (just Jaguar was taken so you ended up going with the standby)
 
[x] Plan Enhanced Operative, Alliteration Edition
- [x] Enhanced Physical Capabilities
- [x] Female
- [x] Appearance: Ezmerelda is a touch tall for a woman of mexican descent, standing a full 5' 3", and has the build of a serious athlete. She keeps her dark brown hair short, but likes to experiment with the style.
- [x] Real Name: Ezmeralda Eloisa Espinoza
- [x] Code Name: Vector
 
[X]Teleportation:
Teleportation with a soft cap on the distance I can travel isn't the most useful of powers, but I've made good use of it so far, and that trend continued into today. A maze of corridors like the Syndicate's headquarters isn't the best place to utilize the power of teleportation, but being able to teleport anywhere I have line of sight to allowed me to bypass many of the sensors they had set up to detect intruders.

[X] Male.
[X] Coffee colored complexion, slightly greasy hair that always seems to gravitate towards a length of "uncomfortably lanky". You're lean and compact. Young enough that the stubble on your jaw is still patchy. Old enough that it's gotten embarrassing. Your family hails from basically everywhere by way of Brazil.
[X] Anthony Azevedo
[X] Codename: Lunging Jaguar (just Jaguar was taken so you ended up going with the standby.)
 
[X]Precognition:
[x] Female
[x] Appearance: Elisa is a touch tall for a woman of mexican descent, standing a full 5' 3", and has the build of a serious athlete. She keeps her dark brown hair short, but likes to experiment with the style.
[x] Real Name: Elisa Eloisa Espinoza
[x] Code Name: Vector
 
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Would telepathy let us set up a shared mind type tactical net, particularly if we weren't on-site? What's the range on telekinesis? Does super speed let us read and think really fast, or do we only have some sort of automatic pathing ability or a mix of both?
No comment on the first. MJ can field that one when he gets up.

On the second, think 'within a single building'-level, not 'crossing an entire city'-level. Still very useful, and more useful still if people are resourceful.

Yes, super speed lets you read really fast. It doesn't enhance thinking to the same extent, but enhances it beyond human capability nonetheless.
Intelligence and Precognition have fairly obvious utility in a broad range of situations, particularly if Intelligence let's us make snap reactions better, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what use line-of-sight teleporting is if we're in a van a few blocks away.
One would presume, then, that you won't be in a van a few blocks away. Or, perhaps, your imagination isn't up to scruff.
 
Intelligence and Precognition have fairly obvious utility in a broad range of situations, particularly if Intelligence let's us make snap reactions better, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what use line-of-sight teleporting is if we're in a van a few blocks away.

Binoculars. Also flash bang grenades + grenade launcher combined with goggles that can adjust light and whatnot.

The best part about the power and it's limitations is that the ways to leverage it are relatively easy to figure out or really amusing to come up with.
 
[X]Teleportation:
[X] Male.
[X] Coffee colored complexion, slightly greasy hair that always seems to gravitate towards a length of "uncomfortably lanky". You're lean and compact. Young enough that the stubble on your jaw is still patchy. Old enough that it's gotten embarrassing. Your family hails from basically everywhere by way of Brazil.
[X] Anthony Azevedo
[X] Codename: Lunging Jaguar (just Jaguar was taken so you ended up going with the standby)
 

That can get us around the range limitation, yeah, but I was thinking about the van more as a shorthand for 'we're playing mission control and can't go there directly for reasons', or playing socialite or something.

Since people seem to be voting for physicals, I'd like to make a case for superspeed being generally a better option if we're trying to be a combat teleporter. Namely, while the enhancement provides us with strength and survivability, speed gives us significantly better teleport spam by, subjectively, giving us more time to think and aim. Faster cognition also makes us better in noncombat roles, so long as we can avoid fatigue. While, of course, this costs us durability and power in combat, and means we can't do things like dramatically hold open the closing security doors, we gain precision and durability's for chumps who can't dodge anyway :V. Further, if we want lethality, that's what guns or, given the cyberpunk tag, street samurai vibroblades[1]​ are for. If we want non-lethality, why are we hitting them with superstrength instead of a taser?

[1] We will be Jetstream Sam...'s less cool cousin.
 
[X]Teleportation:
[X] Male.
[X] Coffee colored complexion, slightly greasy hair that always seems to gravitate towards a length of "uncomfortably lanky". You're lean and compact. Young enough that the stubble on your jaw is still patchy. Old enough that it's gotten embarrassing. Your family hails from basically everywhere by way of Brazil.
[X] Anthony Azevedo
[X] Codename: Lunging Jaguar (just Jaguar was taken so you ended up going with the standby)
 
[x] Plan Enhanced Operative, Alliteration Edition
- [x] Enhanced Physical Capabilities
- [x] Female
- [x] Appearance: Ezmerelda is a touch tall for a woman of mexican descent, standing a full 5' 3", and has the build of a serious athlete. She keeps her dark brown hair short, but likes to experiment with the style.
- [x] Real Name: Ezmeralda Eloisa Espinoza
- [x] Code Name: Vector
 
[X]Teleportation:
[X] Male.
[X] Coffee colored complexion, slightly greasy hair that always seems to gravitate towards a length of "uncomfortably lanky". You're lean and compact. Young enough that the stubble on your jaw is still patchy. Old enough that it's gotten embarrassing. Your family hails from basically everywhere by way of Brazil.
[X] Anthony Azevedo
[X] Codename: Lunging Jaguar (just Jaguar was taken so you ended up going with the standby)
 
[x] Plan Enhanced Operative, Alliteration Edition
- [x] Enhanced Physical Capabilities
- [x] Female
- [x] Appearance: Ezmerelda is a touch tall for a woman of mexican descent, standing a full 5' 3", and has the build of a serious athlete. She keeps her dark brown hair short, but likes to experiment with the style.
- [x] Real Name: Ezmeralda Eloisa Espinoza
- [x] Code Name: Vector
 
[X]Teleportation:
[X] Male.
[X] Coffee colored complexion, slightly greasy hair that always seems to gravitate towards a length of "uncomfortably lanky". You're lean and compact. Young enough that the stubble on your jaw is still patchy. Old enough that it's gotten embarrassing. Your family hails from basically everywhere by way of Brazil.
[X] Anthony Azevedo
[X] Codename: Lunging Jaguar (just Jaguar was taken so you ended up going with the standby)
 
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