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Alivaril said:
As for Null's relationship with your family? Thanks to the aura of fear, it's near impossible for Father to find people willing to stay near him. Yes, he can suppress the aura while in the human form Mom made him, but he claims it's unreasonably uncomfortable. Null has no such problems.
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...I'm guessing Mom made herself immune. Either by her own power, or by talking to whoever she got to alter us. I'm leaning towards her doing it herself, given her paranoia.

Though I suppose Intern could secretly be a full biokinetic, rather than just being a healer. It would explain the 'healing fear' thing. Not sure why she's pulling a Panacea, but she could be.
NemoMarx said:
You can heal mental effects away?

For some reason this sounds weird.
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It sounds like what a full biokinetic would do, actually.
wertsir said:
It is weird. especially since fear is not a harmful effect, quite the opposite it is often necessary to continue living.

It also seems likely that she is suppressing her own need for sleep, but that she is unable to fully counteract the negative effects, hence her constant exhaustion.

Presumably the sleep-suppression aspect is why she chose her name, since interns and college students are known for getting very little sleep. I also imagine that the fear-suppression ability is somehow related to the specifics of her powers, though we are unlikely to have that confirmed anytime soon IC, since that is the kind of detailed information you try to keep quiet.

Perhaps rather than healing she is just able to super-charge or suppress the bodies autonomic processes? with the healing being her essentially just telling the body to heal itself faster? that still seems weird. but eh.

If that were the case she might be able to do the reverse of what she (presumably) does to herself and boost other peoples need for sleep. making her moderately more useful in a fight. or possibly even something else, like increasing pain sensitivity.

Though it is also possible that these are two separate sub-powers. as that seems common enough from the prologue.

If we operate under that assumption it seems that she is able to heal brains, at least her own. (if she were able to modify other peoples brains that way she would be extremely powerful so lets assume she cannot) that might have other useful effects, but would also probably be extremely dangerous. she could do things like disable her pain sensors, or her need for sleep, but she could also do things like disable empathy, or pump up endorphin release and once she has done that she might not want to switch it back, end up a psychopath/self-medicated potato.
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Alternatively, she's just a biokinetic, rather than a conceptual healer. Though I'm not sure why she wouldn't just eliminate her exhaustion, were that the case. Still, someone had to have modified our biology. And I doubt our parents would be willing to trust just anyone to do it, either.
Vebyast said:
I guess he's just a very applied teacher, CONSTANT VIGILANCE style?
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Also hates teaching, apparently. He phrases it more like combat than teaching, in his head.
Execute/Dumbo said:
I'd say it was pretty obvious, but then he did only directly mention he was teaching at Paragon once in his internal monologue during the interlude.
Though I can't say that I could see him going out for a night on the town with an eldritch monstrosity as his drinking buddy, he seems a little bit more antisocial than that.
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Oh, I can visualize it easily. Just because he dislikes teaching students doesn't make him completely antisocial. He displayed a sense of humor with his trick in the class, albeit a rather twisted one.

And his admonishment about not treating it like a game doesn't really apply to our dad, who is at least somewhat forced to do it. I mean, if he didn't crack jokes and ham it up, he'd probably be even more likely to get mistaken for a villain. Also, it's not like it impacts his fear aura at all. He can ham it up while not losing any efficacy. Few other Capes can, however.
Vebyast said:
Yeah, between the name of the class ("Shade"), the antisocial behavior, and the "students are the enemy" line, I'd expected a villain that'd been asked to teach the "CONSTANT VIGILANCE" class at Paragon. Maybe an anti-hero?
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Or just someone who dislikes teaching. Some people do.
 
wertsir said:
It is weird. especially since fear is not a harmful effect, quite the opposite it is often necessary to continue living.

It also seems likely that she is suppressing her own need for sleep, but that she is unable to fully counteract the negative effects, hence her constant exhaustion.

Presumably the sleep-suppression aspect is why she chose her name, since interns and college students are known for getting very little sleep. I also imagine that the fear-suppression ability is somehow related to the specifics of her powers, though we are unlikely to have that confirmed anytime soon IC, since that is the kind of detailed information you try to keep quiet.

Perhaps rather than healing she is just able to super-charge or suppress the bodies autonomic processes? with the healing being her essentially just telling the body to heal itself faster? that still seems weird. but eh.

If that were the case she might be able to do the reverse of what she (presumably) does to herself and boost other peoples need for sleep. making her moderately more useful in a fight. or possibly even something else, like increasing pain sensitivity.

Though it is also possible that these are two separate sub-powers. as that seems common enough from the prologue.

If we operate under that assumption it seems that she is able to heal brains, at least her own. (if she were able to modify other peoples brains that way she would be extremely powerful so lets assume she cannot) that might have other useful effects, but would also probably be extremely dangerous. she could do things like disable her pain sensors, or her need for sleep, but she could also do things like disable empathy, or pump up endorphin release and once she has done that she might not want to switch it back, end up a psychopath/self-medicated potato.
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We should upgrade her brain so that she can use her powers on it better, or at least the sleep management part. "Management". "Intern". Maybe she is doing something to do with how bodies effect themselves, like acting as a go between for all the effects cells have on each other. Also, we need to get our hands on some of those "healing-resistant diseases" to see if we can use them to upgrade our body with them.
 
Marcus.D.Basterd said:
Also, we need to get our hands on some of those "healing-resistant diseases" to see if we can use them to upgrade our body with them.
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...Okay, I seriously need to hear the thought process behind this one. I am genuinely curious how them being healing-resistant is helpful in this regard.

Edit: This is going to be brilliant, insane, or both.
 
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Nixeu said:
...Okay, I seriously need to hear the thought process behind this one. I am genuinely curious how them being healing-resistant is helpful in this regard.
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I imagine something like this:
Immune systems are supposed to kill diseases. My immune system can't kill [healing resistant disease]. It would be better if it could. Upgrade.
 
Nixeu said:
...Okay, I seriously need to hear the thought process behind this one. I am genuinely curious how them being healing-resistant is helpful in this regard.

Edit: This is going to be brilliant, insane, or both.
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Well they would, categorically, be a part of our microbiome once they were in our body, so our biome/body would be much better if they weren't working against our interests. Just like how we could turn cancer cells back into usefull flesh with a upgrade if we wanted to.
NyxNull said:
I imagine something like this:
Immune systems are supposed to kill diseases. My immune system can't kill [healing resistant disease]. It would be better if it could. Upgrade.
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NyxNull said:
Vaccines make you immune with a dead sample of disease. Therefore, a live sample of disease makes you more immune. Upgrade?
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I have to agree with Nixeu here: Not sure how having the things themselves there would be a advantage in this case.
 
NyxNull said:
Vaccines make you immune with a dead sample of disease. Therefore, a live sample of disease makes you more immune. Upgrade?
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Not always true, actually. Some vaccines use live pathogens, others use chemicals produced by the pathogen, and still others use artificial substances that are chemically similar to parts of the pathogen.
Marcus.D.Basterd said:
Well they would, categorically, be a part of our microbiome once they were in our body, so our biome/body would be much better if they weren't working against our interests. Just like how we could turn cancer cells back into usefull flesh with a upgrade if we wanted to.
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That's...actually pretty brilliant. I'm not clear on what precise advantages they have over other bacteria, but I'm sure they do have some. Worst case scenario, they're at least biokinesis-proof.
 
Actually, thinking about it, I don't know what undirected upgrades to a pathogen would do to it, would our power go with what we would probably want by increasing the severity and potential deadliness, or would it go with what the pathogen is built for and make the symptoms less severe but more infectious overall in order to facilitate increased spread of the disease?
 
While I don't think we'd want to Upgrade diseases at all, we could probably create a Extinction-level diseases by upgrading their latency/spreading time (A year, perhaps?..), lethality (You die in 1 week?), and resistance to drugs, healing and immune system.
 
Shard said:
While I don't think we'd want to Upgrade diseases at all, we could probably create a Extinction-level diseases by upgrading their latency/spreading time (A year, perhaps?..), lethality (You die in 1 week?), and resistance to drugs, healing and immune system.
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But could we upgrade its ability to enter Madagascar?
 
Sufficient Velocity, the site where upon learning that there are healing resistant diseases we had plans on how to eliminate the human race using them in less than 24 hours.
 
I'm sure we could upgrade the pathogens to be able to survive in seawater and infect people in Madagascar, though.

I mean if we went down that route.
 
BBBence1111 said:
Sufficient Velocity, the site where upon learning that there are healing resistant diseases we had plans on how to eliminate the human race using them in less than 24 hours.
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I mean, it's always good to have contingencies. I'm not sure what that would be a contingency for, mind, but still.
Shard said:
I'm sure we could upgrade the pathogens to be able to survive in seawater and infect people in Madagascar, though.

I mean if we went down that route.
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Transmission via seawater is a terrible idea. It's better to just let a boat or plane or bird bring it there. That's why you focus on transmission vectors, while keeping the detection rate low, then increase the lethality all at once...

...Wait, I forgot, are we talking about Plague Inc. strats, or something else?
 
Alivaril said:
Could I have a weird vote tally from post 3280 to 3341, please? (Vote locked)
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Vote Tally : Original - Fragmentation (Original Superhero Setting) | Page 132 | Sufficient Velocity
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[X] Sure? It's a bit sudden, but you don't see a good enough reason to avoid doing so. It's not like you can't just go back later if you need to.
No. of Votes: 3
CatScannerDarkly
Erehwon
nekcihc

[x] Sure? It's a bit sudden, but you don't see a good enough reason to avoid doing so. It's not like you can't just go back later if you need to.
-[x] Make sure Mother is paying attention before adding that it'd be a good way to innocently scout the area.
-[x] Warn Skye that it's going to be just as biased as that first anime.
No. of Votes: 3
Vebyast
pressea
What A Day

[X] Can you put it off for a few days? You'd like to take a look at their artifact while you're there.
-[X] Pull Dad aside: Also, Skye expressed doubts about going to Dragon and being a villain a few hours ago. You'd prefer not to indirectly encourage them.
-[X] "Dad, I think we need some more family bonding before we bring Skye out in public. we should find a way to have 'fun' together before we bring her out with other people"
No. of Votes: 2
wertsir
Ridalla

[X] Sure? It's a bit sudden, but you don't see a good enough reason to avoid doing so. It's not like you can't just go back later if you need to.
-[X] Make plans to try and covertly scout the area for later.
-[x] Ask Skye to keep an open mind and wait until she's learned more to make her final decision.
No. of Votes: 2
Sereg
Kai Merah

[x] Sure? It's a bit sudden, but you don't see a good enough reason to avoid doing so. It's not like you can't just go back later if you need to.
-[x] Make sure Mother is paying attention before adding that it'd be a good way to innocently scout the area.
-[x] Warn Skye that it's going to be just as biased an infodump as that first anime, just in the opposite direction.
No. of Votes: 1
drake_azathoth

[X] Sure? It's a bit sudden, but you don't see a good enough reason to avoid doing so. It's not like you can't just go back later if you need to.
-[X] Make plans to try and covertly scout the area for later.
No. of Votes: 1
AramilOniasha

[X] Can you put it off for a few days? You'd like to take a look at their artifact while you're there.
-[x] "Mom? Help hereby requested?"
No. of Votes: 1
globalwarmth

Total No. of Voters: 13
 
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