Chapter 4: Week 1 - SCIENCE!! Also dogs are there.
Niiyu
Verified Cultist
- Location
- The Outer Realm
You shake your head and put down your list. You sigh and adopt a thinking pose "I can't really do anything till I can work my powers right?" You address Tris and she nods sagely, small bags under her eyes from what you assume is lack of sleep the last few nights. Getting home from vacation and worrying about you and Mommy must have hurt her sleep schedule.
You swing your short legs off the side of the fluffy bed and hop down, going towards the door with possibilities running through your head. Tris questions you as you leave. "Um, Lina? Where are you going?" motioning over your shoulder, you signal for her to follow, you can just feel her rolling your eyes at the back of your head. You both stop in the computer room of the house, normally Mommy is using it but recently she's been looking for a job. You walk over to the printer, touch it, and focus on the warm entangling feeling you have when fusing with something.
You blink and turn around to Tris, she cocks a black eyebrow at you and she almost looks like she's trying to give you an ogle but doesn't quite know how. You shrug, it's kinda hard to think of any new thoughts, all you can really do is copy what you knew prior to fusing. But that's okay, you have a set plan you'd thought up beforehand. You run past a wide-eyed Tris, a growing smile on her face as she catches on. You try to match the smile but find it even harder than normal to smile, it must be the printer part of you.
Once you reach the kitchen, you try to find your Mommy's wallet for dollar bills, you find a five, a ten, and about six one dollar bills in total. You instinctively open up these odd panels on your arms, they are bright blue with what looks like the lines of circuitry similar to the Protectorate hero Battery's costume running around inside, you slot in the five dollar bill. After a few minutes of you and Tris are waiting for something to happen, sitting on the brightly colored couch in the living room when you feel something. It feels like you want to cough but vomit at the same time, this is really weird. The feeling reaches a crescendo and out of your mouth comes, from what you can tell, an exact replica of the bill you initially scanned into your arm.
You distantly hear Tris cheering and babbling but all you can focus on is the sudden deep aching feeling like having run for an hour or two. You feel rather exhausted and shake your head to rid the sudden desire for a nap right away and focus on Tris. "-ould do with this! It would be super fucking cool! We have to tell Mrs. S! She will be thrilled an-" She seems to take note of your slightly droopy eyelids. "Hey, you okay Lina? Did that hurt you?!" Tris scoots closer to you and holds you in her lap, ignoring your tired grumbles of "Dekára (Damn) your height…." you sigh and explain. "No, I'm not hurt, just that it made me feel like I had just to run a long way is all." She nods and silence envelops you both as she thinks, with this fusion you aren't really up to being imaginative if it isn't an impossible period.
Not long later she has apparently come to a conclusion and designed to share it with you "Maybe…Creating things with your powers takes energy from you? If you got better maybe it wouldn't be as bad?" She explains and you nod along to her assessment, that feels like that could be it, or maybe your power just doesn't like making things? Or is it just this fusion that doesn't like that? Too many things you don't know about your power to be sure.
What if you add the money? You know you can't go over three total components for a fusion but it might make it easier? You focus again on that strange feeling into the currency under your arm and feel it's essence to add into yours. Suddenly, a bunch of new information is shooting across your mind's eye. You now feel like you have a pretty good understanding of economics and bartering with others. Though, you do feel the urge to cackle from all the money you can make with this power! Thinking of all the possibilities for more, well, everything. Power, money, minions, and your own business, no, this whole city could be yours! Money makes the world turn round and you have access to it all!
You are physically shaken from your schemes when you feel Tris manhandling you. You roll your eyes and she looks vaguely concerned, you must have cackled out loud. You order her to follow you back to the computer room, as a good minion should.
You sigh, as much as you would love to scheme and plan your victory, there are more experiments to do. You place your hand on where the printer used to be and focus on the stretching and snapping sensation of loss that indicates defusion. The printer is right back to where it was and the currency you were fused with appears in the air and flutters down to the ground.
"Soo…..Money makes you all cackley and Greedy…? Really? I mean I even heard you muttering to yourself. "I'll show them all!!" What are you, an evil mouse protector?" she smirks when you flush slightly and avoid eye contact while replying. "W-Well you would've made for a good minion!" You flush more when she starts chuckling that then evolves into laughter at your expense.
Ignoring your traitorous friend, and as a side note also escape further embarrassment, you grab a pencil then reach out for the computer and fuse them both into your being.
When you fuse with the computer, it grants access to what you can only describe as "Cyberspace". A vision or space granted to me that allows me to see all things electronic, past their GUI's and into their connections to each other and their code. Huh, this is interesting, last time I fused with the computer I could only understand the code that makes up the various apps and programs on our family computer. Now I can read and not only understand, but I can write my own as well. Fascinating, I could access all the knowledge and secrets of the modern world like this. It seems the more components I fuse, the more the they will add or change the existing fusion.
On the original quest for money, that begs the question though of what would happen if I invaded a bank or ATM. Ignoring what's going on with Tris in meatspace a world away, I start to explore this digital space quite fast, I'd wager about as fast as I can think, very interesting. You notice a few connections you can hop to and look at in your immediate vicinity and do so without contemplation.
What feels like a few digital minutes have passed as you finish up an enlightening conversation with Tris' mobile phone. Apparently, while it only answers binary yes or no inquiries, if I were to explore deep enough to find its source code, I could modify or activate different functions. The only limitation so far I can see is that a firewall or good security on a device may need actual effort on my part and could hurt me as well, and even with your current intellect, you're not sure how that could affect your physical body when you come apart.
Pulling out of Cyberspace, you reluctantly go back to meatspace and look around while blinking rapidly, orienting yourself back to the physical world. It's brighter outside then the early morning gloom it was before and you are now sitting down in the computer rooms swivel chair. You defuse, putting back the components where they belong and head off to try and find Tris again, you must've been in Cyberspace longer than you thought, that might be bad if you somehow manage to get lost in there for too long. You find Tris in the kitchen, making two sandwiches, one for herself and one you, she also fed Dot as well. Hearing you come down the stairs, Tris turns and at seeing you staring starts to smile "Well, must've been really cool with the computer huh? You had this weird cloudy vacant look to your eyes, I was scared at first but your eyes started moving a little after so I left you to finish…." She finishes with an odd expression…
You shrug, probably just Tris being a little weird, you do that a lot too. Though usually not on purpose. You take one last look at her and say "Well I'm going to go try one more fusion." then go up to one of the windows in the living room and push yourself into it, you feel a slight afternoon breeze as the glass in the windowsill is now gone. But you look down at your arms to see they are opaque, almost like a cloudy pane of glass. You feel a little instinctual tickling sensation in the back of your head and decide to focus on it, you see your hands turning more are more see through till it's a lot harder to see them. You can turn invisible now? Awesome! You just have to focus but you wonder how much this makes you different? You don't feel different, maybe more fragile? Eh, who cares, you can be invisible now, well, mostly.
You snicker to yourself quietly and wait for Tris to come into the living room with sandwiches ready for your both, you wait till she puts them down, as to not make her drop them, and creep behind her as close as you dare. As you shriek "SURPRISE!!" you swear she nearly jumped to the ceiling, but you don't care. Your control over your invisibility shatters as you drop and start rolling on the floor, giggling like mad while Tris clutches at her chest panting heavily. "You ass! You know I don't like being scared!!" She shouts at you with a pout, which only serves to send you further into hysterics.
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You and Tris decided that with your newly minted parahuman status, you might as well try to be in better shape. You love to run, it's just that with recent…...Stuff happening, you haven't really had time to do some running.
You both idly chat about anything that pops into your head as you jog down the boardwalk with the sky just starting to be set ablaze in hues of red, orange, and yellow. You were both just about to head back home after building up a nice ache in your legs, when from around the corner of a building, a larger, stockier person collides with Tris, easily sending Tris flying back onto her butt. You look up after checking to see if Tris is okay to see in front of you what looks to be a girl in her mid-teens with blond to auburn hair, and a muscular build looking naturally inclined to fitness. She's wearing what looks like a thick heavy set leather jacket with coarse fur lining the collar, leading to a pair of black torn jeans and big steel-toed boots. Where you expect to see facial features you are instead greeted by what looks to be a cheap plastic rottweiler mask adorning her face.
Flanking her are three fairly big dogs that go just past your stomach. As she stalks towards you, you think you hear growling under her breath and if so her dogs soon copy her. You help Tris to her feet and you both take a step back followed by another when she speaks, the sound like she's snarling but in a husky slightly feminine voice. "Get the fuck out of my way. NOW!"
You recognize who this is from the news, Rachel Lindt or Hellhound by the PRT is a member of the Undersiders. She's a Cape like me, but her power is making huuuuge powerful dogs, she's best known for taking down dog fighting rings and stealing dogs away from people who abuse their dogs. The news says she's a danger and to never approach her, too late for that now!
[ ][Response]Step forward and fuse with one of her dogs. That might calm her down? She clearly likes them. (??? happens)
[ ][Response]Do what the scary girl with dogs that have big sharp teeth says. (Gain Meek trait. Gain Little drawback.)
[ ][Response] Try to disarm her with a disconcerting ogle. (???)
[ ][Response]Ask why you should and what she is doing out here? (Gain Confident trait, gain Stubborn drawback.)
[ ][Response]Tell her you don't want to fight and to just let you both leave. (Gain Mediator trait, gain Relaxed drawback.)
[ ][Response]Write-in
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Aaaaaannnndddd DONE!
Enjoy a new update!
An omake might be coming soon, depends how much I like it.
Voting Deadline: 9/8 at 10 am (GMT - 5)
You swing your short legs off the side of the fluffy bed and hop down, going towards the door with possibilities running through your head. Tris questions you as you leave. "Um, Lina? Where are you going?" motioning over your shoulder, you signal for her to follow, you can just feel her rolling your eyes at the back of your head. You both stop in the computer room of the house, normally Mommy is using it but recently she's been looking for a job. You walk over to the printer, touch it, and focus on the warm entangling feeling you have when fusing with something.
You blink and turn around to Tris, she cocks a black eyebrow at you and she almost looks like she's trying to give you an ogle but doesn't quite know how. You shrug, it's kinda hard to think of any new thoughts, all you can really do is copy what you knew prior to fusing. But that's okay, you have a set plan you'd thought up beforehand. You run past a wide-eyed Tris, a growing smile on her face as she catches on. You try to match the smile but find it even harder than normal to smile, it must be the printer part of you.
Once you reach the kitchen, you try to find your Mommy's wallet for dollar bills, you find a five, a ten, and about six one dollar bills in total. You instinctively open up these odd panels on your arms, they are bright blue with what looks like the lines of circuitry similar to the Protectorate hero Battery's costume running around inside, you slot in the five dollar bill. After a few minutes of you and Tris are waiting for something to happen, sitting on the brightly colored couch in the living room when you feel something. It feels like you want to cough but vomit at the same time, this is really weird. The feeling reaches a crescendo and out of your mouth comes, from what you can tell, an exact replica of the bill you initially scanned into your arm.
You distantly hear Tris cheering and babbling but all you can focus on is the sudden deep aching feeling like having run for an hour or two. You feel rather exhausted and shake your head to rid the sudden desire for a nap right away and focus on Tris. "-ould do with this! It would be super fucking cool! We have to tell Mrs. S! She will be thrilled an-" She seems to take note of your slightly droopy eyelids. "Hey, you okay Lina? Did that hurt you?!" Tris scoots closer to you and holds you in her lap, ignoring your tired grumbles of "Dekára (Damn) your height…." you sigh and explain. "No, I'm not hurt, just that it made me feel like I had just to run a long way is all." She nods and silence envelops you both as she thinks, with this fusion you aren't really up to being imaginative if it isn't an impossible period.
Not long later she has apparently come to a conclusion and designed to share it with you "Maybe…Creating things with your powers takes energy from you? If you got better maybe it wouldn't be as bad?" She explains and you nod along to her assessment, that feels like that could be it, or maybe your power just doesn't like making things? Or is it just this fusion that doesn't like that? Too many things you don't know about your power to be sure.
What if you add the money? You know you can't go over three total components for a fusion but it might make it easier? You focus again on that strange feeling into the currency under your arm and feel it's essence to add into yours. Suddenly, a bunch of new information is shooting across your mind's eye. You now feel like you have a pretty good understanding of economics and bartering with others. Though, you do feel the urge to cackle from all the money you can make with this power! Thinking of all the possibilities for more, well, everything. Power, money, minions, and your own business, no, this whole city could be yours! Money makes the world turn round and you have access to it all!
You are physically shaken from your schemes when you feel Tris manhandling you. You roll your eyes and she looks vaguely concerned, you must have cackled out loud. You order her to follow you back to the computer room, as a good minion should.
You sigh, as much as you would love to scheme and plan your victory, there are more experiments to do. You place your hand on where the printer used to be and focus on the stretching and snapping sensation of loss that indicates defusion. The printer is right back to where it was and the currency you were fused with appears in the air and flutters down to the ground.
"Soo…..Money makes you all cackley and Greedy…? Really? I mean I even heard you muttering to yourself. "I'll show them all!!" What are you, an evil mouse protector?" she smirks when you flush slightly and avoid eye contact while replying. "W-Well you would've made for a good minion!" You flush more when she starts chuckling that then evolves into laughter at your expense.
Ignoring your traitorous friend, and as a side note also escape further embarrassment, you grab a pencil then reach out for the computer and fuse them both into your being.
When you fuse with the computer, it grants access to what you can only describe as "Cyberspace". A vision or space granted to me that allows me to see all things electronic, past their GUI's and into their connections to each other and their code. Huh, this is interesting, last time I fused with the computer I could only understand the code that makes up the various apps and programs on our family computer. Now I can read and not only understand, but I can write my own as well. Fascinating, I could access all the knowledge and secrets of the modern world like this. It seems the more components I fuse, the more the they will add or change the existing fusion.
On the original quest for money, that begs the question though of what would happen if I invaded a bank or ATM. Ignoring what's going on with Tris in meatspace a world away, I start to explore this digital space quite fast, I'd wager about as fast as I can think, very interesting. You notice a few connections you can hop to and look at in your immediate vicinity and do so without contemplation.
What feels like a few digital minutes have passed as you finish up an enlightening conversation with Tris' mobile phone. Apparently, while it only answers binary yes or no inquiries, if I were to explore deep enough to find its source code, I could modify or activate different functions. The only limitation so far I can see is that a firewall or good security on a device may need actual effort on my part and could hurt me as well, and even with your current intellect, you're not sure how that could affect your physical body when you come apart.
Pulling out of Cyberspace, you reluctantly go back to meatspace and look around while blinking rapidly, orienting yourself back to the physical world. It's brighter outside then the early morning gloom it was before and you are now sitting down in the computer rooms swivel chair. You defuse, putting back the components where they belong and head off to try and find Tris again, you must've been in Cyberspace longer than you thought, that might be bad if you somehow manage to get lost in there for too long. You find Tris in the kitchen, making two sandwiches, one for herself and one you, she also fed Dot as well. Hearing you come down the stairs, Tris turns and at seeing you staring starts to smile "Well, must've been really cool with the computer huh? You had this weird cloudy vacant look to your eyes, I was scared at first but your eyes started moving a little after so I left you to finish…." She finishes with an odd expression…
Lina Sense Motive roll: 9 + 10 (social ability) -2 = 17
You shrug, probably just Tris being a little weird, you do that a lot too. Though usually not on purpose. You take one last look at her and say "Well I'm going to go try one more fusion." then go up to one of the windows in the living room and push yourself into it, you feel a slight afternoon breeze as the glass in the windowsill is now gone. But you look down at your arms to see they are opaque, almost like a cloudy pane of glass. You feel a little instinctual tickling sensation in the back of your head and decide to focus on it, you see your hands turning more are more see through till it's a lot harder to see them. You can turn invisible now? Awesome! You just have to focus but you wonder how much this makes you different? You don't feel different, maybe more fragile? Eh, who cares, you can be invisible now, well, mostly.
Glass Lina stealth: 10 + 15 + 20 (Glass body) = 45 (DC 20)
Tris Perception: 22 + 15 = 37 (DC 45)
Tris Perception: 22 + 15 = 37 (DC 45)
You snicker to yourself quietly and wait for Tris to come into the living room with sandwiches ready for your both, you wait till she puts them down, as to not make her drop them, and creep behind her as close as you dare. As you shriek "SURPRISE!!" you swear she nearly jumped to the ceiling, but you don't care. Your control over your invisibility shatters as you drop and start rolling on the floor, giggling like mad while Tris clutches at her chest panting heavily. "You ass! You know I don't like being scared!!" She shouts at you with a pout, which only serves to send you further into hysterics.
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Running training roll 1: 72 + 15 = 87 (DC:30)
Gain 1 level of [Skill] Running!
Running now at Level 2!
Running training roll 2: 61 + 15 = 76 (DC: 40)
Gain 1 level of [Skill] Running!
Running now at Level 3!
Random encounter roll: 87 = ???
Random group: 3 = ???
Random group member: 2 = ???
OH! Oh no…...Let's just see…..It might not be so bad, right??
Luck Roll: 38
Oh…...Yeah, this isn't good, not good at all……
[Bah It Could Be Worst For Them]
(Yes Skull, you have a documented history of having the worst rolls. The rolls last update? His. Nuf said.)
[After A 1, 4, 1 It Was Decided I Was Never Touching The Dice Again, Also Banned From Vegas]
Gain 1 level of [Skill] Running!
Running now at Level 2!
Running training roll 2: 61 + 15 = 76 (DC: 40)
Gain 1 level of [Skill] Running!
Running now at Level 3!
Random encounter roll: 87 = ???
Random group: 3 = ???
Random group member: 2 = ???
OH! Oh no…...Let's just see…..It might not be so bad, right??
Luck Roll: 38
Oh…...Yeah, this isn't good, not good at all……
[Bah It Could Be Worst For Them]
(Yes Skull, you have a documented history of having the worst rolls. The rolls last update? His. Nuf said.)
[After A 1, 4, 1 It Was Decided I Was Never Touching The Dice Again, Also Banned From Vegas]
You don't have to listen to it, we just thought that certain songs fit certain characters and now its a game.
Bitch's Song
Bitch's Song
You and Tris decided that with your newly minted parahuman status, you might as well try to be in better shape. You love to run, it's just that with recent…...Stuff happening, you haven't really had time to do some running.
You both idly chat about anything that pops into your head as you jog down the boardwalk with the sky just starting to be set ablaze in hues of red, orange, and yellow. You were both just about to head back home after building up a nice ache in your legs, when from around the corner of a building, a larger, stockier person collides with Tris, easily sending Tris flying back onto her butt. You look up after checking to see if Tris is okay to see in front of you what looks to be a girl in her mid-teens with blond to auburn hair, and a muscular build looking naturally inclined to fitness. She's wearing what looks like a thick heavy set leather jacket with coarse fur lining the collar, leading to a pair of black torn jeans and big steel-toed boots. Where you expect to see facial features you are instead greeted by what looks to be a cheap plastic rottweiler mask adorning her face.
Flanking her are three fairly big dogs that go just past your stomach. As she stalks towards you, you think you hear growling under her breath and if so her dogs soon copy her. You help Tris to her feet and you both take a step back followed by another when she speaks, the sound like she's snarling but in a husky slightly feminine voice. "Get the fuck out of my way. NOW!"
This will affect how you react to the choice.
Brockton Bay, Local Knowledge: 98 + 15 + 3 (BB knowledge skill) - 2 (Power relient) = 114
Crit roll 1: 55 + 14 + 7 + 1 - 2 = 75 (1/2 progress to BB, Local Knowledge lvl 4)
You did really good on the roll so it will minimize danger on next update but not negate it.
Brockton Bay, Local Knowledge: 98 + 15 + 3 (BB knowledge skill) - 2 (Power relient) = 114
Crit roll 1: 55 + 14 + 7 + 1 - 2 = 75 (1/2 progress to BB, Local Knowledge lvl 4)
You did really good on the roll so it will minimize danger on next update but not negate it.
You recognize who this is from the news, Rachel Lindt or Hellhound by the PRT is a member of the Undersiders. She's a Cape like me, but her power is making huuuuge powerful dogs, she's best known for taking down dog fighting rings and stealing dogs away from people who abuse their dogs. The news says she's a danger and to never approach her, too late for that now!
[ ][Response]Step forward and fuse with one of her dogs. That might calm her down? She clearly likes them. (??? happens)
[ ][Response]Do what the scary girl with dogs that have big sharp teeth says. (Gain Meek trait. Gain Little drawback.)
[ ][Response] Try to disarm her with a disconcerting ogle. (???)
[ ][Response]Ask why you should and what she is doing out here? (Gain Confident trait, gain Stubborn drawback.)
[ ][Response]Tell her you don't want to fight and to just let you both leave. (Gain Mediator trait, gain Relaxed drawback.)
[ ][Response]Write-in
Traits:
-Meek: People of more aggressive personalities see you as less of a threat or will ignore you. (Gain +2 to Social Ability when dealing with people of an aggressive or threatening personality)
-Confident: You aren't scared of much and will face down things others may not. (+2 to Social Ability when dealing with those that try to intimidate you.)
-Mediator: You are better than the average person at convincing people to calm down and stop fights. (+2 when negotiating and trying to calm people down.)
Drawback:
-Little: People are prone to take you less seriously due to your small stature and age. (-2 Social Ability when trying to get people to take you seriously.)
-Stubborn: Even if it may not be the best course of action, you will stick to it no matter what. (-2 to Mental Capacity when someone tries to change your mind)
-Relaxed: You are laid back and it's hard to annoy you but you aren't as vigilant. Even in situations, it's not warranted. (-2 to perception rolls)
-Meek: People of more aggressive personalities see you as less of a threat or will ignore you. (Gain +2 to Social Ability when dealing with people of an aggressive or threatening personality)
-Confident: You aren't scared of much and will face down things others may not. (+2 to Social Ability when dealing with those that try to intimidate you.)
-Mediator: You are better than the average person at convincing people to calm down and stop fights. (+2 when negotiating and trying to calm people down.)
Drawback:
-Little: People are prone to take you less seriously due to your small stature and age. (-2 Social Ability when trying to get people to take you seriously.)
-Stubborn: Even if it may not be the best course of action, you will stick to it no matter what. (-2 to Mental Capacity when someone tries to change your mind)
-Relaxed: You are laid back and it's hard to annoy you but you aren't as vigilant. Even in situations, it's not warranted. (-2 to perception rolls)
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Aaaaaannnndddd DONE!
Enjoy a new update!
An omake might be coming soon, depends how much I like it.
Voting Deadline: 9/8 at 10 am (GMT - 5)
