Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)
Which is kinda noticeable, since with a 1 in 10,000 chance, the odds of so many relatives is rather low.
I brought up before, but I wonder if, much like in Worm, adoptive siblings/family are also more likely to have to powers?
Temes1066
To Defy Gravity you must Let It Go
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- Coleraine
It is Sits not Siys.
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- The Space Between
given The Stage, The Audience, and the fact that all powers are technically psychic/psionic manifestations I'm pretty sure the most sensible in-world explanation is Narrative.
Psychic Gestalt burps and enough thoughts line up together to grant someone powers for dramatic reasons. The flares or gifts or curses that are Powers occur randomly, but align with Narrative because the psychic gestalt is A Stage with An Audience.
And The Audience is biased towards Horizon, and in particular Justice Unlimited.
True Random mutations ending up like benign tumors or malignant cancers are boring and not Narrative, so all power sets are at least Narratively interesting to some degree. No boring, mundane party-trick style powers like you can see in some settings. The Audience seeks entertainment, demands something interesting. Sure, sometimes things won't work out. By and large though, the results aim for results interesting to The Audience.
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Actually most powers are like that. Chaucer is a good example—he can only make a quick jolt of electricity. It's estimated that there are a lot more metahumans than reported; either people don't notice their powers or they're so mundane they don't bother mentioning them.
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At least once you should fake us out by providing what seems like a potential recruit, only to learn when taking a DNA sample or etc that they actually have an incredibly minor power and are thus "useless" to us.
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I had a goofy idea for a non-Horizon set character who was a weak Clairvoyance metahuman who's power was... they could tell if someone was an (awoken, so only works on born-with-powers or the post-14/15 years old set) metahuman.
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- A place
That actually sounds like something that would be incredibly valuable to anyone.
SolarGemX
The Crystalized Sun
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- Somewhere in the Cosmos
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In most cases that wouldt be that useful... unless its ESP focused in a base, then its actually very useful. If I had something/someone that can always tell me who has powers, in a world with shapeshifters, I would place them in a secure area/ building I want protected and tada... harder power based infiltration.
SolarGemX
The Crystalized Sun
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- Somewhere in the Cosmos
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Yeah this.
StarSingerBlue
Zenryoku Zenkai !
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- The City of Lights
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It doesn't mean it would be high-potency though, although we don't get a lot of « affects metahumans specifically » powers
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- Omniverse #1345
"So your power is that you have a power?"
It's like Ellie - without the EXCEED-BEYOND, which was specifically designed to use it, her power is incredibly useless. And that was an intentionally designed power. I imagine you have a lot of powers that are even more useless. A potency 10… whose only ability is a perfect card trick.
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The almighty P10 elemental manipulator who's power is he can manifest a single cup's worth of water at any location on the planet.
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- Omniverse #1345
God empress teapot conquers the planet within 17 hours.
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No. Big-time hero actually. Hunted Behemoths actually, was on the front lines during the Movement.
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Well, that's Extremely Disconcerting.
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- The Netherlands
you know i really do want to get some more candidates for PP, mostly becouse i want to see how mine would be used.
same for DNA samples really, but asside from a selfish wish of wanting the stuff i proposed to show up it's also just really fun and i want to see what would get applied to her by the thread and what the power i supplied would get used in.
i really should write an omake for the DNA sample i had made, i was planning to but never got around to it.
same for DNA samples really, but asside from a selfish wish of wanting the stuff i proposed to show up it's also just really fun and i want to see what would get applied to her by the thread and what the power i supplied would get used in.
i really should write an omake for the DNA sample i had made, i was planning to but never got around to it.
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Well, I mean, the answer is obvious: LPP cranked up the Gaslighting Aura on him and brought him in.
...nothing in the apartment complex Maddie was in was burned, was it?
...nothing in the apartment complex Maddie was in was burned, was it?
Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
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- The Destination of Fate
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Le Petit Prince probably put his hooks on Ash Knight... but that 'probably' is carrying a lot of the weight there. There's always a chance he went bad on his own. Or maybe the truth is somewhere in-between, and Ash Knight was sufficiently vulnerable after the Movement that LPP didn't need too much work to get him on his side.
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No, there were fires everywhere.
P13 Elemental Manipulation can do a lot of shit.