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[X] Some known Savants
I want to see other powersets.
I want to see other powersets.
[X] Some known Savants
Yeah, knowing who some of the other powerhouses are and what they do is going to be very useful.
Yeah, knowing who some of the other powerhouses are and what they do is going to be very useful.
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[X] Some known Savants
Time to get writing.
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Time to get writing.
@I just write do people under Time-stop experience decreased gravity? Also, would light sources from outside the time-stop become visually very dim (from the fact that light entering the field at a much slower rate than it transverses once it is in)?
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Interlude #1: Some known Savants
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One of the most outright weird types of magic user is the Savant. Without in-depth analysis, one could quite reasonably think that they're operating using completely different rules for magic than everyone else. Savants often have abilities that seem outright impossible inside the 'normal' system for magic, and even then there's the fact that they've got effectively unlimited madness supplies while at the same time remaining perfectly sane (for the most part). We've managed to track down enough info on a few of the Savants worldwide to make profiles for a few of them.
#1: Sybille Severin
Last Known Location: Berlin
Overall threat level: Medium
Threat likeliness: Low
Capabilities: Sybille Severin is completely immortal. She is known to be almost 500 years old, and has actually gone swimming in molten lava on a few known occasions. In addition, she causes karmic backlash on anyone who tries attacking her, harming them in the same manner and to the same degree as they attempted to harm her. Aside from native Savant abilities, Sybille is also a competent Therapist. As a side note, it has been proven that her karmic backlash actually counts internet memes as attacks.
Burst: Unknown
She was burned as a witch in 1537. The entire town burned down around her.
Psyche Profile: Sybille Severin is highly conservative due to her long life, not taking rapid change terribly well, but still accepting it (if grudgingly). She makes sure to keep up to date with what's going on after missing a few decades during the industrial revolution, and coming back to civilization to find herself in a society she hadn't anticipated at all. Despite this she doesn't know much about how technology actually works, and tends to use other solutions before resorting to modern technology. This has resulted in her knowledge of Technomancers being rather shallow. She's been alienated with organized religion for centuries from what we can tell, the circumstances behind which are unclear.
#2: Mauno Laaksonen
Last Known Location: Berlin
Overall threat level: varies depending on your personal presence
Threat likeliness: Medium
Capabilities: Mauno is a telepath with immense potency. He can quite easily overwrite a non-Savant mind, or just implant a suggestion. Other posssibilities include gestalting several people together into a hive mind of sorts. The resting state for his powers is passively listening to the thoughts of everyone in a 200 meter radius. He has been proven capable of using his powers on computers.
Burst: Unknown
Psyche Profile: Mauno has for several years been able to get whatever he wants from anyone, and it shows. He has regressed into sociopathy to a degree, and is unable to properly socialize with people. He likely won't take it well if he can't get what he wants, but that's only ever happened once before. As a side note, he outright fears Sybille Severin, who apparently has been hunting him on and off for the last few years since his Burst one she learned of his activities.
#3: Fishel Rose
Last known location: Austria
Overall threat level: Very High
Threat likeliness: Low
Capabilities: Fishel's abilities enforce narrative causality in a roughly 2 mile radius, centering around her as the designated protagonist. In addition, she can invoke up to 4 tropes at any given time, giving her a lot of versatility, even though it takes a few minutes to swap out tropes and they've got less power behind them than a less-focused Savant ability unless she deliberately exaggerates them using more of her slots.
Burst: Conjured up a nigh-unstoppable kaiju that rampaged for 76 minutes before dissipating. Thankfully she was camping in the mountains far from civilization, so no-one was harmed.
Psyche Profile: Fishel is a rather laid back individual, mostly keeping to herself and having fun in Austria's night life. She has amazing potential, but prefers to harmlessly amuse herself with trivial entertainment. She also occasionally performs as a stage magician.
#4: Hotaru Watanabe, has secret identity as 雷の女の子, which literally translates as 'girl of thunder' or 'lightning girl'.
Last known location: Yamashina Ward, Kyoto, Japan
Overall threat level: High
Threat likeliness: Moderate
Capabilities: Watanabe is bizarre even among Savants, as she has multiple seemingly unrelated powers. First and foremost is her ability to manipulate and perceive electricity. This has been used to shoot lightning, produce intense magnetic fields for pseudo-telekinesis, and cook canned food. She is also immensely fast and durable, being capable of breaking the sound barrier on foot (NOTE: she's fast enough to run on water and doesn't seem to ever get tired), and is confirmed to be capable of taking punishment sufficient to reduce a Joe to scrap metal. It's been determined that her durability is strongest when she isn't using her other abilities.
In addition, she makes regular use of a technomantic smartphone app to gain access to a magical girl style transformation sequence, complete with a light perception filter to keep people from connecting her two identities.
Burst: Caused massive blackouts throughout the Kyoto, Hyogo, Shiga and Nara prefectures by overloading the power grid, blowing out several transformers as part of the effects. The damage took an entire month to fully repair.
Psyche Profile: Hotaru is an emotional individual, having only had her Burst 2 years ago at the age of 12. She's shamed of what her Burst did, and after learning of what Torturers are decided to redeem herself by hunting them down (this hasn't had nearly the impact she thinks it has, see report 31D), along with other bouts of magical girl style heroism. She would likely misidentify us as some form of evil conspiracy were we to start operations in Kyoto and attempt to take action against us.
#5: Uzziel Sokol
Last known location: Jerusalem, Israel
Overall threat level: high
threat likeliness: low
Capabilities: Uzziel is able to teleport at will, the more time he spend focusing on a teleport, the further he goes. His effective travel speed is roughly 300 km/s, and once he completes a teleport the only limit on when he can teleport next is when he can figure out where he wants to go next. If he teleports into solid matter he remains unharmed, but the same cannot be said for whatever he teleports into. The resting state for his powers is actually teleporting with a negligible range at an extremely high rate, with him actually moving his limbs in this 'stop motion' manner rather than using his muscular system. As a side effect, he actually flickers when looked at with a slow motion camera.
Burst: Unknown
Psyche Profile: Uzziel is a coward, preferring to run away from his problems rather than face them. He also makes horrendously bad jokes to relieve stress. Worth noting is he spotted our spies before teleporting away to an unknown location.
#1: Sybille Severin
Last Known Location: Berlin
Overall threat level: Medium
Threat likeliness: Low
Capabilities: Sybille Severin is completely immortal. She is known to be almost 500 years old, and has actually gone swimming in molten lava on a few known occasions. In addition, she causes karmic backlash on anyone who tries attacking her, harming them in the same manner and to the same degree as they attempted to harm her. Aside from native Savant abilities, Sybille is also a competent Therapist. As a side note, it has been proven that her karmic backlash actually counts internet memes as attacks.
Burst: Unknown
She was burned as a witch in 1537. The entire town burned down around her.
Psyche Profile: Sybille Severin is highly conservative due to her long life, not taking rapid change terribly well, but still accepting it (if grudgingly). She makes sure to keep up to date with what's going on after missing a few decades during the industrial revolution, and coming back to civilization to find herself in a society she hadn't anticipated at all. Despite this she doesn't know much about how technology actually works, and tends to use other solutions before resorting to modern technology. This has resulted in her knowledge of Technomancers being rather shallow. She's been alienated with organized religion for centuries from what we can tell, the circumstances behind which are unclear.
#2: Mauno Laaksonen
Last Known Location: Berlin
Overall threat level: varies depending on your personal presence
Threat likeliness: Medium
Capabilities: Mauno is a telepath with immense potency. He can quite easily overwrite a non-Savant mind, or just implant a suggestion. Other posssibilities include gestalting several people together into a hive mind of sorts. The resting state for his powers is passively listening to the thoughts of everyone in a 200 meter radius. He has been proven capable of using his powers on computers.
Burst: Unknown
Psyche Profile: Mauno has for several years been able to get whatever he wants from anyone, and it shows. He has regressed into sociopathy to a degree, and is unable to properly socialize with people. He likely won't take it well if he can't get what he wants, but that's only ever happened once before. As a side note, he outright fears Sybille Severin, who apparently has been hunting him on and off for the last few years since his Burst one she learned of his activities.
#3: Fishel Rose
Last known location: Austria
Overall threat level: Very High
Threat likeliness: Low
Capabilities: Fishel's abilities enforce narrative causality in a roughly 2 mile radius, centering around her as the designated protagonist. In addition, she can invoke up to 4 tropes at any given time, giving her a lot of versatility, even though it takes a few minutes to swap out tropes and they've got less power behind them than a less-focused Savant ability unless she deliberately exaggerates them using more of her slots.
Burst: Conjured up a nigh-unstoppable kaiju that rampaged for 76 minutes before dissipating. Thankfully she was camping in the mountains far from civilization, so no-one was harmed.
Psyche Profile: Fishel is a rather laid back individual, mostly keeping to herself and having fun in Austria's night life. She has amazing potential, but prefers to harmlessly amuse herself with trivial entertainment. She also occasionally performs as a stage magician.
#4: Hotaru Watanabe, has secret identity as 雷の女の子, which literally translates as 'girl of thunder' or 'lightning girl'.
Last known location: Yamashina Ward, Kyoto, Japan
Overall threat level: High
Threat likeliness: Moderate
Capabilities: Watanabe is bizarre even among Savants, as she has multiple seemingly unrelated powers. First and foremost is her ability to manipulate and perceive electricity. This has been used to shoot lightning, produce intense magnetic fields for pseudo-telekinesis, and cook canned food. She is also immensely fast and durable, being capable of breaking the sound barrier on foot (NOTE: she's fast enough to run on water and doesn't seem to ever get tired), and is confirmed to be capable of taking punishment sufficient to reduce a Joe to scrap metal. It's been determined that her durability is strongest when she isn't using her other abilities.
In addition, she makes regular use of a technomantic smartphone app to gain access to a magical girl style transformation sequence, complete with a light perception filter to keep people from connecting her two identities.
Burst: Caused massive blackouts throughout the Kyoto, Hyogo, Shiga and Nara prefectures by overloading the power grid, blowing out several transformers as part of the effects. The damage took an entire month to fully repair.
Psyche Profile: Hotaru is an emotional individual, having only had her Burst 2 years ago at the age of 12. She's shamed of what her Burst did, and after learning of what Torturers are decided to redeem herself by hunting them down (this hasn't had nearly the impact she thinks it has, see report 31D), along with other bouts of magical girl style heroism. She would likely misidentify us as some form of evil conspiracy were we to start operations in Kyoto and attempt to take action against us.
#5: Uzziel Sokol
Last known location: Jerusalem, Israel
Overall threat level: high
threat likeliness: low
Capabilities: Uzziel is able to teleport at will, the more time he spend focusing on a teleport, the further he goes. His effective travel speed is roughly 300 km/s, and once he completes a teleport the only limit on when he can teleport next is when he can figure out where he wants to go next. If he teleports into solid matter he remains unharmed, but the same cannot be said for whatever he teleports into. The resting state for his powers is actually teleporting with a negligible range at an extremely high rate, with him actually moving his limbs in this 'stop motion' manner rather than using his muscular system. As a side effect, he actually flickers when looked at with a slow motion camera.
Burst: Unknown
Psyche Profile: Uzziel is a coward, preferring to run away from his problems rather than face them. He also makes horrendously bad jokes to relieve stress. Worth noting is he spotted our spies before teleporting away to an unknown location.
Well, that's funny. Does that mean people sending her memes, or memes of her?
I don't see any reason we shouldn't subtly knock this guy off. Shouldn't be that hard, we got plenty of high accuracy range weaponry. And if worst comes to worst, we could just blow up everything around him. Only real problems would be if he got some magical protections, but that isn't insurmountable. Especially if we coordinate with Sybil.
A very interesting possible recruit, though probably unlikely given she is mostly self centered. Still something to check out.
Umm, why use her phone for that? Is she just not good at general magic, and had someone hook her up with that?
Over all, seems like a good recruit, though we would have to be careful given the "likely to see us as evil" thing. @I just write can we see report 31D?
And how old are the "Last known locations", if it was a week or two ago they probably aren't good anymore, but if it's more recent we can probably follow up on that.
I think we need to look into anti-magic measures, and maybe anti-technomancy shielding for our electronic equipment.
@I just write do we have an engineering division yet, so we can delegate some research to them? What's going on in the wider world atm?
@I just write do we have an engineering division yet, so we can delegate some research to them? What's going on in the wider world atm?
I agree that we need anti-magic, but don't know what you mean by anti-technomancy. The only differences between the types of magic are their personal preference of power source.
And we do got a science team that can do stuff while we do other stuff. They can research anything we can, just at a slower rate.
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Time to crack this case wide open. Her powers are most likely caused by being supercharged with energy. Her speed comes from the energy and durability is probably a skintight energy field that surrounds her automatically. The lightning and cooking is just energy manipulation. Heck, even the magnetism can be caused by electric charges. This is also why her durability is relative to how much of powers she is using. She only has a limited amount to expand that constantly recharges so whatever energy is not being used goes to defending her, but if she decides to use an active power then the shield diverts it's own power to it. How close am I?
As in actual shielding to protect them from being fucked with by technomancers, which will probably be more efficient than a general anti-magic spell or w/e.
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1: It means that it works on people sending memes to her.
Economics: ???
2: Yeah, that's pretty much it
Story: Fishel
3: I never actually wrote report 31D, it was meant as a Noodle Incident.
Life: A bug
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-Sybille and Mauno: Up to date, though Mauno's likely to skip town soon to try and get away from Sybille.
-Fishel: She doesn't travel much, really.
-Hotaru: Same.
-Uzziel: As previously mentioned, he teleported away to an unknown location.
Eternity: Sybille
Lightning: Hotaru
Pretty close, but not quite. She generates huge amounts of Madness, which she needs to dispose of. She can do this with electricity, super speed, or durability. As she can't use the electricity or super speed all the time, it goes to durability by default.Flicker: Uzziel
Paradox: ???
Shadow: ???
ANYONE! PLEASE SAVE ME!!!: ???
If you worry about them being turned into a power source, some protocols for shutting down if certain things happen should be rather easy.
If you meant to keep the spells from doing anything period (which case, don't need to specify technomancer, anyone can do those spells), I'm rather sure we need some anti-magic shit. It's all magic, and the problem is that there is nothing keeping the spells from just doing their thing to the inside of the robots, ignoring their armor and shit.
Ideally, we figure out a way to make our guys into mages, and they can do their own magic in retaliation. But that probably won't happen soon. More likely we will make something like a continuous anti-magic barrier around them (like the spell the guy used to dispell the invisibility), fueled by us (via portal, also fueled by us).
Alright, so we will probably want to get on it soon. Good thing we got teleportation. Makes doing things quick a breeze.
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Oh by the way, I hid some more stuff in that post.
Well. This invisitext is interesting, especially since you slipped some in to you quoting me.
There's 14 here, and given the filled in ones, I assume they are all Savants. Though that's leaves out a few, since you said there were 20 something. The fire one is probably the one in the volcano. Or maybe thats the ANYONE! PLEASE SAVE ME!!! one since being stuck in a volcano probably isnt' nice.
Yeah, is saw about a few moments after I replied the first time. Thing about Invisitext revealer, it doesn't show it on the posts that show up when you click the "show new posts" button, it only does its thing on page load.
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Wanna make any guesses about possible powers?
I'd build a dedicated social Joe model and send it to #3 to offer her the adventure of a lifetime as part of a secret organization.
There's tons of options, but if you want me to I could spout a few off.
Fire: Possibly just a fire version of Hotaru. Or maybe something like Lung from Worm.
Motion: Something similar to Accelerator
Falsehood: Maybe make lies real. Or make people believe what he says, no matter what.
Economics: Pay-to-play powers. He can do anything, if he pays enough.
Life: Really a lot of options here. Immortality is probably atleast part of the package.
Paradox: No idea. Making impossible objects real?
Shadow: Simple thing would be shadow manipulation. More could be invisibility, intangibility, inaudibility, and other sneaky powers.
ANYONE! PLEASE SAVE ME!!!: Despair perhaps. Loneliness. Fear. Dunno.
Why make a social joe? What could that joe do that a normal joe couldn't? If it's a matter of social skills, we could easily program that into our joes.
I say we leave Hotaru alone for now. Maybe when we're dealing with an actual adult we can approach her.
They fuck with AI too.
They fuck with AI too.
That's a whole 4 years from now, at least. By then, we'd probably have already industrialized the entire galaxy, atleast, and long since taken care of everything on earth.
But not mid-battle. That would be after the fact, and we already lost. And, again, a shut down could fairly easily be put in place, just completely lock down the system and it would refuse to reboot without us doing something to it. They might have a fair bit of experience with AI, but our shit is CRAZY advanced, they would probably need a couple years to figure out how it works to really be able to do anything to it.
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Getting a Skitter vibe here.
Can a literal bug be a Savant? Can animals be Savants?
Maybe some sort of a mixture of other current Savants, as not shadow powers, but shadow of powers?
Ignoring that we know there are animal mages
We already knww there was non-human savant
Odds are that bug is the savant he was refering to here.
Is this something we learn IC through our weird powers?