Question 3

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

All right, I think I have the Financier's bio ready….

 

Epic Name: The Financier (known as Monsieur de Finance to his subordinates) 

 

Primary Power: Number-crunching. The Financier can take strings of numbers (latitude, longitude, date, number of warriors on his team, number of weapons, etc.) and, by solving for the variables, can determine when the next threat will arrive, whether it is a major or a minor threat, where it will be, etc. He can also solve for X and find out what's for lunch next Tuesday. Battles require pencil and paper (never, ever, ever complete a math assignment in pen!) but a small prediction (lunch on Tuesday) can be completed in his head. 

 

Secondary Power: Basic math, especially multiplication and division. Zero is his favorite number. When he multiplies an object up to the size of a tank by zero, it vanishes; this only applies to objects, not sentient beings. (He could, however, multiply an assailant's weapons by zero, even if they were hidden in his clothes. Fortunately for all, the Financier has no interest in multiplying clothes by zero.) Dividing by zero causes a temporal disturbance that resets everything within a ten-mile radius to ten minutes before he divided. However, division by zero kills him, so he only does it when they are out of options because….

 

Passive Power: Upon death, he resurrects precisely one hundred seconds later. However, each death causes him to see numbers as increasingly violent living entities, so he holds death in the same regard he holds numbers: something evil to be avoided at all costs. 

 

Modus Operandi: WHAT THE SPARKING SPARKS IS THIS SHEET OF NUMBERS DOING ON MY DESK? Oh, you want me to crunch them. I'll crunch them. Those numbers—oh, they're wily, they are. That 7. He thinks he's perfect. Everyone in the whole world thinks he's perfect, but I'm wise to you, 7. I know your tricks. You're just like the rest of those horrible, horrible numbers—and I will crunch you. I will crunch you! No, I'm not giving you my pistol—are you mad? Do you aim to leave me unguarded from this numbers? Oh, if I could multiply you by zero, you'd be multiplied by every zero in the world!

 

Edit: Should I post for Remington now, or wait for Kobold to post for Lightwards? 

Edited November 4, 2014 by TwiLyghtSansSparkles

[Kobold King he/him]

Here's Hawkwing's Bio:

Epic Name: Hawkwing

Human Name: Howard Winchester

Weakness: <PM'd to the GM>

Primary Power: Adaptations:

-Wings. Hawkwing can grow wings out of his back. He can also turn his arms into more powerful wings, but most often uses his back to leave his arms available.

-Talons. His feet can turn into sharp talons, most often used to drop people from heights.

Secondary Power: Hawksight. Like hawks, Hawkwing has the ability to see magnetic fields and the ultraviolet spectrum as well as sharper vision to see from high above.

Passive Power: Rebirth. Like a Phoenix, Hawkwing is reborn after a death. When he dies, his dead body burns and leaves only ashes. The body then reforms anew at the age he was when he was first granted powers: 34. He also can survive on very small amounts of oxygen, allowing him to fly very high.

Appearance: About six feet, Hawkwing is a thin man. He has sandy blond hair and hazel eyes. He wears a belt with pouches for ammo over khaki pants with a white button-up shirt. His shirt has an insignia of golden wings and the shoulders have gold thread.

Age: 41, in reality, but he was reborn again recently and is, for all intents, 35.

Home City: Boulder, CO.

Weaponry: two MP7A1 guns, which are personal defense machine guns. He carries lots of ammo for these in pouches on his belt. His attack style tends to be flying up in the air and letting loose with his machine guns.

Howard Winchester was John Guevir's close friend in college. They both studied zoology, but with different interests. John liked predatory cats and Howard was interested in birds of prey. They worked together often, traveling the west United States doing research. While John was very scientific and took logical approaches to everything, Howard had a fancy for the mystical. He was intrigued by legends and myths. Of all of them, the Phoenix's was his favorite. The idea of being born from ashes and the fact that it was a bird made it Howard's interest.

And Metalmech's:

Epic Name: Metalmech (?)

Human Name: Mason Morris

Weakness: <PM'd to the GM>

Primary Power: Able to control mechanical items (guns, vehicles, etc.) within a twenty meter radius.

Secondary Power: Able to shape metal with a touch.

Passive Power: Able to sense mechanisms within a hundred foot radius.

Appearance: Metalmech has a buzz cut of light brown hair. He has green eyes and wears silver clothes with a metal breastplate underneath. He created a mechanical mask of metal that can be changed to show emotion. He wears it over his face as protection, intimidation factor, and as easy access to spare metal.

Age: 28

Home City: Detroit

Weaponry: Metalmech carries a handmade rifle that can also launch grenades. It is customized so that there is no trigger. He controls it all from his mind. Metalmech is also usually in charge of the group's tank. He is left near it so that he can drive and fire it remotely. He mounted machine guns to the top of the tank as well, adding even more firepower.

Mason was an engineering student in college who worked as a mechanic. He had always tinkered with metal and little mechanisms. His father had been the same way and he had grown up around them. After Calamity granted him his powers, he took control of the police department's cars and guns and wreaked havoc on his hometown. He was recruited by Jag.

I'm working on the last Epic's bio. Any name suggestions for Metalmech? I'm not particularly fond of it.

I'm also taking suggestions to name the group and the last Epic. He can create force field, go invisibile, and change density.

I like them both! Don't have many ideas for alternate names at the moment, but I like the name Metalmech. Call him the Mechromancer, maybe? A name which I totally didn't just steal from Borderlands 2.

All right, I think I have the Financier's bio ready….

Epic Name: The Financier (known as Monsieur de Finance to his subordinates)

Primary Power: Number-crunching. The Financier can take strings of numbers (latitude, longitude, date, number of warriors on his team, number of weapons, etc.) and, by solving for the variables, can determine when the next threat will arrive, whether it is a major or a minor threat, where it will be, etc. He can also solve for X and find out what's for lunch next Tuesday. Battles require pencil and paper (never, ever, ever complete a math assignment in pen!) but a small prediction (lunch on Tuesday) can be completed in his head.

Secondary Power: Basic math, especially multiplication and division. Zero is his favorite number. When he multiplies an object up to the size of a tank by zero, it vanishes; this only applies to objects, not sentient beings. (He could, however, multiply an assailant's weapons by zero, even if they were hidden in his clothes. Fortunately for all, the Financier has no interest in multiplying clothes by zero.) Dividing by zero causes a temporal disturbance that resets everything within a ten-mile radius to ten minutes before he divided. However, division by zero kills him, so he only does it when they are out of options because….

Passive Power: Upon death, he resurrects precisely ten minutes later. However, each death causes him to see numbers as increasingly violent living entities, so he holds death in the same regard he holds numbers: something evil to be avoided at all costs.

Modus Operandi: WHAT THE SPARKING SPARKS IS THIS SHEET OF NUMBERS DOING ON MY DESK? Oh, you want me to crunch them. I'll crunch them. Those numbers—oh, they're wily, they are. That 7. He thinks he's perfect. Everyone in the whole world thinks he's perfect, but I'm wise to you, 7. I know your tricks. You're just like the rest of those horrible, horrible numbers—and I will crunch you. I will crunch you! No, I'm not giving you my pistol—are you mad? Do you aim to leave me unguarded from this numbers? Oh, if I could multiply you by zero, you'd be multiplied by every zero in the world!

Edit: Should I post for Remington now, or wait for Kobold to post for Lightwards?

Resurrection Epics. Resurrection Epics everywhere.

In all seriousness, I like him a lot. I think he'll be a fun and awesome addition to Astoria.

How does he predict longterm events when there are so many chaotic variables, though? It seems like there are countless factors he couldn't possibly predict--a surprise Epic could show up and change the tide of the battle, a soldier's old wound could start acting up in the middle of the fight, a bug could fly in and distract someone... etc. On a smaller scale, one of the cooks could catch a cold before Tuesday, resulting in a totally different lunch than the one he predicted. How does his precognitive ability interact with matters of pure chance?

EDIT: Do you need a Lightwards POV before writing a Remington post? I'm incapable of writing one at the moment, but I can make that my priority for tomorrow morning if you're waiting on me.

Edited November 4, 2014 by Kobold King

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Thanks! I'm glad you guys like them. I'm still stuck on the density guy though. That and the entire group's name. I like something like the Obliterators, but I'm not sure about it yet.

More about their organization: Black Jaguar started with his friend, Hawkwing, and began fighting leaders and strong Epics for fun, soon after Calamity rose. They moved form place to place and met up with Metalmech next, a year later. They recruited him and then began more destructive habits. With the addition of remotely controlling guns and a tank, their damage ability multiplied exponentially. Three years after starting, they found DensityGuy and added him to their ranks. Along the way, they found humans that were willing to help them. They each took responsibility for a squad of five. All twenty were convicted of murder or other similar crimes. They travel the western part of the states, destroying, looting, and razing cities for fun.

I'm not sure what to do with them, but I really want to do something now.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I like them both! Don't have many ideas for alternate names at the moment, but I like the name Metalmech. Call him the Mechromancer, maybe? A name which I totally didn't just steal from Borderlands 2.

Resurrection Epics. Resurrection Epics everywhere.

In all seriousness, I like him a lot. I think he'll be a fun and awesome addition to Astoria.

How does he predict longterm events when there are so many chaotic variables, though? It seems like there are countless factors he couldn't possibly predict--a surprise Epic could show up and change the tide of the battle, a soldier's old wound could start acting up in the middle of the fight, a bug could fly in and distract someone... etc. On a smaller scale, one of the cooks could catch a cold before Tuesday, resulting in a totally different lunch than the one he predicted. How does his precognitive ability interact with matters of pure chance?

EDIT: Do you need a Lightwards POV before writing a Remington post? I'm incapable of writing one at the moment, but I can make that my priority for tomorrow morning if you're waiting on me.

 

Maybe he can predict with a plus or minus (five? ten?) margin of error? I'm not very good at math, so basic algebra is already like sorcery to me. I was trying to figure out exactly how random chance would figure in with his powers, but like I said, I'm not good at math, so maybe a math-based Epic was the wrong move.

 

How about the margin of error increases with the size and scale of the event he's predicting, and the more vague his predictions are regarding large events, the more accurate they will be. For example, if he predicts a general victory for Lucentia in a battle, it has a greater chance of accuracy than, say, trying to predict precisely how many soldiers they'll lose, when the biggest losses will occur, and the time of each major loss. Those things would be far more vulnerable to chance and therefore more difficult to predict, while generalities are simpler. And, with a battle, where there are thousands of smaller skirmishes and variables going on, it's hard to predict victory if it will be a close match. 

 

Or maybe I should change his prediction powers to something that doesn't make my head hurt.

 

I could do a Remington post first. I was just trying to figure out his best move from here. Maybe admit he's been spying on them a bit, then tell Max Alice is a recovering zombie? 

 

Edit: How likely do you think it is that one of the Reckoners heard of Koschei? He wasn't around very long, but would it be possible that word traveled with a few The Dalles refugees about an immortal High Epic who caused chaos, and who is now mysteriously gone? 

 

Edit edit: What if I changed the Financier's prediction powers to something that allows him to calculate roughly how long it will take to conquer something—how long a person would last (physically) under torture; extrapolate how long it would take to crush a city or town, etc.? It wouldn't take into account powerful variables like emotional endurance, but merely things like how long it would take to destroy a person or place physically? Does that sound like an actual power, or something that anybody with a good grasp of medical knowledge could do? 

Edited November 4, 2014 by TwiLyghtSansSparkles

[Voidus]

An interesting point on the density guy, altering his density should logically alter his senses if his pupils become less tangible they'll be hit less frequently by light so everything would appear darker and as his tangibility decreased his hearing would become more sensitive, more easily resonating with softer soundwaves although once completely intangible he'd go deaf as well since his ear wouldn't resonate from sound waves, alternately increasing his density would I think result in things becoming even brighter and potentially increasing his hearing sensitivity briefly, though at high ends his ear would resonate less again and so would gradually get reduced hearing.

Naming isn't my strong suit, I usually have the same problem but some suggestions:
Juggernaut, Momentous Ghost, Ammit (The beast of Egyption myth who devours hearts of wrongdoers after the heart-weighing ceremony)

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

On second (third? fourth?) thought, it might be easier to manage if I just removed the Financier's prediction powers. Any other ideas for math-related powers? 

[Voidus]

On second (third? fourth?) thought, it might be easier to manage if I just removed the Financier's prediction powers. Any other ideas for math-related powers? 

Quantitization: The ability to instantly quantify any observed entity or phenomenon, can look at an army and give an instant assesment of the number of soldiers in it, look at a bullet and precisely determine it's speed, tell the precise temperature of a flame.

Asymptotic: Cause an object to slow increasingly as it approaches a certain point, eventually coming infinitely close but never quite reaching it.

EDIT: Side note, what would happen if say an Epic who could make text come alive met Financier and say... Actualized every number in his presence so he was chased by an ever-growing army of digits?

Edited November 4, 2014 by Voidus

[Mailliw73 he/him]

An interesting point on the density guy, altering his density should logically alter his senses if his pupils become less tangible they'll be hit less frequently by light so everything would appear darker and as his tangibility decreased his hearing would become more sensitive, more easily resonating with softer soundwaves although once completely intangible he'd go deaf as well since his ear wouldn't resonate from sound waves, alternately increasing his density would I think result in things becoming even brighter and potentially increasing his hearing sensitivity briefly, though at high ends his ear would resonate less again and so would gradually get reduced hearing.

Naming isn't my strong suit, I usually have the same problem but some suggestions:

Juggernaut, Momentous Ghost, Ammit (The beast of Egyption myth who devours hearts of wrongdoers after the heart-weighing ceremony)

You know, that's true, but I'm not sure I want to deal with that much physics of it. like David says, Epics treat physics like something that happens to other people.

Hmm. Juggernaut is closer to the feel I want for him, but it still doesn't feel right to me. I'll try and think of more and see if Edge or Joe has any ideas.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Quantitization: The ability to instantly quantify any observed entity or phenomenon, can look at an army and give an instant assesment of the number of soldiers in it, look at a bullet and precisely determine it's speed, tell the precise temperature of a flame.

Asymptotic: Cause an object to slow increasingly as it approaches a certain point, eventually coming infinitely close but never quite reaching it.

EDIT: Side note, what would happen if say an Epic who could make text come alive met Financier and say... Actualized every number in his presence so he was chased by an ever-growing army of digits?

Voidus, I knew I could count on you.

I like the quantification power. It sounds like something an Epic budget officer would be able to do.

Freeze momentarily, shoot wildly, and attempt to multiply the entire army by zero as he screamed obscenities. When the army was gone, he would hide under the bed until he was too hungry to stay where he was.

If the army were large enough, he would decide the cause was hopeless and divide by zero.

[Voidus]

You know, that's true, but I'm not sure I want to deal with that much physics of it. like David says, Epics treat physics like something that happens to other people.

Hmm. Juggernaut is closer to the feel I want for him, but it still doesn't feel right to me. I'll try and think of more and see if Edge or Joe has any ideas.

Assuming he can control which parts of his body are intagible/indestructible you can always just get out of it by saying his retina and ear are excluded from his power most of the time, he'd only need to include them if he planned on walking through any walls and he'd be blind and deaf then anyway since he's in a wall

Fred the Immovable? (His name is Fred now)

Tenacity, Pertinacity

Edited November 4, 2014 by Voidus

[mail-mi he/him]

Hm...what powers would a High Epic named Sloppy Joe have...hm...

[Voidus]

Hm...what powers would a High Epic named Sloppy Joe have...hm...

None, because Big Al will tolerate no rivals!

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Assuming he can control which parts of his body are intagible/indestructible you can always just get out of it by saying his retina and ear are excluded from his power most of the time, he'd only need to include them if he planned on walking through any walls and he'd be blind and deaf then anyway since he's in a wall

Fred the Immovable? (His name is Fred now)

Tenacity, Pertinacity

He can, his hand, as was mentioned as an example. That's good to me. So unless he wants to go through a wall or become completely dense, he's fine.

Hahah I actually name most of my Epics human names by starting with the same first letter as their Epic name. Sometimes more. Examples: Night-Mare was Maren Noles. In her case, Mare was even her nickname before Calamity. FlashPoint: Frank Ponte.

Tenacity, I'm liking. I still don't feel it, but I don't know why.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Mailliw, do you think it's plausible that rumors of Koschei made it to Portland with some of the refugees? Not of the specifics; he didn't last long enough for that, but just that a cruel, immortal High Epic tried to take The Dalles two years ago and now he's dead? 

[Mailliw73 he/him]

I don't see why not. In fact, I would be surprised if there weren't any.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Hm...what powers would a High Epic named Sloppy Joe have...hm...

Chicago Joe, Calamity Joe, Pirate Joe, Joe ST, Sloppy Joe.

 

Have you guys not seen my Username?

 

Also, I'm going to be very busy this week. Don't expect many long posts, or comments in this thread.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I don't see why not. In fact, I would be surprised if there weren't any.

 

I'll have him use that in my next Remington post, then. Hopefully, I'll have it up tomorrow. 

[Mailliw73 he/him]

I'll have him use that in my next Remington post, then. Hopefully, I'll have it up tomorrow.

I'm excited.

 

Also, I'm going to be very busy this week. Don't expect many long posts, or comments in this thread.

Maybe this is my chance to catch up in rep.

These are the ideas I'm liking so far: War Smasher, War Wrecker, Rock of War, Glory Smasher. If you have opinions on those or have something along those lines or anything at all really, I'm glad to hear them.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Maybe this is my chance to catch up in rep.

You know you're a Sanderfan when you consider which is more worth it; Maintaining your 3.8 GPA, or Having more Rep than your Nemesis.

[Kobold King he/him]

Maybe he can predict with a plus or minus (five? ten?) margin of error? I'm not very good at math, so basic algebra is already like sorcery to me. I was trying to figure out exactly how random chance would figure in with his powers, but like I said, I'm not good at math, so maybe a math-based Epic was the wrong move.

 

How about the margin of error increases with the size and scale of the event he's predicting, and the more vague his predictions are regarding large events, the more accurate they will be. For example, if he predicts a general victory for Lucentia in a battle, it has a greater chance of accuracy than, say, trying to predict precisely how many soldiers they'll lose, when the biggest losses will occur, and the time of each major loss. Those things would be far more vulnerable to chance and therefore more difficult to predict, while generalities are simpler. And, with a battle, where there are thousands of smaller skirmishes and variables going on, it's hard to predict victory if it will be a close match. 

 

Or maybe I should change his prediction powers to something that doesn't make my head hurt.

 

I could do a Remington post first. I was just trying to figure out his best move from here. Maybe admit he's been spying on them a bit, then tell Max Alice is a recovering zombie? 

 

Edit: How likely do you think it is that one of the Reckoners heard of Koschei? He wasn't around very long, but would it be possible that word traveled with a few The Dalles refugees about an immortal High Epic who caused chaos, and who is now mysteriously gone? 

 

Edit edit: What if I changed the Financier's prediction powers to something that allows him to calculate roughly how long it will take to conquer something—how long a person would last (physically) under torture; extrapolate how long it would take to crush a city or town, etc.? It wouldn't take into account powerful variables like emotional endurance, but merely things like how long it would take to destroy a person or place physically? Does that sound like an actual power, or something that anybody with a good grasp of medical knowledge could do? 

 

I'm no good at math either, but I like your Financier proposals.

 

Aldo has something similar to Financier's precognition, but it has a much shorter range. He can predict where a bullet will end up after it's fired, but nothing so distant as next Tuesday's lunch.

 

I think the Reckoners would probably know about Koschei. They seem to keep tabs on a wide variety of Epics, and a delusional High Epic who succeeded in taking over a city would definitely hit their radar. For that matter, David Charleston probably knows about him.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I'm no good at math either, but I like your Financier proposals.

 

Aldo has something similar to Financier's precognition, but it has a much shorter range. He can predict where a bullet will end up after it's fired, but nothing so distant as next Tuesday's lunch.

 

I think the Reckoners would probably know about Koschei. They seem to keep tabs on a wide variety of Epics, and a delusional High Epic who succeeded in taking over a city would definitely hit their radar. For that matter, David Charleston probably knows about him.

 

I'm just going to nix the prediction thing and replace it with Voidus' suggestion of quantification—the ability to know all the relevant numbers in a situation. Much less headache-inducing for a communications major like me.  

 

From the notebooks of David Charleston: 

 

Koschei the Deathless: an immortal healer who, despite having no offensive powers and a defensive power that should have made him a halfway decent human being, decided he was a god and set about slitting throats to prove it. Seriously, this guy was more insane than a guy who was scared of dolls who got a job in a doll factory for thirty years. He wore a tiara. 

 

Circlet. 

 

Whatever it was, he wore it. I'm really, really happy he's dead now. 

[Edgedancer he/him]

Here's the last guy's power set:

Primary Power: Force fields. Able to create force fields with up to a twenty foot radius. He can create them with himself as the center or he can create it somewhere else, but only a maximum of fifteen meters away. The force fields block all materials from entering or exiting.

Secondary Power: He is able to control his own density as well as objects he is touching. He can increase his/objects' density, making them impervious. Or he can decrease density, allowing him to be intangible, semi-transparent, and he can float around. He often lowers a part of his body's density, eg his hand, and reaches inside someone and then increases the density of his hand, causing extreme pain or death.

Any name ideas? I'm stuck on this one.

 

This is an obligatory question but how durable are his force fields and a "dense" body. (I´m not even going to touch the scientific implications of density, from being to heavy to move or less durable than a soft tissuen, not to speak about turning himself into a black hole. Density might be a bad word for this, how about we call it "firmness?")

 

Suprisingly I don´t have a very good name idea either. I kind of feel like doing something with the words whole or unscathed but I don´t get it to sound right. 

 

Just to make sure, were these four intended for Astoria?

All right, I think I have the Financier's bio ready….

 

Epic Name: The Financier (known as Monsieur de Finance to his subordinates) 

 

Primary Power: Number-crunching. The Financier can take strings of numbers (latitude, longitude, date, number of warriors on his team, number of weapons, etc.) and, by solving for the variables, can determine when the next threat will arrive, whether it is a major or a minor threat, where it will be, etc. He can also solve for X and find out what's for lunch next Tuesday. Battles require pencil and paper (never, ever, ever complete a math assignment in pen!) but a small prediction (lunch on Tuesday) can be completed in his head. 

 

Secondary Power: Basic math, especially multiplication and division. Zero is his favorite number. When he multiplies an object up to the size of a tank by zero, it vanishes; this only applies to objects, not sentient beings. (He could, however, multiply an assailant's weapons by zero, even if they were hidden in his clothes. Fortunately for all, the Financier has no interest in multiplying clothes by zero.) Dividing by zero causes a temporal disturbance that resets everything within a ten-mile radius to ten minutes before he divided. However, division by zero kills him, so he only does it when they are out of options because….

 

Passive Power: Upon death, he resurrects precisely one hundred seconds later. However, each death causes him to see numbers as increasingly violent living entities, so he holds death in the same regard he holds numbers: something evil to be avoided at all costs. 

 

Modus Operandi: WHAT THE SPARKING SPARKS IS THIS SHEET OF NUMBERS DOING ON MY DESK? Oh, you want me to crunch them. I'll crunch them. Those numbers—oh, they're wily, they are. That 7. He thinks he's perfect. Everyone in the whole world thinks he's perfect, but I'm wise to you, 7. I know your tricks. You're just like the rest of those horrible, horrible numbers—and I will crunch you. I will crunch you! No, I'm not giving you my pistol—are you mad? Do you aim to leave me unguarded from this numbers? Oh, if I could multiply you by zero, you'd be multiplied by every zero in the world!

 

Edit: Should I post for Remington now, or wait for Kobold to post for Lightwards? 

I like him. How would he react to being called Finnigan?

 

I was going to explain how the number crunching would make sense with varibles, probability and defining parameters but it seems that it is no longer wanted. Although, it would feel kind of wrong for him not to have a number crunching ability, maybe limiting it to more ordinary things like the trajectory of bullets and weather patterns.

 

How likely do you think it would be for Lucentia to have extorted his weakness out of him?

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

This is an obligatory question but how durable are his force fields and a "dense" body. (I´m not even going to touch the scientific implications of density, from being to heavy to move or less durable than a soft tissuen, not to speak about turning himself into a black hole. Density might be a bad word for this, how about we call it "firmness?")

Suprisingly I don´t have a very good name idea either. I kind of feel like doing something with the words whole or unscathed but I don´t get it to sound right.

Just to make sure, were these four intended for Astoria?

I like him. How would he react to being called Finnigan?

I was going to explain how the number crunching would make sense with varibles, probability and defining parameters but it seems that it is no longer wanted. Although, it would feel kind of wrong for him not to have a number crunching ability, maybe limiting it to more ordinary things like the trajectory of bullets and weather patterns.

How likely do you think it would be for Lucentia to have extorted his weakness out of him?

Depends on who called him Finnigan.

The number-crunching ability makes sense with those limitations, actually.

Depends. How likely is it that she tortured him with census data and budget reports until he fessed up? The only caveat there is that she would have either needed to be convincingly sweet enough that he believed she would take the numbers away if he told her his weakness, or (much more likely, given what we know of her) kept up the torture long enough that he couldn't divide-by-zero out of it.

Edited November 4, 2014 by TwiLyghtSansSparkles

[Voidus]

This is an obligatory question but how durable are his force fields and a "dense" body. (I´m not even going to touch the scientific implications of density, from being to heavy to move or less durable than a soft tissuen, not to speak about turning himself into a black hole. Density might be a bad word for this, how about we call it "firmness?")

I was thinking about it too, Density is the only really scientific term for it but it would more be the atomic size I think, the only way to decrease density enough to walk through a wall is if all of your bodies individual atoms were small enough that they'd not interact with those of the wall, intangibility is one of the harder powers to try to make scientific, after precog.

For the black hole issue I'd assume he has an upper-limit to his density but if not it wouldn't be all that OP, just a really fancy way to kill himself, the black hole would still only have the same gravitational pull as his original body.

[Edgedancer he/him]

Depends on who called him Finnigan.

The number-crunching ability makes sense with those limitations, actually.

Depends. How likely is it that she tortured him with census data and budget reports until he fessed up? The only caveat there is that she would have either needed to be convincingly sweet enough that he believed she would take the numbers away if he told her his weakness, or (much more likely, given what we know of her) kept up the torture long enough that he couldn't divide-by-zero out of it.

The Metal and Bloody Mary might adopt the name for him, depending on the reaction.

The power of math. Muhahahaha!

 

While Lucentia wouldn´t be above it, the actual torture specialist of Astoria would be bloody Mary, who might convince him to fess up before things got ugly. Otherwise... well she´s very good at not killing people.

 

I was thinking about it too, Density is the only really scientific term for it but it would more be the atomic size I think, the only way to decrease density enough to walk through a wall is if all of your bodies individual atoms were small enough that they'd not interact with those of the wall, intangibility is one of the harder powers to try to make scientific, after precog.

For the black hole issue I'd assume he has an upper-limit to his density but if not it wouldn't be all that OP, just a really fancy way to kill himself, the black hole would still only have the same gravitational pull as his original body.

Which is why we don´t do it. It´s magic, willing suspence of disbelief and all that stuff.

Wouldn´t higher density either mean more mass, meaning stronger pull, or smaler size, which sounds like it would be worth it´s own mention?