Question 19

[Voidus]

It began the beautiful, heart-wrenching tale of an Epic and the squid who loved her too much to abandon her to the darkness. Of course it got 5 upvotes.

Or the fearful tale of an Epic meeting her cold-hearted (and cold-blooded) general who both hate Epics enough to do all that is necessary to destroy their darkness. Like creating an army of jetpack-laden penguins with lasers. 

[breakingamber he/him]

Well, I suppose that someone saw my Salem post. Was I god-modding with Showstopper? I assumed, that something that happened a long time ago wouldn't really be god-modding, but I'll edit that out and/or ask permission if I have to.

[Voidus]

I wouldn't say that's godmodding, unless someone requests a change saying something that amounts to 'something happened in the past with these two' is vague enough to generally work.

[Chandrian]

Name: Afterglow

Real Name: Briya Holmes

Gender: Female

Age: 19

Description: About 5'6" with blue eyes and shoulder length brown hair. Has large black wings protruding from her back. Usually wears tank tops or t-shirts under a thin jacket with cargo pants and hiking boots, but lacks a consistent costume. Often has a katana, which she uses in combat.

Primary Power: Auramancy. She can "stick" six different colored auras to any object, effecting them in various ways. The strength of many auras increase with proximity, but others require direct contact. She can lay one aura on an object, up to four on herself, and two on anything she holds.

Auras:

Hot/Cold (Red and Blue)

Can imbue an object so it gives off heat anywhere between -200 and +500 degrees Celsius. This aura only affects things the object comes in contact with after imbuement. Thsee auras can only be stuck on by direct contact. Affects only the first solid or liquid contacted. Object originally stuck with the aura is not effect by the heat or cold given off.

Fast/Slow (Green and Yellow)

Can increase or decrease the speed of an object by up to 20 times, acting inversely upon increases in size. This allows her to throw something such as a marble or nail at up to 1500 miles an hour, almost as fast as a bullet. She can also increase her speed by 50% and decrease another's by 33%. Aura works far less effectively without direct contact.

Sharp/Blunt (Orange and Purple)

Can increase the sharpness or bluntness of an object. This allowas for someone's sword or knife to cut through wood and some rock, but not most metals. Bluntness allows for temporary increase in effectiveness or both fists and bludgeons.

Secondary Power: Flight. Has a pair of black, feathered wings capable of flight. Originated from the power of one heavy body modification, but it could only be used once.

Passive: Blood clots and wounds heal at a moderately faster rate, making things like a severed femoral artery less deadly. We're talking 5-10× accelerated healing, not PI levels of 500× and up.

Weakness: Anyone intoxicated

Modus Operandi: Leads a group of wandering ex-military operatives and several servants. Searches for an adequate place to rule or aid in ruling, having only gained her powers in the past year.

Personality: Level-headed, happy, and somewhat funny for the most part. Being granted powers made her much happier, but primarily via the euphoric rush she gains when hurting or killing others. When she hasn't done so for too long, she becomes very irritable and angry.

Skills: A high school gymnast with moderate proficiency in parkour, she often relies upon dodging when in close quarters. Rather intelligent, with an IQ of 125. Moderately skilled in both thrown projectiles and sword fighting, although only after gaining powers and having to learn.

Pre-Calamity: Briya had a normal upbringing in a small town with a middle class family. Originally very outgoing and cheery, she changed when her father died in an accident with a drunk driver. She was able to move past the death, but never forgave the man who killed him. After she turned, she killed all of her friends and family as humanely as possible, then hunted down the driver and spent two days slowly killing him. She then bested the epic controlling their town in a public brawl, and took his soliders with her in exchange for leaving her alone.

Edited April 14, 2016 by Bluefingers

[breakingamber he/him]

Good.

 

About the Portland RP: Could I make it so that a man, who I'll name Jeffery (sorry Corpsey) Wandinson notices the conflict between Timeport and Nighthound. It would be even more fun if Timeport teleported into the guy.

 

And about Salem: Could I add two new Epics in one day? If I could,

 

Name: Cuber

Power: He can touch any object, living or dead, and that object will shrink (or grow) into a small box the size of a lightbulb. He can even do this to humans and Epics. Living beings don't notice that they have been cubed. He can even do this to himself, and puts himself in Storage to avoid danger (see Secondary) Larger objects require more effort. (He could probably cube the entire world if he wanted to, but what fun is that? He wouldn't do it. Also, it would probably take him a years worth of concentrating.)

 

Secondary: He can create a portal to another "dimension" which he calls storage. These portals are generally small. He keeps his cubes in there. This leads to an effect where it looks like he throws a cube and it turns into a house in midair.

 

Tertiary: When he will be hit by something that will harm him, he will automatically cube it. If you try to shoot him, the bullet will be cubed. If someone tries to punch him, the person will be cubed. These cubings take no time at all, there fore, if he was on the Moon, and the Earth hit it, he would conceivably cube the whole Earth (scary)

 

MO: He enjoys cubing random objects. And people. And Epics.

 

Or is this too OP?

[Chandrian]

I can't say for sure if it's too OP, but I have a question about his Tertiary. How would cubing a bullet work, as the bullet is already smaller than his cubes. Secondly, wouldn't getting hit by the cube hurt as much as a bullet, as it doesn't slow down?

[The Swan Dragon he/him]

I can't say for sure if it's too OP, but I have a question about his Tertiary. How would cubing a bullet work, as the bullet is already smaller than his cubes. Secondly, wouldn't getting hit by the cube hurt as much as a bullet, as it doesn't slow down?

Shrink (or grow)

 

For the second, best guess is it is also automatically put into 'storage'. He should clarify that though.

[Chandrian]

I missed the first part, thanks

[Mckeedee123 he/him]

Or is this too OP?

 

Yes, yes it is. With enough preparation, he could do almost anything (since he can transport objects of all sizes around with him. Also, the fact that he can neutralize all Epics instantaneously, which is PI-breaking. It's interesting, but I'd say put an upper limit on the amount of mass he can transform at once (200 kg?) then take away the storage space ability and just make the cubes smaller (dice size.) Have the transformation work on vanillas but not Epics.

[Chandrian]

Or maybe make it so doing so to Epics requires A. Knowledge of their weakness B. Extended contact and C. Thorough concentration to do so (As in hours if not days)

[Voidus]

Yes, yes it is. With enough preparation, he could do almost anything (since he can transport objects of all sizes around with him. Also, the fact that he can neutralize all Epics instantaneously, which is PI-breaking. It's interesting, but I'd say put an upper limit on the amount of mass he can transform at once (200 kg?) then take away the storage space ability and just make the cubes smaller (dice size.) Have the transformation work on vanillas but not Epics.

Well it wouldn't work on most PIs, Intangibles can't be touched, healers would un-cubify, invincibles like Steelheart couldn't be altered in the first place, reincarnators could just kill themselves to get out of it and precogs would just avoid getting touched.

[Blackhoof]

I don't mind the cubing power, but are they permanent? It might be op if they aren't limited in time.

I also don't think the PI is necessary - he can protect himself like that without it being automatic.

[Mckeedee123 he/him]

Well it wouldn't work on most PIs, Intangibles can't be touched, healers would un-cubify, invincibles like Steelheart couldn't be altered in the first place, reincarnators could just kill themselves to get out of it and precogs would just avoid getting touched.

 

Maybe. Whether or not it would work on healers and invincibles is debatable, but anyway, the limitation that methods of killing (or disabling, or whatever) like this don't affect or are less effective on Epics is pretty normal.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Well it wouldn't work on most PIs, Intangibles can't be touched, healers would un-cubify, invincibles like Steelheart couldn't be altered in the first place, reincarnators could just kill themselves to get out of it and precogs would just avoid getting touched.

Yeah, but there's just something about the fact that if YOU punch HIM, YOU will automatically cube. It'd be one thing if HE were the one curbing to escape harm, but this is preemptively neutralizing an opponent on contact. It kind of reminds me of a game American kids play, called The Floor Is Lava. You jump from different pieces of furniture, trying to avoid touching the floor, because everyone has decided to pretend it's lava. Well, there was always this one kid who'd land on the floor and, when told he was out, would go "Well, I have lava-proof boots!" Automatically cubing an opponent seems like a lava-proof boots sort of power to me.

[Master Elodin]

Yeah, but there's just something about the fact that if YOU punch HIM, YOU will automatically cube. It'd be one thing if HE were the one curbing to escape harm, but this is preemptively neutralizing an opponent on contact. It kind of reminds me of a game American kids play, called The Floor Is Lava. You jump from different pieces of furniture, trying to avoid touching the floor, because everyone has decided to pretend it's lava. Well, there was always this one kid who'd land on the floor and, when told he was out, would go "Well, I have lava-proof boots!" Automatically cubing an opponent seems like a lava-proof boots sort of power to me.

This should totally be a term.

From now on, unreasonable PIs or protection powers are called lava-proof boots.

[The Swan Dragon he/him]

This should totally be a term.

From now on, unreasonable PIs or protection powers are called lava-proof boots.

"Erm...well...my character instantly turns anything that would hurt him into a bunny..."

[Voidus]

This should totally be a term.

From now on, unreasonable PIs or protection powers are called lava-proof boots.

In contrast the ability to actually have lava-proof boots is one of the less useful Epic abilities. 

[Master Elodin]

"Erm...well...my character instantly turns anything that would hurt him into a bunny..."

Lagomorphizing boots!

[ChickenPlague he/him]

There's also the issue that amber is already creating new characters before Abaddon even has a second post.

I had two viewpoint characters before my first post. And a non-viewpoint. And then I introduced a (hopefully) permament rare-viewpoint character in my second and so far last post.

[Voidus]

My suggestion would be to change the PI so that it creates a portal when attacked instead of cubifying, that way if someone triews to punch him their fist goes to another dimension briefly then they can pull it out, bullets and stuff go there too. So it works more or less the same, but without instantly neutralizing anyone who bumps into him.

[Citadel16 he/him]

lava proof boots are fine and all, but what we really need are nighthound proof boots...

[RippleGylf she/her]

So, my aforementioned friend has decided to join, and has already made an account. I had no idea that I wielded so much power. O.O

[Edgedancer he/him]

So, my aforementioned friend has decided to join, and has already made an account. I had no idea that I wielded so much power. O.O

Be pround, you made her life that much more... colorful.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

After several months, a new Adelmo post is up.

Guys, let's start a social media campaign for Adelmo: #bringbacktrackback2K25

And then Backtrack cried.

[Edgedancer he/him]

Well it wouldn't work on most PIs, Intangibles can't be touched, healers would un-cubify, invincibles like Steelheart couldn't be altered in the first place, reincarnators could just kill themselves to get out of it and precogs would just avoid getting touched.

It mentions that people turned to cubes don't even notice what happen to them, so resurrection suicide and likely healing wouldn't work.

 

My suggestion would be to change the PI so that it creates a portal when attacked instead of cubifying, that way if someone triews to punch him their fist goes to another dimension briefly then they can pull it out, bullets and stuff go there too. So it works more or less the same, but without instantly neutralizing anyone who bumps into him.

...why do people keep thinking that giving someone the ability to seal anyone within a pocket dimension by tackling them is a downgrade?

 

And then Backtrack cried.

"Backtrack, come with me if you want to life!"

"Does that mean you'll kill me otherwise?"