The Hunt for the Jackal

[Lunar Blessing she/her]

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Wait, Max is basically that one kid from My Hero Acedamia!

 

[kenod]

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Never watched that show, but from what I remember I think that the exact way their powers work is different, with Maxwell being less launch ice and fireballs and more perpetual motion machine that can also cool stuff down. I think the biggest difference is that they need to take conservation of energy into account, which is what causes weird stuff when your power can violate the second law of thermodynamics (the only thing stopping them from destroying the world is them not being immune to heat).

 

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

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Seems good. I'm just running this one thread, so you might want to check with Meeker before you use them, but they don't seem overpowered.

"Any questions at all? Anyone else who wants to help? Anybody?" Walker said.

[kenod]

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Already got Voidus to do a point check, Laplace is 90 points and Maxwell 110.

 

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

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Is Maxwell going to show up, or is that later?

 

[kenod]

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Once the characters have been okayed by Meeker, and once I find a good introduction point, which mainly depends on whether Laplace is already a member or not.

 

[Lunar Blessing she/her]

“Where should I help?” Melody asks, looking over the plan in her head.

@Darth Woodrack

Edited February 7, 2019 by Blessing of Potency

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

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Third person.

"You'll move in with me and open it up for the first time," Walker said to Melody, with a smile on his face, "Anyone else?

@Blessing of Potency

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You can put Layplace in now, but not specify his powers yet. It's what I did with The Alchemist, and Wraith. I wouldn't use Maxwell until he's okayed because he is 10 pints over, but Layplace should be fine.

@kenod

Edited February 7, 2019 by Darth Woodrack

[Lunar Blessing she/her]

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Shoot, sorry!

 

[Clyde Froggins he/him]

Maxwell heard chattering and decided to walk toward it, I mean if its something dangerous I can just kill it before it blinks, he thought.

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

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Clyde? No he can't.

"Okay, let's get in position!" Walker said.

@Blessing of Potency @Clyde Coggins

[Lunar Blessing she/her]

Standing up Melody stays near walker. Large groups still freaks her out a little.

@Darth Woodrack

Edited February 8, 2019 by Blessing of Potency

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

A little later Walker waits in an Alley for the transport, "Hey, Mel, are you okay? You seemed a little worried back at the briefing."

@Blessing of Potency

[Lunar Blessing she/her]

“Fine, just a lot of people in a small space.” Melody responds.

@Darth Woodrack

Edited February 8, 2019 by Blessing of Potency

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

"Okay. I love you," Walker said, leaning in and kissing her.

@Blessing of Potency

Edited February 8, 2019 by Darth Woodrack

[kenod]

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Btw, is the Jackal's organization the Bureau of Villainy? Just want to make sure for filling in my character's affiliation.

 

[Lunar Blessing she/her]

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I don’t think so, I’m pretty sure he’s stand alone.

 

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

6 hours ago, kenod said:

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Btw, is the Jackal's organization the Bureau of Villainy? Just want to make sure for filling in my character's affiliation.

 

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No. He might get hired from time to time, but he mainly works alone.

 

[old man moomba he/him]

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Someone is gonna be gaurding the transport BTW. 

 

[kenod]

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Alright, so Laplace and Maxwell have been okayed by the mods. Do you want Laplace to already be part of the Jackal's group or just show up at his hideout's front door?

(Actual character profiles if someone needs them. Also, they're both female, their Epic names can be confusing):

Laplace (actual name: Alice Fisher):

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Name: Alice Fisher

Epic Name: Laplace

Gender: Female

Age: 35

Appearance: She is about 5'4'' tall, though she seems taller to people. Has shorter light brown hair and dark green eyes that turn violet when she's using her powers. Generally looks rather serious and strict. Wears glasses. For clothing she normally wears the Oxford professor's gown, but with a few modifications to allow for easier movement.

Powers:
    Laplace's Demon:

• Primary power: Enhanced analytical abilities. This manifests in three different ways, Probability prediction, physics simulation, and pattern analysis.
  Probability prediction allows for the analysis of trends from small data sets, allowing for the prediction of possible actions of groups of people, assigning probabilities to each possible action they can take. This works better the larger the group is, and the more data there is available. Predicting the actions of a single individual is much more difficult, even with insight into their personality. Larger groups, on the other hand, tend to average out.
  Physics simulation allows for perfectly predicting the outcome of deterministic systems, such as the paths of a group of rocks falling down, or a roulette wheel. This ability requires knowledge of the rules behind the system to work though. Encountering an unknown phenomenon, or an non-deterministic one, makes usage of this ability impossible, and if she is only partially aware of the rules behind the system she can encounter errors in their analysis.
  Pattern analysis allows her to take a phenomenon, or a number of incidents, and analyze the pattern behind them, creating a prediction of the rules it is based on. This works in concert with probability prediction and physics simulation, allowing her to establish the necessary rules for these to be able to work. The main issue with this, however, is that the rules she deduces might not be the actual rules that apply to a phenomenon or pattern, which might throw of her predictions by some degree.
  This power is a semi-passive ability, with the power normally running subconsciously, with results manifesting as improved intuition, but she can also focus the ability on a specific task, which makes it much more effective, but requires her to consciously know what she's trying to analyze.
• Secondary power: Area scan. This is an active ability that allows her to perfectly know everything about a 50 meter area centered on her. The issue here is that it isn't possible for her to consciously comprehend all this information, so she's only capable of accessing the positions, motions, and appearances of objects in this region, although she can also access information more specific information like temperature, sound, or specific materials, but this requires her to actually focus on acquiring this information, and on the specific place she wants the information from.
  The interesting part about this ability, however, is that her first ability is also capable of making use of this information, but is capable of accessing the full breadth of information, granting what amounts to a pseudo danger sense, though limited to what information can be gathered from inside of the ability's active area (Note that threads don't have to be inside of this area to be noticed, but either this area or what can be perceived with their normal senses must contain the information necessary for the thread to be noticeable).

Skills: Intelligent (-30), Scholarship: Skilled (-30). While she doesn't have any actual combat abilities she'd probably make a decent long range sniper with some training because of her abilities (does this cost any points?).

Epic weakness: Dice. These will create an aura of about 2 meters around them that isn't visible to her Area Scan ability, and actually touching them will also negate her primary ability.

Weaknesses:

• Her powers rely on the fact that whatever she's analyzing functions on rules. If something isn't based on rules, or if the rules aren't deducible then her powers can't give her any information.
• Probability analysis can be defeated by making decisions based on random chance, with even something like flipping a coin to decide between to outcomes making her unable to predict the final action (as long as she doesn't see them flip the coin. If she sees them flipping the coin physics simulation will allow them to predict how it will land).
• She needs to actually need to have data in order to make predictions, meaning that not having access to key data can lead to erroneous predictions. The same goes for actions of unknown third parties.
  Note: Previous weaknesses were all oddities in her abilities, and were already taking into account by Voidus when calculating her total ability score.
• She highly dislikes any form of combat, viewing it as beneath her, and because of this has very little experience in it, so her fights will mostly be her using her abilities to dodge attacks.

Personality: She has a strict, calculating personality, with a firm believe that the mind is much more important than the body, and that she is more intelligent than anybody else, so doing any fighting herself would be demeaning. She tends to have a personal hatred against people who mess up her predictions, and believes that her primary ability is actually her own genius shining through, and not an Epic ability (she's wrong, which she does know to some degree, but doesn't acknowledge).

Backstory: Originally a professor in mathematics at Oxford teaching statistics. She had a reputation for being highly intelligent, but also for being extremely strict and an ego that was much too big. After Calamity they started manipulating the university and town from behind the scenes, officially working as strategist for the local ruler but eventually becoming the de facto ruler. Eventually one of the other Epics in town tried to oust the leader though, and attacked them, defying her predictions at several points, causing them to develop a personal hatred for eachother, and seeing that she was going to lose, she managed to get into the alleyverse, where she managed to find the Jackal and decided to join the Bureau of Villainy.

Affiliation: Jackal/Neutral

Maxwell (actual name: Karin Hunter):

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Name: Karin Hunter

Epic Name: Maxwell

Gender: Female

Age: 23

Appearance: She's 5'6'' tall, with long black hair and grey eyes. She normally wears a t-shirt and jeans, but wears a white lab-coat over them.

Powers:
    Maxwell's Demon:

• Primary power: Separation of heat and cold. She can take heat from different substances, transferring it into something else. She can do this even when the substances are at thermal equilibrium, or when the substance she's taking heat from is colder than the substance she's transferring the heat to. This ability is much easier to use on gasses, with solids being the most difficult to use this ability on. The lowest temperature a substance can be brought to differs, but for air this is generally around -60°C (-76°F), and for other substances this lowest temperature is generally a lot warmer, with gasses being close to this temperature, fluids being close to -20°C (-4°F), and solids being around -5 °C (23°F), unless their phase will change while their temperature is being reduced, in which case either the lowest temperature for that phase or the current temperature will be the limit, whichever is lower. There isn't any real limit on the maximum heat that can be transferred to a substance, though gasses take less effort and are more useful. In order to transfer the energy the substance needs to be inside of 50 meters of her.
  Additional notes: When not using this ability on gasses some time is necessary to gather the focus to use the ability, and both extracting and adding the heat will take time (gasses take time as well, but this is fast enough to seem instant). This also means that this ability doesn't work as an instakill on living beings.

• Secondary power: Gas manipulation. She's capable of aerokinetic control of gasses, but with the peculiarity that this control takes more effort the closer the gasses are to thermal equilibrium compared to the gasses around them, with anything less than 10°C (18°F) difference from equilibrium being too close to manipulate, and a difference of 40°C (72°F) is necessary for full control, which generally gives the appearance of her manipulating freezing winds and flames/hot winds. Again, her control area for this ability is 50 meters. The controlled air can reach speeds of about 17 m/s, so enough to shake trees but not enough to toss larger/heavier things about, or create significant destruction. She can't compress the air, but are capable of stopping air from expanding or contracting from the sudden changes in heat, which means that if the air is hot enough she can actually use the additional pressure to knock people away, but at these temperatures they'd probably prefer that, since it's more survivable than being in the center of a fireball.

• Peculiarities: The amount of heat they can put in a hot area is fairly small in the beginning, unless they create a large cold area and then channel all the heat into a small area. However, when heat flows back into cold areas, or from warm areas into the surrounding air, they can use the energy generated during this to increase the amount of heat inside of their hot areas. The increased heat inside of these areas will increase the heat flow, which will also increase the amount of heat generated, creating a compounding effect. This still has limits though, as they aren't immune to the heat and cold themselves, meaning that building up too much heat will kill them, and if the gas changes to plasma they'll lose control over it, causing all the heat to flood back into the general area, causing a large explosion. At the same time, because of their range limits they'll run into trouble if they use their ability for too long, as they'll end up cooking themselves, and they need to watch out when disengaging their ability as the resultant explosion might injure or kill them otherwise. They can also release control over zones they control, causing implosions and explosions because of temperature differentials (they can also use this to create energy, but it is more difficult because of the speed, causing large efficiency losses, generally losing 90% of the heat stored in the zone. This is mainly a method for decreasing the amount of time it takes to build up their temperatures again). If they have a bit of time to focus they can also combine their hot and cold zones to generate energy faster, or manipulate the shape and force of the explosions, this is a more advanced usage that needs training, and can't be improvised.

Skills: Intelligent (-30), Scholarship: Average (-20)

Epic Weakness: Failing to meet a goal she set for herself, or that she accepted from someone else. When this happens her powers will immediately shut down, and the time it takes for them to work again will depend on the importance the goal held for her. This also works for goals she sets herself unconsciously, such as needing to defeat an enemy.
Warning: triggering this weakness is a bad idea when she has been using her powers for a while and you're in the vicinity, since at that point reality tends to reassert itself, which tends to have explosive results.

Weaknesses:

• She's vulnerable to her own powers, meaning that if she uses them for too long, and compounds the heat too much she can fry herself, or get killed when not releasing the heat properly, which can take a while if it has been building up for too long.
• She can be rather brash, which means she sets herself goals quickly, which means she has to follow through on them.
• Hates Laplace, and has defeating her as a goal, meaning that she's willing to sacrifice and/or betray almost anything and anyone to kill her, and can easily be controlled or led into a trap using this.
• Her powers take a while to get going, meaning that she's stuck with just cold air until she gets a good level of compounding going and her powers become really dangerous.

Personality: Tries to think things through, often loses control quickly, getting enraged or hot-blooded, especially when using her abilities. She doesn't use her abilities often though, or at strong levels, because of the dangers involved, meaning that the Corruption isn't as strong for her. Often sets goals for herself, despite her weakness, since it allows her to motivate herself.

Backstory: Originally went to Oxford where she studied physics, but relied on a scholarship, which meant that she always needed to push herself to reach various goals in order to keep it. When Calamity came she was in her third year, and after living in the Epic controlled town for a while she decided she had enough with it and got together with a few other Epics to take over themselves, in the process ending up picking a fight with Laplace, who she still disliked from before Calamity. Setting herself the goal of defeating her, she followed her to the alleyverse after Laplace went there, and has continued looking for her, having received word that she was working for the Bureau of Villainy.

Affiliation: Neutral

 

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

2 hours ago, Dr. Dapper said:

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Someone is gonna be guarding the transport BTW. 

 

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I know. Besides the troopers that are being transported in it, Eric Darkhold is in it. The characters don't though.

 

[Clyde Froggins he/him]

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19 hours ago, Darth Woodrack said:

"Okay, let's get in position!" Walker said.

@Blessing of Potency @Clyde Coggins

What can't he do?

 

[Lunar Blessing she/her]

23 hours ago, Clyde Coggins said:

I can just kill it before it blinks

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This 

 

[Clyde Froggins he/him]

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Oh, that was supposed to be an exaggeration

 

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

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Yeah, but still. CAN SOMEBODY RP, SO WE CAN MOVE IT ALONG?!