What's YOUR Talent?

[Clockwork he/him]

Mine would probably be getting tired or stretching, forget what I was doing. *YAWN* Wait, what was I saying?

[ChickenPlague he/him]

Mine would probably be getting tired or stretching, forget what I was doing. *YAWN* Wait, what was I saying?

Now imagine what would happen if a wall tries to stop your stretching.

[Stormgate he/him]

You stretch and you are immune to interrogation. 

[Datan Nomlibash]

Mine would be slipping through the cracks.

Seriously, I always manage to get over looked in any kind of ig system. Like school registration and stuff.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

I can sneeze 

loudly

so loud your eardrums explode

            soundproof glass shatters

            and you go deaf and bleed out of your ears for the rest of your life

[ChickenPlague he/him]

I think my power might be getting 2nd place.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

I think my power might be getting 2nd place.

hear hear, that always ends up happening to me after all there is always someone one step ahead of you, no?

[CarolaDavar she/her]

i'm bad at math

[Alfa he/him]

I can sneeze up to 8 times in a row, given a strong light source to look at. Combine this talent with the one above and watch the world being destroyed by sneeze hurricanes.

[ChickenPlague he/him]

After multiple incidents I think it might be adding too much cheese.

[hoidhunter he/him]

I used to have a room mate named Ashley...who we started calling smashley...literally EVERY time she got drunk...something got broken.  And not the ordinary, "oops, I dropped my wine glass and it broke"...we're talking...once she tripped over a sandal while going outside and ripped the entire screen door off of out house.  Another time she bent over to tie her shoe...lost her balance...fell over backwards...and sat on our small artificial Christmas tree, breaking it in half, and breaking most of the ornaments. These are only two of many occurrences.  A few year later, I read my first Alcatraz book...I immediately thought of her.

 

But for me...hhhhmmmm......my talent is...I'm really bad at telling stories.  In world, this would allow me to accidentally reveal important information that should be outside my range of knowledge.   It's bassackwards clairvoyance. 

 

example:  

 

Someone else: "How should we sneak into the enemy base?"

 

Me:  "Well, one time, my friend Ryan and I wanted to get into this party that we weren't invited to.  So, before the party started, we called my other friend Sarah.  Sarah used to live in the house where the party was taking place, but moved out last summer, because her boyfriend didn't like her living at a party house.  Which is messed up, because it's like, "What, don't you trust her.  I mean, If you trust her to go to parties without you, but don't trust her to have parties at her house, maybe you shouldn't be dating in the first place." We asked her what we should do...and she told us about a different, better party going on at a different friend's house.  She told us where the different friend's house was, but she gave the directions to my friend Ryan, not me.  So we went there, and it wasn't a party at all...it was a secret base.  I told Ryan that he got the directions wrong...but he swore that they were right.  So I say, "Well, if there his a party going on here, why can't we hear any music?  And why do the people outside look like guards and have guns?"  He said that we should just sneak in, and make sure there isn't a party going on before calling Sarah to double check the directions. I think he kind of had a crush on Sarah and would have been embarrassed to call her again, because she might think that he was a bad listener.  But...just then...it was like 11:15 pm on the dot...we saw the two guards who were watching the back door run off to help a couple of workers who had just dropped a big crate filled with stuff off the back of the truck, leaving the door completely unguarded.  So went up to the door and peeked in...and there was no party...it WAS a secret base.  You'd think that Ryan would have admitted that he made a mistake...but no...We never did get to go to a party that night.  So...anyway...what was I saying?"

 

It turns out that the back door is left unguarded at exactly 11:15 pm...

Edited March 14, 2016 by hoidhunter

[Zathoth]

Disappearing, without trying to.

 

Bad guys have me surrounded? Suddenly I am gone

Bad guys have me captured in a room where there is absolutely no way out? Gone.

In a museum with me? Where the storms did he go?

[Dragon314 he/him]

I think I'm sing, tripping over everything

[Atkion he/him]

The ability to stutter at the most inopportune times. :/ this is real life btw lol

[Ward]

Mine is poor eye contact

 

Comes in handy against Medusas and Basilisks though

[Imaginative Honorspren she/her]

Mine is to draw bad cards in card games! If I say something like 'I'll lose if I pick up a 2' then I am bound to draw a 2 .

[KnightRadiant she/her]

Mine is probably avoiding people... a sad Talent if you think about it. Probably pretty powerful, but... a little depressing at the same time.

[Kynedath]

Either not knowing what to say or not having anything to say. Or if I was still mildly depressed, then I would say not having any friends. But that's not accurate. Especially looking at it from a new, non-pessimistic point of view.

[Kolfire]

On February 10, 2012 at 1:39 AM, KChan said:

This. A thousand times this.

Alternately, I have quite the Talent for breaking towel racks. No, I am not making this up. No, I don't know why, but it keeps happening.

SAME!!!!! But with me it is toilet paper racks

 

[A Secret Corner he/him]

Mine is being really bad at games, or rather having the absolute worst luck (notice: real things and really strange) or perhaps its being able to predict extremely unlikely bad things... which then happen

• playing Texas Hold'em... thought of two hands at the start of round that would be able to beat my hand... both occur...("And the Least Valuable Player award goes to" *this* for its extreme annoying)
• playing uno (with variant allowing us all to stack draw 2's and draw 4's for fun)... All draw fours in deck played against me...
• again playing texas hold'em... my hand is flush... beat by royal flush...(do you know how unlikely those are)
• playing console game... entire enemy team of twelve descend...
• ugh hurting to much to list more...(hit hard by a card)...

[Dr. LIFE he/him]

The Talent to know a ton of completely useless info. I could tell the secrets of the Librarians when i'm talking about something else, but when I really need that info I only know stuff about Dungeons and Dragons instead.

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

Singing off tune.

[Cryptnoch]

Accidentally insulting people/being rude. 

When faced with a librarian I splurge random commentary that somehow is always right (and utterly tactless) thus giving my side the upper hand even while I myself am reduced to dust. 

 

[Alfa he/him]

On 10.11.2016 at 1:48 AM, Cryptnoch said:

Accidentally insulting people/being rude. 

When faced with a librarian I splurge random commentary that somehow is always right (and utterly tactless) thus giving my side the upper hand even while I myself am reduced to dust. 

 

We have found the living Shamefilller's Lense.

[Droughtbringer]

My Talent would be hitting my head on EVERYTHING.
I already do that, but with a talent it would be more like someone swings a sword at me, I accidentally slam my head into the hilt of the sword, then send the sword careening out of their hand. Someone trying to shoot a gun at me? I hit my head on a conveniently placed pipe, fall to the ground, and get missed. Going on a date? Conveniently slam my head on the car as I go to pick the date up, and end up going to the emergence room.