Blackhoof

don't sweat it man- not like you knew it wasn't canon. I think it was a sort of obscure WOB or AMA where that information came out, maybe, or a little line in one book. sorry if i came across as rude or anything.

that seems a tad op to me. Millions of undead, omnicidal caribou? I feel like if that happened in the books someone would have mentioned it, since it presents a direct and dire threat to human and Epic life on earth itself. How about giving him a limit, like our other Necromancer? Even a limit like 1000 would make him strong, capable of wiping out cities, but not apocalyptic like millions would.

just be wary, Obliteration is feared for that very reason. Can't have too many city-nukers running around haha. so he just did that to cut the handcuffs?

Lady Deathskull slowly lowered herself to the ground. In the week since she had left her villa in central Mexico, she had seen a number of strange things. The giant dome a few miles to the north was one of these- what an interesting place must be under that thing.... She had also learned a number of things. Foremost was that there were multiple Salems in America. " a silly country, to name multiple cities after the witch-trial place." She thought to herself. Looking around, she stood on the edge of the Salem in Oregon, apparently the one she had heard had an arena of sorts. The place seemed deserted, although she supposed it was getting late. Well, it was completely dark. Her metal sense wasn't fine enough to detect minute metal traces, but she could tell roughly where every building was. Walking through the dark streets, Deathskull came to a building that seemed quite lively. Noise came forth from it, and she decided that this was the place to announce her presence. She extended the metal around her hand, and pushed the door open. She flew in, hovering a few feet above the ground. "I am Lady Deathskull! Tremble in fear and bow before me!" The vanillas in the room jumped and ducked for cover, some obeying her and bowing. But one table didn't. Epics, presumably. "I have come to participate in these fights that your ruler stages, between Epics. I plan to win them." With that, she hovered over to the Epic table, and formed a seat with her metal. "Epics, I presume?"

I think just making it as thin as a normal blade, or a bit thinner, and then using enough force and speed (which he should be able to since the front end is so thin).

I always imagined the lighteyes having blue, green or pale eyes, and the darkeyes with hazel or brown/black eyes. Shallan confirmed this picture for me with her green eyes. Until...

Wonder what creepy Epic has made his/her home here? http://thatoregonlife.com/2014/10/temple-oculus-anubis-creepiest-place-oregon-This post has been reported for attempting to skirt the rules/

and they exploded in bursts of scalding maple syrup

hahaha indeed, she would hate that. Perfect way to render her completely impotent.

Sounds like an interesting match for Deathskull- she can control metal from a distance, but has none of those other quirks, and cannot control it to such a fine degree. She is also limited in cognitive functions- she can only concentrate on s few things at once, like a normal human. So when she is walking around, she could probably only do one simple thing else at the same time.

I'd imagine in this sort of military dictatorship court martials are the norm. The military likely double as the judiciary and police force. Terribly fascist situation but hey- better than literally any Epic.

also, I want to do one last Iconoclast post where he turns in for the night. But only after the Converter thing is done.

I decided to make Deathskull disabled below the waist. It occurred to me at work that we haven't seen any disabled Epics yet, and I can't see a reason Calamity wouldn't pick them if their powers compensated for it.

Maria Josephina, also known as Lady Deathskull, opened her eyes. The sun peeked through the gaps in her window curtains, blinding her with its brightness. With a sigh, she reached up and rang the bell, alerting the kitchen that she was awake and in need of breakfast and coffee. Deathskull raised herself up with her powers, hovering into the air sideways and then rotating to sit on the edge of the bed with her crippled, useless legs hanging off the side. How she hated those legs. She shivered as she remembered the nightmares of last night. Her daughter, shoving her away. Her daughter's boyfriend, punching her in the face, knocking her to the ground. Both of them, kicking her, bashing her with their fists, forcing her face into the carpet. All she could see was red, red and that pattern. Diamond, diamond, circle diamond. Repeating endlessly. Every painful thud driving it deeper into her mind, narrowing her vision and her focus until that blasted pattern consumed her mind. The nightmares been particularly bad, this time. It was that very incident that had cost her her legs, a blow to the spine that couldn't be healed. Shaking her head to clear the vestiges of those dark thoughts away, she turned as a light knock rapped on her door. Lifting herself up, Deathskull pulled her metal towards her in liquid form, within seconds coating her entire body in silver armour. Topping it off was a skull-faced helmet, covering her black hair and Hispanic features completely. "Enter." The door creaked open, and a heavyset, middle-aged Mexican women entered, carrying a tray with both hands. On the tray was her favourite in the morning- bacon, eggs, a single pancake covered in syrup and a piping hot cup of coffee. The woman laid the tray down on the nearby table, and Lady Deathskull approached, moving both her leg armour and lengths of metal embedded in her legs to simulate walking. With no feeling below her waist, it had taken a lot of practice to do it properly, but in the past few years she had managed it. Deathskull sat down, the servant waiting to be dismissed. The Epic sipped her coffee first, and grimaced. "This coffee is far too hot." With a tiny movement of her index finger, the servant gasped in pain, and clutched her wrist. All her servants wore metal bracelets around their body, so that all Deathskull needed to do to offer some.... negative reinforcement was squeeze. After several seconds, she relented, and the women sighed in relief as the bracelet returned to a comfortable size. Her wrist was bruised, and very sore, but nothing had been broken, thankfully. This time. "As I have said, my coffee must never exceed my specified temperature at the time of serving. Bring me a hot coffee again and I might cut your hand off next time. You were lucky to catch me in a good mood." "Yes, I was... mistress" "Indeed. You are dismissed, Juana." The woman curtsied and hurried away, not even minding anymore that Deathskull had gotten her name wrong again. In fact, Gabriela couldn't remember a time she had gotten it right. After finishing her breakfast, Lady Deathskull rang another bell, and soon a different servant was here to attend to her. "Yes, my mistress?" "I'm leaving, Jose." "Leaving, mistress?" Daniel replied. "Yes. For a week, at least. Maybe more." "Oh... Very well." Deathskull looked at him expectantly. "Well? Don't you want to know where? Or why?" "I..." "Of course you do! You see.... I am bored, Jose. This life, an isolated villa, a few servants, it is all lovely. But.... it just isn't fun anymore. Even killing those travellers the other week didn't cheer me up, and you know how a little hunt has always cheered me up before." Daniel gulped. "Of c-course, my lady." "I need... a challenge. I need more out of life. The last time I had real, real fun was when I had that little skirmish with La Fatalidad? And he blew up half the grounds? Ah, now THAT was fun!" "So... you are going to fight other Epics?" "Of course I am you stupid boy! But more than that... I have heard rumours, whispers really, of a place in America. A place where Epics go into... some other dimension to fight, without danger of death. And the winners... the winners get everything they could ever want. A place called Salem." With that, Deathskull rose into the air, and opened the window with a gesture. "Until I get back, you are in charge, Jose. And don't worry, I will make sure to regale you all with tales of my daring adventures! My adoring subjects, I will tell you all what happened in Salem!" Without further ado, Lady Deathskull turned away from her bemused servant and soared out of the window.

haha that would be cool. Is Quicsilver just a straight metal manipulator or does he have more powers thsn that? we should give some leeway since, Epics being Epics, they can't help it if the corruption causes them to kill once or twice. The worst of the worst should go on the ATTD list. seems like a pretty useful power, I must say. So he can't move when in puddle form, of his own free will? Is he aware if his surroundings when he does? Can someone drink him and then he reform inside them? also, if you wanted to elevate him to High Epic status (although we have enough if those running around already ), you could tie his puddling to a danger sense, so he puddles whenever something is about to hit him.

I'll wait for Voidus' OK before I introduce her or anything.

That is the least P teleportation power ever.

That is technically true, but it would also be more uncomfortable and a bit more complicated. Having metal constantly pushing you around would get annoying and put limits on her manoeuvring that wouldn't exist if she has a straight flying ability.

indeed- but it also protects her until she can get her powers back. Although I don't see her weakness coming into play- she can be beaten without it.

I'm thinking of introducing Magneto I mean a metal manipulating Epic into Salem, to fight someone or other. Name: Lady Deathskull Primary Power: Ferrukinesis: Can manipulate and control any metal, but only within 30 feet of her. Can also, by extension, sense all sources of metal within 60 feet of her. Secondary Power: Flight: Can fly at a maximum pace of 60km/h and is immune to any negative effects of flying at that speed (wind in her eyes doesn't bother her) but can only rise to a maximum of 60 feet with this power. Weakness: A specific pattern of diamond shapes on her carpet that she was looking at when she was being beaten to within an inch of her life by her drug-addled daughter and her daughter's drug-pushing boyfriend. Appearance: She wears tight-fitting metal armour that encases her whole body, that she moves with her powers as she walks. The helmet of the armour bears a skull-like visage, and she also wears a long, high-collared red cape with black trim.

Only to puny human-built security measures Neverthere's lack of defensive abilities is one of her balancing factors.

Like the MEE almost but all fighting each other. There wold have to be only a dozen at most, to avoid notice.

indeed, it was so ingrained into her personality that it was her weakness. I'm cool with it. I don't think Converter could actually avoid the restraints for long anyway. And in a situation like this where he is 100% ok with her being imprisoned and such, then I think you can just go ahead. I also want things moving forward haha

And another thing that I have been considering. With the recent earthquakes in Japan and Nepal, if this was the Reckonerverse at the beginning, those could have been caused by an Epic/s and we wouldn't know. (I don't mean to trivialise those awful tragedies, but it is something to consider). We wouldn't be able to spot a single person raising their arms or making gestures to cause the disaster.

and she wasn't really attractive per sey- just not as old and frail as she actually was. She was "matronly" according to David, still appearing in her 50s or 60s.