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Powerset seems correct. Nice to finally see him appear.

@Voidus, I've got a couple of Epic powersets I'd like some feedback on, mainly point calculations. I'm not yet sure if I want to create characters with them, but I'd like to know how they'd be scored. Laplace's Demon: Maxwell's Demon:

The resurrection could work by brain death being the limit, where a person won't return to a living/conscious state even when healed.

Necromancer is interesting, but is way too overpowered to ever be allowed in a combat situation, except perhaps with permission of the people they'll be interacting with. They have both a prime invincibility and an medium range instakill ability. The fact that they won't kill people helps, but the fact that they can still freeze everybody in range makes them capable of defeating almost anybody who hasn't been preparing to fight them already. Also, how does the reviving work with cosmere rules? Same time limit as with Progression?

Why do we even have two places with points for hemalurgic spikes, with one having more points than the other place?

By the way, when you say that they don't need stormlight to use their abilities, where are they getting the Investure from in that case? Because the ability to use Surgebinding without any sort of fuel could be horrifyingly overpowered, since they'd basically be able to resurrect entire armies, or grow whole forests. Edit: And that's without taking into account that you could make perpetual motion machines. Getting rid of fuel requirements would basically create a character that could come close to beating Voidus in power, at least when their abilities work.

With different RPs, do you mean threads part of the alleyverse, or threads not connected to it?

Didn't we already decide not to have time travel after Meeker tried use it? Also, can you give some explanation on how the Shardgun works?

Kumiko found herself running through a city. From what she could see she was in a different country, the buildings reminding her of old pictures of European cities she saw when she was younger. She felt the people around her stare at her, and heard them talk in a language she didn't recognize. She wondered why they were simply standing there, and not running away. She was an Epic wasn't she? People were supposed to be afraid of her. Instead they just stood and stared. She wondered if she should kill a couple of them. That would make them afraid, right? Still, some instinct stopped her. So instead she ran into one of the alleys, which looked empty. Kumiko rested in one of the alleys. "hmm, it's nice and cool here," she said to herself. Still, something about the place felt a bit... off to her. That was when she heard footsteps behind her. Quickly she scrambled back onto her feet. "Who's there?" She called out, when a woman came walking through the alley, and started talking to her. Not understanding what she said, Kumiko ran off. Kumiko came to a halt near an intersection in the alleys, looking around her. Just as she calmed down again the woman appeared again, coming from the intersection ahead of her. "How..." She exclaimed in shock. She saw the woman walk towards her, speaking in that strange language, and felt she needed to get away. She focused. She ran towards her, ears and tail changing, resembling those of a cat, her sense of balance and agility improving. She easily dodged around the woman, and ran away, her form switching to that of a rabbit, allowing her to sprint at much greater speeds. "Goodbye," she yelled at the woman as she raced away. While running through the alleys, she started feeling nervous. She should have been out of them by now, right? And some of the places she ran past seemed familiar, as if she'd already been there before. But she knew that she had been running in straight lines. Just as she was thinking that, the woman walked out of one of the intersections ahead of her. "Tsch," she said, getting annoyed. "How are you doing that?" She continued to run at her, switching back to her cat form, and at the last moment, jumped into the air, kicking with both legs forwards, aiming for her face. Kicking off against it, she performed a backwards somersault, landed, and ran forward again, laughing. Only a minute the woman appeared again, no trace of her dropkick visible. "Uh," Kumiko said, starting to feel nervous. Still, she couldn't slow down, and jumping, she aimed another kick at the woman's face. Just as she did so, she saw her expression change, suddenly growing colder. "Ah, spa..." She started, cut short when the woman grabbed her leg while she was flying past her, smacking her into the ground. "Ugh," she murmured, as she blacked out. Slowly Kumiko woke up, and looked at the room she was in. She seemed to be lying on a bed, which was good. It seemed to be clean, which was even better. Though when she tried to move her arms she noticed that they were chained to the headrest, which wasn't that great. Just as she was looking for a way out of the chains the door opened, the woman walking in. "Ah, I see you have woken up," she said. "Don't worry, I just want to talk to you, which is better than you deserve, given that I almost needed to get a new skull thanks to that kick of yours." "Well, why did you chain me to the wall when you just wanted to talk?" Kumiko replied, sounding miffed. Suddenly, they realized something. "Wait, how can I understand you? Did you speak in that weird language of yours just to annoy me?" The woman sighed. "Alright. First question. I chained you up because you'd probably charge off immediately as soon as you'd wake up otherwise, in which case you'd probably have gotten lost in the alleys, and then killed as an intruder." "ugh," Kumiko replied, not being able to offer a good counterargument. "As for how we can understand each other," the woman continued, "It's because I've had a Forger create a basic Soulstamp for establishing a language type Connection, an explanation you probably understand nothing about, so lets just keep it at magic. So, can I trust you to actually stay here and listen to the rest of my explanations?" Kumiko nodded. "Good," the woman said, and released her restraints. "Is there a particular reason you don't like me by the way?" the woman asked. "Well, you're human," Kumiko answered. "I don't like humans, they're annoying." The woman sighed. "I have no idea where to even start with that statement, but lets just say that I'm not human myself. I'm a Kandra, a type of shapeshifter. As for more detailed explanations, they'll probably have to wait for later. First of all, you need to use this." She tossed a strange metal disc at Kumiko, which looked like it was made up of multiple different metals. Palming the disk, Kumiko looked at it, still confused about the woman's talk that she wasn't human. "Alright," the woman said. "That disk contains a certain power you can tap, that allows you to speak our language. To use it, just focus on it, and you'll notice the power reserves automatically. I'd suggest trying it quickly since it seems the Soulstamp is about to run..." At that point, she suddenly started speaking a different language. Still, she had managed to tell Kumiko what to do. Focusing, she noticed something about the disk, and on instinct, drew something out if it. "Does this work?" She asked. The woman smiled. "Yes, good job. Now, I think introductions are in order. My name is KanMien. What is yours?" Kumiko wondered about the woman's, no, KanMien's name. It didn't sound like anything she'd ever heard before. Noticing her staring at her, she quickly replied. "My name is Takamine Kumiko, but people normally call me Polygenetic." Remembering something she read once, she continued. "Ah, Takamine is my family name by the way. I'm not sure how that works here." KanMien smiled. "Hello Kumiko. Alright, now that introductions are over, Let me give you the basic rundown on the Alleyverse, and the DA."

Also, can you give a basic outline of how these plots would go?

I vote to allow it, but I'd like to attach the condition that the character is used responsibly, which to me basically means that if they get into a large fight they'll probably lose, at least when they're getting towards the end of that particular plot line.

I agree that we should keep exception characters low, but I don't have much of an issue with the Jackal. They also don't seem that far above the powercurve to me.

Worse is that they were even more OP before they became Death.

I think you're forgetting about Mac. At least the pre-nerf version.

Aren't space marines way stronger and faster than normal humans? As in making Allomantic pewter look weak?

KanMien and Kumiko walked towards the couple. "But why do I have to come," Kumiko said, sounding annoyed. "Because I'm not allowed to leave you unsupervised anymore after what happened last time," KanMien said, getting a bit annoyed as well. "It looked at me funny," Kumiko said. "You can't blame me for that." "It looked at me funny is not an excuse for that," KanMien said. "Not if it takes a month to clean up afterwards, and two more months to fill in all the paperwork. On that note, behave yourself, alright?" They looked at her. "That means no fighting, no bad manners, and not launching dropkicks at people's faces." When it seems Kumiko had gotten the message they walked towards Antony and Tena. "Congratulations, you two," they said, smiling. "Both with the wedding, as well as with the pregnancy."

KanMien walked through the empty alleys. They looked around, wondering how long ago it has been since someone had last visited this place, for so far as time actually meant something here. Of course, the lack of time was important here, even more so than in other alleys, since this was a storage area. They had first read about this place in an old book, detailing some of the history of the DA. Apparently, this place held artifacts from back when universes other than the Cosmere were first discovered. Walking through a door, they saw a sign on the wall: "Universe 180976, Earth, Notable weapons". A thin smile appeared on their face, and they started going through the small amount of boxes stored there. After discarding a number of them, they finally found something interesting. When opening the box, it contained two guns, as well as two holsters, and a number of additional tools. They read the document attached to the box: "Twin pistols, called Glocks locally. Notable because of material used, called plastic. This seems to be an artificial material. No current time estimate for how long it will take Cosmere worlds to develop this. The weapon seems compatible with standard bullets manufactured on Scadrial, and includes tools for loading them into magazines (specialized holders, pictures attached). For more detailed information, including usage, view the accompanying manual, as well as its translations." Smiling, KanMien closed the box, and took it with them. KanMien stood in a large hall, watching the opponents surrounding them, some carrying guns, others bags of coins, and a few with dueling canes. Grabbing their guns out of their holsters, they slowly lifted them in their direction. They took a deep breath, and started moving. Their opponents took this as the starting sign, and started moving as well, those with ranged weapons taking more distance and preparing to shoot KanMien, and the Thugs charging at them. Taking aim, KanMien started shooting at the Thugs. Their first shot missed, as did the second. The third hit one of them in the belly, while one of the coinshots hit them in the shoulder. Starting to heal the damage, they moved in a circle, guns in both directions. Quickly they fired at the people charging them, more than half the shots missing their targets. Still, two more of the Thugs went down, but a number of bullets slammed into their stomach. Their reactions slowed down, and one of the Thugs was only three meters away. They took a deep breath, and started tapping their zinc. 30 seconds, that was how long their testing showed they had until their spikes stopped working. Still, that was enough. Their hands moved quicker, more precise. They shot two bullets in the face of the nearest Thug, and moved moved around, feeling bullets and coins pass through the air around them as they did. Without looking, they fired five more bullets, each taking out a gunner. Their left gun clicked, out of bullets. They ejected the magazine, while emptying the right gun at three other Thugs, each bullet hitting their heads. Quickly they moved around again, dodging the incoming fire, one bullet gracing their cheek. Quickly reloading their guns, they fired at the gunmen. A thin smile appeared on their face. Then their spike stopped working, their mental speed suddenly dropping back again, the shock blanking out their mind. As soon as that happened a number of bullets smashed into them, and the last Thug tackled them, knocking them to the ground. Sighing, they slowly stood back up, the people they had shot healing back from their goldminds, the exercise over. Healing their wounds, they thanked the men who helped with the training. "I'll have to wait for my spikes to work again," they said, voice cold. "I'm expecting you back here again in three days." With that they holstered their guns and walked away. A thin smile on still lingered on their face. The next time something happened they would be able to fight as well.

The Alleyplanet has a temporal disconnect with the other worlds, and don't have to sync up. Backwards time travel isn't possible, but forwards is (not entirely sure about the mechanics here, lets just say time is wonky because of the alleys).