Voidus

Laurelai poured herself a second cup along with one for Lita, still a little too hot to sip straight away she set it to one side as she listened. "A stranger walked through your door? Or one of the actual Strangers? Did it have weird kind of black pits instead of eyes?" Why would one of the Strangers be here, and how would she have noticed it if it did? I've never seen one before anyway. Wait did she say a Stranger? Or... "Did you mean to say a stranger? Like someone you didn't know? Or did he actually introduce himself as..." Laurelai trailed off, her eyes became unfocused as she thought the matter through. If the Stranger was back that was big news, the head of R&D had been gone for a long time, since well before she'd joined the Dark Alleys. Before she'd been born even. Should she report this? Who to? Mac? Someone in R&D? Voidus himself? She shivered and took a deep breath, her hand relaxed from where it had been nervously gripping and twisting the hem of her dress, she started smoothing it back out. "Did he say The Stranger?" She asked again.

All new characters approved for use, look good Nope, that's fine with me.

"Is it morning?" Lita asked as she opened the door, looking like she'd just woken up. There was an imprint on her cheek, as though she'd been lying on some solid surface for an extended period of time. Laurelai smiled when she saw the other woman then stopped at her question, looking up at the sky. Was this one of the Alleys that had a diurnal cycle? A dark roiling mass of gray met her gaze as she looked upwards, they seemed to momentarily form shapes but broke apart before any definite shape could be determined. The view held her attention for a few moments before she frowned and looked back towards Lita. "Technically not it seems." She replied. "Excellent point. But it's morning in Alleycity at the moment." “Did we get mornings back?!?!?” Another voice cried out from the distance. Laurelai debated whether or not she should reply, there had been that one time that she'd replied to a vague voice in the distance that turned out to be one of the escaped Eldritch horrors that had tried to devour her existence. She decided to ignore this one to be safe. "Ready for what the new day bring?" She asked Lita "Or do we need some motivation to get started?" She shook the coffee pot invitingly

Sorry was looking at hand-to-hand not melee weapons I guess. So yeah should be 75, or if you want to leave it at 50 I can take it down to skilled. Defensive abilities like that are going to add a bit, putting the wind manipulation up to 60 points. So total would go up to either 170 or 195 depending on what you want to do with melee weapon skills.

Voidus shifted, his tired expression became stern as he stared at a corner of his office. Sudiov had been making more attempts at incursions in the Alleys themselves recently, likely not expecting any of them to work but even so it kept Voidus busy dealing with them. If any changes to some of their experiments were to occur it could set back decades of a Denizens research. But this wasn't Sudiov, this was something different. A feeling. As a man of science, Voidus rarely relied on gut feelings or instincts, but there was something different about this one, it felt real like one of the Strangers hunches that he'd pitched while they were both exhausted after a long series of experiments, the hunches that almost universally turned out to be correct. Voidus hadn't had many hunches like that himself but he guessed that this was what it felt like. Somehow, he knew that there were a number of dangerous figures in the Alleyverse. Dangerous in a different way than most. Beings that needed to be eliminated. He swivelled around in his chair, seeming to peer through the walls that surrounded him to several more distant locations. He'd need to start with the one the Ghostbloods had held captive. --------------------------------------------------------------- Laurelai rubbed at her eyes as she closed the last record, SPI-4823 had been an interesting read but not important to what she needed. The questions that loomed at the back of her mind still itched at her, driving her to seek more information. But there was a time and a place for everything, and she had other places to be right now. She returned the pile of records to storage, nodded to the denizens nearby and began making her way out. Even with the use of a Bronzemind medallion, she still hated pulling all-nighters like this, decades of experience told her that it was ultimately less useful than maintaining a consistent pace and allowing her mind to rest properly in between study-sessions. She Alleytravelled back to her own quarters first, making a jug of coffee and pouring out one cup for herself. Then checking up on various notes that had arrived in her absence as she drank it. It seemed that a number of Denizens had mobilized last night, heading out to assist some church out beyond the city walls. Must have been the field agents. They're the only ones who are free enough to do something like that on a whim. She took note of the reports, devoting them to memory before burning them. She'd need to follow up on some of them later, and see what the outcome of the matters at the church had been. But for now, she headed towards one of her hallways, jug of coffee in one hand, and a pair of cups in the other. Using the hallways as the starting point she Alleytravelled once more, almost losing some of the coffee in the frozen slopes of Alley 2378, before eventually arriving outside the pale-blue doors to Lita's quarters. She knocked briskly on the door, a professional knock, though her full arms made it a little awkward. "It's Laurelai!" She called out. "I've brought coffee."

Not paying attention definitely works.

Not really, existing examples of Talents: Tripping, Breaking things, Being late. Something that's definitively bad, but can happen at convenient timing or in convenient ways. (Tripping just before you get shot so it misses you for example) Being absent-minded maybe? EDIT: Alternatively an Epic power may better suit what you're looking for. Smedry Talents aren't really talents as much as they are incredibly good luck based around a usually unlucky phenomenon.

I would prefer if it were phrased in the same way as a typical Smedry Talent, something that sounds like it's actually bad but then comes in useful in weird ways. (Suggestions: Inability to follow instructions, Assemble the wrong thing, Be Distracted (Basically when someone tries to make him do something he tinkers instead), etc.)

You can if you want, there's just a high chance that they'll die if they try and charge into things, Shardblade held high and expecting that to work. EDIT: But it is a nice horror trope so I would quite enjoy if someone actually tried to RP the guy who decides to go out on his own to check out that strange noise they just heard.

Name pretty much says it, it's an RP that takes place in a horror genre. My point about combat abilities is that generally speaking in a horror genre, you are going to be vastly underpowered compared to whatever it is you're fighting. A Shardblade isn't really going to bother a Cthulu.

I'd prefer we kept it to a minimum. And be forewarned that combat abilities are not going to be that useful.

People can snap into Voidmaking, it's just that specific way of acquiring it that wouldn't be possible. (If you want to know how I'd rather restrict it to a PM, I've told some people but I'd rather it wasn't widely known yet) But yeah the part about using it better on objects would be pretty impossible. You could be better than average at using it on objects but it would still be really, really limited in what you could do with it. About 50kG worth of matter would be the upper limit for any reasonable person. If you're clever about how you use that limit (Targetting vital points, etc.) it might just reach into reasonable levels of usefulness, but it does have drawbacks.

Impossible twice over, one because Voidmaking is inherently not linked to Adonalsium or any of his Shards so this would not be within the Nightwatchers abilities to grant, two because Voidmaking objects is far, far harder than powers. (E=mc^2) Voidus and Sudiov are really the only people who could reasonably use it in combat. Even they would be limited to about a city block if they absolutely extended themselves to the limits. Other people could maybe kill one or two people before they'd extended themselves to the limit. (Which has some pretty severe consequences)

Looks good to me. Seeing so many explicitly stated limits and measurements makes me unbelievably happy. Powers: Physical improvements: 30 M Wind Manipulation: 20 M Improved Cutting: 10 M Interrogation: 50 M (This is actually a departure from what this would be measured as, but this is more useful in this game than the power would objectively be measured in world, happy for other mods to overrule on this if needed) Total: 110 M Skills Expert Melee Weapons: +50 S Skilled Scholarship (But only specific area): 10 S Amateur Unarmed: 10 S Total: 70 S Weaknesses: Favors head-on approaches, often not considering things like tactics. : -20 W (Pretty debilitating for someone with no defensive abilities) Blood-knight. : -30 W Total -50W Grand Total = 110M +70S - 50 W = 130 Approved, unless you wanted to add any alterations?

Nope.

The young man nodded towards Tish politely as he replied. "Yes, you're in the right place. I think you're one of the last from what we were expecting, I'll show you into the lounging room where the others are waiting." He turned and showed Tish into the same room as the others, this time closing the door behind him as he went. Their guests had all arrived, now all they had to wait for was the host.

Looks good, I like the concept And yes, some DA denizens at the least would definitely do things like this.

Again, very dependent upon the limits. Could he look at a firefly for long enough and turn it into the sun?

Kicker here is going to be how powerful you see these light beams as being. Could they melt through metal/stone? Or mostly just a weapon against people?