We Could Be Heroes; A Sexy Superhero RP 2nd Arc Recruitment! MALES NEEDED!

[Shado]

Ok, this looks fun! I am gonna get started on my application process now, even though I won't be at home with regular internets until Fri.
I can still answer questions, write up a profile, hunt for pics and such with what I have.

Name: Lucas Gunderson
Sex: male
Position: Student
Archetype: arts freak
Power Theme: aerokinesis

[Vergil Tanner]

Ok, so, Jovial! Pen informs me that you're ready for my review!

So a few questions:

1) Does his durability only apply to him when he's running, or is he always super tough? Because that feels a bit too much like having two powers to me, so you might need to alter that so that he can't also function as "The Tank," as it were.

2) By "dodgeball champion of the world," do you mean that he can get to top speed from a standing start immediately? That's a bit...much. I would prefer it if he needed a bit of a run up to get going, since going from 1 - 150 in half a second is...rather intense, isn't it? It would also require a lot more toughness than he has to endure the sudden shift in G-Forces.

3) When running, I assume he has "Super reflexes" to react to things in time to avoid crashing. Does this only apply when he's running at speed?

See, this is why I personally dislike Speedsters in Superhero games. Simply by their nature, they tend to have four different powers. Hell, the "Super Reflexes" and "Super processing power" that is necessary to make super speed work is Dante's sole power, which makes your character objective more powerful, which isn't the point. Now my point with this isn't that Super Speed is not allowed - we've had speedsters before in the game, and I'm fine with allowing it this time, too - but we have to work out some boundaries so he doesn't steal other characters thunder just by having the same powers as them to make his primary power work, y'know?

So my suggestion would be this:

His mental processing speed and reflexes and durability are equal to his speed. As he's running, the energy he generates feeds into his body to ramp up his physical attributes enough to handle moving at that speed without instantly dying. When he's standing still, he's an average human. When he's moving fast, he can react and endure as per his power.
Similarly, he needs space to get up to speed. If we say he can go from 0-60 in about 3 seconds (the same as a high tier supercar) at Mastery Level, that would mean e could reach his Mastery Top Speed in about 8 seconds (ish).

That would also require, naturally, you to work out acceleration rates for him at each "Level" of his powers.

Also, as Pen said, drawbacks please. Preferably in a separate list.



Heyya Shado!

So, by Aerokinesis, what do you actually mean? What can your character do with this power? What can't they do? What limitations do they have?

[Vergil Tanner]

Also: Apologies if these questions have already been answered. I'm going off of your "Summary" that you posted in your last post, and those details were missing. If you've already answered them, just link the post so I can go check (Somewhat busy ATM ). When you write up your Power Entry, we need ALL of the details - limits, drawbacks, flaws, etc - in a handy dandy list for reference.

[Jovialtraveler]

Perhaps I SHOULD make his other powers only function once he’s accelerated. The “dodgeball champion of the world” thing was meant to be a funny way to say that his reaction time is almost inhuman at this point. Almost.

[PentheWonderful]

Perhaps I SHOULD make his other powers only function once he’s accelerated. The “dodgeball champion of the world” thing was meant to be a funny way to say that his reaction time is almost inhuman at this point. Almost.

That would be a good idea.

Also, as Vergil said! Try to be as detailed as possible. Really wow him into approval.

[Vergil Tanner]

Perhaps I SHOULD make his other powers only function once he’s accelerated. The “dodgeball champion of the world” thing was meant to be a funny way to say that his reaction time is almost inhuman at this point. Almost.

That's all I ask It helps make sure that he's not stepping on other peoples toes in regards to their powers, y'know?

Basically, in your Power Summary, I want everything he can do, every limit (Speed, acceleration time, braking time, durability by speed, etc etc) so I can look through it and get a good understanding of what he can and can't do. Then I'll be happy

[Jovialtraveler]

I’ll do that.
Tomorrow when I have energy

[Vergil Tanner]

Haha, fair enough I get how you feel. I still have adminny stuff to do here, at the same time as being surrounded by suitcases and piles of crap that I need to somehow pack. So you have my empathy xD

[Shado]

Howdy 

By aerokinesis I mean conventional air manipulation powers which can easily be mistaken for telekinetics; using mostly blasts and shapes of 'solidified' air for attack and defense techniques.

As far as what he can do- it falls into air pressure controlling, wind generation, and air detection (mildly enhanced hearing/vibration sense).
What he cant do is weather manipulation or flight.

[Vergil Tanner]

Howdy 

By aerokinesis I mean conventional air manipulation powers which can easily be mistaken for telekinetics; using mostly blasts and shapes of 'solidified' air for attack and defense techniques.

As far as what he can do- it falls into air pressure controlling, wind generation, and air detection (mildly enhanced hearing/vibration sense).
What he cant do is weather manipulation or flight.

Okey dokey. Now, I would nix the "Enhanced hearing," since that's somebody's specific power.

In terms of abilities, let's run with the ability to shape air. What I see that being able to do is:

Blasts / shapes of air
Doing VERY rudimentary movement of objects (So whereas telekinesis can be very fine control, your character can only really move it in large, clumsy spurts, y'know?)
POSSIBLY some basic windshields.
I would say that instead of being able to improve the hearing, what he could do is alter air density and sensitivity to make sound louder / more audible or less audible (maybe even silent) to everybody in the area.
Perhaps he could even create temporary pockets where there's no air at all - drawing all the air away from an area, or pushing it all into one. That would be a Mastery thing, though.

Obviously not all at once, of course, but "unlocked" in levels.

[Shado]

Excellent    I agree with all of that.
The way you described makes more sense, considering its not really his senses improving- just the air density carrying the sounds better.

[Vergil Tanner]

Ok, well, what I would like from you is a basic write up of the powers. So what I want is an exhaustive "This is what he can do. This is what he can't do. These are the limitations. These are the drawbacks / costs."

EG:

Powers:

Beginner Level:
- Specific Abilities
- Limitations
- Drawbacks

Intermediary:
- SA
- LI
- DB

Mastery:
- SA
- LI
-DB


Something like that, that gives a visual reference of what you can and can't do, and how it develops over time

[Snake]

I Know at first he won't go too high, but be can still fly up and over like cars and all.

[Vergil Tanner]

What I would like you to do, Snake, is to give me a full write up of his powers, as above. So, full, exhaustive "Can / Can't" and "limitations" of his three stages; that is, Beginner, Intermediate and Master.

[Snake]

Sure.  May take a bit to cover everything.

[Jovialtraveler]

I can’t do it.
I had PARAGRAPGS written out and E just casually deleted them

[Vergil Tanner]

Snake: No problem!


Traveller:  OOF. Ouch. I've had that happen to me before. It...is not that fun. >.<

[Jovialtraveler]

Yep. Consider my spot unreserved, at least for now. Might come back with a simpler power

[Vergil Tanner]

Oh, come now! Yeah, E deleted some of the work you put in, but surely you remember what you had? Just take a break for a day, then rewrite it in a word document tomorrow I'm going on a flight tomorrow, so you have time

[Jovialtraveler]

Okay but what if instead of super speed
Telekinesis.
Starts out as barely being able to exert 30 pounds of force, to managing 120. Of course overuse would cause headaches, nausea, and shaking. And his range would be limited to arm’s reach at the start, to about a large room, and then across a whole football stadium at advanced level.

[Vergil Tanner]

Eeeeh, I tend to be a bit more hardline on Telekinesis, since there's SO MUCH you can do with it, I tend to say "No" as an overall rule. I just don't like the broadness of telekinesis in terms of what it allows you to do. Lifting people up, lifting yourself up, forcefields, pushing, pulling, remote manipulation of machinery...I'm not sure. If you can come up with a pitch for it, I'll look at it, buuuuut I have to warn you that I'm going in pretty biased against it.

[Snake]

May I make a suggestion? Limit telekinesis to his Max "carry weight" is equal to his body weight. And can be just as hard as doing it with your arms and back?

[Vergil Tanner]

Possibly. He now has two days to work out a pitch, since I'm going to sleep and I have a flight in the morning.

When Pen gets online, she's gonna handle you lot

[Jovialtraveler]

I was thinking of making his control very rough at the start, because he’s essentially working with a numb, shapeless, invisible, amorphous “hand”, to slowly approaching levels near his own hand-eye coordination, to surgical precision.
Gonna limit the range at advanced tier to 50 yards.

[PentheWonderful]

I was thinking of making his control very rough at the start, because he’s essentially working with a numb, shapeless, invisible, amorphous “hand”, to slowly approaching levels near his own hand-eye coordination, to surgical precision.
Gonna limit the range at advanced tier to 50 yards.

Ugh, I'm sorry to hear what happened. I had the exact same thing happen to me on a different site. It really sucks. >.>

Anyway, just run the power through the template Vergil gave:

Code Select Expand

[b]Powers:[/b]

[i]Beginner Level:[/i]
- Specific Abilities
- Limitations
- Drawbacks

[i]Intermediary:[/i]
- SA
- LI
- DB

[i]Mastery:[/i]
- SA
- LI
-DB

And we can discuss it further.