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

[Jack of Jacks]

Well, I suppose that's true. It could certainly cause some good misunderstandings or false accusations.

So they're leaning more towards an Empath then, at first? Being able to sense what people are feeling? Would you say this would also allow them to sense when someone is lying? And upon further progression, would he actually be able to SEE people's auras? Visually, or through the mind's eye, do you think?

At first, yes that sounds about right. They will be able to see the auras as they progress through their mind's eye. That would be cool if they could tell if someone is being dishonest! I feel like that would be a detail they would need more mastery over their power first before being able to sense lies.

[Sheng]

Alright!
I've done a little thinking and let me hear your thoughts!

Sex: Male
Position: Student
Archetype: Social Geek.
Power Theme: State shift. His powers allow him to temporarily change the state of materials. By state I mean whether it's solid, liquid or gaseous. This is limited to actually existing materials, and actual states of these materials. Example: While he could change the state of metal from solid to liquid, he'd be unable to make wood go from solid to liquid.
I imagine his powers would be limited by how large a materials atom composition is. In other words, things such as water will be more easily to manipulate than metal. Furthermore, I imagine that it'll be easier for him to keep a state change going as long as he is in physical contact with it, and he'd have to heavily exert himself if he is not. I imagine that as he grows, he'll be able to lessen his exertion, and get better at molding the materials he manipulates.

I see him as a natural geek due to the nature of his power, giving him a deep knowledge of sciences. However he's quite social, and even though he is fond of learning and studying to grow wiser about his own powers, it doesn't limit him from engaging with others.

Tell me how that sounds. :)

[Vergil Tanner]

Hmm...well, we already have a fair amount of geeks, y'see. "Social Geek" basically sums up, like, two thirds of our current male populace. So...maybe that isn't the best archetype to be going for if you're looking for something unique.

As for the State Shift...what are his Maximum Limits? Size of the area affected, range from him, how long it takes, how much energy it takes him, etc etc? And how does he start? This is a Day One game, so what are his starting capabilities? What are the exact ins and outs of his ability?

[CupofJoe]

Seems interesting! I would love to try this out!

Name: Sam Miles
Sex: Male
Position: Student
Archetype: Wannabe cool kid. So basically loud, annoying, over confident, thinks he can hang with the popular crowd.
Power Theme: Summoning. I can summon small creatures, for example, it can be a fairy, that sits in the palm of my hand. Or a small hell hound that comes up to my knees (or shins if you feel that may be too large for our supposed power level). I have sway over the creatures I summon, but the more violent the creature naturally is, the less control I have. So if I summon a fairy, it'll listen to what I say. While a hell hound might do it's own thing, with little regard to what I command. In the future, I could learn to control my summons better, and maybe even summon bigger entities, but for now I'm stuck with small things.

[Vergil Tanner]

Hmm...ok, interesting! First thing to note is that the game is in third person. But anyway! Onto the power.

- How many things can he summon at once?
- How long do the summons last?
- How long does it take to Summon?
- Can he dismiss it, or must he wait for them to disappear on their own?
- What limitations are there on what he can summon? EG, does it have to be a creature he KNOWS exists, or can it be anything he imagines?
- How much influence does he have over them? Can they understand him even if they would not normally speak his language?

[Sheng]

Hmm...well, we already have a fair amount of geeks, y'see. "Social Geek" basically sums up, like, two thirds of our current male populace. So...maybe that isn't the best archetype to be going for if you're looking for something unique.

As for the State Shift...what are his Maximum Limits? Size of the area affected, range from him, how long it takes, how much energy it takes him, etc etc? And how does he start? This is a Day One game, so what are his starting capabilities? What are the exact ins and outs of his ability?

Then how about a playful trickster? I think that could fit well with his powers. Loving to play tricks on people, but (always) in a playful manner, and never meant with malice. With that not said that he can't pull a bad jest, and it has hurtful consequences, or be talked into pulling an evil joke with some pushing, but usually he's nice about it.

I imagine that currently he's very limited in his use, and can barely do anything without being in contact with it. The tax of keeping up a shift without being in touch with it is so great that he'd be burned out for a few hours, and it would only have been for a few seconds.
As for the size of the area, i imagine his current level is being able to change simple things such as water about the size of a knuckle with relative ease. If he does it for a while he'll start to feel the burn, but just some simple playing around won't be too bad. He'd be able to do things such as freeze a sink full of water for some moments without being too burned out, but that amount will start to zap him dry fairly quick. His power is relatively instant, although if he for example was to try and freeze an entire lake (A feat he'd be unable to do currently) It would start from his touch and spread out quickly. For smaller objects it's close to instant though.

To sum it up. At his current day one level, he'll be able to shift things such as a handful of water, and play around with it, making it into ice and poorly reshape it. He can keep up this transformation for a few seconds if it's removed from his touch before burning himself out rather bad, and if it get's too far from him (more than a few meters) it'll just revert to it's old state. His state shifts are close to instant, unless he's doing it with larger objects, where it'll quickly spread from the point of contact (Although it's likely that if he's trying to shift something that large, that he'll end up burning himself out before it's all shifted). For things more complex, such as metal, the tax is much higher and he is incredibly limited in his use of this so far.

Does that make sense? :)

[Vergil Tanner]

Hmmm, I think that instantaneous change would be a bit silly. I think it should spread out from his touch, it just gets faster as he gets more powerful.
Can he only change it by one state? Like, solid to liquid or gas, but he can't go straight from Gas to Solid?

[CupofJoe]

Hmm...ok, interesting! First thing to note is that the game is in third person. But anyway! Onto the power.

- How many things can he summon at once?
- How long do the summons last?
- How long does it take to Summon?
- Can he dismiss it, or must he wait for them to disappear on their own?
- What limitations are there on what he can summon? EG, does it have to be a creature he KNOWS exists, or can it be anything he imagines?
- How much influence does he have over them? Can they understand him even if they would not normally speak his language?

ok, I'll keep the third person in mind! I can see how this could be way too powerful, so there will be a ton of restrictions, then if the game lasts long enough, some restrictions will slowly lift as he learns to control his powers more. A lot of the values I'm going to put are just general guides for you to decide how long a summon will last. Like a cat is smaller than a dog sized creature, so it should last longer than a dog sized creature, but less than a palm sized one. That's where you come in and say, "OK, it's been (insert amount of time) you get tired and it disappears"

- How many things can he summon at once? As of right now, because his powers are so knew and he's still learning to control them, I'll say one summon at a time. Even if it's as something a simple as summoning an ant. As time goes on, he'll learn to summon more, but starting off, just one thing at any given time.

- How long do the summons last? At first if he already has a summon, and summons a new creature, the previous will disappear. If he loses concentration, the entity will disappear. However, as he learns his power, it'll be easier to keep the concentration in the back of his mind, so he doesn't have to focus on it. Then it comes down to his endurance basically. The longer a summon exists, the greater the toll on his body. He is essentially making something out of nothing. So I'll say anything that can fit in the palm of his hand can last up to 2 hours before he begins to grow tired, so maybe 3 and a half hours before he drops from exhaustion. Then the hell hound I used in my example, would last maybe half an hour, before the character begins to grow tired.

- How long does it take to Summon? The smaller the entity, the faster to summon. Something the size of an ant would be instant, something that fits in his palm takes a minute, something the size of a small dog takes 5 minutes.

- Can he dismiss it, or must he wait for them to disappear on their own? He can dismiss it. The creature can disappear if it takes enough damage in a fight. If he falls unconscious, it disappears. Most of the time, he has to dismiss it on his own, since they basically run off his own, personal life force. The longer it stays summoned, the weaker he gets. So if he leaves a creature out long enough, he can die from exhaustion.

- What limitations are there on what he can summon? EG, does it have to be a creature he KNOWS exists, or can it be anything he imagines? I would think anything he can imagine. But if you want, I can come up with maybe 3 things he can summon at first. Then he learns how to summon more through practice.

- How much influence does he have over them? Can they understand him even if they would not normally speak his language?
As I said before, the less aggressive the creature naturally is, the more control he will have. All communication with the creature is telepathic, so if he thinks something, the creature knows what he wants it to do. So even though he may say what he wants out loud, the orders are still sent through that telepathic link. The language will be what language the character wants it to speak. If he wants it to speak English, it speaks English. But obviously, if he summons a dog, the dog can't speak. If he isn't strong enough, that doesn't mean the creature has to listen. I guess think of Ash and Charizard from pokemon. When Charizard wouldn't listen because he didn't think Ash was strong enough. So as my character gets stronger, a creature that wouldn't listen at first, might listen and be completely obedient 6 months later.

[jeflint]

Hello! Sorry I'm late to the party!

Ok cup, looking at your power nice I like it.

How exactly does the summoning work? If you imagine this like green lantern they have an immense will to create items from thin air.

What's the process for summoning a familiar? How long will they last? Will they become permanent? Can he see and hear through them? Can they send telepathical messages back to him? Do they have mass, volume and weight? Are they visible only to him like a bizarre form of Telekinesis, ala ultimate phoneix.

Uh... I think that's it. I'm going to drive home and dive back into the thread.

[CupofJoe]

How exactly does the summoning work? If you imagine this like green lantern they have an immense will to create items from thin air.

What's the process for summoning a familiar? How long will they last? Will they become permanent? Can he see and hear through them? Can they send telepathical messages back to him? Do they have mass, volume and weight? Are they visible only to him like a bizarre form of Telekinesis, ala ultimate phoneix.

How does the summoning work?

I feel it would be, he imagines the creature he wants to summon, gathers up his own life force, and it basically poofs into existence. The bigger, and more complicated the creature, the longer this process takes. But the more he summons a certain creature, the more familiar he becomes with it, the faster he can summon it.

How long will they last?
I did answer this, but basically as long as he can hold it for. It is based on his own life force, so if he keeps up a summon for too long, he can pass out from exhaustion (dispelling the creature) or he can even die if it's a particularly powerful one. Since his powers are new, summons don't last long, and i did mention a general time frame in my last post.

Will they become permanent? Yes and no. They do disappear, whether it's from my character dismissing them, the creature being defeated in a fight, or my character passes out. But when he re-summons the same creature, it still knows who he is. It still has memories of him.

Can he see and hear through them? Can they send messages to him?
At first, he won't have direct control, and they can't communicate with him over long distances. As he learns to control his powers, he will be able to take direct control, and he will be able to communicate with them over long distances. But this won't be for a long time.

Do they have mass, volume, weight?
Yes they do. Don't ask how, because magic. And who the hell knows exactly how magic works?

Are they only visible to him?
no, everyone can see the summons.

[jeflint]

How does the summoning work?

I feel it would be, he imagines the creature he wants to summon, gathers up his own life force, and it basically poofs into existence. The bigger, and more complicated the creature, the longer this process takes. But the more he summons a certain creature, the more familiar he becomes with it, the faster he can summon it.

Lifeforce you say? How much life force do you reckon would be used per summoning? Is it more lifeforce for bigger creatures? How do you replenish your life force? How much can you lose in a go? Can you summon a fully working car or do you need to piece meal it together because it's a complex machine?

How long will they last?
I did answer this, but basically as long as he can hold it for. It is based on his own life force, so if he keeps up a summon for too long, he can pass out from exhaustion (dispelling the creature) or he can even die if it's a particularly powerful one. Since his powers are new, summons don't last long, and i did mention a general time frame in my last post.

Will they become permanent? Yes and no. They do disappear, whether it's from my character dismissing them, the creature being defeated in a fight, or my character passes out. But when he re-summons the same creature, it still knows who he is. It still has memories of him.

Apologies, didn't see that as I was speeding through the forum. But ok as long as he maintains concentration ala green lantern.

Can he see and hear through them? Can they send messages to him?
At first, he won't have direct control, and they can't communicate with him over long distances. As he learns to control his powers, he will be able to take direct control, and he will be able to communicate with them over long distances. But this won't be for a long time.

Define long distance? a mile? twenty? This could potentially overlap a little with arek if he creates a drone but I feel there might be some wiggle room since the drone is robotic and it sounds like you're giving these sentience of their own.

Do they have mass, volume, weight?
Yes they do. Don't ask how, because magic. And who the hell knows exactly how magic works?

Curse that sneaky magic...

Are they only visible to him?
no, everyone can see the summons.

Is there anything special about them, any special color, smell, sound? Or in the case of say a golden retriever it looks exactly like a golden retriever?

[CupofJoe]

Lifeforce you say? How much life force do you reckon would be used per summoning? Is it more lifeforce for bigger creatures? How do you replenish your life force? How much can you lose in a go? Can you summon a fully working car or do you need to piece meal it together because it's a complex machine?

Apologies, didn't see that as I was speeding through the forum. But ok as long as he maintains concentration ala green lantern.

Define long distance? a mile? twenty? This could potentially overlap a little with arek if he creates a drone but I feel there might be some wiggle room since the drone is robotic and it sounds like you're giving these sentience of their own.

Curse that sneaky magic...

Is there anything special about them, any special color, smell, sound? Or in the case of say a golden retriever it looks exactly like a golden retriever?

Life force: The bigger the creature, the more life force is used. If I summon a tiny bug, it will be very little. If I summon a golden retriever, it will take a lot more. I feel this power will need to be played with by the GM. If the GM thinks it's been a long time for my power to be in use, they can just be like "You've been using your power for (insert amount of time), you are beginning to grow tired."    But lets use a 'life pool' of 100 as an example. A beetle, may only take 10 points from my life pool. A golden retriever might take 30. I regain my life force by resting, and not using any. I would say it would take about 24 hours to completely recover my life force if I use, say 99 of it (I would die if I use 100). I'd say if I use 75 points, I become tired, if I use 90, I pass out. Now I don't want to have to implement and track a life force pool, so this just for example purposes.

concentration: Yea, just because it's magic, doesn't mean it's completely stable. But like I said, at some point, certain creatures just become simple, and I can shove concentrating on them to the back of my mind.

distance: I say this should be a sort of static value. Both a beetle, and a golden retrieve would be out of range at a mile. But as my power grows, I can work on increasing the range. And yeah, these are basically living creatures that I potentially have control over.

appearances: At first, if i want to make a golden retriever it looks, sounds, smells like a golden retriever. But maybe as I use and grow my power, I can make a purple golden retriever, with fins, and a duck's bill. Like I said, I can summon any living thing I can think of, but I am limited given how new my powers are.

[jeflint]

Life force: The bigger the creature, the more life force is used. If I summon a tiny bug, it will be very little. If I summon a golden retriever, it will take a lot more. I feel this power will need to be played with by the GM. If the GM thinks it's been a long time for my power to be in use, they can just be like "You've been using your power for (insert amount of time), you are beginning to grow tired."    But lets use a 'life pool' of 100 as an example. A beetle, may only take 10 points from my life pool. A golden retriever might take 30. I regain my life force by resting, and not using any. I would say it would take about 24 hours to completely recover my life force if I use, say 99 of it (I would die if I use 100). I'd say if I use 75 points, I become tired, if I use 90, I pass out. Now I don't want to have to implement and track a life force pool, so this just for example purposes.

concentration: Yea, just because it's magic, doesn't mean it's completely stable. But like I said, at some point, certain creatures just become simple, and I can shove concentrating on them to the back of my mind.

distance: I say this should be a sort of static value. Both a beetle, and a golden retrieve would be out of range at a mile. But as my power grows, I can work on increasing the range. And yeah, these are basically living creatures that I potentially have control over.

appearances: At first, if i want to make a golden retriever it looks, sounds, smells like a golden retriever. But maybe as I use and grow my power, I can make a purple golden retriever, with fins, and a duck's bill. Like I said, I can summon any living thing I can think of, but I am limited given how new my powers are.

A lot of the characters use caloric expenditure and fatigue as measures for their powers and it's actually a good rule of them for most of them. Sasha's shrinking power is set to 100 calories per inch. So it's pretty exhausting for her, but it's also a bit of handwaving because for a full trip to her min size to her max size 58" to 1" to 58" is basically 2 marathons, which can easily be done by a very fit person but Sasha has the problem of a very tiny mouth.

So what we should determine is take your biggest construct, say a mastiff, and figure out how hard it would be to create that.

What do the animals draw from? I'm not going to use the line matter can be created but not destroyed, cause Sasha's and Nikki's powers basically destroy the laws of nature as we know them. But I would imagine if you're making a living creature, it would have to have some internal matters.

I might have missed this but it's only living creatures correct? And what are you defining as a creature you could create, would giant amoeba work? They're mindless and only exist to eat and reproduce. If you make a fairy could you later enlarge her to say eagle size?

[Sheng]

Hmmm, I think that instantaneous change would be a bit silly. I think it should spread out from his touch, it just gets faster as he gets more powerful.
Can he only change it by one state? Like, solid to liquid or gas, but he can't go straight from Gas to Solid?

I think we might be thinking the same things, but I'm communicating it wrong.
The way I'm imagining it, isn't like, a blink of an eye sort of ordeal for the shift. More so that the change for smaller things takes a rather short time, and with a large enough time scale, a few seconds are basically instantaneous. So it's not so much a magic poof, as it is just a reaction on a smaller scale happening rather quickly. However if you do feel that is still too quick, i'd happily scale it slower to fit.

As for whether he can crystallize gas and such, I imagine that he in theory would, but it would require a lot more energy from his side, and training. As he already has a rather heave drain on himself just from changing it one state, doubling up on that would at least double the tax. It might be something he'll eventually dabble into, but I think for a large portion he'll be focusing on single state shifts.

As a note for his power set in general, I imagine it to follow some simple rules. The further up the periodic table he moves, the more energy he needs to use his powers. So he'll likely start out with playing around with simple gasses as water and such, to try and increase his time of use before spending himself.

[jeflint]

At first, yes that sounds about right. They will be able to see the auras as they progress through their mind's eye. That would be cool if they could tell if someone is being dishonest! I feel like that would be a detail they would need more mastery over their power first before being able to sense lies.

What would these aura's look like? Would you, I ask because I use an Emotion Thesaurus, be 100% accurate our would there be wiggle room for an interpretation? For instance, nervousness and being scared aren't that far apart.

[jeflint]

I think we might be thinking the same things, but I'm communicating it wrong.
The way I'm imagining it, isn't like, a blink of an eye sort of ordeal for the shift. More so that the change for smaller things takes a rather short time, and with a large enough time scale, a few seconds are basically instantaneous. So it's not so much a magic poof, as it is just a reaction on a smaller scale happening rather quickly. However if you do feel that is still too quick, i'd happily scale it slower to fit.

As for whether he can crystallize gas and such, I imagine that he in theory would, but it would require a lot more energy from his side, and training. As he already has a rather heave drain on himself just from changing it one state, doubling up on that would at least double the tax. It might be something he'll eventually dabble into, but I think for a large portion he'll be focusing on single state shifts.

As a note for his power set in general, I imagine it to follow some simple rules. The further up the periodic table he moves, the more energy he needs to use his powers. So he'll likely start out with playing around with simple gasses as water and such, to try and increase his time of use before spending himself.

I'm reminded by the line from Bilbo Baggins in the Day After Tomorrow

Terry Rapson: [over the phone] Several hours ago, three helicopters went down over Scotland. They crashed because the fuel in their lines froze.
Jack Hall: At what temperature does...
Terry Rapson: [interrupting] Negative one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit.
[scoffs]
Terry Rapson: They had to look it up!

So not to put a damper on your fun, cause it would be fun to turn gas into crystals... if that quote is even half way true and why wouldn't it be it's a hollywood disaster film that's going to be a pretty massive energy drain for your poor character.

I'm a little late to the party that boss started but the general gist I got was that your character is able to change the atomic state of something, taking something that's solid and liquifying it, or taking a liquid and solidifying it.

Can he go so far as to make plasma?

[CupofJoe]

A lot of the characters use caloric expenditure and fatigue as measures for their powers and it's actually a good rule of them for most of them. Sasha's shrinking power is set to 100 calories per inch. So it's pretty exhausting for her, but it's also a bit of handwaving because for a full trip to her min size to her max size 58" to 1" to 58" is basically 2 marathons, which can easily be done by a very fit person but Sasha has the problem of a very tiny mouth.

So what we should determine is take your biggest construct, say a mastiff, and figure out how hard it would be to create that.

What do the animals draw from? I'm not going to use the line matter can be created but not destroyed, cause Sasha's and Nikki's powers basically destroy the laws of nature as we know them. But I would imagine if you're making a living creature, it would have to have some internal matters.

I might have missed this but it's only living creatures correct? And what are you defining as a creature you could create, would giant amoeba work? They're mindless and only exist to eat and reproduce. If you make a fairy could you later enlarge her to say eagle size?

So at such a low "Power level" I would say a griffin would be the most powerful thing I could summon. I would only be able to keep it in existence for about 5 minutes, before I'm basically dead. So I would imagine my body would react if I hadn't eaten in 3 weeks. I would end up in the hospital for a while. This sound about right?

I'm sorry but I don't completely know what you're getting at with you second question. Do you mean like, what does it draw from the environment to actually manifest? If so, I guess it could use anything in nature, and the 'magic' gives it shape, while my life force gives it life.

And yes, it's only creatures. I probably should have mentioned that, but just didn't think about it lol. It wouldn't be fun to summon a giant robot, if I wanted to control robots I would have made some sort of technomancer.

[jeflint]

So at such a low "Power level" I would say a griffin would be the most powerful thing I could summon. I would only be able to keep it in existence for about 5 minutes, before I'm basically dead. So I would imagine my body would react if I hadn't eaten in 3 weeks. I would end up in the hospital for a while. This sound about right?

I'm sorry but I don't completely know what you're getting at with you second question. Do you mean like, what does it draw from the environment to actually manifest? If so, I guess it could use anything in nature, and the 'magic' gives it shape, while my life force gives it life.

And yes, it's only creatures. I probably should have mentioned that, but just didn't think about it lol. It wouldn't be fun to summon a giant robot, if I wanted to control robots I would have made some sort of technomancer.

As much as this Fennmink loves giant robots... Technomancery sorta stuff is Arek's area. So we gotta be careful not to step on other toes.

Ok... so using a D&D monster manual a griffin is about 500lbs. So if we go with that's the absolute max he can create in size that leaves him with creatures that are basically double the weight of a human. I'm not a scientist but I would imagine a 3 week period of not eating would pretty much knock him flat out. If someone provided you energy could you funnel that into your creation? What about maliciously sucking energy out of someone to create a bad guy.

Yes, I appologize the question kinda got away from me. But if he creates a creature it is manifested out of nature with his ability giving it shape.

Now... in the future is he going to be able to say... merge/join inside it. So for instance create a Rock Golem and then he steps into and boom he has power armour?

What do you see as the absolute max amount of creatures you can make, take your spider/Beetle for instance , how many of those do you think you can summon at a go? And if you're summoning multiples, ie a horde/swarm, is it basically stepped up to a larger creature or do you have to create individual monsters?

[Sheng]

I'm reminded by the line from Bilbo Baggins in the Day After Tomorrow

So not to put a damper on your fun, cause it would be fun to turn gas into crystals... if that quote is even half way true and why wouldn't it be it's a hollywood disaster film that's going to be a pretty massive energy drain for your poor character.

I'm a little late to the party that boss started but the general gist I got was that your character is able to change the atomic state of something, taking something that's solid and liquifying it, or taking a liquid and solidifying it.

Can he go so far as to make plasma?

Hello! Pleasure to meet you :)

And you are most definitely correct, the energy needed to crystallize is incredibly hefty. Which is why I noted it as 'at least' double the tax on him. Not to mention he would have to further exert himself to keep the shift current.

You got the gist of it! I imagine that he with some struggle can do some forth and back shifting too, for example, take a solid, and reshaping it by making parts of it liquid and letting it solidify again. However, he'll be far from an artist at starting point, and it'll more likely be of hobby use for a long while, till he's learned to lower the tax on himself, or heighten his limits.

For the sake of not causing large explosions of energy, I suggest that the material he manipulates does not undergo an actual temperature change, but instead is purely a change of it's physical (excluding temperature) and mechanical properties. And if (when) the state shift ends, the material reverts to its prior state once more, with no change in temperature or volume. I do imagine that he has some slight control of the material he manipulates, although changing water into gas and getting some splashed in his face as it returns to liquid is still a likely scenario till he starts getting better.  Although manipulation of gasses will be a little off into the future, due to the nature of gas being hard to contain, and it's slight mass as opposed to volume.

Does that make sense?

As for whether or not he could make plasma. Technically, at some point he might be able to do that, but the tax for something like that would be.. enormous, and borderline useless. So I doubt that's a route he'll go end up exploring.

Instead, for potential combat scenarios or speculation, I imagine that he'all try to further the range of his control, so he could take a handful of water and solidify it before throwing it at bad guys. Or something along those lines.

Cheers!

[jeflint]

Hello! Pleasure to meet you :)

And you are most definitely correct, the energy needed to crystallize is incredibly hefty. Which is why I noted it as 'at least' double the tax on him. Not to mention he would have to further exert himself to keep the shift current.

You got the gist of it! I imagine that he with some struggle can do some forth and back shifting too, for example, take a solid, and reshaping it by making parts of it liquid and letting it solidify again. However, he'll be far from an artist at starting point, and it'll more likely be of hobby use for a long while, till he's learned to lower the tax on himself, or heighten his limits.

For the sake of not causing large explosions of energy, I suggest that the material he manipulates does not undergo an actual temperature change, but instead is purely a change of it's physical (excluding temperature) and mechanical properties. And if (when) the state shift ends, the material reverts to its prior state once more, with no change in temperature or volume. I do imagine that he has some slight control of the material he manipulates, although changing water into gas and getting some splashed in his face as it returns to liquid is still a likely scenario till he starts getting better.  Although manipulation of gasses will be a little off into the future, due to the nature of gas being hard to contain, and it's slight mass as opposed to volume.

Does that make sense?

As for whether or not he could make plasma. Technically, at some point he might be able to do that, but the tax for something like that would be.. enormous, and borderline useless. So I doubt that's a route he'll go end up exploring.

Instead, for potential combat scenarios or speculation, I imagine that he'all try to further the range of his control, so he could take a handful of water and solidify it before throwing it at bad guys. Or something along those lines.

Cheers!

It sounds like, if I may, this is a use of the spell of Soften Earth & Stone

When this spell is cast, all natural, undressed earth or stone in the spell’s area is softened. Wet earth becomes thick mud, dry earth becomes loose sand or dirt, and stone becomes soft clay that is easily molded or chopped. You affect a 10-foot square area to a depth of 1 to 4 feet, depending on the toughness or resilience of the ground at that spot. Magical, enchanted, dressed, or worked stone cannot be affected. Earth or stone creatures are not affected.

A creature in mud must succeed on a Reflex save or be caught for 1d2 rounds and unable to move, attack, or cast spells. A creature that succeeds on its save can move through the mud at half speed, and it can’t run or charge. Loose dirt is not as troublesome as mud, but all creatures in the area can move at only half their normal speed and can’t run or charge over the surface. Stone softened into clay does not hinder movement, but it does allow characters to cut, shape, or excavate areas they may not have been able to affect before.

While this spell does not affect dressed or worked stone, cavern ceilings or vertical surfaces such as cliff faces can be affected. Usually, this causes a moderate collapse or landslide as the loosened material peels away from the face of the wall or roof and falls (treat as a cave-in with no bury zone, see Environment).

A moderate amount of structural damage can be dealt to a manufactured structure by softening the ground beneath it, causing it to settle. However, most well-built structures will only be damaged by this spell, not destroyed.

Boss might have asked this already, and sorry if I missed this, but what's the range on how much he can use? Is this limited to his hands for shaping or could he potentially just look at it and make a tree shape into a pretzel?

[CupofJoe]

As much as this Fennmink loves giant robots... Technomancery sorta stuff is Arek's area. So we gotta be careful not to step on other toes.

Ok... so using a D&D monster manual a griffin is about 500lbs. So if we go with that's the absolute max he can create in size that leaves him with creatures that are basically double the weight of a human. I'm not a scientist but I would imagine a 3 week period of not eating would pretty much knock him flat out. If someone provided you energy could you funnel that into your creation? What about maliciously sucking energy out of someone to create a bad guy.

Yes, I appologize the question kinda got away from me. But if he creates a creature it is manifested out of nature with his ability giving it shape.

Now... in the future is he going to be able to say... merge/join inside it. So for instance create a Rock Golem and then he steps into and boom he has power armour?

What do you see as the absolute max amount of creatures you can make, take your spider/Beetle for instance , how many of those do you think you can summon at a go? And if you're summoning multiples, ie a horde/swarm, is it basically stepped up to a larger creature or do you have to create individual monsters?

I really enjoy the idea of others being able to help fuel my power, and me being able to harm others to take their power. So I think he would be able to accept and steal energy. But the character isn't a malicious one, so the idea of maliciously taking it from someone would upset him. So maybe at one point he will end up stealing energy from someone, just so I can establish that he can actually do that.

I don't think he'd be able to do more than see and hear what the creature sees. Like I had said before, he can give orders, but that doesn't mean they will always follow. Therefore being able to take control, kind of defeats the purpose of that idea.

So, he just finds out about his power, he wants to fill the school halls with spiders, I'd say... at first he could summon about 25. This is obviously, after he's had at least a few weeks, just summoning spiders. Like I had said, at first he can only have one summon at a time. Once he can push that concentration to the back of his mind, he can start summoning more. So by the time he learns to push back his concentration, he would be strong enough to summon about 25 spiders. I feel, he could either combine all consciousness into 1 for certain situations, in others he can have them as individuals. If he wants to fill a class room with spiders, that would be 1 consciousness, and one summon. If he's sending 5 spiders into the girls locker room to spy, that would be 5 separate consciousnesses, 5 separate summons.

[Sheng]

It sounds like, if I may, this is a use of the spell of Soften Earth & Stone

Boss might have asked this already, and sorry if I missed this, but what's the range on how much he can use? Is this limited to his hands for shaping or could he potentially just look at it and make a tree shape into a pretzel?

If I may quote myself~

I imagine that currently he's very limited in his use, and can barely do anything without being in contact with it. The tax of keeping up a shift without being in touch with it is so great that he'd be burned out for a few hours, and it would only have been for a few seconds.
As for the size of the area, i imagine his current level is being able to change simple things such as water about the size of a knuckle with relative ease. If he does it for a while he'll start to feel the burn, but just some simple playing around won't be too bad. He'd be able to do things such as freeze a sink full of water for some moments without being too burned out, but that amount will start to zap him dry fairly quick.

To sum it up. At his current day one level, he'll be able to shift things such as a handful of water, and play around with it, making it into ice and poorly reshape it. He can keep up this transformation for a few seconds if it's removed from his touch before burning himself out rather bad, and if it get's too far from him (more than a few meters) it'll just revert to it's old state. For things more complex, such as metal, the tax is much higher and he is incredibly limited in his use of this so far.

And it does sound pretty similar to the spell, although I imagine his powers to be much more contact based.

[Nygenn]

Wait, so when he's doing a recovery boost, is he using his energy, or the patient's? You mentioned that it's taxing on the patient, so this makes me assume that he's using the patient's own energy to speed up the healing process.

I did say this yes, but after some consideration I think it may be more fun if he can only use his own energy to heal others. This way his scope is much more limted. Also, I think it would be awesome if it was like he himself had this sort of rapid regeneration and what he does is take the wound onto himself. So say he transfers the fracture or cut to his own body effectively healing the patient in the span it takes to transfer and than his own much healing factor kicks in to treat the wounds. And his own healing is then a passive which is always on. This way what can happen is that if its a large wound requiring a lot of energy he might even pass out from the effort. Perhaps those are moments he needs to eat a lot to ensure he has the energy required.

Now this would mean that he has a good chance to get back up if he's shot or stabbed and not immediately killed, but of course the energy required to heal him might cause him to pass out or even  go into a coma if he's receiving multiple stab wounds and repeatedly being shot. So he's by no means invulnerable.

Another downside and possible danger to this is that his healing does nothing to remove a bullet or other object piercing him so he will need to dig /pull these objects out quickly or risk the wounds closing around them. This is why when he heals others he or someone else would need to remove the obstacles before he starts absorbing the wound.

Those limits sound good. So, can we assume then that the extent of his powers also depend highly on his own energy/stamina and endurance? He would need to survive and endure whatever he's taken into himself long enough for his body to heal it, after all.

That is exactly right. It will be important for him to keep his stamina in top condition. The better it is the more he can take and the more he can heal others.

And if he can channel someone else to donate their energy, would this mean he would technically be able to absorb energy from other people too, rather than just giving it?

I think this would effectively change the scope of the power into something which I don't want it to be so I'm going to say he will not have the ability to use energy from the patient or anyone else. Though if there is someone with a battery power who can super charge machines and people then I'm sure the can accomplish a whole lot if the work together.
Perhaps a good suggestion for any other new players?

Who knows, maybe way, way down the line if the powers grow or expand he can develop the ability to absorb energy and or health from others. But that's another story.

What about chemical poisoning? Something like carbon monoxide or mercury? Would he be able to heal those afflicted with radiation? Nuclear and the like? That's all quite different from natural poisons like plant toxins and venom.

At the risk of sounding very OP I want to say, yes, he can heal such things. It would be amazing if he was the cure to cancer and aids and all those other incurables, however... I don't think he can remove cancers or mutations caused by radiation because those things are actually a natural part of the body. He can remove the radiation poisoning and stop cancers from spreading perhaps but not turn back mutations it's caused.

Let me know what you think on this, because it would be cool to do, but would then also mean he could maybe remove scars from people as well. Cool for sure, but perhaps something which would make his him unnecessary powerful.

What would be his outlets? Plants, animals, other people, or perhaps inanimate objects? Does the outlet need to be alive, or could he just transfer it to, say, a rock? I know that Latin Americans have the superstition that witch doctors can transfer one's illness to chickens or even chicken eggs. Would your character do something similar?

I did not know about that superstition but it sounds pretty cool. I was thinking that he can only use other organisms as outlets, so living creatures. And I say creatures because I think it would be cheating and severely reduce the awesomeness of this drawback if he can just push all his pain into a nearby tree.

So humans and animals he can use as outlets but considering what this would do to them I doubt he ever would. He'd likely end up killing any smaller creatures if he has enough negative energy stored. He can effectively use this to inflict pain on others though, which I think can lead to cool scenes down the line where he gives their enemies a taste of their own medicine this way. "you reap what you sow, asshole!"
I'm still debating if he can actually transfer the wounds or afflictions as he's absorbed them. This could create cool effects where he can effectively transfer a broken leg from a friend to an enemy, or give them the STD he just removed from a careless classmate ¬_¬  and put it on someone else, or if he's just sharing the pain he would otherwise have to endure as how bodies healing facture neutralizes the ailment. This last option is less powerful I think, but let me know your thoughts and preferences on this.

[Codexa]

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[keyotess]

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