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

[Levi]

Does that extend to tornadoes and hurricanes? Yes

How does she manipulate the sun? I originally said sun as you need light to make rainbows but apart from heat change I couldn't think of how to manipulate the sun, so I might go for just rain and wind manipulation.

What do you see her Master Level being? Hurricanes and tornadoes lasting over several days, can cause flash floods and gale force winds.

Range:30 miles

Yes she can make a storm but this would be a working professional, maybe an intermediate level skill.

Maximum area of coverage: Using Colorado as reference, her maximum coverage would be the San Juan National Forest and White River National Forest combined.

[Bernardo Hoagie]

As a PE teacher, he always pushes the students in his class to be better than they were yesterday, and he doesn't care for past successes, other than to compare you to you from yesterday, and see if you've improved. If you have, then great job, now it's time to top yourself. If you've stalled, or fell behind, then he'll push and prod you to get better. He starts off nice at first, but he has a short temper, and he'll just keep pushing you harder and harder to top your previous achievement, until you make it. Then the process repeats itself.

1. I think these should be day one Powers, because they're pretty short range. I think at mastery level, his stare will be most effective below 12 feet, and somewhat effective at 40 feet. Past that, its ineffective.

2. Can we compromise here? I'd like him to be effective with a single person day 1, and 11 people at mastery level. 5 people at mastery level seems a bit low, since the power of the gaze is split between all of them equally.

3. The fight or flight response is a feeling someone gets when they feel they're in danger. The effect is an uncomfortable feel of dread coming over someone, like something bad's about to happen, but they don't know what. It activates a danger sense in people, they know there's a threat, but they don't know what it is. It makes people paranoid and anxious, and really wish the feeling would go away. That's how I imagine the Intimidation Gaze would work.

4. The Intimidation Gaze works if he's looking at you, it doesn't matter if you're looking at him or not. His gaze comes from his eye, and an invisible ray of dread comes and impacts you at the speed of light. This beam causes people to produce excess adrenaline, which fuels the fight or flight response. These rays are less effective because they have to go through layers and layers of cloth and tissue in order to take effect, deadening the response. Also, they have to travel to the brain afterwards, which further lessens the impact.

All of these barriers are completely removed when he looks you straight in the eye. The eye is connected directly to the brain, so unless you are wearing tinted eyewear, you are receiving the full force of dread pretty much immediately, so eye contact has much more impact compared to looking at someone's foot or hand. Even with eyewear, though, the effects are still noticeably stronger.

5. I don't know how time would work in this RP, so what do you think would be a good rate of power increase for time gazing?

P.S: what is the character limit for this RP? I've been brainstorming another superpowered guy, one that turns himself into a mold and fungus golem.

[Vergil Tanner]

Does that extend to tornadoes and hurricanes? Yes

Ok. How big are they?

How does she manipulate the sun? I originally said sun as you need light to make rainbows but apart from heat change I couldn't think of how to manipulate the sun, so I might go for just rain and wind manipulation.

Yeah, alas I think that heat and light might be going outside the remit of weather manipulation. I can see her making it hotter, or adjusting cloud coverage to make it brighter though!

What do you see her Master Level being? Hurricanes and tornadoes lasting over several days, can cause flash floods and gale force winds.

Umm...no. xD That is way too powerful. Gale force winds? Yhup! Flash floods...eeeeh, it would depend on where she was. Some areas don't flood as effectively as others, and she'd need a SHITTON of water to do that. As for tornadoes lasting several days? No. None of her effects last past her concentration, methinks. As soon as she stops concentrating on them, they dissipate.

Range:30 miles

Eeeeeeh...I would say 20 at Mastery, and 1 at Day One.

Maximum area of coverage: Using Colorado as reference, her maximum coverage would be the San Juan National Forest and White River National Forest combined.

That's like...4,000,000 acres, isn't it? Yeah, no. Nowhere NEAR that big.
I think you've vastly overestimated the power scale of this game, haha. I was more thinking in the region of a couple of miles or so.



Just a quick note, Bernardo; would you mind quoting what you're answering? Otherwise I have to go back and hunt down the questions I gave you and I'm doing three other applications, soooo.... >.>

1. I think these should be day one Powers, because they're pretty short range. I think at mastery level, his stare will be most effective below 12 feet, and somewhat effective at 40 feet. Past that, its ineffective.

Can he SEE 40 feet, though? I think Mastery should be around 30 feet, personally.

2. Can we compromise here? I'd like him to be effective with a single person day 1, and 11 people at mastery level. 5 people at mastery level seems a bit low, since the power of the gaze is split between all of them equally.

Hmmm...I'll say 8 for Mastery, since he has to focus on all of them, and they all need to be within his LOS.

3. The fight or flight response is a feeling someone gets when they feel they're in danger. The effect is an uncomfortable feel of dread coming over someone, like something bad's about to happen, but they don't know what. It activates a danger sense in people, they know there's a threat, but they don't know what it is. It makes people paranoid and anxious, and really wish the feeling would go away. That's how I imagine the Intimidation Gaze would work.

Ok. And how would that get worse the longer he stared at them?

4. The Intimidation Gaze works if he's looking at you, it doesn't matter if you're looking at him or not. His gaze comes from his eye, and an invisible ray of dread comes and impacts you at the speed of light. This beam causes people to produce excess adrenaline, which fuels the fight or flight response. These rays are less effective because they have to go through layers and layers of cloth and tissue in order to take effect, deadening the response. Also, they have to travel to the brain afterwards, which further lessens the impact.

How much by? If he's looking you in the eye and it's giving 100% of its effect, how much of its effect are you getting if he's staring at the back of your head? 40? 50? 60?

All of these barriers are completely removed when he looks you straight in the eye. The eye is connected directly to the brain, so unless you are wearing tinted eyewear, you are receiving the full force of dread pretty much immediately, so eye contact has much more impact compared to looking at someone's foot or hand. Even with eyewear, though, the effects are still noticeably stronger.

Hmmm. So what you're saying here is that there is no way to block or negate the effect? Not sure I like that. You've basically got an unblockable power there, which is one reason why I was considering it being a sight based ability. How would somebody go about neutralising the power?

5. I don't know how time would work in this RP, so what do you think would be a good rate of power increase for time gazing?

Well, generally I would say that you start off at an extreme - so, you spend a LONG time gazing at somebody to get it to take noticeable effect - and Mastery Level is you swinging closer to the other extreme. It's all about developing to get there.

P.S: what is the character limit for this RP? I've been brainstorming another superpowered guy, one that turns himself into a mold and fungus golem.

For the moment? One. A second character may be opened up to people who have proven that they can handle it later on, but for the time being, one and done. I only have two because I'm the GM and it gives me a way to be in multiple places at once to push the plot forwards if I need to.

[Levi]

How big are the tornadoes? Apparently the average size of a tornado can be 500 feet so maybe she can do 250 feet?

Making it hotter and able to adjust cloud coverage to make it brighter sounds like a great idea.

Mastery Level: Gale force winds, Tornadoes could last over several hours but only if she concentrated. As soon as she stops concentrating they dissipate.

Range:20 miles at mastery and 1mile at day one

Maximum area of coverage: Hee apologies! I wasn't sure how big the forests were so I took a stab! Ok so how about 4-5 miles?

[Vergil Tanner]

How big are the tornadoes? Apparently the average size of a tornado can be 500 feet so maybe she can do 250 feet?

At Mastery Level...I can see that, but how long would it take her to create it, and how long would she be able to maintain it before losing consciousness due to the strain?

Making it hotter and able to adjust cloud coverage to make it brighter sounds like a great idea.

Ok, so! What type of temperature range do you see her having? How far either way can she alter the temperature?

Maximum area of coverage: Hee apologies! I wasn't sure how big the forests were so I took a stab! Ok so how about 4-5 miles?

At maximum potential? I can see that. Radius or Diameter?

[Levi]

How long would a tornado take to create? As a tornado is Master Level, I can see it taking half a day.

How long could she maintain it? Only three to four hours maximum, it would be extremely draining.

What temperature range do you see her having? I want her to be able to make sleet so apparently the temp needs to be 32°F for that, the highest I want to go is mid 50's.

How far either way can she alter the temperature? I don't want her to be able to drastically alter temperatures so no -0°F. So hopefully the above question answers this.

At maximum potential? Yes in Diameter.

[Vergil Tanner]

I can see it taking half a day.

So...it takes half a day to create? How long would it take to dissipate if she stops concentrating on it?

How long could she maintain it? Only three to four hours maximum, it would be extremely draining.

What would be the effects of her keeping it up that long? I would say a couple of hours, since a Tornado would be the apex of her abilities.

What temperature range do you see her having? I want her to be able to make sleet so apparently the temp needs to be 32°F for that, the highest I want to go is mid 50's.

No, I mean...say the Temperature right now is 30 degrees. How far above or below that 30 can she go? 5? 10? 20 either way?

[Levi]

How long does it take to dissipate? It should only take 10-20 mins to dissipate, tornadoes fall apart quite quickly right?

What would the effects of her keeping it up for that long? Quite drastic I'm thinking she may lack any power for a full day after?

Temperature range. Ah I understand. I'm going to say 10 degrees either way.

[Vergil Tanner]

Ok then! Would you mind writing all of that up in a new Power Description - all the limits and whatnot we talked about - so I can take another look at the finalised power, and if I don't see any glaring gaps or oversights, we can move you along!

[ShadowFox89]

 Hey Vergil, how does a mute hero who causes all sound that she causes or directly causes... sound? Like, she can set off a bomb, and you won't hear the explosion, but any secondary that the explosion itself causes you'll hear. I've been kicking around the idea for a while and the power isn't really one you see much. She'd be a mute hero due to how her power works, it's something she can't shut off on her own. Hero name would be Silent Knight.

[Levi]

No problem!

Weather modification: Artistry's power is limited to sun,rain and wind manipulating. She specializes in rainbows. When her power first manifests she can encourage a cloud to move away from the sun as she becomes more powerful she can start and stop rain completely. Depending on what she is changing, the time frame varies. A small breeze can take two minuets, however clearing rain can take ten to twenty minuets.

Her energy levels are effected differently for different manipulations. Small changes such as a gust of wind might require Arrietty to eat a candy bar to regain her suger levels. A large manipulation would physically weaken her leaving her lethargic and severely out of breath. Her range would be only one mile at the beginning but when she reaches Mastery Level her weather can reach out to 20 miles.

Her limits are that there has to be a basis available for her to change the weather. If there experiencing a drought Arrietty can't make it rain without water particles available. She would also avoid making storms as she is afraid of lightning. She could if required make a storm but it would be an intermediate level skill. At Mastery Level she will be able to create hurricanes, tornadoes and gale force winds lasting several hours, her maximum area of coverage would be 4-5 miles. Her tornadoes reach a width of 250 feet in diameter.

Arrietty can manipulate the sun by making it hotter and she is able to adjust cloud coverage to make the sun brighter however she can only change the temperature by 10°C either warmer or cooler. The power takes a great deal of concertration, as soon as she stops concentrating the weather dissipates. For example at Mastery Level a tornado would take her half a day to create, she would only be able to maintain it for two to three hours as it would be extremely draining and would leave Arrietty powerless for a whole day. If she is distracted the weather would return to normal within 10-20 minuets.

[PentheWonderful]

Hey Vergil, how does a mute hero who causes all sound that she causes or directly causes... sound? Like, she can set off a bomb, and you won't hear the explosion, but any secondary that the explosion itself causes you'll hear. I've been kicking around the idea for a while and the power isn't really one you see much. She'd be a mute hero due to how her power works, it's something she can't shut off on her own. Hero name would be Silent Knight.

Bonjour Shadow~ Vergil currently has his plate full at the moment, so I'm here to step in for him.

Alright, so, first impressions; a mute hero sounds fucking AWESOME.
Unfortunately, I don't quite understand the power concept itself. Walk me through it again, because the wording has me a little lost. So far, all I'm getting is that she controls sound.

[ShadowFox89]

Bonjour Shadow~ Vergil currently has his plate full at the moment, so I'm here to step in for him.

Alright, so, first impressions; a mute hero sounds fucking AWESOME.
Unfortunately, I don't quite understand the power concept itself. Walk me through it again, because the wording has me a little lost. So far, all I'm getting is that she controls sound.

Kinda. She doesn't have direct control. Sounds she makes and directly causes are muted. So, going back to the explosion example,  the bomb she sets off makes no noise, but an explosion that bomb causes would make noise. If she set up a Rube Goldberg machine to tap out noise,  then she could communicate by Morse code,  but using one machine would not make noise. Nose within one degree of being caused by her are null.

It's a rather limited power,  but I hope it will fit this game. She'd make a great ninja at least.

[PentheWonderful]

Kinda. She doesn't have direct control. Sounds she makes and directly causes are muted. So, going back to the explosion example,  the bomb she sets off makes no noise, but an explosion that bomb causes would make noise. If she set up a Rube Goldberg machine to tap out noise,  then she could communicate by Morse code,  but using one machine would not make noise. Nose within one degree of being caused by her are null.

It's a rather limited power,  but I hope it will fit this game. She'd make a great ninja at least.

I see, I see... So her power is a mute effect? Is it something she radiates - and therefore for the power to take effect, the object or sound needs to be within a certain radius of her - or is it activated by direct contact? Basically, how does it work? What do you imagine the applications to be, and what are her strength levels at Day One (JUST acquiring them), moderate comprehension, and full mastery?

[Elf]

Again I apologize for the long absence from this thread. I had some thinking to do and got busy with RL
Name: Faidon Storm
Sex: Male
Position: Student
Archetype: Loner, not by choice, social awkwardness, or lack of self-confidence. His father is a notorious killer for the TRIAD (Oriental crime syndicate) He was arrested and very publicly put on trial and convicted. The general populace see “Killer Storm” as a monster and believe that Faidon will be one too. For the most part people fear him. It does not help he got started in martial arts at a very young age and it is one of the few things he is really passionate about. He has seen this fear reaction too often so does not push his company on anyone. If meeting people for the first time he is very reluctant to reveal his full name.
Power Theme: Animal Affinity: He is very feline in nature and can channel his inner cat's sensory abilities.

Here is a break down of how it will develop:

Stage 1: The pupils of his eyes will have a oval shape. Visual acuity 20/18. Low light vision will be 50% better. Odors will be more clear and defined, will be able to detect food items in close proximity. Sounds seem louder. He will be able to hear private, not whispered, conversations from across a room.

Stage 2: Pupils are noticeably oval. Visual acuity 20/15. Low light vision will be twice normal with the night seeming less dark. He will begin to identify individuals by scent and be able to track a fresh trail, Food items no longer have to be close. He will be able to hear the heart beats of those near him. A dog whistle will be painful.

Stage 3: Pupils are clearly slits. Visual acuity 20/13. Nights are lighter yet and non-moving heat sources will have a barely visible glow. He will now  be able to tell if a person is seriously ill or basically healthy by scent and be able to fallow a trail several hours old. He will be able to a whisper from across a room as well as some ultrasonic sounds. The dog whistle will no longer cause pain.

Stage 4: Pupils are full feline slits. Visual acuity 20/10. Even the darkness night will be like twilight to and everything will seem to be bathed in a dim “Black Light” all heat sources, even living ones will have a dim glow to them. He will be able to follow scent trail about a day old and tell if a body is calm or frightened. He will be able to hear whispers beyond a closed door  along ultrasonic and infrasonic sounds.

Drawbacks:
Sight: Sudden bright light will daze and blind him. Flashing lights especially in different colors will confuse and disorientate him badly. He won't be activating his sight in a night club. At first he will not recognize the different things he sees in infrared or ultraviolet he will have to learn what these new things are. He does not get the full ultraviolet or infrared spectrum his vision just drifts above and below the visible light spectrum. He will never get more than a very dim glow from body heat and then only in darkness. The ultraviolet vision only works in the dark and outdoors unless there is a source of ultraviolet light

Hearing: Loud noises will have much the same affect on him and his hearing as the light does on his eyes. He will also be more affected by auditory based powers, they will affect him quicker and hit him harder. It is also going to take him time to learn to filter out excess noise to hear just what he wants to hear. This is a skill not an innate ability.

Smell: Again especially strong aromas will cause him great discomfort and render the sense useless for a time. Also he will have to learn to filter the different scents. Again a skill not an innate ability. A major drawback though is any scent intended to cause a mental or physical response will affect him more. Nerve gas will no greater affect on him as the scent is not how it works. Pheromones on the hand will. They cause both mind and body to react to the scent, for most humans this is entirely subconscious as they don't realize the scent is there. He can smell it and even if he does not know what it is, it is going to hit him both subconsciously and consciously. So a girl ovulating walks past him, his body and mind will almost instantly go into mating mode.

[PentheWonderful]

Bonjour Elf, nice to see you here again.

Now! Back to business. I've discussed with Vergil regarding the current power set that you have and for the most part, you're in the clear. The parameters you've set and the drawbacks that come with it are acceptable, and without the peak physical human performance, we've decided to give you a green light to claim these powers as a package deal.

However, now I need to dive into the technicalities a little, specifically, the feline-ness of it. I understand that last time you said it was because he spends a lot of time with his cat - I'm assuming more than other humans, hence him adopting some of those feline traits - but might I suggest an alternative title and reasoning in correlation to his abilities?

What I came up with was "Primal Reversion" where his powers lean more towards him channeling the more primal instincts of humans, reverting him more towards early man where they relied more on their senses - hearing, sight, and smell - than their brain or logic. This doesn't affect any of the parameters or abilities you've set, but it does eliminate the need for him to have those feline pupils. But, it's just a thought.

Basically, I just need a reason for why he received that particular power.

[Elf]

Hello PentheWonderful, it's nice to be seen.

Thank you for the green light.

I have to ask. Is the minor physical change of his eyes an issue?

I actually like the idea of his eye changing. As I mentioned before he is feared because of the media attention his father got. His father was labeled as a monster, by being the son many people see or want to see him as a possible monster. Add in the eyes changing and people will something to point at and say, “He even looks like a monster.”

Your idea is a good one but I would like to stick with the feline. As to why he got these particular powers. Not long after he learned to walk his father started teaching him martial arts. On his third birth the only gift his father gave was a kitten. This kitten however was not just meant to be a pet, a companion but also a learning device. He was told to watch kitten, study it, learn the way it moved. As the two grew up together he did more than just study the way it moved, he watched the way it reacted to different stimuli. He became almost obsessive and envious of the way the cat could sense things. He spent many hours trying to imagine what it would be like to be able to find its prey in the middle of the night. How could his furry friend find mice and even insects in the dark when he as a human could barely see and may not have known the animal was there until the cat pounced.

To further emphasize why the “Event” would affect him in this way I'm thinking that cat died just before going on the ski trip. So just days before going on the trip  he had a private funeral with him burying his cat. So when the “Event” actually takes place he was remembering his best friend and again trying to imagine what it would be like to sense the world as his cat had.

[PentheWonderful]

That sounds good!

There isn't really an issue with his cat eyes - we've had characters that had MUCH more significant physical changes before - I just needed a reasoning behind them, because they seemed quite random before. Your explanation cleared up a lot though.

As long as you add this tidbit into Faidon's biography later on in his CS on the next stage, you should be good! Now all you need is Vergil's final say and you can move along.

[Vergil Tanner]

Looks good to me. Sorry, I'm a bit busy gearing things up for a big plot event, so I'll be leaving you with Pen for the time being. If I'm God, she's Moses.

[Elf]

That sounds good!

There isn't really an issue with his cat eyes - we've had characters that had MUCH more significant physical changes before - I just needed a reasoning behind them, because they seemed quite random before. Your explanation cleared up a lot though.

As long as you add this tidbit into Faidon's biography later on in his CS on the next stage, you should be good! Now all you need is Vergil's final say and you can move along.

I'm glad you feel that way and that it is not an issue.

To be honest I had not really thought about until you asked me about it, but I have had plenty of time to think about it and develop the reasoning for it. Of course, that tidbit will be in his biography on the CS. It's kind of critical to who he is not just in why he gets these powers.

Looks good to me. Sorry, I'm a bit busy gearing things up for a big plot event, so I'll be leaving you with Pen for the time being. If I'm God, she's Moses.

Thank you. I certainly hope to be part of that event.


Well Pen, as God's official representative if you are ready to lead I'm ready to follow. Please take me to the Promised Land.

[Praxis]

Good afternoon folks.

You guys still recruiting?

[Vergil Tanner]

We are indeed!

[Hazy Sky]

Hi,

I'm wondering if a character based around the canon abilities of Reaper from Overwatch might be acceptable? Namely the ability to take a smoke like form, combined with life steal and limited self teleportation. The unlimited shotguns would also be cool.

I'll put together a sheet if the concept is acceptable.

[Vergil Tanner]

I'm wondering if a character based around the canon abilities of Reaper from Overwatch might be acceptable? Namely the ability to take a smoke like form, combined with life steal and limited self teleportation. The unlimited shotguns would also be cool.

That would count as, like, four powers. You'd need to pick one to specialise in.

[Hazy Sky]

Wraith/smoke form would be my thought. It's his defining ability that the others feel into and I was going to make it a permanent feature of his character. He's literally not quite there.