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

[Foxy DeVille]

Hmmm, hypothetical or fictional drugs is ok as a Mastery level, but giving it range? That would have to be pretty seriously balanced. How would you see that range and production being limited to stop it being too overpowered? Since obviously the natural limiter to her ability is "I have to touch you."

Also, earlier you used a couple of terms...would you mind defining what you mean by "Standard dose?" And how strong is this standard dose? That's a pretty vague statement, after all

By standard dose I mean the amount for normal usage by a typical person. Like the amount of a tranquilizer needed to know out a typical adult. For someone like say a big super=strong type, she'd need to generate more and take longer.

The range thing can be dropped, just throwing it put there. Really I see her mastery increasing based on her knowledge of drugs getting better. Like at first she knows common ones people know from TV and her own partying. Later she studies more and becomes more versatile. Eventually she can create new compounds based on her own imagination.

[Vergil Tanner]

Hmm, ok. Last question on the powers, then; will the subjects body react as if they'd taken the "actual substance?" Like, if she hits somebody with a few doses of cocaine, will their body react as if they took cocaine? So, they'd be addicted to the substance, but their body would require more to get that same high?

[Foxy DeVille]

Hmm, ok. Last question on the powers, then; will the subjects body react as if they'd taken the "actual substance?" Like, if she hits somebody with a few doses of cocaine, will their body react as if they took cocaine? So, they'd be addicted to the substance, but their body would require more to get that same high?

Yup. She's creating and distributing the actual drugs. So there's a risk of addiction, overdose, failing drug tests, etc. 

[Vergil Tanner]

Okey dokey! So more generally...what kind of character is she? Nerdy, sporty, booksmart, bad-girl, etc etc? Where do you see her fitting in socially, and what kind of character is she? And what do you think makes her unique and interesting as a character? Just an overview, so I can get an idea of which way you want to take her.

[Foxy DeVille]

Okey dokey! So more generally...what kind of character is she? Nerdy, sporty, booksmart, bad-girl, etc etc? Where do you see her fitting in socially, and what kind of character is she? And what do you think makes her unique and interesting as a character? Just an overview, so I can get an idea of which way you want to take her.

She's the cute stoner chick, a lot of fun to party with but definitely a hot mess too. Something of a hippie outlook so she doesn't judge people and is willing to hang with anyone as long as they're chill. Also anti-authority so she could end getting herself and her friends in trouble when she decides to do something like go skinny-dipping or hold a rave somewhere. Really just a good launching pad for teenage hijnx.

[Vergil Tanner]

Hmm, ok. So is there any internal conflict or "hidden depths," as it were? As a character, where do you see her - hypothetically - growing? You said she's a "hot mess," how so? I'm just trying to get an understanding of where she is now and where you see her growing to as the game progresses.
Once I understand that, we can move on and get you to the next "Stage."

[Foxy DeVille]

Hmm, ok. So is there any internal conflict or "hidden depths," as it were? As a character, where do you see her - hypothetically - growing? You said she's a "hot mess," how so? I'm just trying to get an understanding of where she is now and where you see her growing to as the game progresses.
Once I understand that, we can move on and get you to the next "Stage."

Right now her biggest issue is that she has no hidden depths. Sure, she's very liberal socially and has some hippie-ish causes she believes in, but other than that right now she's pretty much all about fun times. She has very open-minded parents (they named her "Sunshine" after all) so she's had little discipline. Eventually she'll need to learn about stuff like responsibility and figure out a direction for her life.

[Vergil Tanner]

Aaah, ok. So the whole point is that she's not got much going on, and she has to work out her hidden depths as she grows up, and learn about responsibility and whatnot? Sounds decent!

So, I'll be PMing you in a second with a link and instructions. Welcome aboard

[PentheWonderful]

Congratulations.

[Peanuts]

Hmmm, I'm a sucker for superheroes...

Sex: Male
Position: Student
Archetype: Maths/Computer Nerd
Power Theme: Technopathy. He essentially can intuitively generate mental computer programs and code on the fly and communicate this to devices he touches or can wirelessly connect to. This doesn't make him an expert hacker, he still has to deal with encryption and passwords same as anyone, but for unecrypted devices, or if he can sample the correct input (eg if he's around when someone uses their key fob to unlock their car he can theoretically spoof that signal), he can program them to do whatever they are physically cable of. Removing the need to physically enter commands or operate controls does give him a significant edge in say, online games and the like too. He's a big fan of VR :p

[PentheWonderful]

Hello Peanuts!

Aaah, right off the bat, I gotta say, I love your power choice and I'm super looking forward to working alongside it. But, first of all, let's go through the usual interrogation first shall we?

When you say "wirelessly connects to" do you mean he radiates a kind of energy at a certain range like WiFi? Something like an aura? If so, how do you see his range being as a beginner, intermediate, and at mastery? How many devices can he connect to at once? Is his power restricted exclusively to coding, or will he be able to build gadgets as well?

[Peanuts]

So, as far as wireless connectivity, I would say that at the start he can act as a wirelessly enabled device, so he can only connect to devices that are actively broadcasting a wireless signal and that are either unencrypted or which he has the the password for (much as a standard mobile phone). As his powers develop I see him being able to act as a wireless hotspot himself, as he taps into other bands of the electromagnetic spectrum to access radio, phone, internet etc, and eventually he'll be able to at least detect, and potentially access anything that's wirelessly capable and not actively shielded.

Number of devices will be quite limited at the start, probably only one wireless network connection, but as many as he can maintain physical contact with.

Other limitations, again at the start it will just be coding, but I think it would be cool if in the later stages of his mastery he taps into technokinesis (telekinesis limited to electronic devices only). He'll likely be making some gadgets at the start to help boost his abilities, but he'll have to physically create them. I figure that being able to communicate with devices will give him a somewhat intuitive understanding of how they work as well, so that will likely increase his mastery as things go.

TO summarize I figure he's starting at a very basic level, just able to mentally activate and control devices he is in contact with or wirelessly accessing (as stated above), but he will gradually build up a mental repository of code which will eventually allow him to start breaking encryption (over a period of months as he practices on different devices and studies programming and decryption etc). At some point his understanding of electronics  will reach a critical mass and (with your permission) he'll unlock his technokinesis and start beign able to break stuff apart and build gadgets on the fly.

[PentheWonderful]

Alright, so, beginner stage, we have him tapping into devices that actively broadcast wireless signals. Would Bluetooth be included in this? Nowadays there are plenty of appliances which use Bluetooth and isn't exclusive reserved to phones, gadgets, and PCs. Printers, speakers, microwaves, and even some coffee makers and blenders use Bluetooth now. Would this be a kind of signal he can tap into, or is this outside of his initial electromagnetic spectrum?

Alright, how about at intermediate levels and mastery? How many then?

That's understandable and acceptable to me. Understanding the technology - figuratively and literally - would help him learn and master them faster than the average Joe. How complex do you think his inventions would be at the beginner stage and what are his limits and take-aways from it?

Technokinesis sounds super powerful. Although I do agree it's connected to his power, I think it would be best to reserve it to Master levels before he unlocks them. Perhaps at advanced intermediate but with fair limitations. How do you see this developing? What are the drawbacks of it? What is his range of control? How many gadgets can he manipulate at once?

[Peanuts]

Uhh yeah, bluetooth access sounds good to me, like if your phone can connect to it, he probably can too :p

Intermediate 3-4 different networks/devices, maybe half a dozen if he really pushes himself, though that probably wears him out (mental fatigue is a thing), and he can likely access and broadcast on radio frequencies, though not over a large area (if you want a number uh... 1000 feet, half a mile if he pushes himself? Radio waves do have a better range than wifi and bluetooth). He could maybe sense cellular phone frequencies at this point which are down around 1-2 GHz, but not do much to interact with them.

Baseline gadget construction he's just going to be building the kind of things any smart teenager could, I didn't have specific ideas in mind for gadgets he'd make, I'd need to give that more thought and do some research. Stuff to help boost/make better use of his abilities though (so stuff for collection and transmission of data mostly)

I think the main drawbacks for most of his abilities are going to be range, and encryption. Sure he can switch on a blender, maybe cause a power surge or something like that, but to mess with most tech he's going to have to be touching it and/or learn decryption. His range will increase with his mastery of his powers starting at like... 50 feet to up to double that at low levels of mastery. Intermediate maybe 500 feet, advanced a mile or two depending on what he's doing? I dunno, pulling numbers out of my butt at that point.

The technokinesis will likely start at only a few feet, say 10 feet and will increase at... whatever rate you think appropriate. I mean, I could give you more numbers here, but I'd mostly be pulling them out of my butt Number of gadgets would start at 1 or 2 again, and ramp up similarly to how his connectivity did I expect.

I mean... I'm flexible, happy to discuss this with you when it becomes relevant or accept feedback etc. :p

[LamentingQuill]

I might consider something ice ability based.

[Vergil Tanner]

Peanuts:

Pen is still around, don't worry! Since she's already started, I'll let her continue with you so we don't get crossed wires.


Lamenting Quill:

Yo! We have a fire-based character, so an Ice based character would certainly add some interesting chemistry between their powers! If you come up with something, feel free to pitch away! Just bare in mind that the powerscale for this game is significantly lower than Marvel or DC.

[Peanuts]

Heh, alrighty :) *twiddles his thumbs*

[Vergil Tanner]

We used to have a system where we switched out and tagged between two or three of us, but we ended up having to repeat questions because we hadn't caught the answers, or we ended up giving conflicting messages and it was just a complete mess. So we redesigned it so that the person who starts the process is the one the person sticks with in Stage One. THEN it goes into a free for all in Stage 2. Much neater and less frustrating for everybody involved.

[Peanuts]

Yeah, that's fair Vergil.

[PentheWonderful]

Alright, I'm back! I had something to take care of before, but, I'm back.

So! Bluetooth is a go for his initial spectrum as well as WiFi and devices transmitting WiFi seeking signals then?

1000 feet... Let's see, what I'm thinking is that he would be able to reach whatever range the radio frequency actually *has*, but whether or not any radios or transmitters actually receive it is up to the individual device. Say if the transmission tower gets struck by lightning? That'd be a no go. Also, would he *just* be able to broadcast messages, or can he actually manipulate cars through the radios receiving the broadcast signal? Also, would he be able to track vehicles or devices through the transmission as a kind of sonar?

Alright, regarding the invetion/engineering of gadgets and technokinesis... I had a chat wit Vergil and we came to the decision that it's expanding the characters power range a bit too much. See, in WCBH, we like to specialise, just in case a character hogs too many powers other people might want to take. Your character seems more focused on software - codes and programming - rather than hardware - electrical engineering, inventing and physical construction - so you might want to focus on what you got right now instead of expanding to technokinesis. That isn't to say he isn't allowed to build things that a regular high school robotics club member can build to help boost his power, just don't go and have him constructing a freeze ray or the world's first sentient android.

That being said, 50 feet is a huge range for someone who just discovered their powers. Not to mention, WCBH's standards for powers are basically Daredevil levels, not X-Men levels. So, how about we say 10 feet initially, or 20 if he really pushes himself. At intermediate, we can go to 50 - 100, and at full mastery, we can allow 200+ feet in range?

[Peanuts]

Question 1, yes, bluetooth and wifi access.

Radio transmission: yeah fair enough, radio waves can travel a long distance, but are also pretty easy to interfere with I believe. As to what he can do over radio waves, I figure it would mostly be just audio transmission and receiving. I suppose this is a super-power we're talking about but I saw his power as being fairly well grounded in conventional science/tech... or at least that's what I've been basing all of it on. As far as tracking, I did see him as being able to develop a radar sense at the intermediate level (maybe advanced intermediate?), sonar he would probably require a gadget to utilize at least from my understanding of it.

Aww, that's a shame about no Technokinesis, but fair enough. Once he's developed enough to be able to start breaking encryption and whatnot then he'll be able to get up to some fun stuff even without it, just means he'll have to carry around more tools and tech of his own. The most 'sci-fi' gadget I could see him developing is some kind of sonic cannon or the like, or maybe something like black canary's sonic grenades from CW's Arrow to give him something actually combat effective if the game heads in that direction.

No problem with the range, I was just looking at ranges of wifi signals, which reach up to 105 feet according to wiki. 10-20 feet to start with sounds fine :)

[PentheWonderful]

Question 1 and Radio Transmission: Excellent! Sounds good to me.

Gadget building: Ehhh, that's still a bit advanced for someone who's skill set is focused on software. I mean, there are plenty of powers IG that are non-combative and focused on support and that's fine. They make up for it with other skills that they already possessed. Like for my character Cassie, her power to see into the future is currently useless in battle, but she can do archery, and fights primarily with that. For your character building things though, I can agree with devices along the lines of amplifiers and transmitters, but not actual functioning weapons.

As for the range, we're set then.

[Peanuts]

Yeah, the sonic cannon would definitely be an advanced or master class gadget, unless he were able to find blueprints for it somewhere else, which would probably also require advanced/master class decryption skills. The sonic cannon would be a wish list kind of thing, maybe a passion project, not something that he'd just invent on his own anyway. In the meantime he'll probably build/modify a taser or the like instead. I'm picturing him trying to make some kind of exosuit or the like (not a powered exosuit, but just something that looks cool and contains all his gadgets. Like I said, I'm trying to keep things realistic with him too :) )

[PentheWonderful]

Alright, to be clear, his power is only limited to coding, transmitting, and manipulation and creation of software, yes? So, in a video game, he'd be able to build entire maps and worlds on his own but not build any of the game consoles.

I want you to be careful not to cross that line, ok? I can let it pass as a character trait - that he's a tinker who likes building things in the first place - but his powers shouldn't affect this or boost it by any significant means. Sound good?

[Peanuts]

Yeah him tinkering with gadgets is just mundane. The only argument I would make for his powers helping him with that would be for researching and studying relevant information, having precise technical specs of the thing you're trying to make in your head seems pretty useful :) He still needs to be skilled enough to solder and wire and find/salvage parts etc to make his gadgets.

Hmm I guess a related question would be data storage, would he need to carry around a hard-drive to store data on or can we assume he has a large 'mental hard-drive' as it were?