We Could Be Heroes: Super Sexy Superheroes Big Game Recruitment (SEEKING ALL)

[Vergil Tanner]

Awesome possum! I'll get some sleep, then reread the powers in the morning. Assuming I'm still good with them then, we can move you along to the next stage ^_^

[ScarlettRDuBois]

Ooooo I want to join!

Name: Maximilian "Max" Rotherstone
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Position: Student
Archetype: Anarchist
Power Theme: Heater

When the earthquake hits that match for the cigarette he shouldn't be smoking lands in his palm . . . Could that have something to do with these new powers?  His hands can heat up to astounding temperatures.  Comes in handy when you're trying to get inside a locked room, not so handy when you can't get them too cool down when you need some . . . "alone time". 

Eventually they might reach the heights of being able to produce fire, it's possible.

[Vergil Tanner]

Of course you can join! And I would LOVE to be your first group game! :O Especially for a fellow Brit

So, what do you mean by "Heater?" As in, he can heat his hands up to extraordinary levels (Yes, you can have whatever justification you want for his powers!)? How hot? How long? What are the drawbacks, etc etc. In a nutshell, how would his powers work?

Also, would you mind elaborating on "Anarchist?" How would that manifest in-game?

[Wolfling72]

*comes in to stare at this*

argues with self

[Vergil Tanner]

*Adds to the arguing in favour of joining*

[Wolfling72]

*Adds to the arguing in favour of joining*

listens to a new voice and ponders further because well ice?

No, some sort of element besides fire...

so, Earth? Thus granting strength. Stability. Also small earthquakes eventually?

No...you are already writing Tempest...don't do it...

[Vergil Tanner]

Well, remember that we want you to take one specific power and run with it! And Strength and durability had been taken, so something other than a Brick would be appreciated xD

[Brittlby]

Currently thinking...

Sex: Female
Position: Student
Archetype: Cheerleader
Power Theme: Plasticity

Early levels it would manifest as simply extreme flexibility and “unbreakable” bones. I’m assuming Elasti-girl levels are out of reach even at mastery, so would prefer you told me where the bar is. Lol

[Vergil Tanner]

Oooh, so you're thinking a kind of "Mr. Fantastic" and "Elastigirl" type power? That IS interesting! We'd need to be careful about balancing it, but I have no objections in principle. Let's think...well, I have no problem with her being able to stretch her limbs, obviously, or twist herself into various simple shapes. Things like motorboats and stuff? No. But parachutes and wide shields and things, that is more than acceptable. Given the elastic nature of her body, I imagine...penetrating impacts like bullets would have less effect on her, but blunt-force like hammers and slicing like knives? They would probably affect her the same way as a normal human.

In terms of her limits, I think the obvious limits would be "how far she can stretch," "how much she can deform her body by" and "the limits of her durability."
I don't think unbreakable bones will happen, but they'll definitely be resistant to blunt force and penetrating. If she's at maximum extension, however, and somebody tries to cut her arm off with a blade or something....well. xD

Anyway, throw me some numbers and limitations, and I'll say whether we need to reduce it or if we can increase it. It's a hard power to quantify, but we can try! xD

[Brittlby]

I’d say cutting force would be a concern but blunt force less so.

[Vergil Tanner]

Truuuue, but then you're creeping into having invulnerability, too. For the sake of balance, I'd say to pick one kind of damage to be resistant to, and the others affect her normally

[Brittlby]

Me TOO! Blunt doesn’t effect her, but blades, energy, fire, acidic, cold, etc. are an issue in my mind.

Edit: Not electrical though. I mean... come on.

[Brittlby]

Novice: Inhumanly Flexible, Immune to blunt force trauma.

Intermediate: Limbs may stretch five feet, may flatten self to a thickness of 6”

Mastery: May stretch limbs ten feet, is pliable enough to reshape self into simple shapes

[Vergil Tanner]

Well, that depends on whether she's actually now made of rubber, or if her bodies properties have just been modified. If she's made out of the same materials, but those materials are now stretchy, would it affect her conductivity? Hmmm...

Either way! Ok, so...Novice. Do you just mean that she's super duper flexible, but can't quite stretch yet?

I think we can up the numbers a little. Maybe 10 and 20? How much control does she have when she's stretched? Is it simple point A to Point B, or does she maintain fine motor control when stretching? Can she hold herself stretched, or does she snap back into shape as soon as the forward momentum stops (kinda like Stretch Armstrong)? If she throws her arm backwards and lets herself pull back into her normal shape, can she stop the momentum, or will it always shoot in the opposite direction? What are her laws of motion and momentum?

[Brittlby]

I’m thinking that the forward momentum without motor control is intermediate. The additional dexterity comes with mastery. Currently just impossibly flexible at novice I believe.

[Vergil Tanner]

Okey dokey. Would you mind writing up a full summary of her capabilities (possibly with examples) at Novice, Intermediary and Mastery? Just so we have it all written down for reference

[Isengrad]

This looks awesome, I love the concept behind this... Kinda like the very Beginning of the world of My hero Academia or the like. I was thinking Density control...but that power can step on so many others. You can become intangible, impervious, increase in muscle density leads to an increase in strength....so I don't think I'm going to go with that

Sex: Male
Position: Student
Archetype: Nice guy
Power Theme: Shock wave generation

I had a concept for a Mutant(codename Recoil) who could generate a concussive shock wave from his Hands and feet. While he would be immune from the damage these shock waves can cause he would not be immune to the force. So he could for instance propel himself forward by releasing a blast from his feet(achieving limited flight like Cannonball, or just be able to jump good). For this game since we would need to quantify the power it would start out as a force enough to propel them a few feet, if delivered to someones head can certainly knock them out or give them a concussion. and we can step up from there.

There is another Option, depends on if you let me do it. I have a pair that I made. Twins, one with Kinetic Invulnerability(Juggurnaut type power) and the other with a Mono-directional Gravitational field(The Blobs power of not being moved). They tend to work together well, I do like playing them off one another and they are fun. But that would be two charcters right off the bat for me. So might not be the best fit.

[Vergil Tanner]

Heyya, Isengrad! Good to see you!

Lol, "Nice Guy?" Is he a guy who is just nice, or is he a "Niceguy?"

In any event, yeah, one character to start with please. Second characters may be handed out at a later date, but for now, people get one character. Besides, we already have a character who is invulnerable, so the first of those twins wouldn't be allowed that power.

As far as the shockwave generation goes, would they be immune to JUST the force from the shockwaves? So if they fired themselves straight upwards...well, when they landed, they'd feel THAT force pretty fully? Or are they just immune to kinetic energy in general? The former would be fine, but the latter would eek into invulnerability territory, which would be a second power. Would the shockwave have a range (like a concussive blast), or would the character have to touch something to deliver that kind of force? Bear in mind that the force a concussive blast has to reach to knock a human down from range is actually pretty substantial; the moments in the movies you see where explosions knock people over don't tend to happen in real life for anything short of military grade explosives, after all xD

[Isengrad]

Nice guy, not really belonging to any real social group. He's a little athletic but not a jock, enjoys reading and playing games but not a Geek/nerd or gamer, when anybody asks about him he just refereed to as "A nice guy" little funny.

basically the shock wave itself will do no damage, but it can create a recoil effect which is propelling him or someone else in a direction. So yeah, unless something intervenes if he launched himself 8 feet into the air he would fall 8 feet to the floor and take damage like he just fell 8 feet to the floor.

Novice: Requires an impact to activate the Shockwave, does not have full control over it so sometimes launches himself or objects without realizing it. Can generate a impact hard enough to give someone a concussion. Still immune to the damage of the shock wave (so no pulping of organs from the pressure wave) but recoils from the impact. So if he punches someone they both will get blown back.

Proficiency: After gaining more control over it, and learning how it works he no longer has to worry about random shock waves going off. At this time he's also learned how to relase them without an impact, so high jumps and softening the landing are easier to do, as well as releasing a counter shock wave to work as a recoil damper, so when he strikes something he won't get blown back. power of concussive shock waves increase.

Mastery: Having got full control over his power he has learned how to project the force in a liner fashion (Like the shockers vibroblasts), Mastery can also include flight liken to cannon balls from x-men, or full body blasts that are a very large pressure wave. the blast are at their most powerful (military grade possible)

Of course I would work with you on this, don't want it to powerful since were talking about concussive force or pressure waves.

[Vergil Tanner]

Nice guy, not really belonging to any real social group. He's a little athletic but not a jock, enjoys reading and playing games but not a Geek/nerd or gamer, when anybody asks about him he just refereed to as "A nice guy" little funny.

Hmmm. Thing is, "Nice Guy" suggests that the most interesting thing about him is that he's not a dick. xD Who does he tend to hang out with, would you say?

basically the shock wave itself will do no damage, but it can create a recoil effect which is propelling him or someone else in a direction. So yeah, unless something intervenes if he launched himself 8 feet into the air he would fall 8 feet to the floor and take damage like he just fell 8 feet to the floor.

Novice: Requires an impact to activate the Shockwave, does not have full control over it so sometimes launches himself or objects without realizing it. Can generate a impact hard enough to give someone a concussion. Still immune to the damage of the shock wave (so no pulping of organs from the pressure wave) but recoils from the impact. So if he punches someone they both will get blown back.

Proficiency: After gaining more control over it, and learning how it works he no longer has to worry about random shock waves going off. At this time he's also learned how to relase them without an impact, so high jumps and softening the landing are easier to do, as well as releasing a counter shock wave to work as a recoil damper, so when he strikes something he won't get blown back. power of concussive shock waves increase.

Mastery: Having got full control over his power he has learned how to project the force in a liner fashion (Like the shockers vibroblasts), Mastery can also include flight liken to cannon balls from x-men, or full body blasts that are a very large pressure wave. the blast are at their most powerful (military grade possible)

Of course I would work with you on this, don't want it to powerful since were talking about concussive force or pressure waves.

Ok, so, he's immune to the effects of the shockwave...so if he fires himself upwards to "Fly," and he is falling towards the ground and uses a linear shockwave...you say that he can absorb the impact and not go flying in the other direction. Can he choose to forgo that effect? Since obviously being immune to the velocity change permanently would mean that he can't use the shockwave to break his fall. And if he can turn that effect on or off, would he then suffer ill effects from the velocity change that using the shockwave would have if he was going at, say, terminal velocity and suddenly stopped himself? How does that immunity actually WORK? Why is he immune to the velocity change from his shockwaves and not, say, the ground?

[Isengrad]

Hmm, mayhaps I worded it wrong. Best way I can describe it is think of it like firing a Gun in Zero-G. The Kick back from the blast propels you backwards. In order to reduce your velocity you will fire once in the other way.   now if you had a second blast fireing from the other direction at the same time.. the resultant force would cancel each other out on the same liner axis.

Now for the Flight, if he comes to land most likely it will be like using retro rockets. he would release multiple small burst to mitigate the decent as he comes down.. but this would Only be at mastery levels.  The proficient levels would be him releasing a burst firing the other way to dampen the recoil he receives.. Kinda like the spring and slide mechanism of guns.

Ill think more ont he Nice guy thing, Like I was a Jock that played D&D at lunch so fitting into a single archtype is not always a defined thing. Guess most people saw me as a Jock.. I'll think more on that.

[Vergil Tanner]

Hmm, mayhaps I worded it wrong. Best way I can describe it is think of it like firing a Gun in Zero-G. The Kick back from the blast propels you backwards. In order to reduce your velocity you will fire once in the other way.   now if you had a second blast fireing from the other direction at the same time.. the resultant force would cancel each other out on the same liner axis.

Ok, so would he actively have to point his hand or foot in the other direction to achieve that? Are his blasts focused on his hands and feet?

Now for the Flight, if he comes to land most likely it will be like using retro rockets. he would release multiple small burst to mitigate the decent as he comes down.. but this would Only be at mastery levels.  The proficient levels would be him releasing a burst firing the other way to dampen the recoil he receives.. Kinda like the spring and slide mechanism of guns.

Hmmm, ok. So if he was going too fast over too short a distance, there'd be more chance of him being hurt?

Ill think more ont he Nice guy thing, Like I was a Jock that played D&D at lunch so fitting into a single archtype is not always a defined thing. Guess most people saw me as a Jock.. I'll think more on that.

True, but "Archetype" is more like "Who he hangs out with," "What role he plays in the school," "How other people see him," etc etc. xD

[Isengrad]

Ok, so would he actively have to point his hand or foot in the other direction to achieve that? Are his blasts focused on his hands and feet?


Hmmm, ok. So if he was going too fast over too short a distance, there'd be more chance of him being hurt?


True, but "Archetype" is more like "Who he hangs out with," "What role he plays in the school," "How other people see him," etc etc. xD

Yes, the blasts are generally focused on his hands and feet.  and you have the idea right, very fast over a short distance can still be very painful.. full on psudo-flight is an iffy thing still at mastery unless you feel its ok. Other than that, jump good or prat falls.

hmmm... Drama/Arts ...He can be a part of the Madrigals(or whatever the tryout Music group is for the School), Primarily hangs out with them and the Drama club crowd, performance art and stuff like that.

[Vergil Tanner]

Probably not full on flight, considering that that implies fine motor control and a way for the human body to handle any degree of speed without falling apart xD And of course, landing safely xD Flight-like jumps? Sure! But with the understanding that a wrong move could seriously hurt him because he can't control himself properly (like, steering with any real finesse) and because he has to slow down slowly.

Okey dokey, so he's like a "Performance Kid." Would he be in the school marching band?

[Isengrad]

No, the Madrigals, or some other Vocal group. Not you standard issue mens or girls choars but a group you have to audition for. They would perform more elaborate and chorigraphed songs at concerts and might do homecoming halftime shows or the like, real promising kid. A baritone thats working on his high notes(high tenor) still auditioned and acted in a few school plays/community performances.