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Never mind, Tyler posted a detailed response.

Oh and by the way, since we're looking at all of your incredibly creative powers, I am going to just drop my own character's power here.

My incredibly creative power is.......Enhanced Strength XD.

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This is another interesting power unlike the usual things that crop up in this style of roleplay; and it makes Shard and I very optimistic. Please keep inventive powers like this coming! They are so refreshing.

We think you have the power pretty much down, you've thought about what it allows her to do and how it will negatively affect her, too. We like that you gave the venom healing qualities too, that's a definite step away from how most people might interpret a snake-based character. Our only questions are relating to the snake-hairs:

• Are they sentient on their own - i.e. do they move around etc without her influence? Or does she have complete control over them, and without her influence they are inanimate?
• Is she able to cause them to grow and shrink, move them around, etc? We assume so but just wanted to check.

Also, we understand why you'd like to add pyrokinesis (relating to the mythical creature), but we feel the 'snake theme' is much more coherent and that fire powers would detract from that. We would prefer she didn't have pyrokinesis. Overall, another great power!

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You guys are making me flush with all y'all compliments on her powers.

I am completely okay with not having pyrokinesis. It would be more of an aesthetic power if anything, you know?

I had this vision that the pythons were partially sentient; They would be mainly motionless without her activation but would occasionally move around and hiss.

Yes she would have the ability to make them grow, shrink, ext. I added a wikipedia page to provide more insight on trichokinesis.

http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Hair_Manipulation

I guess that portion of the power is better outlined her weakness and limits portion of her abilities.

@Shard

Yes, they would inject venom very much like a syringe.

@Shard Your comments were good too, no need for them to be removed!

Hmmm. Eye contact works just fine for me. Now that I think of it, that does seem more sensible.

I do, however, want to keep away from the aura being a purely 'affects people's emotions' thing - in the first RP I tried this powerset with, it was, and it was kind of just a 'your character thinks this about me because I said so', which is never good. As a result, people tended to just sort of ignore it.

The idea of it dialing up with his emotions is a good one, though. I never want it to be totally unnoticeable, but in regular circumstances it could be more 'goosebumps and this guy's weird', which would go with the fact that he tends to show up behind people, say cryptic but comforting things about their personal life, and then just walk away, and when he gets more emotional it might get cranked up to 'vomiting, nosebleeds and oh god what the fuck is this thing'. I think that strikes a good balance - he'll never exactly have a thriving social life, but a few particularly patient people could manage to be his friend.

And the signals thing is totally fine, I just wanted to justify the idea that animals don't like him. If that can get baked into the aura, then that works for me - maybe they're just more sensitive to it?

Thank you for the comments!

Next power idea, imparting "will" into inanimate objects. For example, they could tell a door to only open for them or a knife to attack anyone but them. The power would be limited to only objects that they were in physical contact with when they imparted their will and it would diminish with time, distance, complexity of commands and number of objects commanded. (Going back to the door example, if they walked away from the door it would become easier to force open until after a certain distance it would simply stop resisting at all.)

Alright I think I have thought through what sort of power I am looking to use in this role play. It requires a bit of explaining at first; however, bare with me and see it through.

Short Version - Umbrakinesis

Long Version - My character will have the ability to manipulate a small amount of darkness. Specifically the darkness that causes him to be blind. At first it was believed that Devin (my characters name most likely) was simply born blind, but during a few dangerous moments Devin suddenly began to see and a unknown 'dark energy' sprung from his body and saved him. The way I see this being used is that at will *After much practice* Devin can focus on the dark energy covering his eyes and use them either to shoot concussive blasts of dark matter or transmit the energy into a physical object like a weapon. For short periods of time he can even 'infect' his darn energy on others making them blind. Important to note that this power does not give him the ability to teleport or control shadows.

If this is acceptable I would like to know as soon as possible so I can continue to build around this power. If not happy to stick around and figure something else out.

@Shard
I do, however, want to keep away from the aura being a purely 'affects people's emotions' thing - in the first RP I tried this powerset with, it was, and it was kind of just a 'your character thinks this about me because I said so', which is never good. As a result, people tended to just sort of ignore it.

The idea of it dialing up with his emotions is a good one, though. I never want it to be totally unnoticeable, but in regular circumstances it could be more 'goosebumps and this guy's weird', which would go with the fact that he tends to show up behind people, say cryptic but comforting things about their personal life, and then just walk away, and when he gets more emotional it might get cranked up to 'vomiting, nosebleeds and oh god what the fuck is this thing'. I think that strikes a good balance - he'll never exactly have a thriving social life, but a few particularly patient people could manage to be his friend.

And the signals thing is totally fine, I just wanted to justify the idea that animals don't like him. If that can get baked into the aura, then that works for me - maybe they're just more sensitive to it?

Thank you for the comments!

I am excited to see how my character's pythons will interact with this ability.

Next power idea, imparting "will" into inanimate objects. For example, they could tell a door to only open for them or a knife to attack anyone but them. The power would be limited to only objects that they were in physical contact with when they imparted their will and it would diminish with time, distance, complexity of commands and number of objects commanded. (Going back to the door example, if they walked away from the door it would become easier to force open until after a certain distance it would simply stop resisting at all.)

I like the sound of this power as it stands, it has an interesting mechanic going on that is really appealing. It's a very 'non-direct' power and it will be interesting to see how your character uses it. Would his 'will' be able to reach beyond what an item would normally be capable of doing? My only worry is that it might develop into something where he can will a doorway to lead elsewhere, or he can will something to set itself on fire... You get the picture. I don't think this is the route you were suggesting anyway, but I wanted to double-check.

Would the power have any weaknesses?

Alright I think I have thought through what sort of power I am looking to use in this role play. It requires a bit of explaining at first; however, bare with me and see it through.

Short Version - Umbrakinesis

Long Version - My character will have the ability to manipulate a small amount of darkness. Specifically the darkness that causes him to be blind. At first it was believed that Devin (my characters name most likely) was simply born blind, but during a few dangerous moments Devin suddenly began to see and a unknown 'dark energy' sprung from his body and saved him. The way I see this being used is that at will *After much practice* Devin can focus on the dark energy covering his eyes and use them either to shoot concussive blasts of dark matter or transmit the energy into a physical object like a weapon. For short periods of time he can even 'infect' his darn energy on others making them blind. Important to note that this power does not give him the ability to teleport or control shadows.

If this is acceptable I would like to know as soon as possible so I can continue to build around this power. If not happy to stick around and figure something else out.

Umbrakinesis has always been a difficult one for me. I always find it difficult to believe that shadow could be used as a physical energy, considering shadow is just an area that is dark as a result of obstructed light. I know it's ludicrous to imply that logic should be applied to fictional superpowers, but the option of being able to teleport through shadows (for instance) always seemed more plausible to me than using it as a weapon. But that is treading dangerously close to my own character's abilities, haha.

It's not something I am explicitly against, and I won't be able to discuss it with Shard until tomorrow as he has gone to bed. My advice would be not to lose hope for this power (Shard may convince me against my doubts), but also to start thinking about alternative abilities as a contingency.

I will note that I applaud your effort to move away from the typical 'Raven/Kyd Wykyd' inspired umbrakinesis and adopt a more experimental approach towards the power. I just don't think I "get" it at the minute! Will get back to you tomorrow.

@Tyler

If it helps at all we can just change the power to control over a small amount of dark matter energy. Really the only reason I used a dark/shadow based name for it is because I felt it the best single word description. In another summery the energy that causes Devin to be blind is in fact controllable; so with practice he can no longer be blind and apply the energy in another way such as having it explode from his hands or attach itself to another person (Causing them to go blind.) It is also important to note that this isn't a energy he can create a large amount of. He couldn't create a whole sword as this is energy that is "bottled" around his eyes. I have an idea that he can at the cost of his energy and health create a large amount, but I don't like having "O crap" buttons with powers.

Would that clear up the issue of it being labeled as a form of Umbrakinesis?

Oh man this is exciting I wanna join in on this and like basic trash I'm gonna make mine a water manipulator but plus side when he giggles bubbles come out of his mouth down side when he gets spooked it's like when a dog shakes off water and it's just everywhere oh no

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@Tyler

My idea was that they can make objects do anything that a normal person would be able to do with them. There are no special properties of any kind given to objects simply because they are affected by the power. For sake of example a torch could be commanded to light itself on fire but wouldn't be able to unless an ordinary person would be able to see or sense fire or another method of setting itself on fire and the torch is able to reach the fire. Another thing I've thought of that would fit into this example would be that if an object is split into multiple parts each part will attempt to complete the order if able. However, each part counts as a different object for the "number" of objects being controlled. This also applies regardless of the size of the pieces. Going back to the torch example, if they told the torch to float across a room, set itself on fire and then return on the return trip each flake of ash from the torch would count as a separate object. This means that as the torch returned to the character it would start to slow down, then eventually start to fall although when it hit the ground it would continue to roll (Each piece of ash is effected by the same amount of force as the entire torch is, meaning that the flakes would still be floating toward the character). Eventually there would be enough ash that the power would fade. This would also effect any other objects that were being controlled at the same time.

By this principal fluids or items that are partially fluid (such as a melting steel bar) would be unable to be controlled for any period of time (I'm also going to count clothes and other fabrics to a lesser extent in this too or else it would be far too OP to simply tell someone's clothes to crush them).

Also, inanimate objects are dumb and a stickler for definitions. If a chair is supposed to "not let anyone sit on it" then someone could still use it as a footrest or lie on it. Before there are any arguments about the interpretation of orders, I think it would be best that the reasonable interpretation (as determined by the DMs) which is least beneficial to the character with the power should be used.

The rule about contact is also strict, they are not able to simply unlock doors by touching the knob as they are not actually touching the components of the lock. They are able however to force the knob to turn and maybe break the knob or lock. Similarly turning a gun into a floating sentry would require two different orders, one to make the casing of the gun hover and point at people, another to make the trigger pull itself.

This power lacks a single definitive weakness but I think the limitations I've outlined above are reasonable and allow for a multitude of different ways to overcome "dominated" objects.

No need to be pushy but I would love a character sheet so I could start filling it out!

Plus just found the most perfect image.

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okay none of you asked but

@Tyler

My idea was that they can make objects do anything that a normal person would be able to do with them. There are no special properties of any kind given to objects simply because they are affected by the power. For sake of example a torch could be commanded to light itself on fire but wouldn't be able to unless an ordinary person would be able to see or sense fire or another method of setting itself on fire and the torch is able to reach the fire. Another thing I've thought of that would fit into this example would be that if an object is split into multiple parts each part will attempt to complete the order if able. However, each part counts as a different object for the "number" of objects being controlled. This also applies regardless of the size of the pieces. Going back to the torch example, if they told the torch to float across a room, set itself on fire and then return on the return trip each flake of ash from the torch would count as a separate object. This means that as the torch returned to the character it would start to slow down, then eventually start to fall although when it hit the ground it would continue to roll (Each piece of ash is effected by the same amount of force as the entire torch is, meaning that the flakes would still be floating toward the character). Eventually there would be enough ash that the power would fade. This would also effect any other objects that were being controlled at the same time.

By this principal fluids or items that are partially fluid (such as a melting steel bar) would be unable to be controlled for any period of time (I'm also going to count clothes and other fabrics to a lesser extent in this too or else it would be far too OP to simply tell someone's clothes to crush them).

Also, inanimate objects are dumb and a stickler for definitions. If a chair is supposed to "not let anyone sit on it" then someone could still use it as a footrest or lie on it. Before there are any arguments about the interpretation of orders, I think it would be best that the reasonable interpretation (as determined by the DMs) which is least beneficial to the character with the power should be used.

The rule about contact is also strict, they are not able to simply unlock doors by touching the knob as they are not actually touching the components of the lock. They are able however to force the knob to turn and maybe break the knob or lock. Similarly turning a gun into a floating sentry would require two different orders, one to make the casing of the gun hover and point at people, another to make the trigger pull itself.

This power lacks a single definitive weakness but I think the limitations I've outlined above are reasonable and allow for a multitude of different ways to overcome "dominated" objects.

Thanks for this in-depth explanation.

For me, it's fine. Unlocking locked doors was one of my other worries (lots of secrets in this RP...) and you addressed that in your answer. I can't speak on behalf of Shard, but I like it. I didn't realise that objects were going to be 'animated' by the power at first. (I thought you would simply be able to say "Nobody can shoot this gun but me", and the trigger simply would not budge for anyone else. Things to that effect.) and I would be lying if I said I didn't find that idea more interesting. But this version of 'animating things to follow orders' is still a good one to me.

No need to be pushy but I would love a character sheet so I could start filling it out!

Plus just found the most perfect image.

The OOC is coming sooner than you expect...

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The OOC is coming sooner than you expect...

ahhh I luv, luv, luv u

I am so excited for this role-play! The powers people are coming up with are amazing xx

@DrugMother the image is broken!!!!:'0

@DrugMother the image is broken!!!!:'0

ahhhh is it? gimme a second

@DrugMother//swooning commences maybe ill go with the mucus girl and have a cute sister relationship or something i dunno cries so many ideas

The OOC is ready and waiting for your character sheets.

The OOC is ready and waiting for your character sheets.

I am so excited.

Ohmygod. Crying

I've been stalking this thread for a couple days now and I can no longer resist the urge! Mind if I joined?

I've been playing around with a physics concept- kinetic energy manipulation. The gist of it is that my character will be able to speed up, slow down an object/ persons that are in motion.

Limitations:
- objects needs to have kinetic energy (ie: be in motion)
- objects need to be within an area of effect
- powers will not have an indefinite effect (haven't decided on time range)
- larger the mass, the more difficult it is for her to control (ie: easier for her to control a marble she throws rather than say a moving bus). Not to say that her powers wouldn't work on something as large as a bus, but it is difficult for her to control the outcome.

I'm imagining in the beginning stages she'll only be able to manipulate the energies of objects forward, but eventually will learn to change their directions... which could lead to the use of projectiles. Maybe? perhaps? I've just been itching to write a character that manipulates the kinetic energy of steel balls (maybe a small amount like 3 or so) like projectiles. Any thoughts?

@Tyler @Shard

I just looked through the OOC, and you guys have done an absolutely fantastic job with it!

Kuudos x