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Academy of Hereos and Villains: Year two

There is the first class.

@KatherinWinter

That was an autocorrect issue. I meant to say, "reappears," as in, when she popped back into view

@Vulture585

OK then, moving on...

@KatherinWinter @Caits
Also, I think Hagroden kinda has a point. The app should have a dedicated weaknesses section. But it may be hard to implement now that we have a bunch of people in. Dunno how to fix that.

@Mistress Dizzy

I would support this. Surely it wouldn't be to difficult for each of us to go back and put in a little something. Not necessarily anything new, but just explicitly stating any negative consequences of the way their abilities work.

Academy of Hereos and Villains: Year two

When Rebekah returns...

@Vulture585

Eh? She's not coming back. Read the last line of my post again. Rebekah has just entered the hall where all the students will be gathering for the official start of term stuff.

@GMs If there is no such event coming, let me know and I'll edit that out.

Academy of Hereos and Villains: Year two

Rebekah Green

"Exactly the amount of assistance necessary to preserve my life..." she repeated slowly, out loud. That sounded like a suspiciously specific wording to her, but it was more or less what she'd been asking for. She'd only asked for intervention if she wasn't able to save herself, specifically so she would be able to, say, drive a car on public roads without the djinn suddenly swooping in to avert the risks. On the other hand, that wording would allow her to get beaten within an inch of her life and not trigger any protections. Maybe she would have to refine that later.

"What can I do, you mean? Two things: I can grow or shrink non-living items into perfect scale replicas of themselves, like you saw when I was unpacking, and I can teleport to anywhere I can see. See?"

She disappeared, and popped back into view right in front of the big wooden double doors to the hall. She pulled one open and stepped inside.

Academy of Hereos and Villains: Year two

The problem with having an omnipotent but untrained character is that they are here to get training. And once that training happens and they begin to access their capabilities, they become completely game-breaking. Sure, comics have powerful characters, but this is not a comic. It's a roleplaying game, and a good game requires balance. And when an theoretically omnipotent character reaches their potential, that balance and then the whole game gets shattered.

With his current abilities (flight, memory, absorbing radiation, energy beams, regeneration and robotic strength), that's already a very powerful character. Perhaps that should be the limit of his abilities, and could just get more skilled with those?

Academy of Hereos and Villains: Year two

<Snipped quote by DFTBA>

If you still want a parent, you could look into Starman (Thom Kallor) and say her power is a stronger version of his

@Vulture585

That's a really good fit for the powers. It might take a bit of wiggling to make the backstory work, but I'll definitely consider it. For now, I'll stick with how it is, but yeah, thanks a lot.

Academy of Hereos and Villains: Year two

Rebekah Green

"Well, no" Rebekah replied as she re-locked her room and tucked the totem into a little pouch at her belt. She set out across the quad, heading for the main hall where students would be gathering. "But this is an academy for superheroes, right? Not exactly the most calm and peaceful place ever. For all I know, a supervillain could drop from the ceiling at any moment."
Or rise up from underground she added mentally, with a slight grimace. "I don't really expect to get into that much trouble, and I'll try not to. I hope this conversation will turn out to be really pointless. But just in case it's not, you know, it's best to be safe, right?"

The Incredibles: The New Supers

Hey, Mr.@TheUnknowable, it's your turn to post. Poke, poke.

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Academy of Hereos and Villains: Year two

@hagroden wouldnt: Nanite Knowledge (His Bio Nanites can store vast amounts of information, so much so that every book on earth can be stored in a drop of his blood.) make school unnecessary?

@KatherinWinter

Having access to information is one thing, knowing how to use it well is quite another.

Personally, I'm more concerned about the ability to control energy and matter, that is, everything that exists. Even the personality section says he's "infinitely powerful". Is that really a good idea, especially in an unstable character?

Academy of Hereos and Villains: Year two

Rebekah Green

"I see" Rebekah replied as the pair reached and then entered the girls' dormitories. "Well, I'm certainly not asking you to kill anyone, let alone your own kind, but maybe this could be a good start for me making requests of you: if you ever see that my life is in danger, and I can't do anything to save myself, you should save me, OK?"

They arrived at Rebekah's room, and after checking the number on the door against the one on her phone, Rebekah let the two of them inside. It wasn't that big, but it looked comfortable enough, and would look a lot better once she got unpacked. Speaking of which...

She threw open the lid of her suitcase and began taking out tiny, shrunken items. As she held each in hand, they quickly swelled and grew back to their normal sizes. There was a reason she had been able to pack a whole room's worth of possessions into one mid-sized suitcase: her power to grow and shrink items made it easy to carry an almost absurd amount of equipment with very little trouble. Her superhero bag was the same, though she didn't unpack it now. She always kept it packed and as close to her as possible, just in case she needed it, or, more specifically, one of the things it contained.

It was growing towards being, so far as she was concerned, the most massively useful collection of items ever assembled into a space of under 35 litres. All shrunk down and organised into their own individual pockets, she had everything from extra clothes for a number of situations, food, drink and other survival supplies, first aid kits, combat gear, vials of some interesting chemicals, and a few handy odds, ends and gadgets to top it off. In need, she could retrieve any of these items and grow them back to their full size in just a few moments. Her power wasn't always the most useful in a fight, but where it really excelled was preparation.

Rebekah re-grew another pile of clothes and dumped them into a draw. A full unpack and organisation would take longer, but for now this would do. As the djinn had said earlier, the first meeting for the students wasn't that far off.

Academy of Hereos and Villains: Year two

OK. I'll hold off for a bit then.