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Baybridge™: Era of the Old/New Gods™ [COMPLETED]

I am, I have had an unusually busy last few days.

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Alrighty.

Baybridge™: Era of the Old/New Gods™ [COMPLETED]

The idea is that the speed is a pretty severe limitation-growing something like an extra arm-sized appendage would take several minutes if he did it fast. I understand, though, and have ideas for a handful of other issues.

First, the relative slowness of his ability makes him extremely susceptible to any form of ambush. It generally takes a long time for his adaptable abilities to morph to react to or counter an assailant.

Second, when he notably increases the speed and especially when he quickly goes through multiple transmutations, this also increases the rate of replicated cells and results in cancer and thus produce virtually any kind malady such as nausea, pain, tumors, spilled acids eating away at flesh and so on. While he can always heal this, that requires time-often significant time-at minimum several minutes and up to much longer depending on the size and complexity of the mutations.

Third, any abilities with particularly 'chaotic' effects-mind abilities that cause confusion or distorted perception, elemental abilities that can cause any sort of biological misfiring rather than just destruction (electric abilities being a common example) can easily trigger mutations in his extremely malleable nervous system or cause him to run wild in a maligned mental state.

Aside from that, what of the background bit I mentioned? He need not actually be 'perfect' at all-just the result of a science project aiming to create such is what I want.

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@Bright_Ops Hey, are you ready to collaborate on the gang activities?

Baybridge™: Era of the Old/New Gods™ [COMPLETED]

Before I go and fully develop a character around it, I want to make certain this power works.

The ability is essentially complete control over all himself in the body and power sense. He can control the speed at which his cells replicate, heal by hastened regeneration and alter and rewrite his DNA at will. This enables him essentially change what he is genetically-grow new appendages or completely change his species-and, theoretically, enables him to write in other abilities into himself. This latter technique, though, can only be used once his body has learned the genetic code for an ability, which generally requires ingesting genetic material (assuming the ability is carried in their genetics, rather than something else) granting the ability. This generally means devouring some or all of the original carrier and comes with the inherent limitations both of the original use on top of his own. Beyond this, most ability genes tend to conflict or require the same point in the genetic sequence in him, making using multiple simultaneously difficult to impossible.

The major weakness is that he has to obtain sufficient energy and nutrients to do this; increasing the rate of cell growth means increasing metabolism and growing entirely new body parts or such means ingesting quite a great deal, pounds on pounds while also taking into account waste, energy efficiency and so on. While he can, obviously, improve his ability to digest food and such above usual human levels, he has to actually get said food and take the time to digest it-meaning that if he were to grow another appendage, for example, he will have to devour the necessary nutrients to do so-and then again to grow back to his default. This means that doing much with his abilities other than healing generally takes time and a lot of eating-and it often adds up toxins faster than he can remove them, and the ratio is worse the faster he runs it, increasingly pushing him closer to Ashing. For other 'abilities' taken on, he generally has to expend more physical exertion than the original on top of the process necessary to rewrite his genetics to use it, given the base physical nature of his ability.

In addition to/besides that, for a character with the ability above or another, I am wondering if I may play a character who is/was a Eugenics experiment by the Hands of Science, the Founding Family or some other nefarious group as an attempt to make said 'perfect being'?~<3

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@TaliPaendrag Riolux and I are waiting for you in the titanpad.

Baybridge: Era of the Old/New Gods [Superhuman/City/Realistic/Character Driven] (Advance/High-Casual)

I am interested as well. My main working idea is a young man with absolute conscious control over his body down to the genetic level-able to speed up/slow down his biological processes and alter himself genetically at will-thus being able to transform, heal and so on. Basically a la Alex Mercer, just toned way, way down.

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Hahaha, sure. Send me a titanpad or such link and start it off.

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Alright. Perhaps a post expanding on the gang war, @Bright_Ops, before someone goes looking for you?~<3

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Introducing non player characters is generally only an issue when they are significant characters. No, your post is wonderful.