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Also, separate note, I know I mentioned this in OOC on my last post, but in case you missed it: Mid-20's. Ergo older than Hotaru and can totally go drinking with the Angel and Ace. Bwahaha.
Drunk telepaths are hilarious. Trust me.
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I like 'fuzzy' to describe it. :) But it'd also be a nasty surprise to suddenly discover way more information than you know how to process. :)
Ear Worm - Mental Damage Shield. People who try to read Hotaru's mind get a headful of tunes. :P
Speaking of 'Mind feels strange', is it possible to design a counterattack or mental defense for Hotaru regarding her mind being encrypted/sending back heaps of signals?
Not particularly that I want it, I'm just curious if that's difficult to build. :)
It might be expensive to buy, but if you want to automatically damage someone who intrudes on your mind, look at the Damage Shield advantage.
For example, you could have 1d6 Ego Attack, Continuous +1, Persistant +1/2, 0 END +1/2, Damage Shield +1/2, Always on -1/2 = 10 * 3.5 (35 AP) / 1.5 = 23 pt cost (or 2d6 for 47 pts)...and of course most Egoists will have MD rendering at least the 1d6 version useless. (mdt might know of a better way to build it, but from my perspective this is the sort of thing that's a bit overcosted in Hero Games).
Yes, mental damage shields are how you make mentalists not want to attack you.
Hotaru's brain would be odd, but not unreadable. She could work on mental defense however by training.
Yeah, it's useless though unless you are a mentalist yourself and can really pump it up. Only way to make it work on mentalists is to buy it as an NND. Then it can bypass MD. One example might be to make it work vs Mental Flash Defense. The special effect would be a blast of energy that overwhelmed the mental senses, causing feedback.
I'd rather probably do an NND Flash, blocks sound or distracts, or the like... if that's even a thing I could do. Suddenly, they can't hear anything but 'Cotton-Eyed Joe' screaming in their head. :P
Edit: Kittiface beat me to it. But I still love my mental image of that. Which, unfortunately, gave me an ear worm.
Mental Flash--I love it. Never thought of that before but it makes total sense for ya.
Speaking of build ideas, I could see figuring out a trick to spin someone around until they were dizzy. I'd initially thought of it as a DEX (or DEX & CON) drain... But maybe it would actually be a Flash vs knockback resistance? What's the closest to Dazing someone (ie making them lose their next action) in Hero Games?
Alter environment, one inch, maximum one target, -3 OCV, -3 DCV
Or, mind control, based off con, One command only, 'Skip your next action', NND vs Knockback Resistence
Stepping out to go to bed irl.
Oh hey, before I forget, an old version of Violet from another game.
A picture of 'Lynn', one of my old characters. I feel like maybe it fits for Violet? Not that I'd ever not see Lynn.
A picture of 'Lynn', one of my old characters. I feel like maybe it fits for Violet? Not that I'd ever not see Lynn.
It's nice, but it's not Violet's style. I should probably redraw her.
Or maybe do something in 3D. Hm.
So full on battle royale to figure out each others powers? Could also help people learn combat
That will come, first off is more RP type stuff, and letting people figure out what stuff they have that they haven't officially figured out IC.
Battle Royale? More like 'How many times does Taru get slammed into a wall before we reach the center of -that- tootsie pop?' :P
Battle Royale? More like 'How many times does Taru get slammed into a wall before we reach the center of -that- tootsie pop?' :P
I never made it without biting.
I'm having trouble understanding the jumping system my sheet lists my jump as
H Jump 4/12 Combat 8 Noncombat
V Jump 2/6 Combat 4 Noncombat
Taru told me that 1" is 2 meters in game so Aegis can jump 8 Meters Horizontal when not transformed and 24 meters Horizontal when transformed?
also on the sheet her noncombat movement doesn't have 2 listed so does my noncombat speed not get effected by her power?
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24 HORIZONTAL when transformed.
Fair warning, I don't know what I'm talking about. :)
I just know 1 inch on a table = 2 meters in game.
No, the program just has a bug with non-combat secondary bonuses.
Yes, 1" is one hex on the map.
When Densed up...
You can leap 12" using Combat Movement as a full phase action. That's 12 hexes, and is equivalent to 24 meters.
You can leap straight up 6" using combat movement as a full phase action. That's 6 hexes and equivalent to 12 meters.
When not metal...
You can leap 4" using Combat Movement as a full phase action. That's 4 hexes, and is equivalent to 8 meters.
You can leap 2" straight up using combat movement as a full phase action. That's 2 hexes, and equivalent to 4 meters.
The difference between combat and non-combat movement isn't that you can do one in combat and the other out of combat. You can use either method at any time.
However, non-combat movement halves your OCV and DCV.
Alright thanks for clearing that up
Whippoorwill?
The scale of the wings is about right, but the battle armor is just godawful (imho- no offense to the artist). Oh, I see it's Hawkgirl concept art.
Her hair is much closer to blond than red (avatar pic notwithstanding), and she'll be wearing a domino mask when the time comes to venture out.
Side note: How Kosher is it for me to read the other campaign? :) If I get bored, I might start, if it's cool. I'm really good at compartmentalizing what I do know from what I don't know. I think I've slipped twice in all of my forum time, and it turned out one of those wasn't a slip. :P
Also, hopefully it's cool for Hotaru to just throw out the bigger comic book names. (Much to Shadowcat's Chagrin) I figure 13- is only a 16% chance to not know, which means that in a vacuum the 'big players' are pretty much automatic successes, especially when it comes to things like 'name' and 'appearance' if not 'used to be grey' ala beast. :)
I don't mind, if they don't.
If you want to annoy someone who can bench press a tank, go for it.
Heh, don't worry. She's going to keep the names to herself around Shadowcat, and just focus on sharing 'power sets' she's aware of. Like for good: Bouncy, Stretchy, Slingshoty, Wrappy, Flingy, Splitty.
But those are kind of extensions of logic for me, not just comic book constructs. Soooo, I'm not sure where my ideas and hers show up together. (I was using mostly 'Mister Fantastic' stuff with her suggestions).
I'm pretty versed in comic-book lore myself, but I'm playing Whippoorwill as being completely lost. Sure, she'll have heard of Supes, Bats, WW, Spidey and the Hulk, but only in the vaguest of terms. Should be a lot of fun with the misunderstandings. :)
Heh, don't worry. She's going to keep the names to herself around Shadowcat, and just focus on sharing 'power sets' she's aware of. Like for good: Bouncy, Stretchy, Slingshoty, Wrappy, Flingy, Splitty.
But those are kind of extensions of logic for me, not just comic book constructs. Soooo, I'm not sure where my ideas and hers show up together. (I was using mostly 'Mister Fantastic' stuff with her suggestions).
Clayface is probably a better example.
I don't think Clayface would come to mind right after seeing Gridlock. :)
Not 'rocky' enough. But it definitely does work. :)
Hotaru likes the first one, Rocket, as it's not just a 'fight between doom and richards'. She'd prefer something more modern, though, when the Invisible Woman isn't mostly a damsel in distress. :)
Buuut, in the interest of not continuing yesterday's stuff over much, I'll not respond -directly- in cahracter. :)
We'll (maybe) also assume that your phone didn't blow up when it came into contact with Hotaru (I don't suggest it be anywhere near her when she's flexing her EM Muscles :p)
Whenever you guys are ready, we'll move to a more vignette format for the coming weeks, to move forward with the story.
But for now, I'll let you decide how much to push that.
I'm cool with whatever sort of speed we go with. :)
I'm fine either way too.
Well, I'm always up for a vignette. They're like, baguettes with vinaigrette, right? Mmm. Tasty. :)
Seriously, however you want to go is good with me.
I'll keep that in mind.
Same I'm fine with anything, should we just post a blurb about what al we do during training?
I'm good.
Tomorrow's a crunch day but I expect to be able to write a vignette on Thursday. Loving all the great storytelling so far!
Mdt, can we leave?
Yes, but no using powers outside. Those who look inhuman can only go out at night.
Okay, that answers one of my questions about our living conditions. But that gives me another concern, since there are psychological consequences to not seeing the sun for prolonged periods. Any thoughts on remedying that?
I would imagine Whippoorwill's altitude and distance tests would have to be outside and preferably during daylight hours. Will Shimmer be available to transport them to a remote location for those?
Force Field: inside the book, the ability to shield anything other than your own person also allows you to shield someone you are in contact with. Is this true of Hotaru's power?
Second, can Hotaru make her force field sight-visible intentionally? Can she make only certain parts visible?
Can Hotaru use recovery phases to make her shield last indefinitely? From the looks of it, she can maintain her field and nothing else for about four minutes even without recovery rounds.
Is her electromagnetic starburst sight visual? I'm going to go with 'very'.
Is she able to avoid breaking things that are only in her proximity? Is there a 'safe range' that we can determine?
By extension, is she able to watch Violet play her 3ds without it borking?
Can we get some plain stereos set up in people's rooms that want one, so Hotaru can page them?
They are going to do it at night. However, yes, Shimmer will be able to give Whippoorwill a bit of sun time. Basically, the day off will be a day in town for the human passing recruits, and a day at the beach (remote island) for the non-human passing recruits. Human passing recruits can do beach day if they prefer.
Yes, but you can only protect what you can carry, so basically, one other person you are in intimate contact with.
Forcefield is, by default, visible. It's an advantage to make it invisible. That's why I said she could see it when it activated in the intro. The special effect would be sparks and air distortions.
She uses 5 END per phase to keep it up. She has a speed of 4 and a recovery of 15, so she's using 5 net END per turn. Having 100 End, she can keep it up for 100/5 = 20 turns. 5 turns per minute, 4 minutes, with recovery. She could voluntarily reduce her speed to 3 and keep it up for hours (long term endurance rules would kick in then).
Yes, the bright flashy thing that blinds people is visible.
By default, it's an RP thing. As long as she takes precautions (wearing gloves, etc) it's fine. The forcefield has a specific limitation on it, so if she touches electronics while it's up, they can fry, and if she has electronics on her when it turns on, they fry, unless they are shielded. The shield flares and sparks, so distance is in flux. Generally, within hands reach is unsafe.
Yes, if she doesn't use her force field, and wears gloves (much like Jubilee).
Stereos or Radios? Stereos, having no receiver, would be useless for Hotaru. Radios are possible, but if you wanted to use it going forward, everyone would need to pay points for high range radio transmit/receive. Would be fairly cheap because they'd be limited to 'only earbuds, limited frequency' and IIF Fragile. Hotaru wouldn't need one obviously.
Alrighty, I was mostly sure it was flashy (literally), but better to ask than add things. :)
I was just thinking of the little boomboxes my family used to have that were 'all-in-one' machines. So, yeah, radio's was the idea.
I'm willing to pay out of my xp (once I have it) to give everyone Taru-com's. But if they break it, they buy the next one. :)
Specifically, I meant turning one of my phases into a recovery action. I think that was a thing. Found it! It is, but I'd have to turn everything off to do it. So no bueno. Slowing herself is better, then. :) Thanks! I'll get a post up... sometime. Today is a mess. :)
If it's minor stuff, like matching the fluxuations to music, you can do that. If it's making it look like various costumes, that's a different power, which you could buy down the road and link to the forcefield.
Very cool. Thanks. :)
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With RWBY style naming, we could name our team (with teachers) 'SWAGVAPR'. Just saying.
If violet were indigo, we could be warpig. Even as ultraviolet, we become the respectable warpugs.
Gvwarp is good too.
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Team Warpug for the win!!
...and on a frustrating note, even looking at more modern images (at least in Google image search) I find it very tough to find an image of the Invisible Woman active & prominent (despite her likely being the most powerful member of the team).
I did find this as a possible mural contender. I don't know why Reed seems to be restraining Ben (or why Terrax is there) but it's probably the best I've found so far.
Others can suggest murals as well. I figure a silo has room for plenty...and while Rocket may not be the *best* muralist around (in fact his work is pretty average) he's likely the *fastest* so we'll probably end up with quite a few.
Things Hotaru would try to find out: Is Aegis clingable in armor form.
Does goo take fall damage.
Does rocket build a static charge by moving so quickly.
What shadowcat does for fun.
What ace does for fun.
How resistant whip is to the elements (snowstorms, thunder storms)