Turning Tides: Adventures in the City on Water [3e]

Kaitou Kage · 4:34am

Will do. I'll sit and think on this for the night and see what ideas come up. I take it from your "you don't have to have a DCA sheet yet" part that I don't have to have this 100% settled in the application process?

His minions will have Controlled and Mental Link since they're projections of his own emotions rather than independent entities.

It says you can summon different creatures if you take the Variable Type extra for +1/rank. Is that what you mean as a gross point sink or just regular Variable? I figure if he has this sort of thing I could build some templates and leave some points for a little flexibility in each model based on the situation.

EDIT: Because I took forever to write this, Illien got in there before me and clarified most of what I was considering. :P

Selene · Aug 18 '10, 4:33am

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Originally Posted by Azerian Kelimon

Oooh, so a sort of Supermanish type (not taking powers into account)? Color me interested.

I guess. Just threw a first draft concept together to try and congeal some of my ideas. Thoughts?

Concept: A model from a parallel time-line which is idyllic and bright is helping to showcase a new device to optimize genetics, stop aging, and end genetic diseases. The device works flawlessly in trials so when Jasmine lays into the chamber with a wave to the crowd nobody guessed that the quantum capacitor had been damaged in transit. When the device is turned on it works as expected until the damaged capacitor overloads; shunting the affected model to a dark and twisted reflection of the city she had called home. What was worse is that she was little more than a ghost, passing right through anything; though over the coming weeks she learned to manifest herself physically. This city was a mockery of every ideal she had been raised to believe in and she was now empowered to strike out against that corruption. As news spread of the heroics of the strange woman she found that the growing fame was an inroads to rebuild her career anew.

Drakos · Aug 18 '10, 6:35am

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Originally Posted by Kaitou Kage

Second idea makes liberal use of the Alternate Form lineup. I find the different suggestions for forms very intriguing and I think it'd be interesting to play a character whose atomic makeup is so malleable that it can shift between different states of matter and energy while still maintaining his same basic shape. I'd probably attach some drawbacks that prolong the transformation time because this would make him very versatile. The main thing I'm worried about is someone who has a fire form and an electricity form and an air form and a stone/metal form and etc., etc., is probably too much all at once. So while it sounds like a neat idea it also sounds like it's just a little munchy and I don't intend to be a munchkin. Perhaps the power is random -- he can change to another form but can't control which form unless he uses Extra Effort (he can assume his normal form without)

I made up a character that could do that for 2e. He was called Isotope.

Dark080matter · 4:00pm

Alright, glad to see this ad came together! I've been busy recently but have quietly followed along and been crafting a character concept. It still needs some polish and the character sheet is very experimental at this stage, but it's ready for an early look at this point I think.

Good luck everyone!

Selene · Aug 18 '10, 7:24am

Would you mind resizing the pic or putting it in a spoiler tag? Its a tad large. =x

Dark080matter · 7:42am

Yeah, everyone's a critic. But Sure.

Eldritch_Myrmidon · 8:29am

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It doesn't state it, which is odd.
Not that reach is particularly important in MnM, mind you; could probably be ad-hoc-ed or copied from elongation on the rare situations where it would make a difference.

Yeah I'm not too concerned about it mechanically, as reach really isn't terribly useful. I just feel as though it's odd to be thirty feet tall without reach, so I would want to express that mechanically somehow.

P.S. If I have time I'll have the beginnings of an application up tomorrow. Anyone can feel free to shoot some growth related attack powers my way if you feel so inclined (details and sheet are still in the works so don't worry about PP).

Illien · Aug 18 '10, 8:33am

@Dark080matter
Suggestion: want kinetic? go for slam attacks.

Kaitou Kage · 10:04pm

Patrick Sanders

In progress

Age: 20
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 160 lbs.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown

Telepathy: Pat is not a remarkably high-powered telepath. He can read minds and communicate telepathically. He can probe the subconscious with a little effort and a bit of luck, but he lacks the mind control and emotional influence many other telepaths have.

Luck Control: Pat has always been more lucky than good. That's not to say he's unskilled, but luck has always played a major part of his life. He was lucky to survive the orphanage fire and luckier still to have made it as far as he has with almost everything intact. His ability to manipulate luck was subconscious for a while, even after his telepathy manifested, but he has learned to control it better. Suffice to say, he can make strange things -- good or bad -- happen sometimes. He should probably stay away from Topeka or the city might explode.

Avatars: Where many telepaths learn to read and influence minds, project illusions, and cast their senses into far-off locations, Pat's telepathy turned inward. Pat has remarkable control over his own psyche, to the point where he can cause his emotions to manifest physical avatars. Each avatar has different powers and abilities depending on the emotion he taps into. His emotional control is so precise that his manifested avatar does not necessarily reflect his actual emotional state. In other words, just because the Avatar of Fury has appeared doesn't mean Pat is actually angry.

That being said, Pat cannot suppress an avatar if he enters an extreme emotional state. Blind rage, intense fear, and euphoric bliss can cause the relevant avatar to manifest spontaneously. Since the avatars are projections of Pat's psyche, they act based on the primal urges causing Pat's emotion. For example, if the Avatar of Fury manifests spontaneously, it will seek out and deal with the source of Pat's rage, probably by brutally destroying it.

The avatars' appearances have changed over time as Pat's psyche has matured. Their appearances may continue to change as he gets older.

Note: Pat probably has 6-8 different avatars to reflect the basic emotions. Will probably choose from this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emotions

Motivations and ComplicationsDoing Good: Pat's a vigilante inspired by someone he perceives as a hero. He's spent most of his life as an unofficial parent for a group of kids and still has a few he takes care of. Pat has also seen that some people have tried to make a difference in this city. It's made a difference in his life, for sure. He's determined to "give back" to the City and try to make it a better place for others just like his idols made it a better place for him. This goes into Justice.

Justice: Pat still carries some of the scars from when he lived in the orphanage. What happened there was wrong and Pat's determined to see it never happens again. He takes special interest in the plight of children like him -- kids that need homes, kids that are mistreated and abused, kids that are homeless. He has some fatherly tendencies, but without a real father figure of his own, he is sometimes misguided in his approach to both justice and fatherhood.

Identity: Pat is technically dead. When the foster care center was destroyed, no survivors were found by officials and the records were destroyed. If he came out and announced his identity, he could probably fix the matter but it would draw a lot of attention. As a result, any identity or identities he carries are fake or illegal.

Responsibility: Though it's entirely unofficial, Pat is the caretaker for several children of different ages. Some of the children he takes care of are as young as ten years old. Several of the children he originally led have gotten old enough to go their own ways but Pat tries to keep contact. He still feels protective of them and feels that bond through their lives at the orphanage. If the government ever finds out the kids are still alive, they may try and take the kids from Pat. It would be hard for Pat to make his case, too, since he's technically dead and doesn't fit the legal definition of a stable house.

Power Loss: Sort of. When Pat experiences extreme emotions and sensations, an avatar can spontaneously manifest. That avatar is not as controllable as his normal avatars are and while it won't hurt Pat himself (Pat has no suicidal tendencies and the psyche does not want to hurt itself), it will always seek the source of Pat's emotion. Pat's mind is not sufficiently advanced to manifest multiple avatars, so a spontaneously-created avatar prevents him from using his other avatars.

Pyrophobia: Pat nearly died in the fire that destroyed his home. He's not afraid of fire in general but he is afraid of the large, building-consuming fires. Essentially anything larger than a campfire or a fireplace fire makes him edgy at best and irrational at worst. Exposure to his phobia can cause his Avatar of Fear to unintentionally manifest. This phobia also explains why his Avatar of Fear has fiery traits; it reflects what he is most afraid of.

Kaitou Kage · Aug 18 '10, 6:34pm

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Originally Posted by Drakos

I made up a character that could do that for 2e. He was called Isotope.

I'll sit on the concept. I like the idea, but I like my telepath even more.

How did Isotope work out for you? I'm curious how the multiple-alternate-forms concept plays out in-game.