Editing The Simurgh (section)

====Borrowing Powers====
Although the Simurgh is normally unable to make tinker devices herself,<ref name="E.5 e2">She couldn’t make tinker devices herself.  She had to copy the designs of tinkers near her.  He’d found who she’d copied, a now deceased cape from Brockton Bay, and he’d found the designs.<br><br>There were discrepancies. - [[Teneral e.5]]</ref> her active scream can pull on nearby [[Tinker]] powers.<ref>Tattletale was caught up in a conversation with Knave of Clubs, and fell under the Simurgh’s shadow.  The Simurgh, for her part, seemed to be busy building other tinker devices, drawing on the abilities of tinkers in the immediate area. - [[Venom 29.3]]</ref> As long as Tinkers stay within active scream range, her signal can allow her to borrow their schematics<ref name="29.1 e5" /> and techniques,<ref name="reddit eSummary2">She's a telekinetic capable of tossing buildings, she flies, and her scanning ability lets her borrow and copy techniques and mental powers from others - including the power of tinkers (essentially scanning Iron Man and gaining the ability to make what he can make, then telekinetically pulling together a macro-scale version of his devices from surrounding materials). - [https://redd.it/2sju2u Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> copy the design of specific devices present,<ref name="29.1 e5">“Way I understand it, she needs to have a tinker in her sphere of influence to borrow their schematics, or a specific device, if she wants to copy it. - [[Venom 29.1]]</ref> and collect knowledge to create related tinker tech via a [[Thinker]]/[[Trump]] sort of approach.<ref name="R2" /> The Simurgh can also choose to create a macro-scale version of their devices from surrounding materials.<ref name="reddit eSummary2" /> If relevant Tinkers are not nearby, she can only make cosmetic changes to her tinker devices.<ref>Either way, she didn’t have schematics or anything she’d need to modify the guns.”<br><br>“Or she ''can'' modify them, and it’s a card she’s been keeping up her sleeve for the last while.  I mean, it was only three years ago or whatever that she really showed off her ability to copy a tinker’s work wholesale.”<br><br>Tattletale nodded.  She frowned.  “I don’t like being in the dark.  But that’s the gist of it.  She made cosmetic changes because she couldn’t make concrete ones.” - [[Venom 29.1]]</ref>

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*'''Halo-Portal''' - Derived from [[Professor Haywire]].<ref>''A vault holding the equipment of now-deceased supervillain ‘Professor Haywire’ was accessed by the Simurgh.  Shortly after, the source alleges, the Simurgh activated a large-scale replica of the devices, depositing large amounts of foreign bodies in the heart of the city.'' - [[Migration 17.6]]</ref> Destroyed by [[Scion]].<ref name="17.2 eHaloDestruction">A flash of golden light signaled Scion’s return to the scene of the fight.  With one attack, he severed the halo in half, but the portal didn’t disappear.  Instead, like watercolor paint, a different perspective began to bleed into the surrounding sky, too bright, too blue a sky, with pale, squat buildings almost glowing in the comparative absence of clouds.  Larger chunks of buildings, massive rocks, and even chunks of earth with several trees rooted in them began to spill out and plunge to the ground.<br><br>Scion held back on shooting again, instead charging himself with power.  When he released it, it manifested as a slow radiance, a sphere of light that expanded from him in slow motion.  The tear in reality dissipated, and everything the light touched ''stopped''.  Shifting clouds went still, objects that were flying through the air ceased moving and simply fell, and the ambient noises of destruction, fire and fighting was replaced by an all-too brief silence.  Even the Simurgh’s song, Krouse realized, had momentarily stopped. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/09 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.2]]</ref>
*'''Guns''' - Derived from [[Kid Win]].<ref>The Simurgh had crafted another gun.  They floated around her like satellites, firing only in those intermittent moments when she’d formed and loaded the necessary ammunition.<br><br>“''Those are my guns'',” Kid Win reported over the comms.  “''Bigger'', ''but mine''.“<br><br>I didn’t like that she was screaming.  It set an ugly tone to this whole venture. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/cockroaches-28-4/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref> Destroyed by [[Scion]].<ref name="29.2 e8" />
*'''Gun/Cloning Device Combo''' - Derived from a [[Brockton Bay]] tinker<ref name="E.5 e2" /> and a biotinker <small>(Speculatively [[Bonesaw]])</small>.<ref>One or two years old?  Accelerated aging?  Where had the Simurgh been in contact with a tinker with that particular knowledge?  Bonesaw? - [[Teneral e.5]]</ref> Destroyed by [[Lung]].<ref>Lung tore into the casing, much as he’d torn through the vault door.<br><br>There was a scratch as Lung’s claw touched glass.<br><br>He tore at the metal, peeling it away while preserving the glass.<br>[...]<br>The monster turned to leave, the polluted water still popping behind him. - [[Teneral e.5]]</ref>
*'''Gladius''' - Derived from [[Defiant]].<ref>Defiant’s head turned, as if Tattletale had said something.<br><br>“Yeah,” Tattletale said.  “Nanotech.  Why do you think the fins were turning water to mist?”<br><br>“''My'' tech?”  Defiant asked.<br><br>“Among one or two other advancements.  If the density rules are in effect, I’d bet those fins are just as hard to cut through as Leviathan’s arm or torso.  Disintegration effect, maybe something else.” - [[Cockroaches 28.5]]</ref> Used up in the process of upgrading [[Leviathan]].<ref>He wrenched it free, and tore out chunks of his own chest in the process.  There was little left but the handle and the base of the sword.  Needle-like lengths of metal speared out from the base, but the bulk of the sword’s material was gone. - [[Cockroaches 28.5]]</ref>
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Her active scream can allow her to pull on the perception powers of nearby [[Thinker]]s and tap into them; as long as they stay within active scream range, she can then borrow those specific powers.<ref name="29.1 e6">Thinkers, too, I think she borrows their perception powers as long as she’s tapped into them.  Might be why she’s attached to me. - [[Venom 29.1]]</ref> When the Simurgh was not fighting during [[Gold Morning]], she tried to stay near [[Tattletale]] to pull on her power.<ref>The Simurgh, for the time being, came part and parcel with Tattletale.  When she wasn’t fighting, she was a distance away from my teammate and friend. - [[Speck 30.2]]</ref> However, she still filters these borrowed powers through her active scream: despite having control of [[the Mathers Giant]] and being in the same room as Tattletale and [[Victoria Dallon]], she was unable to see [[Dinah]] and thus stop the Dinah-influenced Victoria<ref>“She skipped ahead.  We thought we had a bit longer,” Tattletale said.  “She jumped to going after Fortuna ten minutes early.  We didn’t do enough for your plan.”<br><br>“No.”<br><br>I looked.<br><br>Dinah had spoken.  Now she pointed, one hand held to her head, grimacing.<br><br>I looked, and I saw the syringe, empty.<br><br>I grabbed it.<br><br>There was only one valid target. - [[Last 20.5]]</ref> from disabling the Mathers Giant.<ref name="II20.6 eDinahBlindSpot">''She can’t see Dinah.  She can’t see us if we interact with Dinah.''<br>[...]<br>“That’s why I could get the syringe to the giant,” I said.  “She didn’t see me to stop me?”<br><br>Tattletale nodded.  “Think so.” - [[Last 20.6]]</ref><ref name="II20.5 ePlunger">''This'' time I hit the plunger.<br><br>The veil fell yet again.  This time for real.<br><br>The screaming picked up, faint at first, and then a roar.  ''It was all an illusion.  All a mind-fuck.''<br><br>She was here, perched.  Fucking with us all the while. - [[Last 20.5]]</ref>

The Simurgh is unable to borrow powers from blind spots.<ref name="24.4 c1">'''hitherbydragons:''' I think the interference works like this:<br><br>When a precog sees the future, it changes how they act. That change in their actions changes the future.<br><br>Each future-seeing power has a way of solving for that—a way of bringing that to a point of convergence.<br>[...]<br>But when you get two different modes of prediction interacting, then there’s a feedback effect. Let’s say that Simurgh and Contessa are fighting over the Precog Prize, a marvelous blue ribbon that goes to the precog of the year. (Next year, to be precise.) [...] Only, Contessa isn’t actually going to do all of these things: it’s just that she’ll do those things _in the world where the Simurgh is doing that plan._ So her power becomes a shape, a shadow, over the set of futures that the Simurgh can build. And normally vice versa, except that Contessa’s power apparently wins.<br>[...]<br>'''wildbow:''' That is pretty much exactly right. - Conversation with Wildbow on [[Crushed 24.4]]</ref><!-- https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/crushed-24-4/#comment-28596 --> For example, despite perching on [[Titan Fortuna]]'s shoulder during their precog duel,<ref name="II18.2 e1">The Simurgh was perched on her shoulder.  The video feed fritzed momentarily, and I could see faces in the crowd flinch. - [[Radiation 18.2]]</ref> Fortuna still had a hundred times the Simurgh's strength.<ref name="II18.z strength">''We began this fight when you broke, child'', the Titan Fortuna thought, trying to communicate to the battered kernel of human consciousness within herself.<br><br>''She began this two years ago, when Gold Morning occurred.  It doesn’t matter that we have a hundred times her strength.  She’s within paces of the finish line, and she’s no stupid rabbit racing a tortise.  Nearly every action she could take brings her closer to a checkmate.'' - [[Radiation 18.z]]</ref> When Fortuna and [[Contessa]] worked in concert to quickly execute a path without investigating it too much, the Simurgh could not tamper with it, forcing her to leave.<ref name="II18.z eQuick">The child refused to be a slave again.  The Titan refused to be a slave for other reasons.  But they were able to think and act in concert.<br><br>''A path''.  One that most likely ended in a desirable outcome.  To investigate too much would leave it on the table long enough for the silver woman to get silver fingerprints on it.<br><br>New cracks threatened to spread.<br><br>New titans threatened to emerge.<br><br>Humans assaulted the Firmament.  The center of power, the core of all things Power.<br><br>As if sensing the resolution, the silver woman turned and levitated herself away.  Ceding the battle, or taking her own initial steps. - [[Radiation 18.z]]</ref>