Editing Arbiter (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Arbiter has minor forcefield, sonic laser powers, and a social Thinker power, a variant on a danger sense she calls a "riot sense".<ref name="23.2 e1">Rime turned off the television. She looked at Arbiter.<br/><br/>“My riot sense was going off like crazy as he talked,” Arbiter said. “There’s something at work here.”<br/><br/>“Describe it.”<br/><br/>Arbiter touched her middle fingers and thumbs together, forming a circle, “Orange.”<br/><br/>She moved her hands further apart, “Red.”<br/><br/>Then further apart again, until the implied ‘circle’ was as big as a large pizza. “Yellow.”<br/><br/>“That bad?” Rime asked.<br/><br/>“Bad.”<br/><br/>“Then we move now,” Rime said. She raised her hand to her ear. “Dragon? Cancel your errands. We’re in for some trouble, almost guaranteed, and I’m thinking we want to clear out before it descends.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/28 Excerpt] from [[Drone 23.2]]</ref> This makes her aware of the threat level of individuals associated to her target, not including that person, in terms of color.<ref name="23.2 e2">Once we were all in the elevator, I figured I was clear to ask without sounding too much like a newbie. “What was Arbiter talking about? Riot sense?”<br/><br/>Rime explained. “She’s a social thinker, in addition to her minor blaster and shaker powers. Her danger sense is mild at best, not something she can react to immediately, but it makes her aware of associated individuals and the threat they pose. She wouldn’t be able to see much from Pretender alone, but she knows that there’s a moderate to high danger posed by those closest to him-”<br/><br/>“His team, probably,” Prefab said.<br/><br/>“She’s predicting a massive risk from people who have an intimate but less immediate association or those who have a recent but less familiar association with him…”<br/><br/>“Old teammates or family that he doesn’t see regularly,” Prefab said, “Or people he’s hired for help that he isn’t as familiar with.”<br/><br/>Rime finished, “…And a moderate risk from people or things on the periphery of his real-life social network.”<br/><br/>“The bogeyman?” I asked.<br/><br/>Rime didn’t answer. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/28 Excerpt] from [[Drone 23.2]]</ref> She is well versed in using her forcefields and a sonic laser in combat.<ref name="23.2 e4">She leaped down, holding August Prince’s hand, and Arbiter took action. The heroine directed a sonic blast at Bambina with one hand, but Bambina kicked the wall, changing the direction she was moving. Arbiter blocked her with a forcefield, then raised a hand to shoot again-<br/><br/>And stopped, standing still instead. A look of consternation appeared across her forehead, above her mask.<br/><br/>Bambina ricocheted off of Dragon’s craft, hitting it hard enough that it shifted, then flew at Prefab. One hit, and he was out of action. The explosion hadn’t even been that large.<br/><br/>Prefab, who had his cannon raised and hadn’t even pulled the trigger once.<br/><br/>Bambina whipped around, rotating crazily before touching ground, her feet skidding on the ground. She set the Prince down. Starlet, up on the wall, laughed. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/28 Excerpt] from [[Drone 23.2]]</ref> While her forcefield lacks the durability or versatility of [[Bastion|other]] [[Narwhal|heroes]] she is adroit in its use.<ref name="24.3 e4">Arbiter only nodded, her eyes on the ongoing fight.<br/><br/>I drew up decoy-swarms, placing them across the rooftop, and stepped off the rooftop, hovering and using the building for cover. Arbiter raised her forcefield to fill some of the gap in the tinker-created field, crouching in the crowd of swarm-people. Others followed suit. I covered them as much as I could without obscuring their vision.<br/><br/>Seconds passed before Arbiter gave the go-ahead. Capes evacuated the rooftop.<br/><br/>Behemoth’s lightning strike flashed through our ranks, right over Arbiter’s squatter forcefield, through two decoys and striking a cape. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/15 Excerpt] from [[Crushed 24.3]]</ref> This seemingly unconnected selection of powers are hallmarks of a [[Grab-Bag Cape]] but the circumstances of her trigger event are largely unknown.

She also demonstrates the ability to learn languages unnaturally quickly, with her Portuguese advancing from broken to flawless after three exchanges with native speakers.<ref name="24.3 e2">“Arbiter,” I responded. One of Rime’s underlings. The one with the social danger sense, forcefield and sonic beam. I supposed her forcefield wasn’t quite large enough or versatile enough to offer a bridge down to the ground. “I’ve got other stuff I need to pay attention to. Don’t suppose you speak French? Or Spanish?”<br/><br/>“Portuguese,” she said. “And no, but give me a moment.”<br/><br/>She turned to the capes, but a heavy crash interrupted her before she could speak.<br/><br/>A building had fallen, toppling, and Behemoth hadn’t done anything to precipitate it. Nothing except the roaring.<br/><br/>Was that enough? Was this building coming apart beneath us?<br/><br/>Where the hell was Tattletale? My bugs flowed into cracks in the building, checking rooms only to find them empty.<br/><br/>“Hurry!” I said. I turned my attention to my swarm. They extended out beneath me, forming into neat lines. My bugs were slow to move through the structure. I had to use the cracks that already existed in the walls, ducts and vents that just happened to be open.<br/><br/>“Speak to me,” Arbiter said to the Portuguese capes.<br/><br/>The one with the spiral costume chattered out something I couldn’t even guess at. Arbiter nodded. In very broken Portuguese, she asked a question. The spiral man looked at the one with him, gesturing.<br/><br/>In less broken Portuguese, she spoke again.<br/><br/>That prompted another burst of explanation, or what I took to be exclamation. They sounded desperate, afraid.<br/><br/>When she responded, she spoke just as quickly and flawlessly as the two native speakers. She’d picked up the language in a matter of three exchanges. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/15 Excerpt] from [[Crushed 24.3]]</ref> She also speaks Chinese<ref name="I24">“You’re upset about the Yàngbǎn.”<br/><br/>“I don’t like surprises.”<br/><br/>“I sent you a number of emails, three voice messages.”<br/><br/>“Can we trust them?”<br/><br/>“No.  But they’re still an asset.  Alexandria wanted them on board.  When you installed your new administration, they said to keep going.”<br/><br/>Chevalier sighed.<br/><br/>“Our thinkers are on board to advise with the concentrated defense.  I’ve coordinated the foreign capes, Arbiter’s handling some of the translations.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> and a local language from New Delhi.<ref name="24.3 e3"/> [[Weaver]] describes her voice as "oddly melodic".<ref name="24.3 e1"/> It is unknown whether this ability is distinct from her other powers or has other applications.

She also has some medical training.<ref name="23.2 e5">Arbiter and Prefab had enough medical training to check the civilians over before we moved them or moved them further. With my power, I tracked Bambina as she ricocheted through the area, causing innumerable explosions across the landscape. Rime struggled to evade both Bambina and the detonation, while maintaining some degree of cover against the gunman. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/28 Excerpt] from [[Drone 23.2]]</ref>