Editing Crock o’Shit (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Crock o’Shit is a [[Changer]] whose form is so sensitive that it has a secondary [[Thinker]] function. When she is lied to, she can sense these lies due to the reaction she can interpret from her guts, each reaction influences her changer form. Originally her changer form was a ten feet tall ethereal woman, but it grew more grotesque over time,<ref name="bg"/> marinating in the falsehoods of the world.<ref name=bc/>

In her current monstrous form, she has large claws and thick, braided skin. She resembles a cross between a mole rat and a wingless bat. She also has hidden sets of teeth and limbs within the folds of her body.<ref name=Grotesque/> It is very combat capable, such that she rarely fights people she needs to employ tactics against.<ref>Sveta was almost at full capacity.  Her ‘power’ was always on.  Her focus was Nailbiter, who was much the same.  As with Croc o’Shit, Sveta showed her stuff when faced with enemies who were too big and tough to take down in any normal way.  I imagined they became accustomed to being too big to wrestle or crush, and let their focus and skills slip when someone like her effectively tried. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/24 Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.4]]</ref>

It has limits as any power does. Her "[[Thinker]]" power is distinctly focused on the meaning behind a statement rather than concrete wording,<ref>Yosef asked.  The translator translated, “M and S protocols.  What are they?”<br/>[...]<br/>“I’m not sure what to say.”<br/><br/>“He knows,” Crock o’Shit said.<br/><br/>The Translator’s single word followed her statement.  Yosef’s expression didn’t change a hair.<br/><br/>There were lie detectors who worked through the letter of the law, and there were lie detectors who worked by the spirit of it.  She was the latter.  That made this harder.<br/>[...]<br/>“It’s confidential,” Kamil told Yosef.<br/><br/>“Partially true,” Crock o’Shit said.<br/><br/>Yosef’s words were a rumble.<br/><br/>“This doesn’t endear us to you, Armstrong,” the translator said.  “It comes across as subversive, a message passed from her to you.”<br/><br/>“If it was a message it wouldn’t be one that makes me look bad when I tell you I can’t answer.”<br/><br/>Yosef’s gaze went to Crock o’Shit.<br/><br/>“True,” the tattooed woman said. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/29 Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.z]]</ref> and does not have some absolute truth she came consistently check the answer against. Thus her power cannot function as a danger sense or give [[precog]]nitive feedback.<ref>“I’m in alignment,” I said.  “We all are, in Breakthrough, Natalie excepted.”<br/>[...]<br/>“They’re fine,” Crock o’ Shit said..<br/><br/>"They feel like an ambient danger,” Goddess said.  “Stay where I can see you, Breakthrough.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/13 Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.15]]</ref> Further, it can be 'beaten' by [[Wikipedia:White Lies|exclusionary detailing]]; a white lie or [https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lying_by_omission lying by omission].<ref name=White>Crock o’ Shit.  The lie-detector.  The tattoos of scales on her arms were standing out slightly in relief.<br/><br/>“Say it again.  That you’re loyal, and that I don’t need to worry about you.”<br/><br/>“I’m loyal.  You don’t need to worry about me.”<br/><br/>Crock o’ Shit nodded.  “He’s fine.”<br/><br/>“He doesn’t feel fine,” Goddess said.<br/>[...]<br/>Coalbelcher would’ve been near Natalie, if he’d been protecting her or watching out for her as part of the deal.  Had he taken some candy?  Had he eaten some, or did he have it saved for later?  Was that why Goddess didn’t like her sense of him?  I could see him being loyal but not aligned, or aligned but carrying tainted candy.  More the former, since he didn’t seem the type to save something for later. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/13 Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.15]]</ref>

Still, she is able to parse a lie and give out factual information from it.<ref name=Lie/><ref name=fear>Kamil pressed, trying to channel all of the enthusiasm and fervor that he’d had as a young scientist into a certain kind of energy.  Irrepressible, the geek that believed everyone was as interested in his favorite subject as he was.  Relentless.<br/><br/>Yosef tried to interrupt, and he pressed on.  “The textile bridge, the sharing of knowledge, security, it’s the start of something, and I’m really excited about that.”<br/><br/>“Lie,” Crock o’Shit cut in.<br/><br/>Kamil stopped.  The smile dropped from his face.<br/><br/>“Words backed only by desperate fear, not truth,” Crock o’Shit said. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/29 Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.z]]</ref>

She has training and a wide variety of experience from serving in the Marines as well as operating as a licensed hero in the PRT system, a successful crime lord, and surviving imprisonment in the Birdcage.