Editing Scapegoat (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Scapegoat "[[Healer|heals]]" people by means of shifting alternate possibilities and substantiating them into reality,<ref name="19.2"/><ref name="R1">how his power works Scapegoat pulls high definition simulations and images from other realities and situates them in '1.5' space (see my recent [[Labyrinth]] [https://redd.it/63yzds explanation]) with an eye to making them permanent. He also transfers hard-to-define factors, realities and signatures (such as ongoing power effects) and takes them on or shoves them into other individuals.<br/>If he touches an ongoing, high definition simulation and abstract signature (a duplicate/clone), he might well set in motion an effect that calls them into reality in a more permanent sense. So that walking distillation and encapsulation of the shard's xerox of Mister Mister the duplicator transitions out of 1.5 space and into 1 space.<br/>And from there, you end up with screwed up power dynamics. Mister Mister's shard is sitting there with the following rule: '''<[I double the number of Mister Misters, I sap his stamina to ensure he doesn't overuse it and bankrupt me, and after 60 seconds I destroy half of them.]>''' - but there's a problem, because an override is on one of the Mister Misters's Misters from another shard, and it says '''<~pull this into this reality and keep it there, because this guy has ongoing effects (wounds, diseases) on it~>'''. So the shard follows its rule, and depending on relationships to shards, the nitty gritty particulars of shard and situation, resources, breadth and depth, and if it would create interesting conflict at an interesting time... ''sometimes'' the shard gets around the override by destroying the original, phasing it back into the storage dimension, whatever.<br/>Note: for those reading this comment, added an edit to my last comment above. - [https://redd.it/65v8l8 Scapegoat power Synergies] ([[Wildbow]], reddit.com, 2017-05)</ref> transferring mental and physical afflictions between targets.<ref name="SV1"/> To do this he uses his own body as a bridge and a reference base for this process, keeping him from absorbing every possible symptom.<ref name="19.2 c1">Psycho Gecko:<br/>Wonder what would have happened if she was on her period.<br/><br/>Wildbow:<br/>Nothing. Scapegoat uses his own body as a template. He can’t absorb symptoms to parts he doesn’t have. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/scourge-19-2/#comment-11481 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Scourge 19.2]]</ref><ref name="19.2 c2"/><!--
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Scapegoat's power allows him to dig through potential realities to find uninjured versions of the person he is working on and apply that person's condition to his target. This removes the person's injuries, essentially making it as though they had not suffered them at all. The effect is weaker if the target resists, and can be broken if they are subjected to impacts, injuries or shocks in one to six hours following the procedure. They must stay within 150 feet of him.<ref name="19.4 e1">I couldn’t move too far away from Scapegoat.  I was tethered to him by an invisible, intangible cord, about one hundred and fifty feet long; about half a city block.<br/><br/>Still, provided I was directly above him, it let me fly about eight or nine stories above the ground.  I wasn’t untouchable, but I was safer. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/scourge-19-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scourge 19.4]]</ref> Once he uses his power, he takes on the injuries of the person he has applied it to.<ref name="19.2"/><ref name="19.5">[[Scourge 19.5]]</ref> He is even capable of transferring permanent disabilities or power-induced effects.<ref name="playtest"/>

His power has an offensive application, wherein he can apply the injuries he sustains to an enemy,<ref name="19.5 e1">Scapegoat was out of the van and shouting.  Weld was among the capes that came to his assistance.  He held a female clone in his iron grip, with one hand over her mouth.<br/><br/>Tecton and Wanton moved to help, and Scapegoat looked up at me, gesturing.<br/><br/>Pointing at the ground.<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>The second I was settled, Scapegoat laid his hands on the clone Weld had caught.<br/><br/>As before, the sensations hit me.  Phantom sensations of every possible texture and experience rippling across my entire body.<br/><br/>This was why he’d told me to land.  He’d been worried I might lose control of my power, maybe losing control over Atlas and fall.<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>The sensations kept hitting me.  It was a deeper sensation now.  Tastes, vision, hearing… everything under the sun, fragments of a million different sensations.  Picking through the noise was nearly impossible.  I had to find refuge in my swarm’s senses, disassociate from my body…<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>The clone and Scapegoat were down, struck by the glass from the van’s windshield.  Chevalier had been caught by something, a fragment of glass that had penetrated a slit in his visor, and he was struggling to fight three clones and avoid hitting his teammates, all while partially blind.<br/><br/>I checked myself.  I could breathe, I wasn’t blind.  All despite Scapegoat’s disabled state.<br/><br/>Had he transferred the conditions to the clone?  Was I in the clear?<br/><br/>I wasn’t sure, and I wasn’t sure I could afford to take the risk and stray beyond that one-hundred and fifty foot range of his. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/scourge-19-5/ Excerpt] from [[Scourge 19.5]]</ref><ref name="19.2"/><ref name="SV1">Scapegoat isn't so bad. He can transmit any mental or physical afflictions to a touched enemy. In a funk? Here you go, Mrs. Asshole Teacher. - [https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/4354211 Comment by Wildbow on Sufficient Velocity]</ref> with a lower chance to revert to him if the enemy is injured.<ref name="playtest"/> 

Experiencing Scapegoat's power is very uncomfortable during the transfer, as you briefly feel a multitude of seemingly-random sensations at the same time.<ref name="19.2"/>He can concentrate to "seal" a given transfer, reducing the risk and eventually making the transfer permanent. Alternatively, he can concentrate to influence the duration of afflictions he's applied to himself upward or downward. These options are mutually exclusive.<ref name="playtest">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hxYrt2d6b_LAaMPphcZEzwAruiSHQaiaBa3x2WMsGvA/edit# Playtest Capes]</ref> Things are harder for him if the subject still has organs that he has had removed.<ref name="19.2 c2">Psycho Gecko:<br/>So he can’t do anything about people with appendix or tonsil problems if he’s had them taken out?<br/><br/>Wildbow:<br/>It’d be far less effective, more prone to ‘breaking’.<br/><br/>Whether he could do it at all might depend on whether the removal of said parts predated gaining his power or not. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/scourge-19-2/#comment-11501 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Scourge 19.2]]</ref>