Editing Mayday (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Mayday is an artillery-type blaster who summons large red spheres composed of 'abstract energy' filaments from far behind him that he can then direct towards a targeted area. Where the energy impacts, a major, yet discriminatory, rearrangement ensues. Targets can be pulled to their feet or knocked down, they may end up facing another way, be placed behind cover, innumerable changes are possible at the impact site.<ref name="5.4 e2">In the midst of the fight, Advance Guard was actually faring well enough, even though I couldn’t tell where four of their members were.  Spright was having a conversation with Mayday, as villains approached them, crowding in.  Mayday raised a hand, palm flat, then brought it down, so it pointed forward.  Villains started scrambling out of the way.<br/><br/>From the distance, a flare of red light rose against the blue sky at the horizon, framed with something shadowy and dark that made it stand out clearly.<br/><br/>It was deceptive, in its general oblong shape, which became a circle and became oblong again, and its apparent lack of depth.<br/><br/>I realized what it was and put my hand at Sveta’s arm, in case I needed to pull her away.  A projectile of some sort.  It soared toward us, and touched down in the middle of the battlefield, with Mayday running to intercept it, getting clipped by one of Nailbiter’s claws on the way.<br/><br/>It hit him, almost dead on, and smashed into the road like water might, a mess of red strands that glowed to the point they were almost neon, in a sea of darker and darker strands.  The webbed ball dissipated, broke up, the lines spreading out to run through, around, over and under almost everything on the ground.  The larger portion of the mass skidded nearly a hundred feet before breaking up.  Mayday’s team had been carried along with the skid, and as the strands dissipated, they were on their feet, standing in formation.  The villains who hadn’t scrambled out of the way were at the edges, lying down, or pushed between parked cars.  No property damage had been done. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/06/shadow-5-4/ Excerpt] form [[Shadow 5.4]]</ref> Mayday himself is either immune or can be easily excepted from this rule, as can any friends and allies. On a smaller scale, he can shoot small blasts of the energy to push targets back,<ref>Sidepiece and Disjoint were moving to flank the group, sneaking around a parked vehicle.  A diagram-wall appeared to block them off.  Disjoint hopped up onto the vehicle and was knocked off as Mayday swung a hand in his direction, casting out a tiny version of the red projectile he’d been bringing in from the horizon.  As Disjoint landed at her feet, Damsel started cussing him out for getting in her way. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/06/shadow-5-4/ Excerpt] form [[Shadow 5.4]]</ref> and presumably he can fall back on these when he can't set up a artillery strike.

His energy balls, roughly the size of a trailer home, are summoned through various hand gestures<ref name="5.4 e3">Mayday retreated through the bottleneck with a flying ally shielding him by catching some flung balls of flame in what looked like a web of glowing lines in geometric shapes.  Mayday raised both hands, palms flat, forming a ‘y’, and then brought them down.<br/><br/>In the distance well behind him, twin flares of red energy appeared at the horizon.  One of them might have been headed straight for me.<br/>[...]<br/>Mayday’s power hit.  Two shots, barreling in from the horizon in a matter of seconds, each half the size of a house.  The red balls were more oblong than before, where the last one had only appeared that way because of its arc.  The shape might have been why they traveled further as they hit, carrying people away.  While villains scrambled to get to their feet.  Lines spread out, forming overlapping triangles, circles, squares, and stars, extending in a pattern around the woman who had been shielding Mayday. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/06/shadow-5-4/ Excerpt] form [[Shadow 5.4]]</ref> and are accompanied by a black flare when they appear.<ref name="5.4 e3"/> Starting as orbs the energy deforms as it moves through the air, perhaps deforming in the air resistance, forcing it to stretch.

His power is highly disruptive to enemy tactics and can destroy other constructs, but it is not that powerful.<ref name="5.4 e5">Mayday raised his hand, then brought it forward.  The entire assembly of villains reacted.<br/>[...]<br/>Meanwhile, I flew over the enemy group, putting myself behind the herd of enemies, while they scrambled to do something or get clear of the incoming Mayday projectile.<br/><br/>It was intimidating, being on the ground, while a ball of abstract energy the size of a one-car garage hurtled toward us.  I was pretty sure it was very selective about who it affected, catching people up and depositing them in a way Mayday thought appropriate, but even with that, I found it distracting.<br/>[...]<br/>I was barely touched, as it washed over me like hot air from a hair dryer.  Others were dragged a hundred feet down the road, pushed back and away from the bottleneck.  Bluestocking’s blue stocking was shredded by the contact with the road, stained red.<br/><br/>They were a jumbled heap.  They hadn’t pushed past the bottleneck or delivered a serious blow to Advance Guard before the bizarre siege weapon hit. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/06/shadow-5-4/ Excerpt] form [[Shadow 5.4]]</ref> Non-targeted individuals just feel a wash of warm air as the effect touches them.
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