Editing Blasto (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Blasto is a "wet" tinker, specializing in creating life-forms, minions, using raw materials.<ref name=R8/> Detailed below; this includes but is not limited to a lab assistant, a pseudo-endbringer and other, non-specified hybrids. He often works with plants, fungi, and animals to create weaponized hybrids, which he uses to wreak havoc upon his enemies.<ref name=PRTF1>Blasto, Real Name Unknown<br/>Classification:  Tinker 6 (sub: master 5, blaster 2, shifter 2, brute 2); plants.<br/>Disposition: Villain (B)<br/>Last Known Location:  Boston (Allston area, east). - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref><ref name="playtest">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hxYrt2d6b_LAaMPphcZEzwAruiSHQaiaBa3x2WMsGvA/edit#heading=h.6zpj457kkgjk Playtest Capes]</ref> He can use tissue samples to create his minions even from things that don't contain DNA.

Blasto has been operating for a long time and as such greatly expanded from his original tinker repertoire thanks to scanning other parahumans and researching into his power.<ref name=PT2>'''Note:''' Blasto’s list has been extended considerably from its starting point as he gained experience and researched over the years. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hxYrt2d6b_LAaMPphcZEzwAruiSHQaiaBa3x2WMsGvA/edit#heading=h.6zpj457kkgjk Playtest Capes]</ref> Additionally, he deliberately makes his creations sterile, as he was warned that self-replicating beings would constitute an [[S-Class]] threat which would mean a [[kill order]] for him.<ref name=PRTF2>:Crime lord of East Allston since est. date of April 2009.  No subordinates.  No past history as a subordinate.  Criminal history indicates cap of second degree murder, tendency to mass damage to property and persons.  Produces uncontrolled lifeforms that are incapable of replication.  ''Adversarial relationship with Accord (#13151), Spree (#14755) and Chain Man (#14114).''<br/><br/>
:Note:  High risk of Class-S classification.  Should creations self-propagate, kill orders are pre-authorized.<br/>[...]<br/>No big surprises on the possible kill order.  He’d been made aware of it some time ago, and had grumbled, groaned and grudgingly avoided making any lifeforms that could breed in the years since. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref>

===Equipment===
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*Cloning Vats - Can create or adapt from any sufficient container into a cloning vat, through this he is able to create his various minions.<ref name=Vat>Vats.  A row of them against one wall, dirty and smeared enough that the contents weren’t immediately obvious.<br/><br/>Humanoid figures, each one different from the others.<br/>[...]<br/>There was something else at the far end of the room.  It looked like a boiler, but it had the same rushed, improvised feel that the vats did.  Metal, welding, tubes winding around it, and a glass aperture, showing a sea of what looked like green moss on the other side.<br/><br/>“Step away from that,” Rotten Apple said.  She was breathing hard.<br/><br/>Ashley extended a hand out toward a vat.  The intention was to threat, but her power sparked out.  It cut into thick glass, into water, and into the figure on the other side.  She flinched back, holding her arm against her chest as she stumbled away.<br/><br/>She stood up straight, forcing a smile she didn’t feel.  The remains of the body were tipping forward as the fluids emptied from the vat, and they were breaking apart like wet toilet paper as they brushed against the edges of the broken glass.<br/><br/>Rotten Apple wasn’t acting like Damsel had just killed someone. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/29 Excerpt] from [[Eclipse x.4]]</ref> Typically used to make one minion at a time he can construct a mass production version or even high-quality vats for specialized projects.<ref name="playtest"/>
*Compost Battery - Uses decaying biological material, with some tweaks, as an off the grid power source for creation vats.<ref name="playtest"/>
*Fungal mask - Blasto wore fungus-based biological masks; early in his career, these would be like a typical mask completely obscuring his face.<ref name="x.2">There were three capes with a plant theme.  A guy with frizzy brown hair sticking out over the top and sides of a mask that looked like it was made of the softest rubber, all in oval-shaped nodules.  More mushroom-like nodules stood out diagonally from his shoulders.  A man sat on a rock beside him, foot propped up on a creature that looked like it was made of driftwood, a snake with two forelimbs and no rear legs. A woman stood in the shadows behind them.  She had no name for them. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/27 Excerpt] from [[Eclipse x.2]]</ref> Later he refined it to the point it mimicked the texture and appearance of a normal face.<ref name=I19e3>“No mask?”  Accord asked.<br/><br/>“Yes,”  Rey replied.  He folded one corner of his face back.  “It’s a fungus.  Same texture as human flesh.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref><ref name="playtest"/> All tinkers are able to make minor items such as these.
*Grenades - Unlike [[Bakuda|some tinkers]], these are not his specialty. Nevertheless, Blasto has a few options for what he can build. Including canisters that dispense dangerous miasmas, smoke canisters the release pollen, fragmentary grenades that shoot thorns, or even [[Wikipedia:Paintball equipment#Paint grenades|paint grenades]] that use pheromones (see below).<ref name="playtest"/>
*Marker pheromones - As part of his control system Blasto synthesizes three known types of specialized pheromones. One was an 'attack' pheromone, another an 'adore' pheromone, the last a 'shun' pheromone that made the creation ignore something or leave an area.<ref name=I19e9>Rey kept his creations in line with pheromones, spraying them liberally around his lab and the surrounding neighborhood. They would move to the nearest unaffected location as soon as they were free. Once he did that to Accord’s home, the place would be rendered immune to his own attacks, at least for a little while.<br/>[...]<br/>It wasn’t as though the method of control was that difficult to master. One set of pheromones would make the creation feel fond of something, the other would have an negative effect, drive them away from a person or area. Still another would provoke feelings of anger or hatred, useful if he wanted to bid them to attack. <br/><br/>If Accord found the pheromones, he could be rid of Rey, and he’d have whatever creations Rey had put together in the meantime.<br/>[...]<br/>Rey took the opportunity to brew and spray himself with a set of pheromones.  His creations would be more favorably inclined towards him now. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref> They can last a long time but can be removed with a good scrub down or inclement weather.<ref name="playtest"/>
*Minions - grown in his vats these creations can take many forms based on input genetic materials (see seeds below).
**Hommoculi - the simplest type, created one as a lab assistant.<ref>[[Interlude 19.x]]</ref>
**Hybrids - more advanced versions that are partial clones of the original. Several such creations debuted in the [[Boston Games]].<ref>[[Eclipse x.4]]</ref>
**Clones - In a forced collaboration with Bonesaw, aided by stolen [[Toybox]] technology, Blasto was able to create clones 
*Programming - Blasto is able to educate his clones by uploading information from his own brain to theirs.<ref name=LabH> 
A sedated monkey plus a sample of his own tissue and one seed, and he had a homunculus in the works.  It would be roughly as intelligent as a very stupid person in most respects, but it would share his own understanding of chemistry, biology, science and botany.  It would serve as a lab assistant, and he would need one for a lab this big.


turning his attention to the homunculus.  He calibrated the signal, pressing two electrodes to his own forehead, then sent the readings out to his creation.<br><br>
When it was done, he drained the fluid and vented the chamber.  The glass sank into the floor, and the homunculus crawled out, using its knuckles to walk.  Its skin was peeling, more like loose bark crossed with scar tissue than flesh.<br><br>“You retain any English [...] Spanish?”<br><br>Another nod.<br><br>“Go dispose of the slides.  Consider everything a top priority biohazard.”<br><br>The homunculus found a pair of rubber gloves and began cleaning up the mess from the early experiments.
- [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref> The extent of this ability is unknown.
*Foundation Seeds - Prepared plant zygotes Blasto uses as a template for his cloning process. These have a flexible and adaptable genome that used plugged into genetics from other sources to create the Clones.<ref name=seed>He went through the contents he’d unloaded from his pockets until he found a piece of paper he’d folded into an envelope.  He tore it open and tapped out the contents.<br><br>Each seed was about the size of a pea, tapered at each end, a mottled white-brown.  He hurried over to one of the large glass tubes and fiddled with the controls until it started flooding with water.<br/>[...]<br/>
<!--Regrowth for the plant that was growing and budding with more seeds.-->
“These seeds,” he raised one hand, a seed pinched between index finger and thumb, “Are like stem cells.  They harbor the potential to become virtually anything.  Wherever information is missing, they fill in the gaps.”<br/><br/>“Like using frog DNA for dinosaurs.”<br/><br/>“Like using frog DNA for dinosaurs, right.  The way I worked it, they’ll decode the information in a very brute force way.  The seed starts by forming two bodies, attached by a central hub.  I kill the least viable one, it buds and splits again, with copies that are derivatives of the survivor.  Usually two to four.  Kill all but one, repeat.”<br/><br/>“Until you have something viable.”<br/><br/>“Exactly!  Takes anywhere from a few hours to a few days.  Then I have what’s essentially a plant-animal hybrid, and I nudge it in the direction of my enemies.  Or give it simple programming that I can use.  Training half-plant rodents to fetch shiny objects, for example.”<br/><br/>“How?”<br/><br/>“Trade secret,” Rey said.  “I’m not dumb.  I won’t give away the essentials.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref>
*Megaprojects
**'''Woad Giant'''<ref name="DoD CS:B">'''Boston Games''' - Survived and made her mark during the Boston Games arcs, killing the Woad Giant and the Gem, earning some attention in the villain community. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y9EM6krS6MfQy04IJYNkIKRri5jMpHaOTAvvSegpmgI/ Damsel of Distress Character Sheet BACKGROUND]</ref><ref>In Boston, the original Damsel had faced off against Blasto’s big project. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/10 Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.9]]</ref> - Grown in a vat within his headquarters over the course of weeks.<ref name=Vat/> Blasto was able to weave into the giant some power expression, so it would have enough durability to move.<ref name=x7WG/><ref>[[Eclipse x.6]]</ref><ref>[[Eclipse x.7]]</ref>
**'''[[The Morrígan]]''' - pseudo-Endbringer composed using tissue samples from both [[Myrddin]] and the [[Simurgh]], genetically merged together using a really complex fungus.<ref name="19.x eMorHybrid">“And who’s ''this''?” Bonesaw asked.  She approached the glass case with the Morrígan inside.<br><br>“Morrígan.”<br><br>“Looks like the Simurgh.”<br><br>“She is.  In part.  The other half of the genetic base is from Myrddin’s tissue.  Everything that bridges the gap is a really complex fungus.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref> Although this project failed because of the [[Skirmish in Boston]] and Morrígan being not viable,<ref>The water finished pouring out, and the Morrígan took its first steps.  Five or six years old in apparent age, a vague replica of the Simurgh.  It would have some blend of her powers and Myrddin’s.<br>[...]<br>The Morrígan flopped to the ground.  Dead.  Dumb.  Not viable.<br>[...]<br>Just as the crystalline feather and Leviathan’s blood had been, it wasn’t capable of sustaining life.  A failed experiment. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref> it was effectively doomed from the start as [[Accord]] would have notified authorities so that they would catch Blasto red-handed with classified materials and an incomplete project.<ref name="19.x c1">'''Reveen:''' Well, atleast we dodged the attack of the Endbringer clones bullet. If you really wanted to end the world… that’d do it. I really hope Accord’s dead, that amount of crazystupid concentrated in one person is almost as dangerous as the nine.<br><br>'''wildbow:''' In Accord’s defense, he was planning on framing Blasto, and not letting the tinker get to the point where he really finished a dangerous project; let him start working, get caught up in things, and then disappear, leaving a message for the heroes so they can stumble on the guy with piles of classified material and a possible Endbringer-in progress (note how the place is nice, but it’s not Accord’s real headquarters, as they were described in the last chapter of Migration).<br><br>I was going to have something like that in there, but couldn’t find a place for it at the end that wouldn’t kill the tempo. - Comment by Wildbow on [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref>
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