Editing Rune (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Rune could touch an object to attune to it, after which point she had the ability to telekinetically move it.<ref name="7.9 e1">Rune was the source of the debris that had struck us, which was rising back into the air as I watched.  A teenage girl in the service of Empire Eighty-Eight, Rune was a powerful telekinetic capable of lifting nearly a ton.  Several things weighing up to a ton, judging by what I saw.  She hovered in the air, crouched atop a piece of building as big as a garbage truck, with more similarly sized pieces of rubble orbiting her.  The drawback to her power was that she needed to touch things before she could move them with her mind, but that seemed fairly inconsequential right this moment. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/14 Excerpt] from [[Buzz 7.9]]</ref><ref name="Cast2"/> She had to trace signatures onto the object with her power.<ref name="R1" /> This process takes a few seconds,<ref name="13.8 e1"/> up to a limit of 30 seconds.<ref name="R1" /> The resultant object did not glow.<ref>'''Rune's power glows.'''<br/><br/>Nope. - [https://redd.it/6kcne7 Wildbow clearing up misconceptions on reddit]</ref>

Although Skitter believed she was limited to objects weighing up to a ton,<ref name="7.9">[[Buzz 7.9]]</ref> they could in fact weigh several tons each,<ref name="Cast1" /> and she could also levitate lighter objects.<ref name="15.2 e2" /> She was able to levitate pieces of rubble the size of trucks,<ref name="7.9 e3">“Fuckers!” the teenager in the cowl and robe screamed, “I’ll squash you!”<br/><br/>The big pieces of rubble in the sky above drifted our way. One suddenly stopped levitating and dropped.<br/><br/>We were already kicking the dogs into motion, leaping to the neighboring rooftop, when the debris struck with a series of crashes that suggested the debris had punched through the roof and even the one or two floors below it. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/14 Excerpt] from [[Buzz 7.9]]</ref><ref name="12.2">[[Plague 12.2]]</ref> which were seemingly about her upper limit.<ref name="7.9 e2">She lunged straight for the floating piece of debris.  Her claws latched on it, and for a moment, we hung there, Angelica in an undignified pose with her upper body hanging onto the thing, back legs dangling.<br/><br/>It drifted downward, slow at first, then faster, as though Rune couldn’t support the weight of us and the chunk of building.  Angelica scrabbled for a grip, pulled her body up and forward, and found the footing to leap. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/14 Excerpt] from [[Buzz 7.9]]</ref> On one occasion, she was seen to break off a chunk of a building by using her power on it.<ref name="13.8 e1">Rune leaped off the rock and landed on the husk of a building that hadn't survived Leviathan's attack.  A few seconds later, a large section broke off and lifted into the air.  She didn't stay on top of it for long, choosing instead to gather more ammunition, moving on to other ruined walls and sections of building. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/08/21 Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.8]]</ref> She was [[Manton Effect|Manton limited]] to nonliving objects,<ref name="Cast1"/> although people could ride on objects she moved.<ref name="7.9 e2"/><ref name="12.2">[[Plague 12.2]]</ref>

She is usually limited to two distinct objects, but can manipulate three or four with increasing penalties to her own ability to operate independently. Similar objects are easier for her to coordinate then disparate ones.<ref name="R1">Two objects at a time, three if she devotes enough focus that it impacts her ability to manage her own movements, balance, self defense, etc, and maybe four if she really tries, gives up a lot in the aforementioned categories, and very probably has items which are easy to coordinate (ie. all roughly equal in shape and mass).<br/><br/>Takes up to 30 seconds to attune to each object, tracing signatures onto them with her power. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/5uew9h/were_there_limits_to_runes_powers/ddtsets/ Wildbow comments on the limits to Rune's powers?, reddit]</ref><ref name="7.9 e1" />

After [[The Firmament]] bombing, she appears to have gained more raw power in exchange of finer control.<ref name="II19.e" />

Scribe has put years of work into being an effective communicator with a large vocabulary,<ref name="II17.z e8" /> and has made substantial progress.<ref name="II16.2e3" />

===Equipment===
After [[Gold Morning]], Scribe took to using a staff to mark down the symbols she used to focus her telekinesis. It also serves as an effective impromptu surf-stick.<ref name="II16.2e3">At the other table, the Shepherds were packing up.  Scribe was doing a lot of the talking, and the three others were listening.  She drew something on the head of her staff, then let go of it, letting it float down and flip over, until it was horizontal.  She stood on it, a witch with her broomstick, and used her telekinesis to manipulate it and help keep her balance.  The entire time, she was speaking in a voice that was more quiet and for her group only than anything we’d said at our table. [...] That done, she floated away, still surfing on her magic stick.  Her trio walked behind her. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/17 Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.2]]</ref>