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Rewarding?
When and if I ever have think of playing weaver dice
The 'leader' visionary
Funny Guy-Dr.Mindbubble/prof.Dumbledore as grandparent, to get the joke look through the kingdoms that science classifies life.
psilocybin "magic" mushrooms "psilocybe cubensis" Improve eyesight temporarily, but what if your body can be thought to replicate the effect? Talk about how the entities chose a world that did not focus on looking inward, on brain development. New studies point to a modified placebo effectreplicating some medications
Further this same chemical is being studied as part of a potential treatment for numerous mental health issues.
Mycelium Running: How mushrooms can help save the world by Paul Stamets
Food of the gods? A lecture
Can make people remember trigger events if he gets to them quick enough
For more evidence I should point out other [gizmodo.com/the-technology-that-will-build-our-future-may-be-found-1693612047 applications] mushrooms are being used for these day
https://drugs-forum.com/forum/showwiki.php?title=Stoned_Ape_Hypothesis&redirect=no
https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/using-fungi-remediate-radiation-fukushima
.com/blog/items/the-petroleum-problem.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saprotrophic_nutrition
Combat applications
Let us no just take off the benefical application of this power but also what it can be used to figh opponents. I would point to the voice in the night which was the inspiration for Motango and other monster mushroom movies. Evidence points to it not having inspired that game where Cordyceps, fast acting enough to overcome the human immune system, almost causes human extinction. You now the game i am talking about, what I am proposing is that Funny Guy uses a highly re-engineered version of Cordyceps and similar (there is Stachybotrys A damaging house mold) as a deterrent against people coming after them or their friends because they could have a timed release of this thing only waiting to bloom.
Side note: Cordyceps actually has its own parasite that inhibits it's ability to spawn. Cordyceps also seen in medicine but so far I am just seeing stuff that looks like scams, or unhelpfully [m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1192207 traditional medicine], though there is a link to the anti-rejection drug Neoral which is based on Ciclosporin first discovered in switzerland, hmmmm. It isn't actually related to
Last of us: Aspergillus niger and various species of genus
Early worm drafts mention something called the Rhizome, I think a 'mushroom tinker' could make such a thing
trigger/irony
Grandparent triggered thinking of a way to help their grand-babies, develops prosopagnosia due to their tinker/thinker Tecton/Accord-like abilites. Can become more 'powerful'(cool down time goes down?) through 'multiple triggers'(something else entirly) but losses even more human social ability and similar as a result. For example genders get harder and harder to differentiate.
the muscle
a Trumps Trump, can you have a trump 0?
To every thing away, possible cape name:Entelechy the Dividual
or even more away an alternate name: Paragon the Future Guy/Girl
Ellis's Midnighter/Morrison's Fantomax/Cassandra Cain/Marvel's Echo, Taskmaster, and Finesse, could you sound like a nonative speaker in every spoken language?
Myostatin-Related Muscle Hypertrophy
dense bones,
healing
secondary/combat nervous system the tertiary for emergencies
Given Taylor Hebert's experience would a next-gen morality system be a 'power'?
scary lady
Questions that guided creation of this character
Why are there some people in worm who think stuff capes can do is magic? Are they able to point to specific examples beyond Myrddin and The Adepts?
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What type of character would people like Sarah, Taylor, and maybe even Jacob, legitimately fear meeting?
Now after that fun mission statement let's see how badly I can fail! Retro-cognizant Cape, (past sight) that can reconstruct a dead persons personality well enough to use them for advisement and insight. Is any 'secret' safe?
Ideas on powers
Now some interesting ideas on Tulpa's, basically psychologically constructed models of actual people. What you would get with anyone you know well enough through interaction or reading their writings. But when you throw shards into the mix what do you think could happen? She likely has an upward limit (three pops up a lot in religion) that this women can construct before resources are strained. Now is her power exclusively focused on people, or could it be used to see what happened over a fixed time in a given area, or is that to powerful? Likely able to do more with a second trigger, but return to that later.
Mechanism: cloudy indistinct "force-fields" nothing straight and neat but able to use it for sensory input, unrestricted by sight. Thus could stand over any (earth/water/sky/fire) burial site and use this field to enclose necessary remains and start the modeling process to 'make' the ghost. Is not a completely accurate (60-80%)modeling only catches actions and not the thoughts in the persons head, best with extroverts.
Limits: Another idea is if her abilities could shield a living person from the Simurgh's 'scanning' and help prevent conversion into one of the endbringers guided missiles, likely led a bad life for a while due to preemptive attacks on Ziz's part. From what I see on reddit someone else already made a character who can talk with ghosts. Mix it up with the ability to see what occurred in the past?
Could implant a tulpa into others? A murderer would truly know her victim.
Personality/trigger
The loss of entire family of really intelligent people, not there herself but learned about it afterward.
Scholer? traditional and conservative concerned with peoples actions more then thoughts in their head, 'Builder' conservative custodial nature if that does not make her to cliched.
How much is already there or how much is it the trigger event? Could she have devolved into some form of cult leader before surviving a second trigger event and near death experience. Only the intervention of this group saves her, turns her to slightly more positive pursuits.
While looking for a good name I came across [thishttp://onecoyote.deviantart.com/art/Las-Brujas-604009638 Las Brujas (the witches)], now I am wondering how much to adopt wholesale and how much to be influenced by it.
the transport
I think I will name it the good ship Commorancy and use it to answer how twisted can humans become with the right triggers? Inspirations include: The Authority Carrier (and derivatives)/ Neth the plane that lives/the girl who was a building seen in Franken Fran (I think it was 26)
Used the services of Alan Gramme so that (s\he/it) could survive, needed another tinker who could (replicate\add to) his work to thrive. Commorancy is a cyborg with fungal enhancements, allows for full body control where whatever power that keeps (s\he/it) alive does not help.
Roughly the interior space size of a high-school gym. Ever seen the statistics of how far your digestive track, circulatory system, and nervous system can stretch? (look up these statistics) The spread out processes keep the area reasonably warm while the interior is usually flowery and sweet smelling, diabetic coma perhaps?
Probably can absorb and digest lifeforms and use abilities parahumans it has 'eaten' (think Star Wars EU sarlac and Father from animorphs), can only communicate through feelings needs an empath. Is still highly intelligent but can not communicate normally.
trigger
With the cold war fizzing and new frontiers opening what happened to the old Russian science cities? Would they be reactivated to study superpowers? Counter measures employed to keep from snooping would not let anyone know what was birthed in in these things.
Anyway can transport people by putting objects in the 'foyer' in a compressed space time field anti-bubble(normal space inside and out 'distorted|warped' space 'field|barrier') and then 'shoots' said anti-bubble at destination, 'recall' is inversion based around smash-able object. It can be breached but this does not usually harm occupants ('borrowed' power?). Power is meant to be unusual as the usual factors for negating teleporters do not necessarily apply. no kinetic bombardment, to easy and already been done.
more features
in an effort to bring more superhero cliches into worm or earth he
"I have been chased by gorilla fighters I know how to lose a tail" "I think you mean guerrilla, your accent is a bit difficult" "No s/he means Gorilla" In 1989 a super-pedagogue set up an semi-independent african nation composed of gorillas, super-liberal multi-sign-language using gorilla commandos 20 years later.
Emergence of superpowers allows for the independence of tibet with 'secret' parahuman refuges(especially tinkers) being made throughout the mountainous region, how much does cauldron know? Likely helped set up then turned on when recruits were needed, relations likely soured. Disruptions like these is one of the reasons for the CUI forming in the first place.
other stuff
Look up the Bogatyri they were used for story by Marvel so there may be complications, luckily there are so many different anglicizations. Also what about that Russian guy in Dragonslayers, is that name related to these guys?
Antagonist Proposals
Wildbow apparently brought up these guys before. Sovereign Citizens taking the names from old patriotic superheroes, I wonder if they know anything about the flag code, though I do suggest using the costumes as inspiration.
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Alternatively you could go The Fallen route, making them a family of patriotic immigrant haters
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Protagonist Proposals
Looking into what powers can do, how positive a persons life can be while still being screwed up, I wonder if I need to work in more irony?#rambling.
Baphomet-A bud shard of the smokey bandit guy,<ref>https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15026703/</ref> converts controlled smoke/soot into 'their' smoke(divergent molecular structure?) and can manipulate and sense things through it, has a finite amount that will dissipate over time. When in smoke can use it to travel at higher speeds, like how apparition was handled in the Harry Potter movies. Perhaps they can squeeze through smaller spaces then their mass should allow, or use slimier effect to cloak self and distort their body shape(that last one should only be learned and used after LOTS of experience). As a STEM student, and having an interest in special and practical effects used in movies, they; like Taylor; considered how best to use their abilities. In this case recycling military surplus smoke canisters filling them with 'their' smoke (or useful precursor materials) giving them more smoke to work with.
Grew up in or moved to the Bible belt, in a town that had fights between an incompetent members of a nascent Haven and the ever annoying Fallen. While obviously a hero they crafted their identity to annoy both groups. They shout 'satanic' catch phrases and profess interest in all the things hated by hard-line religious groups, while harassing and capturing members of the Fallen.
Later joins The Protectorate, gets their name changed to Panic or Pan for short. Uses their position to teach sex-ed and free thinking philosophy at school assemblies in the Bible Belt. By the time Worm roles around has been dead or retired for some time, Simurgh most likely. Obviously inspired Satyr\ical, as well as other heroes, even if they joined Haven.
Some fun points
- IIRC: Baphomet was part of a smear campaign by the French king against the Knights Templar, an attempt to seize the order's assets by claiming that they were devil worshippers. Has numerous spelling and pronunciations.
- IIRC: 19th century England writers used the Greek god Pan when talking about nature and similar almost creating a genre. I also recommend looking up the celtic Nodens, the horror book The Great God Pan, and the Dunwhich Horror, I can not recommend Steven King's N as I have not myself read it but it is supposedly good.
- IIRC: While in America at the same time nonsense words were coming into vogue, words like discombobulate, absquatulate, bloviate, sockdolager, hornswoggle and rambunctious. When they change their identity to Pan/ic, such words become cornerstones of their vocabulary, they find them hilarious. The rest of the in-costume persona echoes Ned Flanders of the Simpsons for increased ridiculousness.
- Identifying gender of protagonist was deliberately avoided, a potential player should be able to make up their own mind. Also basically shares the agenda of the satanic temple before it was cool.
- Possibly triggered in a fire almost dying from smoke inhalation, now pyrophobic? Orphaned living with previously estranged family members? hmm has almost a second inverse personality as a cape(see above) slimier to the spider-men, and he continually clocks himself misdirection and subterfuge to keep others from ever getting to know the real them. the smoke abilities assists and accelerates this confusion, a possible second trigger would be realizing this.
- 'Inspired' to join endbringer fights do to a haven cape they had an antagonistic relationship with going, feeling it to be a religious calling, and dying there. Guilt and shame up the wazoo, made worse that the cape is not even remembered in a few months.
- Note: did not say the smoke\soot stays or is even fixed black in color, or that the cape can or cannot manipulate it's density. Also must acknowledge and distance self from the influence of InFAMOUS: Second Son.
- Finally this is likely to never see the light of day given prohibitions on religion in weaver dice.
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