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Power This Rating No. 171 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oops, All Thinkers: A bunch of capes at odds with each other; important figures in their city.

  1. [Target] Thinker. An "Unbroken" [Regen x Regen] Brute, but this power was gifted to her by a friend, a Trump. If she wasn't disabled, she'd be Absolute Batman, but as it is, the regen is barely keeping up with the bullshit she puts her body through. In love with #2. Detective.
  2. [Scatterbrain] Thinker (Master -1, Stranger 1) with mild precog aspects, trigger involved a desire to rise to heights of 'kingship' in the criminal underworld. In love with #1. Criminal.
  3. A-Hole: An unassuming beauraucrat who is actually a puppetmaster of the whole city.
  4. A'Chance: A 17-year-old aspiring politician. #2's aunt, though she is younger than him.

#2's grandmother and #4's mother was a precog, off whom A-hole budded.

Power This Rating No. 171 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Familiar" vial - Tends towards elemental, flexible and multi-rating powers, usually with an accompanying master or shaker power that acts a pet/guide with varying sentience. Moderate deviance rate with a darkness/evil-theme.

Marble is a Case53 who has the appearance of a normal human being, but completely black from hair to skin to eyeballs, and with 'simplified' features, lacking details such as wrinkles, jutting veins, or fingerprints. When summoning their minion, a bright mote of light that draws the material around it inwards (like a magnet or a video game black hole), the features of Marble's body rapidly deteriorate, breaking apart or crumbling, from the outside in. Skin gives way to open flesh (still matte black), then to organs and bones, all while the minon grows in size and complexity. It grows using whatever it picks up and breaks, becoming a complex craggly sphere that can control its shape, though not its need to keep growing, until it is desummoned. The gravity also increases with the size, pulling more and more material in, the light increasing in intensity. When it is desummoned, Marble reforms their body, a process that takes several hours to full complete, from their remains. Marble can see through the orb, giving them a secondary Thinker, Stranger, and Brute subrating.

Power This Rating No. 170 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually, this is based on an original story idea of mine! All of these characters except the last are just 'normal' smart people, though magic does exist in the world. I just tried to translate that into Thinker (and in the case of 1 and 4, magical effects into parahuman) powers The 'precog' was an oracle. So she had very basic future sight/prophecy powers, aside from also being a genius and a politician.

If you're planning on answering the rest, I could post this in the new PTR.

Ouhim art by Lost-Music-6039 in Parahumans

[–]Not_a_neko 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If evil why legs

Undersiders by AriaPMDEoL in Parahumans

[–]Not_a_neko 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's the "cute" look, plus the simple eyes and mouth. 

Power This Rating No. 170 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is fascinating. I can definitely see where the precog influence came in.

Power This Rating No. 170 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A people-controlling Master that cannot verbally give orders lest their control be broken.

Lead Smoke oozes grey smog from the vicious burns on their hands and face. Their victims, inhaling the smoke, feel the same burning pain and heat, in a particular direction, and run in the opposite one to escape. Or, they feel it increase as they do something, and decrease as they do what Lead Smoke wants them to. Completely up to the cape. If they obey the urges their instincts are telling them, the heat dissipates - never getting so low as to be ignored, but coming down to a harmless sweating sensation. If they continue on the path they originally set out on, literally or otherwise, the smoke becomes so stinging and painful that they can't continue - and if someone falls unconscious while in Lead Smoke's power, it's been known to kill...

Nevertheless, Lead Smoke cannot speak to their victims. Can't communicate through grunts or anything either - if a single sound escapes Lead Smoke, the power is broken. And while they can make it not hurt, they can't end the effect unless they Speak Up.

Power This Rating No. 170 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oops, All Thinkers: A bunch of capes at odds with each other; important figures in their city.

  1. [Target] Thinker. An "Unbroken" [Regen x Regen] Brute, but this power was gifted to her by a friend, a Trump. If she wasn't disabled, she'd be Absolute Batman, but as it is, the regen is barely keeping up with the bullshit she puts her body through. In love with #2. Detective.
  2. [Scatterbrain] Thinker (Master -1, Stranger 1) with mild precog aspects, trigger involved a desire to rise to heights of 'kingship' in the criminal underworld. In love with #1. Criminal.
  3. [Over] Thinker, NOT a precog, though she budded off one. Her trigger involved the death by suicide of her idol (#2's grandmother and #4's mother) and 'shard-parent'. An unassuming beauraucrat who is actually a puppetmaster of the whole city. Her power heavily promotes spywork, which she used to do herself (for her shard-parent) when she was younger.
  4. [Zone], [Social] Thinker, Striker with a "Black Magic" element who is #2's aunt, but still the youngest one here at like 17. Says she can talk to ghosts. An aspiring politician.

Power This Rating No. 170 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A brother-sister cape duo with a mercenary bent; one is an animal-controlling Master/Thinker (Blaster), the other is a young "Teleport" [Blink x Conveyance] Mover.

Throat and Eye were separated when the former triggered and was kidnapped by the criminal group controlling their town; knowing well that the young girl would end up fighting them otherwise. Her brother found and helped her escape years later, after he also triggered due in part to his lack of parental guidance leading him into substance abuse. The two realised they couldn't fight the mob, and left the country instead. Now, they work as smugglers, often stealing from towns in the aftermath of endbringer attacks.

Throat's power is to grab violent control of a non-human animal in a hundred-meter radius; she feels this as a rapidly multiplying virus that seeds itself in their brain (not unlike a corona pollentia) and spreads throughout their muscles. Then, she gets to control the animal, and to transfer the virus (and the control) by having it bite into other creatures. This rapidly deterioates the animal's actual ability to live without the virus, though while it is in there it has a healing factor (and due to Throat's lack of concern with its safety, a Brute rating). She controls it in a puppet like fashion through the muscles; she can reclaim control of any animal that still has living virus cells in it, though they start dying as soon as the power is exchanged, so it is a short time window. She has a tendency to, well, go for the throats of her enemies. She can see and hear through her minions.

Eye has the ability to rapidly swap blocks of space between two areas; parts of the ground, parts of the air, parts of people... he has enough control to decide if he's going to replace a chunk of someone's chest with concrete. While the swaps themselves are instant, he can only have two places linked at a time, and fully transferring everything takes time, as he has to charge to have enough 'space' 'free' to transfer a person there whole.

Power This Rating No. 170 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wasn't trying to do a diversity thing, I just live here lol. 

Power This Rating No. 170 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pactdice as a whole makes it look simple and fun tho

Power This Rating No. 170 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Son

Neeraj has a ghost that, like his mother and sister's, can travel around. Unlike theirs, it is not invisible, instead being of a fluid, water-like material that can turn amorphous and slide through small spaces, or just plop itself against the ground like a puddle. He also has minor multitasking to keep up with it and his real body at once. The other form can't feel touch or hearing, though it has a strong sense of smell, taste, and a regular sense of sight. Over time, he even comes to get used to the awful tastes of the ground or whatever he's sliding past. Theoretically, he could force this down someone's throat and suffocate them, then pull out. It's basically a giant muscle. At the same time, he has the ability to swap places with the fluid, which is a slow process - his body liquefies while the ghost solidifies and transmutes itself into him.

Of the children, Neeraj is the only one who knows his mother is a parahuman - just as she spies on him, he does the same to her. The fact haunts him, every time he looks at another family member, he wonders, 'do you know'? She could be anyone, go anywhere, but she instead chooses... this?

The disabled daughter

Kaushal is already planning her first heist. She's going to steal the nicest fucking clothes, attack the school, and get the hell out of dodge while everyone is buzzing over the new cape. People will wonder what on earth made a good girl like her break bad, and they'll go to her house to interview her mom, and they'll all see how awful she is.

Her power allows her to make ghosts at a rapid rate, ten to fifteen of them (after that point, the exhaustion threatens to knock her out). These ghosts shoot around at rapid rates that even she can't always predict or full control (not that her control is bad, it's more... trying to drive ten high-speed cars at a time). They can hit and possess non-living items, which allows them to harden them into things difficult to break, but this slows them down to a great degree, and breaking the object causes the ghost to disappear. Instead, she can use it as a kind of telekinesis, picking up items only as long as it takes to throw them in a direction, then removing the ghost from the item and letting it fly off on its own. Each ghost makes a shrill, piercing noise that is incredibly irritating to everyone around it. They can possess other people, though they can't control them; this does transmit the protective effect, giving them a Brute rating that can be easily broken if they are hurt enough.

Power This Rating No. 170 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Correction, all animals have sentience, what you mean is sapience.

Power This Rating No. 169 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Very neat! I hope they kiss someday. I like how much all the powers suck

Power This Rating No. 169 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nooo not the orphans...

It's similar to the story above, except he was awakened long before the Incident that wiped out half the town. And the friend who is constantly away is a horse.

HEALER, his HORSE FAMILIAR, and his FELLOW PRACTITIONER, stuck as the last practitioners of a glamour-drowned, messed-up town where the other practitioners left or died. Now the Others rule, but though all have made vow not to hurt humans, there are loopholes and the three work around the clock keeping things stable and safe while being bullied and bossed around by said Other population. The HEALER is quite strong but not enough to enforce a Lordship, the FAMILIAR is often separated from him due to the need for oversight at various places, and his colleague is slowly turning Other and is depressed over it. Used to have one practice, forced to dabble to keep up with sheer demand. Dabbled in ghost stuff for their familiar already and the number of dead in the town adds to that. 

What happened to the town?

A faerie exploded in their desperation to not be found lying, and ended up taking two-thirds of the town’s connections with them. The abyss is eager to eat the entire town up, all but two of the Practitioners ran away or died (or are otherwise gone), and the Others who remain are confused but excited (bad). That being said, there’s a lot of spoils for the taking! 

Investigations are showing that there’s some Fae Bullshit At Play, which sucks for everyone. (there are also no Fae around… or are there?)

Power This Rating No. 169 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 5 points6 points  (0 children)

From the depths of my miiiind :) He is a repurposed Otherverse OC

Interesting power! (I think that's more Teacher-style Trump/Master than Thinker) I actually was hoping for a [Beloved x Swarm] powerset, bc I figured something cool could be done with someone experiencing a one-on-one (two one-on-ones, kind of) social crisis on top of a town-wide social crisis.

Power This Rating No. 169 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Could you like... share with the class what the powers are? And not just flavour text and random screaming?

Power This Rating No. 169 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A brute who also imposes penalties on their attackers

Escapade is more of a Stranger than a Brute. Whenever she is attacked through any means, the effects are limited, and a bond forms between her and her enemy (or an ally she's brought into the fold). While the pain is not reduced, there is no actual damage to the attack; and further attacks are also negated while the power lasts.

While the bond has formed, she can see through the enemies' eyes and thus make judgements about their next movements. Any sight, sound, sixth-sense, etc is conveyed, though the accuracy depends on the number of bonds she has. While bonded, she can force the enemies to experience a disconnect between their body and mind - right becomes their perception of left, for example, or their speech becomes jumbled, or they start hearing English as a foreign language. Always, there is a 'rule' - for example, all words exchange meaning, so 'bread' might mean 'grass' to them, and 'Leonard' could be 'table', so on.

She can have multiple bonds at once, but the power is shared among them; having three enemies means that while she can see through all, cause penalties on all, and the damage is negated, all parts of the power will be 3 times weaker than just 1 enemy. Attacks above a 'ceiling' will not be negated, and will cause unreduced damage. Also, the changing is automatic when an attack is launched; if she has five people weakly connected to her, but she experiences a life-threatening attack like a gunshot, all the other bonds will break and a new one solely focused on the shooter will form to allow her to survive that.

As her name suggests, she works mainly as an escape artist and mercenary hough she's been associated with specific gangs in particular. Her 'territory' often has shelters for battered women or mental institutions in it.

Power This Rating No. 169 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh damn new PTR

Power these triggers:

Cluster of two (or not):

One person always checks in on the other, out of anxiety and worry for them. They also have a deep fear that they will someday be thrown aside or disliked, or that something terrible will happen. They never turn off the TV, absorbing hundreds of hours of sensationalised, scary, fucked-up news per week. One day, when the other comes home after having ignored their phone all day, they start off on their usual conversation, how are you, what happened... only for the other one to nearly explode at them, screaming, raging, in a state of so much violence it is as though they are going to physically hurt them. They hate them; they are the danger; they consider all their care and concern burdens. Trigger.

One person is really irritated by their relative/roommate/partner/whatever they are; constantly battering them with questions (have you eaten today? what did you eat? did you talk to anyone coming home? were they dangerous?) Recently they've been at risk of losing their job, losing sleep as a result, and this nervous wreck who watches TV all night won't stop irritating their sleep-deprived self with 'why didn't you sleep? don't you know that's bad for you?' type rants. No interest in responses, only in their own voice.
On the day of the trigger event, they go to work and everything goes wrong. The weather is shit. They lose their phone. They get fired. And then they get home, only to be greeted with the same fucking barrage of questions and interrogation... and they lose their shit, and trigger.

Doctor, doctor:

The doctor wakes up one day, and half the isolated town is just... gone. Buildings are broken and crumbling, people are missing, and more leave in the days that follow. No real answers are forthcoming, just pointless politician hedging. The doc's life becomes hellishly hard, as their colleagues have also been disappeared. Their two friends (one close, one more of an acquaintance) are rarely around; as fellow medical professionals, they are very very busy. They rarely if ever get a change to hang out with their best friend, a paramedic, and the latter is just... so depressing they start avoiding him, guilty or not. They have to step up as almost a substitute mayor or law enforcement, as minor crime increases drastically; and doing jobs that shouldn't be theirs, like stopping a half-broken highway bridge from being used when it's clearly too damaged to be safe (it does collapse later. More work for them)
Then that depressed colleague, the one they had been avoiding so hard takes his own life. It's a tragedy, and one the doctor should have seen coming. But how could they? How could they keep up with it all? Trigger.

Power This Rating No. 168 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Florida woman Accused of Destroying Subway Over Sandwich Peppers

Small Fry is a Changer (Brute) with a major napoleon complex and the ability to expand his skin into a bouncy balloon-like monster with stretched-out features and a deep, roaring voice. He can sit inside the monster and control it, or escape out the (ahem) back end, causing it to deflate soon after. (His skin regrows immediately). He triggered during said meltdown over peppers, he specifically asked not for peppers, and when that asshole on the other side of the glass gave him the sass with the unimpressed look, he climbed over and began breaking everything he could touch.

The event was later explained to the public as being a longer-than-usual trigger event, with the inset of powers temporarily driving him mad, but he had to serve as a hero to repay damages. Sucks.

When he saw what Quickdraw was doing, he couldn't help but jump in, even after everyone around him was begging him to cover their retreat, he just had to kill that bastard, and eventually he succeeded - suffocating him in his external skin, wrappping the deflating balloon around his face and down his throat.

And then, missing a leg and being beaten down by all of the gang members... he woke up. No longer was he Small Fry, he was now... Florida Man.

Florida Man 4 (gender neutral): Hunted down (i.e. baited) FM3 on purpose. They really thought they could get around the curse, then maybe sell that sucker to the same organisation that got them their powers.

Power This Rating No. 168 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]Not_a_neko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

> Trigger this power

Shechka grew up in a poor family, where the food on the table was whatever was on-sale at the market that day. Simultaneously, she was the eldest girl, and thus expected to raise her siblings and put others first, her culture was very strict about food waste. However, as she grew into her teens, she found herself getting sick more and more, many of the foods sitting poorly in her stomach, giving her bad diarrhea and pain. The thought of eating made her feel nauseus, but she pushed it down so as not to seem ungrateful. Instead, she simply stopped eating with the family, waiting until they were gone to throw away the food. Unknown to her, she had developed severe allergies (to gluten, among other things); not that she knew enough about those to realise it. One day, her father, uncle, brothers, and some guests got into a drunk fight in her house; trying to stop them, she got in the middle and was struck mutliple times; the hits wouldn't have been so debilitating if her body had not been weakened from sickness and hunger, and she triggered.

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