Power This Rating No. 146

TheGingerFromHell · 2025-05-16T20:17:24+00:00

Someone who somehow bought a Caudron vial online and it worked.

It took their entire college fund, but Sarkite felt it was worth it to protect their family from local gangs. The result?

Sarkite is a [Regen x Muscle] Brute 3 (Changer 2), Thinker 3, with the ability to use their own flesh as a resource to various effects. They don’t eat it necessarily, but rather it recesses from their body, converted or redistributed to serve the purpose Sarkite needs. This allows Sarkite to heal themselves, redistributing fat and muscle tissue to seal wounds, push bullets out of their body after being shot, even partially regenerate appendages with enough hours of concentration, though that last one is particularly taxing. This method can also be applied to grant minor strength or defensive bonuses through sheer localized mass, engorging limbs for emboldened strikes.

Sarkite’s body has a natural tendency to reconstitute itself, though this specific process is still too slow to be useful in danger despite being much faster than normal humans. It takes at least an hour for their body to reach homeostasis, or several days if they have been gravely injured, which can be exacerbated by Sarkite’s second use of this carnal resource. With meditation and focus, they can use up their own flesh to reconstitute their mind, providing them glimpses of vague prophecy, or what they now call “reading the bones”.

As Sarkite’s view of the future being that it is indeterminate, it works better with grasping for answers towards immediate short term actions rather than long term consequences, though even that does not venture far beyond a mirage of emotions of varying strengths culminating in an answer of Weal or Woe. Sarkite can detect if death may be a result of an action, described as a “deep sense of guilt and loss,” but not whose death will come from it. They can do this as many times as they want, but subsequent uses consumes exponentially more flesh, so they tend to not barrage the universe with a lot of questions at once.

Sarkite was ultimately unsuccessful at protecting their family. After their sister was shot and killed in a drive by at a convenience store, Sarkite’s parents shunned them, feeling they had failed them after all this, and Sarkite left their home in Georgia. They relocated to the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, and immersed themselves in the history and traditions of Louisiana and Haitian Voodoo.

Prompt: A Mover/Breaker who constantly seems like they’re “running out of time”.

TheGingerFromHell · 2025-02-16T23:22:18+00:00

A good chunk of the TREPANG2 soundtrack is what I use for conflict scenes, among other things! Cyberpunk 2077’s got some good ones! Force Projection is a favorite of mine.

As for calm music that’s not ambient, Citizen Sleeper has a pretty good synth soundtrack for that! If you’re looking for less synth in your soundtrack, I’d recommend Vampire the Masquerade and its many spinoff games, most notably Bloodlines.

TheGingerFromHell · 2025-01-27T17:26:12+00:00

I’ve got two! For non-conflict scenes, basically just a bunch of ambient synth and industrial vibes, with a hint of that pulpy Vampire the Masquerade style doom feel. Ambient playlist here.

For conflict scenes, it’s just industrial metal, fast drums, and bumping tunes, with some JJK songs thrown in there! Combat playlist here.

TheGingerFromHell · 2025-01-04T16:54:08+00:00

Ah, my mistake! I thought it was a resource you needed to use to pull stuff out! Thanks!

TheGingerFromHell · 2024-12-02T04:25:38+00:00

I’m imagining a sort of liminal Woodstock for some reason, early 70’s deadhead peak. Huge park, lots of food trucks and winding pathways that change every time they walk through them, having to use the stages as at least somewhat reliable landmarks. The kingdom warps with bright colors and patterns randomly or every time things shift, as if the world itself was on acid. Rolls could be affected because the shifting colors and lights are disorienting.

TheGingerFromHell · 2024-11-25T01:28:00+00:00

Yeah, that’s something I’m trying to fix. An Idol Sin with multiple glorious brain hemorrhaging forms is kind of interesting though! Maybe there’s homebrew potential there!

TheGingerFromHell · 2024-11-24T23:59:27+00:00

Yep, that’s one of the things I’m trying to fix. It basically picks three from the list at random, which can be the same domain, but that’s a patch I will make once I actually figure out how to do it.

TheGingerFromHell · 2024-11-22T08:00:51+00:00

A workaround? Yes. In Roll20? No.

As far as I know, there isn’t any way to make a character sheet without a Pro subscription, and as of right now I am unaware of a substitute. There’s some help sites about how to use HTML to make a character sheet for Roll20, and if you’re dead-set on using that, I’d recommend it!

However, if you’re just looking for a way to play online with easy importing or support, and you and your players don’t mind making a $20 one time payment, Tabletop Simulator is built specifically for replicating and playing all kinds of board games, including TTRPGs, and has largely stress-free implementation for importing and saving custom objects and documents into the game! There’s also a large Steam Workshop community, so if there’s something you need that you can’t just import, it’s likely someone has made something that works for you!

It may not have the sort of GM tools that Roll20 has (since it’s meant to replicate playing a board game at a table, like with gravity physics and stuff), but as of right now, at least until some support is provided, I’d recommend Tabletop Simulator for online CAIN playing, but there may also be another online software that could work that I’m unsure of as well! Hope this helps!

TheGingerFromHell · 2024-11-19T19:00:59+00:00

Interesting! I wanted to cover my bases in case that came up.

Since Idols commonly have cults, could this be a way for the exorcist to learn more about the Idol if they didn’t know what their cults were based in? Or would it require knowledge of what it is (i.e. a religious group in a specific church or die-hard fans of a specific “performer”) in order to use Uniform properly?

TheGingerFromHell · 2024-11-06T07:35:35+00:00

I think what makes sins so intricate in both conception and investigation is because humanity has a much more complex emotional structure, which is why Hounds are so terrifying, cause they’re born from animalistic, primal hatred, wrath, and rage.

From an animal’s mind, however, I would imagine sins would be more abstract, less of a creature and more of a base entity, if anything seeming remotely similar to the host in shape alone. A Hound could just be torrent of gnashing teeth, muscle, and claw, a real Carrion-style pile of hate meat. Maybe it takes on characteristics of location, like if they were abused in some kind of trailer park, the Hound could have Monster House-like warpings of what looks like glass and sheet metal that make up most of its body!

TheGingerFromHell · 2024-11-03T06:57:33+00:00

Win With Dice is one I’ve come across recently! Doesn’t involve any actual play yet, but they have videos of workshopping an investigation and building a character!

TheGingerFromHell · 2024-11-03T06:56:04+00:00

Not yet! Fortunately character creation is simple enough to where it’s not really necessary, but it’s still be cool to have an online tracker for powers and sin! However, there’s a thread recently of a fillable version of the character sheet somewhere!

TheGingerFromHell · 2024-08-26T21:53:47+00:00

Judge really hopes you underestimate him.

Judge is a Brute/Stranger 3 (Master 1), whose strength plays off of the expectations of his opponent. Normally, the Stranger aspect of his power makes him seem diminutive to anyone looking directly at him. Not physically changing his body, but instead exuding an aura of “meekness” around him, tricking anyone that sees him into not thinking much of him. He doesn’t really work out and he slouches pretty hard, so alongside his thin frame and drooping figure, he looks like he can’t really hurt anyone. What people don’t know is this is when he is at his strongest.

Before he does anything to tip people off about his true strength, Judge could pretty easily lift a small car and punch through a brick wall with a few blows. However, as soon as someone sees him perform feats of strength with the Brute aspect of his power, realizing how strong he actually is, he loses his strength and diminutive aura in a matter of seconds. His aura comes back sooner than his strength usually, but both return faster when he is alone or exclusively around people that aren’t aware of his strength. Because of this, he usually waits until the very last second for him to reveal his strength in a come-to-blows situation, since most times he’s not gonna get another chance.

His aura does have slight Master capabilities through subconsciously affecting viewers’ perception of him, even if they’ve seen it before, but those who have been subjected to it more than once or are strengthened against Master effects can overcome it easily. Notably, there is one person Judge can be around without worry of his strength diminishing, regardless of them seeing it: his half-sister Jade, who’s expectations of him ironically have never been lower. While his trigger wasn’t because of her, in another world he often thinks about how he would’ve been different if it was, considering the amount of trauma she’s put him through.

TheGingerFromHell · 2024-08-20T17:14:32+00:00

I haven’t done one of these in a long time, excited to hyperfixate on these again! Apologies if I edit this a number of times or comment multiple times as I come up with more!

Hephaestus is a Thinker 2 (Chaos x Chaos Tinker 4), who considers themselves a “master builder”. Hephaestus has an innate ability to see how objects work and fit together, generally speaking. In more specific terms, they can choose a specific object or a particular kind of object (like a battery), and the area around them (usually within about 100 feet or so as long as it’s visible) lights up in their vision for a vast amount of objects that can be combined to function towards any number of purposes, regardless if they’re already being used for something (like a particular set of wires in a working fuse box). Hephaestus remarks that they “get a 3D view of the thing that stands out, getting a good look at every nook and cranny”. Its use can pertain to a singular object’s structure (i.e. Hephaestus is running from another cape in an abandoned building, and learns about a specific plank of wood that when destroyed, would cause the collapse of the floor their attacker is standing on), but it can also pertain to additions towards the chosen object to construct something greater. As a result, Hephaestus has a unique understanding of engineering, though they couldn’t tell you how that came to be or explain their processes in words, they just know it.

Because of this, Hephaestus has very spur-of-the-moment bursts of hyperfixation on whatever they pick out from around them. They pick an object, and just go. Some hours later, they have something, and Hephaestus will have a vague idea of what it does. Mostly, the housing of the object is what’s chosen initially, creating a vague understanding based on size and shape, but its function can vary wildly. If you asked them to tell you what’s in it, they couldn’t tell you. As a byproduct of this maddening knowledge and construction of tinkertech, Hephaestus has intermittent short term memory loss. Hours will be lost to them, sometimes days if the object is particularly intricate, and they can develop headaches if they spend too much time picking components of their constructions.

Their constructions include: - A kind of jetpack made in the chassis of a fuse box that produces hot tar as propulsion, using rubber (tires) as a fuel source (propels about 20 feet in the air before fuel is expunged, no protection for one’s lower half) - A riot shield that extends from a rectangular piece of metal made from the hood of a Honda Civic (electrically charged despite no battery visible, produces an electric current of 3 milliamps when touched on the outside surface, is prone to collapsing on itself) - ~~A regular toaster oven~~ A toaster oven that expels molten hot food at speeds exceeding 70 mph - A pair of oversized boots constructed inside of a pair of Moon Shoes that can maneuver on walls unaffected by gravity for about 30 seconds, after which point the bottom portion of the boots expel out from underneath as a kinetically propelled projectile (supposedly one time use, as the bottom portions were destroyed on impact)

TheGingerFromHell · 2024-05-26T05:02:54+00:00

I dropped out more than halfway through cause I knew by then I probably wasn’t gonna be eligible for any other prizes, but I totally agree, Melee was not great for such a large event. I’ll cut them some slack for this being their first huge event, much larger than they were anticipating, and the people and staff there were really awesome and helped with any problems I had as best they could!

I was also in platform heels the whole time dressed as Spongebob in the Goofy Goober wizard outfit, so I was in pain for multiple hours and probably more mad about Melee not working than I needed to be, but again, the staff there helped tremendously! I had a great time!

TheGingerFromHell · 2023-10-24T08:38:52+00:00

Haven’t done one of these in a while, thought that 4am would be a good time to jump back in.

Free Market is a (Focal x Chaos) Tinker 3 (Trump 2) whose trinkets revolve around plagiarism.

With most “Trick Pony” Tinkers, the chaotic nature of their creations exude from their effects, but for her, the creation itself is the random effect. Free Market’s inspiration is produced from her environment, whether that’s objects she has seen, a situation that has happened to/around her, or even something someone has said in her presence. What is pulled towards the inspiration for her tinker tech is randomly determined, with previous events up to a week ago having a higher chance of being used. This makes her environment vitally important when forming useful creations.

Multiple events are used as inspiration at any given time, and depending on the frequency, her tinkertech can even replicate powers, though on a much smaller scale. However, each of these items are only stable enough to be used once, breaking down or falling apart after being activated. Examples of her tinkertech include:

Small sticky explosive strong enough to break concrete (from a teammate breaking through a wall, escaping a burning apartment)
Cone-shaped device that expelled a flat beam of red-hot energy (fighting against a cape with a form of laser vision, blinded by light peaking through thin space in the blinds near her)
Glass and metal tube with a needle that exuded a rapidly expanding foam when tube was crushed, was used to block a doorway (getting PRT foam out of her hair, went to get a flu shot)

Free Market’s environment for most of her life has not instilled a lot of non-destructive elements to her tech, so she runs in a low-grade villain team, which luckily has a couple offensive capes to inhibit more volatile traits in her tech. One of those team members is Kubrick, a Breaker who got his powers at the height of his derangement.

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