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[GreatWyrmGold]

This is odd. People replied within the hour for my previous updates.

[scapheap]

2. Namedar
3. A children card game
4. Started to see people names.

[LordBucket]

1. Can random name generators come up with awesome names or what?:

I like Sloan. It reminds me of Ferris Bueller.

2. What was Elva's ability:

He was a human calculator with the ability to do anything up to complex logarithms in his head faster than it took for his mouth to say the answer, as well as eidetic memory for all numbers.

Since he was autistic, most people viewed him as a socially awkward idiot-savant rather than a genuine "super."

3. What interests did the three of you share?

A heartfelt, deep and genuine love of croquet.

4. What caused your power taken from (presumably) Elva to be noticed?:

Lucy grew up unremarkably "above average" in scholastic pursuits, with math in particular being one of her weak points. On the way home from the party they stopped for gas, and as they were pulling out from the station she casually glanced over at the pump and calculated the price per gallon by dividing the price by number of gallons. The people giving her a ride playfully chastised her with, "Wow, Lucy...you can read. Very good." Sure enough, the price per gallon was listed on the pump. But she hadn't read it. She did the division in her head without thinking about it.

She dismissed it as silly until the next day she realized she was able to do every problem in her math class completely effortlessly. No work, no effort...she simply looked at the problems and instantly knew the answer as easily as one might stand without falling over without any deliberate effort. And then the following day she remembered both the problems and solutions from the math she'd done the previous day and was able to recite them verbatim.

Wisely, she was discrete about the change. She deliberately failed her next math exam, and then slowly allowed her grades to improve over the next few months. She'd seen the way Nolan had been ostracized, and knew better than to let anyone see her newfound abilities.

[Jbg97]

1. Can random name generators come up with awesome names or what? NOPE
2. What was Elva's ability that set him apart from everyone? (Really powerful abilities would make people like or at least not shun him, so nixing that ahead of time.) His boners were sentient.
3. What interests did the three of you share? Drugs, bigotry, occasional murder, neo-nazism
4. What caused your power taken from (presumably) Elva to be noticed? Chicks don't like boners that try to have a conversation during sex apparently.

[javierpwn]

1. Can random name generators come up with awesome names or what? NOPE
2. What was Elva's ability that set him apart from everyone? (Really powerful abilities would make people like or at least not shun him, so nixing that ahead of time.) His boners were sentient.
3. What interests did the three of you share? Drugs, bigotry, occasional murder, neo-nazism
4. What caused your power taken from (presumably) Elva to be noticed? Chicks don't like boners that try to have a conversation during sex apparently.

That is WAY over PG!

[Jbg97]

1. Can random name generators come up with awesome names or what? NOPE
2. What was Elva's ability that set him apart from everyone? (Really powerful abilities would make people like or at least not shun him, so nixing that ahead of time.) His boners were sentient.
3. What interests did the three of you share? Drugs, bigotry, occasional murder, neo-nazism
4. What caused your power taken from (presumably) Elva to be noticed? Chicks don't like boners that try to have a conversation during sex apparently.

That is WAY over PG!

Not pg-13 though. Which is close enough anyway.

[GreatWyrmGold]

1. Can random name generators come up with awesome names or what? NOPE
2. What was Elva's ability that set him apart from everyone? (Really powerful abilities would make people like or at least not shun him, so nixing that ahead of time.) His boners were sentient.
3. What interests did the three of you share? Drugs, bigotry, occasional murder, neo-nazism
4. What caused your power taken from (presumably) Elva to be noticed? Chicks don't like boners that try to have a conversation during sex apparently.

That is WAY over PG!

Not pg-13 though. Which is close enough anyway.

Whatever. Sentient genitals, prepubescent murderers, and Nazis are not subjects I intend to touch on.

[javierpwn]

It could make for an interesting story

I vote for LordBucket

[GreatWyrmGold]

Indeed. That's a majority, not counting the intelligent genitals/neo-nazis idea.

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Yup, it was a nice, hidden transition. Your parents were pleased--math had never been one of your best subjects, after all. Granted, you weren't perfectly calculatorial, but you're a heckuva lot better.
Over the next several years, you grew from a girl to a young woman. What of note happened during the intervening time?

[javierpwn]

Assaulted by pedo in the alley, then BAM right in the face!!!
---Our foot of course
Then accidentally swallowed some of blood spray from his nose, turns out he was a supervillain with the power of -inserpowerhere-

[Jbg97]

MURDER. LOTS AND LOTS OF MURDER, WITH MATH. THEY ALL SCREAMED "OH GOD, HOW ARE USING THE QUADRATIC FORMULA AS A WEAPON?!" BUT YOU DIDN'T LISTEN. THE POLICE COULD NEVER CATCH YOU, YOU WERE FEARED, YOU WERE WORSHIPED AS A NERD GOD, YOU WERE THE CREEPING MATHEMATICAL HORROR IN THE NIGHT. YOU WERE: THE MATHEMATICIAN.

[LordBucket]

What of note happened during the intervening time?

1) We grew up and we grew out. More out than up. We're about 5'2, 110 pounds, 23 inch waist and wear a C-cup, with bone straight platinum blonde hair.

2) During summer vacation after our 16th birthday, Dirk Carver's father, John, took all three of us to the Bahamas for a month on his private plane. Elva asked us to be his girlfriend, to which we were very embarrassed, and declined as politely as we could. He got over it. A few days later, Dirk asked the same and it turned out that the the whole reason for the trip was so he could ask. That was also awkward, and we gave it a try but it was the most awkward kiss ever and it just didn't work out. Through a curious twist of circumstance, we ended up sleeping with his father instead. Twice. Neither Dirk nor Elva ever found out, and everybody managed to escape all karmic repercussions. The only lasting effects of the trip were that we got an awesome tan, and took an interest in flying. John let us sit in the co-pilot's chair for a few hours of the return trip, and we took flying lessons once we returned to the states.

3) Lucy applied to Harvard and was accepted. Dirk, to the great consternation of his parents...converted to Mormonism and is now doing missionary work. Elva made some new friends and decided to go to Berkeley. We're all still friends, but this is our last summer before we leave for school.

4) We picked up a couple low-level Stock Superpowers over the years. Specifically:

 * Super Strength: Despite our small size, we're about a strong as a 300 pound weightlifter
 * Super Toughness: We were once hit head on by a car going 50 and smashed facefirst through the windshield. It hurt, and there was blood, but we walked away.
 * Healing Factor: While fortunately we've never had to test whether this includes the ability to regenerate lost limbs, paper cuts typically heal in minutes, and after the above car accident we felt completely fine again in hours. Unfortunately, we've found that it does apply to our hair, and we were once nearly outed when we cut our hair short and it had returned to halfway-down-our-back length the following day.

[Kashyyk]

As I said earlier I'm gonna stick on the good side of morality, and LordBucket's suggestion is much more interesting than mine, so I vote for his.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I'll accept it if someone can explain where Lucy got all those powers.
I'll be posting what I imagined the rules for power acquisition to be in the rules post shortly.

[LordBucket]

If you really need specifics, how about post the rules and then we'll come up with how we acquired them. But in the opening post you specify that 3-4 percent of all people have superpowers of some kind, and all the ones we've specified are all very mild on the scheme of things. It's not like we've asked for flight or telekinesis or mind control or anything. Given the story so far we have all the way from age 12 to 19 to acquire them. Seems to me like we should be able to handwave the details.

But, for example:

Strength: We dated a guy in high school and it turned out he had super strength but didn't know it because he was a weightlifter. Everyone just assumed he was strong from working out, but after a couple dates we started to notice the strength and put two and two together.

Healing factor: There was a guy who had the regeneration power and knew it. He was cutting himself and watching it heal and deliberately showing people to try and impress them. By that time we'd long since figured out how leeching worked, and we wanted his power. So we pretended to be an awestruck vampire fangirl, ambushed him after class when no one was watching and asked him to show us. He cut his hand and we grabbed it and sucked blood from the wound before it healed. He was thoroughly squicked by it, stopped cutting himself and never spoke to us again.

Toughness: We were shopping at local mall once when there happened to be a superhero vs villain battle in the sky above. We were on our way out when the hero was hurled into the side of the building, shattering the windows and raining glass on dozens of people outside. Two of us rushed to help. Us because we knew we'd heal, and someone else who had super toughness and knew he wouldn't get hurt much. In the process of pulling people back inside we both got cut up from all the glass, and once it was all over we shared a hug of cameraderie, exchanging blood and receiving toughness in the process. We didn't even find out for a couple days afterwards.

Does that work for you?