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[GreatWyrmGold]

Spoiler: Introduction (click to show/hide)

October 31, 2014
Facility outside of Ely, Nevada

"I am Dr. Ian Deere Gott. I hope that introducing myself in this way produces a friendly, familiar atmosphere for us to work in. That being said, please refer to me as Dr. Gott, Dr. G, or the Doctor in the future. I am glad you have all accepted my offer to work under me.

"I imagine that none of you quite believed me when you first heard the offer. Working with superpowers? The ability to make people superhuman? Impossible. Yet, so is the idea of a superhero, and yet there are reports of them coming in slowly. There is even a few superhumans here in Ely. Overall, though, the United States has a few tens of thousands of superhumans, with the whole world having perhaps a hundred thousand. Why are so many in America? Why are ten percent of all American superhumans in Nevada, which has less than one percent of America's population?

"To understand, you must understand this: Very few of the superhumans are natural. Maybe half of them overall, less than half of American supers, a couple dozen Nevadans. The rest? They were made from the kind of stuff that has been making these guys superheroes, only concentrated carefully, with special preparations. I've found some of their methodologies, some of their notes. I don't know much, mind you, but what I know, I can tell you.

"First: The ingredients are many, and varied. Anthrapyrene, holly extract, radion. I have some samples of a few dozen or so ingredients; I'm seeing what I can get in the future. Second: The results were mostly consistent, although they varied with the subject, and sometimes they went horribly wrong. A few percent died outright. Third: These superpowers tend to be a bit stronger and stranger than natural ones, for whatever reason, although the variance in both is high enough that it might not mean anything. Fourth: Using multiple formulas on one person is possible but not recommended. It's less stable, and the end powers less impressive. Finally...the dangers are severe. Many of the formulas mess with your head. Often, they mess with your body. For instance..."

Dr. Gott presses a button. A door opens; a strange, horse-sized, pale beats lumbers out at you. It is tripedal, with two massive clawed hind legs and a foreleg around the thickness of a human arm but two or three times the length. Its torso seems squashed, leaving the creature less long than you might expect; its back has scaly ridges. Its hide is covered in white hair, with scales coming in around the waist and dominating the thick tail. Its head is ratlike, and full of small holes; you see an iridescent wormlike creature sticking out of one. The whole thing is covered with dull pink eyes and oddly-shaped scars.

"This is an extreme example, whom I have named Stormwolf."
"A better name than I got from them..."
"Now, now...in any case, I'd advise against testing your formulas on yourselves. In fact, I forbid it."

He pauses.

"I have my reasons for wanting superhumans. Someday, I'd like to sell powers to people if I can, once it's all figured out. Find volunteers, capture subjects, do whatever you must...I expect results in the form of superhumans and some kind of research notes, soon. Say...by the end of the month, submit some theories? And try to assemble a little team or something by then.

"Around this facility, we have a number of facilities. Aboveground, we have typical types of laboratories and storerooms. Underground, we have apartments for you, machinery for processing the formulae, reinforced chambers for testing formulae or powers, and holding cells for those creations too dangerous to let out of our sight. We also have medical facilities, a library, a dining hall, high-speed Internet, a rec room, the works. Just don't abuse my...hospitality.

"When your contracts are through, you may leave and will find your salary in your bank accounts. In the meantime, if you want to request various facilities, merely ask; of course, anything of great expense will require you to either requisition or justify it. Requisitioning usually requires you to give me something, a formula, a parahuman, whatever, before you can expect much. Justification...basically, explain why you need it, and if I believe it, you'll get it.

"That should be all you need to know. Get to work, and I expect results soon. Technical whatchamajiggers can be found in your offices, which are next to your bedrooms. Big map over there, smaller laminated ones in your rooms. Any questions? Good!"

Spoiler: Concept (click to show/hide)

You are scientists making superhumans. You want to get the favor of your boss more than the others do, as well as relaxing and whatever other goals you want. To do this, you can either build up useful notes for the creation of superhumans, as well as creating a number of superhumans, or you can try to sabotage the others and make them look worse. Or you can try something completely different--run wild, this is surprisingly freeform.

One thing you can't do, however, is take the formulas yourself. That could cause...problems.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: What did you introduce yourself to Dr. Gott as?
Gender: When you go to the bathroom, do you go to the one with the stick figure with a dress on or the one with the stick figure without a dress?
Appearance: What do you look like?
Personality: Can you describe what your thinkings are like?

Talents: What makes you special? Three points to be spent on the following:
-Burly (1): +1 on rolls related to physical force or toughness. Useful for restraining failures or subduing potential subjects.
-Connected (1): You know some locals already. This will help you negotiate in town.
-Likeable (2): Makes Dr. Gott like you more.
-Null (1): Makes you unaffected by powers. Lucky? you.
-Powered (2): You have a superpower! You can make a suggestion, but in the end I will be deciding what it is. I will be fair, I will try to grant your request, but don't abuse it!
-Silver-Tongued (1): +1 on rolls related to convincing people to do stuff. Useful for getting people to agree with you.
-Stealthy (1): +1 on rolls to sneak around. Helps with kidnapping potential subjects, avoiding the law, etc.
Suggest others, if you like.

Optional Backstory

Spoiler: How to Make a Superhuman (click to show/hide)

1. Take ingredients (you can claim up to 10 Basic Ingredients per day) and mix them. You can mix up to three formulae per day if you do nothing else, or less if you do other actions. Provide a working label or I will. These formulae can include up to 5 ingredients.
2. Get a subject, somehow.
3. Administer the formula to the subject.
4. Record results.
5. Draw conclusions.

These formulae typically give superpowers, but some (especially simpler ones) do not. Non-superpower-giving formulae (and, for that matter, superpower-giving formulae) can be combined into further recipes.

Spoiler: Secrets or What? (click to show/hide)

In general, you have two options: You can perform your work openly, or secretly.

On one hand, if you do it openly, you will get more favor with Dr. Gott, because he can tell you are making progress. On the other hand, if you do it openly, others can use your research to aid theirs.
You can PM formulae you mix to me if you want to be secretive. Heck, you can probably even hide experiments!

Note, however, that anything you want credit for needs to be public. If you want credit for a formula, you need to share how you made it. If you want credit for a superhuman, you have to share its existence and abilities. If you want credit for some theory about how these work, you need to cite experimental evidence.

If you're feeling eevil, you could also do espionage against each other. You could steal research notes, steal spare ingredients, maybe even kill favorite subjects of the competition.

Spoiler: Days (click to show/hide)

Each turn is one day.

You can typically do three Major Actions in a day. These include recruiting subjects, mixing formulae, and extensive testing.
You can also do two Minor Actions in place of a Major Action. These include testing a formula on a subject, quick testing of the subject, seducing people in town, and a wide variety of stuff.
Finally, you can do any number of inconsequential actions, like chatting with subjects, obtaining ingredients, submitting requisition forms, calling your newly-seduced girlfriend to explain why you can't make it to your date (specifically, you're waiting for that new leg to come in after getting mauled, but you don't want to say that), whatever.
In general, try it and I'll let you know if it can't work ("Um, no, building a scale replica of the Death Star is not a Minor Action"). I try to be flexible, though.

Depending on the actions people take, a turn might involve some subturns to deal with rampaging experiments, RP, or whatever.

Spoiler: Weeks (click to show/hide)

At the end of seven days is one week.
Each week, you get evaluated. This can increase Favor or decrease it, depending on how much you seem to have been screwing around. General ideas of rewards:
+25 Favor for a reasonably-supported, wide-reaching hypothesis.
+10 Favor for an extremely useful superhuman, or a good hypothesis, or an important one.
+5 Favor for a useful superhuman or an interesting hypothesis.
+1 Favor for a pathetic but potentially useful superhuman or a vague hypothesis.
-5 Favor for filling the cells without corresponding useful stuff.
-10 Favor for not doing much in particular
This can all be modified by a wide variety of factors.

Shipments of reagents also come in at the end of the week. Each one gets rolled for; (1d6-1)d6 apiece.

Spoiler: So You Need A Subject (click to show/hide)

This is probably the biggest problem you will be facing: Where will you get the people to turn into superheroes, supervillains, or monsters? There are a variety of possibilities...

Kidnapping
Ah, a classic! Kidnapping individuals, by stealth or force, is a convenient way to get around the fact that some people might not want to risk being turned into monsters and forced into some level of servitude in exchange for a chance at superpowers. You must specify a level of "desireability," poor, average, or good. Poor subjects are less desireable than most, but probably won't be missed much. Good subjects are better-quality, but their absence will be noticed immediately and a top priority. You can also give additional criteria (female, young, red-haired, whatever), which may provide additional modifiers to something or another. For instance, children are easier to catch but will be more publicized if they go missing.

Wheeling and Dealing
Then again, some people do want superpowers. You can't advertise in a newspaper or a billboard or something, but you can head down to a bar, talk about superheroes, and before you know it end up with a contracted experimentee. This gives you a bit more limited experimental base, and you usually can't just lock them up (or at least really shouldn't), but avoids pesky legal/willing problems. They're also less likely to be stressed, which might affect the outcome of the experiment.

Call a Friend
You probably don't have any friends in town at the start, but you can get them. If they like you enough, you might be able to convince them to take formulas! Warning: This should only be done with reasonably tested formulae, or else you risk alienating a friend.

Spoiler: Waitlist (click to show/hide)

Wow, a lot of people wanted to get in on this. I wonder why they don't have any concern for the potential side effects...Let's see...
Next is Lyle Hauser, a tough little bastard who tends to be pretty nice. He's a local, probably only joined in case one of the girls he was experimenting suffered a wardrobe malfunction from an enlarged chest. Pervert.
The third unhired fool is Mattias Eckhart, a tall lizardman. He probably has some other good traits, but dang is he creepy.
Randy Peters is amuseing.
The last of the first batch would be doc Cion, an unremarkable guy.
The first late applicant was [url=http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=132287.msg4704333#msg4704333]Basil Squaretree, yet another of those likeable guys we've seen. Also short and optimistic.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Facility

Spoiler: Warehouse (click to show/hide)

The Warehouse is a massive room, carved out of stone or poured out of concrete and then with the rougher parts hewn out. It is full of stuff, including:

Basic Ingredients
(Incidentally, you can ask for kinds with a bit of Requisition. Don't expect them to be added to the Regular Ordering List without proof they work.)
(Note: All listed organisms refer to extracts or essences--snake blood or venom, plant juices, etc.)
Alkaline Bromine: 16
Alphium: 1
Anise: 24
Anthrapyrene: 16
Apolipoprotein Z: 17
Arsenic Bromide: 10
Canadium: 22
Cinquefoil: 16
Cohosh: 22
Dubnium: 15
Gold: 8
Grignard Akylhalide: 21
Holly: 15
Marble, Aligned: 19
Neptunium: 8
Newt: 16
N-Methylanisidine: 21
Pseudo-Neutronium: 16
Polyfuran: 10
Potasium azide: 22
Promethium: 10
Radion: 6
Rat: 11
Rose: 17
Seaborgium: 12
Serpent: 12
Sodium Peroxide: 26
T-Quartz: 20
Uranium Nitride: 22
Vervain: 12
X-Radium: 22

Complex Ingredients:
(Basically, anything you guys make that doesn't turn out to be a super-serum.)

Formulae:
10 Azul
5 Gold Drake
2 Red Drake

Spoiler: Employees (click to show/hide)

Frederick (Errol)
Male
Fast Learner
Power: Pyrokinesis, Minor Regeneration, Age Resistance, Hermaphromorph
Requisition: 10
Favor: 10
Special Luxuries: None
Notable Discoveries: None
Personal Storage: 2 Glitterlance A, 2 Glitterlance B, 2 Glitterlance-B01
Subjects: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06
Notes: Noseless. Four-jointed legs.

Green, Walter (Scood)
Male
Connected, Silver Tongue
Power: Null
Requisition: 10
Favor: 5
Special Luxuries: None
Notable Discoveries: None
Personal Storage: 9 Biofluid
Subjects: 09
Note: Community service [0/10 Major Actions served, min. 1/day]

Irine (Lenglon)
Female
Silver-Tongued
Power: Powerkinesis. Also, kitsuneness.
Requisition: 10
Favor: 10
Special Luxuries: Nine Tails as a Pillow
Notable Discoveries: None
Personal Storage: 2 I-1, 11 I-2, 13 IA-1
Subjects: Many, many volunteers; No actual subjects

Kahler, Petra (Flying Dice)
Female
Likeable, Silver=Tongued
Power: Strangely, none!
Requisition: 10
Favor: 25
Special Luxuries: Room nearest Dr. Gott's
Notable Discoveries: None
Personal Storage: 5 Midas Day, 3 Burning Night, 3 GoBro
Subjects: 08

Park, William (Remalle)
Male
Silver-Tongued, Stealthy
Power: Null
Requisition: 8
Favor: 10
Special Luxuries: None
Notable Discoveries: None
Personal Storage: 2 Organic Extract Mixture #1, 5 Lab Rats (2 Male, 3 Female), 6 Radioactive Extract Mixture #1
Subjects: 07, 11, 12, 13

Spoiler: Subjects (click to show/hide)

Note: Personality is divided into nine Traits: Activity (how much interest the subject takes in the outside world), Aggression (how much the subject resorts to violence and the like), Altruism (how much the subject is inclined to help others), Artistry (creativity and such), Aprehensiveness (how cautious or reckless the subject is), Aptitude (how clever the subject is), Assertiveness (how much the subject insists on his/her own way), Asylumnity (how...unconventionally sane the subject is), and Agnosticism (skepticism, but more alliterative). They are here described using quantitative terms.

Subject 00 (John Tagg/Stormwolf)
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Original Appearance: Unknown
Original Test Results: Unknown
Current Appearance: See "Introduction"
Current Test Results: Unconventional, Fearful, Clever
Powers: Capable of projecting electricity or healing, icy mist from the oral cavity; high disease resistance; electrokinesis

Subject 01 (Mari Clay)
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Appearance: Approximately 4'10" tall and 100 lbs, with long, thick, straight scarlet hair, pale skin, large feet, and a high forehead. Fading bruise on cheek.
Test Results: Activity 45, Aggression 56, Aggression 51, Altruism 52, Artistry 52, Aprehensiveness 44, Aptitude 47, Assertiveness 56, Asylumnity 46, Agnosticism 51

Subject 02 (Elmo Clay)
Gender: Male
Age: 35
Appearance: Around 5'7" and 190 lbs. Blue-eyed, with messy, wavy brown hair. Large-footed.
Test Results: Activity 41, Aggression 33, Altruism 37, Artistry 46, Aprehensiveness 36, Aptitude 42, Assertiveness 47, Asylumnity 59, Agnosticism 69
-Glitterlance B
Powers: Field of yellow energy. Causes pain, damage, and physical change (Recorded: Loss of nose, Extra joints in legs) to those who attack him.

Subject 03 (Holly Clay)
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Appearance: Around 5'4" and 125 lbs. Brown hair worn upright. Curvaceous, high-foreheaded. Darker-skinned.
Test Results: Activity 52, Aggression 48, Altruism 44, Artistry 58, Aprehensiveness 47, Aptitude 61, Assertiveness 72, Asylumnity 48, Atheism 53

Subject 04 (Renaldo Garner)
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Original Appearance: Around 5'11" and 160 lbs. Fine, straight back hair, blue eyes, small nose. Small scar on cheek.
Original Test Results:
No reaction to Glitterdust A

Subject 05 (Jamel Byers)
Gender: Male
Age: 76
Appearance: Approx. 6'2" and 150 lbs. Balding, gray-blonde hair. Large ears. Small scars over face and arms. Clearly outlived his glory days.
Original Test Results:
-Glitterlance B-01
Current Test Results: Unknown
Powers: Reddish aura surrounds subject. Allows physical changes to be caused to subject (recorded changes: Hermaphromorphism). Also possesses above-average durability.

Subject 06 (Howard Dillard)
Gender: Male
Age: 11
Original Appearance: Approx. 4'3" and 120 lbs. Messy black hair, wide green eyes, wide head.
Original Test Results:
-Glitterlance B-01
Current Appearance: Approx. 4'3" and 120 lbs. Messy green, vinelike hair, wide green eyes, wide head, large beak on face. Two footlong tentacles stored within and extruded from beak. Several spines growing from back.
Current Test Results: Unknown
Powers: Some sort of reddish aura. Presumably similar to Subject 05's. Suspected effects: Spinnerets.

Subject 07 (Alvin Rodriguez)
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Appearance: Approximately 5'8" and 175 lbs. Tan skin, near-shaved brown hair and beard. Scar over much of face.
Test Results:
-OEM1 tested. No results.
-REM1
Powers: Ability to move, shape, and chill metal objects.

Subject 08 (Sharon Cherry)
Gender: Female
Age: 12
Original Appearance: Approximately 4'7" and 90 lbs. Long, silky, curly, black hair. Pale skin, wide chin, small feet.
Original Test Results:
-GHX-001/Midas Day
Current Appearance: As above, but two bony, jointed antennae sprouting from forehead.
Current Test Results: Unknown.
Subject 09 (Shawna Floyd)
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Appearance: Approximately 5'6" and 150 lbs. Straight, blue-dyed hair. Green eyes. Attractive. Long fingers.
Test Results:
-Biofluid
Powers: Identity scrubbed from observers' short-term memories. Can transform her body parts into various materials. Can control bugs within several dozen feet
-Subject 06?
Powers: Same, plus production of silk from oral cavity.

Subject 10 (Jana Bachman)
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Appearance: Approx. 4'6" and 100 lbs. Blonde.
Test Results: Activity 75, Aggression 64, Altruism 32, Artistry 46, Apprehensiveness 38, Aptitude 20, Assertiveness 63, Asylumnity 56, Agnosticism 17
No apparent reaction to I-1.
-I-2
Current Test Results: Activity 75, Aggression 64, Altruism 56, Artistry 18, Apprehensiveness 5, Aptitude 20, Assertiveness 63, Asylumnity 49, Agnosticism 17
Powers: Constantly excretes salty water from all pores; this usually quickly turns into mist and vanishes, but can be collected into bodies of water that quickly grow algae and weeds. These are of unrecognized types and may have anomalous properties.

Subject 11 (Thaddeus Herman)
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Appearance: Approximately 6'2" and 160 lbs. Deep-set blue eyes, strawberry-blonde hair. Pale skin.
Test Results: Detatched, Quiet, Cautious, Clever, Dogged, Spiritual
-OEM1 tested. No results.
-REM1
Powers: Metal summoning; Temperature alteration (lowering)

Subject 12 (Bernice Gardner)
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Appearance: Approximately 5'3" and 110 lbs. Orange eyes, golden blonde hair. Ruddy skin, strong chin.
Test Results: Lively, Unconventional
-REM1
Powers: Aquakinesis, Cryokinesis

Subject 13 (Nicholas "Don't you dare tease me about my last name" Cherry)
Gender: Male
Age: 56
Appearance:Approximately 5'7" and 130 lbs. Violet eyes, small mouth.
Test Results: Violent, Daring, Dull, Dogged, Quirky, Spiritual
-REM1
Powers: Ability to move, shape, and chill metal objects.

Subject 14 (Charlie Casanova)
Gender: Male
Age: 47
Appearance: Approximately 5'6" and 190 pounds. Greasy hair, large mouth.
Test Results: Activity 61, Aggression 57, Altruism 13, Artistry 46, Apprehensiveness 42, Aptitude 82, Assertiveness 74, Asylumnity 69, Atheism 20

Spoiler: Database (click to show/hide)

--Formulas--

-Biofluid-
Apolipoprotein Z+Newt Essence+Rat Essence+Rose Essence+Serpent Essence->10 Biofluid

-Glitterlance A-
X-Radium+Gold+Rose Essence->4 Glitterlance A
Advanced Ingredient

-Glitterlance B-
Holly+Gold+Rose Essence->5 Glitterlance B

-Gold Drake Formula-
Gold+2 Serpent Essence->6 Gold Drake Formula

-GHX-0001/Midas Day-
Gold+Holly+X-Radium->7 Midas Day
Primary Tests: Subject 08

-I-1-
Aligned Marble+Alphium+Canadium+N-Methylanisidine+Polyfuran->4 I-1
Primary Tests: Subject 10
Advanced Ingredient

-Organic Extract Mixture #1-
Anise+Holly+Newt+Rat+Snake->5 OEM1

Spoiler: Requisition Data (click to show/hide)

Chimps: 2 points each
Any Ingredient: 1d6 of any ingredient for 1 point
Lab Rats: 1d6 for 1 point

Outside

Ely, Nevada
The town your facility is just outside of. 4,000 people and change, making it the largest city in the region. Yeah, Nevada's sparsely populated except for where there are a ton of people. It has a little museum, a historic hotel, and a few other things.

Spoiler: Ely Tarmy (click to show/hide)

Originally a few friends who liked following the superheroes, they became Ely's team of them after coming across a radioactive Indian burial ground...although now that you've heard about artificial superheroes, you suspect they're that. They are pretty laid-back and informal, but their government stipends let them not hold down non-heroing jobs, so they are definitely a benefit to the town.

Warlock/Stan Dark: A tall, thin man who prefers to wear black. Despite this, he is cheerful. His powers include transforming other people into random small animals, flight, electric blasts, and short-ranged teleportation. His skin is red, and his hands are scaly and clawed.
Water Moccasin/Lily Thorbald: A slender, buxom woman, who had a blue snake-woman tattooed on her left arm and shoulder after getting powers. She can transform into a large, blue viper (partially or entirely), and can also control water.
Windy/Hugh G. Well: Generally a short, rather heavily-built man with a big scar on his face. He has short-ranged aerokinesis, which he uses to deflect blows; he can also shrink down to 5 inches, which allows him to aerokinetically fly.

[Remalle]

Name: William Park
Gender: Male
Appearance: Small, nerdy, unremarkable Korean man.  Usually wearing a lab coat because he forgets to take it off.
Personality: Willing to do what needs to be done to satisfy his curiousity.  Not necessarily evil, but unethical and amoral if necessary.
Talents:
-Null (1): Makes you unaffected by powers. Lucky? you.
-Silver-Tongued (1): +1 on rolls related to convincing people to do stuff. Useful for getting people to agree with you.
-Stealthy (1): +1 on rolls to sneak around. Helps with kidnapping potential subjects, avoiding the law, etc.
Backstory: A Michigan-born scientist who's been fascinated with superpowers since childhood.  He's willing to cross lines to know more.  Along with learning to manipulate people and sneak around where he shouldn't be, he developed a formula from superhuman blood that acts an antivenin of sorts, rendering him immune to direct uses of superpowers.

[Flying Dice]

Name: Petra Kahler
Gender: Female
Appearance: 5'5", average build. Very short brown hair, high, thin brow, cloudy grey eyes, snub nose. Excessively slender fingers.
Personality: Cold, calculating, and distant with those who don't matter. Friendly and helpful with those who do. Tends towards verbosity and chatter, even when being cruelly dismissive.

Talents:
-Likeable (2): Makes Dr. Gott like you more.
-Silver-Tongued (1): +1 on rolls related to convincing people to do stuff. Useful for getting people to agree with you.

[Lenglon]

Name: Irine
Gender: Female
Appearance: Kitsune, nuff said. red-haired and shorter than average.
Personality: Whimsical, somewhat carefree but tries to respect others desires.

Talents:
Powered - cosmetic (kitsune) + flame manipulation
Silver-tonged
Editing in extra details.

Appearance: Human-ish female, red-haired, with brown eyes. 5' tall. has fox-like ears and a set of nine large fox tails, proportionally the correct size for a fox her size, meaning they're rather gigantic.
Personality: Rather whimsical, and a little absent-minded, and overall has a very playful nature. When she's distracted or worried, she tends to become quite jumpy, but normally has fun when people mess with her as long as it's nothing mean. Often moves with a bounce in her step and and occasionally behaves oddly just to have fun and play with people. Pretends to be more innocent than she really is, because it makes her feel safer and more at home. Generally acts rather carefree but contains no real malice, and will leave people alone if asked... most of the time.
Bio: When Irine heard about the opportunity to research how superpowers are generated, she quite literally jumped at the chance, abandoning her nearly-complete medical degree and caught a flight here as soon as possible instead. It seemed like the chance of a lifetime, and she firmly believes that this is going to be fun.

[Thecard]

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: I introduced myself to Dr. Gott as Mattias Eckhart.
Gender: I go to the bathroom with the stick figure on it.
Appearance: Mattias stands about six feet tall, but is lithe. His skin has mutated, hardened into scales. They have a faint greenish tint to them, but they retain much of their original flesh tone. His face is elongated, as if the rest of his face grew out to meet his nose --which is now present only as narrow slits. His tongue is narrow and forked; he speaks with an odd rasp.
Personality: Despite demonic appearances, Mattias Eckhart is very much human on the inside. His intelligence did not suffer, though he cannot remember how exactly his transformation occurred. He is driven to discover the nature of the transformative properties of superpowers, but not to "fix" himself. He wishes a metamorphosis of the entire human race, embracing their monstrous side --the company is merely an extremely useful means to a very devastating end.

Talents:
Powered: Mattias possesses many qualities of a lizard, both the good and the bad. His scales are slightly stronger than human skin, and he can (theoretically) grow back any part of his body --if given enough time. However, he is coldblooded and must work to keep himself warm. His forked tongue doesn't exactly attract the ladies. It is pretty damn scary, if that's any consolation.
[+str end, slow regen, +intimidation coldblooded, -cha]?
Mad Scientist: Mattias isn't exactly what you might call "sane". In fact, he's quite mad. Few minds could match his own, but Mattias has devoted all of his brilliant mind to the task of unleashing the secret of superpowers.
[+ research, - sanity]?

I hope this is alright. I kinda figured this might be interesting. If you wanna change anything, go right ahead. I'm not entirely sure how the rules governing everything works, so I dunno what traits should do to achieve the desired effect.

PS: I thought the physical change caused by the power would adapt him to being a scary, shadowy kinda figure who works in the shadows, while his resulting madness would make him think like that scary shadow.
Basically, the power is just there to make social interactions interesting, while the crazy is there to spice up his labwork.

[Tomcost]

Reserving too!

EDIT:

Name: Garry Johnson. Shade, just call me Shade.
Gender: I find that offensive, but I'm male.
Appearance: Aren't you seeing me? Well, I guess that having part of my dark hair covering my left eye doesn't help. And I'm just thin, not puny.
Personality: If your brain can handle the concepts, lets say that I have a mix of nihilism and misanthropy.

Traits:
-Connected (1): You know some locals already. This will help you negotiate in town.
-Silver-Tongued (1): +1 on rolls related to convincing people to do stuff. Useful for getting people to agree with you.
-Stealthy (1): +1 on rolls to sneak around. Helps with kidnapping potential subjects, avoiding the law, etc.

Backstory (made out of a little bit of frustration for being lazy):
About my past? Well, my life has been like those of everybody. You know, divroced parents, an unfulfilled desire for acceptation, not being able to be with cool guys "because you're freaking weird". You know the drill. With the difference that while life generally throws a moderate amount of shit to the faces of every average Joe, I had like a shit magnet, you know. But nobody payed attention to me. Everybody just said "do not listen to him, he only wants to get you attention" and "he is not depressed, he is just a teenager". Damn psychologist, those cocky bastards that think they can know what someone is thinking. Damn everybody, they think that they can have a fullfilling life in this senseless thing we call reality. Assholes, everybody is an asshole. Yes, that includes you, birdbrain.
-(Interviewer) Sir, please calm down and abstain from insulting people.
-I will do what I fucking want when I fucking decide that I want it, idiot. The interview is over.
-Sir, I decide when the intervi-
-IT'S FUCKING OVER.
*Door slams*
[End of the recording]

[Remuthra]

Reserved. See you in about a day.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Talents:
-Powered (2): You have a superpower! You can make a suggestion, but in the end I will be deciding what it is. I will be fair, I will try to grant your request, but don't abuse it!

Power request: Lively Speech: Able to create something from nothing and change something into something else by describing its qualities or the nature of the change. The greater the depth of description, the more accurate and useful the creation or change will be. Effects are reduced in quality by 50% if the description is mental rather than spoken aloud.

I'll leave it to you to decide how to balance it, in terms of hard limits on: size/volume, physical qualities, whether something like it already exists (conceptual vs. real), if temporary & local alterations are limited to things like making holes in walls, or if it can temporarily change physical laws, etc. I've already built one major drawback into it, in that it requires an extended "cast" time with verbal component to be very useful. I see two ways to balance it further: either allow more dramatic uses of it but impose a cap on use (basically require a mana-equivalent to cast), or make it freely usable but only with the less powerful applications. Or another route, if you have one.

I'm going to say no. Firstly, "The ability to make or change things by talking" is hard to balance, period. Secondly, the focus is supposed to be on your work as scientists, not on your own powers; the powers are supposed to be neat little quirks which a few of you might have.

Well, I was planning to let six in, we have one character, one needs-a-little-work character, and four reserves. As the only prepared character when we have enough, the first character, and the only non-reserve, Lenglon is definitely in.

[Tomcost]

Sheet already made! (edited my previous post)

[SOLDIER First]

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Name: Lyle Hauser
Gender: Male
Appearance: Average height, average length brown-ish hair, blue eyes. And glasses.
Personality: Kind, treats others with respect. Tends to curse a little when things go bad. Just a bit of a pervert.
Lyle is very Connected with people around town. He has a Silver Tongue and is surprisingly Burly for his average size.

[jetex1911]

I have a question: Can we potentially add negative traits?

[Flying Dice]

-snip-

I'm going to say no. Firstly, "The ability to make or change things by talking" is hard to balance, period. Secondly, the focus is supposed to be on your work as scientists, not on your own powers; the powers are supposed to be neat little quirks which a few of you might have.

Well, I was planning to let six in, we have one character, one needs-a-little-work character, and four reserves. As the only prepared character when we have enough, the first character, and the only non-reserve, Lenglon is definitely in.

Fair enough. I'll shake things up.

[Scood]

ooooooh sci-fi perplexicon. reserving a spot

Name: Walter Green
Gender: Male
Appearance: A bald man with a goatee
Personality: I think he is weird, but whatever

Talents: What makes you special? Three points to be spent on the following:
-Connected (1): You know some locals already. This will help you negotiate in town.
-silver tongue
-null

Was a well known bar tender He used to tell the grandest stories and all the regulars enjoyed them. Still works there as a source of recruitment.

[jetex1911]

Using this space to reserve with.

Spoiler: James Braxton (click to show/hide)

Name: James Roth Braxton
Gender: Male
Appearance: 6'3", slim, but has slight muscles. He has short-ish brown hair that noticeably hasn't been cut in a while, and his face shows slight stubble. James' face has sharp features with greyish-blue eyes, and he always wears glasses. When at the lab, he is always found wearing a lab coat, but out in town usually wears blue jeans and sneakers with a red jacket and orange t-shirt.
Personality: Usually anti-socialable and driven to keep working, James Braxton makes a great scientist, but an unsuccessful public speaker. He'll gladly talk about his work and isn't afraid to cooperate with others, but trying to strike a conversation with him, especially when he's working, will usually end with both parties annoyed and irritated with each other.

Talents: What makes you special? Three points to be spent on the following:
-Unsociable (-1): -2 on rolls related to socializing, or talking to people, whether it be by constant social blunders,  or just by having a bad vibe around you.
-Burly (1): +1 on rolls related to physical force or toughness. Useful for restraining failures or subduing potential subjects.
-Powered (2): You have a superpower! You can make a suggestion, but in the end I will be deciding what it is. I will be fair, I will try to grant your request, but don't abuse it!
-Stealthy (1): +1 on rolls to sneak around. Helps with kidnapping potential subjects, avoiding the law, etc.

Requested Power: Astral Projection. When James uses this ability, he leaves his body and is able to walk through doors and thin walls, but is unable to interact with anything. This projection looks like a transparent version of himself, and can only be sensed by a remarkable drop in temperature two feet around it. James cannot move more than 40 ft away from his body as that has the potential to kill him. James' physical body appears to be asleep, but with a much slower heart-rate than usual.

If I am not allowed to use negative traits, then feel free to take out the power and negative trait and replace them with Null.