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[webadict]

What sort of balancing rules are in effect on the powers? What's the maximum power level, for example. If we do multiple abilities does that just mean each one will be scaled down accordingly?

Also, making a sheet.

Spoiler: Nice (Nisa) Williams (click to show/hide)

Name: Nice Williams
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Description: Generally prefers to wear grey, with more grey underneath, and doesn't usually care much about her outfit so it can be anything at times. Her eyes are olive, but anomalous effects have caused them to become faded over time. Her hair is moderately short and grey, also due to those effects. She has a somewhat protruding chin and sparse freckles on her cheeks.
Background: Nice was adopted by an English familiy in Northumberland, growing up fairly insulated from society and often travelling to the woods and ranges for some shooting and hunting (at the range she would also practice with a bow). Her parents, however, were agents for an anti-NON organization and as it turned out, all the excursions into the woods were meant to escape surveillance and occasionally even testing artefacts while Nice was out on a hunt of her own.

Nice herself was exposed to shockwaves from such artefacts every once-in-a-while. While Nice's parents wore hidden gear to prevent themselves from contracting ill-effects, Nice herself did not, and so the cumulative effects added up over her lifetime.
At the age of twenty-two, Nice fell into a coma after a month-long bout of sickness. One of the nurses at her hospital, a NON agent, detected abnormalities in her system and had her parents hunted down and questioned. Meanwhile, though Nice's condition had stabilized, she remained unconscious due to anomalous effects on her nervous system. With her parents captured and relatives all-too-distant, it was a perfect opportunity for NON to acquire a test subject; it was announced to the public that Nice would be taken off life support and her remains cremated. As her few acquantances visited her funeral, NON had already begun testing neuroregenerative cocktails on her. She woke up two years later.

NON decided to tell her everything, hoping she would make up her mind to serve NON in spite of her parents, but they also told her that she had the option of staying with her parents (this was not true, but it was meant to give the illusion of choice). To their surprise, she fell into a rage and told them she would kill her parents as well as the organization that her parents worked for. Thus, she started on her first three months of rehabilitation, during which she displayed a surprising level of recovery despite still missing most of her original muscle mass. Eventually it was discovered that the anomalous effects had left mild traces of psychokinetic powers in her, giving her the ability to alter the trajectory of her arms and legs and to stabilize her movements, keeping her from falling over even though she lacked direct physical coordination.
Now that she entered active service in NON, she hopes to train this ability further and eventually 'resolve' the issue with her parents as soon as NON takes their eyes off her.
Skills:
Deflection (novice): Redirects an object's momentum to deflect its trajectory, affecting arrows, bullets, objects, etc. Unable to lift or accelerate objects themselves, only affects their movement.
Maxwell's Daemon (dabbling): Affects the motions of particles, air pressure, etc. Currently only able to create a mild warmth/chill or a breeze.

Eh, the power is not all that inspired, I guess.

I'd prefer some level of balance here. If you're a Dabbling Immortal, for example, things aren't quite fair for everyone else. A Dabbling World Destroyer will be dealing with some really harsh GMing backlash.

Basically, I'm not here to stop fun. If you want to be a Dabbling Particle Mover, I'm up for that. Just be willing to deal with the consequences of a [1] or a [6]. Or worse, a [0]. You can be strong or weak or whatever you want, but the harder you try to break your character, the worse it'll be for you when you fail.

But, I like roleplaying, so if you can keep it entertaining, then the show keeps going.

Hmm? I was under the impression that it was fairly tame. The ability to cause a light breeze (at level 1) doesn't come across to me as a particularly dangerous ability to have, it's just a subset of telekinesis that I thought would be interesting.

Ah, no, that was more of a generic answer. Your abilities are fine! It's more of the case that if you try to, you know, demolecularize everything in your path... One day, things might just turn against you. The warning signs will be there.

[lawastooshort]

Spoiler: Mr Kobosh (click to show/hide)

Name: Kobosh Kobosh
Gender: Male
Race: Spacegnome
Description: Strangely enough, Spacegnomes very much resemble humans, in having the general humanoid shape and the same distinctive gender features, but of course only being two to three foot tall. Indeed, in bad lighting Mr Kobosh could pass for a human toddler, albeit a foul-mouthed toddler with a beard. He is old - far older than the average human will live to be - but still has a full head of dark blond hair. He has a serious but cheery face which doesn't look much above 20 human years.
Background: Mr Kobosh was picked up on an interplanetary mission by NON as he was identified as a non-hostile interfering for no discernibly hostile reason with one of the artifacts the NON squad was sent out to retrieve. Well - non-hostile, but potentially fatally dangerous, as he'd managed to activate the unactivatable apocalypsebomb that the squad had been sent to retrieve, sending them and HQ into blind panic. There was such screams and chatter over comms! But then Mr Kobosh deactivated the unactivatable apocalypsebomb, and everything was alright. Except of course for Mr Kobosh, who was invited to come along and please not to touch that bloody thing again.

In short, Mr Kobosh was volunteered for NON for the use of his supernatural engineering abilities and encyclopedic knowledge of the galaxy's wondrous artifacts.

Oddly though, artifact hunting was just Mr Kobosh's hobby - his full time employment was as Chief Engineer on a steam warship in the navy, but due to his long service he got 8 weeks a year to pursue his true calling.

Skills:
Dabbling Engineer - Mr Kobosh is an expert tinkerer, knowing how to get the most out of steam engines and intergalactic deathrays alike. He can fix, improve, maintain, and dismantle!
Novice Artifact Collector - Mr Kobosh has (the beginnings of) an encyclopedic knowledge of the many wondrous and desirable powerful artifacts that the denizens of the galaxy have produced. He has much knowledge of what they are, what they do, what they look like, and how to operate and tinker with them. He wishes he could take them all home and polish them endlessly.

edit:
I wondered if I could have a racial penalty and bonus such as -1 to rolls to do with strength, but +1 to rolls involving being small?

[_DivideByZero_]

Ah, no, that was more of a generic answer. Your abilities are fine! It's more of the case that if you try to, you know, demolecularize everything in your path... One day, things might just turn against you. The warning signs will be there.

Ah, I kind of started to figure that out. Well, looking forward to this. Thanks.

[webadict]

Spoiler: Mr Kobosh (click to show/hide)

Name: Kobosh Kobosh
Gender: Male
Race: Spacegnome
Description: Strangely enough, Spacegnomes very much resemble humans, in having the general humanoid shape and the same distinctive gender features, but of course only being two to three foot tall. Indeed, in bad lighting Mr Kobosh could pass for a human toddler, albeit a foul-mouthed toddler with a beard. He is old - far older than the average human will live to be - but still has a full head of dark blond hair. He has a serious but cheery face which doesn't look much above 20 human years.
Background: Mr Kobosh was picked up on an interplanetary mission by NON as he was identified as a non-hostile interfering for no discernibly hostile reason with one of the artifacts the NON squad was sent out to retrieve. Well - non-hostile, but potentially fatally dangerous, as he'd managed to activate the unactivatable apocalypsebomb that the squad had been sent to retrieve, sending them and HQ into blind panic. There was such screams and chatter over comms! But then Mr Kobosh deactivated the unactivatable apocalypsebomb, and everything was alright. Except of course for Mr Kobosh, who was invited to come along and please not to touch that bloody thing again.

In short, Mr Kobosh was volunteered for NON for the use of his supernatural engineering abilities and encyclopedic knowledge of the galaxy's wondrous artifacts.

Oddly though, artifact hunting was just Mr Kobosh's hobby - his full time employment was as Chief Engineer on a steam warship in the navy, but due to his long service he got 8 weeks a year to pursue his true calling.

Skills:
Dabbling Engineer - Mr Kobosh is an expert tinkerer, knowing how to get the most out of steam engines and intergalactic deathrays alike. He can fix, improve, maintain, and dismantle!
Novice Artifact Collector - Mr Kobosh has (the beginnings of) an encyclopedic knowledge of the many wondrous and desirable powerful artifacts that the denizens of the galaxy have produced. He has much knowledge of what they are, what they do, what they look like, and how to operate and tinker with them. He wishes he could take them all home and polish them endlessly.

edit:
I wondered if I could have a racial penalty and bonus such as -1 to rolls to do with strength, but +1 to rolls involving being small?

Hmmm... I'll agree, so long as the +1 only applies to one of the following:
-First dodge in a turn.
OR
-Anything else involving being small as an action.

You can take your pick.

[webadict]

Also, I'll be rolling out Turn 0 this weekend, regardless of the number of participates that are filled.

[WunderKatze]

Looks like a fun game, hope I get in.

Spoiler: Nayous (click to show/hide)

Name: Nayous
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Description: Nayous is a skinny pale man of fine build with a scar in the shape of an inverted cross running from his chest to his lower torso, he has longish black hair and silver eyes. Wears black special forces gear with a black trench coat over it which he discards in combat situations. Nayous keeps his trade mark 'Samurai Edge Wesker model' 92FS handgun on hand it has a laser/light attachment and a large mountable suppressor.
Background: NON is not the only organization interested in artifacts, Nayous worked with a number of these organizations.

Nayous first made contact with artifacts while conducting bio-medical research for a pharmaceutical company. Although initially working on prescription drugs and the kind of research commonplace for the industry, somewhere on the line Nayous was invited to work with new samples the company had discovered this invitation also was accompanied by a large pay raise. Nayous accepted and began research on biological samples apparently created by an artifact. These samples and the data collected from them promised to be a revolutionary contribution to bio-medical academia; however, one day the lab was attacked, most of the researchers were killed leaving Nayous and the research director who were captured.

The research director had facilitated the takeover, allowing the artifact to be stolen and the purpose of the research to be changed. Nayous who had become greatly intrigued with the research agreed to continue research and aided in the development of B.O.W.s biological creatures designed to be used as weapons. To collect battle data the organization decided to launch a B.O.W. attack on a small town, the organization then prompted the creation of a volunteer government sponsored group to defend the B.O.W. attack. Nayous was sent to infiltrate the group, lead the group against B.O.W. threats and collect battle data on the B.O.W.s.

During this time Nayous was working on his own project. By abusing the autonomy allowed he began work on a mutagen virus designed to enhance the human form. Nayous tested this virus extensively and over the course of his work he perfected it. After working extensively with the organization Nayous became disillusioned with the research and decided to leave. Injecting himself with the virus, Nayous destroyed all traces of the B.O.W.s and stole the artifact responsible for the project. He took it to NON, or was rather intercepted by them, offering to hand it over and help to seize other artifacts stating that he did not believe artifacts served a purpose in the future of mankind.

 Skills: Three "Dabbling" level

Martial Arts/inhuman strength and speed: These are listed together because their are few circumstances that they would be used separately. To be able to make good use of a superhuman body Nayous would have to be a fine martial artist, during his time perfecting his virus he also took it upon himself to become a fine martial artist. This skill refers to actions taken in melee combat to dodge or avoid attacks, to attack, to leverage his massive strength to, say, remove a steel door or to resist damage say a gun wound.

Special Operative: Nayous was trained to fight B.O.W.s using conventional tactics and weapons. This skill refers to combat with guns, munitions and preforming secret agent type tasks.

Bio-medical Researcher: Nayous has experience as an bio-medical academic. This skill refers to actions involving computers, analyzing samples of B.O.W.s or preforming medical care.

[NRDL]

Jeezus, everyone's got such op powers and here I am, all I can do is make people think they're a chicken 

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Don't underestimate what people who think they are chickens can do you'll save the world chickenman I know you will.

[lawastooshort]

Thanks - I'll take the +1 to first dodge unless I can think of something more appropriate before it's required

That or sneaking and hiding seems most IC.

[webadict]

Skills: Three "Dabbling" level

Martial Arts/inhuman strength and speed: These are listed together because their are few circumstances that they would be used separately. To be able to make good use of a superhuman body Nayous would have to be a fine martial artist, during his time perfecting his virus he also took it upon himself to become a fine martial artist. This skill refers to actions taken in melee combat to dodge or avoid attacks, to attack, to leverage his massive strength to, say, remove a steel door or to resist damage say a gun wound.

Special Operative: Nayous was trained to fight B.O.W.s using conventional tactics and weapons. This skill refers to combat with guns, munitions and preforming secret agent type tasks.

Bio-medical Researcher: Nayous has experience as an bio-medical academic. This skill refers to actions involving computers, analyzing samples of B.O.W.s or preforming medical care.

I am going to list this as:

Dabbling Martial Artist
Dabbling Special Operative
Dabbling Bio-Medical Researcher

You won't get intrinsic bonuses to dodge melee attacks, unless you are directly trying to do so as an action using your Martial Arts (Or you're willing to sacrifice somewhere else. I'm up for negotiations.) You also are not likely to get a gun bonus from that as well, nor a bonus to computer usage, unless your gun usage was used in a special ops way or the computer in a way to research or use bio-medicine. If this is unacceptable, you are free to change it before the next Turn.

[webadict]

Turn 0

“Where’s the rest of the recruits?!” Demands your superior officer, looking especially at Mr. Kobosh.

A nearby man in a lab coat answers. “It appears that HR is having a field day with Recruitment right now. R&D and Marketing are blaming some external [LUCK]--” before he’s cut off.

“Look son, I didn’t ask for your life story. Just get these men--and, er, lady and robot thing--ready for battle!” Your superior officer walks off, leaving you with the man.

His face goes from confusion to internal conflict to decision. He turns around, sending the tails of his lab coat flying outward, before marching off towards the Deployment.

“My name is Dr. Querty. No relation to the keyboard.” He chuckles to himself. “I’m sure most of you have no idea what you’re doing, but that’s alright. I’ll explain now. We’ll be teleporting you to a remote location. Where exactly is Over The Top Secret. You will retrieve the artifact using one of these” He holds up a small device, shaped like a remote control with an antenna. He points it at LasL0w, making the device BEEP loudly. “If it BEEPs, then you’ve found the Artifact. Well, an Artifact. If not, then you’re out of luck. Or batteries, these things run out incredibly fast.”

The group reaches the Deployment Lab door. It reminds you something of a vault door, except with severe warnings for attempting to access improperly. The doctor scans his Keycard. The door swings open and they all enter. It shuts quickly behind them. In front of them are three doors, one on the left, one on the right, and one in the center. They enter the center door.

On the left and right sides of the room are huge glass windows, revealing what you assume are the other door’s contents. Lab computers and scientists are both working at max speed. In the middle of the room, lying on the floor, is a five meter circle. It looks vaguely like blood. Somebody asks if it’s blood.

The doctor hesitates for a second and says “No?” This satisfies your curiosity.

He points you toward a table of the devices he showed you, tells you to grab one, and then instructs you to stand inside the circle. You all do so. He reminds you that no other objects may be taken with you.

“Now, you’re about to be teleported to your destination. If you see any fire, brimstone, or odd-looking demonic figures, this is normal. These are, uh, hallucinations that happen during quantum teleportation.”

A countdown begins, and Dr. Querty rushes into one of the side rooms. His voice is suddenly heard over the speakers:

Helleporter activating in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… What in the h--

Suddenly, everything changes. Every sense seems to fire off random information. You can feel yourselves moving but completely stationary. Everything you see are different shades of black, ultraviolet, and gamma rays. You hear someone asking for your soul in exchange for a sandwich briefly.

And just as suddenly, you find yourselves in a forest clearing. It’s night time, and you can see the moon, completely full, shining brightly in the sky overhead. To the north is a short path to what you assume is probably the compound. You notice that you’re completely drenched in some sort of liquid slime, but other than that, you seem fine.

Well.. now what do you do?


Players:
NRDL - Nix [Codename: Mesmer-Eyes]

Spoiler: Status: Normal (click to show/hide)

HP: 6/6

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Artifact Detector

Spoiler: Skills (click to show/hide)

Dabbling Grappler (Lvl 1: 0/6 XP)
Dabbling Sneak (Lvl 1: 0/6 XP)
Dabbling Hypnotist (Lvl 1: 0/6 XP)

AbstractTraitorHero - NON ARTIFACT-5067-LasL0w [Codename: Optimus Mime]

Spoiler: Status: Normal (click to show/hide)

HP: 6/6

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Artifact Detector

Spoiler: Skills (click to show/hide)

Dabbling Acrobat (Lvl 1: 0/6 XP)
Dabbling Protector (Lvl 1: 0/6 XP)
Dabbling Artifact User (Lvl 1: 0/6 XP)

Powder Miner - Harry Hudson [Codename: Houdini]

Spoiler: Status: Normal (click to show/hide)

HP: 6/6

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Artifact Detector

Spoiler: Skills (click to show/hide)

Novice Escape Artist (Lvl 2: 0/6 XP)
Dabbling Alien Weaponry User (Lvl 1: 0/6 XP)

_DivideByZero_ - Nice Williams [Codename: Miss Aim]

Spoiler: Status: Normal (click to show/hide)

HP: 6/6

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Artifact Detector

Spoiler: Skills (click to show/hide)

Novice Deflector (Lvl 2: 0/6 XP)
Dabbling Particle Mover (Lvl 1: 0/6 XP)

lawastooshort - Kobosh Kobosh [Codename: Security Risk]

Spoiler: Status: Normal (click to show/hide)

HP: 6/6

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Artifact Detector

Spoiler: Skills (click to show/hide)

Novice Artifact Collector (Lvl 2: 0/6 XP)
Dabbling Engineer (Lvl 1: 0/6 XP)

WunderKatze - Nayous [Codename: Dr. Death]

Spoiler: Status: Normal (click to show/hide)

HP: 6/6

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Artifact Detector

Spoiler: Skills (click to show/hide)

Dabbling Martial Artist (Lvl 1: 0/6 XP)
Dabbling Special Operative (Lvl 1: 0/6 XP)
Dabbling Bio-Medical Researcher (Lvl 1: 0/6 XP)

[AbstractTraitorHero]

LasL0w looks at the others silently before walking over to  Nice Williams and he makes a extremely... Strange mechanical sound almost like something's being started or booted up.

[WunderKatze]

"I'm assuming no one came here with plans on how were going to do this."

"We could reconnoiter. Find a suitable point of entry."

"...Or try the front door? Maybe?"

[AbstractTraitorHero]

LasL0w nods  at your suggestions giving you a light thumbs up before poking your forehead.

[lawastooshort]

Kobosh looks quickly around to make sure the party does not seem to be observed. If not, he rolls about on the floor for a few seconds to remove some of the slime.

"Right. Let's go then, if no one else thought to bring a map either?"

Sniff the air and try to see if I smell the direction of the artifact.