In The Throes Of The Mad King's Game: A Superpower Lottery RP

KSPAM, how malleable would my shields be? Or does the carry limit affect the power level of your ability only?

Also, did you accept everyone's characters?

edited 26th Oct '12 8:43:17 PM by nman

Your force fields can be shaped however you like. They're not just domes. As for how much they can take, I'd say you could probably tank an air raid with that (like you could, for example, make a shield to shield the city from an air raid)

I had a question here. Basically, what do you specifically mean by teleportation? Nightwalker-esque or Jumper-esque?

Also

edited 26th Oct '12 9:34:57 PM by Aralyn

I'm sure I'll regret posting a bio at 2am when I read over this tomorrow.

• Name: Reva Stanton
• Age: 19
• Gender: Female
• Prisoner Number: JP-A52-8
• Crime Committed: Stealing a Mark, assaulting an officer
• Appearance: Rather short with a build hovering between athletic and scrawny. Warm copper-brown skin, messy chin-length black hair, and hooded dark eyes.
• Personality: Eager but flaky, Reva has a good heart. The baby of the family, she was pampered more than her other siblings. Still, when she manages to focus, she’s hardworking and determined. Prior to her arrest, she was sheltered from most real problems and she's far too trusting for her own good. Cheerfully chatty and charming, she’d much rather try to talk her way out of an issue rather then fight.
• Power(s): Body Amplification- Speed
• Carry Limit: 4 (4, 5, 3, 1, 6, 5)
• Bio: Youngest child of a merchant family, Reva spent most of her childhood helping out in her family’s shop. She was a bit spoiled by her parents, mostly, in that she didn’t have to clock in nearly as many hours as her three older siblings. Whenever she didn’t have to help out, she’d run off to the outskirts of town to hang out with her friends. Reva stole a Mark on a dare by one of her friends to prove she wasn't just a prissy merchant's daughter. She was caught by a small group of officers soon after the theft, injured one officer in her struggle to get away, before she was subdued.

edited 28th Oct '12 10:05:17 PM by ozaiangels

Well, I did the rolls and got Sense Manipulation (Sight/Taste/Touch). So that'll be fun. I'll get the rest of the sheet together tommorrow since I'm about unconscious at the moment.

Upside for my character is that every meal, even in prison, tastes and looks like the finest food instead of whatever it actually is!

lol

@Aralyn: You've basically got the equivalent of Move Point (if you're familiar with To Aru). Basically, you can teleport yourself and others instantly within a certain weight limit. Given your rank, it's pretty heavy. However, fair warning. Teleporting yourself into something will displace the matter around you to form a comfortable person-shaped cavity, but you'll be packed in tight. Materialize halfway in a wall, and your extremities caught inside won't be able to move unless you can physicalky tear them out of the wall.

Anyway, unless I say otherwise (I haven't had the time to look over everyone just yet), everyone so far is accepted.

edited 26th Oct '12 11:34:57 PM by KSPAM

May as well give this a go. A little uncomfortable with the results, since I landed a pretty powerful character, but I'll see just how many ways I can arbitrarily limit myself.

I probably crossed more than a few lines here, go ahead and shout at me for any mistakes I may have made.

• Name: Johann Vanderbilt
• Age: 36
• Gender: Male
• Prisoner Number: D-5947-45-J
• Crimes Committed: Unlawful possession of a Mark, conspiracy to murder, accomplice to theft, resisting arrest, conspiracy to loiter*
  It's pretty clear that the arresting officials were just screwing around at this point.
  .
• Appearance: Johann is a short, stocky man, ivory-skinned and with a face so flushed you'd think he'd painted it himself. He has a rather pudgy build, though most of it is simply muscle, protruding beer gut aside. His arms are short, thick things, like a pair of logs stitched haphazardly onto his body, with broad sausage fingers and immaculately kept nails. His hair is a dull brown, cut short with a noticeable bald spot on the back of his head that he usually keeps covered with a small cap. His features are fat and jolly, with a flat rounded nose and a thick bristly moustache that's more often than not soaked in booze. His eyes are set deep in his head, a rather curious shade of forest green. He tends to dress rather simply, a vest and waistcoat paired with some tasteful brown slacks, though you would be hard pressed to find such an outfit in prison. His mark is a massive thing, spanning the entirety of his upper back and forearms. It's a winding, tangled thing, like a cross between a Celtic knot and an octopus originating from a single, neat hexagon located between his shoulder blades.
• Personality: On the surface, Johann seems a very simple, jovial man, no more concerned with the grand scheme of things than he is with where exactly his next drink is coming from. He needs only a warm bed, a sturdy roof, and a hot meal to be truly happy, and for a man of his status such things are hardly in short supply. If one were to look closer, however, it becomes increasingly clear that this attitude is a rather well-maintained lie. Beneath his jolly and simplistic facade lies a cold and calculating mind. Johann is a man of many goals, both in the short and long term, and he will do anything in his power to achieve these goals. While he's hardly as emotionally detached as this sort of attitude would dictate, he still has some difficulty sympathizing with his fellow man and is often prone to viewing people as little more than tools for him to use and discard at his leisure. He can put up a imitation of empathy, though when his facade his finally cracked he displays a bit of a temper.
• Power: Summoned creatures. Johann is alright with this one. At the very least, he's not the one who has to do the fighting.
• Carry Limit: 5, rounded up from 4.8. (3,6,4,6,5,5) Pretty impressive, if I do say so myself.
• Bio: Johann was raised among the upper class, the child of an affluent banker and his soon to be divorced wife. He can't recall a single moment in his childhood where he wasn't at dear old dad's side, learning the ins and outs and finer points of finance. What he took away from it was something entirely different, though. He learned how to trick people, how to rob them blind for years without them noticing. He wasn't a particularly scrupulous person, even back then. As Johann came of age and his father passed away from natural causes*
  Allegedly.
  , he came to inherit the family business. It wasn't something his father would agree with, since he was a smart man who didn't trust his own son to tell him the time of day, but he had no other children and he was six feet under anyway so it was hardly his decision. Under Johann's direction the bank prospered, both as a result of his rather suspicious new policies and the various criminal connections he'd made during his formative years. It's amazing how far a few favors and wordlessly passed checks will get you.
  • But that's all old news. Maybe not the criminal stuff, but nearly everyone who's heard of Johann has heard his history. Not that very many people know about him, since even with his simple salt-of-the-earth veneer he makes a conscious attempt at keeping a low profile. But anyway, you wanna hear the more recent stuff. Real juicy gossip, this. Not too long ago, Johann got in touch with one of his black market contacts. He requested a rather unusual and dangerous item, one that had taken his supplied months of hard work and skullduggery to acquire: A Mark. A real, actual Mark. Johann suspected it would give him a lef up on the competition, if there was any competition to be had, with the added bonus of keeping it out of the hands of anyone less deserving. Surprisingly, the item was shipped to his doorstep right away. In hindsight, his supplier was rather eager to rid himself of the Mark, since most of the criminal underworld had already been wiped out by the Kaiserreich's vigilant and supernaturally powerful police force and he didn't feel like being next on the list. Johann, unfortunately, was unaware of this fact, and shortly after he applied the Mark to himself the police burst through his door and subdued him, though not without some vicious struggling on his part. And now he's in jail. Guess all those well-made plans just went down the drain, all because of one stupid little mistake. He'll figure something out, oh he most certainly will. And when he does, they'll learn that Johann Vanderbilt is not a man to be crossed.

edited 27th Oct '12 10:38:25 PM by Bindlestick

Everything looks fine to me. Although I'm honestly surprised we have so many high level Mark-users. I might have to start getting creative with my challenges...

Anyway, I did notice a couple things. A few profiles seem to imply people being born with Marks. This doesn't happen. A Mark is like a tattoo, or a brand, except it's conferred by magic rather than ink. You can be given one at birth if you're a noble, but you can't just be born with it. Born into it is fine, but with it is impossible.

All right, thanks! I had a few more questions:

• Is there any limit as to where my character can teleport to? There'll be some sort of device obstructing her from, say, teleporting from an arena and murdering everyone in the audience, but how about when there's nothing to obstruct her? How much knowledge must she have of the area; would she have to have been there before, or will even a general second-hand description be enough? Or must it be within sight?
• How can she teleport other things/people? Does she have to be touching them, or can she just teleport them with her mind?
• Is there a limit on how many teleportations my character can do in one go? Say, if she continually teleported, she could climb a wall or levitate.
• If she teleported half into a wall, is there any reason why she can't just teleport out? Or will she be too panicked/troubled?

I may have more, but I think that's it for now

edited 27th Oct '12 12:48:43 AM by Aralyn

I know the rolls are extremely lucky, so I took the liberty of screen-capping everything... since I was dumbfounded when I first saw them.

Anyway, time for a very sadistic yet cute character whose gender shall remain mysterious!

• Name: Yohane Hendrix
• Age: 20
• Gender: Androgynous
• Prisoner Number: YH 6-6-613
• Crime Committed: Mass Homicide of both officials and people, and the theft of five Marks.
• Appearance: Looks can be deceiving...
• Personality: Yohane is in a sense a sadist, who thoroughly enjoys to see people suffer. Enjoys tricking people by acting nice and kind, only to kill them in a brutal and inhumane ways. She actually started to kill people in order to find out all the methods one can utilize to kill someone. At the moment, he has currently discovered 666 different ways to kill someone; hence why her Prisoner Number has that number.
• Power(s): Multiple (40) → Rolled 5
  • Exoskeleton/armor creation (19)
  • Regeneration (15)
  • Shapeshifting (11)
    • Shapeshifter weapon (3)
  • Vampirism (38)
  • Matter Consumption (32)
• Carry Limit (All Rolls. On the Chart they are reversed order since that's how that dice roller lists them as. Sorry about that!):
  • Exoskeleton: 5+6+3+6+6+3= 29/3 = 4.83 → Rounded Up → 5
  • Regeneration: 4+2+5+2+5+3= 21/6= 3.5 → Rounded Up → 4
  • Shapeshifting: 2+2+5+1+6+6=22/6 = 3.67 → Rounded Up → 4
  • Vampirism: 5+4+2+4+1+2 = 18/6 = 3
  • Matter Consumption: 4+4+5+4+3+4= 24/6 = 4
• Bio: Yohane was born into a very influential and powerful royal family and was gifted with the Mark of the Exoskeleton and Armor Creation at a young age with remarkable control over it. One day, as she was strolling through the slums, he witnessed a homeless man getting beat by a group of officers. Normally one would feel pity... but Yohane felt a slight pin of amusement. As she continued to grow, and as his curiosity got the better of her in his search of the amusement that she felt that day once again, he began to break into the houses of the people of the lower class in order to torture people. Finding herself in pure ecstasy over torturing people, he decided to go for bigger risks by killing people in both the middle and higher classes. Having killed hundreds of innocent people, and using her reputation and status in order to avoid detection from officials. Eventually, she obtained five Marks, and began hunting down officers, and even Keepers. The only reason he was able to get caught, was because her own parents found out what their child was doing, and drugged her before calling in the Keepers. However, even in her drugged state she was able to kill both her parents, and a few Keepers before finally succumbing to the drug and being dragged off towards the Dome.

• Side note!
  • Each of Yohane's Marks all have a unique design, and location upon his/her body.
    • For Exoskeleton, a scarab is located at the center of his chest.
    • For Regeneration, a butterfly is located on her belly.
    • For Shapeshifting, a dragon is located on his right inner thigh.
    • For Vampirism, a bat is located on the sole of her left foot.
    • For Matter Consumption, an Ouroboros symbol is on his entire back.

edited 27th Oct '12 11:54:55 PM by Aevum

... The superpower lottery. You just won it. Congrats *claps*

Sheesh, now I'm really gonna have to wrack my brain to think up good challenges...

Jesus Christ, thank Him that I rolled force fields.

Okay, yeah.

Looking at that, now my rolls don't seem all that OP.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

But seriously, congratulations

edited 27th Oct '12 12:31:06 AM by Aralyn

Maybe the 'prison mark' given to our characters upon entering the prison can serve as a Power Limiter of some sort.

On another note, my character (Healing 4) is pretty much screwed should he got himself in a death match (which is actually pretty likely, remembering his personality).

It's almost as frightening as the URL for her image.

edited 27th Oct '12 12:30:02 AM by goodisgood

His/her's gender shall remain mysterious until his/her's reveal about his/her's gender comes!

And... I knew it was a bad idea to post Yohane... since I think I just made a bunch of people angry/furious... T.T

Woah, what the heck happened? And how the heck did I miss it?

TBH, you're just blessed by the RNG. I'm not going to lash out to someone who won a lottery, so no worries .

I like the character, but don't blame me if my character selling (temporary) force fields against you for cigars, shanks, and pornography. Just saying, gotta make a profit somehow.

edited 27th Oct '12 12:43:45 AM by goodisgood

Aw, no-one's angry! Jealous and bloodthirsty, maybe, but never angry!

But again, congratulations on the armour and weapon generating, matter-consuming, regenerating vampire! I am now officially glad my character has a defensive rather than offensive power

Also, more questions

edited 27th Oct '12 1:04:35 AM by Aralyn

&Eheh, thank you, I appreciate it greatly since I feel a lot less worried now~ And is completely understandable~

Though... I kind of feel as if Yohane doomed us because KSPAM is now probably going to be thinking of all kinds of ways on how to kill us all...

• Name: Patrick Schneider
• Age: 23
• Gender: Male
• Prisoner Number: AG-T39-0
• Crime Committed: Unregistered possession of a Mark, resisting arrest, grand theft auto
• Appearance: I don't always go to prison, but when I do, I'm going to need a freaking drink. (Mark looks like this.)
• Personality: Patrick tends to be a fairly jolly individual who seems to believe that anything that goes wrong will right itself later. As such, he has mostly just went with the flow his entire life. He also tends to be quite impulsive, a trait that has gotten him into trouble on a number of occasions, the latest of them prison.
• Power(s): Intangibility-Regular
• Carry Limit: 3 (4+2+4+1+3+4)
• Bio: Patrick was born into the middle class, not too poor and not too rich, so his family was able to afford him an education. He did quite well for himself in school. Fairly popular with above average grades. Then, he went to high school. And going with the flow, he did what most of the kids there did, partake in substances kids their age weren't supposed to partake in. Patrick got into drinking. Not too much, just a bottle or two every few months, but he began to pick it up more and more as time went by. After he graduated high school, he would have a bit of a problem.
  • By the age of 23, Patrick was hitting the bar every week. Not just for the booze, but for the friends too. The bar was like his second family, and he trusted everyone in it. Big mistake. One night, he got plastered, and a man came up to him. And when he woke up the next morning, the police were at his door, arresting him for unregistered possession of a Mark. Patrick, being the impulsive idiot that he is, ran right through the wall and into the nearest car he could find. What ensued afterwards was a high speed chase 12 miles outside the state border before he finally ran out of gas. Understandably, the officers roughed him up a bit before turning him in.

I'm guessing we have states. If not, I'll change that tiny detail.

Also, holy crap, Aevum! Why don't you send some of that luck my way?

edited 28th Oct '12 5:56:32 PM by TehStanman

Question: Would Level 3 Lycanthropy be enough to change into the wolf form whenever needed or does it need to be triggered and if yes, by what?

At Lv.3, it's voluntary.